SUMMARY

• Over 9+ years of experience in IT Field and 7+ years as system administrator with UNIX operating systems such as IBM AIX and LINUX Servers that’s include Installation, Administration, and Configuration, Planning, upgrading, Testing, Performance Tuning and Backup recovery.
• Experience in AIX on IBM Power Servers (p595, p570, p550, p520, p55A, p505, p620, p650, p655, p670, p690, p770, p795)
• Working Experience in HMC 7.3.0.2 (GUI - Console), VMware vSphere 5.0 Client, Symantec ESM Enterprise Console 10.0.
• Experience in Linux on SLES/Red Hat Linux machines on Egenera frames (lpan, pservers), HP685c frames, and IBM blades. Oracle RAC on Linux, Oracle ASM devices configuration/administration.
• Have Working experience in ITSM, ESM, TAMs, EURC, Peregrine Ticket System, EPV (Break Glass & Hostgroup Registrations) Tools.
• Experience in Hubeq (Enterprise Q), Brews (Backup Check), IDM.
• Experience in SMTP, MACD, SIM-SIEM, Tivoli Registrations.
• AIX /Linux installation, upgrading, (Service Pack, Technology Level, Patches), Migration and Troubleshooting.
• Have experience in Backup configuration ( Netbackup, Tape Backup, Tertiary Backup)
• JFS, JFS2, GPFS, NFS file systems (creation/modification/deletion)
• AIX Logical Volume Management, Performance and Monitoring.
• Backup / Recovery using NIM, Alt Disk Copy, Mksysb
• Configuration of dual VIO server, LPAR, DLPAR using HMC
• Have working experience in VSI (Linux), VSIPower (AIX) servers built by Automatic scripts.
• Experienced in Virtualization Technologies (NPIV, VSCSI)
• 24*7 on call support for PRD/PERF/UAT/TRN/DEV environments.
• Monitors and tunes the system to achieve optimum performance levels, Network Troubleshooting.
• Network configuration such as TCP/IP, NFS.
• Familiar with Change Management Process and ability to multitask in a fast paced environment under strict time guidelines and resolve production incidents with minimum impact to customers with round the clock on call support.
• Designing and Implementation of System Security, LDAP, KEONIZATION
• Corporate Disaster Recovery Planning and Implementation.
• Configuration SAN storage, EMC, IBM Shark (DS8100, DS 4800), SAN disk migration using Prime.
• Installs, supports, and maintains VERITAS Clustering Red Hat Linux and Windows NT/2000 server, data base management systems.
• Experience includes servers, storage and communication hardware and Windows, Linux, VMware and Network software products.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 4.3.3/5.1/5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1, Solaris 8/9/10, Sun OS 2.9, 2.7,2.6, 2.5.1, HP-UX 11i/11.0,10.20, 9.0, LINUX(Red Hat 6.1 & 6.2), Windows NT/ 2000/XP.

Hardware: IBM power server (p595, p570, p550, p520, p55A, p505, p620, p650, p655, p670, p690, p770, p795), RS 6000. IBM SSA, LTO 2/3 tape library.

Application/Web Servers: Fast 3. & 3.2, Apache Web Server 1.2.2/1.3/2.0, IBM 1.3.28/1.3.26.2, iPlanet Directory Server, Tivoli Management Framework (TMF), Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC), Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), NetBackup, CommVault Galaxy, HTTP Server.

Network Services: TCP/IP Suite, UDP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL, SMTP, FTP, ICMP, IMAP, POP3, NIS, NIS+, NFS, DNS, DHCP, LAN/WAN, TCP Wrappers.

RDBMS: ORACLE 8i/9i, DB2/UDB 7.2/8.0, MS-Access.

System Tools: HA / HACMP 5.2/5.3/5.4 ES, 2.0, Veritas Volume Manager 3.0/3.5, Veritas NetBackup 3.4/4.0, Veritas File system, Solstice Disk Suite.

Storage Area: IBM Shark DS 8100, ESS 800, DS 4800 and DS8300, ESM, Hitachi SAN.

