SUMMARY:

• Over 6 years of experience in Installation, configuration, troubleshooting, Systems Security, Systems Monitoring, Storage Systems, Operating Systems, Performance Analysis, and Capacity Planning of various AIX Servers.
• Experience with POWER 7, 6, 5, 4 Series which include IBM pSeries 780, 770, 595, 570, 550, 520, 505, Blade Server JS22, JS23, JS42, RS6000.
• AIX Server build and administration of Blade server JS22, JS23 JS42 and p-series p590, 570, 550 RS6000 Servers, installing, configuring and maintaining Websphere Application Server.
• Creating VIOS and LPAR from HMC, assigning CPU, Memory, Virtual Disk, Etherchanneling and Virtual SEA creation.
• Experience in Installation and Administration of AIX servers v4.3, v5.2, v5.3, v6.1, v7.1
• Experience in Installation and Administration of IBM VIO servers and HMC
• Providing 24X7 On-call Production and Customer Support including trouble shooting problems related to IBM AIX pSeries servers.
• Planning, Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Administration of AIX 4.3/5.1/5.2/5.3 and day to day system admin tasks Setting up printers / remote queues / Info-print management Migration upgrades of AIX 43/51/52/53/61 ,Including system tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of IBM AIX.
• Restoring the mksysb operating system from NIM server Network boot .
• Excellent capacity planning skills in UNIX AIX/Solaris environment
• Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning and evaluating products in UNIX area
• Engaged to assist with strategic planning, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
• Extended knowledge in installing AIX in an LPAR environment pSeries including configuring VIOS
• Expertise in Configuration of IBM HACMP v 5.1, 5.2, 5.3. Including problem-solving and disaster recovery in detecting and reacting to failure events, allowing the system to stay available during random, unexpected software problems
• Tested LPARS
• Performance test of IBM AIX Servers.
• Experience with Tivoli Workload Manager
• Experience in administering and maintaining Production/ Staging/ QA/ Development environments.
• Experienced in Installing Fix Packs, cumulative fixes, and Interim-fixes.
• Involved in writing scripts to automate administration tasks, handle everyday System Administration tasks such as backup procedure, system cleanup, and everyday system tasks.
• Self-starter and fast learner. Highly organized, dedicated and result oriented with a positive attitude.
• Day to day administration of the Development environment and Production and Test environment systems.
• Strong appetite for learning new technologies with positive attitude
• Demonstrated success many times under aggressive project schedules and deadlines. Flexible, result oriented and adapt to the environment quickly to meet the goals of the product and the organization

TECHNICAL SKILLS

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Unix/AIX Midrange System Admin

IBM Power 7/6/5

Responsibilities:

• AIX and VIO Server administration of p-series p770, p590, 570, 550 Servers.
• Host based Migration, Performed Disk mirroring, backup and restore for better data availability and Disaster Recovery.
• Administered the UNIX System for clustered AIX Servers running HACMP and dynamic LPARs with fiber attached SAN storage.
• Worked as Level 2 AIX support technician in IBM'S eBusiness group in IGS IBM Global Services . Responsible for keeping network, web, and e-commerce services available and operating at established service levels for IBM content-hosted customers. Communicated
• Primary skills focused on AIX / UNIX.
• Respond to customer / business partner inquiries and develop solutions to meet their needs.
• Created additsional Vhost adapters on VIO servers to distribute limited luns through each adapter to improve data input/output rate.
• Follow change control, incident response, and testing processes for modifications to enterprise server and storage devices and software applications
• Proactively communicate with the team and manager for issues that may impact the timely delivery of tasks/projects.
• Administration Tasks included User administration, Performance, Send mail. weekly mksysb
• Implementing NPIV for both LPM project and DR exercises.
• Planning and verifying unused LUNs in both development and production environment to restore space efficiency for customers.
• I was responsible for building five p770 frames each of 4 CEC , installing VIOS, creating LPAR profile, performing all the powerVM operations, Installing OS, building NIM server, Security remediation and OS hardening, upgrading HMC, system firmware and VIOS.
• I was responsible for maintaining healthy work relation with different third party vendors involved into compliance/audit activities. This includes maintaining best industry standards in security and patches facilitate the POC necessary to evaluate security tools and provide inputs in decision making.
• Worked on HMC for creating profiles and partitions
• Extensively Worked on NPIV for port virtualization
• Worked on VIOS and NPIV client Storage migration.
• Assisted in Installation of different e-commerce packages
• Performed Firmware upgrade on 9117-MMB systems through IBM network and USB/DVDs.
• Performed HMC version upgrades.
• Creating Logical Partitions of VIO Servers and VIO Clients on pSeries frame and assigning processor, memory and Ethernet adapters to VIOS and assigning memory and processor to VIOC LPARS .
• Performance tuning and monitoring on PowerHA clusters along with CritSit team to resolve performance issues.
• Planning and implementation of NIS with master, slave and client configuration in both development and production environments.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining DB2 Application Server.
• Blade servers virtualization - manage, build and configure the VIOS and LPAR's on Blade servers and p-series. Creation and installation of new VIOS and LPAR's using HMC.
• Restoring the mksysb operating system from NIM server Network boot .
• Micro partitioning, PowerVM. VLAN tagging, NPIV and other virtualized operations of Power Series systems.
• Automate and schedule batch jobs using CRON.
• Renaming Logical volumes, JFS log, VG names, assigning new major numbers, VARYOFF VG, export VG and import VG with new major numbers.
• Worked on troubleshooting DB2 and SAP applications using logs, traces.
• Coordinated with Application developers to solve the DB2 and SAP related problems.
• Worked on DR exercises successfully every 6 months with all the prior planning and coordination with other teams.
• Assisted in moving LPARS from p770 to p570 through LPM.
• Worked along with Backup and recovery team for Flash Copy project.
• Installed additional HBA adapter on both development and production servers.
• Disabled/ Enabled HACMP monitoring during weekend maintenance work and trouble shooting including failover and fallback.
• Adding new LUNs and NFS file systems on the running production PowerHA HACMP nodes.
• Troubleshoot failed resource group in PowerHA.
• Implementing web server through Mozilla Firefox installation on a Linux server.
• Daily roles included dealing with LVM extensively. Strong hold of LVM.
• Providing 24X7 On-call Production and Customer Support including trouble shooting problems related to IBM AIX pSeries servers and PowerHA HACMP .

Environment: IBM P-series 770, 750, 595, 570,550 and RS 6000, VIO, VMware, HACMP, SAN, SAP, SVC, LPAR

Confidential

UNIX AIX Engineer

Responsibilities:

