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EDUCATION:

Master's Degree - Chemistry

Mississippi State University - Starkville, MS (GPA 3.65)

Six Sigma Training - Detroit, MI (11/2006)

• AIX 4.3 System Administrator Specialist Certification

Candidate ID: SP3034076 12/08/2000

• AIX Version 4 HAMCP System Administration Certification

Course Code (Q1151) Completed Date 07/22/99

• AIX Version 4 HAMCP Installation And Configuration Certification

Course Code (Q1051) Completed Date 07/09/99

• AIX Version 4 TCP/IP With Internet Certification

Course Code (Q1107) Completed Date 07/26/99

• AIX Version 4 Advanced System Administrators Certification

Course Code (Q1116) Completed date 06/25/99

• AIX Version 4 System Administration Certification

Course Code (Q1114) Completed Date 06/11/99

• AIX Version 4 Basic Certification

Course Code (Q1213) (Completed Date 05/28/99)

• HP-UX Performance and Tuning Certification

Course Code (H5278S)

• HP-UX Troubleshooting Certification

Course Code (H5368S)

• HP-UX SYS/NW Admin for Exp UNIX Sys Administrators Certification

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

DAIMLERCHRYSLER CORPORATION - Sterling Heights, MI 11/2004 - 8/2007

Aix Engineer (Level 3)

Created, managed and directed all necessary activities to implement systems and processes to ensure smooth communication for the running of the various applications supporting the large complex manufacturing, dealer, and sales network.
System Administrator for supporting four IBM SP2 environments for NAFTA DaimlerChrysler (~150 SP nodes & SP-attached Servers) hosting SAP and Data Warehouse applications (both development and production sites). Duties include: Installation, configuration, implementation, support, and troubleshooting of SP2 Control Workstation, SP2 Frames, and SP-attached Servers running AIX 4.3.3/5.1/5.2 and PSSP 3.2/3.4/3.5.
Planned and executed a reliable backup schedules for the NAFTA DaimlerChrysler AIX environment including plant systems, HACMP clusters, and additional servers with automated scripts.
Installed & configured IBM Regatta eServer p670 for EDISP project. Used LPAR and HMC to partition the system.
Prioritizing risks, analyzing the various risk factors and recommended software like performance tool box and hardware upgrades of IBM Rs6000, Sun SPARC, and carried out benchmarking between IBM and SUN hardware.
Configured NIM (Network Installation Manager) Master & performed OS upgrades on NIM clients.
Disk administration – strong skills with EMC Symmetrix, PowerPath, , Volume Logix, ESN Manager, Connectrix Manager; IBM SSA Disk Storage System.
Filesystem Administration – Create filesystems using IBM Logical Volume Manager and Veritas Volume Manager.
Installed several Sun (Solaris) servers at DaimlerChrysler for Lotus Notes, Public Web Hosting and other projects. Used Veritas Volume Manager to create filesystems
Experience with OS Hardening (security).
Installation of DB2 software, Websphere 3.5 & 4.0, Webserver 1.1.19 (Apache) & MQ Series.
Involved extensively in Project planning and implementation of projects (GSAP, QNA, MIM etc) associated with SP environments, including capacity planning, lease replacement of the servers, and disk replacement when needed.
Defining and verifying the scope of the projects. Developing risk responsive plans as and when the unknown risks occur.
Contributed well to the performance of the team in the best interest of the organization.
Created and maintained historical information and documents
Monitoring of tickets in IBM change/trouble management, handled oncall pagers to provide 24x7 support.
Good working knowledge in handling Lotus Notes based documentation, mailing and communications.

DETROIT ENERGY 10/2003 - 11/2004

Principal Analysts /Architect

On contract to DTE Energy as a Senior UNIX Administrator, Deploy and supporting Tru64, Solaris. And support IBM pSeries servers running AIX 5L v5.1 and v5.2.
Performed upgrading; DTE Energy Trading Infrastructure system's from Tru64-4.0.F to Tru64-5.1b pk3. Provide ancillary support for UNIX servers running HP/UX, Tru64, Solaris upgrades as well as patching.
Coordinated maintenance and upgrade ‘test-runs' which resulted in minimizing downtime and increasing end-user productivity. Built and redefined IT staff and defined departmental responsibilities to increase responsiveness and minimize time to resolve issues.
Responsible for all daily activities concerning, using Veritas Global Cluster Manager to manager the heterogeneous clustering and replication environment. Also using the Global Cluster Manager Disaster Recover that helped provide replication within the integrated cluster environment, also allow disaster Recovery with direct data replication to remote sites, which allowed for site or application migration.

ACXIOM COPORATION - Conway, AR 8/2001 - 8/2003

UNIX System Engineer

System engineering position involving design, test and implementation of integrated network hardware and software solutions, distributed computing solutions, and physical/logical communications networks.

Install, configure, and maintain servers and peripherals.
Develop backup and recovery strategies and monitor servers for capacity.
Conduct performance tuning, and develop long-term network strategies.
Install software upgrades and manage hardware upgrades.
Participate in system testing and develop system standards.
Evaluate technologies and recommend new tools.
Present solutions to customers.

SCB COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY - Memphis, TN 4/1997 - 8/2001

UNIX System Administrator

Responsible for performing system backups, and various system administration tasks. Such as setting up automated cron job processes, automated ftp processes, removed common and known security vulnerabilities under UNIX operating system. Implemented Y2k updates to Operating System. Created and compiled scripts to monitor various tcp ports. Perform overall system monitoring for Oracle and Unix, currently running HP-Unix 10.2
Provided 24x7 mission critical production support for OLTP CHRIS, SACWIS and NCANDS System with PB front End Interface and Oracle7, 8 and 8I on OPS server at the backend.
Installation, configuration Oracle in a high availability environment using AIX HACMP for disaster recovery scenario

Professional tools and subsystems:

HP Ignite-UX; HP Logical Volume Manager; HP OnLine JFS; HP MirrorDisk-UX; HP GlancePlus; HP Software Distributor (including software packaging); HP OmniStorage; HP OmniBack; HP MC/System Environment; HP DiskArrays. Systems and maintenance planning, installation and documentation; automated installation and configuration over network; shell programming; disk mirroring and striping

TECHNOLOGY SERVICE SOLUTION - Memphis, TN 6/1991 - 3/1997

Motorols System Support Specialist

Maintain and develop modularized aFramework databases as functional tools solely for the utilization of our staff in providing the customer with prompt and accurate technical support. Also involved in authoring a subset of internal software support skill evaluation tests written with custom testing software. Area of emphasis is in UNIX support.
Perform system administration for an extensive UNIX lab that was organized in early April 1996 which is used hourly for training and problem determination aids by both Booz/Allen and Motorola technicians. This lab encompasses the following operating systems: AIX, Motorola SVR40 & R32, Sun Solaris Beta, SCO Openserver 5, SCO Openserver 3.2 V 4.2, SCO Xenix, Windows NT 3.51 Workstation/Server, Windows NT 4.0 Workstation/ Server Beta2, and LINUX.
Hands on training is also available for the RS/6000, Motorola VME architecture, the PPC architecture, various Xterms and ASCII terminals, as well as a complete lineup of Zenith Intel based servers. Other responsibilities are via modem perform remote diagnostics, installation, configuration and corrective actions directly relating to hardware and / or software problems that are part of customer's contractual agreement which includes RAID disk and tape subsystems, SMP kernel support, network adapter support, intelligent hub Configuration RIP routing protocol, TCP/IP, Lexmark's' Virtual Printer management.