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SIKANDAR
MOHAMED
6350 Stoneridge Mall Rd G106 • Pleasanton CA, 94588 818-414-0786 • sikandar_mohamed@hotmail.com TECHNOLOGY
CONSULTANT / INFRASTRUCTURE & SOFTWARE ARCHITECT Accomplished,
innovative, and solution-driven IT Professional with over 15 years of
hands-on experience in the areas of Enterprise Architecture, Systems
Integration and Design, Performance & Scalability, and Implementation of
SAP and Clinical Applications on high end UNIX Systems. Expert in AIX
advanced support with exceptional skills in HACMP Solutions, other Clustering
technologies and in Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery procedures.
Excellent expertise on Enterprise Servers running IBM AIX, HP-UX with Oracle
/ DB2 / Cache databases and large Storage Area Networks such as EMC & IBM
ESS. Have insightful leadership skills to motivate internal and external
teams to exceed project objectives. Excellent in creating Standard Operating
Procedures, write technical white papers, document and remediate any complex
issues following a methodical approach. Research, and provide guidance to
protect the IT infrastructure from code defects or security vulnerabilities.
Rich experience of training and mentoring colleagues and clients. Proactively
anticipate problems and provide resolutions with a focus to strive for
innovation, continuous improvement and process simplification.
SUMMARY Systems
architecture and design • Infrastructure Build • Integrate
SAP solutions on AIX • Disaster Recovery
& Business Continuity Procedures • HACMP
• Advanced AIX • Migrations • Performance
and Scalability • Virtualization Technologies using
IBM PowerVM and Virtual I/O Server • VMware • Live Application Mobility •
WPAR (Workload Partition) • Oracle 11g/10g •
System Software installation • OS upgrade
and maintenance • Infrastructure and Application
Technical Support • SAN Redesign & Migrations for EMC Symmetrix,
IBM ESS • IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) • Enterprise Middleware WebSphere MQ • Network Deployment Manager Systems
& Infrastructure Architect / Technology Consultant · Understand
Application requirements and business processes for infrastructure design · Expert in Systems
architecture & design · Leveraging data
replication tools to design enterprise backup solutions · Extensive
experience to direct infrastructure build · Architect and
integrate SAP solutions on AIX platform · Feasibility study,
proof of concepts and gap analysis · Hardware Planning,
Technical Marketing and SME review for project proposals · Install - Configure
Operating Systems VIOS 2.1, AIX 7.1 / 6.1 / 5.3 / 5.2 / 5.1 / 4.3.3,
HP-UX 11.x and Red Hat Linux ES5 / ES4 · Build and configure
Virtual I/O Servers, create LPARs on System p 695/690/670 · Build WPARS,
configure LPARS for Live Application mobility · Build, configure
& deploy Power HA 6.1 / 5.5 / HACMP-ES 5.4 / 4.5 · Work with IBM SAP
Competency Center for integrating SAP solutions on AIX and enhance
performance and scalability · Deploy Web
Application Servers using HTTP Server, WebSphere MQ · Analyze workloads
and usage trends for evaluating System performance, and make capacity
planning recommendations · Implement SAP
Concurrent I/O to enhance Oracle database performance · Design and
architect business continuity and disaster recovery procedures · Direct the
development of comprehensive and strategic business cases with cost/benefit
dimensions. · Advanced
AIX, HACMP consulting & integration support for the platform
infrastructure reliability and agility TECHNICAL PROFILE Hardware:
IBM Power 770 / System p 695 / 690 / 670 / 650 / 630 / 615, RS/6000 S85 / S80
/ S7A / S70 / F50, HP-9000 N-Class & K-Class, SUN Ultra E4500 / E3500 /
450 / 250, 220R, Alpha Server GS 140 / GS 60, Alpha Server 8400 / 8200 / 4100
/ 2100 / 1200 / 800, DMX VMAX / EMC Symmetrix 8000 / 3000 Series, IBM ESS
Model 800, HP BL460c, f5 Load Balancer, IBM Data Power OS:
VIOS
2.2 / 2.1, AIX 7.1 / 6.1 / 5.3 / 5.2 / 5.1 / 4.3.3, Solaris 8 / 7 / 2.6,
HP-UX 11.1 / 10.x, Digital Unix 4.0E / 4.0D and SCO UnixWare 7.1, Red Hat
Linux ES5 / ES4 / AS4, Windows 2008 R2 Server Enterprise, Citrix XenApp 6.0 Misc:
