Fulton Technologies, Inc. - IBM Power Systems and AIX Specialists including Storage.

Fulton Technologies, Inc. - IBM AIX Consultants Seattle, WA

Recent Projects

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Everett Public Schools, Everett, WA: Aug. 2013 - Oct. 2013

Performed installation and configuration work on behalf of an IBM Business Partner

Power Systems hardware refresh from Power5 and AIX 6.1 to Power7+ with AIX 7.1

Configured filesystems based upon customer and software vendor requirements.

Installed 3rd party software

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
Power7+ 740 AIX 7.1 C compiler CommVault
Power7+ 720 AIX 6.1 MicroFocus COBOL
Power7+ 710 VIOS 2.2.2 ssh
LTO5 Tape Drive
HMC 7.7.7
Power5 520
EXP24S SAS Attached Storage Expansion Drawer

Overlake Hospital Medical Center, Bellevue, WA: Sep. 2012 - Oct. 2012

Performed installation and configuration work on behalf of IBM and an IBM Business Partner for the end-client’s EPIC implementation.

During the first week our staff performed an environment audit to form an action plan and was able to get the client back on track to meet all project milestones.

PowerHA 7.1 installation and configuration for the EPIC application

Created proactive monitoring scripts for the AIX LPAR.

Created documentation of build/installation and system maintenance procedures

Configured filesystems based upon customer and software vendor requirements.

Mentored two internal resources in the management of the AIX systems

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
Power7 750 IBM AIX 6.1 CommVault
HMC 7.7.4 IBM AIX 7.1 ssh PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX 7.1.2
NetApp FAS3270 VIOS 2.2.2 C compiler
NetApp SAN toolkit 5.1

Wood Resources, Lacey, WA: Aug. 2012 - Aug. 2012

Performed installation and configuration work on behalf of an VMware Business Partner

Installed and configured two new HP Proliant DL380G8 to boot from HP-EVA4400 SAN

Installed and configured HP branded vSphere 5.0 on new servers.

At customer request I created a new VM using Windows Server 2008 R2 for vCenter.

Setup for failover clustering and automatic load balancing.

Performed 10 P2V server migrations reestablishing iSCSI connectivity as required

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
HP Proliant DL380G8 Windows Server 2008 R2 vCenter 5.0
HP-EVA4400 SAN ESXi 5.0 (HP)

Halldata, Benton City, WA: Apr. 2012 - Apr. 2012

Performed an IT asset management assessment for direct end client.

Wrote PowerShell and batch files to gather as-built windows platform configuration

The deliverable was as-built documentation of hardware, software, and configurations for all servers, workstations, notebooks, routers, hubs, switches and other devices used in the day to day operation of business

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 SBS

NYU Langone Medical Centers, New York, NY: Dec. 2011 - Mar. 2012

Was brought in by another business partner and SunGard act as a Sr. Technical Advisor and IBM midrange systems SME

The client was taking over management and administration of their IT systems and infrastructure after many years of IBM managed services at a data center in Staten Island, NY.

The move of physical systems to the new data center in Carlstadt, NJ was performed in conjunction with major platform upgrades as well as the virtualization of over 300 physical systems.

Assisted with the identification, power down, decommissioning, and disposal of legacy hardware following HIPAA requirements.

Designed and implemented a successful Proactive Monitoring solution by creating a utility that audited each server against a set of basic configuration options that NYUMC considered to be "Best Practice".

Identified and corrected serious flaws in the Disaster Recovery capability of NYUMC.

Assisted the client in resolving outstanding support issues with hardware vendors.

Gave regular lectures and classes in regards to systems and industry best practices.

Documentation of build/installation and system maintenance procedures.

