Career Objective:

• 8 years of expertise experience in AIX, LINUX, SOLARIS and ESX Administration, Engineering, Planning, Networking, Designing, implementation and Troubleshooting of different versions respectively.
• Experience with installation administration of AIX 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1 and 7.1
• Experience with Installing and configuring RHEL 2.1, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0.
• Experience in Solaris 8, 9 10 OS.
• Expertise in installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of Redhat Linux 3/4/5, Solaris 7/8/9/10, IBM, AIX 5.xL /6.X/7.1 and Windows Server.
• Installation and troubleshooting on VMware running Linux Redhat 3/4/5/6 .
• Experienced in leading the efforts of Deployment and Build Engineers for Linux Environment.
• Implementation and setup of local Linux disk backups using open Source applications.
• Consolidating multiple Linux servers into 2 physical virtual servers, using vserver.
• Configuring and implementing LINUX Kernel re-compilation.
• Installed a PHP based Linux kickstart solution that allows for the building of profiles based on IP address- this system allows for rapid installation of new Linux systems.
• Installation, Configuration and administration of LPAR's and DLPAR's
• Experienced in Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of HACMP v5.x on AIX v5.x/6.1.
• Installation, administration of VIO Server and VIO client LPAR's.
• Configuring and setting up HMCs and good knowledge on working on it .
• Experience in Upgrading HMCs to the latest versions V7 .
• Proficiency with configuration and maintenance of NFS, DNS, NIS/NIS , DHCP, SMTP, and Networking with TCP/IP
• Experienced in Perl and Korn Shell Scripting .
• IBM-AIX kernel Tuning, Performance Analysis and Load Balancing
• SAN Storage, Disk Management LVM .
• Expertise in creating volume groups , Physical Volumes , logical volume Filesystems and trouble shooting them if any issues .
• Hands on Experience on IBM storewize v7000, HP EVA 3000, NETAPP EMC .
• Active involvement with the NetApp storage device and experienced in installation, setup, configuration and maintenance of NetApp hardware.
• Highly expertise in Install, configuration and managing NIM Server.
• Performed user tasks including submitting and managing parallel, serial and interactive jobs.
• Extensive experience in Installation configuration of Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Manager and Resizing volumes to meet customer requirement, dealing with Volume Manager performance issues.
• Experienced in Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Sun Solaris 8, 9 and 10.
• Experienced in Perl Scripting
• Experienced in Installing Oracle 10g, 11g on Solaris servers.
• Expertise in creating micro partition.
• Responsible for SAP Implementation on the respective AIX servers.
• Experience in installation and configuration of multiple application servers including IBM WebSphere

SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1. 7.1, Sun Solaris 8 , 9 10 , RedHat/SuSE, Linux 2.X , 3.X , 4.X , 5.X 6.1 ESX 3.5 , 4.1 5.1 , MS, Windows NT/XP/2000

Hardware: IBM RS/6000, p-Series p4, p5, p6 and p7, Hardware Management Console, ESS disk storage, SSA 7133, T40 SSA and D40 SSA and IBM Netfinity 3000, NetApp Storage, IBM compatible PCs Intel based ,SUN Ultra E250, M5000 , T2000 , V490 V480. . DELL 2650 2850 , HP DL380 , DL360 , DL580 , DL560

Networking: TCP/IP, NIM, NFS, NIS, DNS, DHCP, SMTP.

Servers: HACMP/ ES 4.5, HACMP 5.1, HACMP 5.3, HACMP 5.4, Apache Server, TSM Server, NIM server, VIO Server, Kickstart Wanboot.

Languages: C, C , UNIX Shell Programming.

Databases: Oracle 10g/9i, IBM DB2, MS-SQL Server, MS-Access.

