Profile of James Dennis AIX, HP-UX, Solaris Management Occupations, Computer and Mathematical, Computer Software Engineers, Systems Software

James Dennis ( Available )

Hilliard, Ohio - 43026 USA

Expertise :	AIX, HP-UX, Solaris
Status :	Citizen
Job Type :	All - W2
Position :	Management Occupations, Computer and Mathematical, Computer Software Engineers, Systems Software

Resume

SUMMARY

Proven technical professional with over 20 years of real world IT experience, both as a Senior technician and in management. Has supported small, mid-size and large heterogeneous environments and managed diverse teams of varying sizes and technologies.

OPERATING
SYSTEMS/etc.
HP-UX 10.20, 11iv1 11iv2 11iv3
HP-UX Ignite-UX
Sun SOLARIS SunOS 4.1 .x, Solaris 2.x, Solaris 7, Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Solaris 10
Veritas Foundation Suite File System, Volume Manager, DMP
Veritas Netbackup
Veritas Cluster
IBM AIX 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1
IBM AIX Network Installation Manager NIM
IBM Advanced Power Virtualization VIO
High Availability Systems IBM HACMP - clustering
Logical Partitioning LPAR and DLPAR - IBM pSeries servers 650 670 690
Logical Partitioning LPAR and DLPAR - IBM pSeries Power5 and Power6 servers
IBM Hardware Management Console HMC, CSM and RSCT
Storage Area Networking SAN EMC, IBM Shark Storage
Apache Web Server Installation and configuration
Tivoli Storage Manager TSM
Tivoli Identity Manager IDS
Websphere Application Server Installation and configuration, clustering
Websphere MQ Series Installation and configuration, clustering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

