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EMAIL AVAILABLEPHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE29 years of experience as Unix/Linux administrator supporting mission critical applications on wide range of enterprise servers running AIX, HP-UX, Oracle Solaris, Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.Work regularly with Backup, Database, Middleware, Network & Storage admins, and vendor support techs.Assist various application/end users with their resource issues, restarts, installs, and troubleshooting.Experience with automation tools, system tuning, deployments, patching, and DR exercises.Took dozens of unix classes such as Solaris 11, Security, TCP/IP Administration, Veritas Vol Mgmt.Oracle Solaris certified system administrator, good at shell scripting, incident resolutions.ITIL certified; Mentored & Hired sysadmins; Masters in Engineering; US citizen; Security Clearance.SKILLS:OS: OracleSolaris 2.5-11.4 (Sparc & X86), RHEL 5-8.x, AIX 7.x, HP-UX 11.x, Ubuntu 14.xHardware: HP Proliant DL380; IBM P740-780, E850, and S824s; Sun M4k-M8k, Oracle T7,X4200-X4600, SunFire V210-6900, T2000, T5240; Cisco UCS C240, VMware ESXi 8.Scripting: Bash and Korn shell, sed, awk, SQL.Backup software: Avamar 7.x, CommVault 11.x, Netbackup 7.x, Legato Networker 5.x, TSM 6.x-8.x.Middleware: Apache, Autosys, BladeLogic, MQSeries, Quest LDAP, WebLogic, WebSphere.Other: Ansible, Centrify 6.1, DSA, Trellix, Tripwire, Secret Server, Veritas Suite 5.x, Veritas Cluster Server 4.x, Patrol, Opsview, Splunk, Remedy, Rumba/INFOrm, ServiceNow, Xymon/HobbitEXPERIENCE:4/20 Present Sr. Unix Server Analyst, BlueCross BlueShield, RemoteAdministration of over 1000 unix servers hosting RHEL8 VMs on VMware; Solaris 11 LDOMs & Zoneson T7 frames; and AIX 7.x LPARs on P740, E850 etc frames, spread across multiple datacenters.Administer highly secure & HIPAA compliant CMS/Medicare, Tricare, and Commercial environments.Work regularly with Critical incident management and unix Implementation, Platform teams.Manage LVM filesystems, performance analytics, CommVault and TSM client backups.Monitor server health with Splunk and Opsview; administer user access w/ Centrify, CA Unab & Seos.Administer Centrify, troubleshoot AD dzdo sudo issues, and Secret Server for password rotations.Use of DevOps tools like Ansible, Artifactory, BigFix, dockers, Git, Urban Code Deploymer, etc.Knowledgeable with DataPower, Netezza, UCSM and firmware upgrades, Decommissions.Participate in monthly On-call rotation and post-IPL troubleshooting, and DR exercises for Corp,FEP.Work-flow through Rumba_INFOrm and ServiceNow.10/14 2/20 Infrastructure Provisioning Specialist, DST, Kansas City, MOBuild and configure Linux VMs via BladeLogic Cloud Provisioning.Maintenance of 6000+ servers in 3 datacenters, OS upgrades, patching using Blade Logic tool.Troubleshoot as well as Install/Configure/Upgrade Commvault (6K+), Avamar (4K+) backups.Manage AIX LPARs, Linux VMs, perform host migrations (LPM, ESXi), booting to other kernels.Work on authentication issues with Active Directory/Centrify, user access, file permissions.Work on regular basis with DBAs, NetworkOps, and application admins (Hadoop, Kafka etc).Growing, mirroring, striping and concatenation for filesystems on LPARs, VMs, Solaris zones.Work with Incidents, Work Requests, Changes using BMC Remedy AR and SericeNow.Participate in escalations, COC calls, weekly standup meetings, monthly oncall duties.Create new system documentation on RightAnswers, OneNote and mentoring team.Work with offshore team members, DataDomain, ConnectDirect, ndm-ftp transmissions.Server decommissions, working with immutable servers with PCI security compliance.11/12 5/14 Network Applications Systems Analyst, Ericsson, Overland Park, KSWork with Ericsson/Sprint/Netcraker admins supporting OSS with tools such as Network Resource Manager, Network Element Objects, Cell Tower Alarm data enrichment etc in HP-UX environment.Work with following web-based applications of Sprint wireless network: Cisco IP Solution center, e911, Netcracker Activation, Network Resource Manager for doing equipment inventory and provisioning workflow management, configuration of interfaces found in Discovery & Reconciliation.Work with Oracle SQL Developer to update records related to Network Element Objects to resolve issues.Participate in bimonthly java code deployments related to Netcracker device library, e911 OC4J.Restart applications, generate cluster logs for diagnostics, manage disk on HP9000s and M5000s.Work with Netcracker software support team, Level III application developers, system integrators and other end users to manage Sprints network infrastructure.10/08 9/12 Sr. Unix Administrator (L4), USDA, Kansas City, MOAdministered over 400 servers (Solaris, HP-UX, Linux) at US Dept of Agricultures main datacenter, consisting of SAP servers, Oracle ASM databases, IaaS zones.Built, upgraded and patched servers using jumpstart, LiveUpgrade and ZFS clone snapshots.Worked regularly with ZFS,ASM filesystems, and containers,LDOMs for server virtualization.Participated in Disaster Recovery planning and exercises on IaaS, SAP Sun Cluster applications.Upgraded OS patches and firmware on STK arrays, LDOMs, V890s, X4200s on half-yearly basis.Security hardening using DISA STIG scripts, as well as using JASS toolkit prior to putting any server into use as well as checking and fixing new vulnerabilities on bi-monthly basis.Assembled, Racked, Bolstered 72 X4200/X4600 servers that host SAP application