WebLogic 10.3, WebSphere Application Server 8.5 / 6.1, WebSphere Message
Broker 8 / 6.x, WebSphere Message Queue 7 / 6.x, Omegamon XE for Messaging
6.0, SAP NetWeaver 7.0, SAP PI 7.0, SAP R/3 4.6B, Power HA 6.1 / 5.5 /
HACMP-ES 5.3 / 4.5 / 4.4.1, PSSP-3.4, GPFS 1.5, ITM 6.x, EMC Power Path 5.3 /
4.5 / 3.0.4, Volume Logix 3.0.12, TSM 6.x, EMC TimeFinder/Clone Networking:
TCP/IP, NFS, Ether Channel, IBM Load Balancer 5.0.2 RDBMS:
Oracle RAC 11gR2 / 10gR2 / 9i / 8i / 8 / 7.3.4, DB2 UDB 8.x/7.x, Cache Scripting Language:
UNIX Shell Programming,
SQL
Tools Used:
EMC Control Center, Time Finder, SRDF, Solstice Disk Suite 4.2, Legato
Networker 5.2, BMC Patrol, TNG 2.2, Platinum DBA, Oracle Enterprise Manager,
Tivoli Storage Manager, Tivoli Workload Scheduler PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE CSC, Falls Church,
VA 22042 • Oct 2013 – Present Major Client: Kaiser Permanente,
Pleasanton, California Environment: IBM Power 770 /
System p 695 / 690, DMX VMAX / EMC Symmetrix 8000, VIOS 2.2 / 2.1, AIX 7.1 /
6.1 / 5.3, Power HA 6.1 / 5.5 / HACMP-ES 5.3, Web Logic Application Server
10.3, Tomcat 6.0.32, WSO2, Web Sphere Application Server 8.5 / 6.1, WebSphere
Message Broker 8 / 6.x, WebSphere Message Queue 7 / 6.x, Oracle RAC 11gR2 /
10gR2, VMware 2.x, f5 Load Balancer, IBM Data Power, Enterprise Service Bus Architect –
Application Performance & Scalability ·
Optimize the Pharmacy Application Stack for
high-performance computing. ·
Build Performance & Scalability prototypes, profiling
and capacity modeling. · Tuning
the SOA infrastructure (ESB & Messaging stack) for multi-dimensional
scaling. · Build
Performance and Scalability regression suite with different test cases of the
Application work-flow, use different load profiles and real-world-scenarios
to simulate and analyze the Production load variances. ·
Align with Application Development Life Cycle and business
requirements to build & drive Performance & Scalability test plans. · Work
with Enterprise Architecture for standards and compatibility in doing the
Proof of Technology and recommending design changes in the Physical &
Logical
Solutions stack to optimize performance. ·
Deep dive into designs, application code, and frameworks,
and provide clear insight and direction to business and IT stakeholders. · Use
instrumentation / diagnostics tools to determine the Application footprint,
latency & contentions at different layers of the framework from an end user
perspective. · Detect,
isolate, and resolve performance issues throughout the technology stack by collecting
& analyzing Application & DB performance metrics. ·
Distill
volumes of data, analyze performance results, and characterize system
performance. ·
Manage
work packets and deliverables for on-shore & off-shore teams and review
the automation scripts, load profiles & test data in the regression
suite. ·
Analyze
the results of the regression test with Performance & Scalability team
and publish the Executive Summary for the Pharmacy IT leadership. ·
Create
Project Plan for the Performance & Scalability roadmap and publish weekly
Status Reports to the PMO and Business stakeholders. ·
Provide
accurate reporting of Defect Status and collaborate with Quality Assurance
& business teams for getting defect fixes in a timely manner from the
Vendor. ·
Communicate
the risks and mitigation plans to Business and other stake holders. ACCOMPLISHMENTS · Collaborated with
cross-functional teams and Service Owners to optimize the configuration of
clients, servers, and networking equipment for maintaining the SLAs and key performance
indicators (KPIs) reporting for reliability,
robustness, and scalability of the Pharmacy application. · Successfully
accomplished the design change in SOA infrastructure by studying the
messaging & event patterns for latency and throughput. And obtained
horizontal scaling by virtualizing the services for parallel routing and
eliminating the timeouts, hanging threads, big JVM object heaps and thread
deadlocks. · Optimized the DB
purging and retention policies that was impacting the asynchronous routing
rules in the SOA and was slowing down the console when accessing the audit
data with a large overhead due to the DB defragmentation. · Did Proof of Technology for predictive analytics of
