SUMMARY

• me have 30 years of experience working within IT in most capacities. me bring a wealth of noledge and technical experience. With extensive management experience as well as a deep technical understanding me am able to not only manage and assist technical team members, but solve technical issues and create a vision plan dat will enhance the stability and capabilities of the IT organization.
• My technical experience includes: large multiprocessor/multiuser systems such as IBM Power Systems, Intel systems, SAN, networking, databases, multi - datacenters (both active/passive and active/active), DR, system architecture, Oracle DBA, AIX expert as well as have significant experience with most UNIX based operating systems, Networking, SAN Fibre’ Zoning and performance diagnostics and issue resolution.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Remotely Supported IT Systems and Assisted

Confidential, Texas

Responsibilities:

• A new data center was built in Bastrop and Taylor. me designed and wrote the technical specifications for the large hardware for both data centers. me performed many of the technical tasks required for this transition.
• The main task me performed during the migration was AIX Administrator. The primary task was setting up new servers, LPARS, VIO and NIM. After the new frames were established me migrated AIX LPARS from the old IBM Frames and storage to the new IBM frames and storage. This was done with the minimum of down time. me performed migrations for AIX OS and swap, data (mostly Oracle), and applications. The most common method for AIX and small data sets was with migratepv. With the larger data drives, clones were replicated by storage and new LUNS/PVID’s were presented and mounted.
• Thou out this whole time, me continued to explain and train personnel so they could continue to grow and take advantage of the resources dat were provided. me also worked closely with the Oracle DBA’s not only to resolve performance issues but to perform emergency restorations of massive databases. Helped create solutions to resolve and prevent future data corruption issues.
• Worked on NERC,FERC and SAS70 documentation and created detailed system documentations with VISIO diagrams detailing the placement of applications and database as well as complete physical system configurations. Was on call 7x24.
• Analyzed current system and near growth requirements for UNIX based systems. Reviewed the various solutions from the vendors dat could provide a viable solution. Encouraged team members to participate and express their opinions and concerns. Help write the RFP and performed technical review of responses. When the equipment arrived, me worked with IBM and installed and set up the servers, installed the VIO/LPARS, worked with Data Center Personnel, Networking, Storage, Security, Windows, Oracle DBAs and others to migrate to the new platform. This was a large effort and involved many people. me worked with the Network team to upgrade the backbone of the network to 10 gig to support the needs of the servers. On call 7x24.
• Upgraded and migrated the Grid Control application to newTru64 Alpha Server clusters and HP SAN storage. Created programs to automatically synchronize the power grid control information between data centers. Resolved performance issues with application and Oracle databases. Reduced data center fail-over for key power grid application from 45 minutes to 15 minutes. Eliminated and automated many of the manual steps, reducing human error and reducing down time. Was responsible for the system administration, maintenance, software and hardware upgrades and patching of the Texas Electric Power Grid control systems at two data center locations. On call 7x24.
• me was hired in to run their Houston Data Center operations. They had about 40 SUN servers running their custom web application backed by Siteminder, Tibco and Oracle. The Houston team members were responsible for supporting production dat was hosted at L3. The development datacenter and main office was located in San Jose CA. My routine was to spend 2 weeks in Houston, tan 2 weeks in California. While in California me would work with the different departments such as the support center, development groups and the business sections and listen to their concerns. me tan took dat information back to Houston and implemented what could be done to address those concerns or improvements. While me was their, the datacenter grew by about 300%. me implemented several SUN SAN solutions, backup and recovery as well as standby servers. Was on call 7x24.

