System Administrator Engineer

Manoel Cunha

Portugal

Phone numbers: Cell: (351-********* - Home: (351-*********

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Career Overview

Highly skilled AIX Senior System Administrator, offering vast knowledge managing IBM servers in power4, power5, power6, power7 and power8 technology, running AIX versions 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1 and 7.2 as in NIM environment, VIO servers and Disaster Recovery Plans. Qualifications

Technical Skills

AIX, LPAR, WPAR, NIM, HMC, Power 4/5/6/7/8, PowerVM, VIO, NPIV, VSCSI, DLPAR, SEA, MPIO SAN, FCoE, DS/8000, XIV, EMC, Hitachi, Fujitsu, LPAR2RRD, SNA, PowerHA 7.1 Accomplishments

I was the first in Portugal to use NIM to install, manage software and update the AIX server farm from MillenniumBCP bank, which was also built from scratch by me, using the latest virtualization technology with total redundancy of HMC, VIO servers and switches, in Lisbon and Oporto (where the DRP site resides).

Work Experience

AIX Senior System Administrator

October 2018 to present

TAP/Air Portugal – Lisbon airport, Portugal

working as AIX Senior System administrator, managing around 60 lpars on power7 technology, on a team with 2 people

responsible for maintenance of 3 HMC, including patches and version upgrade AIX Senior System Administrator

December 2016 to October 2018

Portugal Telecom – Lisbon, Portugal

working as AIX Senior System administrator for CTT (the Portuguese mail company), managing around 100 lpars on power8 technology, on a team with 3 people

responsible for the definition, implementation and maintenance of the AIX farm, 6 VIO servers and 2 NIM servers

responsible for maintenance of 3 HMC, including patches and version upgrade AIX Senior System Administrator

December 2015 to November 2016

CGI – Lisbon, Portugal

worked as AIX Senior System administrator for EDP (the major Portuguese electricity company) and The Navigator Company (one of the world's leading players in the pulp and paper industry)

installed RedHat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on IBM power processors

Proven ability to self-learn

Deep knowledge of micro partitioning

Administration and management of

powerHA version 7.1

Excellent analytical and problem

solving skills

Technical Disaster Recovery Plan

experience

Self-motivated with keen

attention to detail

Patch management

NIM expert

responsible for the migration of all Clariion storage to Hitachi, during a project to move power7 hardware from one data centre to another one AIX Senior System Administrator

July 2014 to December 2015

Portugal Telecom – Lisbon, Portugal

worked as AIX Senior System administrator inserted on a team with 5 people, on several power6 and power7 frames (IBM technology), managing more than 280 LPARs running AIX 5.3, 6.1 and 7.1, from Portugal Telecom and CTT (Portuguese Postal Services). AIX Senior System Administrator

May 2001 to March 2014

OSIS (MillenniumBCP) / IBM – Lisbon, Portugal

worked as AIX administrator at MillenniumBCP Bank, on two power4 frames, three power5 frames, two power6 frames and 3 power7 frames (IBM technology), managing more than 60 LPARs and about 12 WPARs, running AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1 and 7.1

expert in NIM (Network Installation Manager)

I was responsible for the definition, assembly, and maintenance of all the redundant structure of VIO, HMC and AIX that currently exists on MillenniumBCP, in Lisbon and Oporto

support to SIBS Forward Payment Solutions, to install and customise 40 lpars running AIX 7.1 and PowerHA 7.1

deep knowledge of micro partitioning, WPAR, DLPAR, HMC, NPIV and VIOServer

responsible for installing, managing, implementing and testing these partitions, using NIM, also used to upgrade the operating system’s level of LPARs

I have knowledge in installation, administration and management of PowerHA version 7.1

responsible for implementation, configuration and testing of WebsphereMQ, Connect:direct, Communications Server/SNA (to connect AIX to z/OS, using HPR – High Performance Routing)

responsible for recovery some LPARs, during the MillenniumBCP Disaster Recovery tests

(DRP)

responsible for the installation and maintenance of 12 VIO servers (running 2.2.0.10-FP-24 version), to provide virtualization of ethernet cards, fiber channel cards and disks

responsible for upgrading and maintenance of six HMC

I was also responsible for the development of policies to safeguard the operating system, using the "clonning" of the rootvg, along with creating/copying "mksysb" for subsequent storage on the NIM server, with a view to a possible need for recovery LPAR, whether for damages or for use in case of disaster recovery testing. This whole process is managed transparently and automatically, without intervention, needing only an occasional check for validation/confirmation of the stored data.

