Asad Arshad
***************@*****.***
SUMMARY
•Over 7+ years of UNIX System and Network administration in Sun Solaris (9/10), HP-UX (10.x,11.x), IBM AIX (5.x), Linux (RedHat 4/5/6).
•Server Installations, configurations, upgrades and migrations on Solaris, HP- UX, Linux.
•Configure and manage Middleware and web tools such as Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere, JBoss.
•Storage Provisioning, Volume and Filesystem Management using Veritas Volume Manager and VeritasFilesystem (Veritas Storage Foundation), Configuring ZFS filesystems.
•Customized patching and maintenance of HPUX, Solaris, Linux servers on regular schedule.
•Worked on different platform on SUSE Linux which includes 10.x,11.x
•Regular work involving building new Linux Physical and Virtual servers using kickstart and PXE.
•Installation, Configuration and administration of LPARS.
•Experienced Installing, Configuring and supporting VMWare ESX 3.4 and 4 versions.
•Installed, monitored and supported Web and Application Servers on AIX and Linux environments.
•Server Installations, configurations, upgrades and migrations on Linux.
•Configure and manage Middleware and web tools such as Tomcat apache, WebSphere, JBoss.
•Consolidating multiple Linux servers, into 2 physical virtual servers, using vserver.
•Customized patching and maintenance of Linux servers on regular schedule.
•Regular work involving building new Linux Physical and Virtual servers using kickstart and PXE boot.
•Installation and troubleshooting on VMware running Linux (RehHat) and Windows (wintel, windows 7, XP, Vista).
•Experience in building the Solaris servers using wanboot.
•Good working knowledge of network & UNIX security procedures.
•Administrating and troubleshooting Red Hat Cluster Suites.
•Participate in installing and configuring of UNIX/Linux based Oracle 10g products
•Strong knowledge of large-scale Linux deployment methodologies, kernel configuration, performance monitoring, and tuning
•Experienced in working with Network Engineers to install, manage, and configure NAS based storage and insure overall system and network security.
•Worked with WebSphere team in order to configure WAS instances for BMC patrol.
•Hitachi, EMC SAN installation and tuning of NetBackup server environment..
•Provide 24x7 on call server support for UNIX environment and Sun Solaris.
EDUCATION:
1988-1991 Punjab University Lahore Pakistan
B.Com IT
Diploma course in Unix/Linux
TECHNICAL SKILLS
O/S:
• Sun Solaris 2.x, 8, 9, 10
• Linux (RHEL4/5/6)
• HP-UX 9.x, 10.x, 11.x
• IBM AIX 3.2.x, 4.x, 5.x
Hardware: HP, DELL, IBM, PSeries, SUN Enterprise.
Servers: Web Sphere Application Server 3.5/4.0, Netscape/iPlanet Server, MQSeries, Web Logic Server, IBM HTTP Server, HTML, DHTML, XML, Java Script, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Apache 2.2, Tomcat 5.5, Active MQ
Networking: TCP/IP, RPC, UDP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, LAN.
RDBMS: IBM UDB2, Oracle 7.x/8.0/9i, MS-SQL Server 7.0/6.5 and MS-Access 97/95.
Languages: UNIX Shell Programming (ksh,csh,sh),Verilog HDL, Matlab with toolboxes, SQL.
Applications: Samba, Tivoli (TSM), VERITAS Volume Manager.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Wells Fargo, Chandler AZ
Mar 2015 -Present
UNIX-Linux Admin
Assigned to work on OneTouch project.
Assisting Techs. and solving server related issues through bridge line
Create full server backup and removing RPMs and uninstalling vormetrics on the server.
Backup Branch Boks unique configuration data.
Installation of SVT version on branch servers.
Restore the branch specific data and Empress Database.
Perform ILO and UPS configuration.
Install the latest Osupd6- firm patch.
Troubleshooting all kinds of UNIX problems and assisting users.
User and Group administration in Linux and Solaris environment.
Creating and maintaining user, groups account on LINUX server.
Knowledge of installing RHEL Server from scratch using kick start and PXE boot.
Hands on experience using the VI editor.
Install, configure, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of RHEL 5.5 and higher.
Perform day to day System Admin tasks.
Experienced working script in shell.
Experience in Installation and support of server adapters HBA (host based adapter) and network cards.
Experience with Linux installations, configuration management and patch administration as member of a production support team.
Strong knowledge of Linux kernel configuration, performance monitoring, and tuning.
Good Knowledge of LVM, which include creating PVs, VGs, LVs and filesystems and troubleshooting.
Responsible for installation, configuration and administration of Sun Solaris 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on x86 architecture.
