Manager System Administrator

Robert Chukrallah cell: 732-***-****

** ****** ****** ****: 908-***-****

Somerset, NJ 08873 E-mail: ***********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE:

Utilize my expertise and experience for an I.T. permanent position or long

term contract.

EXPERIENCE:

Apr 04 - Present

Citigroup, Inc., Warren, New Jersey

Senior System Administrator for a mixed of AIX, HP and SUN

environment.

. Performing team lead activities such as supervising the ticketing

system and interacting with clients and the rest of the SA team to

make sure the requests are met within the set deadline.

. Supporting over 25 AIX LPAR servers: duties include creating

filesystems, installing software packages and patches, checking

server's performance and configuring network settings.

. Using HMC to create and configure the AIX LPAR to add CPUs and

memory according to the build sheet specification

. Working on a project to migrate SUN servers to Solaris 10

. Upgrading the HP servers from HP-UX 10.20 to HP-UX 11.0 and 11.11

. Working with users on upgrading their HP/SUN servers to faster CPUs

and more memory

. Decommissioning the old SUN and HP servers and replace with more

powerful AIX servers

. Maintain and administer an NIS environment of more than 300 SUN

servers

. Writing shell scripts to run a global package installation for more

than 50 servers

. Upgrade the hardware for the SUN servers with new I/O boards and

Emulex cards to connect with EMC disks

. Building an ignite server for the HP servers

. Upgrading the HP servers to HP-UX 11.11

. Installing and maintaining the e-trust SeoS/KeON software on the

AIX and HP servers

Jun 02 - Apr 04

Pfizer, Inc., Morris Plains, New Jersey

SA team leader, providing support for clients and end-users in a SUN

and HP environment.

. Used LVM and Veritas Volume Manager to partition XP512 and EMC

disks for HP and SUN platforms

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. Setup/configure BCV backups using Legato

. Shell scripting

. Management of HP Openview

. Installed Oracle and SAP

. Used Maestro to schedule batch and BCV backup jobs

. Administered ITO and Network Node Manager

. Configured ITO modules, osspi and dbspi to monitor filesystem and

oracle table space capacity

. Installed JumpStart server under Sun Solaris 8. Managed license

server for third-party software

. Installed peripherals, such as printers, terminals, modems, SCSI

terminal servers

. Installed and configured Ignite for HP Servers

. Kernel Tuning and Troubleshooting of UNIX

. Performed Installation and patch upgrade in OS for HP-UX and SUN

Solaris

. Installed, configured and administered HA cluster, using

ServiceGuard and VCS

. Wrote procedures for disaster and recovery on HP and SUN platforms

. Performed daily backup, using OmniBack and Legato Networker. Some

backup jobs run through Maestro, others run through cron or Legato

schedule

. Extensive knowledge of Sun Fire and their System Controllers.

Setting up Domains for different boards

. Performed backup and restore, using Legato Networker and OmniBack

. Evaluated, install and support UNIX security products and IDS

(Intrusion Detection Systems), e.g. SeOS/eTrust

. Extensive work in Change Control and Change Management. Support and

maintain validated machines.

. Validated as per FDA standard the newly installed systems before

rolling them into production

. Oracle DBAs: Work with and find ways to enhance the system

performance through spindle partitioning, the most optimum solution

to prevent I/O bottleneck

. HP hardware platforms: Superdome, V class, L, N 4000 and RP's

. SUN hardware platforms: Sun Fire 6800, V880, 3800, 280R

Jul 96 - Jun 02

Hewlett-Packard and AT&T, Middletown, New Jersey

Senior UNIX System Administrator

. Designed disaster recovery plans for the production sites.

. Configured an Ignite server for their 100 plus servers and

workstations.

. Installed, configured and administered more than 10 systems with

high availability cluster using Service-Guard and LVM.

. Designed Virtual Partitions for Superdome machines to optimize

solution for variety of testing, development and production

environments.

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. Partitioned and mirrored disks, using LVM-Mirror-UX.

. Installed and configured printer, using Jetadmin

. Extended Journal filesystems for users on production servers

without interruption (On-Line-JFS)

. Installed, configured and administered Omni-Back 4.x and 3.x to

back up over 150 GB of data

. Performed troubleshooting on defects in the operating system

. Analyzed memory core dump, using Q4 to find out the cause of

system panic

. Worked with HP developers in California to fix certain OS problems

. Represented Hewlett-Packard during escalation meetings with AT&T

client

. Used NNM and ITO to monitor system performance and filesystem

capacity

. Worked with a team on an escalation that lasted up to seven months.

The problem rendered from a design flaw in software called x25 that

manifested itself to system panic and communication failure

Apr 95 - Jul 96

Johnson & Johnson, Bridgewater, New Jersey

Senior UNIX System Administrator for HP and SUN servers

. Partitioned EMC disks using LVM and Veritas Volume Manager for HP

and SUN servers

. Worked on validated servers and met all FDA requirements

. Supported and maintained UNIX servers connected to EMC storage

. Installed HP-UX 10.20, 11.0 and Sun Solaris 6 Operating Systems

. Kernel tuned servers for optimum performance

. Partitioned and mirrored disks using Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

and Veritas Volume Manager

. Tuned UNIX system for Oracle

. Installed and configured printers (Troubleshoot)

. Performed nightly backup of all the data and the Oracle Database

Jun 94 - Apr 95

ARMS Consulting Inc., Edison, New Jersey

System Administrator for HP and SUN servers

. Worked on a project that consisted of a Client/Server application

in a UNIX environment using proprietary software development tools.

. Participated in the migration of an Account Management System

(Sales and Marketing) from the IBM AS/400 platform to the UNIX-

based system

. Maintained the system and managed its peripheral devices, monitored

file-system use and growth

. Performed nightly and daily backup

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Sep 90 - May 94

Data Center of Middlesex County College, Edison, New Jersey

System Administrator/Teacher Assistant

. Tutored classes in UNIX and Computer Science related subjects

. Assisted students in writing shell scripts on a UNIX platform

EDUCATION:

B.A. in Computer Science, Rutgers University, N.J. May 1990

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Rutgers University, NJ. May 1994

Hardware:

HP-9000, SUN, IBM-RS6000, PC's and Compatibles, UNIX Workstations, CISCO

Routers and Switches, Hewlett-Packard printers.

Software:

HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Linux, Shell, LVM, Veritas Volume Manager, C,

GlancePlus, ServiceGuard, VCS, NIS/DNS, OmniBack, Legato Networker, ITO,

NNM, Maestro, Oracle, SAP and Windows.

References are available upon request

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