SUMMARY:
10 years Unix Administration and Unix Engineering. Technical experience and administration of Solaris, Linux Suse and Red Hat operating systems/VM Ware Solaris 7, 8, 9, 10, Red-hat, Suse on Unix/Linux platforms Tivoli installation, configuration, systems and application support, performance tuning, optimization, capacity planning, security, replication, backup, recovery, storage management and data migration. Supporting Veritas Global Cluster Services for failover, Veritas Volume Manager for file-systems, EMC Storage (Power-Path). EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, (03/08 – present)
Confidential,Unix/Linux Systems Administraton
Technical experience and administration of Solaris 7,8,9,10, Linux Red Hat, Linux Suse operating systems/VMWare. Sun Fire & Sun Enterprise Hardware (e.g., E250, E420R, E4500, E5500, E6500, V120, V280 V480, V490, V890, V4900, V6900).
Support Veritas file system, Global Clustering, Webhosting, Dynamic Multipathing. Perform Veritas upgrades. Responsibilities include: installing and maintaining server hardware and operating systems.
Support Sun Platform Sun Fire & Sun Enterprise Servers. Follow standard processes for hardware, software and project completion, problem resolution and change management. Diagnose and resolve technical problems to meet service level expectations. Participate in departmental initiatives. Communicate progress, problems and best practices to management, leads and teammates. Support LDAP, WebSphere, JBoss, Apache, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, iPlanet on Solaris Platform Support of in-house custom and vendor software. Storage Management including data backup and restoration. Ability to build strong relationships with customers, vendors and other IT organizationsattend weekly staff meetings to inform and notify upper management. Install, configure and manage reporting and alerting systems for storage array and SAN Switch infrastructure Determination and Root Cause Analysis in accordance with Service Level.
Confidential, (10/07 - 03/08)
UNIX Systems/Systems Analyst
Install, configure and manage reporting and alerting systems for storage array and SAN Switch infrastructure Determination and Root Cause Analysis in accordance with Service Level. Provide system administration, software and hardware support, and Oracle/Sybase administration. Technical experience and administration of Solaris 8,9,10, Linux SuSe and Red Hat operating systems/VM Ware. Veritas file system, clustering, Dynamic Multipathing support. Perform Veritas upgrades. Responsibilities include: installing and maintaining server hardware and operating systems to support unique customer requirements. Follow standard processes for hardware, software and project completion, problem resolution and change management. Diagnose and resolve technical problems to meet service level expectations. Participate in departmental initiatives. Communicate progress, problems and best practices to management, leads and team mates.Installation and support of in-house custom and vendor software. Storage Management including data backup and restoration. Ability to build strong relationships with customers, vendors and other IT organizations. Attended weekly staff meetings to inform and notify upper management.
Confidential, (2/2007 – 08/2007) Unix Systems Engineer Sr./Operations/Technology/ & eCommerce.
Support Sun Platform Sun Fire & Sun Enterprise Servers. Support LDAP, WebSphere, JBoss, Apache, Oracle, Sybase, Informix, iPlanet on Solaris Platform. Technical experience and administration of Solaris, Linux Suse and Red Hat operating systems/VM Ware. LVM under Linux Suse and Red Hat operating systems/VM Ware. Daily responsibilities included Solaris 8, 9, 10 servers under various hardware platforms. Build & support Prod, test, dev hotels under VMware environments. Veritas file system, clustering, Dynamic Multipathing support. Perform Veritas upgrades. Configure Qlogic cards for SAN, EMC Powerpath. Provide planning, documentation, and execution of business needs. Assisted hardware service engineers, vendor software support personnel and other vendor hardware/software specialists in isolating and resolving hardware and software problems. Attended weekly staff meetings to inform and notify upper management. Installation BMC Patrol, Tivoli, Keon Security and support of multiple applications in Unix. Installation and support of in-house custom and vendor software. Provide system administration, software and hardware support, and Oracle/Sybase administration. Webhosting Applications, Interface Networking cards. Confidential, (3/2005-2/2007)
UNIX Administrator/ Infrastructure Analyst/Unix Support.