Backup Utilities: Netback up, Nim Server, TSM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Columbus Ohio

System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Install new / rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Install, Supports, and maintains, GPFS, Oracle RAC 11g.
• Responsible to complete project life cycle that includes planning, design, implementation and production.
• Performed partitioning and configuring with HMC
• Experience with creation of infrastructure Design document to support all process/activities for new projects.
• Responsible for administration tasks like creating user profiles including groups and user accounts, assigning them passwords periodically and allotting them the required permissions and changing the permissions as the situation arises as a part of User Administration duties.
• Experience in Creating and maintaining LPAR, DLPAR via HMC on the Power servers p770, p795, according to the resources demands from the customer. That includes all virtualization mapping for vSCSIs and NPIVs.
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Have good working experience in TAMs, ECM, ITSM, PRIME, EURC, EPV, and Peregrine Tickets System to work according to customer demand and Phase 1 & 2 build.
• Have working experience SIM (SIEM) on boarding process, MACD (IP - DNS - DHCP) Services, SMTP registration, Tideway, Operational Run Book, Brews Backup, and IDM Tool.
• Have working experience in Hubeq (Enterprise Q), to register Tivoli Agent, EP Gateway zone Mapping, Netview Config file, Perform Action (Decom Server & Push Monitor.
• Skilled at IBM-AIX kernel Tuning, Performance Analysis and reporting.
• Experienced with the Firewall, DNS-DR pair and Load balancers technologies at design level.
• Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks are created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.
• Experience in Setup and installation of VIO servers, VIO clients, setup of network and disks in virtual environment. Virtual server backup and restoration.
• Experince in NPIV, VSCSI, and TAPE drive Virutal mapping, and NAS, Tertiary Backup.
• Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
• Have Installed Autosys (AIX), Autosys R11 (AIX / LINUX), CF engine, Netbackup 7.0 & 7.1, Opnet.
• Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Configure / add new services as necessary.
• Upgrade and configure system software that supports GIS infrastructure applications or Asset Management applications per project or operational needs.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.
• Have good working experience in keonization, LDAP, LAT (Logical Access Template).
• Experince in Installing and configuring Controlm for schedule DB jobs.
• Collaborated with business managers, application managers, support personnel to gather requirements and collect technical details to plan, design, procure hardware/software, deploy and certify severs.
• Have good experince in working VSI (Linux) and VSIPower (AIX) servers.
• Have experince in upgrading Technologu Level and Service Pack from 6100-04-03-1009 to 6100-07-04-1216.
• Have working experience in server's golive process to remediate the QC report issue.
• Have experience in creating Work Order for DBA, WEBSA, and QA to start their work.
• Have experience in installing and configuring IBM Tivoli-05, Tivoli-06.
• Have experience in installing and configuring Symantec Enterprise Security Management (ESM) tools.
• Supported and administered large, global and mission critical UNIX Servers in Production, UAT and Development environments which include AIX 5.x, 6.x and Red Hat Linux 5.x, 6.x.
• Have working experience in VMware vSphere Client 5.0
• Responsible for administration tasks like creating user profiles including groups and user accounts, assigning them passwords periodically and allotting them the required permissions and changing the permissions as the situation arises as a part of User Administration duties.

