Ken Licata Email & Phone Number

SummaryKen Licata is a Senior Systems Consultant at Converge Technology Solutions , providing IBM i Power server consulting services to customers. Ken specializes in the areas of high availability on the IBM i platform utilizing both hardware and logical replication technologies. Ken also supports other areas of the IBM i environment, including OS upgrade, PTF installation, system migrations, and installation of server hardware. Ken has 35 years’ experience on the IBM Power / iSeries / AS/400 environments and is based out of the Hershey, Pennsylvania area.Specialty Areas• IBM i Administration• IBM Power Hardware Implementations• IBM i OS Upgrades• IBM i PTF Management• System Migrations (migrate-while-active, replication, and save/restore) • IBM Full System Flash Copy toolkit• IBM Full System Replication toolkit• Application Installation and Support• Backup Recovery Media Services (BRMS)• HMC Management/Configuration/Upgrades• Physical / virtual tape library support to IBM i.• Technical Documentation / Training• IBM Storage (v50xx/V7k)• Project Leader / Project Management• Programming (CLP/RPG)• Performance Tuning• Second level support for customer environmentsMajor Accomplishments• Responsible for the configuration and management of a new migrate-while-active project to implement a new Power9 production server and disaster recovery cloud target.• Managed the implementation of a Full System Flash Copy environment that consists of 13 production LPARs to 4 supporting target backups• Provide project management and implementation services of a new target backup environment utilizing logical replication and BRMS• Was the lead IBM i technician for 1 data center replacement project (1M services) that included multiple IBM i system switches for a large bank.• Provide technical services and project management for the implementation of a new Full System Flash Copy and Full System Replication environment including switch testing • Provided system monitoring and second level support to eight separate customer environments• Managed and performed multiple system switches (role swaps) for multiple customers utilizing both the IBM Full System Flash Copy toolkit and logical replication (MIMIX / iTera)• Created migration plan for unsupported hardware and software to save operational costs for customers. Developed migration plan, installed hardware and software, performed migration, and assisted with testing plan.

Listed skills include Ibm Iseries, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Storage Virtualization, and 19 others.

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  Bloomsburg University Of Pennsylvania

  Computer & Information Science