on Solaris X86.Installed and managed Sun Cluster 3.2 on about a dozen servers connected to SAP app servers.Worked with DBAs to build Oracle RACs for Disaster Assistance Improvement Program project.Configured virtual tape libraries upon addition of Sepaton drives on several Netbackup servers which are consolidated from V6800 domains(master) or V890s(ACSLS/media) to M4000s.Open problem tickets with HW vendors to replace failed hardware parts or to resolve issues.Troubleshoot network related issues; Add DASD from time to time to grow filesystems.Assisted in administering M8000 domains with Oracle RAC databases and OBIEE, etc.Install and configure Siteminder software for USDA eAuthentication to protect URLs.Install and troubleshoot custom clients like BigFix, BladeLogic, Quest LDAP, etc on regular basis.Work on regular basis with SAN, Netbackup, Network, Security Vulnerability, DBA and Service Desk (Remedy & xymon) teams and handled on-call rotation duties.Administered HP-UX tasks such as restarting vshelld, cleaning up filesystems, updating sudo privileges, manage user account modifications.Participate in biannual SAN array microcode updates by checking SAN multi-pathing (MPxIO, etc).Created and enhanced shell scripts for various tasks from time to time.Scheduling and working on incidents, changes, service requests using BMC Remedy ITSM.Interviewed mid-level sysadmins and participated in hardware purchases.6/05 7/08 Infrastructure Specialist, Sabre Airline Reservations, Tulsa, OKInterviewed and Hired dozen+ BestShore team members in Argentina, India, Brazil; mentored with performance monitoring, diagnostics, system build-outs, firewall setup, IPMP & network tasks.Primary ownership of administering 62 mostly Solaris 8/9 and some Solaris 10 and Linux servers in production, certification and development environments including Veritas Cluster servers for ERP.Use customized security software SeOS, ESM, Twist for Security hardening of servers and certifying according to EDS and client Sabres standards. Severs were spread in 3 very large data centers.For Sabre Server Consolidation project, commissioned over 110 Servers with custom configuration of Solaris 8 or 10 (sparc/x86) OS in a single quarter. Created, updated flar images on a quarterly basis.Built 23 SunFire V490/V890 servers for County of San Diego project in a 7 week period loading/copying all the customized software required and connecting to NAS (Clariion frame).Configured and managed zones V490 dev servers as well as did resource management with pooladm command and supported about 3 dozen servers as secondary administrator.On regular basis installed and administered application software such as Clearcase, Cognos; and created/grown filesystems and performed quarterly patching.Worked regularly with DBAs, Sun tech support, and EDS midrange helpdesk during oncall duties.Used Opsware extensively for automating tasks like patching, running adhoc scripts following ITIL Change management practices. Was part of a team of 3 dozen onsite and 1 dozen offsite admins.1/04 6/05 Systems Administrator (L3), MCI (Verizon Biz), Tulsa, OKAdministration of about two dozen high visibility servers and over 35 medium visibility serves.Worked on over a dozen Solaris 9 OS installations (including on E10K frames), upgrades, and applying various kernel and security patches and quarterly patch bundles.Upgrading Veritas Foundation suite, Tivoli Storage Manager, Open SSH, Sun Studio, Java, etc.Disk Layout & Optimization (Raid 0-10) with Veritas Volume Manager on EMC/Sun Storage Arrays.Performance monitoring and diagnostics, using tools such as prstat, truss, ipcs, lsof.Interfacing with management and customers recommending improvements.Guiding/mentoring other team members with system environment and issues.Assisted as secondary oncall for AIX and HP-UX maintenance tasks.Participated in several OS implementations, problem resolution calls, and bimonthly on-call duties.In addition to the above I've worked on following projects:Mid-2014Standup Oracle T5 LDOMs with Solaris 11.2 and migrate applications, DBsWaddell & Reed, KS2003Assemble, Bolster Sunfire servers and administer iPlanet, Siteminder, VCS, Weblogic for transport logistics client.Transplace, Plano, TX2002-2003Administer Solaris servers for SAP applications, run Netbackup on STK tape silos and documentation.Eli Lilly, Indianapolis2000-2002Administer various Solaris hardware and middleware running critical telecom applicationsWorldCom, Tulsa, OK1998-1999Administer Sparc20s through E10K servers, their SAN and backupsFirst Data Corp, Tulsa,OK1995-1998Production Support Analyst processing and transmissions of various credit card dataFirst Data Resources,Atlanta, GATRAINING:Sun Micro Systems: System Administration for versions 2.6, 10; System Administration Bootcamp II for Solaris 8,Fault Analysis Workshop, TCP/IP Network Administration, Solaris 10 Zones & Containers, Advanced System Performance & Resource Management, Sun Cluster 3.2 Administration.Oracle: Oracle Solaris 11 administration. Certified in all Solaris unix versions.Veritas: Volume Manager AdministrationEMC Corporation: Symmetrix Architecture, ControlCenter Base & TimeFinder for Unix.Dozens of vendor training classes, seminars given onsite and online by Sun and IBM.Tulsa Technology Center: ISO 9000 certification for Internal Auditors.Pink Elephant, IL: ITIL v3 Foundations CertificationCompleted Project Management Fundamentals class towards PMP certification.Lamar University, TX: Masters degree in Engineering. |