Business Volumetric & Scalability to support the agile strategies &
ROI in the Enterprise, and having clear insight to the projected business
growth. Rose International
Inc., Chesterfield, MO • Nov
2010
– Sep 2013 Major Client: Kaiser Permanente,
Pleasanton, California • Nov 2010 – Sep 2013 Program
Manager – System Design & Architecture · Develop physical
solution design for the integration of Pharmacy Application Systems and its
technology stack; Weblogic, Tomcat, Oracle, Power HA, Citrix, f5 Load
Balancer, Data Power devices and Enterprise Service Bus. · Perform
technical analysis of IBM Power 770 HW and exploit its features for memory
expansion, NPIV, Live Partition Mobility and the PowerVM capabilities to
direct infrastructure build with an optimal design and ROI. · Design
backup & recovery strategy for all Pharmacy components (end-to-end) -
Pharmacy layer (EPS, POS - App & DB), DC layer (Central Services App
& DB) & Interface layers (ESB - WAS, WMB) using data replication
tools. · Develop and
maintain technology-level compatibility and manage alignment with Enterprise
Architecture Standards and Compliance. · Maintain
the matrix of OS versions, HACMP & Application components. · Audit
OS, HACMP, Oracle RAC, WebLogic and other underlying infrastructure component
parameters. · Research
and identify configuration changes to enhance Application availability and
performance. · Assess
backup requirements and work with Platform engineering to beef up the TSM
infrastructure to handle anticipated growth. · Research
automation of Oracle Grid events with Enterprise monitoring tools (ITM). · Design
backup and recovery architecture for EPS DB (Beta roll-out) using clone/snap
and to accommodate recovery at the tablespace level. · Work with
IBM to engineer & design 3:1 HACMP solution for Enterprise Pharmacy &
Point-of-Sale Applications. · Ensure
seamless integration of EPS/POS - App & DB in the HA cluster environment,
and perform regression/functional testing to certify Prod readiness. · Handle
design changes for ITM6 agents to map 3:1 HA solution. · Consult
and provide advanced AIX, HACMP & integration support to ensure
infrastructure and Pharmacy Services scalability & endurance. ACCOMPLISHMENTS · Developed the
Physical Solution design and architecture for the integration of Pharmacy
System Application and its technology stack. · Performed
operational Readiness assessment (end-to-end) and regression testing to
certify Production readiness of Pharmacy Applications for Alpha release. · Architected
the backup and recovery strategy for all Pharmacy components. Successfully
accomplished cloning of the Oracle RAC DB using EMC Time Finder Clone/snap
technology to meet the desired RPO/RTO objectives. · Performed
technical analysis of IBM Power 770 HW and leveraged its features for memory
expansion, Live Partition Mobility utilizing the PowerVM capabilities and
directed the infrastructure build to have an optimal design and ROI. VED Software
Services Inc., Farmington Hills, Michigan • 2005 – 2010 VED Software Services, Inc. is a recognized Michigan based
corporation, specializing in providing Project Management Consulting &
training, Software development and contracting. IT consulting services range
from E-Commerce / Web based Solutions, Internet Development, ERP / CRM / SCM
Implementation, Client/Server Development, Database Administration and System
/ Network Administration to feasibility studies and gap analysis, to change implementation
and reengineering. Major Client: Bayer Corporation,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Oct 2005 – Sep 2010 Bayer is a global
enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and
high-tech materials. Its three subgroups, Bayer
HealthCare, Bayer Crop Science and Bayer Material Science, is one of the world’s
leading, innovative companies in improving people’s
lives through a broad range of essential products that help diagnose, prevent
and treat diseases; protect crops and enhance yields; and advance automobile
safety and durability. More information is available at www.bayer.com. Environment: IBM System p 695 /
690 / 670 / 650, EMC Symmetrix 8000 / 3000 Series, VIOS 2.1, AIX 6.1 / 5.3 /
