OBJECTIVE:

A creative, versatile and committed professional seeking a position, to provide your organization with the best possible systems administration and support services.

SUMMARY:

• Over 6+ years in the field of technological industry as System Administrator/Consultant
• Extensive expert level experience in Confidential AIX 5LV 6.1/5.3/5.2/5.1/4.3.3 , HACMP v4.5/5.2/5.3,VIO Server v1.3/2.1/2.2 Hardware Management Console, IVM and its associated tools.
• Experience in AIX Operating System including File Systems, Processes, Performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Experience in Redhat Linux
• Administration and 24/7 support of Confidential pSeries Servers including p4/p5/p6/p7 p570/p590/p595/p630/p650/p690/p720/p770/p780 pSeries Servers.
• Experience in VIO/LPAR/DLPAR technology for installing partitions through NIM and Managing partitions through HMC Console
• Experience on maintain SDD/SDDPCM/PowerPath in Confidential pSeries Systems for Confidential and EMC storage systems.
• Extensive experience in network management TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, VLAN.
• Experience in TSM includes client installation configuration and verification of incremental/full backup.
• Experience working on ticketing system such as Remady, Confidential Clear Quest and Manage Now
• Problem solving, Troubleshooting and Performance tuning skills.
• User Interaction and Excellent Communication.

SKILL:

Operating Systems: AIX v 4.3.3/5.3/5.2/5.1/6.1/7.1 , RedHat LINUX v4/5,, Windows v 2000/2003/2008

AIX Tools: LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, VIO

Hardware: Confidential p4 650/680, p 5 520/550/570 , p 6 520/550/570 , p 7 720/750/770/780

Storage Systems: Confidential, EMC DMX1000/DMX2000/DMX4Applications NetBackup, TSM, WebSphereDatabase DB2, SQL Server 7.0, 2000, Oracle v8i/9i/10i/11i

Programming: Shell Script

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Saint Louis, MO

Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• 24/7 support, Unix OS installation/Migration/Cloning, System support and Administration .
• Creation and configuration of Logical Partitions LPARs VIOC and VIOS using Hardware Management Console (HMC).
• Experience of system administration on AIX v 5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1.
• Design, Implement, and maintain multiple p570, p550, p595,p690, p650, p630, p780,p795 servers using HMC (Hardware Management Console).
• Configuring and administration of NIM server and NIM client.
• Confidential AIX system administration, Knowledge on Upgrades, Migrate.
• Building and administrating VIO server and LPAR clients.
• Migrating emc storage to Confidential storage and HITACHI to Confidential sorage.
• Install, configure and upgrade SDD/SDDPCM/PowerPath for Confidential and EMC Storage Systems upgrading firmware, installing and removing software.
• Adding and configuring various devices to the System.
• Perform tuning and capacity planning tasks to maintain optimal system performance and availability.
• Designing and managing disk space using AIX Logical Volume Management (LVM). Creating vg and lv extend vg, lv, mirroring vg.
• User administration, Creating users, groups, modification, removing, checking and changing user parameters.
• Installed and Configured HACMP clusters in test environments.
• Performed HACMP failover and failback.
• Install, configure, and maintain HMC and apply latest fixes or upgrade HMC code.
• Filesystems Backup and Restore using TSM/HSM backup.
• Monitored performance on all UNIX/Linux based system using various performance monitoring tools, such as Confidential NMON, TOPAS, BMC Patrol and etc.
• Taking regular system backup using mksysb and volume group backups using savevg, backup in file system and files.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Systems Administration

Responsibilities:

• Unix Administration Providing 24x7 on call helpdesk support.
• Experience in AIX 5L v 6.1/5.3/5.2/5.1 includes new system planning, customer support, system related problem determination and resolutions.
• Experience in creation of LPAR/DLPAR, micro - partitioning and installation of AIX through NIM server and managing partitions using HMC
• Managed Confidential p5 Systems like 550 and 570 with running AIX 5.3 O/S
• Monitoring a variety of systems UNIX, AIX and Solaris for disk space usage, memory usage, CPU usage and service functionality.
• AIX Servers Installation/upgrade and maintenance on different hardware.
• Installation and maintanence of Redhat Linux on intel platform
• Building VIO server and VIO clients according to the requirement.
• Setting up/Configuring VLAN and AIX installation using NIM.
• Instillation and Configuration of Linux on stand alone machine.
• Worked with SAN Administrator for activity like upgrading PowerPath, assigning disks from EMC Symmetric to AIX Systems and creating filesystems on top of those disks
• Using pcmpath/Powerpath to manage allocated SAN disks.
• Using HMC to manage LPARs.
• Backup, System Recovery, Security and Performance Tuning.
• Establishes network users, user environments, directories, and security for networks being installed.
• Responsible to resolve problem tickets.
• Documentation of necessary changes to fixes common problems to provide resources to keep system current.

Confidential, Ortho, NJ

AIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Providing 24x7 On-call Support on a weekly rotation basis to ensure availability of Servers
• Installation/Migration, Configuration and Administration of AIX v 4.3.3/5.1/5.2/5.3
• Installation/Migration, Standard/ Extended Configuration of HACMP v 4.4.1/5.1/5.2 (High Availability Clustering Multi-Processing) and Post Implementation Tasks including Testing/Verification and synchronizing cluster
• Managing Aliases, Managing Zones and Managing Configuration.
• Installation, and Configuration of AIX 5.2 according to Server Building Plan on p670/p630 system through NIM
• AIX Servers Installation/upgrade and maintenance on different hardwares.
• Implementing and Managing LPAR/DLPAR on AIX through HMC
• Sudo access, Unix User Security Administration.
• Vi editor experience to modify UNIX files.
• Up gradation of production systems by Installing PTF (Program Temporary Fix) and APAR (Authorized Program Analysis Report) whenever required and necessary with minimum down time.
• To ensure audit accountability for each and every user in production environment.
• Documenting necessary changes and Configuration of System and keep it current.
• Managing System Resources like File System, Disk space, Volume Groups, Logical Volumes and Physical Volumes
• Scheduling Daily Incremental and weekly Full Backup using Crontab
• Supporting and automating various tasks using Shell scripts.