SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience of over fifteen years in IT, Experience in handling data center running 24/7, production applications and Disaster Recovery site support, project rollouts, installation, full upgradation, testing, performance tuning and extensive troubleshooting.
• Possess good communication skills and capable of working with team members as well as a team lead.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System & S/W: Confidential AIX - 5, 6 and 7, HACMP V4.4.1, Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Ver 4.1, 5.2, SCO-Unix, Linux, UnixWare, Windows2000/NT, Windows 9X, Oracle, DB2.

Hardware: Confidential LPAR on P650, P570, P570-MMA, P750, P770, SP system, IBMRS6000 Enterprise Servers H series-M series, B series, S series, SP system, Confidential ESS (2105 - F20/800) SAN Switch 2109-S16 Enterprise Storage Server, Confidential 3583 Ultrim Tape Library, Confidential 3494 Tape library, SSA Storage D20 & D40, Intel Servers & PCs, Switches With Fiber backbone, Hubs Leased Line and Dialup Modems Multiplexers etc..

Networking: TCP/IP, NFS, NIS, Auto mount, DNS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Confidential is one of the largest hospitals / clinics chain in MN, Reporting in its head office at Allina Commons in its IT department. Our team supports all AIX servers and storage.
• Major responsibilities include AIX server on P6 and P7 platforms, support / troubleshoot / build and resolve day to day problems, Incidents and tasks / changes provided to us and working as on call person on weekly basis.
• Involved in Data Center move process for building new servers at new data center and restore current servers from old data center. This project involved live partition mobility also.

UNIX / AIX Server Admin

Confidential, Missouri, MO

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Holdings, the largest car rental company in the world, as a Systems administrator in their Unix Operations team. Our team supports all UNIX / AIX servers’ administration and maintenance. We are also involved in Daily on call support with problem / change management activities.

AIX Server Admin

Confidential, Boulder, CO

• Working in Confidential GDF account as UNIX / AIX server primary support for various accounts like BNSF Railways, Raytheon, Sprint Nextel, Wyndham, Tyco, ATI etc.
• Daily on call support with problem / change management from customer.
• Work on day to day problem and change tickets, attending team meetings, discussions with project management team for handling projects, scheduling and implementing AIX Patching / upgrade and 24*7 supports and on call pager schedules for server alerts.

Confidential AIX Server Admin

Confidential, Plymouth, MN

• Confidential is a leading health insurance organization with heavy dependency on Computer services. They have three large data centers with heavy inventory of servers exceeding 10000 LPARs and more than 4500 physical servers.
• Duties include Lpar migration from one frame to another and from one data center to another, Checking and testing of destination Lpars and configuration of Network services as pre migration steps, Configuration of Lpar and services after migration and get it verified from various teams including database and application teams and 24*7 support and on call schedules for server alerts and change / problem tickets.

AIX/ Linux Server Admin

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

• Production servers are on AIX 5.3 to AIX 5.9 environment and are based mainly on Power5 P570 and Power6 P570-MMA servers.
• Most of the servers are virtual Lpars with two VIO servers for heavy redundancy on each physical server besides some standalone servers for UNIX and Linux. Both complexes have two HMC servers for administration with redundancy. They have Development, test, Staging, Production and DR environment servers.
• Some of job responsibilities include Installation and maintenance of HMC servers, VIO servers and Virtual Lpars, Work on day to day problems fixation and changes requested in remedy ticketing software and HP open view software, Update of HMC code and AIX patches, Server firmware updates, Activation of server resources for capacity on demand servers etc.

Confidential AIX/SP Server Admin

Confidential, Columbus, OH

• Viewpointe stores check images for most of the banks in US, it stores billions of check images and retrieves them throughout any given day, they have four AIX SP production complexes running with 24*7 supports, one complex is DR site for another. All complexes have approx 25 nodes at each site includes p680 and p650 and number of standalone servers, Linux servers tape libraries.
• Some of job responsibilities include Working on day to day emergency problems and fixing them in minimum time frame to keep the production alive, Performing schedule changes, customization to production servers at OS level, Migrating applications and other software applications from development to production environment, Install software patches APAR’s and upgrades, Resolving hardware issues by working with hardware support team etc.

Confidential AIX Server Admin

Confidential, CA

• Having two major data centers with Confidential virtual servers and Confidential AIX Enterprise servers (RS/6000), ESS SHARK Storage with SAN.
• Daily job responsibilities include Installation and maintenance of AIX Servers, Microcode update on Fiber adapters, data migration in case of Disk failures, Performance monitoring, Tuning, error analysis, Diagnosis & replacement of adapters, SSA Disks, SCSI Disks & other parts, Handling user requests and trouble tickets and maintaining changes in servers through change management using peregrine software etc.

AIX & Tivoli Storage Manager Technical Specialist

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

• Confidential is one of the largest financial institutions in US and has four major sites with large data centres in CA, has PSeries and other RS6000 (i.e.7026, 7017) servers with 3584 libraries.
• Some of daily responsibilities include Installation and configuring of AIX on RS/6000, Troubleshooting and administration of AIX Servers, System Performance Monitoring & Tuning, Troubleshooting and Monitoring of TSM servers & clients, problems of client / Server errors, Monitoring backups and other schedules, Recovery in case of data need, Migration / reclamation of volumes in 3584 Library, Check status of scratch volumes, keep sending copy pool volumes offsite and inserting new volumes etc.

Tivoli Storage Manager Technical Specialist

Confidential, Roanoke, TX

• This project is with Confidential - TSM support center, daily job responsibilities includes attending customers calls and resolve TSM issues which includes Troubleshooting and Installation of ADSM /TSM server and clients on various platforms i.e. AIX, Solaris, Windows NT, HPUX, Novel, Installation and configuration of TDP and connect agents for Oracle, SAP R3, MS SQL, MS Exchange.
• Troubleshooting of various problems on servers and clients such as scheduling errors, Client and server options, Backup restore problems, policy sets & management class, Configuration and troubleshooting of various libraries with TSM server, Troubleshooting problems with storage pools, storage volumes, data migration, Handling of server crash problem with adding space in TSM database and Recovery log and restoration of database backup if required, Handling problems relating to backup failure etc.