5.2 / 5.1 / 4.3.3, PSSP-3.4, SAP NetWeaver 7.0, SAP PI 7.0, SAP R/3 4.6 B,
Oracle 11g/10g/9i/8i/7.3.4, DB2 UDB 8.1/7.2, WebSphere MQ / Deployment
Manager 5.3, IBM HTTP Server 2.0.42.2, EMC Power Path 5.3 / 4.5 / 3.0.4,
VMware Technology
Integration / Business Continuity Consultant ·
Install
and configure IBM AIX (6.1 / 5.3 / 5.2 / 5.1 / 4.3.3) Operating System. ·
Installation
of Application Suites, O/S patches, database and monitoring tools. ·
Perform
Operating System and firmware upgrades. ·
Architect
and devise mechanisms to improve SAP system performance. ·
Capture
system statistics, analyze workloads and usage trends, and make capacity
planning recommendations to business. ·
Provide
second level support for AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and Linux Operation systems. ·
Perform
root cause analysis of problems that are of high and critical severities. ·
Author
and update technical support procedures and installation documents. ·
Review
Enterprise Security vulnerabilities and develop remediation measures to
mitigate risks. ·
Research
new architectures, verify interoperability and do proof of concepts. ·
Work
with the global UNIX team to harmonize and standardize procedures for
expediting the plan, build and run of Applications and other deliverables. ·
Research
new technologies and viable solutions for Disaster Recovery to streamline and
enhance Business Continuity procedures. ACCOMPLISHMENTS · Developed the
Solution Design for integrating SAP and its components on high-end UNIX
platform using SAP-XI, AIX and Oracle. · Researched and
implemented Concurrent I/O to enhance SAP performance. · Designed the Oracle
DB grid infrastructure using Oracle RAC with cluster nodes in multiple sites;
integrated the grid metrics for pro-active monitoring of RAC events/failures
and sending regular feeds to the central repository (Tivoli Data Warehouse)
for trend analysis, reporting and predictive management tasks. · Architected and
implemented the Disaster Recovery process for Business Critical Systems. · Collaborated with
SAN team and developed several procedures for data migration and technology
upgrades using the EMC software suite. · Devised a framework
for provisioning SFTP accounts to self-contain and restrict users for Systems
security and seamless interoperability. · Architected a broad
corporate strategy for patch management on UNIX Systems. This approach
efficiently manages, remediates and/or mitigates the risks to the Corporate
IT infrastructure from code defects or security vulnerabilities; Protects
business data and networks; and ensures compliance with internal IT Security
policies and regulations. Kaiser Permanente,
Walnut Creek, California • 2004 – 2005 Kaiser Permanente is the largest nonprofit
health plan in the United States, serving 8.4 million members in 9 states and
the District of Columbia. It is an integrated health delivery system that
provides and co-ordinates the entire scope of care for the members, including
Preventive Care, Well-Baby and Prenatal Care, Immunizations, Emergency Care,
Screening Diagnostics, Pharmacy Services, Hospital and Medical Services. Kaiser Permanente deployed a
paperless automated medical record (AMR) system, named as KP Health
Connect (KPHC) for all of its 8.4 million members and 11,000
physicians by a suite of products from Epic Systems. This provided Kaiser
Permanente with an integrated data depository that integrates all
clinical data, including patient charts, order entry systems, clinical notes,
nursing documentation and pharmacy information systems. Environment: IBM pSeries 690 /
670 / 650 / 630 / 615, RS/6000 Enterprise S85/S80/S7A/S70, EMC Symmetrix 8000
/ 3000 Series, IBM ESS Model 800, AIX 5.2/5.1/4.3.3, PSSP-3.4, GPFS 1.5, Load
Balancer 5.0.8, Oracle 9i/8i/7.3.4, DB2 UDB 8.1/7.2, Cache 5, WebSphere /
Deployment Manager 5.0.2, IBM HTTP Server 2.0.42.2, MQ Series 5.3, EMC Power
Path 3.0.4 National Lead
Support Engineer · Leading
a team of Support Engineers for monitoring & troubleshooting of
application environments. · Triage
of configuration & installation problems. · Audit
of environment configurations. · Performing
root cause analysis of problems and creating reports. · Analyze
