Syed Abdul A Rahemeen

224-***-**** Email: ace0ct@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVES

To seek further challenges as a UNIX Engineer/Administrator wherein my knowledge, skills, and

experience can be utilized for the achievement of the organizational goals and get an opportunity

to grow on the professional front through continuous involvement in learning and development.

EDUCATION

MBA in Marketing from ICBM India

MBA in IT from University of Findlay Ohio (Discontinued)

Bachelor of Commerce from Osmania University India

Certifications

IBM Certified Administrator - AIX System Administration 7.1

IBM Certified - eServer p5 and pSeries Administration and Support for AIX 5L v5.3

Introduction to Oracle 9i-SQL

Oracle database 10g –Administration I

Oracle database 10g-Administration II

SUMMARY

Over 7+ years of IT industry experience in System Administration, Production Support, IBM

WebSphere 3.5/4.0/5.0/5.1, IBM HTTP Server and Testing of various systems on IBM AIX, Sun

Solaris, Linux (RedHat,Suse) and Windows environment, IBM HTTP Server, Netscape

Enterprise Server, Apache, Good experience of system administration in IBM AIX, Linux, Sun

Solaris & Windows environments

Worked on IBM HARDWARE Power Systems, B80,p670,p690,p550,p570,p595, Power6

p570,595, Power7, 770,795, HMC v5/7, NIM, IBM Systems Director, VIOS v1.5,2.1,2.2, EMC

VMAX,DMX3,DMX4,Clariion,Celerra, Netbackup, Oracle 9/10/11, ASM, RAC, HACMP,

HOBBIES

Soccer, Volley ball, Table Tennis, Squash

Experience:

Btmg info, Chicago, IL Jan 2013 to Apr 2014

Aix Administrator

This project involves Installation and Training.

Responsibilities:

1) Installed 4 VIO servers (2 pairs) with NPIV and LPM functionality of clients.

2) Installed 2 VIO clients leveraging NPIV and GPFS on the same VIO pairs and provided

documentation.

3) Validated VIO clients LPM and GPFS portability.

4) Recovered a VIO pair after clients have been configured to simulate DR and provide

documentation.

Provided Power 770 Server Implementation Services.

Conduct a planning session with customer to define the Logical Partition (LPAR) configurations

and developed an AIX/LPAR.

Upgrade Hardware Management Console (HMC) firmware and software to current levels.

Configured as many as twenty four (60) Logical Partitions in total, some as Virtual IO servers

(VIO).

Create standard file systems, Licensed Program file systems, and client identified file systems and

logical volumes.

AIX partition on the servers designated as a Network Install Manager (NIM) servers.

IBM, Austin, Texas April 2011 - Nov 2012

Systems Engineer

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.

Ø PRODUCTION TEST SUPPORT

AND

Ø RESOLVING PROD ISSUES

Ø RESOLVING TEST ISSUES

Ø DR MONITORING

Ø SETTING VIO

UP SERVERS

Ø INSTALLATION MIGRATION

Ø Setting up VIO Server through HMC version 7 and creating Profiles to create partitions.

Ø Installed VIO server Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM P6 System. Assigned

resources by making six partitions LPAR client of VIO server and clients installation

Environment:

IBM-SVC, SAN, NFS, AIX, p6-series and p5-series 595, 590, 570, 550 and RS 6000 machines,

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

CLARiiON, Brocade, McDATA, CISCO, Emulex, Qlogic, mksysb, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

( TSM).

Zurich, Schaumburg, IL. Jul 2009 – Mar 2011

AIX Administrator /Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Major tasks of 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.

Ø Responsible for Installation, Configuration Management, Maintenance and Systems

Development of AIX Systems.

Ø Configured IBM p6-series and p5-series 595, 590, 570, 550 and RS 6000 machines for

production and test environments

Ø Responsible for the operation, maintenance and integrity of a distributed, networked AIX

based environment

Ø Tested and configured AIX 5.3 on P 570 hardware with different applications.

Ø Tested DUAL VIOserver redundancy

Ø Tested performance of LPAR under various memory & processor settings.

Ø 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.

Ø Build countless VIOS and LPAR’s on p-series p550, p570, p590, p780. Configuration and

installation.

