Adodo Agbee

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West Fargo, ND **078

Phone: 612-***-****

Email: adujw3@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

•Experienced IT professional with 10 years of experience in System Administration with specialization in Installation, Configuration and Administration of LINUX/UNIX and Desktop Support.

•Over 6 years of experience in deploying, configuration and maintenance of RHEL 5.x/6.x/7.x, CentOS and Sun Solaris servers for a major telecom company.

•Strong knowledge in SQL, PL/SQL, C++ and Shell Scripting for multiple AT&T mission critical applications and database management with 100% uptime expectations.

•Experienced with scripting languages, mainly PERL and BASH which were heavily involved in production support and maintenance of several AT&T applications and database systems.

•Managed Docker orchestration using Kubernetes. Experienced in using Kubernetes deployments, scaling of pods and managing Docker containers.

•Experienced with IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler to automate the application scheduling services in both UNIX and Windows platforms.

•Used IBM InfosphereDataStage as ETL tool to monitor various jobs.

•Strong experience in user provisioning and database management.

•Experienced in training new team members.

•Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), especially in Agile.

•Highly knowledgeable in troubleshooting issues with Middleware Software such as Orbix (Corba), MQ Series, Web services, Connect Direct.

•Excellent analytical, problem solving communication and interpersonal skills.

•Strong ability to quickly understand and deliver with least supervision while learning new technologies.

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems

UNIX, Linux (RHEL 4,5,6.x), GNU Linux, AIX, CentOS 5/6 Sun Solaris 10.9/8/7, Windows Server 2008

Programming Languages

C, C++, XML, HTML, Java, Bash Shell scripting, Perl, SQL, C#

Scripting

Ant/Nant, PowerShell, Perl, VB, and Shell.

Middlewares

Orbix (Corba), MQ Series, Web services, Connect Direct

Tools

Nagios, IpTables, Red hat clusters, Clear Case(Unix/Win) 7.0/7.1, ANT, JIRA, SVN, Jenkins/Hudson, GitHub, GitLab Cruise Control, Archiva, Nexus, Sitescope

Networking

TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, NIS, SSH, DHCP,

Databases

Oracle 11g/10g/9/8, MYSQL, Mongo, SQL server.

Education:

M.S., Software Engineering - 2012/ Thesis Ongoing, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota (2015 –2017)

B.S., Information Technology - Feb, 2006, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus (2002 – 2006)

Employment/Professional Experience

Techmahindra Americas Inc (07/23/2013 – Present)

Clients: AT&T;IBM

Application and Role: Global Computing Platform (GCP) System Engineer (Applications Support) 07/23/2019 – Present

•Technical team member for 24/7 production application support for AT&T’s Global Computing Platform (GCP) running on 1500+ production machines.

•Promptly meet SLAs for supported application with immediate responses for incident management, escalation management, issue resolution and work requests.

•Primarily Responsible for scheduling, monitoring and deploying new files on ETL (.dsx& .isx) and WebLogic (.ear) environments.

•Configured and maintained various JDBC and JMS services configurations on WebLogic servers on both UNIX and Windows platforms.

•Closely worked with IBM Application Developers, DBAs, SAs and Testers for any new application issues to identify the root cause and then implement fixes.

•Modified scripts for periodic system backups and schedule tasks using cron to automate scripts as required.

•Defined and determined application events thresholds and ensure the efficient system health for smooth operations of daily tasks.

•Initiated and participated in SWAT and Triage processes to address application issues during outage situations and later participate in root cause analysis.

•Monitored and managed application server processes, queues and logs and readily provide the event logs to the concerned teams using ssh and sftp.

•Implemented changes and upgrades on live and DR servers as per Change Management on BMC Remedy Ticketing System, including database maintenance.

•Scheduling deployment plans for IBM/AT&T production on servers for CRs as per Change Management requirements.

•Monitored successful completion of application and database backups and engage in back-out procedures for unsuccessful releases. Performed root cause analysis and problem resolution of system issues involving server/database/firmware/storage/OS.

•Application and Role: AT&T / Software Engineer (Tech Mahindra America Inc.) – Fargo, ND USA – Since July 2013

•Providing Application Support for ATT applications such as: PMOSS_Optima, GFP-Mobility, GFP-Uverse, IBM Netcool, AOTS-Mobility, GFP-IP, Geolink and PMOSS_VoIP

•Shell scripting for servers and application monitoring, ensuring that they are all up and running.

•Application and servers monitoring via tools like Introscope, Splunk, Nagios and Sitescope

•Working closely with developers and end users to ensure user satisfaction and technical compatibility

•Change Management and involve in production releases and high system availability.

•Involved in User Accepted Testing (UAT) related to application.

•Troubleshooting technical issues; Ticket Handling (Remedy ticketing system).SLA compliance for acknowledgement time, Resolution time, Escalation time and ownership of the ticket, Incident tracking (Review logs, investigation and resolution as per M&P standard).

•Bringing chronic and critical issues to the attention of the manager in a timely manner for a proactive resolution (Call to Work or Triage if needed).

•Problem and Incident Management.

•Manage the alarming tools and configuration for application alerting using Netcool, ALDB, eSeT

•Scheduling of jobs using the different scheduler’s like Task Scheduler, Lunix CRON

•Work on user tickets created using AOTS (BMC), Understand the issue with users as it can be with data loaded in apps and fix it manually on the backend servers using the SQL queries.

•Closely work with release management team to move the code in a production environment.

•Configuring, Administrating and Managing of Users and Groups.

•Monitoring system resources, logs, disk usage, and file systems

•Automation – Write shell script to automate the manual activities. (logs cleaning, Generating daily reports for ATT Management and restarting process when the archive backlog is at critical level)

•Co-ordinate with management and suggest improvement to the applications by ideas like Automation based on M&P already in place using ServiceNow.

•Metric tracking and Documents creation.

•Maintaining SLA’s and make sure all the services are provided in agreed SLA’s.

•Provision User access in databases and application frontend

•Application Data Base Administrator.

•Perform DR exercises to test and do actual DR’s in case of real disaster.

Application and Role: AT&T One Ticketing System (AOTS-M) Operations Support 07/25/2013 – 12/22/2014

•Tier 2 Application Support for Service Delivery team.

•Administered and supported internally customized BMC Remedy Ticketing systems known as AOTS-M which primarily runs on 8 UNIX and 8 Windows platforms.

•Successfully performed all system and application related changes to RHEL and Solaris systems such as patch installation, deployments, user account maintenance, backup & recovery.

•Monitored the application/server performance using Netcool, Patrol, SiteScope and BAC/Mercury Topaz to identify alarming opportunities and work on their resolution.

•Installed and configured Oracle GoldenGate, Data Guard in a homogenous environment.

Technical Support - Restaurant Technology Services (A Xerox Company), Fargo, ND

02/2013-07/2013

•Troubleshooting McDonald’s software and hardware issues such as cabling, new server installs, network printer troubleshooting, backup and recovery, networking, connectivity, software errors, malfunctions and general systems failures in all McDonald stores in the United States.

•Demonstrated the ability to quickly learn and resolve new problem areas while maintaining a friendly and comforting aura for the caller.

•Developed the ability to calmly walk everyday people through steps to solve complex software, networking and hardware issues over the phone in a supportive, professional and friendly manner.

•Worked directly with users having issues throughout the entire problem solving process, including identifying the problem, determining the cause, conducting the investigation, explaining the steps to solve the issue and following up on the issue.

•Responded to user service requests and expediently resolved trouble tickets to maximize resolution time.

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