and recommend alternative technologies that will enhance current or
anticipated information systems and that support overall corporate and
business goals. · Feasibility study
of hardware dependencies, understand workflow and propose suggestions for
redundancy and high availability. · Help
develop systems architecture standards. · Provide
in-depth technical consultation to IT staff in interpreting and applying IT
architecture and utilizing established standards, procedures and
methodologies. · Help
develop technical skills of lower level resources. · Provide
second level of escalation and support for any technical issues. · Help
establish the Support SLAs and procedures. ACCOMPLISHMENTS · Researched and
drafted the proof of concept for deploying the Gateway Server as an
aggregation point for all Production Servers using the SSH protocol. · Proposed mechanism
to enhance ESS Shark flash copy features used in PPRC for Production backups
and solution to integrate with Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS). · Studied Cache
database monitoring for high availability cluster servers (HACMP) and
designed the integration mechanism for Tivoli interface. · Created shared SSH
keys for all Production Servers to logon from the Gateway Server and
automated scripts to put Cache database monitoring in maintenance or normal
modes. · Devised a framework
to integrate Application Servers with Tivoli endpoints in HACMP servers for
1:1 and many to one Cluster configuration and performed functional testing by
partnering with other business groups. · Proposed
enhancements to existing Cluster architectures for keeping the user files and
passwords in sync across the Cluster. Kaiser Permanente,
Pasadena, California • 2001 – 2004 Sr. Systems
Programmer (AIX Systems Administrator) - National Operations · Installation of AIX
(5.2 / 5.1 / 4.3.3), application suites, patches, databases and monitoring
tools. Build, configure and deploy IBM HACMP/ES 4.5/4.4.1/5.1/5.2 · Perform Operating
System upgrades in AIX, microcode updates for system firmware / service
processor, adapter & disk drive. · Configure servers
for O/S backup and recovery using Sysback, Clone rootvg using alt disk
install. · Co-ordinate with
different functional groups to plan and execute system tasks for Server
consolidation, data migration from EMC to IBM Shark or for SAN redesign
activities (Replacement of core switches & cables) for EMC Symmetrix /
IBM Shark. · Production support
& problem analysis, research and propose better methodologies &
standardize procedures to speed up deliverables. · Assigned to key
projects as KP Health Connect, WebSphere Infrastructure, EMC Tech Refresh,
Remedy implementation for National Help Desk. ACCOMPLISHMENTS · Configured and
successfully deployed 25 x Clusters using HACMP/ES 4.5/4.4.1 (4-node, 3-node
and 2-node clusters) using Cascading / Rotating architectures in last 2 years
using IBM pSeries 690 / 670 & standalones as p660 / H80 / H50. · Successful
implementation of HACMP/ES using IPAT with aliasing using two boot adapters
(instead of the conventional - boot and standby) using multiple gateways. · Instrumental in
layout & configuring LPARs from Regatta frames (pSeries 690 / 670) with
redundant slot assignments (using planar partition) and using the alt disk
clone mechanism for quick turnaround. · Drafted Regatta
best practices (turn on CuoD, CPU Guard implementation, SP boot and
surveillance policy, HMC call home) for operational stability and high
availability. · Did research and
devised guidelines to size and tune memory requirements and address server
failures due to low paging space from VMM standpoint. · Successfully tested
and documented the alternate disk install procedure to clone O/S &
upgrade maintenance level (ML) in AIX, thereby adding the flexibility of
having reduced down time for applications during upgrade and fast recovery
from fatal operating system / disk failures. · Migrated data
successfully from EMC Symmetrix to IBM ESS Shark with good familiarity of
events, analytical approach to assess and minimize business impact. · Upgraded servers
seamlessly from AIX 433 to AIX 5.1 & AIX 5.1 to 5.2. ·
Automated
scripts to collect data for system resources and stored in a NFS repository.
