Career Summary

I am an IT professional with over 20 years experience as UNIX System Administrator on various UNIX platforms. I have strong technical, analytical and troubleshooting skills with a proven ability to design and deliver IT solutions.

Operating systems

HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, Redhat Linux, Suse Linux, Centos Linux, Tru64, Windows

Technologies

DNS, NIS, TCP/IP, SSH, SNMP, SMTP, NFS, Samba, CIFS, SAN, XML, HTML, SQL, C, Perl, Shell scripting, VMWare

SOFTware

Oracle, Tivoli Framework, Tivoli Enterprise Console, Tivoli Distributed Monitoring, Tivoli Software Distribution, Tivoli Netview, Remedy, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Connect/Direct, Tivoli Change Management, Legato Networker, HP Data Protector, Tivoli Storage Manager, HP Openview, CA Autosys, Business Objects, Amisys Advance, Tomcat, Apache, Roc Maestro, Roc Rhapsody, Cacti, WebSphere, Nagios, Centrify.

HARDWARE

HP Servers, SUN Servers, IBM pseries Servers, EMC storage DMX, Clariion , HP storage XP512, XP1024 , Brocade FC switches, Cisco FC switches.

technical Training

• Red Hat System Administration III Linux 6
• SUN- SunOS 4.x to Solaris Systems Administration
• IBM- AIX Version 4 Writing Device Drivers
• HP- HP-UX Systems and Network Administration for Experienced UNIX Systems Administrators
• HP- Hands on with Logical Volume Manager, Mirror Disk/UX and JFS.
• Hands on Internetworking with TCP/IP
• HP- HP-UX Troubleshooting.
• Brocade Training and Troubleshooting
• Tivoli Framework
• Tivoli Distributed Monitoring
• Tivoli Netview
• Windows 2000
• Oracle Fundamentals
• XML

Achievements

• Designed and implemented a security monitor that successfully caught unauthorized access to network
• Designed and implemented workarounds for various problems encountered with vendor applications
• Improved efficiency of determining status of warehouse orders
• Overhauled entire Operations monitoring system for improved efficiency and ease of use
• Cost cutting efforts by volunteering to design and implement interfaces from Order Management system to SAP processing.
• Designed a load balancing process for Business Objects implementation of ETL tools
• Improved performance of Application code to exceed customer's expectations
• Implemented a production environment upgrade and migration for a main business application/platform within project timeframe
• Discovered and fixed major design flaws in SAN environment which lead to improved performance

Experience

Confidential

UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR - CORPORATE

• UNIX systems support of Corporate and various Confidential sites servers
• Monitoring and performance tuning of servers
• Various applications support and troubleshooting

Confidential

PRODUCTION SUPPORT/UNIX

• Support applications supported by Clinical IT
• Root cause analysis and troubleshooting of various integrated applications such as WebSphere, Java and Mule ESB on UNIX and Windows servers.
• Create various monitoring and reporting scripts
• Automate application startup and shutdown scripts.
• Improved processes and procedures by working closely with application programmers and architects.
• Create documentation for various procedures and technical reference material.

Confidential

UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

• Responsible for establishing a production ready UNIX environment for the migration of the company's main application.
• Provided the Data Center Operations staff various menu driven scripts to automate their jobs
• Installing Operating System patches
• Support to the Development group for code migration to new environment
• Performance monitoring and troubleshooting of UNIX, Oracle and EMC environments
• Setup of secure file transfers
• Designed and created a new turnover process to Production and the User Testing environments
• Analysis and resolution of various application issues
• Perform application code releases and upgrades
• Setup, test, and document the first Disaster Recovery test for the new UNIX environment, which included various applications.
• Create and maintain scripts to proactively monitor systems and applications.
• Install and configured Cacti to capture performance data
• Setup and maintained security on systems and implemented security procedures

Confidential

APPLICATION SUPPORT ANALYST

• Provide 2nd level support for various applications in the Legal and Compliance Department
• Provide UNIX knowledge to the group
• Analysis and resolution of data feed issues
• Perform and support application code releases

Confidential

SENIOR UNIX ENGINEER

• Provide UNIX day-to-day support for HP-UX, Solaris and Linux Operating Systems
• Ensured customer's SLAs were maintained and achieved
• Ensure the server infrastructure performance and integrity are maintained
• Deployment of new servers in accordance to standard build procedures
• Maintain Sarbanes Oxley security compliance in accordance to security audits
• Provide security and general patch maintenance and Operating System upgrades.
• Provide proactive monitoring and performance analysis
• Participated in Disaster Recovery testing
• Provide support to various Application groups
• Provide CA Autosys application support and perform application upgrades
• Create and maintain server documentation and procedures
• Install, maintain and monitor ESX VMware servers
• Create and maintain Virtual Linux Clients in the VMware environment

Confidential

UNIX SystemS Administrator

• Completed required FDA training for FDA regulated pharmaceutical account
• Provided UNIX support for HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris Operating Systems.
• Ensured customer's SLAs were maintained and achieved

Confidential

Technical Manager

• Managed backup, scheduling and monitoring groups for the North America region.
• Ten direct reports including 24X7 Operations staff.
• Member of the Architecture Management team, responsible for determining the impact and role of new technology of new projects being implemented in the Data Center environment.

GROUP LEAD TIVOLI ADMINISTRATOR

• Responsible for installation and maintenance of Tivoli Framework environment for North American region.
• Responsible for writing custom monitors and custom software packages and automation.
• Senior UNIX SystemS Administrator
• Third level support responsible for 100 local and remote HP9000 servers.
• Ensure 24x7 availability of production servers to maintain Service Level Agreements.
• UNIX support including performance tuning, patching, security and Disaster Recovery testing

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Confidential

Senior Staff Engineer/NETWOrk/UNIX SYsTEM ADMINISTRATOR

• Engineering duties included design, implementation and testing of various products.
• SCSI/ESCON, PCI/ESCON, Device Drivers for AIX, SUN and HP-UX platforms
• Configured , maintained Engineering network and UNIX systems.