SUMMARY:

Over twenty years of experience in information technology management, consulting and services, including AIX on the Confidential Power Systems, RS/6000 SP and pSeries platforms. Clients have included manufacturing, insurance and health care companies, financial institutions, public utilities, state governments, universities, and others. Most recent engagements have focused on the AIX (UNIX) environment, including VIO, PowerVM, micropartitioning, IVE, NPIV, FCoE, Live Partition Mobility, POWER, pSeries servers, Cluster 1600, HACMP, PowerHA, GPFS, SAN(Brocade, Cisco, McData etc.) with Confidential and EMC (Symetrix, CLARiiON, DMX, VNX, VMAX, XtremIO etc., including Recover Point, Time Finder, SRDF) and other storage systems, Confidential SVC, MPIO, PowePath, NAS and LPAR environments. Also proficient with RH and SLES linux and ESX/Virtual center. Consulting and services provided in areas including system architecture planning and implementation, management, administration and networking, high availability, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, performance tuning and business continuity and recovery.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

SYSTEM ENGINEER SENIOR

Major teaching hospital in Burlington. Vermont, part of five hospital system across Vermont and New York state. Systems analyst, administrator and architect in charge of UNIX servers. Environment included AIX on Confidential POWER 6, 7 and 8 platforms and Linux RH and SLES, mostly on VMWare servers. Responsible for UNIX (AIX, RH Linux, Solaris) environment with Cisco SAN and Confidential and EMC storage in multiple data centres, cross - connected with fiber and highly available. This environment provided a platform for majority of some 400 hospital applications, including Epic for both medical and business purposes, McKesson, Cloverleaf, Oracle and others.

Stabilized previously troubled environment, created and maintained documentation, scripts and procedures for day-to-day operation of the systems as well as emergency situations. Trained advised and coordinated network teams in network and SAN configurations necessary to provide stable and reliable highly available service. Architected and coordinated major transfer of data for Epic from Confidential to EMC storage. This was first ever project of the kind, which resulted in Epic endorsing new EMC storage platform and developing formal procedure for such activity, used in number of hospitals since.

Participated in planning of move from mostly AIX to mostly RH Linux platform, which was required as a result of hospital group merger, and planned acquisitions of more hospitals.

Confidential

SENIOR SYSTEMS SERVER ENGINEER

Systems analyst, administrator and architect in charge of UNIX servers. Environment included AIX on Confidential POWER 6, 7 and 7+ platforms and Linux RH and SLES, mostly on VM servers. Responsible for HMC, VIO servers configuration, micropartitioning, NIM installation, backups, upgrades, image creation and maintenance, monitoring, performance monitoring and analysis, high availability with HACMP, designing and documenting procedures. Introduced Live Partition Mobility and NPIV using diverse EMC storage platforms. Advised and trained storage admins for implementation of these innovative solutions which substantially improved system maintenance and stability and reduced the time needed for installation of LPARS, which is very important in dynamic and critical environment, like major Boston hospital. In addition to server administration, interacted with application and database teams, to provide scripts for user interfaces, monitoring, scheduling, and administration of critical hospital and business applications, like BI, Centricity, Lawson financial, Pharmacy, LAB, Interface Engine, Epic etc. and very importantly maintenance and administration of large number (over 6000) of printers. Planned and supported major application upgrades, including transition to Epic, and devised solutions and contingency measures. Maintained and implemented on yearly basis certifications and updates to regulatory updates for financial and health-care applications. Architected in cooperation with application analysts and DB teams solutions, including capacity planning, storage provisioning and provided recommendations for hardware acquisitions.

Confidential

SENIOR SYSTEMS ANALYST

AIX on Power7 and Confidential Bladecenter solution designing and implementation for major financial corporation in Washington, DC. Project includes management of UNIX servers, including AIX and RH linux on Power7 and Bladecenter platforms, designing and implementing NIM solution for installing the systems, creating and implementing VIO with NPIV, SAN with EMC storage, HMC management, upgrade and backup procedures and coordination between DB, application, storage, network and UNIX local and overseas teams

Confidential

SENIOR ADVISORY IT SPECIALIST

AIX with VIO and GPFS, and PowerHA implementation on pSeries hardware and EMC storage with SAN configuration for major office products supply company in Framingham, MA. Project included engeneering a solution for the customer, introducing a new platform (P7), and tutoring system administrators, as well as coordinating activities with DB and application teams.