Roland A. Colasante
Senior AIX Administrator-Systems Engineer
30 Dixon Lake Drive
Mahopac, New York 10541
(845)628-3072 C1CMC@AOL.COM
HARDWARE/SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE:
OPERATING SYSTEMS: AIX, UNIX, Linux, Windows N/T Server, Windows 2000/2003
VM/CMS, MVS/TSO, DOS, OS/2
HARDWARE: IBM RISC 6K IBM PC’S/IBM Compatibles HMC HACMP, SP2 , PSSP Clusters
Pseries dynamic partitioning, VIO, Raid Arrays, IBM Mainframes
LANGUAGES: Familiar with C, C++, Visual Basic, Rexx,
Fortran Assembler
WINDOWS SOFTWARE Microsoft Office Suite and Microsoft Access
COMMUNICATIONS: TCP/IP, Ethernet /VIOethernet, LAN Server, Requestor APPC,
Token Ring
DATABASES: DB/2, Oracle, Lotus Notes, Remedy
SOFTWARE: Tivoli, Nim, Ghost, Netfinity, SMS, CID, Net Backup, MQ
series, Websphere, Veritas
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:
Strong Systems Engineer with diverse experience in computer hardware and
software, Networking/systems engineering, AIX operating systems development,
installation and maintenance. Major area of interests are automated software
distribution systems management, performance monitoring and disaster recovery.
Strong expertise in AIX/Windows administration. Experience with Tivoli TSM
backup/recovery, capacity planning and performance monitoring. Familiar with
Tivoli Software Distribution Inventory and Remote Control. Excellent technician
in solving performance and problem management issues. The following are
contractual positions
IBM Corp Senior Remote Support Engineer (3/08 to Date)
Remote Tech Support of high end P-series AIX/Linux Systems
Fielded complex hardware and software issues from Service Agent,
Customer calls and Support representatives.
Solved complex Severity one calls for all high end Pseries cluster
systems 595. 590 FHA and F2a eclipz systems
Analyses the following dumps using graphical tool, debuggers and
Database decoders, FSP Dumps HMC logs Snap –gc
iqyy.logs and hmcbackuplog.log
Generated and documented reports for each call
Extensive client / service representative communication skills utilized
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SENIOR AIX SYSTEMS ENGINEER (3//07 to 3/08)
Worked installing developing and maintaining P595 + AIX Systems
Provided hardware and software solutions to complex technical problems
in support of Columbia infrastructure
Installed and maintained NIM Servers
Created and maintained LPARS, virtualized components of all Pseries
systems
Installed firmware, maintenance software and patches and keeping up to
date AIX 5.3-05 Operating Systems.
Installed configures and supported Windows 2000.. 2003, XP and apps
Installed and Supported VMWare for Tivoli Server
Provisioned Windows Operating Systems Using Ghost Server with images.
CIBER INCORPORATED - SENIOR AIX SYSTEMS ENGINEER - (9/06 to 2/07)
Installed AIX 5.3 Dynamic LPARS, VIO
Tivoli TSM (installation, building, debugging & maintaining)
Installation of HACMP.
Install and develop AIX systems on Blade servers and Pseries 570’s
IBM - SENIOR AIX SYSTEMS ENGINEER - Poughkeepsie, NY (8/05 to 9/06)
Team member of AIX performance/capacity planning group
Monitored large scale enterprise network of IBM and commercial servers
running AIX, LINUX and Windows
Detected performance problems with use of performance monitoring
software tools
Experience with AIX installed performance commands to solve performance
problems
Developed scripts to detect and monitor problems with performance
Delivered web-based presentations on HACMP, HMC, LPARS and Dynamic
Resource Allocation
WESTCHESTER COUNTY - SENIOR AIX SYSTEMS ENGINEER - White Plains, NY (4/05 to
8/05)
Developed AIX applications to backup and restore
Built Perl and Shell Scripts to monitor daily performance and execute
daily tasks
Programmed SambaClient to provide shares for Windows systems
Performed system back-up and restored AIX O/S
Assisted Oracle development team with problem determination and
resolution database
Supported Websphere development team
Developed and executed Cron Scripts and Tripwire application daily
IBM - AIX SOFTWARE DISTRIBUTION & ADMINISTRATION (5/03 to 4/05)
Extensive AIX development using Tivoli TPM, NIM and other software
distribution products
Systems administration /configuration/development of SP2 Nodes
programming and using PSSP 3.5
In Depth P Series hands on work with all models of RISC6000 and all
levels of AIX/Linux OS
Strong hands on experience with Xseries(Windows) I Series (os400 and
Zseries (os3900) systems
Experience with Sun Solaris. HP, Networking San and Shark
Strong Experience with Tivoli suite of products. And
E-server-On-Demand
Extensive hardware/software development of virtual servers, DLPARS, and
clustering
Installed, configured and debugged LDAP Server, Linux Servers on
Pseries P690 with LAPRS and Tivoli Framework with
Netfinity like application for distributive monitoring (similar to
AUTOSYS)
Worked with Installing, configuring Windows 2003 . 200 Ghost and
Windows applications
Installed and supported VMWare and applications.
