Objective



To lead and manage Large Scale multi-location Server and Storage solutions, at Fortune 500 companies. Pursue and grow in management and leadership roles in company s infrastructure management departments by leveraging my skills, knowledge and experience.


Summary




Over 19 years of experience in : System architecture and delivery of Large Scale Server and Storage Systems
Data Center Capacity Planning, Consolidation and Decommissioning
Establishing Service Level Agreements and processes for system monitoring and maintenance focusing on operational stability
Establishing protocols for interaction with other IT teams for escalation procedures experience in Installation, Administration and Maintenance of wide range of Operating Systems - AIX, UNIX SVR4 and Solaris, IBM pSeries systems.
SAN and Storage resource planning and administration
Planning and execution of strategic system upgrades
Budgeting, Resource and Project Planning for Implementation


HARDWARE : RS6000, RS6000 SP2, pSeries 650670690 and p590 Servers, IBM xSeries Servers, Omneon Spectrum Servers, Apple MAC Workstations
STORAGE SERVERS : IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Disk Systems DS8100, DS6800, ESS 2105, DS4500, DS4800. Configuration, LUN Masking, FlashCopy, PPRC/Metro Mirror
SAN : Brocade Silkworm SAN switches Installation, Configuration, Zoning, Extended Fabric Configuration
O/S : UNIX/AIX 5.3/5.2/5.1/4.3, Unix/Solaris 8 Unix/AT and T SVR4/4.2 Intel and SPARC, Apple MAC OS X, RedHat Linux, Shell Scripting
Cluster Software : IBM HACMP Installation, Configuration and Maintenance
RDBMS : DB2, Oracle 10g/9i Installation, basic level DBA activities like Extending Tablespaces, adding datafiles, export/import, Backup using RMAN
Backup Software : TSM, TDP for Oracle, TDP for mySAP, TDP for ACS mySAP TDP using FlashCopy, CA ArchServe
Storage Management Software : TPC for Disk, ESSCLI, DSCLI
Disaster Recovery : IBM PPRC/Metro Mirror Planning, implementation, DR testing
Virtualizations : IBM Aix 5.3 p5 VIO Servers


Employment

November, 2008 -  Present
Senior Administrator

The digital production management system spans news collection ingest, production, distribution and archiving for all of FOX Business and Fox Channel News programs.
Acquire content centrally and share it quickly across the entire business newsroom ; edit stories and disseminate them to multiple business news destinations in only moments ;
Gain faster and more frequent access to video archives to make stories more compelling ;

Deliver on-air broadcasts that support both automated and manual playout mechanisms ; and Distribute digital content to other channels like the Web or mobile devices.
FBN/FNC s tapeless newsroom infrastructure consists of Omneon Spectrum servers that ingest material live feeds, Content from Field Cameras and an IBM DS4800 central storage system holding more than 4000 hours of video. This server network ties in with an Ardendo digital media asset management system ARDOME.

The Ardendo asset management system allows FBN/FNC journalists to log and retain all metadata from video material ; to look at low-res proxies of the images coming in ; and to do desktop editing, create EDL s Edit Decision lists and send them to Editors for advanced editing on MAC s using Final Cut Pro.

On the play out side the Ardendo system ties in with the Avid iNews newsroom Software and Pebble Beach play-out software to control the play out ports Omneon Spectrum servers.

Responsibilities Include :
Oversee day-to-day operations of the Fox Digital server infrastructure, Install and configure application software
Manage the deployment of appropriate security patches, hot fixes and software updates for the AIX and Redhat Linux Enterprise 4 server farm.
Manage database user accounts, roles and permissions
Monitor performance and tunes the applications for best performance
Keep up-to-date documentation of application installations

Work with the application and project teams to formulate requirements.
Administer the Tivoli Storage Manager Server and backup of over 120 Servers, comprising of AIX, DB2, Redhat Linux, Apple Mac Workstations and Windows 2003 Servers.
Provide on-call production support.

January, 2008 -  November, 2008
Manager

Planning and coordination of resources to prepare data center for Server and storage hardware installation.
AIX and Oracle Support of the Dressbarn Retail Management System.
Management of SAN and SAN attached IBM Enterprise Storage Systems
User administration, File system maintenance, Back-up scheduling and completion.
Preventive maintenance planning, scheduling and implementation System updates, applying OS patches.
Periodic reporting involving storage utilization, Daily review of System health
Assessing future storage/SAN requirements based on Client project pipeline.
Continuous streamlining of Storage Allocation Process.
Design and Development a DR Solution

Major Projects :
DressBarn CRM Project Implementation : Built the server infrastructure to facilitate the upgrade of the CRM system from and Oracle 8i environment to 1 based on Oracle 9i.