• AIX Server build and administration of Blade server JS22, JS23 JS42 and p-series p 770, p590, 570, 550 RS6000 Servers, installing, configuring and maintaining Websphere Application Server.
• Creating VIOS and LPAR from HMC, assigning CPU, Memory, Virtual Disk, Ether channeling and Virtual SEA creation.
• Blade servers virtualization - manage, build and configure the VIOS and LPAR's on Blade servers and p-series. Creation and installation of new VIOS and LPAR's using HMC.
• Extensive use of HMC, IVM for creating, assigning and allocating disks, virtual adapter. Concept of etherchanneling and SEA, VHOST
• Restoring the mksysb operating system from NIM server Network boot .
• Micro partitioning, PowerVM. VLAN tagging, NPIV and other virtualized operations of Power Series systems.
• Extensive use and thorough understanding for creating, assigning and allocating disks, virtual adapter. Concept of etherchanneling, VHOST and SEA in p-Series and Blade servers.
• NIM server upgrades. All network operations.
• Creating LPP source and SPOT, restoring mksysb from NIM Master to clients.
• Migrating, upgrading and installing the OS and software on clients.
• Migration of OS using NIMADM, CD/DVD boot.
• Software installation or patch fixes on the clients.
• Involved in client/server systems - includes all configuration, capacity and performance planning
• Analyzed performance reports to identify capacity issues and plan for growth in web hosting environment and Performed capacity planning for large source code repository
• Responsible for NIM installation, setting up NIM servers, clients, define the resources, Alternate Disk Migration with NIM.
• The task includes the following steps as to ensure all DBA/Apps accounts exist with unique IDs on both production and failover servers.
• Migrating user's home directory and applications file system to SAN disk for failover.
• Installation of HACMP file sets 5.4.1 Sp6 on newly added nodes to the cluster, also any fixes if required. Cluster sync and verification and troubleshooting any issues.
• Deployed Enterprise Applications on Application Servers in a clustered environment and maintained those applications.
• Migration of E-commerce applications using WebSphere 6.1 and IBM WebSphere Commerce Server
• Responsible for setting up the development, system test, performance test and pre-production environments for the ongoing application development.
• Worked on troubleshooting Java applications using logs, traces.
• Involved in deployment of Java applications on Websphere Application Server.
• Performance tuning of Java applications
• Coordinated with Application developers to solve the Java/J2ee related problems.
• Performance tuning by configuring JVM arguments, JDBC connection pooling caching.
• Performance tuning by pointing the applications to the different available servers.
• IBM's SVC and DS series, Power Path installation and involved in Storage Area Network SAN administration.
• Worked with IBM's SVC and DS 4800, 6800 and 8000 SAN.
• Responsible for training users in applications and UNIX fundamentals and responsible for writing basic system and user documentation.
• Performed WebSphere Environment management through a routine check of Disk Space, CPU utilization and Performance monitoring by using Shell Scripts.

Environment: AIX 5.3, Linux, WAS 6.0.2.x/5.1.1.xx, WPS 5.1.0.x, Oracle 9i/10g, WSAD 5.1, IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business 5.1, IBM Http Server 1.3.28.1/2.0.47.1/6.0, Java J2ee.

Confidential

AIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• AIX System Administrator for Unix server environment which includes IBM AIX 5.2, IBM AIX 5.3, IBM AIX 4.3, Red Hat Linux and Enterprise servers.
• Responsible for Installation, Configuration Management, Maintenance and Systems Development of AIX Systems.
• Extensively worked on Capacity planning
• Prepared a plan for establishing a Capacity Planning Function for their Environment, including staffing, tools, methodology and interrelationship with other groups within the infrastructure which included AIX Sun Solaris Unix Servers.
• Developed a Capacity Planning solution for Retail e-Banking environment AIX Solaris servers .
• Responsible for Data Center Planning Activities including Performance Tuning Reporting, Capacity Planning, Configuration Management, Change Management, Problem Management and Facilities Management.
• Installed and configured HMC, LPAR, VIO Server in pSeries servers
• Performed AIX upgrade through NIM servers
• Migrated AIX servers from B80, and POWER4 hardware to POWER5 virtualized hardware
• Backed up and restored data
• Implemented AIX service strategy
• Performed patch installations for IBM AIX servers from NIM servers
• Configured NIM environment and performed network installation of AIX
• Configured IBM AIX servers using SMIT and WSM
• Configured and troubleshot HACMP.
• Configured NFS and NIS domain
• Application and in-house software installations
• Unix shell scripting for automation.
• Documented and debugged Tivoli Server Performance Prediction tools
• Documented system parameters and Backup and Disaster recovery Processes
• Worked with Application support, H/W support, vendor support and getting the problem fixed within the given time frame
• Used acquired skills to prioritize and resolve issues in a timely manner and documented the works performed

Environment: IBM AIX 5.2/5.3 Servers in IBM P550, P560, P570, HACMP, EMC Symmetrix, EMC Clarion, Linux 8.0, DB2 UDB ESE v8, SAP R/3,Linux Enterprise Server, Windows 2000/2003 servers, TSM Servers.

