Summary:

• Over 7+ Years of experience in large scale enterprise production environment working as a Systems Administrator of Unix ,AIX, Sun Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and Windows Server systems.
• Experience with installation administration of AIX 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1 and 7.1
• Expertise in adding and removing user accounts, backing up programs, maintaining system database files and maintain the project servers.
• Worked on power6 and power5 hardware of IBM. Performed Logical Partitioning, virtualization and clustering for p595 p590 p570 p550 frames
• Expertise in Virtualization on Power7/6/5 frames.
• A rock solid knowledge of virtualization of p-series and Blade servers. I was the single resource to manage, build and configure the VIOS and LPAR's on Blade servers and p-series.
• Build countless VIOS and LPAR's on p-series p550, p570, p590, p780. Configuration and installation.
• Used HMC to create partitions on frames
• Created numerous frames with virtual resources and allocated the same to virtual clients
• Created vscsi & virtual Ethernet adapters
• Allocated SAN to VIO clients by using mkvdev command
• Good understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts
• Experienced in installation, configuration, Deployment and management of enterprise applications using IBM Web Sphere Application server 3.x/4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x and IBM WebSphere Portal server 6.0/6.1 on Different platforms Solaris, Red Hat Linux, AIX & Windows2000/2003 Server
• Configured and Administered HACMP 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 IBM PowerHA.
• Extended knowledge of IBM virtualization including configuring VIO servers
• Experienced in Installing, Configuring and Administering of WebSphere MQ Series product on AIX/Linux/Solaris
• Installed SAP basis on AIX 5.x platform and troubleshooted issues encountered during the installation
• Supported SAP Team for smooth installation and implementation of ERP.
• Worked with Network Appliance - Network File System and NetAPP Filers
• Worked with network Admins to configure virtual interfaces (vifs) on NetApp
• Installed and configured of NetApp hardware and software products.
• Good experience in script cleanup procedures and backups
• Experience working on Firewall rules and network connectivity and Load balancers
• Ability to work with DB admin on DB2 and Oracle databases
• Expertise in SMIT, LVM (Logical Volume Manager), Mirroring, User Administration & System Resource management, Paging Space management, and job scheduling.
• Migration of TSM 4.3/5.1/5.2 to TSM 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1 on AIX and windows servers.
• Working knowledge of VERITAS Net backup, VERITAS Volume Manager, file system maintenance, and performance analysis and tuning.
• Experience in Siebel CRN, Pega, Webserver, Java based applications
• Expertise in Migrating AIX OS from different AIX p series servers.
• Installation, Administration and configuration of LPARs with AIX 5L on p5 servers
• Installed and configured DLPARs and profiles in DLPARs through HMC.
• Experience in installation and configuration of SAP AIX servers.
• Installation and configuration of NIM master server and clients.
• Understands principles of routingclient/server programming
• Expertise in MM (Management Module) IP reset at times of failure master in H-type Blade Center.
• Configured VLAN on Nortel switches in Blade Center.
• Knowledge of EMC Symmetrix.
• Implemented and configured Storage Area Network (SAN) using Fiber channel Technology for the LAN-free Backups.
• Excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded as well as the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management and the client community.
• Ability to work in a team as well as alone.
• Comfortable to assist the company at any given time.

Education: Bachelor of commerce

Technical Skills and Environment:

Platform:

IBM pSeries POWER6/5, BladeCenter, xSeries, HP, SUN.

Operating System

IBM AIX 5L V6.1 V5.3, V5.2, V4.3.3,
LINUX RedHat AS/3, AS/4, SuSE V9, V10
SUN Solaris 10, Solaris 9 & 8
HP HP-UX 11.i
Macintosh Mac OS 10.5 Leopard. Mac OS 10.4 Tiger.
Windows Vista, XP, NT, 2003/2000, 9X

Enterprise Server

IBM POWER6/5 p520, p550,p570, p575, p590,p595
IBM pSeries p650,p670,p690, RS/6000 B Series, H Series, M Series
BLADECENTER HS20, HS22, JS20
SUN E15K, E10K, 6800, 5000, R550, R250
HP 9000 rp-4440, rp-7440, V, N, L, K Class.

