Unix Lead

Lawrence D. Rich

**** ********* **.

Elgin IL. **124

Phone 224-***-****

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

I have over thirty years of Unix experience. Most as the technical lead of up to 27 administrators. I have always been a hands on administrator whose focus have been in getting the most out of the assigned resources for the environment. I have successfully implemented recovery, disaster recovery, visualization and patching/maintenance procedures in multiple environments. My strength is in Aix having installed and maintained versions from 2.1 to 7.1 since 1991. I also have 7 years of Linux (mainly Red Hat) and 5 years working with Vmware.

Work History

2/2013 to 1/2016

Unix Lead Hyatt Hotels

Converted from Contract to Employee

Position has grown to 18 administrators

Server count has grown by factor of 10 and storage by 25 times.

Completed Data Center migration and starting to implement DR in remote location.

Implemented TSM backup systems with 2 petabyes online storage.

Implemented P870 hardware solution that drove a 12% booking increase first quarter this year.

Migrated 50 AIX lpars from 7 P750’s running AIX 6.1 to 3 P870’s running AIX 7.1

Assisted in migration of 300 Red Hat VM’s.

Assisted in San admin for IBM 8870 and V7000, Hitachi 2500

10/2012 – 2/2013

Unix Lead - Smart Source

This company is where Hyatt employs its contract and contract to hire resources.

Directed 6 UNIX admins.

Assisted in maintenance/installation of San consisting of Brocade/Hitachi/IBM switches/storage

Implemented TSM for backup

Reorganized existing systems to provide double the workload

Reorganized Vmware/San to best practices to increase availability

2/2010- 10/2012

Unix Lead – CSC

Zurich outsourced its IT to CSC

Principal for the migration of 500 AIX servers from 4 Zurich data centers to 2 CSC data centers. Servers were on P590/P595 hardware running AIX 5.3 and migtated to new DC’s as AIX 6.1 on P750s.

Migration accomplished OS upgrades, visualization and Dr for production servers.

Used 40 IBM 750s to provision 200 production/200 DR and 300 non production servers.

Started with a group of 22 admins ended with 6 under supervision.

Implemented procedure to preform Frame updates on yearly cycle utilizing Dynamic Lpar routines to free up frame for microcode updates.

Implemented automatic mksysb loads for DR servers to ensure they were ready to receive application disk in event of DR.

4/2007 – 2/2010

Unix Lead – Zurich Insurance

Started as resource to migrate Unix servers between EMC storage that was being refreshed. Was made permanent employee after 3 months.

Projects included developing patching, recovery and backup procedures using Nim and TSM.

Provided server support for various Data Warehouses using DB2, Oracle.

Built first AIX virtual systems for Farmers claims systems using AIX 6.1 and Oracle Rack.

Built first Linux Oracle Rack at Zurich.

Upgraded TSM backup systems

4/2000- 4/2007

Unix Lead – Checkfree Investment Services

This was a clearing house which allowed various Brokerage houses/Banks to trade each others programs.

Managed 40 power frames with about 120 lpars.

Implemented scheduler to automate daily workloads

Implemented TSM for backup/recovery

Implemented DR at remote Newark site

Implemented automated maintenance routines that cut batch errors by 90%

Implemented San consisting of IBM storage/McData switches.

I worked in similar positions for Transunion, GATX and Wickes lumber.

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