Management Manager

EHSAN UL HAQ SYED

Email: ***********@*****.***

Phone: 732-***-****

SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Specialized in UNIX/AIX/Linux

Highly qualified Senior and Lead administrator offering 7 years of

experience working with UNIX Operating Systems such as IBM AIX and Red Hat

LINUX Servers.

Contributing innovative methodologies and alternatives to the growth of

the company, having excellent client relation skills, and the drive to

complete tasks effectively and efficiently.

Below are the day to day tasks that are performed in PG&E now.

SUMMARY:

* Deployment Engineer for PG&E deliver Aix solutions on Power 7 770, NPIV

AME LPM, PowerHA Sysmirror, GPFS.

* Extensive experience in installing, configuring, development,

maintaining, implementation, and support on IBM AIX

4.3.x/5.1/5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1

* Good knowledge and work experience Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6 and

Windows Operating Environments.

* A solid understanding of networking/distributed computing environment

concepts

* Was Account Focal for IBM supporting one of the largest Health Care

account Kaiser Permanente Hospitals and Pharmacies.

* Experience and understanding of reporting protocols and monitoring tools

(syslog, snmp, SAMBA, Nagios,etc).

* Expertise in PXE, Jumpstart and Kickstart installations

* Strong experience in Administration, Installation, Upgrading, Migration,

Configuration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery,

Performance monitoring and Fine-tuning of AIX systems

* Good experience and understanding of SAN technology including zoning,

disk creation on various systems, maintaining and configuring various

fiber switches and storages.

* Strong knowledge of System Administration and Operating Systems, Systems

Hardware, and Enterprise Level Systems infrastructure

* Strong technical background in Storage, Disk Management, Logical Volume

Management (LVM) and logical partitioning.

* Proficient in installing, configuring and administering HACMP for AIX 5L

V5.1/5.2/5.3/6.1.

* Installation/Administration of TCP/IP, SEA, Ether channel, LACP,

NIS/NIS+, NFS, DNS, NTP, Auto mounts, Send mail and Print servers as per

the client's requirement

* Performs system software installations, system software maintenance and

product upgrades.

* Evaluate and integrate new operating system versions, drivers and

hardware.

* Attend project kick-off meetings, understand customer requirements,

provide the technical expertise and architectural guidance.

* Point for contact for Junior SAs in resolving issues and providing step

by step instructions to perform the task.

* Building the Team Room Database by writing the process and technical

documents.

* Training new team members on process flow and giving knowledge transfer

on account specific applications.

* Attend account specific meetings to review the status of current and

feature projects.

* Attend meetings to discuss Weekly Failed Changes and review on High Risk

Changes.

* Advisory on work assignment with level skilled team member and review

whether the documentation in change management application is properly

updated.

* Handling escalations from account teams such as Customer Relationship

Manager, Service Delivery Manager, and Customer.

* Writing the Root Cause Analysis if there was any outage that occurred due

to an issue caused by the servers supported by the Team.

* Analyzing the problems and resolving the issues with zero or minimum down-

time.

* Identifying, researching, and recommending the improvements to the

existing processes based on best practices with repeatable standard

configurations.

* Working Long hours, off hours, weekends and over time to meet project

goals, Service Level Agreement and share the work load.

* Rotating on-call pager duty with Other Team members.

* Maintaining 24x7availability over phone if other Team Members has high

severity issues to aid them in resolving the issue.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

LANGUAGES : C, C++, java, servlets, jsp, ejb, vb, javascript, html, perl

and shell programming.

OS : ibm aix (5.2 5.3 6.1 7.1), linux (redhat, suse), windows 2000/nt4.0

windows 2003, sun solaris, mac8.1/9/10 and os2.

IDE : visualage3.5/4.0, websphere application studio4. jbuilder, code

warrior, clearcase,clearquest and rationalrose.

WEB TECHNOLOGIES : html, dhtml, xml, java script, jsp, servlets, ejb.