Mgmt. Software:

HACMP,WebSM, HMC, Virtual I/O Server (VIOS),SDD/SDDPCM, MPIO, EMC Power path, IBM DS4000/RDAC, Storage Manager GUI

SAN Storage:

SVC-2145, IBM DS8000/8100/8300 , DS4000/4800/4700/4300,
EMC Symmetrix, DMX, CLARiiON

SAN Fabric:

Brocade, McDATA, CISCO, Emulex, Qlogic

Backup:

mksysb, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager ( TSM)

Tools:

IBM Lotus notes, Jumpstart, Wanboot, Sun xVM Ops, LDoms, Sametime connect, Word, Excel, PowerPoint,
VISIO, VPN, Telnet/SSH Client, CLI, putty, Netmeeing

Programming:

C, SQL,PL/SQL ,Perl & Shell Scripting(KSH)

Application:

HACMP, TSM, SAP, CRM, Websphere, MQseries, Siebel, Remedy

Database:

Oracle 10g w/ASM product knowledge, SQL, DB2, sysbase, mySQL.

Professional Experience :

Confidential, Austin Adc,Texas

04/2011 to current

Project : Team for Texas
Client : Confidential
Oragnization : Confidential
Role : AIX Administrator
Duration : April 2011 to Current

This project involves Production and Test servers

Responsibilities : Responsible for Installation, Configuration Management, Maintenance and Systems Development of AIX Systems. Configured IBM p6-series and p5-series 595, 590, 570, 550 and RS 6000 machines for production and test environments.
Responsible for the operation, maintenance and integrity of a distributed, networked AIX based environment.

• Production and Test Support
• Resolving Prod Issues
• Resolving Test Issues
• DR monitoring
• Setting up VIO servers
• Installation Migration
• Setting up VIO Server through HMC version 7 and creating Profiles to create partitions.
• Installed VIO server Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM P6 System. Assigned resources by making six partitions LPAR client of VIO server and clients installation

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL.
07/2009 to current
AIX Administrator

Major tasks of the the five member AIX Admin team included, but not limited to, Server build of Power6/5 (570/590/595), rebuilding the lease expiring servers, virtualization, collecting data from source, OS rebuilds, installing EDS tools, allocating storage and volume groups, building file systems and smoke testing as per the specification documents.

• Responsible for Installation, Configuration Management, Maintenance and Systems Development of AIX Systems.
• Configured IBM p6-series and p5-series 595, 590, 570, 550 and RS 6000 machines for production and test environments
• Responsible for the operation, maintenance and integrity of a distributed, networked AIX based environment
• Tested and configured AIX 5.3 on P 570 hardware with different applications.
• Tested DUAL VIOserver redundancy
• Tested performance of LPAR under various memory & processor settings.
• Virtualization of p-series and Blade servers. I was the single resource to manage, build and configure the VIOS and LPAR's on Blade servers and p-series.
• Build countless VIOS and LPAR's on p-series p550, p570, p590, p780. Configuration and installation.
• Responsible for creating LPAR/DLPAR/VIO.
• Installed, configured and tested VIOS
• Installed, configured and tested Logical Partitions technology (LPARS).
• Installed VIO server Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM P6 System. Assigned resources by making six partitions LPAR client of VIO server and clients Installation.
• Configured advanced virtualization (POWER5, POWER6) features WPAR, DLPAR, Micro-partitioning, Virtual Ethernet, PLM and LPM.
• Performed Live Partition Mobility
• On call 24 x 7 production support
• Responsible for upgrading the operating and system software and keeping patches current
• Responsible for Planning, Installation, configuration, administration and trouble shooting of IBM\'s p series of AIX servers
• Installation of HACMP for clustering of servers and configuration for high availability of fault
  tolerance.
  Creation of logical partitions using LPAR/DLPAR and installation of AIX in p5-p590, 595 series of servers thru HMC.
• Configured, deployed and maintained VIO servers, VIO clients, LPAR, NIM, and HMC
• Modified and customized shell script that collects system data from the source servers for logging and documentation purpose.
• Installing OS on VIO clients using NIM Server
• Daily tasks of adding and removing user accounts, backing up programs, maintaining system database files and maintain the project servers.
• Designed, developed and managed backup and recovery policies and procedures
• Extensively used LVM, created VGs, LVs, and disk management.
• Automate (script) weekly applications re-starts and scheduled maintenance solely accountable for data collection requests from UNIX source servers and script modifications as per the application and system analysts.
• Execute the disaster recovery/back up procedures and archiving procedures
  Responsible for performance tuning, capacity planning, database administration, and fault management
• Excellent on SAN and NAS configuration
• Manage and provisioned shared storage using NetApp Filers to corporate and production systems. Manage and provisioned virtual machine instances and virtual server hosts in a VMware Infrastructure 3 environment.
• Worked with Network Appliance - Network File System and NetAPP Filers
• Worked with network Admins to configure virtual interfaces (vifs) on NetApp
• Installed and configured of NetApp hardware and software products.
• Implementation of a High Availability AIX system to support Oracle-based Warehouse
• Management System running Catalyst WMS, interfaced with SAP via MQ, FTP.
• Maintained the patch inventory and patch logs and participated in problem resolution arising from functional testing activities
• Performance Analysis and Tuning on assorted UNIX, SAP, Oracle and Windows systems, as well as application and server upgrades.
• Configured Work Load Management (WLM) for IBM Websphere Application Server.
• Installed EDS software tools such as Blazent, Policy Compliance Manager, ECC, Asset Insight and Net vault Backup software on Midrange AIX Servers during server enrollments
• Created Volume groups, Filesystem, Storage allocation, cron jobs, maintenance levels upgrades and applied APARs/Fixes for AIX 5.x
• Installed and configured JDBC drivers, JAVA plug-ins, SSH and sudo utilities on Unix Servers.
  Participated and involved in daily Status Meetings, Training Sessions and Presentations.
  

