PROFILE:

• Good experience of system administration experience in IBM AIX, Linux, Sun Solaris & Windows environments
• Strong experience in installing and supporting WAS, Apache Web Server, IBM HTTP Server, Oracle 8i/9i, Sybase, SQL Server on Windows and UNIX.
• Strong management and administration skills in providing installation, configuration, troubleshooting, backup and recovery in multiple Application and Web Servers highlighting IBM WebSphere Application Server 3.5/4.0/5.0, Netscape Enterprise Server, Apache Web Server, IBM HTTP Web Server.
• Experience in installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of Sun Solaris, Linux and expertise in writing shell scripts utilizing different shells including K-shell, bourn shell, c shell.
• Installed and administered IBM/RS6000 and RS6000/SP clusters; AIX 4.3.3, 5.1; VIO 1.2 and configured HACMP and LPAR.
• IBM RS/6000 and LPAR support and administration.
• Proficient with installing AIX Base Operating System on P Series and RS6000 machines (New and Overwrite, Preservation and Migration installation) on New and existing systems.
• Experience with LVM, NIM, User & System Resource management, job scheduling, Paging Space management.
• Experienced in implementing the Workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering.
• Strong experience in maintaining HACMP (High Availability Cluster Multiprocessing) on AIX and Sun Solaris.
• Responsible for Web sphere Portal installation, Portal deployment configuration of Web sphere Portal server, and testing.
• Involved in installing, Configuring and Connecting the DB2 and Oracle 9i databases with development servers.
• Strong experience in IBM WebSphere Administration and setting up IBM WebSphere Application Servers in the development, testing and production environments.
• Collecting data and implementing Operating system upgrades to the latest available maintenance levels, installing fixes and APAR’s.
• Experienced and familiar with tools like SMIT and SMITTY, installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of IBM AIX and Linux ( Red Hat & SUSE ).
• In depth expertise in implementation, analysis, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN network systems.
• Troubleshoot NIS, NFS, DNS and other network issues, Create dump files, backups and move data.
• Performed Linux systems administration duties including user account management, operating systems upgrades, patch installations, and quota enforcement.
• Experience in Shell scripting (bash, KSH) to automate system administration jobs.

Organization: Confidential , Dallas,TX
Duration: Jun’08 to Jan  ‘09
Role & Responsibilities:
AIX Administrator

• Responsible for Installation, Configuration, Support and Troubleshooting existing systems in AIX 4.3.3/5L, Sun Solaris 2.7/7/8/2.9 operating environment.
• Responsible for the operation, maintenance and integrity of a distributed, networked UNIX based environment.
• IBM RS/6000 and LPAR support and administration.
• IBM RS/6000 SP System Software Maintenance AIX System Dump Generation and sending System Dump to AIX System Support Center.
• Upgraded an AIX server, added another hard-drive to the AIX Server and used the logical volume manager (LVM) to create a volume group, which was then partitioned into logical volumes.
• Implemented, installed and supported high availability (HA) cluster on IBM p Series (p690) platform (HACMP for AIX).
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Managing kron  jobs, batch processing and job scheduling. 
• Maintaining network inventory, data backup and documentation for all hardware & software

Environment:
AIX 5L,Solaris 8.0, Windows 2000,HACMP Clusters, IBM HTTP server, Tomcat Server, DB2, Oracle8i, Veritis Volume Manager, Shell scripts.

Confidential, Dallas,TX
Duration: Apr ’06 to Jan ‘08
Role & Responsibilities:
AIX Administrator

• Responsible for Installation, Configuration, Support and Troubleshooting existing systems in AIX 4.3.3/5L, Sun Solaris 2.7/7/8/2.9 operating environment.
• Responsible for the operation, maintenance and integrity of a distributed, networked UNIX based environment.
• IBM RS/6000 and LPAR support and administration.
• IBM RS/6000 SP System Software Maintenance AIX System Dump Generation and sending System Dump to AIX System Support Center.
• Upgraded an AIX server, added another hard-drive to the AIX Server and used the logical volume manager (LVM) to create a volume group, which was then partitioned into logical volumes.
• Implemented, installed and supported high availability (HA) cluster on IBM p Series (p690) platform (HACMP for AIX).
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Managing kron  jobs, batch processing and job scheduling. 
• Maintaining network inventory, data backup and documentation for all hardware & software

Environment:
AIX 5L,Solaris 8.0, Windows 2000,HACMP Clusters, IBM HTTP server, Tomcat Server, DB2, Oracle8i, Veritis Volume Manager, Shell scripts.

Confidential,Rochelle Park,NJ
Duration: Nov ’00 to Mar  ‘06
Role & Responsibilities:
AIX Administrator

• Maintenance of the WebSphere servers and setting up the development and testing and staging environment for the ongoing application development on AIX, Linux and Solaris platforms.
• Responsible for all aspects of AIX System Administration and support for all RS/6000 servers such as: OS installation and upgrade, OS problem resolution, application of OS fixes, installation of application software, administration of user accounts, system configuration, troubleshooting, system monitoring, system tuning, security updates, hardware maintenance, disk usage maintenance, etc. Most of these tasks are performed using native Korn Shell scripts.
• Worked with Firewall group, Web group to maintain their software on these systems.
• Installation/administration of AIX, Linux and NT/2000 Servers on a LAN, setting up optimal RAID levels (fault tolerance) for protected data storage in NAS environments.
• Performance Management & Tuning of AIX/UNIX Kernel.
• Security, users, groups’ administration and daily backup and restore operations.
• Was responsible for preparing spread sheets about the AIX and SUN servers status and settings including hardware and software
• Added patches and upgraded firmware on AIX 5.1 and 5.2
• Attended team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress, and for upcoming changes in environment.
• Added patches and upgraded Solaris 5.8 with latest firmware, Emulex HBA’s and Q logic cards
• System administration including user, system & group management, system updates, performance monitoring, backup/recovery, disk & storage management.
• Maintaining network inventory, data backup and documentation for all hardware & software

Environment:
IBM WebSphere App Server 4.0, AIX 5.1/5.2, Solaris 5.8, Windows 2000, Shell scripts, EMC, FTP, Database servers, Lotus Notes, Application servers, MS Office.
Education

• Associate in Civil Engineering
• Computer Science Certificate
• Oracle  8 DBA Certificate, Bloomfield collage, Bloomfield, NJ