ATEF F. GHALY

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Los Angeles, California 90066

310-***-****

310-***-****

acw4at@r.postjobfree.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/atef-ghaly-7b0083a3

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

15+ years of experience in all aspects of Aix / Linux System Administration. Experience in AIX, LINUX, HACMP, SAN, TSM, NIM, LPARs and VIOs. Proactive team player involved in providing support for critical Production Environments. Hands-on experience with all stages of system development efforts, including requirements gathering, design, architecture, implementation, testing and support, Frame Migrations and setup of Disaster Recovery Servers and Testing the newly setup environment with the different applications. System abilities include analytical skills, leadership, and communication skills.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

AIX 5.1/6.1/7.1, RHEL Support

Power 5/6/7/8 Servers

PowerVM - VIOS/NPIV/IVE/SEA/LPM/VSCSI

HMC (Version 6/7/8)

High Availability – HACMP/PowerHA

SAN Migration (PPME, SRDF, LVM, Portmig)

Solution Architecture

Datacenter/Server/Storage Migration

Technical Documentation

Performance Analysis / Tuning

Infrastructure Projects

Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery

Regulatory Compliance

Risk Assessment / Impact Analysis

TRAINING:

IBM eServer Certified Specialist pSeries Administration and Support for AIX

Logical Partitioning (LPAR) on POWER5 pSeries

HACMP/PowerHA clustering technology

Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering

UNIX operating systems (Quotron systems)

Microsoft Certified Product Specialist WIN NT WRKST

Microsoft Certified Product Specialist WIN NT SERVER

Microsoft Certified Product Specialist WINDOWS 95

EXPERIENCE

07/08 to 01/16 Kaiser Permanente/IBM (AIX/UNIX Administrator)

Responsible for the administration, installation, configuration, upgrades and support of AIX operating systems various RS6000 models, building VIO servers and clients.

Working with Application teams to configure, test and validate HACMP Fallover and oracle clusters

11/00 to 07/08 Adventist Health (Systems Engineer)

Responsible for the administration, installation, configuration, upgrades and support of AIX operating systems (versions 4.x and 5.x) on various RS6000 models(P570, P595, P670, P690), IBM ESS(F20)and IBM SAN Switches. Worked with vendors as well to troubleshoot vendor specific hardware/software

Troubleshooting RS6000 and network problems, worked with IBM HAMCP clustering technology, maintaining other UNIX flavors (Linux, SCO and Solaris) Supporting Pharmacy and Lab systems (24/7), utilizing Online JFS Backup to maintain high availability. Developed necessary shell scripts to automate most operational functions as well as menus and utilities for end users.

4/97 to 11/00 BANCTEC/ Southern California Edison. (Sr. Outsource Customer Engineer)

Team leader for moves, adds, and changes for the Alhambra, Montebello and general offices for Southern California Edison (Windows 95, Windows NT and Netware)

1/86 to 5/96 Quotron Systems Inc. / Phoenix Service Technologies (Senior Customer Engineer / Specialist)

Responsible for the installation and on-going maintenance of UNIX-based mini-computer systems, local area networks and peripherals for the financial and legal industries.

Perform Site planning to ensure that environmental, power and cabling requirements for the various systems were met, Diagnose trouble with data circuits and communication equipment. Experienced with TCP/IP Protocol configuration, Token Ring and Ethernet Hubs, Data Scopes, DHCP servers configuration and PC applications. Continuously met or exceeded all performance standards as set by senior management

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