1. MUHAMMAD ARIF
Unix4arif@gmail.com
226-246-2888
SUMMARY:
Over 06 years of IT supportin AIX/Solaris administration. A self motivated
AIX/Unix administrator provided 24x7 supportto financial banking system.
Migrated 4 Data Centers and consolidated, decommissioned them into one.
Excellent communication skills and a great team player with leadership qualities.
Education: Bachelors ofScience .
Technical Skills:
OS – AIX 5.1, 6.1 and 7.1 Solaris (8/9/10/11)
Virtualization –LPAR, Solaris Zones, LDOM
File system–JFS, JFS2, ext3, ZFS, VxFS SVM,
Clustering – VCS (VERITAS Cluster Server), HACMP, Oracle RAC
Database: Oracle 8x/9i/10g, MS Access,
Applications: Websphere, Tivoli, Netbackup, Weblogic, Oracle RAC.
ProfessionalExperience
IBM Dubuque Iowa Mar 2012 –Present
Position: AIX/Solaris Admin
Manages high end IBM/Sun Enterprise class machines including but not limited to
IBM P550, P570, 750, 770, Sun T5240, 5440, E25k, E15k, HP Blade Center
.
 Proficient in, AIX 5.3, 6.1 and 7.1, Solaris 8/9/10/11, HACMP, Oracle RAC,
Veritas suite of products and VIO setup, LPAR, Solaris Zone, VMware
creation, Live Migration on the IBM P-Series and Solaris LDOM.
 Initial setup of VIO servers and LPARS using the HMC framework on P750
and P770 platform.
 Decommissioned AIX, Solaris servers by following the process ofstopping and
removing service groups, databases, local zones and then deallocating SAN.
 JFS, JFS2, UFS, VxFS, ext3 were used

2.  AIX LPAR installation using NIM servers. Create AIX server images for
backup.
 Setup up Clustering using HACMP on AIX Lpar
Application supportfor systems running oracle databases ,MQ series
 Automate creation of virtual machines like Solaris 10 zones to consolidate
systems on Enterprise class machines such as T5240/v490,
 Supportmission critical systems running databases such as Informix, Oracle,
FileNet on virtual and physical systems
 Manage Solaris/AIX clients by enabling SNMP to be monitored by Tivoli for
Steady state team
 Document and troubleshoot hardware and software issues that occurin this
complex environment.
 Analyzes and contribute to planning the architecture of the environment.
 Deploy legacy OS onto latest Solaris 10 host environment
 Undertake Application and Patch Management of the systems on a regular basis
including Firmware upgrades.
 Troubleshootand assist end users with applications related problems.
 Complete understanding of Lights Out Environment like ALOM and
ILOM.SMS software for E 10K/15K/25K.SMS1.6
 Setup and deployment of Red Hat Linux 4.8 and 5.4 6.1IBM blade hardware
 Create standardize documentation
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SM Consulting Services Inc. Canada Mar2009 – Mar 2012
UNIX Administrator
Worked in AIX 5.1 and 6.1 production supportenvironment
Setup of AIX servers for production and pre-prod environment
Environment was IBM Power hardware and Sun Sparc hardware
Worked with EMC and Hitachi SAN allocate storage to the AIX servers
Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for
file system growth
Using Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
Draft the plan for AIX migration and identify activities and role played by team
members
AIX System & backup management using MKSYSB
Performed duties as Systems admin in ISP environment of servers located in
multiple data centers.

3. Troubleshot VERITAS Volume Management related issues on Solaris based
servers.
Installed Veritas on Solaris for Volume Management and SAN filesystem
Setup of Netbackup client on the AIX and Solaris servers
Worked with security teams to collects logs and user activity details that are
requested by corporatesecurity teams.
Worked with DBA, app development and supportgroups to resolve provisioning
and outage issues.
Worked with vendors to resolve problems with servers and attached devices on a
daily basis.
Troubleshot issues with mailstores and MTA (Mail Transfer Agents).
Assisted voice engineering group on day-to-day basis.
Troubleshot individual voice mail issues. Setup of Jumpstart server
Installation of Veritas Productions for storage management
Support/ build 7000 + production Solaris server environnent globally
Managed trading floor systems running on Solaris.
Install Solaris Patches, packages on productionservers
 Installed, configured, maintained and troubleshoot AIX 5.3 and Solaris 10
operating System.
 Performed NIM setup with golden images for local LPAR depending on the
application
 Setup of HACMP to assist in failover AIX LPAR
 Decommissioned AIX, Linux, Solaris servers by following the process of
stopping and removing service groups, databases, local zones and then
deallocating SAN.
 Supporting and managing IBM pseries servers (P5/P6) using HMC version 6 and
7
 Setup of the VIO server on the Power Series hardware
 Implemented Tivoli Storage Manger v5.2 enterprise storage product server and
client on Solaris & AIX platform for backup and restore operations. Monitoring
and Troubleshooting of TSM related issues.
 Assisted with DBA group in installation of Oracle on AIX and Solaris
 Coordinated with various teams for racking and RSA console configuration of
servers in a Multi Tier WAN environment.
 Project lead for the installation and configured 300+ AIX LPAR in remote data
center
 Provided application support to end user post migration in a virtualized
environment.

4.  Configured Tivoli Storage Manager backup solution for all servers and
configuration CA
 Administered and supported Production, Quality and development systems in a
24x7 environment consisting of Oracle.
 Managed SAN on local server using JFS2, VxFS, ZFS
 Created, configured managed Solaris Zones and LDOM
 Strongexperience and understanding of NFS, Auto mounter, DNS, TCP/IP,NTP,
SMTP.
 Managed E25K /T5220/T5240 servers at remote locations.
 Installed and configured Solaris /8/9/10 on servers and workstations.
 Configured and Installed global and non-global zones, resource sets using
Resource Manager, zoneadm in Solaris 10.
 Installe & Configure SUN Solaris 8,9 and10 on SUN E250, E450, E4500 servers
using CD’s/and jumpstart servers
 Support/ build 1000 + production Solaris server environnent
 Managed web server, database server running on Solaris.
 Relocated multiple data centers for multiple clients. This included
configuring/building
their new Solaris environment along with final deployment of new data center.
 Install Solaris Patches, packages on production servers.
 Tune and configure systems where applicable.
 Wrote Shell Scripts to collect the System performance Information, account
information on a daily basis.
 Implemented NIS and NFS for administrative and project requirements.
 Troubleshot NFS servers, NFS Clients in Auto Mount Environment.
 Set up the thresholds on the parameters (CPU/Memory/Disk/Network) and
alerted the users when the usage reached the thresholds.
 Tuning the kernel parameters based on the application/database requirement.
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Education: BSc
Diploma in Advanced UNIX System Administration
References:Available Upon Request.