SUMMARY:

• Proven track record in establishing and improving IT department’s performance and reliability to the business units. a major contributor to the development and the final product for the customer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: AIX 7, 6, TSM 7, 6, Regatta Servers, LVM, SSA, EMC, RAID, PSSP, Linux, Apache, Windows Server, Microsoft Office.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Houston, TX

Lead AIX Systems Engineer/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience managing large and/or multiple full life cycle projects
• Experience managing projects within a large Enterprise Environment
• Implement, setup, and manage backup engineering for the Enterprise Backups using Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows, UNIX, Linux, Oracle, Microsoft SQL for over eight years.
• Setup and configure the backups to over 300 Windows physical servers, 50 AIX servers, 800 VMware servers.
• Manage backups to tape for EPIC 9 terabyte production flash copies.
• Over 2 Petabyte of production backup data on tape. Both onsite and offsite backup data copies.
• Perform administration and upgrades of TSM servers and the Tape Library.
• Administration of critical data systems.Systems management, design strategies, continuous monitoring of system performance.Administration of AIX Updates using NIM for the AIX servers. Provide operational support for all Unix systems. Provide after hours support for Unix systems.
• Write procedures and mentor Level 1 personnel.
• Project planning and implementation with the Application and Database teams to complete several application upgrades.
• Installation and support of IBM P770, P750, P650, P 550, P 0 p - series servers.
• New build of Enterprise backup project.AIX 7.1, TSM 7.1, LTO-6 Drives, 4 TS3100 Tape Libraries, TSM VE, and Replication.
• Completed TSM Enterprise Backup Project to replace LTO1 drives with LTO3 drives and migrate over 500 TB of data to LTO3 media.
• JHACO System restores to fulfill DR requirements.
• Completed the migration of PeopleSoft Application and Database LPARS off of two IBM P690 machines unto two IBM P6 570 machines.
• Completed project to upgrade P-690, M80, H80 servers to new P6 570 and 520 systems. This includes Networking, SAN Fiber, SAN Storage, OS Builds and working with the Application teams to setup servers and cut over to new servers.
• Complete upgrade to the 3584 tape library to add 5 new drives, High capacity frame and HA second accessor.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Unix/Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and support of IBM p-series running AIX on p-series DLPAR servers. 11 Partitions on Regatta P-670 and P-650
• Completed project to implement PeopleSoft on an IBM p-series Regatta P CPU, 128 GB Memory, DLPAR,6 Partitions with 2 TB Fast-T 900 Storage with DB2 Databases.
• Project support of HMC operations to redistribute CPU and memory resources from development to Production servers dynamical.
• Installation and configuration of the NIM Server and Clients.
• Perform more than 200 deployments, setups, installations, and support of TSM client software on AIX, Linux, and Microsoft, DB2 API, Domino API, and SQL API.
• Perform second level support for backup and restore issues across enterprise.
• Documented and Setup the Disaster Recovery Tape rotation procedure for offsite storage.
• SUSE and Redhat Linux deployment of over 75 installs on web, database and application servers.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

AIX Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of IBM RS/ node SP2 platform, 3.5 TB SSA disk system, eight ADSM servers attached to 3494 Tape Library running Informix in MPP.
• Completed multi-discipline team project to migrate warehouse to a new 4 SMP nodes, 48 processor, 96 GB Memory, RS/6000 SP, 3.5 TB EMC switched disk farm running Informix MPP.
• Successful completion of several projects in various corporate cultures including Developers, Production teams, and Database administrators.
• OS migration to AIX 4.3.3, 5.1, Solaris 8, User Management, File system allocation and definition, Disk allocation and definition, System Network Configuration, Performance monitoring (sar, iostat, vmstat, Perfmon).
• Communication with IBM Certified Engineers to initiate and complete hardware related problems.
• Install and setup APACHE web servers and install CGI scripts.
• Install and Configure Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) clients on RS/6000 SP nodes, Sun, and Microsoft, Setup backup schedules for the clients.
• Perform backups, support and files restores on eight mission critical ADSM servers attached to the 3494 Tape Library.
• Administer the IBM 3494 Tape Robot including trouble shooting of 3590 Tape Drives.
• Support of Legato backups and files restores on four IBM RS and B80 servers.
• Administration of two eight node RS/6000 SP systems.
• Configure Clients on the TSM Servers and setup backup schedules for the clients.
• Load and extract tapes for the 3494 Tape Robot.
• Administer the IBM 3494 Tape Robot including trouble shooting of 3590 Tape Drives.
• Troubleshoot tape drive and tape robot problems and work with IBM Certified Engineers to fix problems.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Field Support Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the implementation and continued support of several of the company’s proprietary positioning applications. Supervised and evaluated fifteen processing geophysicists.
• Created and implemented technical programs for field processing geophysicists.
• Teach technical classes to the field processing geophysicists.
• Prepared selected and supervised the implementation of Unix Servers for field processing.
• Collaborated with departments in the design of complex data acquisition and processing for client surveys.
• Successfully supported the corporate applications on more than 7 multi-million dollar survey projects.
• Analyzed processing procedures and implemented changes that significantly increased the quality of the product and reduced the cost of processing time.
• Provided Technical Support for offshore processing geophysicists.
• Perform application and hardware installation on job startups.
• AIX and applications Upgrades.