Objective:

Experienced, skilled, and professional IBM AIX System Administrator seeking a position that will utilize my skills while providing a challenging opportunity, to significantly contribute to a company's growth and development.

Professional experience:

Confidential

Senior Unix Systems Administrator

This included inventorying the entire unix environment, installing performance monitoring tools, and writing scripts to benchmark current environment thresholds. Once information was collected, I contacted EMC, IBM, Dynamix, and a few competing vendors to coordinate our expectations for the new hardware. Upon agreeing on both hardware requirements and performance requirements, I facilitated the implementation of Dual Redundant VIO servers for our production and development environments. I continued to work on building our DR facility in West DesMoines, Iowa. I worked with EMC LPS to carve up storage, zone storage to VIO servers, map storage to the appropriate lpar and then configure storage to be used by volume groups on each system. I successfully built a data migration plan and implemented an in place server migration which minimized server downtime to under 1 hour. I successfully migrated tivoli from p650 hardware connected to a 3494 tape library with a tape capacity of 20 - 40GB tapes to a p520 connected to a TS3310 tape library with LTO4 tapes with a capacity of 1.6 Terabytes with the assistance of the Dynamix group. I setup ether channel fail over devices on each system to ensure the systems would not take an outage. I tested and implemented fail over functionality across the board to ensure there would not be a single point of failure. I tuned each system according to EMC and IBM's best practices. In addition, I wrote software packages, written in perl, that uses mysql, html,php,css, and java script to maintain and deliver all financial transactions to and from all banks and vendors with whom Helena Chemical and Helena Lending does business. This software package replaced a previously bought solution.

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Senior Unix System Administrator

I designed, planned initiated server migrations from AIX 5.1 to Aix 5.3. Built Disaster Recovery Implementation plan and procedures. I wrote Engineered programs to report system resources with real time results This helped to Streamline and automate UNIX server builds including application monitoring with regard to escalation. I worked with the operations group to further investigate netbackup and Tivoli storage Manager for disaster recovery efforts. I worked closely with the operations team to build a warm Disaster Recovery site. I priced, and quoted new IBM P570 series system requirements for the 2006 calendar year. I generated real time reports to help JDE security team better evaluate UNIX processes. Implemented a nim server environment to aid in backup and recovery efforts. I also wrote programs that could extract aix system kernel resource levels and generate graphs for high level reporting.

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Senior Unix Systems Administrator

Installed Aix 4.3.2, 4.3.3, 5.1, 5L, 5.2 operating system on assorted hardware platforms including RS/6000 series servers p610, p620, p650, p660,p550,p520. Installed, maintained and upgraded external storage media on EMC, Hitachi, and Clariion systems. Worked actively with Database administrator's to configure AutoZone's data warehouse model and final layout. Helped Mainframe group to design and deploy the Autosys scheduling system, and integrated unix services on the mainframe with AIX systems. Consolidated Solaris System from subsidiary AutoZone companies as well as designed and built the parting environment for the TruckPro corporation. Established and maintained Netbackup software to backup Solaris systems and data bases. Configured Tivoli's ADSM server to backup AIX platforms and the mainframe. Installed and configured IBM's WebSphere Application Server 3.5, and Iplanet 6.1 on both Solaris and AIX systems for AutoZone's e commerce division. Worked with IBM developers to document NIS/DB2 and AIX 64Bit platform configuration specifications and limitations. With the assistance of AutoZone's Data Security group established security exploits and short coming in IBM's release of NIS for the AIX operating system in versions 4.3.3, 5.1 and 5.2. Maintained internal Samba servers as well as nfs servers. Additional Hardware experience on IBM hardware include but is not limited to 7025-S7A, C20, B80, H50, F50, IBM SP and Regata. Additional hardware experience on Sun hardware includes: E4500, E3500, Sunfire 280R, E450, E220R, E250, netra-t1, and sun hardware raid.

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Unix Systems Administrator

I worked on Aix, Solaris and Linux operating systems. I troubleshot daily issues with the assistance of my colleagues. I visited Distribution Centers and helped install printers and new aix systems. I mentored junior administrators and acquired cross training on mainframe systems. I worked with Informix DBA's and PeopleSoft administrators to upgrade PeopleSoft and migrated systems from Aix 4.3.3 to 5.1. I also assisted java web developers in debugging. I worked with remedy administrators to troubleshoot and implement the new version of remedy to the Autozone Helpdesk. I worked with the data security group to ensure backups happened on time and without issue.

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Unix Systems Engineer

Designed and implemented internal systems infrastructure components to compliment the SiteStage operation. This covers DNS servers, NFS storage EMC, Samba, Network Appliances, Total Net Administration server, and DFS backup Amanda, ufsdump, QuickRestore, Solstice Backup and loghost, and monitoring equipment using the appropriate security standards to ensure data integrity. I established and documented security standards for Appgenesys Inc. Solaris installations. I provided technical expertise to help enable the technical Writer to maintain accurate and complete documentation of all policies and procedures. This includes design, setup and maintenance details of both the Unix platform and the interaction with the EMC connectrix, symmetrix and celerra. I have assisted our clients by monitoring and configuring their servers for sendmail, secure shell tcpwrappers as well as installation of backup media such as QuickRestore and BackUp Professional on Sun hardware such as the StorEdge L4000, L9000, exabyte 210, 220. I have implemeneted Sun and Veritas disk clustering as well as configured Jumpstart servers for our larger clients.

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Unix System Administrator and Intern

Installed Solaris 7 and 8 servers on Sun Solaris Ultra Sparc 1,5, 10 and enterprise series 250 and 450. I maintained NIS on Solaris Enterprise 250 and 450 machines for approximately 1800 users. This also includes rebuilding an NIS replicas and Master servers. In Addition, I worked with our network team to install, establish and maintain connectivity between our network by Installing internal and external DNS servers for our private and public network as well as using JOIN DCHP for our local labs, vlans, and dial up users. I helped configure our NFS server, using Syntax Total Network Administration Server software along with NIS to maintain the security between each user session on Unix/Windows/and PowerPc's. Accordingly, I assisted and put forth methods to prevent individual users from misusing or compromising systems. I also Implemented programs of my design to test the ability and agility of our monitoring systems while also informing the root core when a system had failed.