U.S. Citizen

Phoenix, Arizona

623-***-****

William “Bill” Mayer

SUMMARY:

Professional experience with Information Technology, spanning all aspects of enterprise business information and client/server systems and networks. This includes all major flavors of UNIX, with an emphasis on IBM’s AIX operating system and virtualization, enterprise-wide planning and roll-out, and specialized training and practical deployment experience with Tivoli, Unicenter, HPOV and Websphere on multiple heterogeneous platforms. Strengths include IBM AIX 5.x, 6.x, 7.x virtualization and dynamic logical partitioning on pSeries hardware, system enterprise architecture, systems and team lead, heterogeneous break/fix, and UNIX and network troubleshooting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware:

IBM pSeries hardware 520s/720s, 550s/750s, 650, 570s/770s, 670/690s, 595s/795s, RS6000s, HMCs, Sun 6x00/5x00/4x00/3x00, DEC ALPHA, Enterprise Servers (HP9000s, Sequent, Pyramid Nile 150, Disk, Server Farms

EMC Clariion components, EMC DMX w/500TB, EMC2 3000 series Data Storage Systems

Unisys Midrange Systems, Burroughs Medium Systems

Cisco Routers (2500s thru 7000s, some IOS), AT&T and US WEST T1, E1, ISDN, Sun T1,T3, A1x, A5x storage

Operating Systems/Networks

IBM AIX (3.2 thru 7.1), Dlp and virtualization (IBM)

Solaris 2.6 thru 2.1, Digital UNIX/OSF/True64, HP-UX (9.x thru 11.x), DYNIX/ptx

DC/Osx/Reliant, SCO UNIX, NFS/DNS/NIS, NIS+, BSD & SVR4

Windows NT/2000

TCP/IP

Baynetworks Hubs and Bridges, Ethernet, Frame Relay

Novell (3.xx, some 4.x)

Languages/Tools:

Virtualization, Dynamic Logical Partitioning

Oracle Application Server installs, DB2 & Oracle Performance Analysis on AIX

AIX tuning for in-house and COTS software

Actifio for AIX 6.1

NetApp/Oracle RAC Snap Mirror Scripting

IBM MQ, IBM WAS

BladeLogic, Solarwinds, Remedy, Sudoers, Python, Trillian/Putty/cygwin

Sudo, Lotus Suite, Tivoli TME 10 (thru 3.6.1)

OpenView, Nagios, Apache Server, Cold Fusion

DEC LSM/Adfs, Controllers, HP LVM

Oracle 7.x thru 11g Systems Support and Migrations

Progress db Support and Migrations

Sybase Support, Network General Sniffer, SSH, SSL, DNS

JumpStart, Ignite, NIM, Performance Tuning, Load-Balancing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Chemtura Corporation, Middlebury, CT 08/13 – 12/15

AIX/Unix Systems Engineer/SME

Senior engineer migrating Chemtura datacenter in Middlebury, CT to HCL's datacenter in Smyrna, GA. AIX 5.3, 6.1. P5s, mostly P7s (P740, P750), AIX Project Engineer on Actifio configuration and implementation for AIX 6.1, migrated over 300TB of data, 200+ dlpars, IBM V7000s, DS8100s.

Bank of America, Tempe, AZ 09/12 – 07/13

AIX/Unix Systems Engineer/SME, Global Markets & Risk Technology

Senior staff member of Unix Design & Build group, responsible for hardware & OS upgrades, migrations, all things AIX/Unix.

Sr. SA experience working with Application and Project teams as well as Storage, Database, Networks, NIM, HMC and Hardware Engineering teams. IBM pSeries 5,6,7 series hardware, IBM AIX 4.x thru 7.1.

Coventry Health Care, Phoenix, AZ 02/11 - 09/12

Unix Systems Engineer

A staff member of the Run Team at Coventry, responsible for ownership of servers, Phoenix Data Center HMCs, various on-going projects with third-party vendors, and day-to-day Unix engineering on IBM AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and some old True64.

Participated in a group rotational helpdesk called TRAC, and a week-long On-Call schedule. Implemented Solarwinds company-wide.

