Javed Iqbal
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
IBM Professional AIX System Administrator with more than 8+ years of experience in AIX Administration, SAN and Storage Administrator in Information Technology (IT) including IBM (DS8300 and DS8700) and EMC Storage of Information Systems.
7+ years of experience in AIX administration with HMC V7R7, GPFS 5.3 and HACMP 5.3 environment.
3 years of Shell Scripting experience.
4 years’ experience as a UNIX systems administrator managing servers in as
enterprise environment consisting of 5000 or more servers
Extensive experience in installing, configuring, maintaining, design, development, implementation, and support on IBM AIX 5.x /6.1/7.X (p505,p570, p720, p770 and p795) and Windows Operating
Environments.
Experienced in IBM RS/6000 System Software Maintenance.
Experience in Shell scripting (ksh, bash) to automate system administration jobs.
Administered shell interfaces, groups/user accounts, login scripts, X-Windows and kernel patches & updates.
Proficient in archiving and backups. Using tar, pax, scp restore and backup commands, mksysb for root volume group backup and savevg for user created volume groups backup.
Extensive Experience in AIX System Dump Generation, Taking snap short, Running perfpmr and sending the results to AIX System Support Center.
Experienced in LPAR, DLPAR and creating new partitions. Assigning resources between LPAR, Restoring MKsysb,Creating fresh builds and Wpars.
Extensive use of Resolved Application Startup problems, PATH problems, Name conflicts, TCP/IP and Networking Problems in AIX .
Having good experience in using Remedy, Quality control and Service manager.
Experience working with Enterprise class SAN storage arrays, FC HBA connectivity, etc.
Expertise in Planning, Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of IBM HMC V7R7. on AIX 5.3/6.1/7.1.
Experience in Migration of HACMP 4.5 to HACMP 5.2, 6.1 using Node-by-Node migration without changing the cluster setup and Performed live partition mobility (LPM)
Knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, Ethernet), NIS, DNS, NFS, DHCP, SMTP and RAID.
Provided production support in an on-call rotation in a 24x7 environment.
Provided support and done patching for aix upgrades .
Provided support and build server on Bladelogice.
Expertise in creating new builds,SAN and Non SAN boot system.
Experience in Migration (San,Switch and EMC ( Vplex powerpath))
Also have experience in SRDF, Vplex (Type 1-Disks are not directly zoned, Type 2-Disks are directly zoned and Type 3-Host based mirroring with powerpath) and TSM Migration as well.
Experience with IBM Storage DS8300, DS8700,Brocade and switches
Hands on experience with various Brocade enterprise directors (12k and 48k) and departmental switches (3900, 4100 and 4900)
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems:
IBM AIX 5.x/6.x/7.X, Unix, Clustering Softwares e.g Hacmp 5.3, GPFS 5.3
Hardware:
IBM Power Series P4,P5, P7, (p505,p570, p720, p770 and p795),
Blad Center 720,
Storage Area:
IBM Enterprise Storage (DS 8300,DS8700), Net App,IBM,EMC (symmetrics, clarion, invista),3par, VMAX3,VNX.
Languages:
C++, java, HTML, Unix(shell scripting)
Backup Utilities:
Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM,)
Other Technologies:
IBM HACMP 5.X, IBM HMC V7R7, Oracle 9i/10g, SQL Server 2000, DB2, MS-Office Suite,Lpar & VIO,NIM, TCPIP, NFS,Adobe
WORK EXPERIENCE
CVS, Scottsdale AZ July 14 -- Present
Aix admin
CVS Pharmacy (styled as CVS/pharmacy or simply CVS) is the second largest pharmacy chain after Walgreens in the United States, with more than 7,600 stores, and is the second largest US pharmacy based on total prescription revenue. As the retail pharmacy division of CVS Caremark, it ranks as the 13th largest company in the world according to Fortune 500 in 2013. CVS Pharmacy's leading competitor Walgreens ranked 37th.