DressBarn PCI compliance Project : Jointly managed the planning and installation of the AIX server Farm to support the DressBarn PCI compliance project. The Core infrastructure comprised of an Oracle 10G encrypted Database running on an IBM p5 LPAR.

Oracle Retail Planning and Allocation : Jointly managed the planning and installation of the AIX servers for the deployment of the Oracle Retail Planning and Allocation Module.

July, 2000 -  January, 2008
IT Specialist

Planning and coordination of resources to prepare data center for Server and storage hardware installation.
AIX Support to Major IBM Commercial accounts in the processed foods industry.
Management of SAN and SAN attached IBM Enterprise Storage Systems
User administration, File system maintenance, Back-up scheduling and completion.
Preventive maintenance planning, scheduling and implementation System updates, applying OS patches.
Periodic reporting involving storage utilization, Daily review of System health
Assessing future storage/SAN requirements based on Client project pipeline.
Continuous streamlining of Storage Allocation Process.
Design, Development and Delivery of large scale DR Solutions.

Major Projects :
Campbells Soup Co SAP Project : This project was undertaken to migrate Campbells Soups Companies Order to Cash application from the Mainframe environment to SAP .I involved the installation and configuration of a new server farm using LPARS on p590 and AIX 5.3. The storage was based on IBM DS8000. The production and QA servers were built on LPAR s with dedicated I/O adapters, while the test environment was built using VIO LPAR s. Installed and configured HACMP 5.3 for the Production database server, along with IBM s Flashcopy for backup and MetroMirror for Disaster Recovery.

Pepperidge Farm SAP project : Jointly managed the planning and installation of the AIX server Farm to support the SAP R/3 landscape for Pepperidge Farm consisting of Production Database and Central Instance Server, QA Database and Central Instance and 2 Production Application servers. The Production and QA Databases were part of an IBM HA Cluster. The database was created on SAN attached IBM Enterprise Storage Server.

Backup Process Creation : Implemented and maintain backup policy for the database using Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Data Protection for SAP R/3, Oracle and Tivoli StorageAgent for LanFree backups.

Creation of Disaster Recovery Site : Planning, Decommissioning and Relocating hardware from the Primary site to the DR site. Coordinated with the Infrastructure team to ensure resource availability power, network.

Creation of Disaster Recovery Solution : Jointly managed the planning and execution of this groundbreaking project to create a DR solution across multiple locations. The project involved configuration and maintenance of the Disaster Recovery solution using IBM Enterprise Storage Server and PPRC over ESCON DS3 and DWDM. My role involved DR strategy design, planning, implementation, testing and validation. Recovery of the entire production UNIX environment at the Failover site, in a simulated disaster environment confirmed the success of the solution.

Server and Storage consolidation : Successfully migrated application and database from IBM SP2 and standalone RS/6000 systems to IBM pSeries 670 690 590 Consolidated storage onto IBM Enterprise Storage Server.

November, 1998 -  June, 2000
Senior Technical Executive

Managing a team of Customer Engineers to provide support for major customers.
Planning and execution of AIX system Installations
Installation and maintenance of IBM RS6000 Servers with AIX
Installing and configuring Oracle on AIX.
Management of Software license agreements
Installing, configuring and maintaining HACMP/6000 Systems.
Process management, Performance and Resource scheduling.

December, 1990 -  October, 1998
Territory Manager

Education

Training

RS/6000 H/W , RS6000 SP2 , AIX and Solaris 2.6 , Vizrt Ardome .

UNIX AND NETWARE ADMINISTRATION
Planning and execution of system installations
Installing OS and performance tuning
User Profile Management and Control
Backup process scripting and execution
Disaster recovery planning and execution
Established Disk Mirroring , Disk Concatenation
Migrating applications and users from ICL DRS/6000 systems to Sun servers .
INGRESS AND ORACLE DATABASE ADMINISTRATION
Installation of Oracle and Ingress databases on Unix
Physical Database maintenance
User Profile Management and Control