Presently supporting substantial accounts with Fortune 500 companies. Responsible for Sun/IBM Unix Administration and the configuration. Support Veritas Cluster Server on Sun Platform SunFire & Sun Enterprise Servers. Responsible for maintaining the integrity of mission critical Sun Solaris Systems. Support Traffic Data Management Software and Telcordia Signaling Network Software. Installation and upgrades Telcordia Signaling Network Software Release 5.0. Support LDAP, WebSphere, JBoss, Apache, Oracle, Informix, iPlanet on Solaris Platform. Stage, build and implement Sun servers SunFire, EnterPrise servers. Monitor both operating system and network performance to identify potential problems and increase productivity. Sun/IBM Unix Administration tools to support daily functions. Consult customers and vendor such as Evolving Systems, Telcordia Technologies Systems on new projects and planning for future requirements. Self-motivated with the ability to effectively manage multiple responsibilities and tasks. Strong teamwork skills but can also work independently. Ability to build relationships, communicate and to work with all levels of customers, management, and vendors. Install latest security patches. Utilized system-monitoring tools to identify and correct problems to avoid potential outages. Multiple software tools to support reporting status. E-trust, BMC Patrol, TNG, SSH, VPN. Sun Enterprise & Sun Fire Servers. 5,000 servers that consists of Production & Test environments. Administered Backup using Veritas Netbackup. Investigated hardware related problems and arranged for Vendor support. Determination and Root Cause Analysis in accordance with Service Level Agreements. Ensure server data integrity, troubleshooting and resolving end-user problems. Worked with Sun Storage, EMC Symmetric. Confidential, (1/2003-3/2005) System Administration Systems Support Engineer
Monitor system performance, and implement physical changes in a UNIX Solaris environment. Managing support staff and vendor relationships. Responsible for hands-on system administration support, and operations support. Installation and troubleshooting of system upgrades, software patches, and support several applications. Experience in project change control procedures, test planning and execution, quality assurance, issue resolution, status reporting and cost management. Confidential, (4/2002-8/2002) Confidential, System Administration Midrange Systems Support Engineer - Contract
Provided support for the UTC Unix Server Refresh and consolidation Sun System\'s project initiative. Performed site assessments of existing multi-platform Unix environments, refresh/consolidation planning, installations, configuration, account management, customer interactions, asset management and documentation. Specific technical responsibilities included Solaris 2.8 System Administration, disk management (Veritas Volume Manager Suite 3.0) troubleshooting, maintaining and upgrading the standard Sun Solaris Server Hardware Platform (E220.E420 & ES4500). Support Role-based Access Control. Provided technical and middleware product knowledge to developers also production support teams. Ensured that development and production environment is stable. Performed in accordance with contracted Service Level Agreements (SLA). Implement and maintain hardware/software configurations for Enterprise Unix systems located in a data center. Generated, installed, implemented and maintained systems-level software packages used on multi-user high end Sun Unix Servers. Assisted hardware service engineers, vendor software support personnel and other vendor hardware/software specialists in isolating and resolving hardware and software problems also inventory management. Attended weekly staff meetings to inform and notify upper management. Confidential, (7/2001-11/2001)
UNIX Administrator/Systems Support - Permanent
Staged, built and implemented UNIX servers (Solaris 2.6, 7, 8 and E250\'s) for clients and install document imaging software. Provided customer support, application support and system support. Confidential, (2/2001–5/2001) Atlanta
UNIX System Administration/NT Support - Permanent
Daily responsibilities included UNIX (Solaris 2.6) and Windows NT administration and systems support, system connectivity check, system load level and disk utilization monitoring via Big Brother application. User account management and asset management for Sun equipment and consolidation of existing legacy systems. Managed and maintained PVCS revision control development server. Installed Sun Solaris 2.6 and Windows NT 4.0 operating system for the production and development environment. Installed internal applications and supported software developers in a UNIX/NT environment. Optimized disk space availability for release builds in development, QA and beta. Provided on-call support for application developers. Checked and validated iPlanet web server processes. Attended weekly staff meetings to inform and notify upper management. Confidential, (8/2000-2/2001)
United Technologies
System Administration/Midrange Systems Support Engineer - Contract
Administering, troubleshooting, maintaining and upgrading operating systems, and optimizing disk space availability. Installed Solaris 2.6, 7, 8 on servers and workstations. Built, installed, implemented and administered Enterprise class servers with Solaris operating systems for several clients (E220r and E420r). Provided client server support, and ensured customer satisfaction was met. Installed Veritas Volume Manager and used both Veritas and Net Backup for clustering. . Gained a good understanding of NFS, NIS and DNS. Role-based Access Control (RBAC). Confidential,NEW YORK, NY (1/2000-8/2000)
Systems Administrator - Permanent
Systems Account Specialist providing systems and user support for all hospital clients utilizing AGFA\'s radiology imaging software in a Sun Solaris 2.6 and Windows NT environment. Provided in-house application support and performed systems backups. Coordinated and executed hardware/software moves. Confidential, (12/1998-12/1999)
Distributed Systems and Applications Administration – Consulting
Maintained a Solaris UNIX 2.6/2.8 and Windows NT global network environment. Supported global systems 24x7 Investment Banking for all divisions throughout the firm. Provided second level technical support to the command center personnel. Served as liaison between operations and engineering groups. Debugged application issues and system problems. Responsibilities included network monitoring and administration, support of centralized backups using Legato and support of centralized storage using EMC. Confidential,NEW YORK (5/1995-12/1998)
System Administration/Operations - Permanent
Monitored system activities and performed nightly backups. Supported Oracle database processing and database loads. Implemented and supported New Dimension Software scheduling package in an AIX, Sun Solaris and Windows NT environment. Technically capable of working with databases, including general knowledge of relational database concepts, SQL, Dbloader and entity-relationship modeling. Assisted in the administration of AIX. Wrote Korn shell scripts to streamline basic commands for monitoring systems. Confidential, (12-1994-3-1995)
Confidential, (1/1995-3/1995)
UNIX Administrator/Operations - Contract
Performed nightly processing and backups in a UNIX environment. Monitored systems and backups during the night using Legato, checked status on files and transferred system files to mainframes and other client servers. Escalated problems to senior administrator. Also responsible for reports pertaining to the status of nightly processing and backups of databases, servers and applications. Confidential, (12/1994-1/1995)
Asset Management
Maintained database information in a Sun UNIX environment.
Updated IP addresses and subnet addresses. Provided assistance on the help desk when necessary. Used Tivoli to restore user files. Loaded tapes for nightly backups for databases, servers and applications. Confidential, (1989-1994)
Network Administrator/User Support
Provided technical support to the department of commodities trading in an operations multi-platform systems environment. Supported transitions from a Netware/IBM to NeXT/SUN environment. Supported Market Data feeds such as Telerate/Reuters/Knight-Ridder connections for commodities trading. Provided connections between NeXTStep systems Novell stations, DEC VAX systems, IBM AS/400 system and IBM ES9000. Provided connections for Auspex unix servers and 15+ Sun stations with worldwide global communication links as well as support for international users. Provided technical support on various operating systems and other daily tasks such as system backups. Attended Morgan State University: Business Administration 1980 - 1982
TRAINING: Sun Solaris 7, 8, 9 Unix Administration I/II. IBM Aix Unix Administration Redhat, Suse Linux Administration
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