System Middleware Engineer (AIX environment)

January 2001 to April 2001

Credit Suisse Financial Services – Zurich, Switzerland

installed and updated AIX 4.3.3 operating system

installed, updated and customised software such as MQSeries, Patrol, SNA, VisualAge, Java, C++, IFOR

AIX and MVS System Administrator

January 1996 to December 2000

Servibanca – MillenniumBCP Bank – Lisbon, Portugal

worked as AIX administrator, on IBM SP/2 (5 frames, 31 nodes)

responsible for customise Kerberos

installed and customised a new S80 and p680 hardware to a new insurance company called Medis

knowledge of korn shell scripting

responsible for installation, maintenance and customisation of AIX, MQSeries, Connect:direct, SNA

responsible for the connectivity between AIX and OS/390 systems, using LU 6.2 connections

installed and configured the ESCON channels to connect the AIX and OS/390

worked on the project that migrated MQSeries connections (from SNA to TCP/IP), on AIX and OS/390

responsible for migration from CA/XCOM to Connect:direct (AIX)

installed and configured ESCON channels connecting AIX and OS/390

also worked on developing and creating a partition for the Seguro Directo Insurance Company, according on the needs of the business, following the request of the administration of Bonança Insurance Company (OS/390 system)

developed the Disaster Recovery Plan to Bonança using REXX language (OS/390) MVS System Administrator

January 1992 – December 1995

Bonança Insurance Company – Lisbon, Portugal

I taught JCL, TSO and ISPF to programmers and analysts

developed a software to manage programs and jobs using REXX language and ISPF panels

created tools to help programmers in transition from NCR to IBM

created an alternative "submit" command in TSO, to optimize the priority in managing the execution of batch jobs

developed an application to manage problems encountered when migrating fromNCR to IBM, called Problem Report, also using REXX and ISPF panels

installed software such as: XCOM, NETVIEW, ACC, WSF, SDF II, DFSMSrmm, OMEGAMON, ENDEVOR, etc

implemented SMS (Storage Management System) policies, to manage and optimize all disk space

installed the IBM 3495 unit (robot) to manage tapes

migrated the tapes management software from CA-1 to RMM (Removable Media Manager

– IBM)

managed MVS operating system and also RACF software

also worked as Storage Administrator, using HSM, DFSMS, DFSMSrmm, TMM Consultant

May 1991 – December 1991

S.I.G.I.L. – Lisbon, Portugal

participated in the migration of Banco de Fomento e Exterior from DOS to MVS using the CORTEX software

participated in the migration of Bonança Insurance Company from NCR to IBM, using CORTEX software

Application Programmer

January 1989 – April 1991

Brahma Beer Company – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

developed programs in COBOL and NATURAL languages

implemented the connection between Brahma vendors and the main office (micro- mainframe connection)

Application Programmer

March 1987 - January 1989

Bradesco Insurance Company – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

controlled the programs conversion from UNISYS to IBM

developed programs in COBOL language

Application Programmer

July 1986 - March 1987

Interdata Systems – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

developed programs in COBOL and NATURAL languages Computer Operator

April 1980 - January 1984

Mothé Chemical Products – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Education and Training

Graduated as Electrical and Computer Engineer – 1996 Instituto Superior Tecnico – Lisbon, Portugal

Graduated as Electrotechnical Engineer – 1984

Universidade Veiga de Almeida – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Languages

Fluent reading and writing Portuguese (mother tongue)

Understanding, speaking and writing in English language

Basic understanding and speaking Spanish language Publications

MVS Update Magazine, by XEPHON:

Looking for a STOGROUP of a VolSer (pg. 53-56), March 1997

Checking VRSs under DFSMSrmm (pg. 12-15) August 1997 Relevant Courses

AIX Performance Management I: concepts and tools

AIX Internals and Performance III: I/O management

PowerLinux Administration on power7 hardware

Linux for system z/VM basics bootcamp

AIX Workload Partitions (WPAR): Configuration and Operations

Exploring IBM AIX 5.2 Workload Partitions for AIX 7

PowerVM: Virtual I/O server configuration

PowerHA for AIX 1: Installation and Initial Configuration

Implementing PowerVM Live Partition Mobility (LPM)

AIX Basics

AIX Advanced Users

AIX for operators

AIX TCP/IP Communications

AIX Administration

AIX System Administration: Using PSSP

SOLARIS installation and customisation

DB2 Concepts and Introduction to Relational Model

DB2 Concepts and SQL language

DB2 programming applications

SMP/E

JES2

DFHSM Implementations

DFSMS

Tuning an MVS System

Open Edition & DCE concepts in OS/390

Personal skills

Like to work in a team to complement backgrounds and skills, sharing common goals and exercising concerted effort in assessing, planning and problems evaluation.

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