SUMMARY:

UNIX/Linux Systems Admin, Systems Architect or Network Admin with a stable, reputable company. With eighteen years of diverse experiences within the Information Technology field including UNIX, Linux and Windows administration, system testing and architecting, tier three support, maintaining equipment, help desk, and customer service will bring strong analytical, problem solving, and planning skills to enhance the effectiveness of the IT department.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: UNIX (AIX 4.3, 5.2. 5.3, 6.1,7.1,VIOS), Linux Red Hat, Windows NT/2003, MS Exchange, Windows 3.1 to ME, Mac 7.5 to OSX.

Hardware: IBM Power 3, 4, 570, and 780, NAS, SAN cabling, Dell, Cisco 1720 router and Pix 105 firewalls

Networks: HA clustering, TCP/IP, Windows client server networks, DNS configuration, Wireless Networking 802.11b.

Applications and Tools: SSH, Telnet (Putty and commandline), NIM, vmstat, ioo, iostat, fcstat, nmon, tpcdump, RedHat Satellite, HACMP, Alt Disk Install, SFTP, FTP, Multibos, Sendmail, Samba, Rsync, VMWare, Virtualbox, MS Excel, MS Access, MS Word, MS Visio, MS Project, MS Front Page, Macromedia Dream Weaver, Adobe Photoshop and Premier

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Harrisburg, PA

Systems Administrator Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a senior AIX administrator for over 250 AIX and Red Hat servers.
• Research new methods and technologies for UNIX and Linux server management using tools like IBMs Network Installation Management (NIM) server for AIX and RedHat Satellite server for RedHat Linux servers.
• Setup Red Hat Satellite server for automatic updates for the Red Hat servers.
• Wrote scripts that utilized NIM to run scheduled updates.
• The scripts check for and remove efixes, check the OS level to verify completion of the updates and send the status of the updates to the team through email and text messages.
• Automating the updates has reduced staff overtime and maintain systems life cycle continuity across the environment.
• Planned and scheduled server migrations going from AIX 5.2 to AIX 5.3 in our local server farm and remote sites around the state.
• Upgraded servers on Power 4 hardware or higher to AIX 6.1. Worked out schedules with several program areas to keep down time to a minimum.
• Use Multibos install to upgrade the OS on AIX servers.
• Migrate servers with NIMadm Alt Disk migration.
• Migrated VIO servers from VIOS 1.5 to VIOS 2.1 and NIM servers from AIX 5.3 to AIX 6.1, then to 7.1.
• Tuned the I/O stack on AIX servers using commands like vmstat, ioo, fcstat.
• In absence of an architect, architected AIX and Linux systems on standalone, VM ware and P570s and P780s. Assessed requirements for network throughput, SAN and local hard disk space allocation, CPU and memory requirements. Used trending tools to plan for future architectural changes to existing servers. Wrote advanced scripts to manage systems remotely, grab performance data and write other scripts locally to run after a goal has been reached.
• Understand how TSM works.
• Work closely with TSM administrator to trouble shoot TSM issues. Use SQL to query TSM backend database. Have experience diagnosing SAN issues on AIX servers.
• Organized training for employees at onsite and offsite facilities.
• Became the supervisor of AIX team at the height of release 1 of UCMS project.
• With two new employees, prepared team for departure of IBM consultants that were supporting project.
• Adopted a proactive firmware and OS update policy.
• Automated tasks with Korn shell Scripts. Found over $48,000.00 in overcharges in one vender quote.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Schedule hardware replacement, firmware and OS updates.
• Create and maintain user and group accounts.
• Setup and maintain VIO servers on P570 frames.
• Install OS and customize new servers.
• Disaster Recovery.
• Provide third tier support.
• Team lead for major projects, worked with IBM consultants to setup new equipment.
• Responsible for collecting, documenting the installation and setup information for project's knowledge transfer from IBM.
• Designed and built Access database to track user and user groups across all of AIX servers to establish uniformity in AIX server farm using Visual Basic and SQL to build custom forms and queries.
• Use shell scripting and SSH to automate tasks across servers simultaneously.

Confidential, Myerstown, PA

Help Desk Support

Responsibilities:

• Planned and executed a server upgrade and user migration from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2003 Server. Acquired and analyzed quotes from vendors for hardware and software.
• Setup the Windows 2003 domain infrastructure and domain controllers.
• Setup, implemented and migrated users to Exchange Server 2003.
• Setup, updated IOS, and configured for mail server and VPN access Cisco firewalls and routers.
• Setup user computers and added them to the domain.
• Troubleshot computer, printer and network issues.
• Repaired handheld barcode scanners.
• Managed and deployed Windows updates for the client machines using Software Update Services (SUS) and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), which replaced SUS.
• Wrote batch files to backup the servers to Network Accessible Storage (NAS) and managed tape backups.
• Planned migration from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 including migrating user accounts.
• Wrote VB scripts that edit and format Excel spread sheets.
• Train sales staff in the use of their sales laptops, on which they needed to use VPN on the road.