SUMMARY:

• Over 14 years of experience as an I.T Professional with a demonstrated history of success with Major Services Firms like al Institutions, Financial, Health Care, Aerospace Manufacturing Companies.
• Have worked as an Architect, Lead System Administrator, Project Leader, Systems Analyst, as well as a Project Manager.
• Experience in managing system architecture & integration projects, including infrastructure design and enterprise deployment.
• Experience in IT Infrastructure/Architecture focused on application and business unit. Project management with end user support.
• Design & Configured virtualization on p670, p720, p770, p770+, E850 & E870 hardware.
• System Administration of AIX 5.3, 6.1 7.1 & 7.2, SUSE 11, RedHat 5.5, 6.0 & 7.0 Patching & Upgrading AIX using NIMADM, RedHat with RedHat Satellite & SUSE with SUSE Manager. Worked on LVM as well as on OVM administration. Used PERL scripting to automate day to day tasks. Experience with Confidential ILO remote management interface as well as IVM. Patching Linux systems/Kernel Patching/Library upgrade or downgrade.
• Designing & Deployment of PowerHA System Mirror 6.1 to 7.1.3.0 and deployed 7.2.0.1, Implemented Oracle RAC, Veritas Clusters, Configured Fault Tolerance for Linux production servers.
• Experienced in Software licensing and release management.
• Experienced in implementing Unix Security, performing Audit, SOX & Cyber Compliance.
• Implementation & operation of IBM Tivoli TSM, System Director, IBM PowerVC, PowerHA, HMC Scanner, Confidential Open View, Centrify, Remedy, Maximo, Tripwire, Nessus, RSA, BladeLogic 8.x, Oracle, Websphere, foglight, Puppet, Chef, SRDF, PPM & PPMS, Power Draw, ADDM, CMDB & various Applications.
• Performance Optimization with historical data collection of topas/nmon/promon & lpar2rrd as well as application/database specific OS tunings.
• Analyzing Business Processes, strong analytical, critical thinking and team - lead decision
• Worked with VMware ESX 4.x,5.0x to create virtual Linux SUSE & RedHat guests.
• Installation, administration of VIO server and VIO client LPAR’S. Build LPAR via NPIV & VSCSI.
• ITIL Certified from HCL, to better understand needs of the business by proactively managing all aspects of the production environment & to deliver customer-centric, cost-justified, and business-driven IT services
• Project Management experience in a fast pace environment. Project Planning & Management using Confidential project & portfolio management as well as MS Project Planner. Closely worked with the team to schedule and implement installations and configuration to meet the deadlines.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Savannah, GA

Unix Architect / Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead the ERP/SAP Deployment, Server Build Project.
• Lead the Data Center Migration project, Migrated entire Production.
• Build quality control documents, perform gap analysis, and collect metrics, data to generate reports and graphs. Perform value creation and KM activities for the company.
• Performed Capacity planning, Performance tuning and advising the hardware requirement accordingly.
• Implemented Audit & Compliance, perform SOX & Cyber Audits. Performing remediation’s as per the CIS & General Dynamic’s Standards.
• Ensure process improvement, implementation of ITIL Best practices and involvement in technical design/architecture discussion to better understand the requirements.
• Created project plans and keep track of progress for timely delivery as per the defined quality standards of the customer. Used Confidential Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) for tracking the progress.
• Design and Implementation of Oracle RAC 2&3 Node Clusters.
• Coordination with On-Site Engineers to ensure the service delivery & availability.
• Proactive measurements, Raising risks & issues and escalate to senior management in timely manner.
• Designed the Virtualization Architecture of E850, E870 frames and monitored the deployment and LPM of the lpars from power7 to power8, provided the configuration & design of the dual VIO Servers.
• Planning & Configuration of Centrify deployment for Centralized Authentication.
• Designing & Deployment of PowerHA / HACMP, created test plans for HA failover & fallback. Configured Fault Tolerance for Linux production servers.
• Designed & Configured NIM to take the Mksysb’s and to install the new Operating System on the Servers.
• Performed the QA (Quality Check) on new servers. Checked the performance, consistency & Hardening.
• Leaded the storage Migration project from Netapp & IBM DS4800/6800 to EMC, and VMAX2 to VMAX3. ed for Value Creation and Idea Generation three times.
• My s published in HCL’s magazine “Chronicles of Ideapreneurs”

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Unix Architect / System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a Project of Data Centers Migration, Client has 2000+ Server, migrated them using various tools/methods e.g. SRDF, TSM & Mksysb. Build & Tested the Disaster Recovery Servers using Recovery Point.
• Installation and Configuration of (VAS) Vintela Authentication Services.
• HACMP/PowerHA implementation and testing for redundancy on AIX 7.1 servers.
• Performance tuning, capacity planning and troubleshooting of issues in production environment with minimal down time, backup plan for critical Production Servers.
• Experienced in Confidential Open View, Maximo & Remedy Incident Management and Change management System.
• Worked on Confidential Blades, DL580's -Knowledge of DNS, SFTP, SSH, SNMP, TCP/IP, UDP.
• Responsible for troubleshooting, performance tuning and capacity planning, and Troubleshooting of issues with minimal down time or no outage during working hours.

Confidential, Dubuque, Iowa

UNIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and maintenance of environment of 5000+ AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1 servers on p570,p595, p770 etc.
• Installation & Configuration of VIO servers, VIO clients, upgrading the VIO server from 1.5 to 2.1.
• Installation of NIM Master and installing Operating System AIX 5.3, 6.1 servers.
• Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
• Work with EMC and used PowerPath for disk management.
• Configure Linux Networking/IP addresses/Default Gateway, Worked on Command Line interface CLI, used cut, awk, sed, PIPE to get the desired output.
• Firmware upgrades and maintenance of HMC. Backing up HMC on monthly basis.
• Performance tuning and troubleshooting of issues in environment.
• Worked as a RFC Writer to create complex CRQs for the entire team.

Confidential, Georgia

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance and support for AIX at 5.3 & 6.1 Servers.
• Adding physical volumes, creation volume groups, File systems, Storage allocation, cron jobs, maintenance levels upgrades and applied Fixes for AIX 5.x.
• Installation of APARS, Service Packs & TLs on AIX Servers.
• Installation and Configuration of NIM. Taking the Mksysb’s of the NIM client on the NIM Master.
• Installation, administration of VIO Server and VIO client LPAR’S .

Confidential

Network / System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation of AIX 5.2,5.3 Servers, Linux, Solaris & Microsoft Windows.
• Performing UNIX & Microsoft Network System Administration.
• Installation of Microsoft Exchange, Active Directory, NFS & RAS.
• Administration of User accounts, and the Backups.
• Antivirus installation, administration, upgrading and patching.
• Installation of the Applications like Oracle, SQL Server, Borland C, Java etc.
• Network planning and configuration on the servers & Setting up Network switches & routers.