APPLICATION SERVERS : websphere application server 3.5/4.0,

netscape/iplanet server, mqseries, weblogic server, ibm http server,Hadoop.

NETWORKING : tcp/ip, nis, nfs, dns, dhcp, cisco routers/switches, lan.

RDBMS : ibm udb2, oracle 7.x/8.0/9i, ms-sql server 7.0/6.5 and ms-access

97/95.

OTHER SKILLS : Hacmp, samba, tivoli (tsm), veritas netbackup, veritas

volume manager. Smart Meter, Epic, Emdeon, Websphere MQ, Hitachi, Emc vmax

5500 IBM shark, Tivoli Monitoring, BMC Patrol

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Client : PG&E, San Francisco, CA

August'13 - present

Role : UNIX Deployment Engineer

Responsibilities:

* Deploy new Aix 7.1 Virtual Clients for SAP Application QA Test

Development and Production Environments.

* Designed and Installed POWERHA 7.1 Clusters for SAP application

* Installed Oracle Rack database cluster on Aix 7.1

* Deployed GPFS cluster version 3.2 and setup NAS setup for Parallel

computing GAS and Electric applications

* Performed Aix upgrade for DMS/DCSI/EDGIS applications

* Supported the CC&B application for performance turning and issues

* Deployed Tivoli Enterprise monitoring server and connected the clients

after installing the Tivoli monitoring agent on Aix clients

* Successfully completed the storage migration on SAP environment 300

lpars

* Successfully migrated storage using Host based migration and HDSM san

based migration on production applications

* Involved in Hitachi Storage Array migration USP and USPV to VSP Array on

Dev Test and Prod environments for EDGIS, CC&B Smart METER, CMS

applications.

* Installed Flexera, configured Beacon servers for centralized licensing

management for all the software products in PGE

* Installed SSH on Aix server, generated keys for application user and

configured password less login for application file transfer

* Successfully deployed the latest Virtual technologies in the environment

including VSWITCH, VFCHOST, NPIV, SEA, VlAN Tagging, VHOST and VSCSI to

make full usage of the virtual technologies from VIO servers on Power7

servers.

* Mapped storage Luns to Virtual Clients from Vio servers using vscis

mapping method.

* Configured Ether channel NIB and link aggregation modes configured Shared

Ethernet Adapter successfully tested failover modes on VIO servers.

* Support Smart Meter application upgrade for Gas meters on Aix servers

* Responsible for Upgrading OS on Aix servers from version 5.3 to 6.1 and

7.1

* Planned, designed and implemented servers and network for engineering

test applications.

* Worked on Symantec Veritas Cluster for High Availability installed on

AIX servers

* Installed and configure Tripwire application for server changes

monitoring

* Migrated live Aix/linux servers from ITIM and local users to QUEST AD

and installed QPM for SUDO

* Was part of HP BSM implementation team and support the server monitoring

setup, replacing BMC patrol tool in the environment.

* Was part of Flexera rollout on all UNIX servers in the environment to

manage the license centrally to manage the cost of the licenses based on

products on each server

* Configured the Remote Console service to the servers.

* Performed HACMP failover testing, troubleshoot and fix failover and

performance tuning issues on production servers to keep servers highly

available

* Responsible for event processing, change management, and problem

determination in HACMP environment.

* Maintained availability and increased capacity and performance of

production machines by upgrading their hardware (Disks, CPU, memory, I/O

board, power cooling unit, mother board etc) & firmware.

* Security, users, groups' administration and daily backup and restore

operations, networking service, performance, and resource monitoring.

* Deployed Redhat linux 5.9, 6.5 on vmware ESX using the VSphere.

* Deployed Redhat Images using the kickstart method.

* Perform configuration of standard Linux and network protocols, such as

SMTP, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, NFS, SMTP, HTTP, SNMP and others.

* Added new nodes to the cluster, updated the nodes with patches from

RHN and satellite server.

