• Successfully provided solution design, deployment and management for clients across the Corporate, Financial, Government, Health Care and SMB market segments.• Provided onsite UNIX consultancy to a leading Irish Financial company for their AIX, Linux and HP-UX environments. Commissioned IBM Power8 Enterprise and Standard servers across two geographic locations, designed and implemented multiple PowerVM VIO servers, configured PowerHA clusters for the migration of critical legacy applications from HP-UX to AIX.Enterprise server automation using BMC Bladelogic for provisioning physical and virtual servers, UNIX patching, security compliance, risk mitigation and audit preparation. Provided consultancy around defining and implementing DR management policies and planning.• Commissioned IBM Power8 hardware and PowerHA clusters for multiple University and Regional hospitals throughout Ireland to facilitate the migration of a critical hospital application.Provide Level 3 Managed Service support for a number of these hospitals.• Delivered a highly complex and highly available AIX configuration of 3 x IBM Power7 p740 and 4 x p710 servers complemented by IBM Storwize storage arrays for the Irish Blood Transfusion Service. This new AIX infrastructure consisted of 70+ LPARs which were all served by fully redundant dual VIO servers. Provided ongoing Consultancy and Managed Service support for their IBM Power, AIX, PowerVM and PowerHA environments.• Assisted with the design, planning and execution of two complete Data Centre relocations for a leading gaming client under tight project timelines.• Commissioned IBM Storwize SAN storage solutions, including storage virtualisation, Metro Mirror and Global Mirror, Easy Tier, thin provisioning and IBM Real-time Compression.• Provided Tivoli Storage Manager Consultancy and Managed Service support to a number of clients across the financial, retail, health care, vehicle leasing/fleet management and online gambling sectors.

• Provided AIX and clustering consultancy into Bank of Ireland’s key payments system project, the BEC project. • Commissioned a number of highly available environments across Production and pre-Production instances, utilising IBM Power6 and Power7 architecture, IBM Power Systems virtualisation technologies and PowerHA.• Planned and implemented server and SAN migrations from P550 to P595 frames.• Deployed Oracle, DB2, Websphere MQ and WAS PowerHA cluster instances within a production environment.• Performed VIO server implementation including SEA failover, NPIV implementation and VLAN reconfiguration.• Upgraded and patched AIX LPARs.• Documented the Bank of Ireland AIX LPAR build and deployment procedures.• Implemented IT Security Compliance and scan remediation, as per Bank of Ireland policies.

• Planned and implemented complex infrastructure projects such as, new client migrations, server builds, upgrades, migrations and consolidation, server virtualisation, database and application migrations, SAN storage migrations, IT security hardening and audit preparation, capacity and performance management software implementations and management• Provided consultancy for some of ACS’ customers' high priority projects and high-severity problems• Delivered server provisioning, configuration and implementation, AIX and 3rd party software installation, maintenance and troubleshooting, Volume management, System backup and restore, performance management and tuning• Worked within strict Change Management, Incident and Problem Management control environments and SLA deadlines• Planned, developed and implemented technical solutions to automate AIX system administration and management, including BMC Bladelogic Automation Suite• Worked on problem determination and resolution, including root cause analysis• Prepared system security and hardening in-line with IT security policies and ISO compliance• Involved in ISO20000 and SAS70 IT security audits and development of ISO documentation (leader)• Provided technical direction, support and mentoring to a diverse team of 15 engineers across various time zones, including Malaysia, India, Argentina, Mexico & the United States• Served as the primary point of contact for a number of large clients & corporations, providing the management interface for all aspects of the support operation• Administered AIX systems for leading BPO and ITO corporations to Blue Chip clients worldwide• Managed & implemented TSM based infrastructure solutions (production & development environments)• Planned robust Disaster Recovery routines, participated in Client DR exercises, remotely and at the DR site

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