SUMMARY:

• 8 years of professional experience in System Administration in heterogeneous environment. Gradually matured from a hardware trainee to an efficient and successful AIX System Administrator.
• Natural ability to understand, administer and manage highly technical environments using strong leadership skills and innovative solutions.
• Strong ability to configure and administer a broad range of computer technologies using remote tools and strict policies.
• Interpersonal skills, self - motivation, and quick adaptation to new applications, technologies, and procedures.
• Broad experience in data center operations, vendor relations, emerging technologies, documentation and project management.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

• AIX Operating Systems
• SUSE and RHEL Operating Systems
• Windows Operating Systems
• Confidential SPT
• Oracle Apps and Database
• Confidential Director for Power System
• SAS 9 Programming
• EMC Storage Server
• Powerpath, SDDPCM, HDLM
• Confidential FastT/DS Series Storage
• Hitachi Storage Server
• Confidential Tivoli Storage Manager
• SAP Basis Administrator
• PowerVM Enterprise
• PowerHA and HACMP
• IVM and HMC operation

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 2000, HP UNIX, Linux, AIX, Solaris, Linux 10 years

Office Productivity: Microsoft Office, Project, Visio, Share Point 10 years

Database Management systems and applications: Oracle 10g express, MYSQL 4 year

Data analysis Applications: SAS 9 BASE, SAS SQL, SAS PROC, SAS MACRO, SPSS, EPI-INFO 2 years

Programming Languages: C, MS Visual C++, SQL 5 years

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Senior Aix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Project management experience on highly technical and intense projects involving multiple vendors, key staff, and equipment.
• Responsible for AIX Support With more than 4000 servers.
• Provided Level3 24x7 support for all AIX Servers
• Installation and configuration of LPARS with AIX 5.3 and 7.1 on p5, p6 and p7servers.
• Extensive use of SPT and HMC to build and deploy multiple partitions
• Using HMC for Service Processor failover and failback
• Installed and configured SEA, SEA failover, LHEA, Dual-VIO server via HMC
• Migration of LPARS from Power5 to Power7 frames
• Experience with NPIV in an SVC environment
• Experience using (Live Partition Mobility) LPM in and HMC and IVM environment.
• Storage Migration from EMC storage system to Hitachi storage in a dual VIO and MPIO powerpath environment.
• Installed and configured Vswitch, NPIV in Dual-VIO environment sever via HMC
• VLAN configuration through HMC, LPARS and VIOS
• Expert knowledge of HMC command line.
• Migrating AIX OS from 4.3 to 5.2, 5.3 and 7.1 on pSeries, using nimadm.
• Extensively used of LVM, created VGs, LVs, and disk mirroring.
• Responsible for Installing Security fixes and APARs in Servers.
• Installation and configuration of NIM master server and clients.
• Installed and Configured HACMP Cluster for Production and Test Applications
• HACMP storage configuration in an LVM cross-site mirroring environment.
• Administering and troubleshooting of AIX HACMP 5.2/5.3 Cluster
• Installing and setting up Oracle Apps and Oracle DB on AIX Servers
• Developed Korn and Bash shell-scripts to automate routine activities.
• Backup and Restore AIX servers using mksysb, savevgs and TSM
• Configured SSH for secure telnet and FTP connections.
• Configured DNS, LDAP, I-planet, Apache HTTP servers
• Write shell scripts for automated installations, to extract logs.
• Documented the existing AIX and Windows Servers
• Manage day to day operations including power and server placement in two data centers.
• Responsible for detailed documentation ranging from infrastructure diagrams to detailed models of IT and how it provides the necessary data for the business using Power Point and Visio.
• Extensive performance analysis on UNIX, Linux, Windows, Oracle, SQL, EMC storage, Confidential storage and VMware.

Environment: - p5 590, 550, 520, p690, p650, p770, p780, p701, p702, DS8100, EMC, HITACHI, Clarrion, Brocade, Oracle, DB2, Informix, Linux, WAS, MQ, Citrix, Remedy, TSM, HACMP and PowerHA.

Confidential, Woonsocket, RI

Hardware Engineer/Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of LPARs/DLPARs with AIX 5.1/5.2 on p5 servers
• Administering and troubleshooting of AIX HACMP 5.1 Cluster
• Configured SSH for secure telnet and FTP connections.
• Installation and maintenance of AIX Systems.
• Administration of AIX Operating Systems.
• System & backup management using Confidential TSM Backup Server.
• AIX systems administration and Disk Management using SMIT.
• Logical Volume Management (LVM) of AIX.
• Installed and Configured NIM Master and NIM Clients
• Creating LPPSOURCE and SPOT for client on NIM server.
• Installing OS on NIM clients using NIM Server.
• Predefined and Customized Volume Group management on AIX
• Performance Management & Tuning of AIX UNIX Kernel.
• Managing cron jobs, batch processing and job scheduling.
• Software installation and maintenance.
• Installation and administration of peripherals.
• Extensive knowledge of logical partition mobility (Actie/incactive)
• Security, users and groups administration.
• Networking service, performance, and resource monitoring
• Wrote shell scripts for automated installations, backups and Log Extraction.
• Documented the existing AIX and Windows Servers

Environment: - p690, p650, p610, p570, ESS, Oracle, DB2, Linux, TSM, HACMP

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Configuration of AIX, Solaris Windows and Linux Servers
• Create User Account, Printers and FAX Servers
• Software installation, updating and trouble shooting on AIX systems
• Responsible for taking system backups MKSYSB, SAVEVGs and Windows Backup
• Worked closely with network team to setup Cisco Routers and Switches
• Create Volume Groups, Logical Volume and File System on AIX Servers
• Performance Monitoring Using TOPAS, SAR, VMSTAT, IOSTAT Commands
• Networking service, performance, and resource monitoring
• Installation and administration of peripherals like Printers
• Managing cron jobs, batch processing and job scheduling
• AIX systems administration using SMIT
• Configure TCP/IP on AIX, Windows and Linux Servers
• Applying Patches, Maintenance levels on AIX Servers
• Designed a functional network with security, flexibility, and cost effectiveness as the main objectives.
• Configured Tux, Apache, and external DNS servers to run the business web page.
• Setup and maintain a firewall, router, and hub to allow for network access in all offices.
• Implemented an IPSec VPN solution using a shared key and 3Des encryption.
• Configured Samba as the primary domain controller, file server, and print server.
• Administer server remotely using ssh and a series of built in scripts.
• Established an email server using ipop3 and sendmail.

Environment: - AIX, Linux, Windows, Solaris, DB2, Oracle, Veritas Netbackup, S70, S80, SSA