Management Manager

Firasat Khan

***********@*****.***

Ph: 347-***-****

Summary:

. Over 6 years of experience in technical support and maintenance of

UNIX Systems

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

. Expertise in the OS Upgrade from 5.3 to 6.1 and 7.1

. Installation and configuration of NIM master server and clients

. Expertise in Planning, Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of

VIO Servers for versions 1.5, 2.1, 2.2

. Migration of AIX OS from 4.3.3 to 5.1, 5.1, 5.2 to 5.3 and 5.3 to 6.1

on pSeries servers

. Migration of AIX Systems from old p4, p5 to p6 hardware

. Experience working on P550, P560, P590, P595, P570, P575, P750, P770

. Experience in working with Live Partition Mobility to perform

migration from one frame to another

. Experience in MICRO-PARTITIONING on P series servers

. VMware Infrastructure 3.x Installation & Configuration

. Responsible for managing and maintaining the company's VMware virtual

infrastructure

. Configuration of HACMP 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 as well as performing

failover and falback of HACMP Clusters on a regular basis as per the

application requirement

. Migration of HACMP from version 4.5 to 5.1

. Installation, administration and configuration of VIO Server and VIO

client LPAR'S through HMC

. Experience in performing DLPAR on VIO servers

. Experience in working with Shared Ethernet Adapter, Link Aggregation

and NPIV concepts associated with VIO server technology

. Installed DB2, Web Sphere Application Servers on Linux and AIX

. Extensive experience with LVM, NIM, User & System Resource Management,

Job Scheduling and Paging Space Management

. Experience in creating CRON jobs to automate various system

administration tasks using Crontab Utility

. Experienced and familiar with tools like SMIT, configured public

network with mktcpip and backup network with smitty chinet

. Have a strong knowledge of Korn, Shell and Perl Scripting

. Installing new software on AIX 4.3/5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1 Boxes, Upgrading

the Maintenance Levels as per application requirement

. Experienced in monitoring system performance and check the status of

the system using utilities such as TOPAS, GLANCE, NMON, VMSTAT,

IOSTAT, etc

. Periperal Experience in EMC Storage Arrays, ADIC tape libraries,

Veritas Netbackup.

. Experienced in configuring SSH, DNS, NIS, NFS, LDAP, FTP and sendmail.

. Excellent presentation, analytical, documentation and interpersonal

communication skills.

. Worked 24X7 and on-call in production support and trouble shooting on

AIX pSeries servers.

. Good working knowledge on IBM HACMP 5.x and NIM Master and Clients.

. Experience in migration from AIX 4.3.3 to 5.3 TL6

. Performance and fine-tuning, Applying patches and fixes.

. Installed, configured and supported Web Sphere Application Server, IBM

HTTP/ Apache Web Servers in AIX and Linux environments. Good knowledge

of Samba server.

. Strong scripting knowledge (Perl, ksh, bash) to perform administration

and automation tasks.

Technical Expertise

Operating IBM AIX (4.3,5.1,5.2,5.3,6.1,7.1), Red Hat Linux (RHEL

Systems: 3/4/5), Linux 6/7/8.x (Redhat, SUSE), Sun Solaris7/8.x,

Windows 2000/NT4.0

Hardware: IBM RS/6000, p5 520,560,561,570,590,595 p6 570,590 p7

750,770 IBM Blade Server JS20,JS21 SUN E-3000/4000, HP

9000/750, Symmetrix DMX 800/1000 / DMX-2 / DMX-3 & EMC

CLARiiON FC and CX series

Storage Area: Fiber Channel SAN, SCSI, SSA.

Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, SMTP,

RDBMS: DB2, Oracle 8.0, 9i

Programming C++, Java, Java Servlets, EJB, VB, JavaScript, HTML, XHTML,

Languages: DHTML Perl and Shell programming.

Education: Bachelor of Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological

University, India.

Certification:

[IBM[pic]Certified-p-Series AIX System Administration]

1 Professional Experience

Lowes, NC May' 12

- Present

AIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

. Responsible for regular & enhanced Migration of AIX p5, p6, p7 series

servers from one data center to another and migrations within the data

center which also included using Live Partition Mobility.

. Created and configured standard and Virtual I/O LPARs, managing

resources, patching, upgrading, monitoring, performance/tuning and

problem determination/resolution

. Responsible for servicing trouble-ticket requests, 3rd-party software

installation, and user support, in a homogeneous AIX

5.1/5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1 environments.

. Experience with EMC VMAX or DMX storage devices, hardware setup /

configuration and troubleshooting.

. Experience with EMC Symmetrix enterprise-class storage.

. Hands-on experience with RAID levels, EMC TimeFinder BCV and

replication methods.

. Active participation in project planning and deployment

. Implemented virtualization using VMware Infrastructure 3

. Upgraded VMware Infrastructure 3 to VMware vSphere 4.

