TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software

Solaris 2.4 to 11, HP-UX up to 11.x, AIX, Red Hat Linux and Win-NT/200x.

Veritas Volume Manager, RSA KEON, Veritas Clustering, Sun Clustering, VMware, Sun One Identity manager, Sun One LDAP, Veritas Net-backup, MC-Service Guard, Solstice disk suite, NFS, NIS, NIS , Open-SSH, Weblogic, SMTP, Oracle, I-planet,RHN Satellite manager, Autosys, TCP/IP, Raid Manager, k-shell, Insight Manager, Solaris10 zones, RSA Secure-id, Remedy, Netscape Server, Glance , MS-Office, MS-Exchange, Jumpstart, Lucent QIP, LDOM, Vmware ESX, Vsphere.

Hardware

Sunfire, Enterprise and Ultra servers, Fujitsu PrimePower, IBM RS6000, Hewlett Packard: K through V class servers, CISCO Routers, HP Proliant DL BL servers, ILO, RSC, EMC Symetrix, HP disk arrays, Juniper firewall appliances, Storagetek disk arrays, Hitachi San, Brocade Silkworm Fabric Switches.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior UNIX Administrator

• Work with IBM transition team to move client Unix servers to the 2 IBM host datacenters.
• Provided troubleshooting of all Solaris and RedHat Linux issues and tracked all problems on the steady state team.
• Worked with other transition teams like steady state and Storage to resolve any migration issues.
• Worked with all external business units to ensure production environment uptime.

Confidential

Senior UNIX Administrator

• Work with in-house Unix Administrators and 3rd party vendors to facilitate the technology refresh.
• Documented the current environment and created procedures to manage and support the current environment
• Augmented present administrators for day to day administration of the Solaris and Linux environment.
• Administered all vmware servers using VsphereESXi on X86 servers to include Solaris, Red Hat and Windows 2008.
• Administered all legacy EMC SAN drives.

Confidential

Senior UNIX Administrator

• Created project plan to transition legacy Solaris, Redhat, Ubuntu and SCO servers and coordinate with the other core infrastructure entities.
• Coordinated with specific user groups and business units to reduce production downtime.
• Provided troubleshooting to all operating system issues like Solaris, SCO, and Linux that had arose.
• Transition EMC storage and Brocade fiber switches to new site.

Senior UNIX Administrator

Confidential

• Work with IBM transition team to move 500 Unix servers to the 2 IBM host datacenters.
• Provided troubleshooting of all Solaris and RedHat Linux issues and tracked all problems on the steady state team.
• Worked with other transition teams like steady state and Storage to resolve any migration issues.
• Worked with all Broadridge business units to ensure production environment uptime.

Confidential

Senior UNIX Administrator

• Server builds using JET, jumpstart, kickstart and Bladelogic with pre-approved OS builds.
• Patched 1000 Sun and Fujitsu servers under Solaris 10 using Bladelogic and cluster patches.
• Assist any junior member of the team by training and mentoring them.
• Carved and presented new LUNS From EMC and Hitachi SANS to newly built servers and also built fabrics on Brocade switches

Confidential

UNIX Administrator

• Troubleshooting and Solaris system builds using Zones and LDOMS for the heavy holiday season.
• Worked with internal and external clients and vendors to support infrastructure.
• Built iSCSI Cellera NAS for storage on newly built servers.

Confidential

Senior Solaris/Linux Administrator

• Supported SMTP, DreamMail and other 3rd party software in a production and development environment.
• Installed networking and security infrastructure like Juniper Netscreens.
• Supported of DNS zones and BIND.
• Administered and provided troubleshooting of Veritas volume manager, Veritas and Sun cluster server, netbackup, Hitachi SAN and Brocade switches.
• Worked with vendors and external clients to support environment.
• Created virtual Solaris and Linux servers using VMware, Zones and LDOMS on Sparc and X86 systems. Installed and provided troubleshooting TCP network issues like SSH, SFTP.
• Created project plan to harden all servers in production and development environments.
• Upgraded and Patched Solaris and Red Hat servers using Solaris Patch Clusters and RHN Satellite manager on production and development servers.

Confidential

UNIX Systems Administrator

• Daily tasks of an administrator to include account and file system creation using Veritas Volume Managerand Solaris volume manager.
• Support of in-house and COTS software to include KEON, Mantas and the Sun One product line.
• Troubleshoot server and end user issues.

Confidential

Infrastructure Assessment Engineer

• Worked with vendors to get best performance and pricing for Pfizer.
• Evaluate how a Data Warehouse appliance would fit into present infrastructure.
• Prepared Proof of Concept and initiated it with multiple pilots with vendors.

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator

• Daily administration and troubleshooting of existing UNIX servers.
• Installed and configured in house and 3rd party software like Apache, MQ series etc.
• Responsible for server hardening on all production servers. Created Servers using Solaris 10 Zones, VMware ESX and workstation.