SYSTEMS ENVIRONMENT SUMMARY

• Hardware: HP-UX 800/9000 K- Class L- Class and N 4000- Class Series, IBM,Service Guard, Sunfire V440,V240, Ultra 5.1,Enterprise 4500, Netra T1, Prolient Blade 20 30. Oracle Database Appliance
• OS: HP-UX 11.0, SUN Solaris 5.2,5.8,5.9,5.10 Windows NT 4.0, Windows 200x, IBM AIX 5.1
• Red Hat Linux 3,4,5,6, Oracle Linux, Centos
• RDBMS: Oracle 7.2.3, Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i Rac, 10g, 11g Rac 1 Node

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Unix Administration, Red Hat Linux Administration AS 3, AS4 ES 4, Oracle Database Administration 7.2.3, 8i, 9i and 10g, OEM, Perl, Shell Scripting, SQL, Visual Basic, Apache Administration, iPlanet Administration, BrightStore Backup Administration, LiveVault Backup Solution, RPOS, SiteScope, Vmware, Exceed., Oracle Real Application Clustering, IBM WebSphere Application Server

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Unix / Linux Administrator, Oracle Database Administrator

• 30 Sun Solaris and 70 Linux server environment.
• Perform hardware maintenance and upgrades including patch installation, software installation including java, perl and memory upgrades.
• Plan, install, tests, and maintain new and existing servers, and application infrastructure in a 24x7x365 mission critical environment.
• Troubleshoot hardware, software application and data center assets, perform root cause analysis, identify and isolate technical issues to quickly and effectively resolve technical issues and provide timely status and progress reporting.
• Red Hat Linux Administration and VM Esxi Server upgrades
• Managed migration and implementation projects.
• Work closely with developers to enhance performance schedule job runs and database access.
• Worked with vendors to resolve critical production problems.
• Worked closely with buyers, managers on many implementations.
• Involved in hardware and software purchasing decisions.
• Administered over 600 nightly, weekly and hourly incoming and outgoing RETEK point of sale jobs written in C Shell.
• 24/7 Corporate and store support on various server, application and database related issues.
• Printer and Wavelink client administration.
• Managed various hardware rollouts.
• Installed, configured and administered ftp servers.
• Managed various 3rd party solutions and interfaces.
• Installed configured and administered proxy servers
• Iplanet, Tomcat, Apache, IBM Websphere web server installation and administration.
• Created and modified automation scripts as needed.
• Disk Mirroring using Solstice Volume Manager LVM.
• Administered various tape and disk backup utilities.
• File backup and recovery via tape backup and LiveVault disk backup solution.
• Installation of Solaris 10 and Linux on VMWARE Virtualization Software.
• Worked closely with the network, windows and helpdesk teams to resolve various issues.
• Database creation and administration Oracle 8.1.7, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g and 11g, on various platforms.
• Oracle form and report server administration.
• Database backup and recovery included implementing hot backup as well as various export scripts.
• Participated in the Disaster Recovery of site implementation for Unix and Linux systems.
• Managed the migration of key legacy point of sale systems to Oracle 9i and 10G , 11G database, 9ias Oracle forms and Solaris 9 environment.
• Confidential System Administrator, April 1998 September 2004 Responsibilities: UNIX System Administration
• 24/7 worldwide user support with server, application, database and web server related issues.
• Apache web server installation and administration.
• Iplanet web server installation and administration.
• Experience with IBM AIX 5.
• Responsible for over 300 daily incoming and outgoing data-feeds and batch jobs.
• Managed file systems.
• Using SAM for various tasks.
• Automation of system monitoring utilities include space utilization, performance logs data feed errors, etc.
• Perform hardware maintenance and upgrades including patch installation, software installation including java, perl and memory upgrades.
• File backup and recovery.
• Maintain and manage MC/Service Guard, an HP cluster monitoring, mirrored file system.
• Managing FC60 Disk Array attached to RP7400 Servers.
• OS Instillations.
• Kernel Tuning and troubleshooting.
• Carrying out all tasks associated with Unix systems administration.
• Collecting user requirements, prototyping, and system analysis.
• Monitoring via various tools ie, Glance, Top.
• Check for problems involving incoming and outgoing daily feeds.
• Consult with clients and client-support on issues including system access, performance and data integrity.
• Involved in analysis, design and testing of all ongoing back-end projects.
• Administer over 50,000 user accounts.
• Troubleshooting network issues.
• Worked with vendors to resolve critical production problems.
• SMTP, NFS, DNS, NIS, TCP/IP.
• Administer nightly system backups.
• Troubleshoot various Unix, Network related and application related problems.
• Work closely with developers to enhance performance schedule job runs and database access.
• Linux installation and configurations.
• 9i RAC on Linux configuration and installation experience.
• ORACLE Database Administration Experience
• DBA experience with 7.2.3, 8i, 9i and 10g databases.
• Monitor multiple production instances via SQL scripts and OEM including process performance and locking and other issues.
• Development and creation of UNIX and SQL scripts for database creation and monitoring.
• Database replication.
• Backup and recovery included hot backup and cold backup.
• Execution of Fail-Over procedures.
• Space utilization monitoring.
• Database object migration.
• Setting storage parameters for database objects.
• Load and backup data via Import, Export, SQL Loader utilities.
• Test all incoming and outgoing data feeds for compatibility between the versions.
• Install oracle patches.
• Import and export database objects into and from the higher version of the RDBMS.
• Test application performance and data integrity.
• Compile and test executables for compatibility.
• Create user profiles.
• Work out a vast array of problems involving Unix, Oracle and numerous Applications.
• Set storage parameters for DB objects, e.g. increasing space by adding additional data files.