Senior AIX Engineer
Resume:
William Mayer
Phoenix, Arizona
**********@*****.***
U.S. Citizen
SUMMARY
Extensive professional experience with Information Technology, spanning all aspects of enterprise business information and client/server systems and networks. This includes all major flavors of UNIX, with an emphasis on IBM’s AIX operating system and virtualization, enterprise-wide planning and roll-out, and specialized training and practical deployment experience with Tivoli, Unicenter, HPOV and Websphere on multiple heterogeneous platforms. Strengths include IBM AIX 5.x, 6.x & 7.1, 7.2 virtualization and dynamic logical partitioning on pSeries hardware, system enterprise architecture, systems and team lead, heterogeneous break/fix, and UNIX and network troubleshooting. In addition, seasoned technical management experience and a solid track record to the overall satisfaction of the client. Comfortable making presentations at any level within an organization, as well as negotiating/sustaining on-going ventures with vendors, suppliers, and contractors. He is focused, driven to produce quality services, and welcomes a challenge.
TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT
Hardware:
IBM pSeries hardware 520s/720s, 550s/750s, 650, 570s/770s, 670/690s, 595s/795s, Power8, Power9, P700/P800, RS6000s, HMC 7062/7063
Sun 6x00/5x00/4x00/3x00
DEC ALPHA
HP Enterprise Servers (HP9000s)
Sequent
Pyramid Nile 150
Disk, Server Farms
EMC Clariion components
EMC DMX w/500TB
EMC2 3000 series Data Storage Systems
Unisys Midrange Systems
Burroughs Medium Systems
Cisco Routers (2500s thru 7000s, some IOS)
AT&T and US WEST T1, E1, ISDN
Sun T1,T3, A1x, A5x storage
Operating Systems/Networks
IBM AIX (3.2 thru 7.2)
Dlp and virtualization (IBM)
Solaris 2.6 thru 2.11
Digital UNIX/OSF/True64
HP-UX (9.x thru 11.x)
DYNIX/ptx
DC/Osx/Reliant
SCO UNIX
NFS/DNS/NIS, NIS+
BSD & SVR4
Windows NT/2000
TCP/IP
Cisco Switches
Baynetworks Hubs and Bridges
Ethernet
Frame Relay
Novell (3.xx, some 4.x)
Languages/Tools:
Virtualization
Dynamic Logical Partitioning
Oracle Application Server installs
DB2 & Oracle Performance Analysis on AIX
AIX tuning for in-house and COTS software
Actifio for AIX 6.1
NetApp/Oracle RAC Snap Mirror Scripting
IBM MQ
IBM WAS
BladeLogic
Solarwinds
Splunk
Remedy
Service Now
Sudoers
Some Python
Trillian/Putty/cygwin
Sudo
Lotus Suite
Tivoli TME 10 (thru 3.6.1)
OpenView
Nagios
Apache Server, Cold Fusion
DEC LSM/Adfs, Controllers
HP LVM
Oracle 7.x thru 11g Systems Support and Migrations
Progress db Support and Migrations
Sybase Support
Network General Sniffer
SSH, SSL, DNS
JumpStart, Ignite, NIM
Performance Tuning
Load-Balancing
Co-Location Development & Deployment
CCNA R&S
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
GIE (AIX SME)
Origina, LLC
Dublin, Ireland
AIX Engineer for third party IBM software maintenance company.
Responsible for all US-based AIX tickets, and resolutions. Fortune 100
clientele.
January, 2023 to current
Senior AIX Systems Administrator,
Accountabilit (AIT)
Scottsdale, Arizona
Project AIX engineer for IT consulting firm. Current project is a multiple ‘lift and shift’ migration for systems in older datacenters in Michigan to new facilities in Indiana. Responsible for requirements gathering, documentation, critical immediate issues, planning, and long-term administration for specific clients.
July, 2022 to November, 2022
Telecommute
Senior AIX Consultant,
Mount Sinai Health System,
NYC.
Consulting on AIX/EPIC, VIOS upgrades, DR upgrades. Part of a group of four senior engineers.
February through May, 2022
Telecommute
Systems Engineer II,
Computacenter, Inc.
Major host & san migration, aix/linux/solaris to new EMC XtremIO san. Mostly Oracle ASM disk, some LVM, some older EMC Symmetrix, some much older service arrays. Migrate LUNs, document major steps in the process, fix errors, rinse, repeat. On a team with seven other senior engineers.