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
Power7 770 AIX 6.1 TSM PowerHA 6.1.0.6
Power6 560 AIX 5.3 NIM Oracle 11g
Power6 520 VIOS Symantec NetBackup
Power5 570
Power5 520
HMC
Sun Blade 6000Chassis
EMC VMAX
IBM SVC
IBM XIV Gen3
IBM SONAS
HP ProLiant Server Blades
F5-BIG-LTM-1600-4G-R BIG-IP SWITCH

Fifth Third Processing Solutions, LLC, Cincinnati, OH: May 2010 - Jun. 2010

Filled the role of Sr. Technical Advisor on behalf of an IBM Business Partner. Customer inherited workload and servers from Fifth Third Bank and needed to inventory these hosts with a focus on software licensing. It was estimated that the inventory included 350 UNIX hosts and 150 Intel hosts. There were also additional workload (and possibly servers) that would be arriving from 5/3rd Bank in the next quarter. The Oracle licensing year end was approaching and this information was required to re-negotiate licensing contracts.

Created a SOW for the overall project that was divided into the following phases:

Phase 1: Discovery - determine the existing physical and logical host configurations, with a focus on software licensing.

Phase 2: Consolidation Analysis - analyze historical CPU and memory utilization and formulate consolidation layout plan. This included the hardware requirements and the resulting software licensing status

Phase 3: Migration - migrate hosts to new or existing hardware based on the layout determined in Phase 2

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
Power6 595 AIX 6.1 Oracle
HMC VIOS PowerHA 6.1
Power5 570
Power5 560

T-Mobile USA, Bothell, WA: Nov. 2008 - Jan. 2010

Provided on-site senior technical presence for IBM and an IBM Business Partner during platform implementation, migration and data center consolidation projects.

Created and deployed SAN/database scripts for the purposes of data replication and disaster recovery (snaps, R1/R2, business copies)

Traveled to remote datacenters to install and configure new servers as well as facilitate IBM Service Personal.

Facilitated and assisted in IBM assessments of the client environment (including Power).

Attended meetings and gave input on best practices.

Gave regular lectures and classes in regards to IBM systems and industry best practices.

Created bill of materials for hardware and software purchases.

Progress reporting to data center consolidation oversight committee.

Documentation of build/installation and system maintenance procedures.

Documentation Kernel parameters, security and database layout requirements.

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
Power6 595 AIX 6.1 ssh IBM System Director
Power6 560 AIX 5.3 oracle RAC PowerHA 6.1
Power6 520 VIOS Veritas Cluster Server HACMP
Power5 595 MC/Serviceguard Tivoli Monitoring
Power5 570 NIM DB2
Power5 520 MS SQL
HMC

Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA: Sep. 2008 - Sep. 2008

Sub-contracted to perform a project assessment to migrate historical accounting data from a legacy CODA accounting system (OpenVMS/COBOL) to a modern RDBMS (Windows Server 2003/SQL Server 2005) within 4 weeks.

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:

Citigroup, Jacksonville, FL: Aug. 2008 - Aug. 2008

Contracted to develop a methodology that created an automated audit report of users and systems in BoKS and Powerbroker that was E-Mailed to policy owners.

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
Solaris 10 BoKS
Solaris 8 Powerbroker

EverBank, Jacksonville, FL: Apr. 2008 - Jun. 2008

Contracted to assist in the planning and implementation of an Oracle migration on behalf of IBM and an IBM Business Partner.

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
Power5 570 AIX5.3 NIM HACMP
SunFire V280 VIOS KickStart Oracle 8-10g
3PAR RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4
HP-UX 11i
Solaris 10

IBM, Kirkland, WA: Mar. 2007 - Oct. 2007

Contracted to assist in the planning and implementation of the conversion of systems and infrastructure to IBM standards and practices of an acquired software company. This project included over 3000 servers between test and production environments and international locations.

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
Dell PowerEdge 2850 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP1/R2 JumpStart WebSphere 6.0.2.13
Dell PowerEdge 6850 Microsoft Windows Server 2000 Advanced SP4 NIM Oracle 10g Release 2
HP9000 rp3410 Windows XP Professional NIMOL VMware GSX Server 3.2.1
IBM pSeries 520 RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4 Update 2 KickStart VMware Workstation 5.5
IBM pSeries 550 HP-UX 11i.v1 Ignite McAfee Enterprise 8.0i
DiskShelf14 MK2 FC/AT Solaris 10 (Sparc/IA) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver 1.0 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise SP4
NetApp FAS3020 Filer AIX 5.3 ML6 SnapDrive for UNIX 2.1 and Windows 4.1 Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX 3.5
HMC Microsoft WSE 3.0 Internet Information Services 6.0
Microsoft Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Remote Desktop connection WebLogic Platform 8.1 SP5
Centera SDK 3.0.388 Verity 6.1.1
Systinet WASPJ6.5 Automated Deployment Services 2.0 (ADS)

FileNet, Kirkland, Washington USA: February 2006 - March 2007

Commissioned to architect and implement a Development/QA laboratory for FileNet's new Content Engine Multiplatform (CEMP) product.

