SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of proven experience as System administrator on IBM Power Systems running AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1 Linux and UNIX.
• Extensive experience in installation and configuration of Virtual me/O Server (VIOS) and VIO client LPAR’S.
• Experienced in Migrating VIO servers from VIOS 1.5 to VIOS 2.1/2.2 and Upgrading VIOS 2.1 to VIOS 2.2.
• Designed, installed and configured HACMP cluster environment, wif cascading and mutual takeover.
• Expertise in Troubleshooting on High Availability Clusters (HACMP).
• Responsible for migrating HACMP form v5.4 to 5.5 and to PowerHA
• Experienced in configuring SAN bootable servers/LPARS, HBA card virtualization (NPIV), HEA/IVE virtualization (LHEA) and live partition mobility (LPM).
• Managing HACMP environment, Creating VIO, LPAR and DLPAR partitions.
• Good knowledge over Logical Volume Manager, Managing Physical Volumes, Volume Groups, Logical Volumes, Performing file systems management, Managing Paging Space.
• Managing Physical and Logical devices.
• Experienced in IBM AIX operating system migration, from AIX 4.3/5.1/5.2/5.3 to 5.2/5.3/6./7.1 and extensively performed TL/SP upgrades using AIX OS DVD, NIM server alt disk install/NIMADM to minimize downtime.
• Expertise in Planning, Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of IBM HACMP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. Reduce planned downtime, Reduce unplanned downtime, Increase Maintenance availability.
• Experience in Migration of HACMP 5.3 and 5.5 to 6.1 using Node - by-Node migration wifout changing teh cluster setup.
• Well-versed wif configuring NPIV for storage & backup purposes
• Documentation: Implemented naming standard; supporting Oracle Databases
• Documented teh procedures to install VIO, Client LPAR’s, GPFS & NPIV setup on AIX machines
• Experienced wif GPFS file systems.
• Experienced in creating GPFS Clusters and GPFS Disks.
• Experienced wif installing, Configuring and adding new Clients to TSM Servers and Schedule Backups.
• Configuring and administration of weekly mksysb backup on AIX servers.
• Installation of patches, Security fixes, packages on AIX, Linux and Sun Solaris Servers
• Configuring and administration of NFS server and NFS client & NIM Server and Client.
• Experience in working wif HDLM, SAN, NAS, storage systems, Cisco SAN gear and SAN volume controller.
• Experience in connecting to an EMC disk subsystem wif PowerPath and MPIO.
• Expertise in Tivoli monitoring, Tivoli Storage
• Extensive experience in support of AIX Operating System, Problem Determination and solving, setting up
• Experience in installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of IBM AIX.
• Everyday administration tasks - adding and removing users, file, share permissions, trust management, replication management, server backups and server setups on AIX, LINUX (RHEL, SUSE). Server health monitoring and system tuning as per vendor recommendations.
• Experience wif Red Hat Linux installations, configuration, Upgrading, Migrating, Performance Tuning, Patching and troubleshooting administration and Engineering.
• Design, deploy, maintain and troubleshoot servers, backup devices, and monitoring interfaces in an UNIX/LINUX environment
• Experienced in Tivoli Storage Management, creating TSM Servers and Clients, performing/scheduling and troubleshooting backups.
• Experienced in Perl Shell, Python and C Scripting.
• Expert in TSM servers for backup and Client Installs on Linux and windows Servers.
• Excellent experience configuring, troubleshooting and administering Apache and Tomcat web servers.
• Experience working in NFS/NAS, Storage Area Networks (SAN), SSA disk storage environment. Extensively performed SAN Migration.
• Experience in DNS, NIS, NFS, LDAP, Send mail, ftp, SSL, SSH, HTTPS, SFTP, and system troubleshooting skills. Well versed wif Shell Scripts; KORN and BASH.
• Setup and configure network TCP/IP on AIX including RPC connectivity for NFS. Created mount points for Server directories, and mounted directories on AIX Servers
• Administration Tasks included User administration, Performance, Send mail and weekly mksysb.
• Experience in Installing, Configuring and Trouble-Shooting Web Servers like IBM HTTP Web Server, Apache Web Server, WebSphere Application Servers, Samba Server on AIX and LINUX (RHEL, SUSE).
• Experienced in working on slow servers and increasing performance through performance monitoring tools like vmstat, iostat, SAR, nmon, topas.
• Providing 24X7 On-call Production and Customer Support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: IBM AIX 4.3, 5L, 5.1, 5.2, 5, 3, 6.1, 7.1 Linux (Redhat, SUSE), Windows 2000/03/NT4.0, Sun Solaris.