Applications: Websphere, SAP, IBM IHS

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

UNIX/Linux Administrator

Environment: RHEL 2.1/3/4/5/6, AIX 5.2/5.3/6.1, ESX 4.1/5 Solaris 8/10. Windows 2000, Oracle 9i,Oracle 10g, Java, DB2r, LVM, SSH, Linux, IBM Blade Center JS22, IBM PSeries 550, 570,590, 595, 700, 770, DS8000, EMC, FAS2000 storage devices, Tivoli, TSM, DELL 2650, 2850, SUN e2500, e25K, T2000, M5000, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building, configuring, designing and troubleshooting RHEL 2.1/3.0/4.0/5.0/6.0, AIX 5.3/6.1/7.1, ESX 3.X/4.X/5.X and Solaris 8 10.
• Experience with installation administration of AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1 and 7.1
• Experienced in Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Sun Solaris 8, 9 and 10.
• Experienced working with solaris10 container technology, created local and global zones, modified local zone parameters.
• Experienced in Virtualization on Solaris Zones and VMware ESX Server environments.
• Building RHEL servers from the kickstart server, configuring dual homing, installing multiple tools, building red hat cluster on two three nodes.
• Configuring TSM on all the boxes and assisting TSM team with the first initial back-up.
• Installation and troubleshooting on VMware running Linux RedHat 3/4/5 and Windows.
• Performing QA on the new server and troubleshooting any issues on any OS RHEL,AIX,Solaris
• Experience in failover testing and fallback process on power HA.
• Created file system, volume groups, resource groups and migrate the instance with the help of EMC team.
• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server V6.0, 6.1 on AIX.
• Trouble shooting power HA issues on daily basis.
• Migrating AIX OS from AIX 4.3 to 5.1 5.2 and 5.3 to 6.1 on models of p-series hardware.
• Upgrading Power HA from 5.1 to 5.5.
• Solaris Live Update Technology associated with an operating system upgrade or maintenance.
• Configuration of Solaris Jumpstart archives Kickstart in Linux.
• Experienced in Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Sun Solaris 8, 9 and 10.
• Experienced in Installing Oracle 10g, 11g on Solaris servers.
• Troubleshooting GPFS cluster on all the environments.
• Experience in creating GPFS filesystems, Network Shared Disks NSD .
• Installing and configuring GPFS cluster on Dev, Test, and Prod environment.
• Installing and Configuring Power HA on P5/P6/P7 boxes and creating resource group for database team administration.
• Involved in upgrading production, development QA servers from Red Hat 4 to 5 and Solaris 9 to 10.
• Extensive experience in Installation configuration of Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Manager and Resizing volumes to meet customer requirement, dealing with Volume Manager performance issues.
• After every build completion, my responsibility includes working with database team to configure and create database instance and resource groups.
• Assisting EMC/IBM SAN team with creating RAID and configuring Zones on the SAN switch and Storage respectively.
• Worked closely with EMC SAN planning team at the time of LUN assignment and re-assignment.
• Creating different ether channel configuration active/active, active/passive 802.3ad .
• Installing and Configuring AIX on p5/p6/p7 boxes for Test, QA Production environment.
• Configured IBM RS 6000, 550, 570, 575, 700, 770 and Blade Server machines for production, staging and test environments.
• Worked on WPAR , Live partition Mobility
• Installing and configuring VIO servers from NIM mksysb and building LPARs using VSCSI , micro partitioning and NPIV.
• Creating Virtual machines, Clones and template for Linux and Windows .
• Installed and Configure ESX version 3.5 , 4.1 and 5.1 and adding it to the VCENTER .
• Building redhat virtual servers on ESX boxes and also responsible for VLAN tagging.
• Experience in Linux LVM, which include creating partition on disks, volume groups, logical volume, and filesystems.
• Configuring and implementing LINUX Kernel re-compilation.
• Consolidating multiple Linux servers into 2 physical virtual servers, using vserver.
• Implementation and setup of local Linux disk backups using open Source applications.
• Experienced in leading the efforts of Deployment and Build Engineers for Linux Environment.
• Providing Version Control with Subversion and Automated Build Deployments.
• Working with Network team on any network issue for the new builds and firewall related issues.
• Creating dataflow for the ports to be open on the server incase if firewall is blocking.
• Creating executing Change Management Requests for production issues 24/7.

Confidential

UNIX/Linux Administrator

Environment: AIX v5.2/5.3/6.1, Solaris, LPAR, Web Sphere Application Server, HACMP V5.2/5.3, Windows 2000, Oracle 9i,Oracle 10g, Java, DB2r, LVM, SSH, Linux, IBM Blade Center JS22, IBM PSeries 550, 570,590, 595, 700, 770, DS8000, EMC,FAS2000 storage devices, Tivoli, TSM.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Administration, Planning, Designing, Configuring, troubleshooting and performance tuning on the AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1, Linux and Solaris servers.
• Experienced in Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Sun Solaris 8 and 9.
• Experienced in Virtualization on VMware ESX Server environments.
• Installation and configuration of VIO servers and updating system firmware by using HMC along with Logical Partition technology LPARs .
• Worked on different version on RHEL from bare metal hardware until turning over to Customer.
• Installation of Solaris 8 , 9 and 10 using wanboot server
• Expert in NAS NFS, CIFS infrastructure EMC Celerra, NetApp, Unix NFS, Windows CIFS DFS, Samba, Rainfinity architecture, migration, management
• Maintained Raleigh filers and served as point man for all NetApp related issues or queries.
• Installed a PHP based Linux kickstart solution that allows for the building of profiles based on IP address- this system allows for rapid installation of new Linux systems.
• Administration Tasks included User administration, Performance, Sendmail. weekly mksysb
• Worked on Micro Partitioning on P6 machines.
• Configured and Administered HACMP 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 IBM PowerHA.
• Migrating AIX OS from AIX 4.3 to 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3, 5.3 to 6.1 on models of p-series hardware.
• Administering and troubleshooting of AIX HACMP Clusters.
• Expertise in installing, configuring and troubleshooting on JS22 Blades in IBM Blade center.
• Building and configuring AIX V6.1, 5.3 on LPARs using NIM.
• AIX 5.2/ 5.3/6.1 migrations using NIM and local install methods.
• Responsible for mirroring and un-mirroring using logical volume manager LVM .
• Performing Firmware Upgrades.
• Configure File Systems and administer using NFS.
• Responsible for creating SAN LUNS on IBM and EMC san.