Provided project plan listing the deliverables that were, and were not to be included in the scope of the project.

Determined and documented the ground rules for processing project change controls by establishing thresholds that were applied for reporting and obtaining approvals of changes.

Wrote and maintained project documentation, including project plans, status meetings with meeting minutes, status reporting, issue lists.

Provided managed services server based engineering support for design and implementation of networks.

Assisted in the design of physical spaces covering 2 floors, by providing power and heat generation figures. I also made recommendations regarding optimized air flow within the rows of racks.

Reviewed and analyzed server performance on a per project basis to identify potential opportunities for improving the availability and performance of networks.

Developed strategies for improving support activities, architecture design projects and audits.

Provided 3rd level escalation support for complex issues and assist problem management activities to find root causes and defined corrective actions.

Installed, configured and troubleshot Active Directory, as well as trusts between domains and forests.

Installed and configured LDAP providers with over 150K users (AD; ADAM; IBM Directory Server; SunOne; eDirectory)

Server consolidation (DLPAR/Sun Containers/VMware).

Troubleshot sophisticated infrastructure problems in mixed Windows and UNIX environments.

Worked on-call rotation to support 24x7 production operations.

Followed change management processes for the support of environments.

Administrated Web Application Servers in a clustered environment

Back-up/storage systems and disaster recovery planning.

Systems testing and performance tuning.

Instructed junior administrators.

Provided direct support to various departments within FileNet Engineering.

Installed, configured, and supported the following:

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
Dell PowerEdge 2850 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP1/R2 JumpStart WebSphere 6.0.2.13
Dell PowerEdge 6850 Microsoft Windows Server 2000 Advanced SP4 NIM Oracle 10g Release 2
HP9000 rp3410 Windows XP Professional NIMOL VMware GSX Server 3.2.1
IBM pSeries 520 RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 4 Update 2 KickStart VMware Workstation 5.5
IBM pSeries 550 HP-UX 11i.v1 Ignite McAfee Enterprise 8.0i
DiskShelf14 MK2 FC/AT Solaris 10 (Sparc/IA) Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver 1.0 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise SP4
NetApp FAS3020 Filer AIX 5.3 ML6 SnapDrive for UNIX 2.1 and Windows 4.1 Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX 3.5
HMC Microsoft WSE 3.0 Internet Information Services 6.0
Microsoft Shadow Copy Service (VSS) Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Remote Desktop connection WebLogic Platform 8.1 SP5
Centera SDK 3.0.388 Verity 6.1.1
Systinet WASPJ6.5 Automated Deployment Services 2.0 (ADS)
Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE) 2005 with ADS
Microsoft NFS Server and Gateway
Microsoft Project 2003
Microsoft Visio 2003
Microsoft Office 2003

Pacific Capital Bancorp, Santa Barbara, California USA: June 2005 - October 2005

Provided managed services server based engineering support for design and implementation of networks

Reviewed and analyzed server performance on a per project basis to identify potential opportunities for improving the availability and performance of networks.

Developed strategies for improving server support activities, architecture design projects and audits.

Provided 3rd level escalation support for complex issues and assist problem management activities to find root causes and defined corrective actions.

Primarily supported pSeries including p690, p670, p650, p630, p610, p570 RS6000 PCI and MC hardware, AIX, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 LPAR, HMC, SMS, LVM, JFS, JFS2, SMIT, NIM, SDD, VG/LV Mirroring, I/O performance, vmstat, iostat, AIX system Cloning and Migration, Disaster Recovery, and Shell Scripting.