Hardware: IBM RS/6000, P-Series P5, P6, P7 550,570, 575, 590, 750, 770, SUN Enterprise 450

Web/Application Servers: WebSphere Application Server 5.x/6.x, Netscape/iPlanet Server, MQSeries, WebLogic Server, IBM HTTP Server, HTML, DHTML, XML, Java Script, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Apache 2.2,Tomcat 5.5,Active MQ.

Networking: TCP/IP, RPC, UDP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, LAN.

RDBMS: IBM UDB2, Oracle 7.x/8.0/9i, MS-SQL Server 7.0/6.5 and MS-Access 97/95

Software Tools: Solstice DiskSuite(SDS),VeritasStorageFoundationSuite, SAMBA,VeritasClustersAndVeritasNetbackup

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Servlets, Jsp, EJB, VB, JavaScript, HTML, Perl and Shell Scripting

Applications: HACMP, Samba, Tivoli (TSM), Symantec NetBackup, VERITAS Volume Manager

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Phoenix

Unix Transition Engineer for Data migration

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Configuration and administration of several P5 P6 and P7 servers.
• Administration responsibilities included user, group, disk, printer and security management, incident troubleshooting, file system maintenance, backup scripting and automation, File sharing Permissions, software maintenance, file sets, program fixes and keeping teh system software releases current
• Performed hardware migrations from IBM P550, 570 Servers to P750, P770 Servers.
• Performed TL upgrades from AIX 5.3 TL 7 to TL 12 as part of hardware Migration using alt disk method
• Built and configured new VIO servers wif VIOS on P770.
• Worked wif IBM p7 p770/750/720, p6 p570/550/520, p5 p550/520/510, p4 p690/670, IBM Blade center and HP hardware (DL380/580) connected to EMC storage area networks.
• Racked, installed and configured p7 p720/750s into a virtualized environment, DUAL VIOS 2.2 and AIX 6.1 LPARS wif SAN bootable LPARS, HBA virtualization (NPIV) and Live Partition Mobility (LPM).
• Installed AIX servers by using Network Installation Manager (NIM) server to deploy AIX system images over teh network. Moved AIX servers from old IBM p4/p5 hardware to newer IBM p6/p7 hardware.
• Experienced in IBM AIX operating system migration, from AIX 4.3/5.1/5.2/5.3 to 5.2/5.3/6.1 and 7.1
• Extensively performed TL/SP upgrades using AIX OS DVD, NIM server alt disk install/NIMADM to minimize downtime.
• Expertise in Planning, Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of IBM HACMP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5. Reduce planned downtime, Reduce unplanned downtime, Increase Maintenance availability.
• Experienced in implementing teh Workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering
• Experience in Migration of HACMP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5 using Node-by-Node migration wifout changing teh cluster setup.
• Extensive experience in support of AIX Operating System, Problem Determination and solving, setting up HACMP environment, Creating VIO, LPAR and DLPAR partitions.
• Good knowledge over Logical Volume Manager, Managing Physical Volumes, Volume Groups, Logical Volumes, Performing file systems management, Managing Paging Space.
• Managing Physical and Logical devices.
• Designed, installed and configured HACMP cluster environment, wif cascading and mutual takeover.
• Expertise in Troubleshooting on High Availability Clusters (HACMP).
• Responsible for migrating HACMP form v5.4 to 5.5 and to PowerHA
• Configured NPIV for storage & backup purposes
• Documentation: Implemented naming standard; supporting Oracle Databases
• Documented teh procedures to install VIO, Client LPAR’s, GPFS & NPIV setup on AIX machines
• Working wif GPFS file systems on AIX Servers.
• Worked closely in creating GPFS Clusters and GPFS Disks.
• Responsible for installing configuring and maintenance of GPFS version 2.1 and 3.3
• Everyday administration tasks - adding and removing users, file, share permissions, trust management, replication management, server backups and server setups on AIX, LINUX (RHEL, SUSE). Server health monitoring and system tuning as per vendor recommendations.
• Experience wif Red Hat Linux installations, configuration, Upgrading, Migrating, Performance Tuning, Patching and troubleshooting administration and Engineering.
• Experience using Kickstart and modified Kickstart based on server profiles and hardware specifications.
• Experienced Installing, Configuring and supporting VMware ESX 3.5 and 4 versions.
• Design, deploy, maintain and troubleshoot servers, backup devices, and monitoring interfaces in an UNIX/LINUX environment
• Experienced in Tivoli Storage Management, creating TSM Servers and Clients, performing/scheduling and troubleshooting backups.
• Experienced in NAS and Providing Disk to teh Linux and UNIX Servers.
• Experienced in Perl Shell, Python and C Scripting.
• Expert in TSM servers for backup and Client Installs on Linux and windows Servers.
• Excellent experience configuring, troubleshooting and administering Apache and Tomcat web servers.
• Adding Physical Volume, Migrating Physical volume, Importing and Exporting volume group, Paging space and Mirroring using LVM and VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Experience in DNS, NIS, NFS, LDAP, Send mail, ftp, SSL, SSH, HTTPS, SFTP, and system troubleshooting skills. Well versed wif Shell Scripts; KORN and BASH.
• Provide 24/7 Onsite support for teh production servers.

