SAJJAD SHAKOOR HASHIMI 1+720-***-**** (Cell)

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Leander, TX 78641, United States of America ac2aln@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER OBJECTIVES Looking for a challenging position related to IT Operations, Security and Management.

EDUCATION Bachelors of Science in Computer Science. December 16th, 94.

Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Oklahoma.

HARDWARE RISC/6000, IBM pSeries – 4,5,6,7,8, IBM xSeries – 330,335,336, IBM Blade Center servers - H, J, IBPS/2, VAXII/785, HP RX/700, Apple, Dell PowerEdge, EMC – Symmetrix DMX-4, CLARiiON, VMAX Storage Systems, IBM – ESS800, DS4000, DS8000, DS8100 Model E, F Storage Systems, IBM – XIV Gen2, 3 Storage Systems, SPARC Enterprise M5000 Server, SPARC Enterprise M9000, M8000, M5000 Server, Hitachi Unified Storage VM (HUS VM)

OPERATING SYSTEMS IBM AIX 3.x/4.x/5.x/6.1/7.1, MS-Windows 3.x/4.0/95/98/2000/NT/XP/7, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, IBM OS/2, Red Hat Linux AS/ES/WS 3/4/5/6 Solaris 10/11, HP UNIX

APPLICATIONS IBM PowerVM, CA Unicenter, CA Spectrum, VMware vSphere 4/5, Lotus Notes 4/5/6/7, BladeLogic 7, EMC SRDF, EMC powermt, EMC PPME, BMC Remedy, HP OpenView, Tivoli Storage Manager, Commvault, CA AutoSys, Oracle, Sybase, IBM DB2, IBM HACMP, MS-Office, Serena Business Manager, CA Nimsoft, Ceridian, SAP, IBM Endpoint Manager / BigFix, Python, Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, AWS, JIRA, Confluence, Cloud Computing, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Planview, Zenoss, Slack, OKTA

PROFESSIONAL CERTIICATIONS IBM® Certified AIX System Administrator

IBM® Certified AIX Support Specialist

ITIL Foundation 2011

WORK EXPERIENCE Acxiom Corporation. Austin, TX, United States

Senior Systems Engineer

Oct 2014 - Present

Highly qualified systems engineer offering 18 years of experience working with heterogeneous UNIX operating systems mainly IBM AIX and RedHat Linux, contributing innovative methodologies and alternatives to the growth of the company while maintaining excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently.

SunGard – Financial Systems. Lombard, IL, United States

Senior Systems Engineer – Institutional Asset Arena Division

Dec 2011 – Oct 2014

Highly qualified systems engineer offering 16 years of experience working with heterogeneous UNIX operating systems mainly IBM AIX and RedHat Linux, contributing innovative methodologies and alternatives to the growth of the company while maintaining excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently. Core strengths include;

• Working experience of managing, troubleshooting IBM Power4, Power5, Power6, Power7

and Power8 Series hardware along with setting up IBM XSeries based Hardware

Management Console Server (HMCs)

• Lead datacenter migration in large enterprise environment.

• Extensive experience in micro Partitioning, LPAR, DLPAR and HMC management.

• Experience designing standard and VIO (Virtual I/O) servers, client LPAR using HMC.

• Architect and Manage VIO servers and clients.

• Architect and Manage Dual VIO servers with SEA, MPIO and LNK aggregation.

• Knowledge and hand on experience on Advanced Power5, 6, 7 and Power8 Virtualization.

• Experience supporting AIX installations, upgrades, migration and troubleshooting.

• Install, configure and manage NIM server and installing clients using NIM resources.

• Knowledge and hands on experience installing and configuring AIX and Red Hat Linux.

• Confident in taking detailed measures in regards to server security and hardening.

• Analyze running services, check for open ports, running processes, stop unnecessary services

and permanently disable at system startups.

• Check and modify Security settings and permissions on key files such as /etc/* related to

xinetd, inetd, filesystems, passwords, groups, shadow, motd, ssh, iptables, tcpwrappers etc.

• Adhere and implement organizational policies for default password on Unix Systems.

• Utilize and configure system logging using syslog daemon. Use tools such as logwatch

and swatch to conduct ongoing security audit.

• Carefully review and grant sudo and cron access to users/application ids as per necessary

change and mgmt. approvals.

• Analyze and configure sendmail settings, replace with postfix where suitable.

• Actively review, assess, apply operating system updates particularly related to close

Security vulnerabilities.

• Configuration and troubleshooting network, OS, SAN and application/vendor issues.

• Switch/Storage Migration, storage allocation, IO performance tuning, mpio, powerpath

• Configure multi-pathing with EMC Enterprise Storage (Symmetrix, CLARiiON, VMAX)

• Configure SVC, SDD with IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS800, DS4000/8000/8100)

• Install and configure IBM XIV Gen2, Gen3 Series Storage Systems.

• Monitor and manage the 24x7 operations to ensure highest stability and availability.

• Coordinate with vendors, development, business partners and escalation support teams.

• Self-motivated team player, able to set priorities and manage deadlines.

• Remarkable communication skills & well versed with group work.

• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills, flexibility, ability to plan and organize.

• Demonstrate leadership skills which include responsiveness, integrity and creativity.

• Proven forward thinking abilities and implementation of ITIL foundation best practices.

