Professional Summary

Over **+ years of experience in Administration, Engineering and Development of Information Systems on AIX, Unix, Linux (Redhat), HP-ux Expertise in Planning, Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of UNIX, IBM HACMP V5.3 on 5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1.

Experience with POWER 7, 6, 5, Series, which include IBM pSeries 770, 595, 570, 550, 520 and RS6000 Servers.

Experienced in installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of IBM AIX, HP-UX v1/v2/v3, Linux (Redhat& SUSE).

Experience in installation, configuration, backup, recovery and upgrades of IBM AIX

Extensive experience in Security remediation, critical assessments, disaster recovery and Virtualization.

AIX System Administrator with expertise on IBM Blade Server JS22 & pSeries 550 570 590 & RS6000 Servers

Worked with Power7/Power6/Power5 & RS6000 Servers.

Build countless VIOS and LPAR’s on p-series p550, p570, p595. Configuration and installation.

Installed and configured DR Boxes for disaster recovery.

Implementation administration & virtualization with various platforms such as System P and System X.

Solely Responsible for Building the LPARS, Allocating storage and OS installation through NIM.

Configured and assigned hardware resources within LPARS, installed AIX 5.3 and 6.1 and installed patches.

Built HACMP Clusters from the scratch.

Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches.

Design, build, install and configure Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers

Create and administer RedHat Enterprise Linux operating systems to implement on the existing network.

Troubleshoot and Trouble Analysis of system issues

Determine issues and resolutions for Systems and Servers installed.

Experience in Disks Migration of HACMP 5.4.

Installation, configuration and administration of Solaris 9, 10, Redhat 4.x, 5.x, 6.x HP-UX 11.x, IBM AIX.

Managed Active Directory services. (Created Accounts, Reset Passwords.

Expertise on Tivoli Storage Management, Administration & support (TSM).

Extensively worked on advanced areas of IBM AIX such as PowerVM, LPAR, HACMP etc

Experienced in configuring and supporting Logical Partitions/Micro Partitions (LPAR/DLPAR), via HMC (Hardware Management Console).

Experience in EMC Clarion SAN Storage, Hitachi, DS6000.

Installation of VIO Server on IBM p6 & p5 systems.

Proven ability to Define System requirements, recommended solutions, analyze capacity and make appropriate modifications

Installation, administration, configuration and testing of VIO Server and VIO client LPAR’S.

Extensive experience with Virtualization

Experienced with the installation, configuration of volume management using VERITAS Volume Manager.

Strong appetite for learning new technologies with positive attitude.

Demonstrated success many times under aggressive project schedules and deadlines. Flexible, result oriented and adapt to the environment quickly to meet the goals of the product and the organization.

Extensively used HMC-V7 and V6 to perform various tasks like creating VIOS and LPARS, performing DLPAR operation to change CPU configuration, changing LPAR profiles, Activating LPARS, power-off frame etc.

Worked with GPFS cluster.

Process

Incident / Change Management.

Customer trust & IT security Compliance.

Co-ordination with diff project team's.

Academic & Certificates

Bachelors in Computers.

IBM Certified System p Administrator

IBM Certified p Series HACMP for AIX 5L.

Awards

Tivoli LDAP setup for onsite team for User-ID management and centralized authentication.

Most number of tickets resolved (pod-works service requests) for the year 2010.

Best team player award.

Most number of SAN-based migration’s achievement, 2014 in JPMC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: JPMorgan Chase Aug 2014 – Till date.

Location: Jersey City

Role: Senior Lead AIX systems engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational banking and financial services holding company. It is the largest bank in the United States, with total assets of US$2.6 trillion. It is a major provider of financial services, and according to Forbes magazine is the world's third largest public company based on a composite ranking. The company was formed in 2000.

The J.P. Morgan brand, historically known as Morgan, is used by the investment banking, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, private banking, private wealth management and treasury & securities services divisions.

Responsibilities:

Leading the SAN-Based Migration projects with a team of 15 members.

Ensure end-to-end migrations in typical heterogeneous environments.

Meetings with LOB's for Project initiatives and Project planning

Analyze the current System Configuration. Preparing high-level plans and discussions with PM.

Plan and Timeline walkthrough with LOB's. Go/No Go call with LOB.

Execution of Migration plan.

Hurricane Drive Remediation’s, Migration of old SAN to New SAN arrays.

AIX LVM /Linux LVM /VERITAS VXVM migrations.

Worked with Business As usual (BAU) changes & Incidents. Closed N no of Changes during day-day activities adhering to SLA.

Closed many ITSM changes following Change management Life Cycle.

GPFS, HACMP Migrations.