Implemented puppet for configuration management.
Installed, monitored and supported Web and Application Servers on AIX and Linux environments.
Implementation and setup of local Linux disk backups using open Source applications.
Installation and troubleshooting on VMware running Linux (Red Hat) and Windows (wintel, windows 7, XP, Vista).
Worked with DBA for Installation of Oracle on Linux and Solaris.
Worked on installation of Power path on all Linux boxes.
Participate in installing and configuring of UNIX/Linux based Oracle 10g products
Profound understanding of networking and LINUX/UNIX
Outstanding decision-making and problem-solving skills
Environment: Unix/RedHat Linux, Solaris, Unix/Linux. VMware, Citrix, BMC Remedy
INTEL CORP, Chandler AZ
Jan 2013 –Jan 2015
UNIX-Linux Admin
Linux (RedHat 3/4/5/6) UNIX System and Network administration in Sun Solaris (9/10), HP-UX (10.x,11.x), IBM AIX (5.x), Server Installations, configurations, upgrades and migrations on Solaris, HP- UX, Linux and AIX.
Experienced working with NPIV and EMC SAN configurations within AIX.
Perform system installs and performance tuning, configure and administer AIX 5.3, 6.1 LPAR’s
Experienced in managing LPAR with virtual memory management and memory optimization and using AIX Virtual Memory Manager (VMM).
Experienced in providing full support to the life cycle of the Project i.e. Development, Testing, Production Phase Experienced in Upgrading HMC from 6.1.3 to 7.3.3 versions.
Introduced config 2 html scripts as attempt to document the whole AIX server environment in the company, & automated the scripts.
Responsible for building and migrating different versions of RHEL.
Responsible for migrating and updating RHEL, SUSE, Fedora.
Responsible for patching and upgrading all SUSE Linux Servers.
Kernel upgrade on RHEL and SUSE.
Worked on UNIX Shell Programming ksh, csh, sh, bash, php, perl.
Create virtual media repository and LPAR dedicated virtual optical drives in the VIO servers to make new installations, cloning and migrations faster and easier.
Responsible for set up of BMC Patrol Agents V3.6.50.11i and 3.6.60i environment on UNIX Servers.
Worked with WebSphere team in order to configure WAS instances for BMC patrol.
Experience in Setup and Configuration of IBM AIX HACMP and GPFS on pseries servers.
Involved in supporting HP Open VMS Systems
Experience in using VERITAS Volume manager and VERITAS Cluster server products.
Experienced in leading a team for the built process and represent Change control meeting for the ongoing process.
Knowledge of ITIL and Business Continuity processes, experience with tape technologies, Information Life Cycle Management and SOL 10.
Experienced in Performance tuning in the test phase of the Servers.
Monitor system performance to ensure adequate response times
Power VM Virtualization (SEA, vSCSI, NPIV), Dynamic LPAR (DLAPR).
Experienced in Cleaning Storage and Allocates Luns to servers per standard configurations or recommendations.
Worked with SOP’s related to storage allocation.
Experience with Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)
Perform day to day LVM operations and System Admin tasks.
Experienced in troubleshooting virtual Ethernet adapters, Clusters interconnect, and ether channels.
Experienced working script in shell, perl.
Experience in performing tasks like monitoring CPU / RAM / Disk space utilization, port utilization and running processes on applicable OS
Wrote & automated security audit scripts in the environment
Experience with IBM Power4, Power5, Power6 and Power7 virtualization.
Administering and troubleshooting of Redhat Clusters.
Adding and removing nodes from and to the cluster.
Installed SUSE Linux on Cisco Hardware for SAP HANA deployment.
Experience with Linux installations, configuration management and patch administration as member of a production support team.
Strong knowledge of Linux kernel configuration, performance monitoring, and tuning.
Good Knowledge of LVM, which include creating PVs, VGs, LVs and filesystems and troubleshooting.
Configuration and maintenance of common applications such as NFS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, and SNMP.
Strong knowledge of large-scale Linux deployment methodologies, kernel configuration, performance monitoring, and tuning
Experience with SAN/Data Center Migration and Consolidation implementations.
Experienced in Storage Consolidation/Migration in an ENTERPRISE environment (EMC/IBM/NetApp).
Involved in complete Administration tasks on UNIX, Red Hat Linux and Solaris and documentation for the projects executed.
Responsible for installation, configuration and administration of Sun Solaris 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on x86 architecture.
Installed required software patches and software.
Used RPMs to install, update, verify, query and erase packages from Linux Servers.
Configured Kickstart server to install Red Hat Linux on multiple machines.
Experience using Kickstart and modified Kickstart based on server profiles and hardware specifications.