Devised a mechanism to streamline and ease the
process of adding storage to volume Groups on HACMP Servers using device
serial numbers and importing volume group and other LVM definitions during
major SAN redesign activities. · Configured and
successfully integrated Remedy AR System for Service Management and Kaiser
National Help Desk functions using Network Deployment Manager 5.0.2, multiple
WebSphere instances, ARS servers, IBM HTTP Server and Load Balancer to
dispatch network traffic for thin and fat clients with DB2 UDB 7.2 as the
backend database. VED Software
Services Inc., Farmington Hills, Michigan • May 2000 – Oct 2001 VED Software Services, Inc. is a recognized Michigan based
corporation, specializing in providing Project Management Consulting &
training, Software development and contracting. IT consulting services range
from E-Commerce / Web based Solutions, Internet Development, ERP / CRM / SCM
Implementation, Client/Server Development, Database Administration and System
/ Network Administration to feasibility studies and gap analysis, to change
implementation and reengineering. Major Clients: Acxiom Corporation (Sep 2000 –
Oct 2001) ADP Inc. (Jun 2000 – Aug 2000) Acxiom Corporation
(Formerly Litton Enterprise Solutions), Woodland Hills, CA Sep 2000 – Oct 2001 Acxiom Corporation is a global leader
in real-time, multi-channel Customer Data Integration (CDI), enabling
businesses to develop and deepen customer relationships by achieving a
single, accurate view of the customer across the enterprise. Acxiom
accomplishes this by offering innovative database marketing services,
advanced technologies, infrastructure management and premier data content. Acxiom
acquired the technology division of Litton Industries, which is
the largest builder of non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy and designs,
builds, and overhauls surface ships for government and commercial customers
worldwide. The company is a leading information technology (IT) contractor to
the U.S. government and provides specialized IT services to commercial
customers and government customers in local/foreign jurisdictions. Also does
Web Hosting by providing infrastructure (hardware, software, and network /
internet communications) to run e-business environments that are highly
available with redundancy and high-speed communications. Environment: IBM RS/6000
Enterprise S80/S7A/S70, Sun Enterprise 4500/E3500/ 420R’s/220R’s, Sun Ultra
450/250/5/10, HP-9000 N-Class and K-Class, Alpha Server GS140, GS60’S, Alpha
Server 8400, Alpha 8200 / 4100’s / 2100’s / 1200, EMC Symmetrix 3930, EMC
CLARiiON FC5300, Digital RAID Arrays RA10000 x 2, RA7000 x 3, XP-256 RAID
Array (HP E-Sure store), Sun D1000’s, Sun Storage A1000’s. AIX 4.3.3 /
4.3.2, Solaris 8 / 7 / 2.6, Solstice Disk Suite 4.2, HP-UX 11.00, Digital
Unix 4.0E / 4.0D, Oracle 8i/8/7.3.4, PL/SQL 8.0.5, SQL*FORMS 5.0, SQL*PLUS
8.0.5, Developer 2000 V 6.0, Net8/SQL*Net, Legato Networker 5.2, BMC Patrol
and TNG 2.2 AIX Consultant In a position utilizing broad experience in
Unix Administration involved, Installation of O/S, application packages,
patches and third-party tools for AIX 4.3.3 and Solaris 7. Performed
Operating System upgrades in AIX and Solaris, microcode updates for system
firmware, service processor of RS/6000 servers. Designed / Implemented and
tested the backup and disaster recovery strategy in AIX using the LVM,
breaking the mirror and re-syncing the logical volumes and the volume group.
Created metadevices in Solaris with Solstice Disk Suite 4.2 and mirrored the
root and other file systems to have a fault redundant system; Successfully
tested the System boot process using the second copy of the mirror in AIX and
Solaris. · Configured sendmail
(V8 Berkeley) and created anonymous ftpuser in Solaris and AIX. Configured
secure systems in Solaris 7, turned off the IP-forwarding and spoofing.
