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.