Confidential, Westborough, MA

AIX Admin

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented and configured logical partitions (LPAR) and Dynamic LPAR on p690, p770, servers using Hardware Management Console (HMC).
• Building Virtual I/O Partition, Install Virtual I/O OS, configure Virtual I/O server, setting Virtual Ethernet (SEA), Virtual SCSI, memory, CPU, and physical adapter.
• Building Standalong LPARs for DEV, QA, Perf environments.
• Creating/Customization LPAR Profiles, System profiles and Installing AIX6.1 OS on each LPAR server.
• Responsible for EMC powerpath and ODM installations and then using EMC storage devices to create additional file systems for oracle applications etc.
• Setup and installation of VIO servers, VIO clients, setup of network and disks in virtual environment. Virtual server backup and restoration.
• Installed and update VIOS Patches,
• Performed system Firmware/Microcode upgrade “AM740 042 to AM740 045” 0n frame P770.
• Upgraded HMC firmware from version 6 to 7 and responsible to apply regular updates.
• Setting up NIM servers, clients, define various NIM resources like lppsource, spot, mksysb, image.data, bosinst.data.
• Performed security administration including user accounts, file systems, creating directory structures, assigning permissions.
• Installed and configured single and dual Virtual I/O server with various configurations.
• Configured Link Aggregation, Shared Ethernet and MPIO access to storage on Virtual
• Configured 1100+ Virtual I/O client LPAR on IBM P770 using HMC.
• Extensive use of HMC to perform DLPAR operations to add/remove/move managed system resources on LPARs.
• Configuried MPIO LUNs to Dual VIOS
• Responsible for creating and managing File Systems using LVM operations and deploying security standards, openSSH, TCB.
• Responsible for Performance monitoring and System Tuning.
• Involved in planning and configuring SAN storage using LVM.
• Responsible for administration tasks like creating user profiles including groups and user accounts, assigning them passwords periodically and allotting them the required permissions and changing the permissions as the situation arises as a part of User Administration duties.
• Installing AIX 6.1 using the NIM Servers, Deploying OS Image using the OPSWARE Process.
• Installing DB2 Binary on the DB Servers, and Client.
• Installing Tidal on the Clinent
• Created Script for Web, App, DB servers for Non-Rootvg (VG, LV, FS)
• Responsible for NIM installation, setting up NIM servers, clients, define the resources.
• Responsible for Troubleshooting TSM backup issues (using knowledge of networking, UNIX structures and NT structures), including performance issues and forecasting of system capacity needs.
• Configure TCP/IP networks as per HACMP network requirements
• Configuring the S-Backup interface, troubleshoot TCP/IP network on AIX 6.1
• Changing the priority path of the disk
• Responsible for Disabling and Enabling MPIO
• Troubleshooting and problem solving of AIX 5.2/5.3/6.1 operating systems running on standalone machines and LPARs.

Confidential, Saddle Brook, NJ

AIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting IBM AIX 5.x/6.1 systems installation and configuration, problem determination, maintenance, backup & troubleshooting on POWER 4/5/6.
• Leading role to Perform SAN migration of 100 TB on 80+ servers from DS4800 to DS 8300 disks storage.
• Managed Fibre SAN/ISCSI SAN/NAS (EMC-CX30, NetApp, Dell MD3000i Dell MD 1000 storage technologies and worked with SANs in VMware environments and troubleshooting and upgrading firmware in VMware and other environments such as Windows
• Lead administrator to migrate 150 plus SAP servers AIX 5.2 ML 10 to AIX 5.3TL 10 using alt disk install.
• Supported AIX servers with various running applications and databases including SAP, DB2, Oracle, and WebSphere, Work brain, Lawson, TSM and Demnatra applications.
• Migrated 200+ plus application and database servers running on AIX5.x from pseries 5 servers to Power6 and Power 7 hardware from one datacenter to other.
• Performed testing to verify failover and fallback of Dual VIO server on p6-570.
• Created standard LPAR and VIO client to install AIX or Linux images. Performed DLPAR operations to manage recourses between logical partitions using HMC 7 on p6-570, p6-560, p6-550,p5-55A
• Work with SAP team to create and install servers for SAP environment.
• Experience supporting an IBM - SAP installation and infrastructure.
• Installed and configured two p6-570s from the scratch, cabled and documented.
• Extensive utilization of AIX LVM, configuring VG, LV, FS and disk mirroring.
• Responsible for NIM installation, setting up NIM servers, clients, define various NIM resources like lppsource, spot, mksysb, image.data, bosinst.data.
• Performed SAN migration of 200+ TB from DS8300 to NetApp disks storage.
• Performed physical installation (i.e., racking, network and fiber cabling and configuration) of IBM p5-Series servers (p570, p550 and p520).
• Update Firmware/Microcode for fiber channel (HBA) and Ethernet adapters.
• Performed system firmware upgrade of frames such as p6-570 / p 5-570/550/520.
• Upgraded HMC firmware from version 6 to 7 and responsible to apply regular updates.
• Upgraded 45+ Prod, 90+ Dev-QA AIX 5.3 servers from TL05 SP2 to TL10 SP3.
• Checking error logs, investigating the logs, providing a solution to the application team.
• Applied software maintenance & fixes to keep the system software releases current.
• Create, monitor, and validate all backup jobs; perform system restores as needed.
• Responsible for providing operational and management reporting on the TSM environment, including mechanisms to communicate successful completion of tasks and service levels.
• Provided 24*7 supports for critical mid-range heterogeneous environment including IBM power servers running on AIX 5.2/5.3/6.1.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills support backup and recovery, performance and tuning of AIX OS.