Responsibilities:
Installation, configuration, maintenance of AIX on P7 hardware
Working as a Production Support engineer.
Performed day to day activities such as OS upgrades,service pack upgrade and TL upgrades
Performed User Account management and users’ logon support.
Provided support to different application e.g fluxcube, PeopleSoft etc.
Done builds with vscsi,NPIV, bladelogice using mksysb and fresh builds.
Did HMC upgrades upto 7.7.9.2
Performed vio’s upgraded from 2.2.2.3 to 2.2.3.4
Also performed upgrades for Frame Ware AM780_068 and Microcode 202307 upgrades.
Created ASM Devices for Oracle RAC .
Configured and Managed GPFS 4.1.0.7 Installation
Working with Storage VMAX/Symmetrix and VNX/Clarion.
Performed Zoning and masking to assign luns to the systems.
Environments: IBM AIX 6.x/7.x, Team Track, VMAX/Symmetrix, VNX/Clarion, Oracle RAC (Real Application cluster),HACMP,GPFS
Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta GA May 12 –June 14
AIX Admin / Storage Admin
Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in stores, restaurants, and vending machines in more than 200 countries.
The Coca-Cola Company in the United States is working since March 27, 1944. The Coca-Cola Company has, on occasion, introduced other cola drinks under the Coke brand name. The most common of these is Diet Coke, with others including Caffeine-Free Coca-Cola, Diet Coke Caffeine-Free, Coca-Cola Cherry, Coca-Cola Zero, Coca-Cola Vanilla, and special versions with lemon, lime or coffee.
Responsibilities:
Installation, configuration, maintenance of AIX on P7 and P5 hardware
Performs day to day activities such as OS upgrades,service pack upgrade and TL upgrades
Performed User Account management, data backups, and users’ logon support.
Monitoring performance issues on servers and Troubleshooting the Issues .
Currently working on Migrations from one data center to other e.g UTC to ETC
Administration responsibilities include user, group, disk, printer, security management and File sharing Permissions.
Writing shell scripts for automated installations and to extract logs in UNIX.
Also have to do implementation using advanced AIX features such as DLPAR, memory and processor pools, VIO, ether channel/link aggregation, Live partition mobility, Workload Partitioning (wpars), kernel tuning, perform mapping on the VIO side in order to communicate with storage etc.
Good understanding of Switches and Brocades.
Solved Zoning and Storage issue on DS8300, DS8700 and brocade.
Use to install and configure db2 on aix 7.1
Done patching/Upgrades of tripwire from lower version to 2.4.1 also done initial scans using Tripwire. Responsible for checking and fixing violations.
Building and providing support to HACMP (powerHA) and GPFS clusters.
Working on Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).Performed Backups and restores on file systems.
Performed SRDF, Vplexifation, Vplexify (Type 1-Disks are not directly zoned, Type 2-Disks are directly zoned and Type 3-Host based mirroring with powerpath) and TSM Migration as well.
Converted file systems from JFS to JFS2
Assigned disks to servers including aix/unix, Linux and increasing file system sizes as needed.
Configured and provided support to clustered file systems e.g GPFS 3.5 and HACMP 3.5
Hands on experience on configuring GPFS Cluster and managing GPFS file systems.
Environment: IBM AIX 5.x/6.x/7.x,QC, CCNS, Korn Shell, NFS, SAN, DNS, Tivoli Storage Manager, Windows XP and Windows 7. P570, P595 and p770, Aix 6.1TL8SP3,Aix 7.1TL2SP1 with HACMP 5.3 and GPFS 3.5.0.11,IBM-DS8300,IBM- DS8700, Brocade
Homedepot (SSC), Atlanta GA March 11 – May 12
AIX Administrator/MTE
The Home Depot (or simply Home Depot) is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services. The Home Depot operates 2,248 big-box format stores across the United States (including all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam), Canada (all ten provinces), Mexico and China,[2] with a 12-store chain. The Home Depot is headquartered at the Atlanta Store Support Center in Cobb County, Georgia, in Greater Atlanta.