Installed Secured Shell (ssh2.0) and implemented XNTP for time
synchronization in Servers with the Internet. · Configured TCP/IP,
NFS v3 on AIX, Solaris and HP-UX to share system resources through the
network. Managed and provided technical support for multi UNIX environment
running different applications. Capable of managing the installation and
removal of LPP's (Licensed Program Products), PTF's (Program Temporary
Fixes), building / installing packages and patches. · Configured Apache
Server on AIX and Solaris. Installed SNMP agents and Unicenter TNG 2.2 for
monitoring the System workload management. · Installed and
configured EMC Power Path on AIX 4.3.3. Instrumental in successful data
migration from other DASDs to EMC Symmetrix using EMC Time Finder and host
based mirroring. Mapped existing file systems layout with the EMC bin file
created for data migration. Well versed with managing BCV creation and split
for use as SRDF to the remote location. · Scripted to monitor
the System warnings, errors or fatal failures, file system free space,
network collisions and CPU hogging by automating through cron which keeps
track and notifies proactively by paging or sending an e-mail in case of any
eventualities that may occur. MAJOR
ACCOMPLISHMENT Instrumental in a large Data Center
migration and Server consolidation effort for the Brooks Brothers’ outlet.
Rich experience and familiarity with the sequence of critical events and
phases corresponding to the move. Replicated Servers at remote location;
migrated data from existing production environments to target location. Used
EMC Time Finder and created independently addressable Business Continuance
Volumes (BCVs). Well versed with BCV split to be used at the target units for
testing functionality of applications before the final Network Swing.
Replicated Production data using EMC Suite of tools; verified end-to-end
Application functionality and successfully accomplished the Data Center
migration process. ADP Inc., New
Jersey • Jun
2000 – Aug 2000 ADP Inc. offers a broad
spectrum of technology based business solutions. The Company is a largest
provider of payroll services and human resource information systems (HRIS),
offering a comprehensive range of benefits, business tax deposit and 401k
services, prepares and submits employers’ quarterly payroll tax returns to
over 2000 US federal, state and local regulatory authorities. Environment: IBM RS/6000
Enterprise S7A, NFS, DNS, with AIX 4.3.3 / 4.3.2, IBM S/390, Oracle 8/7.3.4,
PL/SQL 8.0.5, SQL*FORMS 5.0, SQL*PLUS 8.0.5, Oracle Server Manager, Developer
2000 V 6.0, Net8/SQL*Net, Web Application Server 3.0 Systems Consultant
/ Administrator · Installation of
O/S, application packages and third-party tools · Resolving
performance issues of application and database · Monitoring disk
space requirements for dynamically growing file systems and databases · Tuning Unix
specific parameters for good throughput of Oracle database · Installing and
Configuring devices, creation of users, determining and allocating disk
quotas based on applications · Collecting
statistics of disk I/O, CPU and memory utilization during peak loads and
analyzing these for improving performance · Configuring /
Monitoring the network traffic and tuning TNS parameters for reducing
congestion · Net8/SQL*Net and
listener Configurations · Creation of
tablespaces, adding datafiles, managing rollback segments and redologs in
Oracle database · Creating database
links for location transparency · Training
application and support groups · Interacting with
different User-groups and projecting their requirements ACCOMPLISHMENTS · Designed the layout
of Oracle database on EMC Symmetrix by studying the applications and database
characteristics for read / write intensiveness, sequential or random access
behaviors and configured accordingly as RAID 0, 1, 1+0 & 5 for enhanced
performance and redundancy. · Successfully
upgraded servers from AIX 432 to 433. · Implemented paging
space thresholds and monitoring by Tivoli. DDE ORG Systems,
India • 1993
– 2000 Dy. Manager /
Technical Lead (Aug ‘99 – May ‘00) Systems Specialist
(Dec ‘98 – Jul ‘99) Sr. Systems
Engineer (Jul ‘96 – Nov ‘98) Systems Engineer
(Mar ‘93 – Jun ‘96) Major Clients: Colgate Palmolive,
Johnson & Johnson, Thomas Cook Travels, TRW Steerings, Life Insurance
Corp of India, Hindustan Lever Ltd, First Leasing Co, Jet Airways, Air India,
State Bank of India, National Dairy DDE ORG
Systems is a joint venture of DDE Systems of Denmark and ORG Systems