Self-employed as IT Consultant for short-term contracts, Phoenix, AZ 12/09 – 01/11

Wyndham Hotel Group, Wyndham Worldwide, Phoenix, AZ 09/09 – 11/09

IT Consultant

Worked independently, a total review and OS-related recommendations for tuning AIX kernels for more performance and efficiency running DB2 and Oracle databases, migrating from IBM Power4 hardware to Power5 and Power6 hardware, VIO servers, multiple dynamic lpars, HACMP clusters, etc. IBM pSeries and AIX 5.x, 6.1.

IBM ITS Group, Walmart Act., Arkansas 01/09 – 05/09

Master SME-AIX

IBM Stability Group for AIX technical support on BladeCenter servers.

Level III support for IBM’s largest account.

Level III AIX, networking, builds, service. AIX 4.x, 5.x, Nortel Switches, Cisco.

IBM Global Services, GAP, Inc. Rocklin, CA 06/07 – 11/08

Onshore Senior AIX Systems Engineer/Team Lead

Level III support for IBM Global Services GAP account to include multiple onshore datacenters with approximately 3500 IBM 9117s strategically chopped into dynamic and logical partitions. The bulk of these servers were managed by twin, redundant VIO servers.

First year, built 44 dlpars in 3.5 weeks, without a NIM for GAP’s flagship onshore project, North American Labor Management (NALM).

After the project got feet, responsible for application support and troubleshooting.

When the project rolled out, began doing RFS (request for service) work for the entire account, as well as acting interim Team Lead for the AIX group.

Tasks included VIO server builds and configurations, lpar builds, HACMP Cluster builds, SVC disk storage allocations, dynamic LUN expansion, activating Capacity on Demand, maintaining 18 HMCs, lead systems engineer on majority of SEV I calls, and a myriad of other 3rd. level support activities.

Reported directly to the IBM DPE (data processing executive) for the GAP account. IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, virtualization, dynamic logical partitioning, some Sun.

Pulte Homes, Inc., Tempe, Arizona 03/07 – 06/07

Senior AIX Engineer

Senior AIX Engineer for national home builder. One of two AIX engineers, my responsibilities include all hardware maintenance and support in the Pulte DataCenter in Tempe, Arizona. Additionally, major senior admin duties for various Project Managers and departments including development, staging, production and special projects. Pulte is a major mid-size IBM shop with an Enterprise pSeries 595, twin IBM 671s (7040s), and over 200 pSeries 505s, 520s, and 550Qs integrated with multiple SANs including an IBM Shark (now BigMouth) and an EMC DMX. Upwards of 500TB in current apps and data.

Primarily IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3.

Cap Gemini, Phoenix, AZ 07/06 – 03/07

IT Consultant

Senior AIX for regional SAP Practice, with accounts nationally. Primary responsibility as Senior AIX Administrator for Pioneer Electronics in Long Beach, California.

Managed and maintained 20 Enterprise pSeries IBM 550Qs for Pioneer, with SLA responsibilities and hardware and OS repair responsibilities. Pioneer utilizes a DLPAR environment as well as Advanced Power Virtualization and AIX 5.3 to run a large SAP environment. Primarily IBM AIX 5.2 and 5.3, including a flavor upgrade.

Arizona Public Service Company, Phoenix, AZ 01/06 – 06/06

Systems Programmer

AIX Systems Programmer for state-wide public utility company, responsible for Unix systems administration and systems engineering for Electrical Management System (EMS) project, and Distributed Operations Management System (DOMS) project.

Server configuration, administration (w/hardware management console), problem resolution, capacity planning, integration, and best practices for deployment. Primarily IBM AIX 5.3, some Sun Solaris 9.x

WebMD, Scottsdale, AZ 07/05 – 10/05

Senior Unix Administrator

Responsible for all Unix platforms in Arizona, as well as application support, OS and hardware migrations/cutovers, EDI support, OS and firmware upgrades, communications, and several other “hats” as needed.

Honeywell Home & Building Controls Division, Golden Valley, MN

Corporate IS Network and Systems Administrator

Responsible for network and systems administration for large heterogeneous UNIX-based 3000+ node TCP/IP network. 24/7 support, long-range planning, and gradual standardization of OS and applications. Ignite configurations. HP-UX 9.x, Sun Solaris 2.6, SCO Unix

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