Confidential

AIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and upgrade of operating systems for AIX 4.3.3-5.1/ 5.2, 5.3.
• Planned and configured SAN environment for TSM and ESS shark storage servers.
• Experience on IBM power5 p595, p590, p550, p520 and power4 p690, p630 machines.
• Performed regular capacity analyses for applications within multiple Lines of Business
• Performed performance studies and capacity plans in preparation for a server consolidation to VMware ESX
• Installed and configured Logical Partitions technology LPARS .
• Experience in installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting of HACMP 5.3 and LPARs with HACMP clusters.
• Performed HACMP cluster relocation.
• Performed HACMP upgrade from 5.2 to 5.3.
• Performed Installation and Configuration of NIM. Installed AIX 5.3, AIX 5.2 on each node using NIM.
• Included upgrading NIM server to AIX 5.3 ML 5, creating the SPOT, lpp, source mksysb NIM resources.
• Configuration of Application Server in resource group
• Expertise in installing new software on AIX 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3.
• Installation of fixes/patches.
• Configuration of EMC CLARiiON Products on AIX Environment.
• Installing/configuring performance meter to take exact view of system performance.
• Planning, configuring storage using LVM on AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3.
• Installed TSM 5.2 on AIX5L. Designed TSM server, Created policy domain, policy set and management
• Used LPAR Validation Tool LVT to validate the resources assigned to LPARs
• Familiar with IBM Enterprise Storage Server ESS .
• Disk management and Software Installation using SMIT and WSM.
• Used AIX 5.3 performance monitoring and tuning tools vmstat, iostat, sar, mpstat, lparstat, smtctl to view the impact of Simultaneous Multi Threading SMT , Micro-Partitioning, and virtualization.

Environment: IBM AIX 5.3, 5.2, 5.1, 4.3.3 , Sun Solaris 8/10, Linux Fedora core 3, Redhat 9, Debian 3.1, SUSE 9 , pSeries servers p595, p590, p550, p520, p670, p630 , H80, S80, F50, LPAR, VIO, MQ, IBM Power4/Power5 HMC, IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Server, NIM, Tivoli Performance Viewer, Oracle 8i, DB2/UDB, HTML, Tivoli Storage Manager.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and managed several IBM RS/6000 AIX systems which include disk management, user management, network management, performance management, test and development projects running on AIX 4.x.
• Design, implement, and maintain AIX solutions for Tier I applications, including multiple udb database servers
• Involvement in all major projects to recommend, design, and implement backup solution Involvement in all major projects to recommend, design, and implement storage solution
• Software and Hardware upgrades of AIX systems installed and worked on various Volume managers.
• Maintenance of the WebSphere servers on different UNIX platforms and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the on going application development.
• Installed and configured Oracle 7.3.2 DB server on AIX 3.2 and implemented support for Forms 3.0 from an earlier release of Oracle.
• Implemented corporate E-mail network using Sendmail on AIX
• Installed and Configured McAfee Anti Virus on all NT / Exchange servers.
• Installation of the computer systems Servers and supporting systems and related Operating systems AIX/Red Hat Linux/Windows 98, NT.
• Administered, supported and monitored the company's Web applications using Apache Web server.
• Scheduling Backup and Restoration using 'ufsdump', 'tar', 'ufsrestore' and VERITAS Net Backup.
• Network trouble-shooting using 'ndd', 'traceroute', 'netstat', 'ping', 'ifconfig' and 'snoop' etc.
• Configuration of DNS, APACHE, MAIL, DHCP, FTP servers in Linux.
• Installing Microsoft SQL server as database, Configuration of Logon Authentication server and Proxy server.
• System backup management using IBM ADSM Backup Server
• Troubleshooting of 33kpbs and 56kbps Modems, Logon Authentication Problems and Customer problems, coordinating the Customer Support.

Environment: AIX 4.X, SUN Solaris, Windows NT4.0/98/95, WebSphere 3.5, Apache Web server, PL/SQL, HTML, Oracle 7.2, Send Mail, NIS, NFS, DNS.