(Sarabhai Group Company) of India, a System Integration Company that is
primarily involved in manufacturing and marketing of RISC based Systems under
brand name SUPERMAX. DDE ORG provides total solutions for their clients,
including analysis, design installation and support for hardware and O/S,
database and development of applications. DDE ORG also had strategic
alliances with other major vendors like SUN, HP, IBM, Digital, Silicon
Graphics and AST and was providing turnkey solutions and facility management
services to clients. Some of the successful deployments include - Air Travel
Reservation System, Betting Terminals for Race Clubs, and Data Message
Concentrator for Airlines, National Dairy Automation, Engineering analysis of
structures, system and components for Builders, Developers & Research
Institutes. Environment: HP9000 with HP-UX
10.1/10.2, SUN Ultra E4500 with Solaris 2.6, IBM RS/6000 - F50, AIX 4.3.2,
ORG Supermax RISC 4400 with TCP/IP on Ethernet, NFS, DNS, Digital AS/800 with
64 bit Alpha Unix, SCO UnixWare 7.1, Oracle 8i/7.3.4, Oracle Server Manager,
SQL*DBA, SQL*Net, Developer 2000 (Forms 4.5, Reports 2.5), SQL*Forms 3.0, SQL
Menu 5.0 Dy. Manager Systems
Support / Technical lead and Sr. Systems Administrator (HP-UX, Sun Solaris,
AIX) · Installation,
technical support and configuration of IBM, HP, SUN, and Digital Servers · Managed users, file
systems and incorporated security features, designed and implemented the
backup and recovery strategy. Installed application packages and third-party
tools · Installed Server
with NFS shares and Automounts, developed shell scripts for automating System
admin tasks. Managed disks and file systems using Administrative tools (SMIT,
SAM) · Managed database
(Oracle 7.x) problems as data block corruption, loss of control files and
restoration, disk fragmentation, adding/dropping tablespaces, taking exports,
importing data and backup strategies for a total redundant System
· Excellent
experience of establishing the Network using TCP/IP and SQL*Net Connectivity
to database for Client/Server Computing · Coordinated Y2K
compliance issues, security and patch installations · Trouble shoot
system software and network related problems · Project management
support for new products and applications · Performance
monitoring and tuning for redundancy, speed and high availability ACCOMPLISHMENTS · Engineered the
National Dairy Project in a timely fashion setting up total production IT
environment using IBM RS/6000 running AIX and Oracle database. Provided
technical support to the development, QA and marketing team in project
execution and implementation of deliverables. · Coordinated Y2K
compliance issues with seamless integrations of Operating System patches and
upgrades. · Involved in total
database (ORACLE 7.3.4) reorganization. Removed fragmentation by taking full
database export and importing full database backups, user wise backups and
restored the database successfully with crucial database objects as indexes,
views, integrity constraints and database triggers. · Did technical
research / analysis and provided strategic pre-sales support to the marketing
team and other functional groups in project execution and implementation of
turnkey solutions. · Devised scripts and
automated backup strategies for database and O/S and developed a warning
system for failing system resources and performance bottlenecks. · Documented the
complete System information, Hardware (including CPU, memory, hard disks,
controllers, network adapters, their type / make / model) and Software (all
applications, databases, third party tools with version and revision levels)
including any application specific customizations, changes made to the
operating environment and important system parameters, problems encountered,
technical work around and solutions provided. EDUCATION Bachelor’s
degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering (1988 – 1992)
Computer
SKILLS UNIX, AIX, Power HA / HACMP-ES, PSSP, GPFS,
Oracle, DB2 UDB, SAP NetWeaver, SAP PI, SAP R/3, C, C++, Java, Shell Script, WLM, ITM, TSM, TWS, EMC Power
Path, EMC Time Finder/Clone, ESB, f5 Load Balancer, IBM Data Power, WebLogic,
WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Message Broker, WebSphere MQ,
Omegamon XE for Messaging
CERTIFICATIONS IBM RS/6000 &
AS/400 Maintenance Training Program IBM RS/6000 SP
System Administration IBM WebSphere 5.0
Administration Course Sikandar Mohamed
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