* Applied patches, installed monitoring tools, upgraded BIOS on HPC

Clusters.

* Manage System Firewall utilizing IP Chains, IP Tables. Implemented SSH

SSL.

* Update software packages and apply security patches.

Client : IBM/Kaiser Permanente, Dubuque, Iowa

June'11 - August' 13

Role : Shift Lead, AIX/Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

* Responsible for installation, configuration management, maintenance and

systems development of over 5000 AIX Systems, 300 Solaris Systems

* Lead for the project in Life Cycle Management activities for HACMP

versions 5.5, 6.1 Migration, AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1 OS Migrations, TL

upgrades, ISEC Security Patches.

* Involved in Life Cycle Management activities for Large Scale Data

Migration, Migration to new EMC and IBM software versions for storage and

also Migrate to new storage using various methods on live production

servers.

* Responsible successfully testing and troubleshoot any issue for 300 HACMP

6.1 cluster servers for Kaiser Pharmacy application

* Successfully deployed the latest Virtual technologies in the environment

including VSWITCH, VFCHOST, NPIV, SEA, VlAN Tagging, VHOST,VSCSI to make

full usage of the virtual technologies from VIO servers on Power7

servers.

* Mapped storage Luns to Virtual Clients from Vio servers

* Configured Ether channel and link aggregation modes, configured Shared

Ethernet Adapter successfully tested failover modes on VIO servers.

* Performed Live Partition Mobility on lpars to upgrade frame firmware or

replace memory, power cooling uinits

* Worked steady state incident tickets including Sev1, Sev2and Sev3

troubleshoot and keep the servers for Hospitals and Pharmacy applications

available and meet the SLA.

* Worked with storage team to configure adapter settings on VIO servers

mapped and troubleshoot issue in NPIV SAN environment.

* Was part of Live Partition Mobility on production Power7 frames to avoid

downtime on critical applications on virtual environment

* Configured NAS storage on HACMP servers with successful failover testing

* Performed HACMP failover testing and fix failover and performance tuning

issues on production servers to keep servers available.

* Worked closely with Storage team to configure Apply Clone, Snap Clone on

Production Staging and Shadow servers to keep data copy available on

multiple servers in diff datacenter locations.

* Worked on Large Enterprise applications including EPIC, Cerner, MQ,

WebSphere.

* AIX administration supporting RS6000 Servers, installing, configuring and

maintaining WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server.

* Provide administrations and maintenance support to multiple IBM machines

p5-520, p5-550, p5-570, p5-595, p7 750s and 770s running AIX 5.3/6.1/7.1.

* Responsible for the operation, maintenance, and integrity of a

distributed networked AIX based environment.

* Built dual VIO servers and complete virtualized and Hybrid clients on

POWER6, p5 P520, P550, P570 and POWER7 p710, p750, p795s.

* Built Linux Compute Nodes using automated scripts (Kickstart scripts) and

NFS server

* Configuration management including the building of LPARs using HMC

version 3.1, 6.1, 7.1,7.3 and configuring the hardware devices that

support them.

* Created and configured dynamic VIO servers 1.3, 1.5 and VIO 2.1, 2.2.

* Responsible for configuring lager Filesystems with various options

including CIO, Inline log for Health care applications like EPIC, Cerner,

MQ and Databases including Oracle, DB2, Epic Cache database

* Package, build, integrate, and deploy enterprise J2EE applications

on WebSphere 3.5/4.0/5.0 that involves EAR, JAR, and WAR files.

* Successfully upgrade DB2 versions and patch levels on Aix servers.

* Successfully installed, upgraded vender software including Powerpath,

Tivoli endpoint Monitoring, TSM Client, Tivoli Workload Scheduler on Aix

severs.

* Applying software maintenance program fixes and keeping the system

software releases current.

* Installation/Administration of TCP/IP, NIS/NIS+, NFS, DNS, NTP, Auto

mounts, Send mail and Print servers as per the client's requirement.