Worked with Oracle ASM clusters. Co-ordinated with DB team, Application teams, SAN team's

Initializing meetings, Working with PM’s, New Project Initiatives, Preparing the Technical Plan’s.

Presentations & Execution of Technical Plans.

Mentored team members and trained them in handling Typical Migrations.

Worked on DR-activities and supported application & DB teams during DR activities.

Worked with TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager), backup and restore. TSM administration

Client: IBM, CIO-innovations July 2013 – July 2014.

Location: Southbury

Role: AIX IT operation specialist.

CIO BT and IT

CIO Business Transformation and Information Technology is a cross-functional organization consisting of the following: Application and Infrastructure Services Management; CIO Lab; Global Workforce & Web Processes Transformation; Business Transformation; Worldwide Business Integration; IT Risk Management; and Blue Harmony.

In addition, the CIO organization plays an essential role in helping IBM become a Globally Integrated Enterprise (GIE) by ensuring that it operates seamlessly, leverages global assets, seizes growth opportunities, and develops competencies globally.

Responsibilities:

Designing and documenting the architectural plan for the new-proposed projects and help offshore team to deploy the solution.

Installed HMC latest version 7.7.8 as part of HMC version upgrade with all the available fix packs from IBM fix central.

AIX 7.1 Installation and new server build for AIX Operating System. Deploying AIX in Complete over write, preservation and migration modes.

AIX Server Installations, configurations, and troubleshooting the issues related to different applications.

AIX 6.1 to AIX7.1 Migrations.

San disk's management using VIO-server LVM and configuring San disks to LPARs.

Live partition mobility. Moving 1 lpar from one p-Series to another p-Series server.

MPIO-dual vio setups, Virtualizing Network cards (SEA, LHEA), Virtualizing Disks, and configuring lpars. Deploying Vio's 2.1.3 and AIX OS 7.1, 6.1, on lpars.

HMC Installations and upgradation's, configuring p-Series Servers in HMC's using ASMI console.

Network Patch management for diff subnets of ntwork ferom Hub room to Data center.

Installation of DB2 9.5, 9.7 and oracle Installation on all flavours of UNIX and Linux.

Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g Installations on all flavours of UNIX.

Installation of WAS and required WAS fix packs as a requirement for application teams.

Deployed the Unix OS, HMC agents on all P-series server to provide Monitoring Metrics as part of Tivoli monitoring project.

Worked on HMC's, administering LPAR's, DLPAR nodes, resource allocation, moving resources as when required dynamically.

Scheduling TSM backups and restoring the backups in the event of OS-crash.

Registering new nodes in TSM server. Assigning the nodes to the existing policy domains.

User-Management and group management for new users in TSM.

Client: IBM-CIO Business Transformation & Information Technology April 2011 – May2013.

Designation: Systems Management Specialist.

Innovation is crucial to IBM's transformation and core to our values. Within the CIO organization, the mission of the CIOLab is to showcase innovation and discover, create and incubate emerging technology solutions. The CIOLab teams of innovators help IBMers be more productive, mobile and help the corporation deliver IT more securely and efficiently.

Responsibilities:

Created/Configured a two-node GPFS cluster for WAS applications.

AIX OS migration from AIX5.3 to AIX6.1 TL 6 sp1 as part of infrastructure upgrades.

Hardware migration of AIX lpars from P5 to P7 servers as part of infrastructure retiral process.

Written change management process for handling any production changes in Tivoli Infrastructure.

Doing a catalyst role in CIO Idea innovation Hub team.

ESX server OS upgradation from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1.

Hands on experience in Tivoli Event Life Cycle Management Process project, this solution helps an automated alert notification when an event gets generated by eliminating the manual intervention of physical resources of a server to avoid impact of machine-critical applications for any resource crunch.

Deployed Tivoli monitoring tools in our infrastructure.

Installed Tivoli ITM agents on AIX, Linux, and Windows machines. Agents will report the health of the server to the Omnibus server.

Worked on HMC agents and DB2 agent which collects metrics from HMC's and database.

Worked with Cognos Reports for analysis of events. Estimated Database Capacity planning through warehouse load projections. Worked with db29.5, 9.7 versions.

Worked with WebSphere application teams and database teams.

Client: IBM -ISL (IBM Software Labs) April 2009 – April 2011

Role: IT-Specialist.

IBM-ISL India Software Lab (ISL) is one of the largest product development centers for IBM globally. ISL focuses on developing products, technology and solutions for IBM Software Group, IBM Systems & Technology Group and IBM Engineering & Technology Services.

Responsibilities:

Server Installations, configurations, and troubleshooting the issues related to different applications and Tivoli products.