Responsibilities:
Installation, configuration, maintenance of AIX on IBM 9117,p5 hard
Configured IBM RS 6000 for production, staging and test environments.
Implemented, installed and supported high availability cluster on IBM RS6000 platform (HACMP for AIX).
Involved in adding and applying HACMP cluster snapshots.
Administration of IBM AIX and database servers.
Administration responsibilities include user, group, disk, printer and security management, File sharing Permissions.
Process administration (i.e. monitoring processes using PS utility, signaling a running process using KILL and KILLALL command, monitoring processes and system load using VMSTAT, UPTIME utilities, monitoring logs, scheduling processes using CRON utility).
Wrote shell scripts for automated installations, to extract logs.
Involved in day to day activities. Did OS upgrades,service pack upgrade and TL upgrades
Performed User Account management, data backups, and users’ logon support.
Monitored trouble ticket queue to attend user and system calls.
Updated data in inventory management package for Software and Hardware products.
Worked with DBAs on installation of Tivoli System Automation Multi-Platform (TSAMP) database, restoration and log generation.
Performed Power path installation for Vplex storage.
Documented installation procedures, changes required in present environment.
Worked on different Migrations e.g San,Switch and migrated server from P5 to P7.
Attended team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress, and for upcoming changes in environment.
Created gpfs filesystems and provided support.
Performed Preservation and Migration Installation Successfully.
Environments: IBM AIX 4.x,5.x,6.x and 7.x (RS/6000), Tivoli Storage Manager, Korn Shell, NIS,Service Manager, Infrastructure Deployment (IDP)
Avery Dennison Corporation, Brea, CA August 09- Feb 11
Unix/Aix Admin
Avery Dennison provides Printer Systems Division, the globally recognized industry leader for manufacturing and supply chain printing and labeling solutions, has enhanced its AP Series offering with a new generation of the AP 5.4 and the introduction of a solution with a broader printing capability, the AP 5.6.
Avery Dennison’s AP Series printing solutions have been the preferred labeling solution for a huge range of organizations. The AP Series aims to deliver increased efficiency, productivity and improved traceability for goods moving through food or logistics environment.
Responsibilities:
Supporting and building new lpars in complex AIX Unix environment running AIX 5.X/6.x/VIO with NPIV.
User Administration, password restrictions and security implementations according to SOX requirements.
Provided remote technical support for the AIX software team
Responsible for Installation, up gradation, Configuration Management, Maintenance and Systems Development of AIX Systems, using NIM.
Responsible for creating LPAR, DLPAR and micro partitioning and creating new partitions. Assigning resources between LPAR, Restoring MKsysb to build servers, Creating fresh builds and San boot Servers.
Experience in implementations using advanced AIX features such as DLPAR, memory and processor pools, VIO, ether channel/link aggregation, Live partition mobility, Workload Partitioning (wpars), kernel tuning, did mapping on the vio side in order to communicate with storage.etc.
Responsible for Configuration of multiple logical subsystems utilizing IBM HMC,WSM, including LPAR configuration, NIM and CSM to install and manage the LPAR Good understanding in Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM P5 System,Performed live partition mobility (LPM) and created wpars.
Analyzed problems on RPC (remote procedure call), security & directory services of DCE/DFS. Fixed bugs using IPtrace tools, core dump analysis tools and memory leak tools, DMZ firewall.
Extensive Experience in AIX System Dump Generation, resizing Dump devices, understanding errpt reports and coordinating on different issues with AIX System Support Center
Logical Volume Management (LVM) administration of AIX, Extensively used LVM, created VGs, LVs, and disk mirroring.
Developed scripts (Korn/Bourne ) for automating the batch jobs.
