SUMMARY

• 16 years of experience in Systems Administration, creating system design, Systems Integration, Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting and fine-tuning, patching, upgrading operating systems HP-UX, AIX, Solaris and Redhat Linux .
• Demonstrated expertise in understanding business needs, gathering business requirements, conducting high-level and detailed design, managing projects, and working closely with overseas, local and remote engineering resources to deliver infrastructure solutions to achieve organization's business objectives.
• Skilled at managing projects requiring coordinating diverse range of personnel including vendors, support staff, data center engineers, application developers, internal and external customers, and resources and subject matter experts of cross impacted groups.
• Excellent communication skills. Have 12 years of project experience working with resources in different countries including England, Australia, Manila, and India.
• Extensive experience with IBM Advanced Power Virtualization including VIO servers, storage pools, virtual SCSI, WPAR, SEA, LHEA / IVE, NIB, NPIV, Live Partition Mobility LPM , Active Memory Sharing AMS . Automated creation of LPARs and its resources for gathering data for reporting. Implemented various tool to collect and present performance data from HMC through web interface.
• Design and implementation of jumpstart servers for Solaris Environment, Ignite-UX for HPUX and NIM servers for AIX. Skilled at providing remote telephone support to clients.
• Adept in setting up of highly available HP clusters using M/C Service Guard and Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Cluster Filesystem, Veritas Storage Foundation. Trained on HACMP.
• Proven track record in working with EMC Clariions and IBM disk arrays DS4300, setting up PV links, PowerPath, Veritas DMP, setting up zones on SAN switches, business continuity volume BCV , Remote mirrors, flash and snap copy scripting.
• Recruiting and mentoring highly skilled and talented team members, solving unusual problems and developing and documenting new procedures.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Confidential

UNIX Lead Engineer

Roles Responsibilities

• Highlights include successful management, design, and implementation of transferring application infrastructure from Houston data center to Michigan after hurricane IKE, a highly complex, financially impacting and visible project. Judiciously applied cost saving, load balancing, incorporating necessary redundancy methodology in design. Executed project expeditiously to prevent substantial loss of revenue which was applauded by business owners and at all levels of management.
• Gathering requirements, creating design solutions based on requirements, working with multiple vendors for pricing and ordering components and implementing appropriate solutions.
• Coordinating projects through close interaction with application development team and Project Managers, and various other team resources such as - SAN, Backup, Job Scheduling, Network, data center engineers, DBA, and business leads.
• Knowledgeable in JPMorgan Chase's dynamic, fast paced ITIL environment and demonstrated flexibility and ability to manage cost, schedule, and performance of IT projects with absolute focus on customer service.
• Demonstrated strong communication and documentation skills starting from project initiation, deployment, performance testing, migration, lessons learned till project closure.
• Automated inventory database using self written SHELL scripts to gather virtualization information from multiple virtualized IBM pSeries frames. Using Bourne shell automated creation of LPARs, including backing devices creation and logging LPAR creation data for audit purpose. Implemented various tools to collect performance data from HMC and present performance data through web interface.
• Subject matter expert on IBM virtualization, responsible for design, deployment, audit and validation of IBM virtualization for the line of business. Designed and implemented solutions on AIX 5L and Solaris 8, 9 10 platforms and Redhat Linux. Implemented solutions with Veritas clustering cluster filesystem.
• Interviewing and recruiting highly skilled and talented candidates solving unusual problems, developing and developing new procedures.

Environment

Includes a wide range of Sun, IBM and Fujitsu PrimePower servers. Sun server includes V440, V480, V880, and V890. Fujitsu PrimePower servers. IBM pSeries server includes p650, p690, p595, p570, p560, p505. Operating systems - Solaris 8, 9, and 10 AIX 4.33 and 5L. Enterprise Redhat Linux, VCS, Oracle RAC, EMC PowerPath, Veritas DMP, EMC Time Finder BCV , EMC Symmetrix and Clariion storage. Databases used are DB2 and Oracle. Websphere used for most web application.