Ø Responsible for creating LPAR/DLPAR/VIO.

Ø Installed, configured and tested VIOS

Ø Installed, configured and tested Logical Partitions technology (LPARS).

Ø Installed VIO server Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM P6 System. Assigned

resources by making six partitions LPAR client of VIO server and clients Installation.

Ø Configured advanced virtualization (POWER5, POWER6) features WPAR, DLPAR,

Micro-partitioning, Virtual Ethernet, PLM and LPM.

Ø Performed Live Partition Mobility

Ø On call 24 x 7 production support

Ø Responsible for upgrading the operating and system software and keeping patches

current

Ø Responsible for Planning, Installation, configuration, administration and trouble

shooting of IBM's p series of AIX servers

Creation of logical partitions using LPAR/DLPAR and installation of AIX in p5-p590, 595 series

of servers thru HMC.

Ø Configured, deployed and maintained VIO servers, VIO clients, LPAR, NIM, and HMC

Ø Modified and customized shell script that collects system data from the source servers for

logging and documentation purpose.

Ø Installing OS on VIO clients using NIM Server

Ø Daily tasks of adding and removing user accounts, backing up programs, maintaining

system database files and maintain the project servers.

Ø Designed, developed and managed backup and recovery policies and procedures

Ø Extensively used LVM, created VGs, LVs, and disk management.

Ø Excellent on SAN and NAS configuration

Ø 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.

Environment: SAN, NAS, NetApp, IBM-SVC, 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.

Perot systems, Lake forest, CA. Jan2007 – Jun2009

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Configured IBM RS/6000, pSeries boxes such as p550,p570, p520, and p610 machines for

production, staging and test environments.

Ø Installation and configuration of NIM master server and clients.

Ø Support weekly applications re-start and scheduled maintenance

Ø Managing and monitoring disk space and disaster recovery environments

Ø Creating lppsource and SPOT for client on NIM server.

Ø Installing OS on NIM clients using NIM Server.

Ø Setting up VIO Server through HMC version 7 and creating Profiles to create partitions.

Ø Installed VIO client partitions using the NIM server to load AIX images.

Ø Backing up VIO server in case of disaster recovery.

Ø Worked with IBM General Parallel File Systems (GPFS) and Solaris Logical Domains

(LDOMs)

Ø 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

Ø 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.

Ø Analyzing System Dump Generation and sending System Dump to AIX System Support

Center.

Ø Daily roles included dealing with LVM extensively.

Ø Migrated HACMP 4.5 to HACMP 5.2.

Ø Perform User Account management, data backups, and users logon support.

Ø Experience in querying, modifying data and managing databases in SQL.

Ø Develop Shell scripts (Korn) for automating the batch jobs.

Ø Experience in installation and maintenance of SAP on AIX Servers.

Ø SAP Installation on AIX 5.x platform.

Ø Performing Failovers in HACMP cluster environment, monitoring servers. Ø

Performed installation, periodic maintenance updates and applied APAR fixes.

Ø Defined and setup network printers, and install client/server applications. Define/setup

network protocols, Network File Services (NFS), and Network Information Services

(NIS).

Environment: NAS, Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), 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.

NY Life Corp Alpharetta, GA Oct 2005 – Dec 2006

AIX Administrator / Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Ø IBM AIX 5.x System installation and configuration, problem determination, maintenance,

backup and troubleshooting.

Ø Install, configure and maintain AIX on IBM RS6000 and p5series servers.

Ø Good support for installing and troubleshooting LPAR, VIO server and client and all P5 and

RS/6000 servers using all installation methods.

Ø Installation and configuration of LPARs with AIX 5.3 on p5 servers

Ø Upgraded the OS level patches/LPARs to the systems to make sure they are current.

Ø Installation of patches, APARs on AIX, Linux and Windows Servers.

Ø Performed routine checks on nodes by monitoring syslogs and error logs for system and

hardware errors.

Ø Performed the daily system administration tasks like managing system resources, writing

scripts, and end users support, operations and security.

Ø Configured SSH for secure telnet and FTP connections.

Ø Performed User Account management, data backups, and users logon support.

Ø Managed Logical volumes, filesystems, paging space issues.

Ø 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.

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