Environment: IBM AIX 4.x/5.x (P595, P590, P570, P650, P670, P690), Sun Solaris 2.8/2.9, Tools (Blazent, AI, ECC, PCM, Netvault) ,VMware, IHS 2.4.2, WAS 5.x, Perl, Korn Shell, Oracle, Tivoli Storage Manager 5.1, Peregrene, ECC.

Confidential, Lake forest, CA.
04/2007 to 06/2009
AIX Administrator

Configured IBM RS/6000, pSeries boxes such as p550,p570, p520, and p610 machines for production, staging and test environments.

• Installation and configuration of NIM master server and clients.
• Support weekly applications re-start and scheduled maintenance
• Managing and monitoring disk space and disaster recovery environments
• Creating lppsource and SPOT for client on NIM server.
• Installing OS on NIM clients using NIM Server.
• Setting up VIO Server through HMC version 7 and creating Profiles to create partitions.
• Installed VIO client partitions using the NIM server to load AIX images.
• Backing up VIO server in case of disaster recovery.
• Worked with IBM General Parallel File Systems (GPFS) and Solaris Logical Domains (LDOMs)
• Installed and configured AIX 4.3/5.1/5.2/5.3 on AIX pSeries, creating the root volume group application/backup volume groups, logical volumes, and filesystem (JFS & JFS2) on RAID
• Level 5 with appropriate data stripping for protection, and for the optimal performance of the RS-6000 Servers within a High Availability system using DASD, DCE and DFS services.
• Analyzing System Dump Generation and sending System Dump to AIX System Support Center.
• Daily roles included dealing with LVM extensively.
• Migrated HACMP 4.5 to HACMP 5.2.
• Adding network printers and conducting day-to-day system administration, including backup/recovery in NAS environments.
• I was part of remediation project, which made the client's environment secured by disabling the unsecured services.
• Installation and administration of AIX, Linux, Solaris and NT/2003 Servers on a LAN, setting up optimal RAID levels (fault tolerance) for protected data storage in NAS environments. Install and configure DHCP, DNS (BIND, MS), web (Apache, IIS), mails and file servers.
• Perform User Account management, data backups, and users logon support.
• Experience in querying, modifying data and managing databases in SQL.
• Develop Shell scripts (Korn) for automating the batch jobs.
• Configured backup/archive policies using Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Backup utility and mksysb images of root volume group to meet data archiving requirements and disaster recovery readiness.
• Experience in installation and maintenance of SAP on AIX Servers.
• SAP Installation on AIX 5.x platform.
• Performing Failovers in HACMP cluster environment, monitoring servers.
• Provided UNIX infrastructure, operations and support for IBM RS/6000 servers and pSeries servers running IBM AIX 4.3.3/5.1/5.2.
• Performed installation, periodic maintenance updates and applied APAR fixes.
• Defined and setup network printers, and install client/server applications. Define/setup network protocols, Network File Services (NFS), and Network Information Services (NIS).