. Revised and automated daily and weekly backups using VMware VCB

Backup, Windows backup and shell scripts.

. Experience in working with Shared Ethernet Adapter, Link Aggregation

and NPIV concepts associated with VIO server technology

. Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes

for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

commands.

. Performed installation, periodic maintenance updates

. Configured backup/archive policies using ADSM utility and mksysb

images of root volume group to meet data archiving requirements and

disaster recovery readiness.

. Configured rules for system security, maintenance updates and system

failure alerts.

. Experience in creating and installing standalone client LPAR and VIO

client LPAR using HMC.Performing upgrades applying fixes, patches and

APARS to the lpars.

. AIX Migration from AIX 5.1/5.2 to AIX 5.3 and 5.3 to 6.1.

. Responsible for Remote AIX Support for more than 1250 servers.

. Installed racked and configured IBM pseries p4/p5/p6/p7 (p570, p561,

p560, p550, 710, 740 and 770.) for production, staging and test

environments.

. Installation and configuration of LPAR's with AIX 5.3 on p5 servers.

. Responsible for performance monitoring using AIX utilities and nmon,

Site view.

. Performed HACMP failover and failback as per the user's requirement.

. Experience of configuring 4 nodes cluster with multiple RG

configuration.

. Extensive working experience on LVM. Creating VG, LV and FS.

. Upgrading and updating TL, APAR and patches on AIX 5.2/5.3.

. Perform User Account management, data backups, and users' logon

support.

. Installation and configuration of NIM master server and clients.

. Creating lpp source and SPOT for client on NIM server.

. Experience of upgrading and updating p550 and p570 systems and devices

firmware using HMC..

. Performed installation, periodic maintenance updates and applied APAR

fixes.

. AIX systems administration and Disk Management.

. Upgraded and upgrading HMC from version 6 to 7.

. Installed and configured Sudo for users to access the root privileges.

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

Network Information Services (NIS). Provided support by 24x7 shift

rotation basis and pager support.

General Motors, MI

May '11 - Apr '12

UNIX/AIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

. Worked as AIX System Admin with IBM P-series Model servers in an HACMP

environment.

. Experience with Red Hat build methodologies, performance tuning,

memory management, server maintenance and troubleshooting

. Actively participated in transitions plans during change of Vendor

Account and Client.

. Coordinated in planning, documentation preparation and transfer during

transitions.

. Developed workplace communication skills and refine behavior skills

during transitions

. Project lead of the Tivoli Monitoring Project. Configured and

installed Tivoli Monitoring 6.2 on IBM's AIX server to monitor AIX

operating system, WebSphere, SOA Applications

. Responsible for installation and maintenance of 5.1,5.2,5.3,6.1 AIX

servers

. Installation of patches, packages on AIX, and Windows NT/2000 Servers.

. Adding network printers and conducting day-to-day system

administration, including backup/recovery in NAS environments.

. Installation, Administration and configuration of LPAR's with AIX 5L

on p5 servers

. Experience of creating and installing standard LPAR and VIO client

LPAR using HMC

. Installation, configuration and administration of IBM Web Sphere

Application Server V4.0, on AIX along with DB2 UDB & IBM HTTP server

with SSL for secure communication & providing technical support to

users

. IBM RS/6000 SP System Software Maintenance AIX System Dump Generation

and sending System Dump to AIX System Support Center.

. Network management of TCP/IP networks, IP address management.

. Performing upgrades of OS and applications.

. Tested products for evaluation purposes and documented for necessary

changes required as per environment

. Korn & C shell scripting, mainly for scheduling jobs (CRONTAB)

. Inventory management for Software and Hardware.

. Disk Replacement Strategy on AIX.

. Logical Volume Management (LVM) of AIX.

. Ensure required daemons are monitored

. Ensure cpu/memory thresholds are accurate

. Managing the user accounts creation, locking, deletion of old accounts

. Review Disaster Recovery Documentation for Mission Critical and

Business Vital Servers

. Monitoring paths for the disks and replacing the disk for a dead path.

. Installed Tivoli Storage Management on the client boxes configured

opt and sys files

. Worked with backups and restores using TSM and NETBACKUP

. Ensured mksysb and sysback are taken

. Ensure documentation is current and accurate

. Performance Management & Tuning of AIX UNIX Kernel

. Security, users and groups administration

. Provided support by 24x7 shift rotation basis and pager support

. Monitored trouble ticket queue to attend user and system calls.

. Attended team meetings, change control meetings to update installation

progress, and for upcoming changes in environment.

Kohl's, WI

Jul' 10 - Apr'11

AIX /System Administrator

Responsibilities:

. Worked as Systems in-charge for the servers running in Production

environment comprising IBM, Sun and HP servers.