Experienced Installing, Configuring and supporting VMWare ESX 3.4 and 4 versions.
Installed, monitored and supported Web and Application Servers on AIX and Linux environments.
Implementation and setup of local Linux disk backups using open Source applications.
Consolidating multiple Linux servers, into 2 physical virtual servers, using vserver.
Installation and troubleshooting on VMware running Linux (Red Hat) and Windows (wintel, windows 7, XP, Vista).
Worked with DBA for Installation of Oracle on Linux and Solaris.
Worked on installation of Power path on all Linux boxes.
Participate in installing and configuring of UNIX/Linux based Oracle 10g products
Providing Version Control with Subversion and Automated Build & Deployments
Leading a small team of Deployment and Build Engineers
Experienced in SAN Zones and creating LUN for the Servers as requested
Experienced with working with Systems Engineers to implement storage solutions which provide high performance, data protection and cost effective use of available storage.
GSD331 troubleshooting, find any incompliant servers are Remediate GSD331.
Installed WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0/6.1 and enabled Web Content management.
Migrated WAS 5.0 Network Deployment and Base on AIX/Windows platforms to WAS 6.0 ND.
Responsible for architectural design of all Hitachi San environments and Brocade switches.
Management of all SAN storage systems, Hitachi, EMC, SUN capacity planning and performance tuning.
Installation, Configuration and administration of LPARS.
Installation, administration of VIO Server and VIO client LPARS.
Upgrading VIO version from 1.4 to 1.5 and 1.4.1.2-FP-9.2 to 2.1.
Knowledge of ITIL and Business Continuity processes, experience with tape technologies, Information Life Cycle Management.
Environment: UNIX/RedHat Linux, Solaris, Vi Editor, Shell Scripts.
MEDTRONICS. Tempe, AZ
Sep 2010 – Nov 2012
UNIX Administrator
Provided on-call support by rotation to provide 24x7x365 support.
Performed build from scratch installation, migration, configuration and maintenance of SUN Boxes 8/9/10, on M5000, T2000, T5000 and E25K etc., via Wanboot Server, LINUX 4.x/5.x/6.x on HP Hardwares and ESX via Kickstart Server and AIX of AIX 5.3/5.2/5.1/6.1 on IBM P series Hardwares through NIM server.
Installing and Configuring of the Virtual Redhat Linux and Windows Clients on the ESX hosts.
Vmotion of the Servers on the ESX hosts.
Configured VLAN’s and SAN on Virtual Servers.
Installed and Configured ESX on IBM X3850 boxes with Kickstart Server.
Installed and Configured WebSphere Application Server 5.1 and 6.1
Installed and Configured Veritas Symantec NetBackup and Veritas Cluster Suite on the Unix Servers.
Installing tools like PowerPath, Power Broker, BMC patrol, VSA, Tivoli, ITM.
Worked on all types of Hardwares like Dell 2850, 3850, 6850, HP DL 580 G5, 380 G5, M5000, T2000, E25k.
Installed REHL 3/4/5 on X86_64 bit Intel Processor and on x-series and HP DL Series Hardware’s.
LVM (Logical Volume Manager) Administration, OEL and VMware Administration.
Involved in large data center migration – planning, designing, moving servers to new data center, coordinating & troubleshooting issues with various data center, network, application and storage teams.
Physical to Virtual Machine Migration (P2V) and Physical to Physical Server Migration (P2P).
Performed live migrations and consolidated the physical servers to VMware infrastructure virtual machines with shared storage across EMC clariion, Dell and Open filer SANs.
Creating test plans to test and build Sun servers for Solaris 10.
Building Sun Solaris Servers from scratch with Jumpstart & Flash Archives for upcoming projects.
Adding Disks and Creating Slices and File System Administration on Solaris 8/9/10.
Creating/deleting root disks, root mirror, metadevices, metadbs, mirrors using Solaris Volume manager Solstice Disk Suite.
Configuration of Solaris 10 Wanboot server, zone creation, Role administration.
Creation and Configuration of the Solaris Zones on the T2000 and T4-1 Hardwares
Migrating of the Zones from one Hardware to a different Hardware and to other DataCenter.
Migrating the existing Solaris Servers from SVM to UFS and then to ZFS for Live Upgrades
Well Experienced in Live Upgrades Projects on the Solaris 10.
Veritas Installation and Configuration of the Veritas Cluster on the Unix Servers.
Veritas Volume Manager Configuration.
Adding EMC LUNs to AIX Servers for ongoing space requirements, Managing EMC master agents on AIX, working with Storage team on EMC Symmetrix
Troubleshooting HBAs problems.
