Sr. System Support
Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ
Total years of experience :22 years, 10 Months
Involved into Singapore G3 project for Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) . Take care of IBM pServers and related products like, EMC storage and IBM MQ software and project management.
Look after BTMU production infrastructure servers (DNS, DHCP, Backup, DR, Cluster etc ) in AIX / Linux. Also involved into data center migration activities.
Following technics were involved:
• IBM AIX 6.1 and 7.1
• EMC Storage and PowerPath for AIX
• IBM TSM Client (for backup solution)
• IBM WAS 8.5 and WAS Cluster
• IBM MQ 7.5
• IBM PowerVM/VIO Server (IBM virtualization solution for pServer)
• IBM PowerHA/HACMP (IBM cluster solution for pServer)
• IBM HMC (Hardware Management Console) for IBM PowerVM access
• IBM DB2 9.x (IBM DB solution) and DB2 HDR solution
• Unix Central Management Solution (LDAP, NIS, sudo, Privilege Manager for Unix, Cache and Sync solution for Unix, 2FA solution for Unix)
Look after Jump Trading production price feed servers and trading servers in Asia colo (Singapore, Japan, Korea) . Work with team in Chicago to build history and simulation trading system. Involved HPC + virtualization + real-time linux kernel testing.
Following technics were involved:
• Ubuntu server installation, PXE boot Installation for Linux, Configuration
• VMWare virtualization solution for HPC
• LVM management (Create, Extend, Reduce, Remove, etc.)
• VCS clustering for Linux (Installation, Setup, Configuration, Troubleshooting and Management)
• NetAPP storage and MPIO for linux (Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting)
• Sybase ASE database for Linux (Installation, Configuration, Daily Management and Troubleshooting)
• MySQL database (Installation, Configuration, Daily Management and Troubleshooting)
• Infiniband Network (Troubleshooting from Linux)
• Linux Real-Time Kernel configuration, setup and performance tuning
• Linux Central Management Solution (Zabbix, Splunk, GIT, CF engine)
• Script code (bsh/ksh, perl, php)
• Bind (DNS service), NFS, DHCP, LDAP etc. normal Unix enterprise daily service support
• Cisco devices daily level one support and troubleshoot (e.g. IOS config, interface setup, connectivity testing )
Act as UNIX team leader to maintain SCB UNIX servers (AIX, Solaris and RedHat Linux) Perform Linux, AIX and IBM virtualization design, planning, installation, upgrade and daily
maintenance. Lead the team working with other teams to keep SCB production running 24x7.
Participate system integration projects and provide system support for new systems development.
Look after a new production environment in SCB, which is GRID computing network using DataSynapse Grid Server running in Linux and Windows mass servers. Provide install, setup, daily maintenance and cluster applets distribution services etc.
Key Achievements:
• Join SCB/AEB system merge project, after SCB acquired AEB private banking in 2009. Provide IBM virtualization, AIX and Linux support in the project. This is the biggest project in SCB in over 20 years, which is online in 2010
• Join lots of SCB projects and provide UNIX system support
• Lead the team keep SCB production running 24x7
Following technics were involved:
• IBM pServers, PowerVM, AIX
• HDS Storage and HDLM for AIX and Redhat, HDS True Copy
• RedHat Enterprise Server
• Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) v4.x
• DataSynapse Grid Server v5.5
• VMware Virtualization Products
• Oracle Database 11g
• Sybase ASE Database 12.5
• Unix Centralization Management Solution (NIS, LDAP, IBM ITM, HP OpenView, Privilege Manager for Unix, Cache and Sync Solution for Unix)
• A lot, a lot
S&I is a major IBM distribution partner in Asia Pacific. Join S&I to provide IBM software, AIX and virtualization support for S&I customers. Perform lots of related projects for MNC and Banks in Singapore.
Key Achievements:
• Build Singapore Fortis Bank production system with IBM WAS, MQ, Odyssey banking system in AIX servers, those are running in HACMP environment
• Build a DR system for Singapore PowerSeraya SAP production in HACMP/XD
• Perform lots of projects, doing AIX installation, upgrading, system troubleshooting etc.
Join IBM China Software Group (SWG) . Act as an IBM Tivoli product specialist looking after Tivoli System Management products (ITM, TEC, NetView. TSM) . Provide post-sale services like system planning, project design, software installation, Tivoli product troubleshooting etc. to IBM customers in China. Sometimes provide Tivoli product technical pre-sales services to customers with IBM sales together. Most of China IBM major customers, like banks are using AIX as their OS, so sometimes will help IBM customers on AIX troubleshooting, but the major is focus on Tivoli support.
Key Achievements:
• Build CCB (China Construction Bank) Tivoli Monitoring system to monitor over thousands of CCB production servers in China. This is a huge project. It takes over 5 years to finish it. I take a part of following Tivoli products implementation: ITM, TEC and NetView
• Implement China Foreign Exchange Center (CFEC) Tivoli monitoring upgrade project.
• Passed IBM DB2 and WAS certifications
Join Guangzhou China Telecom Company. Act as a technician performs daily data network maintenance, project engineering. Act as operator monitor production network.
Key Achievements:
• Passed CCNA, CCNP and CCDP certification