* Configured mutual takeover, and rotating modes of operation of the HACMP

and HACMP/ES products.

* Configured HACMP 6.1 to monitor, detect and react to failure events,

allowing the system to stay available during random, unexpected software

problems and also configured to react to hundreds of system events.

* Experience in setting up clusters and creating repository queue managers

for load balancing.

* Responsible for configuring User Authentication for the AIX systems using

LDAP.

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

restart.

* Worked closely with DBAs to install raid, disk areas for Oracle database

instance installations, created Bourne shell database startup and

shutdown scripts for UNIX servers. Wrote shell scripts for automated

installations, to extract logs.

Client: BCBS - Jacksonville, FL.

Feb' 2008 - June' 2011

Role : AIX/UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

* Worked as AIX Administrator in IT infrastructure environment providing

server administration, application administration and automation

solutions to support business objectives.

* Provided UNIX infrastructure, operations and support for IBM RS/6000

(p650, p670, p690) & IBM Blade HS20, JS20 servers running AIX.

* Installed and configured with variety of OS such as RHEL 5.0, SuSE 10 and

Win 2008.

* Created a PXE Boot environment with all the necessary services such as

DHCP, TFTP, PXE, OS image sources for four different OS versions.

* Planned, designed and implemented servers and network for engineering

test applications.

* Configured the Remote Console service to the servers.

* Created Kickstart scripts as per the user requirement and performed few

test deployments.

* Assigned the Server Build Tasks, DHCP Management, Kickstart Modifications

and OS image Management to each team member

* Responsible for creating LPAR, DLPAR and micro partitioning and creating

new partitions, assigning resources between LPAR using Websm tool.

* Performed installation, periodic maintenance updates and applied APAR

fixes.

* Responsible for performance tuning of AIX systems, applying upgrades to

AIX (current version 5.2 to upgrade 5.3).

* Installed, configured, and managed IBM WebSphere Application Server v

6.1/6.0/v 5.0 with IBM HTTP Server and Process Server on AIX and Windows.

* Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes

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

* Setup and maintained NFS, NIS network, configured DNS and LDAP Server.

* Configured backup/archive policies using Tivoli Storage Manager Backup

utility to meet data archiving requirements and disaster recovery

readiness.

* Setup and configured Network TCP/IP on AIX and LINUX servers including

RPC connectivity for NFS. Created mount points for Server directories and

mounted directories on the servers.

* TCP/IP configuration like assigning IP addresses, configuring network

interfaces, assigning static routes, hostnames etc.

* Responsible for event processing, change management, and problem

determination in HACMP environment.

* Developed Perl and Korn shell scripts for admin tasks like customizing

user environment, performance monitoring, platform independent wrapper

scripts, pushing changes through cron, security management, etc.

* Worked in the project of configuring NIS Servers (Master and Slave) and

NIS clients and maintained system and custom configuration files in NIS

maps.

* Evaluating security controls on new and existing UNIX servers (Sun

Solaris, HP-UX & AIX) to access compliance to policies and standards and

practices for the industries.

* Maintained availability and increased capacity and performance of

production machines by upgrading their hardware (Disks, CPU, memory, I/O

board, power cooling unit, mother board etc) & firmware.

* Systems administrator providing support for production and development

systems. Environment consisted of multiple IBM RS/6000's and X-Window

terminals.

* Security, users, groups' administration and daily backup and restore

operations, networking service, performance, and resource monitoring.

* Deployed Redhat 5.X and 6.X Images using the kickstart method.

* Perform configuration of standard Linux and network protocols, such as

SMTP, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, NFS, SMTP, HTTP, SNMP and others.

* Added new nodes to the cluster, updated the nodes with patches from

RHN and satellite server.

* Applied patches, installed monitoring tools, upgraded BIOS on HPC

Clusters.

* Manage System Firewall utilizing IP Chains, IP Tables. Implemented SSH

SSL.

* Update software packages and apply security patches.

