Consultant/ Senior System Engineer
Saudi ARAMCO Co
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :13 years, 10 أشهر
Saudi ARAMCO Co., SAP Open Systems Management Division, Dhahran
Consultant/ Senior System Engineer, December 2001 - 2008
Working in SAP Open Systems Management Division as UNIX and High Availability consultant
➢ Administered Solaris and IBM UNIX systems for corporate system, Health care system, Oil system engineering and development groups on +600 servers supporting 60, 000 concurrent users.
➢ Participated in all phases of system procurement including requirements gathering, system assessment, vendor collaboration, preparation of RFPs, and coordination with Finance.
➢ Provided recommendations for future system designs and for meeting computing requirements of ongoing and future projects.
➢ Implement, and operate thirteen Sun Enterprise E15K and E25K production servers.
➢ Co-developed automated software installation and monitoring tools.
➢ Organized and managed an entire office move, setting up internal servers,
establishing a QA/Testing environment, and setting up two additional offsite
co-location facilities.
➢ Operating a SUN HA cluster 3.X on the E25K.
Merrill Lynch, Inc., Manhattan, New York, USA
Senior Service Engineer, August 2000 - December 2001
➢ Plan, implement, and operate two Sun Enterprise 10000 production servers.
➢ Maintaining and increasing the performance of the server.
➢ Develop and Implanting plans to recovered data during 9/11 disaster
➢ Maintain and rebuild clusters 2.x to provide High availability for the Oracle database as well as different software 7X24.
➢ Scripting using C-shell, K-shell, and Bourne shell.
➢ Configure and tune the Solaris and Unix Kernel.
➢ Installing and upgrading SSP software and hardware.
➢ Operating a SUN HA cluster on the E10K.
➢ Using Dynamic Reconfiguration Installation and Consulting to develop scenarios for each system board.
➢ Storage Volume Manager setup and legato / VERITAS Netbackup setup.
Timebridge Technologies, Inc., Mount Laurel, New Jersey, USA
System Support Engineer/Consultant for" MOTOROLA INC."& "Dow Jones Company", February 2000 - August 2000
➢ Provided support for SUN hardware and software products and worked on problems isolation at the complex level, provided recommendations for their resolution and coordinated or carried out actions to resolve them.
➢ Develop scripts procedures and documentations for systems management.
➢ Diagnose and correct Product problems.
➢ Perform routine maintenance and backups.
➢ Work with vendors to correct integration and networking problems.
➢ Planed and performed installation works at the customer site. Participated in process of designing the architecture of installed systems.
➢ Developed and implemented on-the-job training for customers, Field Service Engineers, lower Systems Support Engineers.
➢ Participated in account management, visited customers on regular basis to identify and follow up their support needs.
➢ Participated in on-call rotation (7x24) to provide support.
Bluestone Consulting INC. New Jersey USA
System Support Engineer for "Sun Microsystems, Professional Services (SunPS) "
March 1999 - January 2000
➢ Was responsible for system administration Sun systems including Sun Clusters 2.2 running on E10000 domains.
➢ Plan, implement, and operate a Sun Enterprise 10000 server infrastructure.
➢ ESCON Channel Integration: there is third-party hardware and software solution installed on the E10000 to allow it to emulate multiple tape drives to the IBM mainframe
➢ Run Book: Using a SunPS HTML template, produce an HTML document, which has specific procedures for operation of the E10000 server and the SSPs. This will also include capturing screen shots of shutdown, DR, etc. operations to show as examples in the Run Book.
➢ I was responsible for developing backup strategies and for backup servers and backup software administration (VERITAS NetBackup and HP OmniBack) . Developed many UNIX shell and Perl scripts and C programs for automating daily/weekly/monthly tasks.
Ford Motors Company, Michigan, USA
UNIX system administrator April 1994 - July 1999
➢ Plan, implement, and operate a worldwide server infrastructure and Associated data management processes to provide for the covenant access.
➢ Was responsible for system administration of Sun, SCI and HP servers and for maintaining COBOL applications and databases.
➢ Ensure Rapid transfer, & secure storage of Corporate CAD/CAM/CAE product data.
➢ Test development position for features and capabilities of the Cray's System Management Workstation (SMW) related to system hardware initialization and control/monitoring (similar to the BIOS level in a PC) . This includes low level feature testing, feature interaction, and tools to support results analysis. The SMW is a SLES based Linux platform that provides system administration features for the Cray supercomputer.
➢ Date Management & Server system administration for Backup /Restore. Global Metaphase (MP) - Core & Work group Servers and for Team Data Management (TDM) Servers.
➢ Hardware and Software installation, configuration, upgrade.
➢ Create and migrate TDM 's.
➢ System testing and troubleshooting.
➢ System monitoring and Tuning
➢ 2nd Level help/ Advise Problem Solving.
➢ Consolidated and enhanced Metaphase server checks scripts.
➢ Create, move and remove numerous databases.
➢ Operations Process Improvement and Automation.
➢ Wrote new software using C-SHELL, BORNE SHELL and SQL/PL.
➢ Generated reports and documents.
➢ Experience with highly parallel systems.
➢ Experience with a variety of programming languages and programming models.
➢ Experience with standard software development practices.
➢ System administrator experience with Unix.
➢ C and at least one common scripting language
Cairo University, Egypt Post Graduate Degree in Astrophysics 1992
Bachelor of science in Astronomy 1991 ➢ Qualifications, training and courses ➢ Sun Certified UNIX System Administration, SOLARIS 2.5 2.6, 2.9 ➢ Sun Certified Systems Installer for SUN CLUSTER 3.x. ➢ Metaphase administration and Team Data Management Administrator. ➢ Sun Certified on system administration for Mx000 platforms. ➢ Sun StorEdge A5x00 Maintenance, Paris, France. ➢ Sun Enterprise Ex000 & Ex500 Server Maintenance, New York, US ➢ Sun StorEdge A3x00 & A1000, Detroit, MI, US ➢ Sun Storage T3, New York, US ➢ Sun Enterprise E10000 Server Maintenance, Detroit, MI, US ➢ Sun Enterprise E10000 Server Troubleshooting, Detroit, MI, US ➢ FC Switch Installation, Configuration & Troubleshooting, Manchester, UK ➢ Serengeti Server Maintenance, Detroit, MI, US ➢ Solaris Internals, Camberley, UK ➢ Kernel Core Dump Analysis, Camberley, UK ➢ Sun Cluster 3.x Concepts and Installation, Manchester, UK ➢ Sun Cluster 3.x Advanced Diagnosis + Troubleshooting, Camberley, UK ➢ Sun StorEdge 3x10 Series Array SRT, Munich, Germany ➢ Sun Fire Troubleshooting, Camberley, UK ➢ Sun Fire 15K Advanced Theory and Troubleshooting, Camberley, UK ➢ Hitachi 9900 Hardware disk subsystem for SUN, Waardenburg, Netherlands ➢ Hitachi 9900 Software Solutions for SUN, Camberley, UK ➢ Hitachi SAN, Camberley, UK ➢ ERP Overview