Logging calls with Sun Microsystems, Veritas, Symantec, Emulex, EMC, HP (Linux) for resolution of critical problems.
Installed and Configured Veritas Symantec NetBackup and Veritas Cluster Suite on the Unix Servers.
Installing and configuring CentOS6.x on VMware Machines.
Installing and configuring Apache on the CentOS servers.
Configuring and monitoring Disk Mirroring and stripping using LVM.
User Management Administration and File System Management.
LDAP configuration and Management on the UNIX Servers.
Swap Space Management.
Job Scheduling and Automating process using CRON and AT.
Performance monitoring utilities like IOSTAT, VMSTAT, SAR, TOP and PRSTAT
Installation of Patches and Packages on the Linux and Solaris Servers.
Configuring and managing the Network Interfaces.
Ensure Data recoverability by implementing system and application level backups using NetBackup.
Configuring and implementing LINUX Kernel re-compilation.
Environment: Unix/RedHat Linux, Vi Editor, Solaris,Unix/Linux, Shell Scripts, VMWARE.
FIRST FINANCIAL BANK, Bloomington, IL
Jan 2009 – Aug 2010
Unix/Linux Administrator
Responsible for the Administration, Planning, Designing, Configuring, troubleshooting and performance tuning on the AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1, Linux and Solaris servers.
Experienced in Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Sun Solaris 8 and 9.
Experienced in Virtualization on VMware ESX Server environments.
Installation and configuration of VIO servers and updating system firmware by using HMC along with Logical Partition technology (LPARs).
Worked on different version on RHEL from bare metal hardware until turning over to Customer.
Installation of Solaris 8, 9 and 10 using wanboot server
Configured IBM RS 6000, 550,570,575,700,770 and Blade Server machines for production, staging and test environments
Setup and configured network TCP/IP on AIX including RPC connectivity for NFS. Created mount points for Server directories, and mounted these directories on AIX Servers
Configured and administrated LPARS.
Configured and administrated VIO server and Lpar clients.
Day-to-day operation of various Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices.
Adept at Monitoring and altering file system usage, hardware and system process failures.
Experienced in Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of Veritas Cluster Server, HP Service Guard and HACMP.
Proficiency with configuration and maintenance of NFS, DNS, NIS/NIS+, DHCP, SMTP, and Networking with TCP/IP.
Responsibilities include configuring and maintaining routed and switched TCP/IP networks.
Performed Zoning, LUN Masking and LUN provisioning on Symmetrix and EMC Clariion in SAN environment.
Expert in NAS (NFS, CIFS) infrastructure (EMC Celerra, NetApp, Unix NFS, Windows CIFS & DFS, Samba, Rainfinity) architecture, migration, management
Maintained Raleigh filers and served as point man for all NetApp related issues or queries.
Installed a PHP based Linux kickstart solution that allows for the building of profiles based on IP address- this system allows for rapid installation of new Linux systems.
Administration Tasks included User administration, Performance, Sendmail. weekly mksysb
Worked on Micro Partitioning on P6 machines.
Configured and Administered HACMP 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 IBM PowerHA.
Migrating AIX OS from AIX 4.3 to 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3, 5.3 to 6.1 on models of p-series hardware.
Administering and troubleshooting of AIX HACMP Clusters.
Expertise in installing, configuring and troubleshooting on JS22 Blades in IBM Blade center.
Building and configuring AIX V6.1, 5.3 on LPARs using NIM.
AIX 5.2/ 5.3/6.1 migrations using NIM and local install methods.
Responsible for mirroring and un-mirroring using logical volume manager (LVM).
Performing Firmware Upgrades.
Configure File Systems and administer using NFS.
Responsible for creating SAN LUNS on IBM and EMC san.
Experienced in Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Sun Solaris 8, 9 and 10.
Configuration of Solaris Jumpstart archives & Kickstart in Linux and RCS/CVS revision control
Solaris Live Update Technology associated with an operating system upgrade or maintenance.
Involved working DS8000 and EMC Clariion Storage devices
Expertise in implementation of OS security as per ITRM standards
Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server V 6.0,6.1,7.0 Extended Deployment (XD)
Administered IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.1 and 6.0.
Experience in Administering IBM Lotus Web Content management 2.5/5.0/6.0 versions
Installed WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0/6.1 and enabled Web Content management.
Experience in Change ticket Co-ordination and Remedy tickets.
Documenting each and every procedure and uploading the Documents on the Internal Web Portal of the Company for Team Reference.
Environment: Unix/RedHat Linux, Vi Editor, Solaris,Unix/Linux, Shell Scripts, VMWARE.