Sr. Oracle PeopleSoft DBA

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided AIX training to UNIX administrators covering all topics including performance tuning, configuration, trending and problem determination and resolution and system administration.
• Building and supporting new environments on P5, P6 and P7 using enhanced features such as NPIV, vscsi, vfcmap, virtual Ethernet adapters, Live Partition Mobility, dynamic partitioning, LPAR weighting and COD.
• Extensive migration from HPUX, SUN, Alpha to IBM AIX.
• Migrated over 1000 rootvg/swap and data volumes to and from EMC/Hitachi/IBM storage using AIX tools such as migratepv, mirrorvg, mklvcopy, extendvg, bosboot and other relevant AIX commands.
• Virtualized over 600 systems from standalone UNIX servers to virtual LPARS.
• Actively participated in multiple storage refresh projects, migrating over 2 Petabytes to and from EMC, Hitachi and IBM storage solutions.
• VIO administration set up and implemented dedicated VIO servers pairs for: rootvg/swap, network traffic and external storage. Created LPARS/micro partitions, VLANS and Shared processor pools
• Configured and used NIM Servers, clients, resources, LPP/SPOT sources
• Configured separate high speed 10 gig Ethernet communication for LPAR to LPAR, Frame to Frame communications.
• Worked as a Senior UNIX System administrator for AIX 4.3/5.X/6.X/7.1, Tru64, HP-UX, Tru64 and AT&T 4.0.
• Implemented Global Parallel File System - GPFS (shared file system) on LPAR to LAPR with the following characteristics: the same Frame, different Frames in the same datacenter and LPAR to LPAR in different cities.
• Configured and supported NFS V3/4, creating, exporting and mounting.
• Performance monitoring, trending and alerting using nmon/perfmon, shell scripting and other tools.
• Solid understanding and experience with Fibre zoning
• Configured, debugged and tuned TCPIP network. Used network tunables to maximize the performance of network communications with both dedicated network cards as well as virtual network adapters.
• Collaboration with IBM on pioneering VIO server pairs for distributed specialized LPAR workloads, enhancing and stabilizing overall LPAR performance.
• Collaboration with IBM on identifying and resolving critical network bug in TCPIP drivers in AIX dat can create both Frame instability and security issues.
• Designed and implemented multi path, multi switch rootvg and swap solutions.
• Analyzed LPAR and VIO needs and performed performance and capacity analysis on optimum individual card placement based on slot priority and throughput capacity for Storage Fibre, 10 Gig Ethernet and regular Ethernet adapters.
• Accurately sized initial Frame capacity for CPU, Memory, me/O cards for both standalone migrations and virtual migrations.
• Trained UNIX system administrators on AIX performance tuning, VIO and NIM administration and GPFS
• Installed, configured and supported multiple applications and compilers such as Apache, Oracle, C, C++ and FORTRAN
• Wrote extensive scripts in ksh for system monitoring, rdist enhancements, upgrades, patches, system reporting and comparison, migrations and many other tasks.
• Sr. Oracle DBA supporting PeopleSoft, Oracle Financials and data warehousing.
• With Oracle 8 and PeopleSoft, applied Oracle and PeopleSoft patches and upgrades, wrote hints, rebuilt indexes, replicated databases and application for development, backup up with rman and performed recovery tests.
• Set up, configured, upgraded and used multiple HMC systems for many IBM P595/P670770 and 780 systems.
• Configured SAN, Zones, VIO and LPARS for dedicated boot solutions
• Supported 7X24 datacenter operations including IBM Power Series, APLHA, HP, SUN, AIX, Solaris, Tru64, HU-UX, Oracle, PeopleSoft, HP EVA SAN, Storage Works and others.
• Documented and maintained System Configurations with VISIO
• Documented daily and maintenance procedures for AIX, Tru64, IBM P595/P670770 and 780, Alpha GS1280 and others.
• Created and maintained DR and Failover documentation for Confidential US and ERCOT.
• Tested my DR plan at Sun Guard twice for Confidential . Very Successful, all critical functions operational within 48 hours of arrival of site. DR/Failover was tested every 30 days at ERCOT from datacenter to datacenter.
• Researched, recommended and explained the benefits of NPIV over VIO and vscsi. Part of massive NPIV implementation effort. Migrated all data volumes and rootvg to NPIV live. Over 700 rootvg and 15,000 data volumes. Wrote custom scripts to validate logic and auto create the ksh scripts dat needed to be run for the migration.
• Analyzed card placement of IO cards based on LPAR placement, profiles and function.
• Lead technical advisor for the conversion from dedicated systems of HP, SUN and DEC to virtual UNIX environment. Analyzed and compared IBM P Series, HP Super DOME and others for processing capacity, me/O and other functions and recommended IBM and specified the exact configuration requirements for conversion.
• Calculated initial profile requirements for each LPAR for the migration and created each LPAR. Set up new P595 frames, HMC, VIO, LPARS and NIM servers.
• Conversion of over 400 Solaris, HPUX and HP Alpha servers to completely virtualized IBM Environment.
• Upgraded AIX UNIX 5.X, 6.X and 7.1 Performance tuning and reporting for LPARS and FRAMES