San disk's management using VIO-server LVM and configuring San disks to LPARs.

Live partition mobility. Moving 1 lpar from one p-Series to another p-Series server.

MPIO-dual vio setups, Virtualizing Network cards (SEA, LHEA), Virtualizing Disks, and configuring lpars. Deploying Vio's 2.1.3 and AIX OS 7.1, 6 L, 5 L on lpars.

HMC Installations and upgradation's, configuring p-Series Servers in HMC's using ASMI console.

Worked with WPAR's system and application WPAR’s.

Network Patch management for diff subnets of network from Hub room to Data center.

Installation of DB2 9.5, 9.7 and oracle Installation on all flavours of UNIX and Linux.

Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g Installations on all flavours of UNIX.

Successfully done a POC of a Tivoli LDAP Directory Server for centralized user authentication for Onsite team.

ESX server installations. Administration of VMware ESX server.

Knowledge Transfer / Technical Upgradation to Team Members

Administration of Virtual Center with 8 Nodes and more than 50 VM's with diff flavours of Lindows.

Installation, configuration, and troubleshooting skills in HP-UX on Pa-risc and Itanium architecture. Patch management from HP-ux site and other third-party-software.

Deployed Solaris OS on Sparc architecture, OS troubleshooting skills, root password recovery, and patch management from sun-solve site.

Configuring Ldoms, Deploying the OS on the Ldoms for Sun T-series machines.

RHEL, Suse Deployment on ppc Lpars, X86 architecture VM's.

Worked with ITCS engineers for all Hardware related issues for P-series, Solaris firmware upgradation's, blade center issues and for any hardware part replacement.

Worked with IT-security team for all IT-security related issues.

Client: Microland April 2005 – March 2009\

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka

Role: AIX System Administrator

Microland is India’s first Hybrid IT Infrastructure Services provider and a trusted partner to enterprises in their IT-as-a-Service journey. Incorporated in 1989 and headquartered in Bangalore, India, Microland has 2800+ specialists across its offices in Europe, Middle East, North America and India.

Responsibilities:

Virtualizing P-series IO devices using vio-server.

Configuring Lpars as per the availability of physical resources.

Installation of WAS (WebSphere application Server), browsers for aix.

Monitoring the server using performance tools, experience troubleshooting performance related issues (CPU, Memory, Network, disks).

HMC upgradation's in AIX.

Configuring the SAN-disks in vio-server.

Disk Storage Management in AIX – Logical and Physical Volume management, configuring disks, working with volume groups, logical volumes, and physical volumes.

Server OS Installation's, APAR's, PTF and ML, TL installation and management. Installing any third party tools as and when required.

Setting up NFS Servers, exporting file systems, mounting exported file systems, working with nfs daemons and fixing any file system mounting issues.

Keeping the complete Mksysb backup of the system and restoring the data in the event of disk failure

Configuration of new devices using cfgmgr – faulty disk Replacement incase of any disaster. Working with mirrored logical volumes. Device management, including adding, changing, and configuring physical and logical devices.

HACMP Cluster Configuration, Setting up new HACMP environment, Planning, Design, Configuring HACMP networks, Failover testing and verification, Cluster Synchronization, performing HACMP health checks – looking at cluster statistics, observing resource group status.

Trouble shooting HACMP related issues, going through the log files, testing HACMP Heart beat i.e. Disk heart beat and RS232 Heart beat and working with different HACMP Daemons.

Worked on HMC's, administering LPAR's, DLPAR nodes, resource allocation, moving resources as when required dynamically.

Installation and new server build for AIX Operating System. Deploying AIX in Complete over write, preservation and migration modes.

Migrating AIX 5.2 to AIX 5.3. Upgrading TL or ML, Service packs, APARs, and installing other third party software vncservers, openssh, adobe reader.

Monitoring performance of AIX servers, Memory, CPU, Network and Disk activities and analyzing these reports and finding any issues that occur.

Workings on paging spaces, analyzing the usage, increasing, decrease the paging spaces etc.

Performing daily health checks on all supported servers.

Configuring secure shell, working with sudo tools, configuring sudoers.

Accessing rootvg of the machine that will not boot and fixing any file systems mounting issues.

Used Websm to work with LPAR machines.

Deploying Solaris on SPARC Based Servers in customer environment.

Installing and configuring Servers and Storages as per Customer Project Based.

Remote Administration of Solaris OS, applications, other third-party software’s.

Managing users and groups to access the server

OS patches Upgradation from Sun solve site for Solaris.

Administration of N/W services such as Telnet, SSH in Solaris.

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