Environment: IBM AIX 5.x (595,570,650) Sun Solaris 2.8, BladeCenter H-type, BladeCenter S-type, HACMP, LPARs, Nortel, FastT Storage DS 600 & 900, DASDs-8300, 8000.

Confidential, Alpharetta GA
10/2005 to 12/2006
AIX Administrator

• IBM AIX 5.x System installation and configuration, problem determination, maintenance, backup and troubleshooting.
• Install, configure and maintain AIX on IBM RS6000 and p5series servers.
• Good support for installing and troubleshooting LPAR, VIO server and client and all P5 and RS/6000 servers using all installation methods.
• Installation and configuration of LPARs with AIX 5.3 on p5 servers
• Upgraded the OS level patches/LPARs to the systems to make sure they are current.
• Installation of patches, APARs on AIX, Linux and Windows Servers.
• Performed routine checks on nodes by monitoring syslogs and error logs for system and hardware errors.
• Performed the daily system administration tasks like managing system resources, writing scripts, and end users support, operations and security.
• Configured SSH for secure telnet and FTP connections.
• Performed User Account management, data backups, and users logon support.
• Managed Logical volumes, filesystems, paging space issues.
• Monitored trouble ticket queue to attend user and system calls.

Environment: IBM AIX 5.x (595,570,650), RS-6000, Linux, SCO-Unix, DB2, Windows 2003 Server, Remedy.

Confidential, Atlanta , GA.
06/2004 to 08/2005
AIX Systems Administrator.

Major Responsibilities:
Installed IBM AIX 5.2 on IBM RS/6000 machines and WebSphere Application Server (3.5.6) on AIX (4.3).

• Involved in mounting file systems, creating directories, files and their securities AIX.
  Maintained and monitored the business applications CICLOPS, FourGen, etc. on IBM AIX 5.2, 5.1 & 4.4, 4.3 Servers.
• Involved in assessing and tuning the performance of AIX on RS/6000 systems.
• Implemented Load balancing (LSF 3.2) solutions on the Build and Application servers.
• Administered Linux servers for several functions include managing Apache webservers, mail server and firewalls in both development and production.
• Installed Veritas Volume Manager and created mirrored and striped volumes and file systems.
• Managed Sun A1000 and D1000 storage arrays with Veritas Volume Manager.
• Created volumes and maintained functional areas on NetApp F760 filers and exported them via NFS.
• Worked closely with Network and other infrastructure teams for supporting daily activities i.e. system/network changes for all Solaris, AIX and Windows 2000 Servers.
• Implemented standard backup procedures for multiple enterprise applications running on various OS and web servers.
• Configured Veritas Netbackup 3.2 for Network backup, restore and archival of network clients and managed ATL tape libraries.

Environment: AIX, Solaris, Redhat, LINUX, Windows 2000 Server, IBM WebSphere, Veritas Net backup.

Confidential, India.
01/2003 to 05/2004
Unix Administrator

• Worked with a team to support Sun Fire 6800, Sun E6000, E4500, E3500, and E450 servers in production environment running an Oracle database.
• Start and stop the Oracle database in order to kill any hanging processes before backup.
• Completed forms and logs concerning system utilization.
• Implemented a stand-alone installation for testing applications, filesystem management, backups, process control, user administration and device management of Sun workstations.
• Installing and maintaining the NIS+ master and slave servers and NFS servers with auto mount clients. Completed forms and logs concerning system utilization.
• Assisted in installing and setup servers for Storage Edge Disk Arrays in the SAN using Veritas Volume Manager.
• Filesystem administration on EMC Symmetrix disks using EMC ControlCenter management.
  Troubleshooting with failure Disks on disk array on EMC frame, system boards and other hardware on E6000.
• Testing of new packages and patches before implementation on Solaris Servers.