Environment: IBM AIX 5x/6x, WebSphere AppServer 5.0/4.0, Windows XP professional, IBM HTTP Server, Tomcat Server, DB2, Oracle11g, Oracle10g, Oracle Grid Control, Comvalut, LPAR, DLPAR, HMC, NIM, IBM p-series servers (p620, p630, p650, p690, p5-series p570, p560,p575, p595), IBM, KORN shell, SAN, Tivoli Management Framework (TMF), IBM DS DS4800 series and ESS 800.

Confidential, MA

AIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administration, installation and maintenance of AIX 5.2/5.3 on IBM P-4 / P-5 / P-6 series (p570, p550, p55A, p620, p630, p650, p690) servers.
• Responsible for installing AIX OS 5.2/5.3 on POWER based series p550, p650, p630 and configuration, and periodic update such as applying maintenance level, critical fixes and microcode update and other installation tasks like committing and removing software etc.
• Installation and configuration of VIO Server 2.1 and AIX 6.1 on client LPAR’s running power6 570 and power6 560 machines.
• Installs, supports, and maintains SUN UNIX (Solaris) VERITAS Clustering Red Hat Linux and Windows NT/2000 server, data base management systems, and performance tools which ensure reliable and efficient performance of operating systems software.
• Build Virtual I/O Partition, Install Virtual I/O OS, configure Virtual I/O server, setting Virtual Ethernet, SEA, Virtual SCSI, memory, CPU, physical adapter requirements, multiple VIO servers.
• Performed system administration including user, system & group management, system updates, performance monitoring, backup/recovery, disk & storage management.
• Upgrade and update Firmware/Microcode level of P4/P5 managed machine, HMC, HBA, ethernet adapters.
• Managing back up of HMC critical console data, LPARs profiles, system backup of virtual I/O servers and clients using NIM server.
• Migrated 250 + servers from AIX 5.3 servers to AIX versions 6.1 using Storix 5.5 and NIM.
• Provide 24x7 supports for servers running in the production environment.
• Excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded as well as the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management and the client community.
• Monitor and manage the 24x7 operations to ensure highest stability and availability.
• Good communication skills & well versed with group work.

Environment: IBM RS/6000 servers, IBM p-series servers (p570, p550, p55A, p620, p630, p650, p690), WebSM, NIM, IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, LPAR, HMC, KORN shell, SAN, Shark EMC, IBM DS DS4000 series and ESS 800, SUN UNIX Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Windows NT/2000 server Oracle, DB2, SAP, Web sphere, TSM.

Confidential, Springfield, IL

AIX/UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Installation, Configuration Management, Maintenance and Systems Development of AIX Systems.
• Configured IBM P-series 570,550 and RS 6000 machines for production and test environments
• Responsible for the operation, maintenance and integrity of a distributed, networked AIX based environment
• Tested and configured AIX 5.3 on P 570 hardware with different applications.
• Experienced in creating maintaining and managing LPARS, LPARS and VIO with HMC console
• Installation configuration and testing of VIO Server with AIX 5.3 on client LPAR’s on 550 and 570 models
• Responsible for NIM installation, setting up NIM servers, clients, define the resources, Alternate Disk Migration with NIM
• Software installation, updating and trouble shooting on systems using NIM and media
• Responsible for taking system backups mksysb, mkcd, savevg and savevgcd also make system backup through NIM, making archives of files and folders
• Responsible to setting up the VIO installation from the scratch on the IBM P5 servers.
• Installation/Administration of TCP/IP, NIS/NIS+, NFS, DNS, NTP, Auto mounts, Send mail and Print servers as per the client’s requirement.
• Administered the UNIX System for clustered AIX Servers running HACMP and dynamic LPARs with fiber attached SAN storage.
• Responsible for configuring User Authentication for the AIX systems using LDAP.
• Development in PERL for automatic user addition/email addition/deletion and username verification.
• Document backup policies and procedures for backup routines, schedules and restore policies.
• Applying software maintenance, program fixes and keeping the system software releases current.
• Installation/Administration of TCP/IP, NIS/NIS+, NFS, DNS, NTP, Auto mounts, Send mail and Print servers as per the client’s requirement.
• Expertise in installing, configuring and troubleshooting on JS20 and HS20 Blades in IBM Blade center.
• Expertise working in a huge environment that consists of almost 700 Servers including RS/6000,
• Installing and configuring LDAP on AIX and windows Expertise in making user groups