* Configured the LVM on Linux servers

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Client: Glaxo Smith Kline -King of Prussia, PA.

Jan'2007 - Jan' 2008

Role : AIX/Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

* Provided server and applications administration including IBM AIX P-

Series and P5 systems.

* Installed open ERP client/server based on the client requirements.

* Performed automation,trouble shooting and monitoring of the

client/server ERP solution.

* Installed and managed the system with HMC .

* Configured and instaleed the web based system manager using the HMC.

* Installed Vmware server 2 on the systems.

* Worked on Vmware bench marking tools and troubleshooting devices.

* Worked on running the virtual machines from one server to other.

* Migrated virtual machines between the servers.

* Filesystem management on various platforms.

* Created Copies of Logical volumes on different physical volumes in

rootvg or as requested by the application team.

* Created active and passive clusters in HACMP.

* Extended failover to backup resources at remote sites using optional

PowerHA.

* Preparation and execution of server patching and upgrade on more than

200 servers including HP-UX, AIX, Solaris and Red Hat Linux servers.

Servers included AIX HACMP and HP-UX MC/ServiceGuard clusters.

* Installed and configured LAN and Flash copy.

* Performed server buildup, cloning of LINUX servers.

* Setup and configured vmware guests.

* Performed administrative tasks such as System Startup/shutdown,

Backup strategy, Documentation, User Management, Security and Network

management.

* Provided UNIX infrastructure, operations and support for IBM P-Series

650, 670,690 and P5 servers P570/590/595 running IBM AIX 5.X.6.1.

* Performed installation, periodic maintenance updates and apply APAR

fixes.

* Configured IBM RS 6000,550,520,610 machines for production, staging

and test environments.

* Setup and configured network TCP/IP on AIX including RPC connectivity

for NFS.

* Created mount points for Server directories, and mounted these

directories on AIX Servers.

* Configured and administrated VIO servers.

* Configured and administrated VIO server and Lpar clients.

* Administration tasks included User administration, Performance,

Sendmail, weekly mksysb.

* Daily roles included dealing with LVM extensively. Strong hold of

LVM.

* Migrated AIX 5.3 with HACMP 5.1 to HACMP 5.2 (online).

* Daily tasks included dealing with AIX side of SAN. Like

troubleshooting Fiber card adapter, replacing Fiber card adapters.

Configuring LUN's back.

* Setup of full networking services and protocols on AIX, including

NIS/NFS, DNS, SSH, DHCP, NIDS, TCP/IP, ARP, applications, and print

servers to insure optimal networking, application, and printing

functionality.

* Dealing with user id deletion with removing entries from CRONTAB.

* Performing Failovers in HACMP / cluster environment, monitoring

servers.

* Installed and configured AIX 4.3, 5.0, 5.1 on RS-6000's, creating the

root volume group application/backup volume groups, logical volumes,

and filesystems (JFS) on RAID Level 5 with appropriate data stripping

for protection, and for the optimal performance of the RS-6000

Servers within a High Availability system using DASD, DCE and DFS

services.

* Configured Work Load Management (WLM) for IBM Websphere Application

Server.

* The migration task from websphere application server 5.1to web sphere

application server 6.x was taken up on stand-alone systems .

* Setup of full networking services and protocols on UNIX, including

NIS/NFS, DNS, SSH, DHCP, NIDS, TCP/IP, ARP, applications, and print

servers to insure optimal networking, application, and printing

functionality.

* Backing up AIX servers using mksysb and ADSM/TSM using IBM 3494

automatic tape libraries and recovering.

* Installed and configured Sudo for users to access the root

privileges.

* Administered Linux servers for several functions including managing

Apache/Tomcat server, mail server, MySQL database, and firewalls in

both development and production.

EDUCATION:

* Bachelors in Electronics and Computer Engineering

CERTIFICATION:

* IBM[pic]Certified - 7.1 AIX System Administration.

* HIPAA Certified

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