HP-UX Specialist with over 20 years of experience from blades to the largest SuperDomes

Software Overview:

• HP-UX through 11i v3, ServiceGuard clustering including metro and continental clusters, Perl, Korn, Bash shell scripting. Glance, Ignite. Veritas volume management, file system, and cluster file system. LVM, Data Protector, Openview Performance Manager, Autoport Aggregation, Dynamic Root Disk, Oracle, Oracle RAC.
• Hardware Overview:
• HP Servers: blades Itanium and x86 , mid-range PA RISC and Itanium and Superdome PA RISC and Itanium/Itanium 2 servers.

Experience:

Confidential

Unix/Linux Systems Administrator supporting hundreds of HP-UX and Linux servers for DCPDS application for the Department of Defense. Implemented HP Storage Essentials in three physical locations. Perform day-to-day support and special projects on HP-UX and linux systems.

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Senior HP-UX Systems Adminstrator contractor supporting mission-critical systems for the Defense Information Services Agency DISA . Manage systems patching, monitoring, tuning, troubleshooting, and maintaining systems to security technical implementation guidelines STIGs . Research and reply to IAVAs. Authored a Perl program to automate tracking of intrusion attempts into a spreadsheet for the firewall team.

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Senior HP-UX Systems Administrator contractor supporting Health Data Repository at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Supported transition from Superdomes to Itanium blades running RAC in Service Guard Clusters on Veritas Cluster File Systems.

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HP Engineer working deep-level support for internal Business Critical Systems at HP. Joined a small team of engineers working high-visibility escalations and problem management. Maintained professional demeanor during high-stress escalation calls. Performed and reported downtime analysis for all BCS within HP monthly. Supported thousands of servers located globally, from blades running Redhat Enterprise Linux to Superdomes running HP-UX.

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Contract to hire performing same work as permanted job with HP.

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Contracted as Sr. HP-UX Systems Administrator at CJIS Criminal Justice Information Services for the FBI. Provided technical support of HP-UX systems in a highly secure environment.

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HP-UX Systems Administrator, subcontracting to Lockheed Martin. Supported servers development/test/production required for a major DoD application DCPDS . Performed a wide variety of tasks supporting the development and DBA teams in building, patching, and maintaining the application. Servers ranged from blades to Superdome systems. Created O/S baseline Golden Image for future installs. Performed backups/recovery as required using HP's Data Protector software. Moved disk space across servers per developer needs. Perfomed security reviews, implementing Defense Department security guidelines.

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Senior HP-UX Systems Administrator. Within a small team, supported over 100 servers accomplishing numerous concurrent projects, including replacement of Superdome v-par systems with independent rp4440 systems, moving npars from 8700 Superdomes to 8900 Superdomes, cleanup and tuning of existing systems, day-to-day trouble tickets, and scripting solutions to replace manual tasks, such as adding local accounts, across platforms. Aided in migration of numerous systems to Oracle Linux running in RAC clusters.

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Short-term contract as HP-UX Administrator for a project going live. Set up stand-alone cluster for testing/development. Created and maintained Ignite server Golden Image. Set up 11 new rp3440 and 3410 machines, igniting the majority, and installing WebSphere web server software.

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HP-UX Systems Administrator contracted to the Defense Information Services Agency DISA . Responsible with other team members for all facets of HP administration for remote sites around the country. Successfully worked the transfer of operational control of Stock Control System from a remote air base to DISA Oklahoma City. Set up new Service Guard clusters, as well as maintaining numerous existing MCSG Clusters and stand-alone machines on hardware ranging from k-class to Superdome. Managed multi-terabyte systems on HP Xp512, EMC, and Hitachi arrays. Maintained security to DoD specifications STIG .

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Senior HP-UX Administrator. Performed installations as well as o/s upgrades to 11i. Successfully performed disaster recovery drill with a team at SunGuard.

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Returned to DFAS Defense Finance and Accounting Services contracted as an HP-UX Systems Administrator. Performed numerous upgrades and installs to 11.0, both 32 and 64 bit.

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Unix Administrator for HP-UX systems in Service Guard clusters. Responsible for all hardware and O/S issues, including Y2K preparation, system and O/S upgrades, and support.

Confidential

Contractor working at DFAS Defense Finance and Accounting Services as an HP-UX Administrator contracted to the Department of Defense.

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Unix Systems Administrator, managing four HP-UX machines. Database Administrator for large Informix databases. Successful move of large system to new hardware.

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Operations Manager supervising the technical staff and managing the HP9000 system. Instituted security policies, backup policies, documentation, cross-training.

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Manager, Systems Administration for a small start-up company using a small HP9000 running BBN packages and Oracle.

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Manager of Systems/Operations Department which provided selection, acquisition, configuration, installation, operation and support of Unix, Informix, Novell, and PC hardware and software. Supervised a staff of six.