Confidential

UNIX Administrator

Environment: AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3/6.1, Solaris 8, Linux, LPAR, HACMP, Windows 2000, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, Java, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, IBM Blade Center, Apache Web Server, Power Broker 5.1.2-06, Power Password 3.4.13-2, LDAP, Tivoli, TSM, Web Sphere Application Server.

Responsibilities

• Provide onsite and remote support for AIX/Linux/Solaris Server's.
• Provided 24x7 on call server support for UNIX environment including AIX, Linux, HP-UX, and Sun Solaris.
• Migrating AIX 5.3 to 6.1 and p5 hardware to p6 hardware.
• Configured IBM p-series 550,570,590,595,690 machines for production, staging and test environments.
• Designed, installed and configured HACMP cluster environment, with cascading and mutual takeover.
• Expertise in Troubleshooting on High Availability Clusters HACMP .
• Performed the daily system administration tasks like managing System resources, Disk space resources, operations and security.
• Installing, Configuration and Migration of Solaris 9 and from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10.
• Provided support for ZFS and maintained Pools for storage management.
• Experience knowledge of Solaris 10 with zones/containers, dtrace, zfs, server creation and Kernel and TCP/IP tuning.
• Assisted in the Development of a number of products including an embedded operating system router and a CDN in a box running under VMware ESXi.
• Install, and configure VMware ESX 3.5 , ESXi, and vSphere 4 environments with Virtual Center management, Lab Manager, Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA.
• Installed Oracle 10g/11g on Linux based servers.
• Developing bespoke Build and Deployment automation tools using MySQL, Apache, Tomcat, Java and JSP on Linux.
• Designed, configured, and implemented an enterprise Sun Jumpstart server to automate installations of Sun Sparc workstations and servers supporting Linux.
• Installed a PHP based Linux kickstart solution that allows for the building of profiles based on IP address- this system allows for rapid installation of new Linux systems
• Supports Solaris zone-based virtualization solutions to better utilize system resources and maximize efficiency.
• Configuring and implementing LINUX Kernel re-compilation.
• /migration/preservation installation for the IBM P series, 550,570, 590, 595, 690 with Operating System levels of 5.1, 5.2, 5.3,6.1 TL5 SP6.
• Expertise in using performance tuning tools such as topas, netstat, vmstat and sar.
• IBM Power VM experience including setup and management of VIO partitions and performance tuning on IBM hardware specifically 9117-570, 9113-561, 9117-MMA.

Confidential

UNIX Administrator

Environment: AIX 4.3.3/5.x/6.1, Solaris, Linux, LPAR, HACMP, NetApp, Veritas Netbackup, Windows 2000, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, Java, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, IBM Blade Center, Apache Web Server, LDAP, Tivoli, TSM, Web Sphere Application Server.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the Administration, Planning, Designing, Configuring troubleshooting and performance tuning on the AIX 4.3/5.1/5.2/5.3/6.1 and Linux servers.
• AIX administration supporting RS6000 Servers, installing, configuring and maintaining WebSphere Application Server, Samba Server and IBM HTTP Server.
• Responsible for the operation, maintenance and integrity of a distributed, networked AIX based environment
• Responsible for NIM installation, setting up NIM servers, clients, define the resources, Alternate Disk Migration with NIM
• Involved in the migration of Solaris 8 to Solaris 10
• Created/used LDOM in Solaris 10 and installed multiple OS.
• Solaris Live Update Technology associated with an operating system upgrade or maintenance.
• Experience in migrating UFS root file system to ZFS root file system using Live Upgrade.
• Experienced with the installation, configuration and volume/File system management using Veritas Volume Manager, Logical Volume Manager LVM and Solstice Disk Suite Solaris Volume Manager .
• Involved in performance tuning of Java based applications
• Installation/Administration of TCP/IP, NIS/NIS , NFS, DNS, NTP, Auto mounts, Send mail and Print servers as per the client's requirement.
• Configured cascading, mutual takeover and rotating modes of operation of the HACMP and HACMP/ES products.
• Administration Tasks included User administration, Performance, weekly mksysb, adhoc mksysb, documentation.
• Expertise in installing, configuring and troubleshooting on JS20 Blades in IBM Blade center.
• Expertise working in a huge environment that consists of almost 700 Servers including RS/6000, p-series and IBM Blade Center.

Confidential

AIX/UNIX Administrator

Environment: AIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows 2000,Oracle, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Server, WebSphere Application Server 4.0 and Unix Shell Scripting.

Responsibilities

• Expertise working in a huge environment that consists of almost 700 Servers including RS/6000, p-series and IBM Blade Center.
• Installing, configuring, maintaining and enhancing operating system and system support software/hardware AIX 5.1 - 5.3, TSM, HACMP4.5, LPAR, DLPAR, VCM, VVM, SSA Disks, IBM DS8100, IBM PSeries 550, 570,590, 595 690, RS/6000
• Diagnosing and resolving systems related tasks in accordance with priorities setup in dealing with trouble tickets.
• System performance monitoring tuning as necessary .