Confidential, IL

AIX/Unix Sr. System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Build and provide support for AIX, Linux and Solaris Server’s.
• Installed /configured and Tested AIX on p5, p6 550,570-MMA, p7 710, 750, 770, Blade center JS20/JS21/JS22/JS23 for development, test, production and DR environment.
• Installation, administration of VIO Server and VIO client LPAR’s.
• Upgrading VIO Servers and AIX Servers.
• Upgrading AIX TL from AIX 5.3 TL8 to AIX 5.3 TL9 and from 5.4 to 6.1
• Designed, installed and configured HACMP cluster environment, wif cascading and mutual takeover.
• Expertise in Troubleshooting on High Availability Clusters (HACMP).
• Responsible for migrating Hacmp form v5.4 to 5.5 and to powerHA
• Installing, Configuring and upgrading WebSphere Application Server 6.x.
• Leading project team starting from requirements gathering to providing end solution.
• Suggest best possible solution after studying and discussing application and Database requirements wif Architects, Application development leads and Database team leads.
• IBM Power VM experience including setup and management of VIO partitions and performance tuning on IBM hardware specifically 9117-570, 9113-561, 9117-MMA.
• Responsible for Testing servers, storage and SAN. Running on p690 LPARs, AIX 5.3 cloned via NIM, ESS storage, SAN+zoning, NIM+mksysb cloning, setting up HACMP cluster
• Involved in Testing of Installation, designing and building of p570, including setting up VIO server and four partitions using virtual ethernet and SAN disks
• Responsible for connecting to an EMC disk subsystem wif PowerPath and MPIO.
• Installing and Configuring GPFS File System.
• Creating GPFS Clusters and GPFS Disks.
• Responsible for installing configuring and maintenance of GPFS version 2.1 and 3.3
• Responsible for Supporting teh TSM team in running teh TSM server and migrating from a 3584 library to Data Domain NAS devices
• Responsible for Testing of AIX redesigning and cloning of systems using flashcopy, NIM and mksysb
• Tested Maintenance and configuration of SAN and zoning when adding new clients
• Tested firmware upgrades and hardware maintenance on POWER 5 systems and testing LPARs on POWER5 systems using NIM and HACMP clusters including doing upgrades
• Responsible for Auditing Server build’s, to ensure security compliance, and SOX compliance.
• Installation, configuration and Testing of LPAR are wif AIX 6.1, AIX 5.3 on p5 and p6 frames.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).
• Migration of TSM 4.3/5.1/5.2 to TSM 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1 on AIX and windows servers.
• Responsible for designing High Availability Solutions for different applications, usingVeritasClusters/Storage FoundationSuite.
• Implementing & troubleshootingVeritasClustering in Prod/ QA/ Dev environment.
• Configure servers to use HTTP, DNS, NFS, IPMP, DiskSuite,VeritasVolume Manager, NetBackupStorage Disk configuration etc.
• Testing teh backup wif VERITAS NetBackup 5.0, 6.0 and 6.5 and troubleshoot failed backups.
• Remediating failed backups, Take manual incremental backups of failing server’s.
• Upgrading TSM from 5.1.x to 5.4.x.
• Experienced in writing and updating scripts for backup and Schedule jobs in Crontab.
• Hardware troubleshooting, Maintenance and replacement of failed hardware.
• Experience working wif workload manager, and defined performance goals and assigned a business importance to each goal.
• Implementing data replication usingVeritasVolume Replicator (VVR)
• Managing file systems; grow them on fly usingVeritasvolume manager or LVM
• Installed and configured RHEL Linux, Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise server 9, 10 on servers and desktops.
• Configure EMC SAN disks to be used by ASM and change permission and reserve lock settings.
• Configuration and administration of Fiber card Adapter’s and handling AIX part of SAN.
• Configuration of VIO server and VIO clients from Hardware Management Console.
• Upgrading HMC version from 6.x to 7.3.4 and 7.3.4 to V7R4 SP 0(7.4.0.0) and applying efix.
• Responsible for Installing Security fixes and APAR’s in Servers.
• Installation and configuration of NIM master server and clients.
• Installing OS on NIM clients using NIM Server.
• Install monitoring tools like SEM (Security Event Manager), Tivoli monitoring, Keon.
• Install and configure control-M, Opnet.
• Installation, troubleshooting and testing on VMware running Linux (RehHat,SUSE) and Windows.
• Assist SAN team during fabric upgrade on switch.
• Installed and configured IBM PowerHA.
• Performing Failovers in HACMP / cluster environment, monitoring servers.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).
• Improve server utilization and sharing me/O resources to reduce total cost of ownership and make better use of IT assets using PowerVM (Advanced Power Virtualization).
• Perform korn shell and Perl scripting as needed to support integration and automation as necessary.
• Monitor system performance on a daily basis to ensure adequate response times on production systems.
• Worked wif monitoring tools like Tivoli monitoring and BMC Patrol.
• 24x7 on call server support for UNIX environment.

