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Senior Systems Engineer Resume

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SUMMARY

  • Creative, self - motivated, knowledgeable iSeries/400 professional with broad and responsible system experience gained at senior levels.
  • Subject matter expert in iSeries. Result oriented professional who works effectively and creatively in both solitary and team environments using excellent communications and inter-personal skills.
  • I have extensive knowledge of both the IBM software and hardware architecture and have performed successfully many iSeries implementations.
  • My experience includes system migrations, OS upgrades, HA implementations (MIMIX and ITERA), disaster recovery tests and supported disaster declarations for customers.
  • I have been a key player in numerous HMC, LPAR and VIOS projects providing planning, installation, and configuration services as well as classroom instructions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Hardware Installation and Upgrades
  • Project Planning
  • OS upgrades
  • IBM Tape Libraries
  • Migrations
  • Data Center Re-location
  • Logical Partitioning
  • SAN (XIV and V7000)
  • Hardware Management Console
  • Backup Encryption
  • VIOS
  • Power Systems(5,6,7 and 7+)
  • VIOS
  • I5 OS
  • DASDPLUS
  • Microsoft Office Applications
  • Hardware Management Console
  • Microsoft Project
  • IBM System Planning Tool
  • I5 CL programming
  • Windows NT, 2000, XP
  • MIMIX
  • HelpSystems
  • BRMS
  • ITERA iDoctor
  • EKM and TKLM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Manage and co-ordinate work load for iSeries team of 6
  • Lead iSeries technical team in migrating global customer to Velocity data center (17 LPARS). Project was delivered on time.
  • Developed and maintained good relationship with vendor
  • Manage day to day iseries team activities and report status of projects and issues to management
  • Hardware and software procurement
  • Technical lead on many large scale client system migrations.
  • Ensure system availability for both production and disaster recovery data centers
  • Implemented VIOS with internal and external storage (XIV/V7000) to virtualized 30+ LPARS to save major cost to company.
  • Responsible for Capacity planning and forecasting growth
  • Mange High Availability (MIMIX) and disaster recovery for clients
  • Implemented tape backup Encryption using EKM/TKLM and BRMS to ensure client data is protected.
  • Provide Pre Sales Technical Support
  • Performed operating system upgrades 5.4, 6.1 and 7.1
  • Procurement of hardware
  • Setup ROBOT Console, Alert and Network to automate 70+ LPARs for system monitoring
  • Setup BRMS on multiple systems to automate backup and recovery, implemented backup SWA strategy to reduce significant system down time.
  • Senior member of iSeries team ensured system availability for both production and disaster recovery data center
  • Upgraded iSeries 570 to MMA
  • Procurement of hardware
  • Performed operating system upgrades to 6.1.1
  • Implemented Save while active BRMS backup to reduce significant system down time.
  • Responsible for Capacity planning and forecasting growth
  • Implemented Virtual IP address (VIPA) for network redundancy on 9 iseries
  • Used Hardware Management Console (HMC) to manage multiple servers with 11 Logical Partitions (LPARs) containing over 200 Terabytes of Raid5 and Mirrored disk
  • Maintained Brocade fiber switches to accommodate two 3494 tape libraries and upgraded including 3592-E06 tape drives
  • Implemented encrypted tape backup using EKM and TKLM
  • Upgraded HMC code and firmware
  • Implemented third party product DASDPLUS to report DASD growth.
  • Performed ITERA role swap for system High-availabily
  • Created and automated alerts to proactively identify potential system issues

Confidential

Senior System Specialist

Responsibilities:

  • Project lead on many large scale system migrations.
  • Provided classroom training on i5 System Administration, Logical Partitioning, Hardware Management Console, BRMS and i5 OS upgrades.
  • Provided pre-sales technical support.
  • Technical lead for numerous Data Center relocation and server consolidation, projects including LPAR, DR, OS Upgrades & Testing, project management and delivery.
  • Implemented native and HMC LPAR configurations for Mid-Range top customers. Financial and manufacturing Industry
  • Performed successfully over 50 RISC to RISC, and unload /reload systems migrations supporting new IBM hardware
  • MIMIX HA Implementation
  • Setup ROBOT Schedule, Console and Alert to automate system
  • Project lead for several iSeries projects in the US and UK
  • Implemented Virtual Tape solution for one of MIDRANGE financial customer.
  • Implemented IASP for one of MIDRANGE Telecom customer.
  • Implemented numerous BRMS solutions supporting large

Confidential

Senior Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

  • Technical lead for numerous Data Center relocation and server consolidation projects including LPAR, DR, OS upgrades & Testing, project management and delivery.
  • Consolidated 15 single systems to 840 LPAR’d systems, responsible for LPAR installation and configuration.
  • Application programming, wrote many utilities in CL, COBOL, SQL and RPG
  • Configured, customized and automated Encrypted FTP (ISERIES) procedure to Bank.
  • Implemented and automated BISYNC dial up solution on the ISERIES to send files to Norwest Bank.
  • Rexel product group segmentation, this project involved segregating electrical division from plumbing and refrigeration. This involved partitioning a large system and merging 14 divisions into the partitions for electrical and standalone systems for plumbing and refrigeration.
  • Security isolation, this project involved the evaluation of all security aspects of eight ISERIES’s and 27 divisions. Recommendations were made and implemented.
  • Developed many Security EXIT programs to secure iSeries. Examples are Client Access upload/download, FTP, remote command, etc.
  • Performance analysis for ISERIES.
  • Created, tested and implemented Disaster Recovery solutions.
  • Provided 2nd and 3rd level ISERIES Technical Support to many of our clients.

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