SUMMARY

• Solution expert to Confidential RS/6000, pSeries/Intel/Itanium systems virtualization, Unix/AIX/Linux systems performance tuning, SAN/Storage systems implementation and TSM/NIM based disaster recovery

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Unix/AIX/SAN Storage Systems Senior Consultant

Confidential, Allen, TX

Responsibilities:

• AIX/ Confidential pSeries/VIOs/HMCs/EMC SAN Storage systems migration consulting and performance tuning
• Conduct systems design, feasibility and cost studies and recommend cost - effective cloud solutions
• Deploying Oracle RAC 12C R2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
• Advise software development teams on architecting and designing web interfaces and infrastructures that safely and efficiently power the cloud computing environment.
• Deploying Citrix software as a service, Citrix Cloud simplifies management of Citrix technologies.
• Provided delivery services to customers including migration of XenApp 6.5 to XenApp 7.6 and Appsense Migration to 8.2 from Appsense 8.0.
• Perform in-place upgrade of XenDesktop from 7.6 to 7.8.
• Monitoring Citrix environment to manages and configure licenses
• Monitored Citrix Server's health by using Citrix Edge Sight and smart auditor for Application Packaging/ Distribution support for the implemented packages.
• Deployed large XenDesktop and XenApp environments on ESX, XenServer, Hyper-V, and Amazon Web Services
• Set up Citrix NetScaler and Branch Repeater in a variety of network configurations utilizing features including Access Gateway, App Firewall, SSL Offload, Load Balancing, and Global Server L

Unix/AIX/SAN Storage Systems Engineer Supervisor

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for characterizing the performance profile and consumption patterns of resources relative to applications and business services. Support business control management by providing appropriate oversight and enhance the stability of the distributed environment and to contain the cost for the new infrastructure required to support business volume. Help reduce risk of resource shortages and impact to critical business processes and to optimize efficiencies within the operating environment. Focus on the following services
• Architected, implemented multiple high availability configurations for CA APM clusters
• Administered high availability environment for WebSphere and WebLogic and TomCat.
• Performed root cause analysis using Splunk/Introscope triage
• Use infrastructure BMC TSCO tool, custom scripts, and collect relevant metrics and synthesize them
• Work with application owners to forecast future impacts on infrastructure resources
• Perform strategic planning of system capacity
• Optimization solutions and architecture along with different Integration methods
• Define capacity-related planning thresholds
• Systems including Power6, Power7 and Power8 AIX frames, ESX VMWare Clusters / Red Hat Linux Unix / Windows systems, Solaris Clusters, Confidential, Hitachi and EMC SAN/Storage and NAS systems, Virtual I/O (VIO server), LPAR through the HMC, virtual Ethernet, virtual SCSI and NPIV adapters
• Application systems - Ab Initio, Autosys, TIBCO, EMS, BW, MQ, NDM, WebSphere, TSM, Tivoli Framework, Netbackup, BMC Performance Assurance, LDAP, Sybase, MongoDB, SQL Server, Oracle RDBMS, Oracle RAC cluster / Confidential HACMP cluster
• Migration of P2P and P2X, OraaS, Big Data Hadoop Framework and Cloud Systems

AIX/Unix Systems Architect Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project Lead of AIX5.3 to AIX6.1 Migration
• Build Power 7 AIX Boxes through NIM
• Build RedHat Linux through VMWare / Kickstart
• Document standard of Confidential p-series Systems Security and Unix OS hardening
• NIS Centralized Security on AIX and Migration
• Designing LPAR with EMC Storage
• Designing HMC / VIOS
• AIX OS Kernel / Performance Tuning
• TSM standardization for Linux / AIX / NCR Unix (MP-RAS)
• Capacity Planning
• Web Sphere trouble shooting
• Architect service request and provide documentation for implementation

Systems Consultant

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Consolidation of Multiple Operating Systems and software applications onto a single Confidential Power 6/7 based platform
• Confidential System Director 6.1 installation/configuration and agent installation for AIX
• Documenting of Confidential PowerVM server build process
• Confidential / EMC Storage consultant, Cisco MDS9000 Series / Brocade SAN switches VSAN planning and zoning architect
• Dell EqualLogic iSCSI 6510X Installation / Configuration
• RedHat Enterprise Linux v5 Build / Installation / Configuration with Dual 10GbE multipath (MPIO) to EqualLogic Storage, Linux LVM over the iSCSI/SAN LUNs configuration on creating RHEL Volume Groups / Physical Volumes / LVs and File systems
• Configuration of RHN network and YUM on RHEL Linux systems and patch/upgrade of the OS
• Build of TSM server on RHEL Linux and tune of the I/O and Kernel performance
• Upgrade TSM 5.x to TSM 6.1
• Implement of Tivoli FlashCopy Manager for SAP/Databases Backup / Restore
• Planning, Designing, Implementing and Administering of VMware (vSphere4/ESXi 4.x/DRS/HA/VMotion/SVMotion)
• Confidential Power5 and Power6 virtualization architect with HMC v7 VIO and SoD (Live Partition Mobility)
• NIM integration with TSM
• HACMP cluster architect for Oracle and Lawson applications
• Data Centers migration and consolidation
• Lawson administration and systems performance tuning. Lawson technology environment upgrade and MSCM upgrade. Lawson Portal, BPM and AMT administration and upgrade
• WebSphere / Apache administration.
• Tivoli TDS LDAP administration and system upgrade
• Unix environment security audit - AIX/Linux/Solaris/HP-UX

Unix/AIX/TSM Systems Solution Architect

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• System tuning guidance related to performance aspects of cpu, memory, paging, I/O and network performance
• AIX, Linux, VMware for Inter based system virtualization
• Architecting of server build based on Confidential PowerVM tools
• NIM architect and implementation
• Confidential SAN Volume Controller (SVC) and Confidential TotalStorage SAN File Systems (SFS) management solutions over Confidential TotalStorage Disk Subsystem (DS) 4000, 6000, 8000 series, EMC Symmetrix DMX3000 and Clariion systems
• Enterprise backup solution based on TSM with Confidential 3584 LTO and 3494 Libraries Implemented LAN-Free backup solution for Oracle RMAN over TDP and DB2 UDB backup
• Power5 based AIX5.3 with VIO
• Confidential Director v5.x implementation

Unix/AIX/TSM Systems Architect Consultant

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Responsibilities:

• Built AIX server partitions on p5 platform with VIOs
• Implementation of TSM/VTL (TS7510) for LAN-Free backup strategy
• Architect of TSM library manager/client solution to STK 9310 (9840B drives) libraries for HPUX11i (v1/v2) based Oracle 8/9i and 10g backup strategy, Solaris 9 and 10 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3
• Solution to enterprise Disaster Recovery plan and testing

Unix/AIX Systems Architect Consultant

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Managing/performance tuning of Confidential 6M1 and 6M2 SP clusters (AIX5.2 and PSSP3.5) with SP Switch2, DB2 UDB, p660 clusters, p690/650 lpar’s with HMC configuration, TSM systems with Confidential 3494/3584 tape libraries and LTO2 tape drives as well as 3590 EA1 drives
• Architecting Sysback with TSM integration solution
• Worked on Confidential ESS Shark 800 and EMC Symmetrix 8430, Confidential SDD, Flash Copy/PPRC copy services and EMC Powerpath, Timefinder and SRDF for enterprise HA solutions
• Implementing server build based on Power4+ virtualization