. Used the LVM extensively; Created/Modified/Deleted Volume Groups,

Logical Volumes and Filesystems; Added/Removed physical disks;

Mirrored Volume Groups and Logical Volumes.

. Created korn shell scripts to create filesystems, take backup of

filesystems

. Built/upgraded Power4 and Power5 servers with NIM.

. Installed Hp Unix and Red Hat Linux

. Planned and performed LVM changes on 60+ TB environments such as LV

extensions and FS expansion based on the layouts provided by the

application (DBA) team.

. Migrated AIX 5.1 power4 servers to AIX 5.2 through NIM

alt_disk_install.

. Upgraded Maintenance level on AIX 5.2/5.3 production and development

servers on weekend maintenance windows.

. Build DB2 nodes (AIX servers) with IBM BCU (Balance Configuration

Unit) specifications, and customized spec to suit environment needs.

. Patched DB2 servers by installing latest fix packs and special builds.

. Installed, configured, customized Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) on a

six BCU node cluster. Created numerous resource groups for NFS, TSM,

and DB2 host servers.

. Performed periodic firmware upgrades on pSeries production and

development systems.

. Implemented VIO on P5 595 server on production and test environments,

and performed load test to ensure optimum system performance during

heavy loads on VI/O supplied resources.

. Provided level 3 supports in production environment and resolved

production issues escalated by the UNIX production support team.

. Tested and installed various patches (Fix Packs) on the servers to

solve the problems encountered by the applications running on the

servers

. Setup NIS in a multi-platform UNIX environment.

. Setup NFS between IBM, SUN, HP and SGI workstations and servers.

. Setup NFS between IBM RS/6000 server and NT server.

. Network trouble shooting using 'ndd ', 'netstat', 'ifconfig' etc.

. Filesystem corruption check.

. Userid and Group management.

. User Management Services.

. Installation and Administration of TIVOLI Service Desk

. Document installation procedures, changes required in present

environment.

. Managing cron jobs, at Jobs, batch processing and job scheduling

. Configured automatic system backup schedules

Citizens Bank, RI May'08-

Jun'10

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

. Responsible for installation and maintenance of 4.3, 5.1 AIX servers

. Set up and configured RS6000 (AIX) servers; troubleshoot conflicts

with existing hardware and software; troubleshoot network

connectivity.

. Planned and executed upgrading, patching of RS6000 (AIX) servers

. Disk Management on AIX using SMIT

. Logical Volume Management (LVM) of AIX.

. Created LV's and Filesystems using SMIT.

. Performed user management per the requirements which also included

working on permissions and adding/deleting users from groups and

servers.

. Escalation of issues to Level 3 Administrators as part of the ticket

escalation procedure.

. Test and install various patches (Fix Packs) on the servers to solve

the problems encountered by the applications running on the servers.

. Specifying and procuring new AIX systems, hardware and software

upgrades and peripherals.

. Installed AIX on P series servers

. Worked with IBM P-series 660 690, 7028-6c4 7017-S85 Model servers in

an HACMP environment.

. Installed Red Hat Linux and HP Unix on multiple servers.

. Created and used korn shell scripts to install multiple fixes and

patches

. Ensured the Systems and Data online, offline, archived Backups on

Daily and weekly Basis.

. Capacity planning of disk space and hardware resources required for

production and developments.

. Experience in handling trouble-ticket of requests, 3rd-party software

installation, and user support, in a homogeneous AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3

environment

. Created and configured logical partitions (LPAR) on IBM p690 systems.

. Experience working on Hardware management consoles (HMC)

. Experience on updating and applying security fixes and patches.

. Doing 24/7 pagers on call support duties on a rotation basis with

other System Administrators. Managed Logical volume and Paging space

and file systems.

. Performance tuning of production machines by upgrading their hardware.

. Experience in migration from AIX 4.3.3 to 5.2.

. Installed Tivoli Enterprise products Workload scheduler and Enterprise

manager.

. Taking Backup (fullback up/incremental backup) and restoring using

Tivoli.

. Doing 24/7 pager duties on a rotation basis with other System

Administrators.

. Installed and configured ESM client software on the servers

. Installed Tivoli Enterprise products Workload scheduler and Enterprise

manager.

Apgenco Ltd, India

Jul' 06 - Feb'08

IT Engineer

Responsibilities:

. Upgrade a Windows NT 4.0 multi domain organization to Windows 2000

active directory structure.

. Evaluate and install computer hardware, networking software and

operating system software.

. Operate master consoles to monitor the performance of computer systems

and Networks.

. Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations.

. Provide problem-solving services to network users.

. Create and administer users on the NetWare 6.0 servers via a Windows

Terminal Server client.

. Mapping Search Drives and Home Directories.

. Traffic flow analysis.

. Configuring and testing of 2600 series Cisco Routers.

. (Dell XPS systems, desktops, and printers)

. Dealing with hardware problems and OS related issues.

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