FISERV Inc. (formerly CHECKFREE® Corp.) Chicago, IL, United States

Senior Systems Administrator - Investment Services Division of CHECKFREE

May 2007 – Aug 2011

Worked in a fast paced environment managing a group of over 200 AIX and Linux servers distributed across various IBM pSeries and Blade hardware. Key responsibilities involve but not limited to building servers using utilizing network resources, keeping resources up-to-date, configure and maintain multiple disk array subsystems using IBM and EMC technology, System performance and tuning based on data analysis procured from various SAR, NMON and topas outputs, monitoring of mission critical production servers using suite of tools such as Big Brother and CA AutoSys, UniCenter and Spectrum. Handled project management, server security hardening, troubleshoot complex issues surrounding Operating Systems and EMC

equipment and BCVs to ensure seamless replication of over 500 financial institutional client’s data occurs on disaster recovery site regularly. Also, involved in many ongoing engineering,

design and special projects and addressed issues surrounding highly visible WebLogic servers

running on IBM BladeCenter servers. Lead effort in defining security standards and automation of server build, migration and consolidation processes. Helped other teammates, sales associates, business analysts with lesser systems administration skills. Lead automates some of the key TSM issues and assisted as a primary TSM admin when needed. Participated in on-going successful Disaster Recovery exercises. Provided 7x24 on call support coverage on a rotation basis.

HEALTHCARE® SERVICES CORP. Chicago, IL, United States

Technical Specialist – Open Systems

February 2007 - May 2007

Worked as an AIX/Linux Technical Specialist at BlueCross BlueShield Insurance companies. Main responsibilities involved but not limited to day to day System admin tasks related to AIX & Linux servers. Performed extensive work on special projects and provided management high level overview of daily status. Engaged with middleware teams & assisted installing and configuring various application and tools. Performed extensive security checks to make sure security is at acceptable levels across all platforms. Fulfilled security audit requests.

Provided 7x24 on call support coverage on a rotation basis.

IBM Corporation. Boulder, Colorado, United States

AIX/Linux Systems Administrator

January 2000 - February 2007

Worked as an AIX/Linux System Administrator at IBM Global Services in Boulder, CO. Primary responsibilities included systems administration as an individual as well as a team member, of a wide range of IBM RS/6000 standalone servers and pSeries servers utilizing IBM LPAR technology running IBM applications such as Viewblue, IBMlink and ESC (IBM's Electronic Service Call) to name a few, packaged with Domino, DB2 and IHS web servers. Ensuring sites are accessible all the time to IBM customers worldwide. Performed extensive testing on staging environments and coordinate with network teams, development teams and DBAs to perform scheduled maintenance on production environment which also included but not limited to putting fixes, OS upgrades, microcode upgrades. Performed extensive and routine security checks and took measures to harden security on servers as per IBM’s internal security integrity services group per ITCS204 guidelines. Also, participated in yearly security audits and served as a single point of contact for the department. Made certain that audit requests got timely response by fulfilling the request or by delegating some or part of the request to appropriate individual or team(s). Further responsibilities included day to day BAU tasks which include custom server builds for new projects, respond to pages generated by Tivoli monitoring team, review and take actions on security scans generated by health checking tools. Perform extensive SAN implementation on (IBM ESS800 E & F Models and DS4000/DS8000/DS8100) as well as SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) storage management. Also, acquired working knowledge of Tivoli Storage Manager, Sysback and Storix backup technologies. Provided weekly 24x7 on-call support coverage on a rotation basis and provided coverage on several disaster recovery exercises.

COMPUTER TASK GROUP Inc. Dallas, Texas, United States

AIX Technical Specialist

October 1997 - September 1999

Served as an AIX Technical Specialist for Kernel/LVM team. Responsibilities include AIX 3.x/4.x Installations, System Administration on local & remote machines, assist customers with Logical Volume Manager, system disaster recoveries and hardware device configuration, backup/restore issues, perform extensive research on test cases for possible system crashes.

Consultant Systems Engineer

November 1996 - October1997

Served as a level-3 systems server support engineer for IBM Global Services, responsible for administering print queues, configure Network Print Utility, OS/2 LAN Administration, monitor day to day server activities, remotely control and manager OS/2 and AIX print servers.

Consultant Systems Engineer

February 1995 - October 1996

Worked as a Developer/End user Technical Support Analyst for Speech Recognition products, responsibilities include provide technical support over the phone to developers/end users of Speech Recognition applications based on Windows, OS/2 & AIX platform, troubleshoot hardware/software configuration, extensive research, organize training classes & materials for developers. Maintain up to date speech recognition Internet forums.

DYNAMIC SOURCES INC. Dallas, Texas, United States

LAN/Software Support Coordinator

July 1994 - March 1995

Responsibilities included configuring PCs using OS/2 Commanager/2, install token ring cards, media filter cables, check memory SIMM’s as needed, install and configure LAN requester/software locally and via network, test LAN applications and troubleshoot printing problems on local and LAN Printers, provide on-site client support.

ACADEMIC SOUTHEASTERN OKLOHAMA STATE UNIVERSITY. Durant, Oklahoma.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Computer Lab Assistant, Department of Computer Science

January 1992 - December 1994

Responsible for maintaining, testing, troubleshooting, software installation, upgrades, maintenance of lab computers, PCs, VAX and HP-Unix servers in addition to student tutoring with a wide variety of software on multiple hardware environments.

AutoCAD Assistant, Department of Maintenance & Physical Plant

February 1994 - March 1994

Responsible for drawing of the floor plans of major buildings on campus using AutoCAD Version 11, supervising maintenance staff for accurate measurements, dimensioning and modification of previous drawings.

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