Recovery & AIX Systems Administrator Resume Profile

Tivoli Storage Manager Administrator

Vision, Strategy Implementation Enterprise-Level Support

Dedicated, skilled AIX Systems Administrator with more than 16 years of experience in delivering comprehensive technical training and comprehensive technical support. Adept in storage and blade, server, and mainframe platforms. Recognized as a technical leader representative of the industry's best practices with a passion for exploring new technologies. Determined problem-solver with success in aligning business and technical vision in order to initiate, implement, and improve innovative technology solutions.

Areas of Expertise

Strategic Technical Leadership
Server Administration
Backups Restores
Technical Troubleshooting
Infrastructure Technology
Pure Flex Test Environments
Technology Service Standards
Technical Vision
AIX/TSM Patch Application Upgrades

professional experience

Confidential

Recovery AIX Systems Administrator

Successfully delivers daily systems administrative responsibilities on the University's IBM Power platform, which requires expertise in various operating systems and backup solutions.
Meticulously supports the Pure Flex test environment, and administers the NAGIOS/Big Brother monitoring environment.
Administers comprehensive backup and recovery procedures, and conducts both AIX/TSM patch application and upgrades.
Responsible for installation, configuration, and restoration support of TSM clients.
Directs logistics associated with offsite data transfer and media storage to remote sites.
Oversees all TSM Disaster Recovery exercises.
Proactively troubleshoots and resolves Power, TSM, ATL, and VTL hardware issues.
Utilizes IBM SVC to provide backend storage.

Key Contributions

Upgraded the IBM TS7650G, TS7620 ProtecTier VTL, AIX 7.1 on TKLM/TSM servers, TSM servers to 6.3.4, and ProtecTier VTL from single node to cluster node DD3 DD5.
Migrated TSM/TKLM servers from p560 to p770 hardware, and configured both the Pure Flex compute nodes and 3494/3584 libraries with library-managed TKLM tape encryption.
Seamlessly implemented the TDP/LAN Free agents for Oracle/DB2.
Led the deployment of the Nagios XI/Fusion monitoring environment.
Enhanced TSM throughput by upgrading TSM server NIC's to function on a 10GB Ethernet network.

Confidential

Administrator Consultant Rohm and Haas Division

Effectively administered TSM instances on IBM 570 pSeries, and oversaw ad-hoc backups and restores of TSM clients.
Installed and configured TSM BA clients and TDP for DB2 and Oracle storage agents.

Key Contributions

Conceptualized and executed TSM health checks and improvements, and configured EMC CLARION SAN disk pools.
Ensured proper documentation of the TSM environment.
Authored and implemented new SOP and TSM DR proceedures.

professional experience Continued

Confidential

TSM AIX System Administrator

Diligently migrated the legacy TSM environment to TSM on IBM AIX pSeries 570, and administered both local and remote TSM servers.
Installed AIX and TSM PTFS and APARS, as well as installed and configured TSM clients for HPUX, LINUX, W2K, and TDP for Oracle.
Guided all aspects of the installation of EMC CDL, and configured disk pools from EMC Symettrix/Clarion San.
Responsible for TSM client backups and restores.

Key Contributions

Introduced procedural documentation for the TSM environment.
Played an integral role in key data center infrastructure projects.
Conducted in-depth evaluations of 3rd party TSM-related software products.
Appointed to represent the TSM group at internal meetings.

Confidential

Backup-Recovery AIX Systems Administrator Consultant

Responsible for administrating both local and remote TSM instances on IBM PSeries, as well as the local TIVOLI TEC environment.
Meticulously configured disk pools from HDS SAN.

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