SUMMARY:

• Over 16 years Systems Administration Experience in the Areas UNIX/AIX Systems Administration, Installation, configuration, troubleshooting, Systems Security, Systems Monitoring, Storage Systems, Operating Systems, Performance Analysis, and Capacity Planning of various UNIX/AIX Servers.
• Extensive System Administration experience in a heterogeneous UNIX environment like UNIX/AIX/Linux/Solaris/HP-UX. Worked on AIX designs, developments and supported application solutions to meet client requirements. Configuration, management, and support for advanced AIX functionality which includes: Power HA, NIM, NPIV, GPFS, WPAR. Experienced in AIX4x/5x/6x/7x installation, upgrade, migration and troubleshooting. Upgrading firmware of managed machines, devices and HMC. Experience of managing, troubleshooting IBM P5, P6 and P7 series hardware. Lead datacenter migration in large midrange environment. Extensive experience in micro partitioning and LPAR, DLPAR. Experienced in creating standard and Virtual I/O client LPAR using HMC. Knowledge and hands on experience on Advanced Power5 and Power6 Virtualization. Partitioning and management Virtual I/O servers and clients. Supported huge partitioning environment with 500 IBM p5-570 30 IBM p7-770 managed machine HMC. Expertised in creating and managing Dual Virtual I/O servers with SEA, MPIO and LNK aggregation. Planning and implementation of backup/recovery using NIM/mksysb. Install, configure, manage, NIM server and installing clients using NIM recourses. Expert in SAN Storage and Disk Management LVM . Experienced in installing and upgrading HACMP and configuring cluster with different resource group.
• Experienced in AIX Capacity and Performance Planning. Monitor and manage the 24x7 operations to ensure highest stability and availability. Coordinate with vendors, development, business partners and escalation support teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: UNIX AIX 4.1.5, AIX 4.2.1, AIX 4.3.2, AIX 4.3.3, AIX 5.2, AIX 5.3, AIX 6.1, AIX 7.1 High

Availability Cluster Multi-Processing - HACMP 5.1 and HACMP 5.2 IBM RS/6000, Logical

Partitioning LPAR IBM pSeries 550, 570, 595, 561 and Power7 750 IBM PureFlex

System EMC Symmetric, Hitachi Universal Storage Platform USP-V , XIV Storage System,

IBM x345 Series server - Red Hat Advanced 2.1 Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Microsoft

Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, Professional, Microsoft Outlook, and IBM Lotus Notes7

Networking: TCP/IP, Ethernet, DNS, NFS, Token Ring, FDDI, VPN, SSH, FTP, SCP, SCP WinSCP , vi

editor, SecureID, ISPF Text Editor, HTTP/Apache, Yast

Tools: Tivoli, TeamQuest, Control-SA/Enterprise SecurityStation ESS , Symantec ESM, PVCS

Dimensions, PowerDOCS 4.0, Action Request System Remedy Remedy 7.5 Change Management Request, BMC Remedy Action Request System 7.5 , ServiceCenter 5.1.4.0, RightNow Incident Processing System Java Client, SSH/Putty, HummingBird Exceed

Connectivity V9.0, Internet Explorer, Windows NetMeeting, Lotus Live Meeting, IBM Lotus

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior UNIX/AIX Infrastructure Engineer

Confidential

• Development, Design and Administration of AIX 5, 6, and 7 pSeries servers.
• Hands-on NIM and HACMP experience with VIO server familiarity.
• Utilize NIM to build base AIX images to be used for new system installation.
• Data Center Operations/Projects/Migrations and Infrastructure support experience.
• Involved in customer migration projects at the PHL-1500 Spring Garden Sungard Data Center location.
• Deploying AIX servers from the ground up, creating file systems based on customer layout requirements,
• creating user and SID accounts utilizing developed UID/GID standardization scripts, and assisting The
• SAP Team with their application migrations and go-live support.
• Work with customers, network engineers, and storage engineers to troubleshoot and resolve
• implementation problems.
• Provide immediate escalation of critical client problems that may become serious problems related to OS
• Management. Resolve issues in a timely manner and delivery.
• Participate in multiple projects and shifting workloads.
• Participate in scheduled outages with other technical teams SAN/Network/SAP teams .
• Work with customers and other technical teams to agree upon best-practice technical designs that meet
• customer needs.
• Participate in daily bridge calls on project status.
• Participate in customer's Remedy and Change Control Board to ensure product standardization and
• Adherence to customer's policies and procedures.
• Create and resolve Remedy tickets.
• Ability to facilitate discussions to resolve technical issues with multiple teams.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Ability to multi-task and juggle multiple demands at once.
• Attention to detail and follow-up.
• Experience providing services with a data center outsourcer or managed services provider.

Senior AIX Systems Administrator

Confidential

• Administration of AIX and SUSE Linux servers.
• Responsible for the maintenance of standard server builds, configurations, and support processes.
• System installation and configuration.
• Operating system upgrades.
• Technology level and patch installations.
• Firmware upgrades.
• Disk partitioning, Logical Partitioning
• Virtual I/O server, HMC, AIX LVM and storage management on XIV storage system.
• Troubleshooting and performance monitoring of systems.
• User and group management.
• Experience administering systems running DB2, SAP, Websphere Application Server, and IBM IHS.
• Support Application and DBA teams to determine their requirements for the Linux platform.
• Monitor the capacity and performance of Linux systems.
• Provide coordination on certain projects, RCAs and chronic issues related to the Linux platform.
• Provide guidance and assistance to support teams on issues and tasks related to the Linux platform.
• Knowledge with Tivoli Storage Manager v5 v6.