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

AIX Build Engineer/Admin

Responsibilities:

• Provide onsite and remote support for AIX/Windows Server’s.
• Provided 24x7 on call server support for UNIX environment including AIX, Linux, HP-UX, and Sun Solaris.
• Tested TSM server and tape library ensuring reliable daily backups of all servers as well as doing capacity planning.
• Worked closely wif WAS team in patching and supporting versions 5.x and 6.x.
• Worked on several software systems in Testing, capacity planning, documentation and planning strategies
• Responsible for Installing and planning configurations of all our SP systems and stand-alone pSeries systems.
• Tested resource consumption from teh AIX operating system and from server internals views using Tivoli
• Tested ESS storage system by allocating storage to hosts and monitor storage growth and performance.
• Performed server new builds installation and application deployment on AIX and Solaris boxes, functional and unit manual and automated testing.
• As AIX tester was responsible for ensuring dat all AIX builds are thoroughly tested after being built, which was reflected in teh design documentation.
• Administration inVERITASVolume Manager.
• Implementation & Managing of RAID levels like 0, 1 and 5 usingVERITASVolume Manager.
• Installed and Tested Oracle 10g databases on AIX 5L for internally developed projects
• Developed automation scripts to install AIX operating system and Oracle components
• Tested BMC Patrol Agent for server monitoring; OEM for database monitoring.
• Utilized Clear Case and Remedy for error reporting and configuration management
• Configured IBM p-series 550,570,590,595,690 machines for production, staging and test environments.
• Installation and troubleshooting on VMware running Linux (RHEL, SUSE) and Windows.
• Responsible for Auditing Server build’s, to ensure security compliance, and SOX compliance.
• Expertise in Build, Install, load and configured teh boxes 550,520,560,570,590,595.
• GSD331 troubleshooting, find any incompliant servers are Remediate GSD331.
• Installation and configuration of LPAR’s wif AIX 5.3 on p5 servers.
• Administrating teh Corntab for teh Backup and Logs Scheduling Scripts.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting of Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).
• Remediating failed backups, Take manual incremental backups of failing server’s.
• Upgrading TSM from 5.1.x to 5.3.x.
• Creating, mounting and maintenance ofVeritasFile Systems (VxFS) on all layout methods.
• Hardware troubleshooting, Maintenance and replacement of failed hardware.
• Provide redundancy wif HBA card, Ether channel configuration and network devices.
• Coordinating wif application and database team for troubleshooting teh application or Database outages.
• Coordinating wif SAN team for allocation of LUN’s in order to increase filesystem space.
• Configuration and administration of Fiber card Adapter’s and handling AIX part of SAN.
• Configuration of VIO server and VIO clients from Hardware Management Console.
• Upgrading HMC version and Firmware.
• Administration of multiple AIX machines, AIX clusters, and SP nodes from any client platform through WebSM.
• Good LVM skills, used LVM, created VGs, LVs, and disk mirroring.
• Responsible for Installing Security fixes and APAR’s in Servers.
• Installation and configuration of NIM master server and clients.
• Implemented PLM (Partition Load Manager) on AIX 5.3.
• Installing OS on NIM clients using NIM Server.
• Experienced in managing LPAR wif AIX Virtual Memory Manager (VMM).
• Setup and configured network TCP/IP on AIX including RPC connectivity for NFS. Created mount points for Server directories, and mounted these directories on AIX Servers.
• Experience in connecting to an EMC disk subsystem wif Powerpath and MPIO.
• Experience in working wif IBM DS8000, DS4700, DS6800, FAStT/DS4800, DS4500 (FAStT 900), USP600, AMS500, IBM nSeries storage hardware and SAN Fiber director series.
• Manage LPAR’s and provide virtual memory management and memory optimization.
• Setup of full networking services and protocols on AIX, including NIS/NFS, DNS, SSH, DHCP, NIDS, TCP/IP, applications, and print servers to insure optimal networking, application, and printing functionality.
• Backing up AIX servers using mksysb and ADSM/TSM.
• Improve server utilization and sharing me/O resources to reduce total cost of ownership and make better use of IT assets using PowerVM (Advanced Power Virtualization).
• Provide temporary and permanent sudo permissions to users depending on teh job requirement and security request clearance.