Wrote shell scripts for automated installations, to extract logs,
Intensive Performance and Tuning utilizing both standard UNIX tools (iostat, vmstat, sar) and IBM AIX specific tools (nmon, topas,tprof, 3dmon, xmperf) for long term historical data gathering and application volumetric
For defect tracking tools used REMEDY and QC .
Installed Sddpcm for multipathing .Up graded the VIO’s Servers.
Hardware diagnostic troubleshooting with severs, using diagrams, and cfgmgr utilities.
System policies and hardware profiles, hard disk configuration for fault tolerance, disk mirroring and backup the data using BACKUP devices and also performed Live partition mobility (lpm).
Worked with DBAs/TSM team on installation of RDBMS database, restoration and log generation.
Assist with architecture and design of LPARs, micropartioning,capped/uncapped resources, etc
Experience working with Enteprise class SAN storage arrays, FC HBA connectivity, San boot and non San boot Servers, etc
Environments: IBM AIX 5.x/6.x (RS/6000), P7-Series,QC, Remedy, Korn Shell, NFS, SAN, DNS, Windows NT/2000/XP.
XO Communications, Plano, TX February 07 – June 09
Unix/AIX Administrator
Providing AIX server administration, support for 500 servers including Power5 and RS6000 with AIX OS. Backing up the primary storage pools to offsite storage pools. Estimate database capacity to manage system disk space and system resources and implemented hot backups scripts and recovery procedures.
Responsibilities:
User Administration password restrictions and security implementations according to Implementation of SOX requirements.
Responsible for event processing, change management and problem determination in HACMP environment.
Security measures blocking unnecessary ports and restriction user’s remote logins.
Provided remote technical support for the AIX software team
Responsible for Installation, up gradation, Configuration Management, Maintenance and Systems Development of AIX Systems, using NIM.
Responsible for creating LPAR, DLPAR and micro partitioning and creating new partitions. Assigning resources between LPAR
Worked as AIX System Administrator to support RS/6000, IBM pSeries Blade Center
Responsible for Configuration of multiple logical subsystems utilizing IBM HMC,WSM, including LPAR configuration, NIM and CSM to install and manage the LPAR Good understanding in Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM P5 System,
Provided support to blade logic with aix 6.1TL8Sp3.
Analyzed problems on RPC (remote procedure call), security & directory services of DCE/DFS. Fixed bugs using IPtrace tools, core dump analysis tools and memory leak tools, DMZ firewall.
Extensive Experience in AIX System Dump Generation, resizing Dump devices, understanding errpt reports and coordinating on different issues with AIX System Support Center
Logical Volume Management (LVM) administration of AIX, Extensively used LVM, created VGs, LVs, and disk mirroring.
Developed scripts (Korn/Bourne, Perl, python) for automating the batch jobs.
Wrote shell scripts for automated installations, to extract logs,
Intensive Performance and Tuning utilizing both standard UNIX tools (iostat, vmstat, sar) and IBM AIX specific tools (netpmon, tprof, 3dmon, xmperf) for long term historical data gathering and application volumetric
Installation and Administration of TIVOLI system monitoring tool.Installed Blad logic and BPPM.
Administrator of IBM RS/6000 servers running AIX 5.2 for support of PeopleSoft Financials and HRMS Environment on Oracle 9, DNS, FTP and Legato tape backup
Process administration (monitoring processes and system load using VMSTAT, SVMON, UPTIME utilities, monitoring logs, scheduling processes using CRON utility).
Hardware diagnostic troubleshooting with severs, using diag, and cfgmgr utilities.
System policies and hardware profiles, hard disk configuration for fault tolerance, disk mirroring and backup the data using BACKUP devices.
Worked with DBAs on installation of RDBMS database, restoration and log generation.
Environments: IBM AIX 4.x/5.x (RS/6000), Oracle 9i BMC Patrol, Remedy, Korn Shell, NFS, SAN, DNS, Intel Servers, Windows NT/2000/XP, Blade logic.
EDUCATION:
Bachelors of Computers Sciences, Western Michigan University Kalamazoo MI 2006