Praveen

An IT Professional with * years of IT Experience in System

Administration, Technical support, maintenance, upgrades, installation,

configuration, and tuning of AIX & Unix operating systems.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

* Experienced in installation, configuration, administration,

troubleshooting, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of

IBM AIX, Linux Servers.

* Experience in Administration of AIX 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1 and 7.1

* Experience in Installation of patches, packages and application

software.

* Migration of AIX OS from AIX 5.3 to 6.1 on Servers

510,550,570,595,630, 670,720,740,750,770.

* Experience in configuration and maintenance of NFS, DNS, NIS/NIS+,

DHCP, SMTP, and Networking with TCP/IP.

* Experience in DNS, NIS, NFS, LDAP, send mail, ftp, remote access,

security management, and system troubleshooting skills.

* Administration of weekly mksysb backup on AIX servers.

* Have worked on implementing SAN attached storage to Windows servers

connected to EMC.

* Experienced with installing the operating system and applications on

AIX 5.2/5.3 using NIM installation method by creating NIM master and

client with lppsource and spot.

* Experience in UNIX Network System Administration including creating

new users and groups with multi-level of security, creating and

assigning file attributes and permissions, defining network protocols

insuring TCP/IP and router connectivity.

* Experienced in installation and Configuring VIO 2.1, 2.2.

* Good knowledge in User account administration, adding/creating

devices, patching, setting up cron jobs, UNIX backup/restore and

changing kernel parameters.

* Experience in writing scripts like Korn Shell (ksh).

* Experienced and familiar with tools like SMIT and SMITTY.

* Experienced in installing new software on AIX 4.3/5.2/5.3/6.1 Boxes,

Upgrading the technology level, adding network printers and conducting

time-to-time system administration.

* Experience in configuring Logical Unit Number (LUN) in SAN environment

having IBM Total storage DS 4300, EMC.

* Hands on Experience of Installation of Communication Mediums (Fiber

Opt, GbE, E1/T1/DS1) Network Management System, Intelligent Switching.

* Have worked in the Environment AIX 7.1/6.1/5.3/5.2, Solaris, Linux,

Windows, IBM 3585storage, IBM DS8100.

* Day to day administration of the Development, Production and Test

environment systems.

* Customer services and technical skills as well as the ability to

communicate effectively with all levels of management and the client

community.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

JP Morgan Chase, Columbus, OH

October 2012 - Present UNIX/AIX SAS

System ADMIN - L2

* Supporting and configuring IBM p6-(550, 570), p7- (720, 740) servers

running IBM AIX 6.1.

* Expertise in creating and managing Dual Virtual I/O servers with SEA,

MPIO and LINK aggregation

* Setup scripts for NIM backups, performance monitoring, capturing

periodic application and system report and various other automation

tasks.

* Installed 20+ AIX 6.1 images on virtual clients LPARs using NIM

master.

* Installation/Migration, Standard/ Extended Configuration of HACMP 5.5

(High Availability Clustering Multi-Processing) and Post

Implementation Tasks including Testing/Verification and synchronizing

cluster.

* Installation, configuration and upgrade of GPFS 3.3, 3.4 (General

Parallel File system) on Application server.

* Remotely access of the File Systems on the NFS Client through NFS

Server.

* Troubleshooting of the system boot errors, installation errors and

related to the TCP/IP problem.

* Worked with the Application and Network teams to analyze and solve

performance related problems.

* Improved development and implementation of the procedures by analyzing

and execution of the test plans and developing the system

documentation.

* Installation of Components through Blade Logic Console.

* Define/setup network protocols, Network File Services (NFS), and

Network Information Services (NIS).

* Performance Management & Tuning of AIX/UNIX Kernel.

* Secured the internet services with TCP/IP wrappers.

* Network trouble shooting, performance, and resource monitoring.

* Maintaining updated documentation of all the Servers and the installed

applications.

* Experience in analyzing logs, problem determination, and Recovery and

restart.

* Applying software maintenance, program fixes and maintaining the

system software releases current.

* Building automated scripts for taking the HMC, VIO and Lpar backup.

* Knowledge in installing EMC Master Agent ECC (EMC Control Center).

* Administration of the SAS Products like SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS

Enterprise Miner, SAS Management console, SAS Metadata Servers on UNIX

(AIX) servers.

* Installation of SAS versions V9.2, V9.3 both on the server and client

(PC users).

* Updating SAS licenses, applying SAS hot fix patches on UNIX

environment, fix existing bugs and to keep the SAS BI Server

environment up and running and bug free.

* Ensuring the smooth workflow of the SAS products on UNIX(AIX)

Environment.

AIG, VICOMNET, Livingston, NJ

January 2012 - October 2012 UNIX/AIX System

ADMIN-L2

* Responsible for all aspects of AIX System Administration and support

for pSeries on P6 550's, 570's, P7 p720, p740, p750, p770 servers.

Which includes OS installation and upgrade, OS problem resolution,

application of OS fixes installation of application.

* Installation, maintenance and administration of AIX 6.1, 7.1 on

pSeries servers.

* Disk Management including migrating partitions, replacing disk,

mirroring, unmirroring the disk.

* File systems management including file system corruption check in

maintenance mode.

* Installed and configured VIO2.2 server and VIO client Profiles.

* Responsible for installation and Firmware Upgrading of HMC.