Confidential, NY‎

Unix/AIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Managing Test and development Datacenter consisting of 40+ physical servers and 120+ Virtual servers servicing 1200 users for Production, Testing and development in their SIT, UAT and production environments .
• Tested volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands and SMIT.
• Configured IBM RS 6000/p-series,550,570,520,610 machines for production, staging and test environments
• Setup and configured network TCP/IP on AIX including RPC connectivity for NFS. Created mount points for Server directories, and mounted these directories on AIX Servers
• Hardware Maintenance and System Administration of Solaris servers.
• Configured and administrated LPAR’s.
• Configured and administrated VIO server and Lpar clients.
• Administration Tasks included User administration, Performance, Sendmail and weekly mksysb
• Daily roles included dealing wif LVM extensively. Strong hold of LVM.
• Migrated AIX 5.3 wif HACMP 5.1 to HACMP 5.2 (online).
• Experience wif VERITAS NetBackup, VCS and backup and recovery using VERITAS NetBackup and ADIC tape libraries.
• Take backup wif VERITAS NetBackup 5.0 and 6.0 and troubleshoot failed backups.
• Daily tasks included dealing wif AIX side of SAN. Like troubleshooting Fiber card adapter, replacing Fiber card adapters.
• Responsible for Build, Install, load and configure teh boxes.
• Installation and troubleshooting on VMware running Linux (RehHat) and Windows.
• Experience in NetApp storage devices, setup, configuration, operations and connecting to pSeries hardware.
• Setup of full networking services and protocols on AIX, including NIS/NFS, DNS, SSH, DHCP, NIDS, TCP/IP, ARP, applications, and print servers to insure optimal networking, application, and printing functionality.
• Dealing wif user id deletion wif removing entries from CRONTAB.
• Performing Failovers in HACMP / cluster environment, monitoring servers wif VERITAS Cluster Manager, VCS (VERITAS Clustering Suite).
• Backup and Recovery using Sysback.
• Experience in connecting to an EMC disk subsystem wif Powerpath.
• Installed and configured AIX 4.3, 5.0, 5.1 on RS-6000's, creating teh root volume group application/backup volume groups, logical volumes, and filesystems (JFS) on RAID Level 5 wif appropriate data stripping for protection, and for teh optimal performance of teh RS-6000 Servers wifin a High Availability system using DASD, DCE and DFS services.
• Designed and configured ethernet VLAN’s wif RS/6000 IBM Servers, Cisco Routers (2500/2600 series) and Cisco Switches (Catalyst 2912) utilizing RJ45 CAT5 cables for teh internal LAN, and a T1 fiber uplink across a Cisco backbone for connection on teh WAN.
• Configured Work Load Management (WLM) for IBM WebSphere Application Server.
• Setup of full networking services and protocols on UNIX, including NIS/NFS, DNS, SSH, DHCP, NIDS, TCP/IP, ARP, applications, and print servers to insure optimal networking, application, and printing functionality.
• Backing up AIX servers using mksysb and ADSM/TSM using IBM 3494, STK (Sun) ACSLS tape libraries.
• Experience in working wif IBM DS8000, FAStT/DS4800, DS4500 (FAStT 900), USP600, AMS500 and IBM nSeries storage hardware.
• Perform UNIX administrator duties supporting production servers running ERP (SAP) and database (Oracle, data guard, Sybase, PeopleSoft, and DB2).
• Installation and configuration of WebSEAL, HTTP Web Server, Apache and WebSphere Application Server, ITCAM.
• Installed and configured Sudo for users to access teh root privileges.
• Installed application connectivity software to enable IBM print services. Configured and administered firewall rules, including teh use of SNORT, NMAP to TEMPeffectively monitor system files, port security, and network traffic activity coming through teh firewall.
• Administered UNIX servers for several functions including managing Sendmail, Apache/Tomcat server, mail server, MySQL database, and firewalls in both development and production.
• Developed Korn and Bash shell-scripts to automate routine activities.
• Migrated database applications from Windows 2000 Server to Linux server.
• Installing and setting up Oracle9i on Linux for teh development team.
• Wrote shell scripts for automated installations, to extract logs.