Environment: AIX, Solaris, Windows 2000, Oracle 8i, DB2, IBM HTTP Server, IBM Blade Center, Apache Web Server, LDAP, Web Sphere Application Server.

Confidential

AIX/System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrator of IBM AIX and Linux RedHat applications.
• Installed/Maintained AIX systems 4.x.
• Supported multiple RS600 Systems.
• Created logical volumes (mirrored/stripped) in SSA disks.
• Involved in Disaster Recovery, DataStage upgrade, Unix Infrastructure.
• Created and maintained user accounts on UNIX Systems
• Installed, Configured and Management of Mail Servers, DNS
• Developed shell-scripts to automate routine activities.
• Configured NFS, NIS on Servers on Production boxes.
• Configured TCP/IP backup restore and storage management.
• Created users on the server for public and private ftp access to the site.
• Provided system administration and operational support for UNIX-Sun Solaris and Linux systems.
• Implemented Local LANs and WAN for Corporate Data Centers.
• Provided Tele-support to remote users and offshore clients.
• Responsible for installation and maintenance of 43 AIX 4.x servers.
• Administrator of IBM RS/6000 servers running AIX 4.3.3.
• Predefined and Customized Volume Group management on AIX
• Installation and Administration of TIVOLI Service Desk.
• Disk Replacement Strategy on AIX.
• Performance Management & Tuning of AIX UNIX Kernel.
• Software installation and maintenance.
• Installation and administration of peripherals.
• Security, users and groups administration.
• Networking service, performance, and resource monitoring.
• Activities include user administration; startup and shutdown scripts; crontab, file system maintenance and backup scripting and automation.
• Worked in a fast-paced 24x7 production environment comprising IBM servers.
• Performed migration from AIX level 4.3.3 to 5.2.
• Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands.
• Maintained availability, increased capacity & performance of production machines by upgrading their hardware & firmware.

Confidential

Jr. System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Administration, Configuration, Planning, Maintenance, up gradation, troubleshooting and problem resolution in IBM AIX 4.3 and 5.1 running on IBM H50, B50 servers.
• Maintained the departmental Mail server which is running on the Send mail on the Linux.
• Configuring the Network files systems like NFS, NIS and Samba server to make the file sharing environment for the different project. DCF is the major computing environment in each department supporting the various projects for the implementation.
• Maintenance & Administration of Windows NT/2000Server Exchange server 5.5/2000, Windows professional/NT/98/95 clients. This is a Single Domain model Network with 150 clients.
• Responsible for 24X7 on-site operations support for all web related issues.
• Installation, upgrades and maintenance of IIS and NES web servers on Windows NT and Solaris 2.6 and 7.
• System Study, Implementation and support of Local Area Network
• Configured NT 4.0 severs and configured TCP/IP protocol in the network.
• Installation of NT Server and performed LAN Troubleshooting.
• Administering Network user accounts.
• Monitoring users on Windows NT Server solving workstation problems & Network printer Problems as well as PC problems.
• Independently responsible for trouble shooting Network problems and system problems, taking care of creating user ID's allocating disk space for projects.
• Assigning permissions for printers, and other necessary Administrative activities.
• Played an active role in creating and administering the Group policies of the users.
• Provided desktop support, managed critical updates and Anti-virus and software installations in the organization.
• The enterprise backup & recovery solution was ADSM. Systems monitoring and alert system, system backups, tape archives and application licenses.