Confidential

Sr. UNIX Engineer

Roles Responsibilities

• Successfully managed HPUX systems hosting weather and online flight tracking system configured under MC/ServiceGuard. Managed ITO, uptime.
• Built disaster recovery procedures for Solaris and HPUX systems using jumpstart, Ignite-UX and Legato.
• Designing and implementing infrastructure solutions for applications and databases. Routinely built and managed the Unix/Linux servers, managed SAN, scripting to automate daily administration tasks, and reporting.

Environment

HP9000 L-class/rp5400 series servers, Sun V890, V880, 280R, Dell 2750, ADIC Scalar100 library, Brocade switches DS16-B2 switches, Brocade Multi-protocol router, Clariion FC4700, CX400, CNT Edge Routers. HP-UX 11.0, Solaris 8, Enterprise Linux version 3, Legato Networker 7.1.2, MC/ServiceGuard, VCS, Oracle RAC, EMC PowerPath, Veritas DMP.

Confidential

Senior UNIX Consultant

• HPUX, AIX, Solaris system administration. Designing and implementing infrastructure solutions for applications and databases. Netbackup implementation and administration. High availability cluster design, implementation and documentation.
• Data migration from EMC Symmetrix to DMX, from shark storage to EMC Clariion on AIX and HPUX hosts.
• Disaster recovery planning and documenting procedure for build and testing.
• Performance analysis. Setup EMC Clariion arrays subcontracted for EMC
• Designed and coordinated proof of concept at various client sites.
• Conducted client training on High Availability products and implemented solution.

Confidential

UNIX Consultant

Roles Responsibilities

• Implemented Oracle database clusters managed with MC/ServiceGuard. Created detailed design and documented maintenance procedure for supporting the environment.
• Conducted client training on High Availability products and implemented solution.
• Environment
• HP-UX, HP 9000 / N4000-440Mhz 4CPU 4GB system memory, 8 Network Interface Cards 100BT and 2 Gigabit Fiber Ethernet cards, Redundant Fiber Channel connections to EMC disk Array, and Oracle version 8.0.5.

Confidential

Roles Responsibilities

• Provided support on HP systems, HP-UX 11.0, HP-UX 10.20. Patching and scripting for task automation and reporting.
• Designed, implemented and documented various high availability clusters using HP MC/ServiceGuard and administered SAN. Conducted client training on High Availability products and implemented solution.

Environment

HP-UX, HP 9000 / N4000-440Mhz 8 CPU 16 GB system memory, 8 Network Interface Cards 100BT and 2 Gigabit Fiber Ethernet cards, Redundant Fiber Channel connections to EMC disk Array, HP HAS Jamaica , MC/ServiceGuard and Oracle version 8.0.5. Maestro scheduling, monitored with HP Openview ITO and BMC Patrol Best1

Confidential

Roles Responsibilities

Providing telephone support to Hewlett Packard Asia Pacific and world wide customers, on HP-UX operating systems.

Environment

HP-UX, HP 9000 HP9000 G, H, E, K, D CLASS Business Servers and 705, 712, 715, 735. HP-UX 9.x, 10.X and 11.0, HP/UX LVM, HP Mirror/UX, SwitchOver/UX, Glanceplus, DNS, Networking, NFS, MC/Service Guard, Process Resource Manager PRM , etc.

Confidential

Systems engineer

Roles Responsibilities

• Installed, configured and provided support on a broad range of Intel RISC based computer systems.
• Designed end-to-end solution for database, web and various application operating environments. Provided pre-sales support to sales and marketing team, preparing response to request for proposals RFP .

Environment

HP9000 G, H, E, K, D CLASS Business Servers and 705, 712, 715, 735, HCL Horizon, HCL Magnum, HP Vectra PCs. HP-UX 9.x 10.X, HP/UX LVM, HP Mirror/UX, SwitchOver/UX, Glanceplus, LaserRX, Perfview, NFS, MC/Service Guard, Process Resource Manager PRM , etc.