Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
CurrentPrimarily supporting AIX infrastructure and backing up the Redhat Admins.
Oct 2021 - Present
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Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
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City of Portland
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@portlandoregon.gov
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Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
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Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area, United States
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James Ruby is listed as Sr. Unix Systems Administrator at City of Portland, based in Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at portlandoregon.gov, phone signal with area code 561, and a matched LinkedIn profile for James Ruby.
James Ruby previously worked as Site Reliability Enginer at Mercurygate International and Senior System Engineer at Mercurygate International. James Ruby holds Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General from Chapman University.
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35 years of IT experienceemphasis in; Unix - AIX since V2.6 to V7.1 LPAR, VIOS, Micropartioniong, HMC administration, Shell Programing Redhat Liniux X86_64 TSM - since version 4.3 to version 7.1 and TSM for VE IBM Protectier - VTL replication Tivoli Key encryption IBM Tape libraries 3494, 3584 Data Center Operations Disaster Recovery Planning Change Management - Life cycle management Software Access ManagementA strong desire to see things done right and set expectations that can be counted on.Currently seeking a new challenge in the Portland Oregon area.Studying Python, Ansible and Puppet and AWS
Listed skills include Disaster Recovery, Tsm, Servers, Aix, and 15 others.
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Site Reliability Enginer
Troubleshot TMS application, identified issues, worked on AWS CLI, worked with Helm and Crew applications. Supported Kubernetes envrionemnt.
Senior System Engineer
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
Sr. Systems Engineer
I supported the folloowing:• Over 650 AIX servers across three countries ranging from AIX 6.1 to AIX 7.2• Over 700 Linux servers (RedHat 5, 6, 7 and Suse 11 and 12)• Over 40 IBM VIO servers• Over 30 HMC's• Over 100 IBM Power 7, 8 and Power 9 frames• 15 PowerHA SystemMirror sites• Responsible for all firmware and microcode updates on Power 7 and Power 8 hardware• Ethernet virtualization and NPIV SAN virtualization connectivity• 802.3ad Link Aggregation, VLAN tagging• Multiple SAN's (EMC Symmetrix VMAX and IBM XIV Storage Systems)• IBM 9840 FlashSystem Disk• NPIV, PowerPath, SDD, MPIO, and XIV fibre attachment technologies• Flexera Software Asset management which replace IBM's License Management tool.• TSM Servers running Spectrum Protect version 8.1.4, TSM for Virtualized Enviornments, TDP for Oracle and Lanfree TSM backup schemes. I was repsonsible for all Backups / Restores on AIX, Windows and Linux environments.• PowerVM Provisioning toolkit• Latest AIX technologies including AME, AMS, LPM, NIM, BigFix, TSM, WPARs, processor poolsMajor Accomplishments• Implemented Flexera and saved company over $500,000 on licensing costs the first year• Key player in migrating Data Center from Swan Island to colocation facility in 2015• Responsible for keeping microcode, firmware, and HMC's at the latest code level• Educated staff on value of standards, documentation, disaster recovery, weekly mksysb's• Supported a Unix team wiki for holding documents and sta • Built seeral hundred Linux ( Redhat and Suse ) in a Vmware 6.5 environment from templates.• Patched all AIX servers on a bi weekly process via IBM’s Big Fixndards• Expert knowledge on Software Management tool Flexera• Built seeral hundred Linux ( Redhat and Suse ) in a Vmware 6.5 environment from templates.• Patched all AIX servers on a bi weekly process via IBM’s Big Fix
Mar 2015 - May 2020
Systems Engineer
Harry And David - Systems Engineer
• Installation, upgrades and administration of DB2 9.1/9.5/9.7/10.1/10.5 Databases.• Solman 7.0/7.1 administration setting up and managing System Monitoring, Work Center Administration, • System administration, Change Management, Trace Analysis, E2E trace analysis, Business Process Monitoring, Workload Analysis, IT Reporting, LMDB setup• Administration of AIX 5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1 running on IBM power 4/5/6/7/8• Installation, upgrades, administration of AIX/WebSphere in a near zero downtime environment.
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
Team Lead For Backup And Recovery
Primary responsibility was that our distributed environment was recoverable. Managed a small team and was responsible for setting goals and time lines to ensure that our environment stayed current. Supported over 2200 TSM nodes in a four state region. This included a mix of Unix, Linux and windows servers supporting various applications and databases ( SQL, Sybase and Oracle )Managed up to nine TSM servers across three data centers which included LAN Free, NDMP and Oracle TDP environments. Consolidated our SLC TSM environment from seven servers down to four. This saved the company over a quarter of a million dollars in servers alone.Implemented Tape Encryption on all distributed physical tape to protect my company and its customers PHI data.Consolidated tape libraries in our Salt Lake City data center from 13 frames down to 7. Significant savings on the support contract from IBM on this.Implemented and managed IBM Protectier VTL at our Salt Lake City data center and Sungard. SLC data was replicated to Sungard for Disaster Recovery. Last Disaster Recovery exercise we recovered over 160 servers successfully.
Oct 2008 - Aug 2014
Team Lead Unix Administration
Managed a team of up to nine admins. Managed Reports, planning work for the team and keeping existing infrastructure up to date. Maintaining reports for Management on a weekly basis.Brought first Regatta class servers into the company. Built, configured and maintained AIX and Solaris servers. There were over 500 servers in our environment across four states.
Apr 2001 - Sep 2008
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James Ruby education
Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General
Chapman University
School Of Hard Knocks And Sudden Shocks
Us Navy - Submarines Ftg1 (Ss)
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James Ruby is listed as Sr. Unix Systems Administrator at City of Portland.
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James Ruby is based in Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area, United States while working with City of Portland.
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James Ruby has worked for City Of Portland, Mercurygate International, Xtreme Consulting For Daimler / Freightliner, Harry And David - Systems Engineer, and Regence Bluecross Blueshield Of Oregon.
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James Ruby holds Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General from Chapman University.
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James Ruby is listed with skills including Disaster Recovery, Tsm, Servers, Aix, Unix, Data Center, Solaris, and Infrastructure.
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