UNIX/AIX/WebSphere Systems Administrator

Confidential

• Lead WebSphere systems administrator providing first level support to end users of specialized
• Applications software at a Financial Services client site in Devon, PA.
• Assist in troubleshoots and provides problem resolution for deployed applications within WebSphere V7
• FP21.
• Perform silent installation, configuration via responsefile, capacity planning and performance tuning of the
• applications deployed within WebSphere and their respective server/environments.
• Submitted change management requests with written step-by-step procedures involving changes or
• deployment to production servers.
• Program utilities and changes processes to assist in the deployment/day-to-day execution of applications
• deployed in WebSphere.
• Deploy EARs, and perform other Process Server configuration as required.
• Ensure server session settings are configured for JVM Heap Size and File Path Setting, JVM Logs, Listener
• Ports Resource Settings for DB2 Data Sources MQ Queue Connection Factories Environment Settings
• Security Settings and add/create QCF entries. Test connection before applying and restart WAS
• when complete.
• Established WAS upgrade documentation procedure.
• Some experience with Network Deployment configuration.

IBM AIX Infrastructure Specialist

Confidential

• Long-term remote contract assignment working for main location Tempe, Arizona at a client site in New
• Castle, DE supporting migration project - 100 Power7 750 AIX servers Data Center East DCE location.
• Assist and provide design, planning, and technical support and administration services for the AIX system
• platform, including software, hardware, and firmware.
• Performed numerous OS clone builds/migrations via NIM.
• Performed OS upgrades.
• Supporting the Storage Team with HBA connections of fiber cables and verifying connections from AIX
• server to the SAN switch.
• Worked with and supporting HACMP servers.
• Supporting IBM VIO servers.
• Monitoring, identifying, and resolving hardware and software system issues, AIX performance analysis and
• recommending solutions, AIX maintenance TLs and SPs.
• Monitor system alerts and/or problem reports to identify any systematic patterns which may require action.
• Retired numerous hardware no longer supported on contract by procurement. Wiped disk clean, arranged,
• coordinated with Procurement, network team, and IBM Hardware CE to remove IO drawers, cables, etc.
• Coordinated and made arrangements with trucking company to pick up and return equipment.
• Coordinated with NetBackup Team to schedule and to ensure client servers are scheduled for backups.

AIX Systems Administrator

Confidential

• Provide AIX administration support and resolving troubleshooting issues for Veritas 5.1 RP1 Project.
• Participate in multiple projects and shifting workloads.
• Participate in scheduled outages with other technical teams SAN/Network/SAP teams .
• Work with customers and other technical teams to agree upon best-practice technical designs that meet
• customer needs.
• Participate in daily bridge calls on project status.
• Participate in customer's Remedy and Change Control Board to ensure product standardization and
• Adherence to customer's policies and procedures.
• Create and resolve Remedy tickets.
• Ability to facilitate discussions to resolve technical issues with multiple teams.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Ability to multi-task and juggle multiple demands at once.
• Attention to detail and follow-up.
• Experience providing services with a data center outsourcer or managed services provider.

AIX Systems Administrator

Confidential

• Provide backfill and additional resources needed to manage existing AIX systems in support of the Data
• Center Migration Program DCMP .
• Tasked with moving the agency IT services from an aging AIX distribute architecture to central data center
• architecture.
• Monitoring, preventative maintenance, OS and application patching, and managing systems and working
• with customers in a virtual environment.
• Architecture and design of a proper build, release, and revision environment.
• Hardware installation, maintenance, and upgrading.
• Prepare and present informal, verbal presentations of project status, plans, and problem areas when
• requested by the Supervisor.
• Utilize RightNow utility which is an Incident processing system used to provide end users server
• support.
• Create user accounts and resolve Incident tickets.
• Skilled and demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing.

AIX Systems Administrator

Confidential

• Primary administrator for over 60 AIX 5.3 / 6.1 servers in the management, administration, and
• maintenance of the production systems environment.
• Installed and administered standalone servers and lpars running AIX 5.2 to 6.1.
• Installed and administered pSeries hardware from p4 through p6, and their HMCs.
• Upgraded operating system technology levels and service packs.
• Upgraded system firmware and adapter microcode levels.
• Upgraded HMC code levels.
• Performed successfully numerous silent installations and configured WebSphere Application Server for
• middleware and Vertex users. Established and documented WAS procedures.
• Lead and supported escalations from the Change Management and Implementation Teams.
• Participated in change control meetings along with IT management and PM to present AIX production
• change.
• Trained AIX personnel OS procedures providing system document procedures to team assisting in the
• installation and configuration of hardware, operating systems and providing support to the production data
• center.
• Participate in the capacity planning process across the environment troubleshoot performance management
• issues related to the OS.
• Build a NIM server and installed operating systems from scratch using NIM allocating resources used to
• deploy our partitions on p595 and p561 hardware.
• Worked virtually with other IS department, both internal and external the Netherlands/Amsterdam and
• Canada offices to IS infrastructure, on developing the overall hardware architecture for the enterprise.
• Interact with database administrators integrate OS and DB for application delivery.
• Coordinate with application, DBA, and testing teams to schedule AIX maintenance on QA/DEV servers.
• Supported numerous Oracle databases and related application on the servers.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation and specifications on system builds and standard
• operating procedures.
• Configure and install hardware, operating system and third-party software.
• Completed numerous TSM regular and backupset restorations requested by DBAs.
• Coordinated projects with other groups, including hosting, storage, and network.
• Performed offsite disaster recovery exercise for server environments.
• Provide 24 7 rotation production support and performed changes during tech window.