August thru October, 2021
Telecommute
AIX SME/Team Lead,
IBM Global Technology Services,
Project Services Delivery
SSC/State Street Bank, Quincy, Massachusetts
AIX on Power Migration to RedHat, OS, apps, and network, LVM, leading a team of 12 senior engineers.
March to December, 2020
Telecommute
Enterprise Systems Engineer,
Advance-Auto Parts, Inc.
Migrated from old EMC SAN to new SVC SAN, corporate-wide. AIX 6.1, AIX 7.1.
•extendvg, migratepv, reducevg old LUNs to new LUNs
•volume group factoring
•converting to scalable volume groups
•Completed migration on time
December, 2018 to July, 2019
Telecommute
Sr. Manager - Infrastructure Technology Expert,
Cognizant Infrastructure Systems, Phoenix, Arizona.
Provide day-to-day support for initiatives by participating in reviews of significant technical design deliverables and supporting post-release problem management efforts in conjunction with other engineering leads. IBM AIX & pSeries H/W
May, 2018 to December, 2018.
Sr. AIX & Unix Systems Engineering, University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington, Vermont.
Senior AIX & Unix Engineer for Epic/Prism and other Healthcare Apps, System care & feeding, Performance Analysis, TSM, Splunk, and roll-out of latest HMC 7063 V8s. IBM Systems p700s & p800s, HACMP, Sun/Solaris, and various flavors of Linux. Frontrange, ServiceNow. Member of Technical Standards Review Board. June, 2016 to May, 2018. Telecommute
AIX Systems Engineer/SME, Chemtura Corporation, Middlebury, CT.
Senior engineer migrating Chemtura datacenter in Middlebury, CT to HCL's datacenter in Smyrna, GA. AIX 5.3, 6.1. P5s, mostly P7s (P740, P750), AIX Project Engineer on Actifio configuration and implementation for AIX 6.1, migrated over 300TB of data, 200+ dlpars, IBM V7000s, DS8100s. October, 2013 to April, 2016 Telecommute.
AIX System Engineer/SME, Global Markets & Risk Technology, Bank of America, Tempe, Arizona.
Senior staff member of Unix Design & Build group, responsible for hardware & OS upgrades, migrations, all things AIX. Sr. SA experience working with Application and Project teams as well as Storage, Database, Networks, NIM, HMC, Monitoring Group and Hardware Engineering teams. IBM pSeries 5,6,7 series hardware, IBM AIX 4.x thru 7.1. September, 2012 to September, 2013. Telecommute.
Systems Engineer, Coventry Health Care, Phoenix, Arizona.
A staff member of the Run Team at Coventry, responsible for ownership of servers, Phoenix Data Center HMCs, various on-going projects with third-party vendors, and day-to-day Unix engineering on IBM AIX, HPUX, Solaris, and some old True64. Also participate in a group rotational helpdesk called TRAC, and a week-long On-Call schedule. Implemented Solarwinds company-wide. June, 2009 thru September, 2012.
Master SME-AIX, IBM ITS Group, Walmart Account, Bentonville, Arkansas.
IBM Stability Group for AIX technical support on BladeCenter servers. Level III support for IBM’s largest account. Level III AIX, networking, builds, service. AIX 4.x, 5.x, Nortel Switches, Cisco. January 2009 to May, 2009.
Onshore Senior AIX Systems Engineer/Team Lead, IBM Global Services, GAP, Inc. Rocklin, California. Level III support for IBM Global Services GAP account to include multiple onshore datacenters with approximately 3500 IBM 9117s strategically chopped into dynamic and logical partitions. The bulk of these servers were managed by twin, redundant VIO servers. My first year, I built 44 dlpars in 3.5 weeks, without a NIM for GAP’s flagship onshore project, North American Labor Management (NALM). After the project got feet, I was responsible for application support and troubleshooting. When the project rolled out, I began doing RFS (request for service) work for the entire account, as well as acting interim Team Lead for the AIX group. Tasks included VIO server builds and configurations, lpar builds, HACMP Cluster builds, SVC disk storage allocations, dynamic LUN expansion, activating Capacity on Demand, maintaining 18 HMCs, lead systems engineer on majority of SEV I calls, and a myriad of other 3rd. level support activities. I reported directly to the IBM DPE (data processing executive) for the GAP account. IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, virtualization, dynamic logical partitioning, some Sun. Feb., 2007 thru Dec, 2008 Telecommute
William Mayer
**********@*****.***
U.S. Citizen
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