SUMMARY

• Highly qualified systems administrator offering 5 years of experience working with UNIX operating systems such as IBM AIX, servers, contributing innovative methodologies and alternatives to the growth of the company having excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently. foundation strengths include
• A responsible and experienced Unix Administrator with the great ability to support the server with the full efficiency and dedication and have experience of managing, troubleshooting IBM P4, P5 and P6 series hardware. Also great understanding of the issues related to the hardware and software with the profound ability to resolve the issues and problems.
• Proven ability to be a strong professional with the sound knowledge of the new technologies and advance applications. Have background knowledge of Networking concepts and experience in Network and Administration & Troubleshooting on AIX based systems.
• Experience in performing various NIM operations including BOS installation and mksysb restoration.
• Hands on experience with virtualization and power 5, 6 partition mobility feature. Upgrading firmware of managed machines, devices and HMC. Extensive experience in micro Partitioning and (LPAR, DLPAR). Partitioning and management Virtual I/O servers and clients Install, configure, manage, NIM server and installing clients using NIM recourses and SAN Storage, and Disk Management
• Experience of installing and upgrading HACMP and configuring cluster. Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills; flexibility; ability to plan and organize; responsiveness and creativity. Monitor and manage the 24x7 operations to ensure highest stability, availability. Self - motivated team player, able to set priorities and manage to deadlines. Strong knowledge and experience in Logical Volume Management (LVM), Storage and Disk Management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 5L,5,1,5.2,5,3, Linux (RedHat, SUSE), Windows 2000/NT4.0, Sun Solaris. MAC8.1/9/10 and OS2.

Networking: TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, LAN.

Web/Application Servers: WebSphere Application Server 3.5/4.0, Netscape/iPlanet Server, MQSeriesWebLogic Server, IBM HTTP Server, HTML, DHTML, XML.

Hardware: IBM RS/6000, p5 Series, 595, 650, 630, 670, SUN Enterprise 450.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UNIX/AIX System Administrator

Confidential, Alexandria, Virginia

Environment: IBM 595, 570, 550, 520, 650, 610, Lpar’s, AIX 4.3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1 HACMP 5.1, HACMP 5.2, IBM Websphere, BladeCenter JS20, JS21, JS22, Windows 2000, Oracle 9i

Responsibilities:

• Experience with installation, configuration, upgrade and administration of IBM pSeries and Power5/Powerer6 servers on various levels of AIX operating system utilizing environment.
• Responsibilities as a Unix System Administrator include monitor and tune system to make sure of the optimum level of the performance.
• Experience of creating standard and Virtual I/O client LPAR using HMC.
• Extensive experience in Administration, Installation, Upgrading, Configuration, Trouble Shooting and Performance-tuning of IBM Hardware including RS6000, POWER 4 and POWER 5 based machines.
• Keep a track of the appropriate software and upgrade the software packages.
• Responsible for the support of the moderately complex data and also helps in the design and configuration of system landscape.
• Installed and configured Tivoli Storage Manger (TSM) on Solaris and AIX systems.
• Installed and configured VIO server (1.5, 2.1) on P595, P590 models, JS21, JS22 and implementing and managing resources in VIO server.
• Implemented, migration of standalone system into Virtualized environment, problem determination and troubleshooting of hardware and OS failures, system dump analysis.
• Installed, configured and administered CISCO routers, switches, network recovery and TCP/IP networking.
• Helped to establish standards, policies and procedures for all aspects of UNIX server environment (e.g., configuration, administration, documentation, etc.)
• Creation and configuration of Logical Partitions LPAR’s using Hardware Management Console (HMC) and Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM).
• Develop and maintain the documents, library and procedural documents of the system.
• Interact with the clients to talk about the problems and request regarding the complex system issues.
• Performed installations and upgrades on multiple systems using Network Installation Management.
• Performed security administration including user accounts, file systems, creating directory structures, assigning permissions.
• Extensive use of LVM, creating Volume Groups, Logical volumes, and disk mirroring.
• Gather performance statistics on the nodes and tune them to meet the requirements document modified configuration.

AIX/Unix Administrator

Confidential, IL

Responsibilities:

• Responsibility includes maintenance of the system by installing and upgrading the application packages.
• Performed migration which includes migrating from old hardware, OS, SAN, and datacenter
• Install and configure the modem, routers, hubs and LAN terminal servers.
• Provided UNIX infrastructure, operations and support for IBM RS/6000 (7026-M80) servers and pSeries servers running IBM AIX (4.3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
• Manage, setup and maintain the groups and user accounts
• Used the LVM extensively, Created/Modified/Deleted Volume Groups, Logical Volumes and File systems, Added/Removed physical disks, Mirrored Volume Groups and Logical Volumes.
• Responsible for the upgrades on AIX and software packages and maintained them in accordance with established policies, procedures and service level agreements.
• Installed, configured and administered CISCO routers, switches, network recovery and TCP/IP networking. Installation of Security patches, Micro codes and several Application software’s.
• Upgrade of AIX TL and SP to latest level using NFS mount and alt disk.
• Upgrade of managed machine and devices’s firmware/microcode
• Performed administrative tasks such as System Startup/shutdown, Backup strategy, Printing, Documentation, User Management, Security, Network management.