IBM - AIX Systems Engineer/Lead Tivoli Developer - Poughkeepsie, NY - (8/00 to
6/02)
Developed, tested and debugged HACMP/SAN systems
Installed, programmed, tested and developed Tivoli TSM for backup and
restore
Wrote Shell and Cron scripts to successfully backup AIX 4.3, 5.0 and
5.2 AIX OS
Developed the 3-tier network of architecture with TEC, TMR’s and
managed nodes
Used both the scheduler with shell and cron scripts to backup AIX OS
Installed, tested, debugged Tivoli Configuration manger (SD RC and
INV)
Wrote tested debugged Perl scripts to backup and restore AIX
Used DM to collect statistical data for capacity planning
Used Tivoli Framework with Netview to monitor a large number of AIX and
Windows servers
SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORPORATION - 3rd Level Tech Support Engineer - Stratford, CT
(7/99 to 8/00)
Provided tech support for large scale RISC 6000 complex.
Used NIM to install backup and restore AIX OS with Netscape,
SoftWindows and printer support
Used problems determination and resolution to solve complex AIX errors
Involved with team of Tivoli developers to install TSM for backup
Configured Raid Arrays under AIX with SSA DASD Units
INTERIM TECHNOLOGY Inc. (IBM) - AIX Senior Systems Engineer - (6/99 to 7/99)
Installed built maintained hardware and software AIX RISC 6000’s in
Medical application
Migrated production software from lower level systems to AIX RISC 6000
Used AIX toolbox and perfmon to change and monitor systems performance
on AIX boxes
Used NFS to mount applications and monitor with simple TCP/IP commands
IBM (T.J. Watson Research Labs) - Senior System Engineer OP Systems - (3/97 to
6/99)
Designed and developed software Print Systems Manager (PSM) printer
application under AIX
Application accepted submitted print jobs from Windows NT AIX, OS/2,
Windows 3.1, and Windows
Provided third level tech support of LAN/WAN community using NetView
6000
Instruct customer service reps to install, test and use PSM
SECURITIES INDUSTRIES AUTOMATION CORP (SIAC) - Brooklyn, NY - Senior System
Engineer (7/96 to 3/97)
Designed architecture of OS/2 operating systems and workstation images
of OS/2 and windows operating system
Installed and provided leadership in image deployment across network
Designed and developed standard workstation image for OS/2 / Windows OS
with applications
Used Netview with Netfinity to discover workstation resources across
network and provided 3rd level tech support
IBM (T.J. Watson Research Center) - Yorktown, NY - Senior System Engineer -
(5/95 to 7/96)
Westpac Banking Corporation - New York, NY - Advanced Systems Engineer - (7/94
to 5/95)
Financial Technologies (United Trust Inc.) - Senior OS/2 LAN Administrator -
(4/94 to 7/94)
IBM/ISSC - Senior Systems Engineer - Somers, NY - (11/93 to 4/94)
Group Health Inc - Senior Consultant & UNIX LAN Admin (New York, NY) - (3/93 to
11/93)
IBM/ISSC Southbury, CT - MVS Programmer - Southbury, CT - (10/92 to 3/93)
IBM (T.J. Watson Research Center) - Yorktown, NY
Worked as a digital design engineer for 10 years. Extensive hardware background
in many phases of electronics.
EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science Electronic Engineering - Bridgeport
Engineering Institute
Master of Science Computer Science -
Polytechnic University
Will consider Temporary to Permanent position
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