* Administering and troubleshooting of AIX HACMP Cluster.

* Extensive use of LVM, creating Volume Groups, Logical volumes.

* Installation and Configuration of NIM. Configuring the NIM Master and

assigning the clients. Taking the mksysb's of the NIM client on the

NIM Master.

* System administration including user, system & group management,

system updates, performance monitoring, backup/recovery, disk &

storage management.

* Software, administration of user accounts, system configuration,

troubleshooting, system monitoring, system tuning, security updates,

hardware maintenance, disk usage maintenance etc..

* Predefined and Customized Volume Group management on AIX.

* Configuration and administration of Live Partition Mobility (LPM) on

P6, P7 servers.

M&T BANK, Buffalo, NY

August 2011 - December 2011 UNIX/AIX System Admin -L1

* Experienced in configuring IBM P5 to p7 series servers. Extensively

worked on p 6 550's, 570's P 7 p720, p740, p770 server.

* Knowledge on Installation, Migration, Configuring AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3,

6.1 and 7.1.

* Responsible for the operation, maintenance and integrity of a

distributed, networked AIX based environment.

* Good hands on NIM installation, setting up NIM servers, clients,

Alternate Disk Migration, defining the resources.

* Knowledge in configuring multiple logical subsystems utilizing IBM

HMC, including LPAR configuration, dynamically change DLPARs

configuration profiles, resource allocation with thresholds.

* Installation, Configuration and administration of LPAR Profiles.

* Assigning Resources like memory, processors to LPAR Dynamically.

* Installation and administration of VIO 2.2 Server and VIO client

Profiles.

* Handled mirroring and unmirroring using Logical Volume Manager (LVM).

* Experience in installing the components like Big Brother, Power

Broker, Power keeper, Blade Logic.

* Knowledge in installing EMC Master Agent ECC (EMC Control Center).

* Performed User Account Management and user's logon support.

* Installed and configured SUDO for users to access the root privileges.

* AIX system administration and disk management using SMIT.

* Restoring the server from the mksysb image and bringing up the server

* Experienced in Installation, maintenance and Patching AIX & Linux

Servers.

* Responsible for installation and Upgrading the HMC.

* Networking service, performance and resource monitoring.

* Designed and Implemented System Security administration policies.

* Evaluated performance and resource problems (sar, vmstat, iostat,

netstat).

* Time to Time Support of Applications running on the AIX Servers.

* Day to Day monitoring of Systems with Remedy Incident Management and

Change management System for handling tickets and Work order.

Industekgrp LLC, Atlanta, GA

Jan 2011 - Aug 2011 AIX System Administrator

* Experienced in implementation, installation, configuration,

maintenance, performance tuning, trouble shooting and user management

in IBM AIX System.

* Experience in installation, configuration, and administration of IBM

AIX, Linux, RHEL and Solaris servers.

* Installed and configured IBM p5, p6, p7 595s, 570s, p505s, p550s, and

p520s with AIX 5.3/6.1, HMC + AIX LPARS development, test, and

production environments on RS/6000, Power systems/pSeries5/pSeries4

and in a multi-LPAR environment.

* Responsible for taking system backups mksysb, mkcd, savevg and

savevgcd; also make system backup through NIM, making archives of

files and folders.

* Worked in configuring HMCs in privet network, updating HMC to latest

level, upgrading firmware on the systems using HMC.

* Setup Virtual I/O server and configured different LPARS per CPU.

* Experience in Installation and configuration of NIS/NIS+, NFS, DNS,

NTP, Auto mounts, Send mail and Print servers.

* Designed and implemented SAN infrastructure and SAN Virtualization.

* Experience in Installing, configuring and maintaining Web Sphere

Application Server and DB2 Server.

* Experienced in Configuration of Work Load Management (WLM) for IBM Web

Sphere Application Server.

* Experience in configuring Logical Unit Number (LUN) in SAN environment

having IBM Total storage DS 4300, DS800, and EMC.

* Involved in planning and configuring SAN storage (Tivoli Storage

Manager) and assign storage to servers as required.

* Managed Global Mirroring of data between different storage devices for

disaster recovery.

* Experience in analyzing logs, problem determination, and Recovery and

restart.

* Applying software maintenance, program fixes and maintaining the

system software releases current.

SWA, India

July

2006- December 2008

Jr. System Administrator

* Performed customized installation and configuration on

AIX/Solaris/RHEL.

* Installation and Administration of Linux servers and IBM RS/6000.

* Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes

for file system growth using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands.

* Determined and troubleshoot problems related to Software installation,

hardware problems, Disk-space requirements, file system problems,

paging space and also device related problems.

* Setup backup/archive policies using mksysb images of root volume group

to meet data archiving requirements and disaster recovery readiness.

* Maintaining and monitoring the file systems on AIX servers.

* Maintaining and monitoring the file systems on AIX (5.1/5.2./5.3)

servers.

* Monitored Systems performance and tuning tools.

* Experienced in setting up TCP/IP for the servers and work station.

* Created file systems; manage the integrity of file systems.

* Monitored system resource usage; performed backup and recovery

routines.

* Configured Network printers, Managing Queues and troubleshooting.

EDUCATION

V Bachelor of Electronic and Communication Engineering

SJB Institute of Technology, Bangalore, INDIA (2003 -2007)

V Masters in Computer Engineering,

New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA (2009-

2010)

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