July, 2008 - July, 2009	Senior AIX Consultant
	CDI Corporation Contractor/consultant onsite at IBM Global Services Datacenter working on major account Server Build team. Duties include development of AIX Standards ; development of AIX 5.3 and 6.1 standard build for AIX Engineering team. Development of custom user interface for distribution of standard build, NIM Server implementation and support. Installation and configuration of Websphere Application Server and Websphere MQ Series and Apache Web server installation and configuration. Development of HP-UX Standards ; development of HP-UX standard build for HP-UX Build Engineering team, Ignite-UX server implementation and configuration for rapid build deployment.
January, 2008 - January, 2008	Senior AIX Consultant
	Opens Systems Technologies CDI Corporation Contractor/consultant onsite at JPMorganChase. Duties include development of AIX Standards ; development of AIX 6.1 standard build for AIX Engineering team. Developed custom user interface for distribution of standard build. Redesigned VIO configuration of Engineering lab environment for high availability.
September, 2006 - September, 2008	Business Engagement Manager
	Techmate , Inc Recruited to Techmate by my former director at JPMC to assist in the building and positioning of Techmate as a premiere services partner for IT industry vendors, EMC, CISCO and Symantec. Position includes management of consulting team, Solution Architecture solution design, project management and management of internal Technology resources Techmate production systems and lab environment .I managed 6 consultants in addition to performing billable activities for customers and partners IBM AIX, Solaris, EMC Networker, Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli IDS, IBM Storage ESS, DS8x00 SVC.
March, 2005 - March, 2006	VP/Infrastructure Senior Manager
	JPMorganChase While at JPMC, I managed 3 diverse teams consisting of Design Engineers System Architects, UNIX AIX System Administrators and Database Administrators. My team was 23 at 1 point but was down to 16 direct reports when I left JPMC. My teams were hybrid teams in the organization, providing a combination of Plan/Build/Run functions for the largest Line Of Business LOB in the company. My teams participated in 40 concurrent projects. As manager of the team, I was responsible for keeping current on technologies in use in the firm and emerging technologies .I served on the Retail Architecture Board.
November, 2004 - November, 2005	Senior AIX Consultant
	Information Control Corp., Columbus , OH Contractor/consultant onsite at JPMorganChase. Duties include development of AIX Standards ; development of AIX merged build for combined companies. Converted to employee in April 2005 at JPMC to manage Design Engineering team and AIX Data Warehouse team.
February, 2004 - February, 2004	Senior AIX Consultant
	Solution Technology , Inc Indianapolis , IN Information Control Corp., Columbus , OH My position with STI was a hybrid of Pre-sales Systems Engineering and post-sales consulting .I worked with customers to determine their systems and consulting needs, performed much of the work myself. Systems supported were IBM pSeries servers, with AIX 5L. Many installations include HACMP, both 4.5 and 5.1.
August, 2002 - August, 2004	Senior/Lead UNIX Administrator
	Safelite Auto Glass Columbus , OH Began as Contract position, converted to FTE June 2003. Lead AIX administrator. Responsibilities include p Series AIX with HACMP implementation for business critical systems ; Infrastructure planning for new equipment. Duties include project management, personnel workload management and mentoring and standards development for the UNIX environment. Installation and configuration of Websphere Application Server and Websphere MQ Series. Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Netbackup environment.
March, 2002 - March, 2002	Principal IT Architect
	AEP Energy Services Columbus , OH Safelite Auto Glass Columbus , OH My responsibilities included architecture, installation and support of UNIX Systems for the Energy Services Energy Trading business unit and project management for all open systems areas UNIX, Windows 2000.
April, 2001 - April, 2002
	Open Systems Manager- AON Services Group Columbus , OH Started as Lead AIX Administrator contract through PTS. Provide Senior level AIX System Administration and mentoring of junior AIX Administrators. Provide team leadership and project management and serving as Disaster Recovery coordinator Developed DR plan in conjunction with Sungard consultant and lead team to first successful DR Test.. Also provide Solaris System Administration on Enterprise series servers with Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 8. Converted to Full time employee in January 2002 as manager of Open Systems for Columbus office. Duties included supervision of 6 employees.
December, 1998 - December, 2001
	ADS Alliance Data Systems Gahanna , OH Manager of Distributed Systems .I was responsible for all aspects of the UNIX environment in the corporate computing environment of ADS .I had 11 people reporting to me. In the management position, I had responsibility for budgeting for my departments which consisted of 3 locations .I led the team in developing standards for the Open Systems environment. From December 1998 through April 2000 I served as Senior UNIX Administrator, supporting AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and IRIX servers, with IBM, Hitachi and EMC Storage. Independent UNIX Consultant 6/1998 - 12/1998 - Worked primarily with Great Northern Consulting Services, Westerville, OH. Primarily did Solaris/Sun Microsystems UNIX installations, administration, etc.
December, 1997 - December, 1998
	American Electric Power Columbus , OH Senior Systems Analyst, with primary responsibility of UNIX integration and administration of AIX and Solaris environments. Responsible for HACMP implementation and administration for the Energy Services division.
July, 1997 - July, 1997
	Sun Microsystems , Inc Columbus , OH System Support Engineer, with primary responsibility was support of Solaris UNIX operating system and sparc based hardware.
July, 1995 - July, 1997
	Honda R and D North America , Inc Raymond , OH UNIX Engineer, Primary Responsibility was Unix Systems Administration .I supported the UNIX workstation CAD environment and all UNIX platforms AIX, Solaris, Irix and HP-UX.
December, 1994 - December, 1995
	SARCOM 600 B Lakeview Plaza Blvd ., Worthington , OH 43085 Unix Systems Engineer. Responsibilities included Operating System support, pre-sales engineering, post-sales system configuration, system administration, system analysis.
June, 1990 - June, 1994
	CMHC Systems , Inc 570 Metro Place N., Dublin , OH 43017 Last position was Systems Engineer. From January 1994 - November 23, 1994 I was a Group Leader in Customer Support. From December 1992 - May 1993 served as an Instructor in the Training Services Department. From July 1992 - December 1992 Implementation and Services Consultant. hired June 25, 1990 as a Customer Support Representative.
May, 1993 - May, 1993
	BRIDGEWAY CENTER , INC 137 Hospital Drive Fort Walton Beach , FL 32548 Position - MIS Coordinator Management level staff.

TRAINING

IBM eServer Certified Specialist pSeries AIX System Support IBM eServer Certified Specialist p690 Technical Support IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert pSeries Enterprise Technical Support IBM eServer Certified Systems Expert - pSeries HACMP for AIX 5L IBM eServer Certified Specialist - pSeries Administration and Support for AIX 5L V5.2 Symantec Certified Data Protection Implementation Specialist for UNIX using NetBackup 5.0 Symantec Certified Storage Foundation 4.0 Administrator