Paul Gilman Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Providing UNIX services to support mission-critical UNIX infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment at a world-class retailer and wholesaler, including:Architecture & DesignImplementationUpgradesSupport & TroubleshootingProject Work & ConsultingSecurityBackupsStorage

Toronto, Canada Area

Providing extensive consulting, design, implementation, migration, upgrade, and troubleshooting services for IBM Power servers, storage, and related software (both on-premises and in various cloud environments) for a wide variety of international clients (both standalone project and MSP-based) Also providing similar services for Linux servers (on both Power and x86 hardware)Over 20 years experience with IBM Power servers and related hardware:From Power 4 - Power 9 hardwarePowerVM, HMC, LPARs, WPARs, Live Partition Mobility (LPM), VIOSIBM Storwize/Flashsystem hardware line, SVC, EMC, Dell, Pure and other storage vendorsAIX 3 - 7.2, AIX upgrades, NIMVarious Linux distributionsExperience working in Azure, Skytap, IBM CloudExperience with various data protection and replication technologies, including TSM/Spectrum ProtectExperience with automation tools such as cfengine, AnsibleExperience with high-availability and DR systems, concepts, and technologiesShell scripting

Toronto, Canada Area

While assigned to the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), provided Red Hat Enterprise Linux implementation, configuration, and troubleshooting services for highly available, mission-critical Cache database servers running on VMware on VxBlock hardware in multiple datacenters. As the Epic Cache ODBA, built, maintained and monitored over 20 databases in support of the hospital's Epic electronic health records project.Created, tested, and deployed a golden image of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) that included all the customizations required for the Cache database software package, allowing for very fast deployment of multiple database servers on VMware to meet aggressive timelinesInstalled, upgraded, tuned and constantly monitored the performance characteristics of over 20 critical databases to ensure availability, adequate end user response times, and performancePerformed extensive shell scripting to automate various tasks including inbound and outbound secure file transfers, database backups and restores, nightly database refreshes from SAN, and user account creationWorked with networking, firewall and load balancer teams to setup, configure, and successfully test a disaster recovery environment in another datacenter over 400km away using database mirroring technology over the network

Burlington, Ontario

Provided UNIX and SAN implementation, migration, upgrade, configuration, and troubleshooting services for IBM Power servers and SAN devices in an environment consisting of around 100 UNIX hosts in multiple datacentres for multiple companies within The Co-operators group.Developed, tested, and ran a reusable script to identify all password parameter violations for all users on any list of AIX servers, based on the company's published password rulesResearched, planned, scheduled and upgraded multiple IBM/Brocade SAN switches in multiple data centres to the latest supported levelsPlanned, lead, and performed various AIX and LPAR configuration changes after negotiating outage windows with business stakeholders and following change management processes

Toronto, Canada Area

While assigned to the Canadian Tire Corporation, I provided UNIX System Administration services, including server builds, security hardening, DR testing, troubleshooting, consulting, server migrations, server virtualization, WPAR migrations

Toronto, Canada Area

Provided extensive consulting, implementation, and troubleshooting services for IBM Power servers, storage, and related software for a wide variety of international clients, including developing SOW estimates.- Consolidated legacy AIX servers (physical) for a municipal government, reducing ongoing expenses and refreshing their AIX environment to current levels from unsupported ones. Installed and built an integrated environment consisting of dual VIO servers and virtual LPARs on an IBM server and IBM V3700 storage array. Then built a matching remote Disaster Recovery/Testing environment with external disk replication between the remote V3700's implemented with IP-based remote replication- Expedited the build of a virtual LPAR and WPAR environment on a power blade server by fully configuring it in Markham and then shipping it to the remote customer site for final installation- Performed various consulting services including installations, upgrades, and troubleshooting of both hardware and software, as well as server backup analysis and disaster recovery services.

Toronto, Canada Area

Lead a team responsible for the installation, support and maintenance of enterprise-class UNIX servers spread across North America for a client requiring 24 x 7 x 365 availability.Was the lead UNIX technical consultant in the implementation of a new warm disaster recovery site with a 1-hour recovery point objective. Experience with fabric SAN technology, various IBM storage arrays and IBM Flashcopy (point in time backups).Experience administrating Red Hat and SUSE Linux.

Toronto, Canada Area

Worked as part of a team responsible for the installation, support and maintenance of an enterprise-class UNIX server infrastructure spread across North America that required 24 x 7 x 365 availability.Planned and executed the physical move of an entire data centre across the city, while minimizing downtime.Extensive experience with new installs, upgrades, migrations, and server refreshes.Successfully developed, maintained and executed off-site Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) for high profile client applications.Experience with fibre-based multi-path SAN technology, various storage arrays and disk mirroring technologies.Extensive experience with LPAR and virtualization technologies on IBM P-Series hardware.Knowledge of various IBM Tivoli products such as ITM (Tivoli Monitoring), ITIM (Identity Manager) and TSM.