System High School

Ketankumar Vora

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

Phone: ***-448-

8306

Summary:

> Over 6 years of extensive experience in configuring,

troubleshooting, providing technical support and system

administration of AIX6.1/5.3/5.2/5.1(5L)(Logical

Partitioning)/4.3.3, and HACMP (and HACMP/ES) 5.3.x/5.2.x

> Experience in AIX v6.1/5.3/5.2/5.1, AIX 4.3.3 includes new system

planning, Customer support, System related problem determination

and resolution.

> Experience in Virtualization and Micro-Partition technology to

install VIO servers and LPAR using NIM, Alt Disk Install and clone.

> Extensive experience working on hardware platforms ranging from IBM

pSeries p770, p6, p5 520/570/550 and p4 630/650/690.

> Extensive experience in installing AIX, patches, ML/TL updates,

security fixes

> Monitoring disks pace usage and paging space.

> Assisting DBA for capacity planning/tuning of DB, which enforces

database constraints to ensure integrity of database.

> Perform & restore system backups using TSM /mksysb.

> Experience in TSM includes Server/client installation configuration

and verification of incremental/full backup.

> Experience using Security tools, Sudo

> Good team player

Experience:

Client: (IBM) American Express (On Site)

Whitsett, NC

Role : AIX Administrator February 2013 to

August 2014

V Provide technical/Physical support in Data Center, Network,

Application and Systems Teams.

V Carrying Pager to provide 24x7 on call support on weekly rotation

basis.

V Configure ILO and IMM, Reset password if needed on physically migrated

servers and prepare system for SA to configure.

V Server builds - Initiate build process by loading OS with specific

system requirements. Confirm OS has loaded successfully and Prepare

system for SA to configure.

V Confirm network connectivity - Assist SA with problem determination

and verify process.

V Provide daily health checks and list updates for customers.

V Work on HMC for creating profiles and partitions.

V Incident Management for all critical issues including centralized

communication and updates in verbal and written formats.

V Documenting necessary changes and Configuration of System and keep it

current.

V Writing Shell to automate and to custom tasks for easy administration.

V Experience supporting Intel server, Windows 2003 and 2008.

Client: IBM (On Site, Richmond VA)

Role : AIX Administrator March 2011 -

December 2012

V Perform system updates and migrations. Monitor system performance and

troubleshoot hardware and software issues on AIX.

V Experience of Migration on VIO, STANDALON and HACMP.

V Responsible for moving servers behind SVC.

V Installation of SDD PCM Drivers on VIO, STANDALON and HACMP.

V Responsible for Firmware upgrade and Microcode upgrade.

V Endurance experience on different storage TSM, EMC, HITACHI and SVC.

Client: IBM, Remote

Role : AIX Administrator

April 2010 - December 2011

V Experience of system administration on AIX v6.1/5.3

V Building VIO server and VIO clients according to the requirement.

V Setting up/Configuring VLAN and AIX installation using NIM.

V Installation of LPARs with help of Network Install Manager (NIM)

V Experience in LPAR/DLPAR technology for installing partitions through

NIM and Managing partitions through HMC Console

V Setting up/Configuring VLAN and AIX installation using NIM.

V Managing System Resources like File System, Disk space, Volume Groups,

Logical Volumes and Physical Volumes.

V Adding/ Changing/Removing Hdisks/vpaths (SAN) and SDD Upgrade

V Installing different tools on Unix Servers.

V Installing IBM maintenance patches, software upgrades and

installations.

V System Tuning and Performance Monitoring

V NFS Administration and Troubleshooting.

Client: Sanofi Pharmaceutical

Bridgewater NJ

Role : Unix Systems Administrator

March 2008 - April 2010

Responsibilities:

V Experience of system administration on AIX v5.1/5.2/5.3

V Experience in LPAR/DLPAR technology for installing partitions through

NIM and Managing partitions through HMC Console

V Coordinated with IBM CEs for initial setup of the Hardware includes

p570, p520, p550, and HMC v6.1.

V Working in VIOS server backup-restore planning.

V Backup, restoring and performance tuning for VIO Server/clients.

V Managing System Resources like File System, Disk space, Volume Groups,

Logical Volumes and Physical Volumes.

V Managing and Upgrading HACMP from 5.1 to 5.2 and 5.2 to 5.3

V Troubleshooting TSM client backup

V System Tuning and Performance Monitoring

V NFS Administration and Troubleshooting.

V Upgrading Firmware/Microcode for System, Processors, Disks, and

adapters.

SKILLS:

Hardware IBM pSeries, SP, RS/6000, X-Series and Intel

Operating System AIX, Linux,Windows

Storage IBM DS8300, JFS, JFS2, LVM, NFS, RAID and SAN

Middle Ware DB2, Oracle, WebSphere and DataStage

System Management Tivoli, mksysb, TSM and NetBackup

Programming Shell, HTML

Miscellaneous NIM, Alternate Disk Install, PSSP, LPAR, DLPAR,

Accounting, Security and DNS

Education: 1. High School Graduate (India)

2. Diploma in Network Technician. (Parsippany, NJ)

3. Two years in Bachelor of Commerce. (India)

References: Available on Request

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