SUMMARY:

• Over sixteen years of varied experience in UNIX systems administration
• Solid background in technical support and capacity planning
• Infrastructure planning, design and implementation
• Excellent Analytical and problem solving skills
• Experience working in fast - paced, deadline-oriented environments.
• Self-starter and highly motivated
• Good Communication and Planning skills

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Operating System: Solaris 8/10, HP-UX 11, AIX 5.3/6.1, Red Hat Linux 5

Hardware: Sun Fire series, E25k, HP/9000, IBM P595

Software: Veritas Volume manager, LVM, Veritas Cluster Server, Storage Foundation with HA, Legato, Samba

Databases: Oracle, Sybase

Networking: TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, NIS, NIS+, LDAP, Automounter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Administration of a heterogeneous environment containing Solaris 8/10, AIX5.3/6.1, Red Hat Linux 5 and HP-UX 11.
• Worked as a team lead for the group in managing build requests interacting with other teams.
• Worked as a lead in consolidating audit tasks and assisted in remediation efforts
• Mentored junior unix administrators as well as Confidential times provided second level support.
• Completed project to migrate Sun servers from Solaris 8 to Solaris 10 which included consolidation and virtualization onto containers.
• Participated in discussions with clients in cost reduction and asset optimization efforts.
• Completed projects within deadlines, and Confidential times even collaborated with other teams to achieve client deliverables.
• Participated in efforts to make the systems compliant
• Proposed solutions to clients to mitigate risk
• Responsible for capacity planning, including allocating storage, providing hardware and software redundancy, and planning future expansion requirements.
• Evaluated and tested teamquest performance software
• Built and currently supporting over 20 AIX LPAR servers: duties include creating filesystems, installing software packages and patches, checking server’s performance and configuring network settings.
• Decommissioned old SUN and HP servers and replace with more powerful AIX servers.
• Maintained and administered a NIS environment of more than 300 SUN servers
• Worked on a build checkout script for new solaris builds to be used across various other groups.
• Worked on a project involving Storage Foundation HA with Cluster filesytem on Red Hat Linux 5
• Performed SAN stack upgrades on servers as a part of EMC migrations.
• Installing and maintaining the e-trust SeOS/KeON software on the AIX and HP servers.

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Solaris servers
• Troubleshooting and support of Veritas Clusters
• Printer configuration and support
• OS upgrades
• System troubleshooting and monitoring performance issues
• Data Migration

Confidential, NY

Sr. Unix Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Evaluation and deployment of Sun Security Toolkit
• Project management on Server consolidation
• Product testing and evaluation of X-clients similar to Citrix
• Shell scripting

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Unix Administrator and Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managed and mentored a team of Junior Unix administrators
• Provided third level of support whenever necessary
• Participated in SOX compliance tasks and remediation of systems
• Installation and configuration of Solaris on the enterprise servers
• Installation, configuration of disks from EMC using Veritas Volume Manager, LVM and Veritas Filesystems
• Setup and configuration BCV backups using Legato
• Installation and configuration of HA using Veritas Cluster 2.0, ServiceGuard
• Installation and setup of Ignite server
• Installation and configuration of Legato Networker
• Configuration of jumpstart server
• System troubleshooting and monitoring performance issues
• Migration of applications

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Solaris on the enterprise servers
• Installation, configuration of disks using Veritas Volume Manager
• Installation and Migration of Netscape webserver.
• Installation of Veritas Clusters Software V 1.3
• Installation and support for LDAP
• Installation and Configuration of Webtrends
• Reviewing other weblogging products
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Fax applications
• Migration of applications to new servers
• Monitoring system performance
• System troubleshooting
• Installing the recommended patch set and Y2K patches for Solaris
• Documentation and other routine system administration tasks
• Migration of HP-UX servers, troubleshooting and routine system administration tasks.

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded Disk Suite 4.0 to 4.1
• Upgraded Oracle web application server from 3.0.1.8 to 3.0.2
• Upgraded Solaris from 2.5.1 to 2.6
• Applied recommended patches and Y2K patches
• Documentation and Miscellaneous system admin. tasks.

Confidential, NJ

Sr. Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded Solaris 2.5.1 to 2.6 under Solstice Disk Suite
• Installation and set up of A5000
• Installation of Sun Storage Volume manager
• Shell scripting for collection of system configuration
• Creation of RAID 0+1 Volumes
• Applied recommended patches and Y2K patches
• Documentation and Miscellaneous system admin. tasks.

Confidential, West Orange, NJ

Sr. Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Set up of Ultra sparc server and upgrading it to 2.5.1
• Shell scripting for automated backups and restores.
• Automated restore on the backup server
• Documentation and Miscellaneous system admin. tasks.

Confidential, Paramus, NJ

Sr. Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation of the HP servers with HP-UX 10.20 using Ignite process
• Partitioning the disk and assisting in Sybase installation
• Installation of patches, GNU utilities and making the servers Y2K compliant
• Creation of users

Confidential, Princeton, NJ

Sr. Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Servers along with OS installs.
• Configuration of disks on storage array using Veritas Volume Manager with Raid5 configuration
• Setup of Backups using scripts.
• Application of patches and OS upgrades.
• Testing and Implemention of NIS+
• Configuration of NFS servers
• Performed hardware upgrades on servers
• Installation of Software like sybperl, expect, top, traceroute, sysinfo, proctool, tcl/tk
• Installation and configuration of printers using Jetadmin
• Implemented centralized logging and scripts for monitoring of servers.
• Configuration and Troubleshooting of servers.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Solaris and NT.
• Configuration and management of Servers.
• Setup and Configuration of NIS and NFS.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting servers.
• Account management.
• Management of printers.
• Shell scripting.
• Installation and setup of additional disks.
• Configuration of Backups.