Installed, configured, and supported SAN (HBAs, fibre channel, HDS 9580 arrays, McData directors, Brocade switches), HTTP server (Apache), HP Openview, S2 Systems' OpeN/2 / CAMS, TouchPoint, DB2, Avaki

Troubleshoot sophisticated Infrastructure problems in mixed Windows and AIX environments.

Worked on-call rotation to support 24x7 production operations.

Followed change management processes for the support of environments.

Administrated Web Application Servers in WebSphere environment.

Back-up/storage systems and DR planning.

Systems testing and performance tuning.

Server consolidation (LPAR).

Instructed junior administrators.

Provided direct support to various departments in the bank.

Installed, configured, and supported the following:

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
IBM pSeries p690 AIX 5.1 NIM WebSphere
IBM pSeries p670 AIX 5.2 Microsoft Office
IBM pSeries p630 AIX 5.3
IBM pSeries p610
IBM pSeries p570

Washington Mutual Bank, Seattle, Washington USA: January 2005 - May 2005

Provided managed services server based engineering support for design and implementation of networks

Reviewed and analyzed server performance on a per project basis to identify potential opportunities for improving the availability and performance of networks.

Developed strategies for improving server support activities and worked with operational teams to drive process improvements.

Utilized ITIL processes and mentored other team members for incident/problem management, equipment and carrier coordination.

Supported networking projects and regularly made presentations regarding engineering projects and potential improvements or technology upgrades.

Lead large scale server architecture design projects and audits.

Provided 3rd level escalation support for complex issues and assist problem management activities to find root causes and defined corrective actions.

Provided server (hardware and software) operations support in a network of over 25,000 nodes.

Primarily supported Sun Fire, Netra X1, Ultra-Enterprise, Ultra, HP, and with high availability

Troubleshoot sophisticated Infrastructure problems in mixed Windows and UNIX environments

Worked on-call rotation to support 24x7 production operations

Followed change management processes for the support of environments

Administrated and supported Load Balancer and Proxy Technologies

Worked with incident ticket based solution, Remedy to record work and escalated accordingly

Installed, configured, and supported the following:

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
IBM pSeries p690 AIX 4.3 VERITAS Volume Manager Remedy
SunFire 6800 AIX 5.1 NetBackup
EMC Symmetrix Solaris 8 VERITAS Cluster Services
HDS 9580 arrays HP-UX 11i
McData directors Solaris 9
Brocade switches
Fujitsu SPARC

AT&T Wireless Services, Redmond, Washington USA: May 2004 - August 2004

Contracted for 3 months to Platform Engineering in the Wireless Network Services Division to provide an synchronized software distribution process for the over 1000 servers between test and production environments.

Provided ongoing engineering support, design and build documentation for capitalized projects. This included design, install, patch, secure, configure, and maintaining several dozen UltraSPARC systems, primarily Sun Fire, Netra X1, Ultra-Enterprise, Ultra, and Fujitsu SPARC with high availability VERITAS Cluster, running Solaris 9 and HP/UX 11i on EMC systems.

Documented lab environment and provided GAP analysis with production

Provided analysis and statement on configuration management and reporting

Provided high level design for common configuration management and media distribution between test and production environments.

Provided common configuration management and media distribution procedures.

Compaq (DL series) Citrix Servers

Storage Area Networks (HBAs, fibre channel)

Produced platform performance analysis and position statements

Produced systems design and engineering documentation

Installed, configured, and supported the following:

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
EMC Symmetrix VERITAS Foundation suite Symantec Enterprise Security Manager 5.5
HDS 9580 arrays NetBackup
McData directors VERITAS Cluster Server 3.5
Brocade switches

TeleCommunication Systems, Seattle, Washington USA: September 2003 - November 2003

Developed a method that created a distribution package of the XLP application using the Sun Microsystems package add format, and utilities.

The first phase of the application package method project, I wrote Bourne shell scripts that used sed, awk, getopts, etc. to create the prototype, pkginfo, preinstall, postinstall, preremove, postremove, request scripts, and other configuration files necessary to create an application package that could be used with JumpStart and have the ability to be patched.

The second phase was to create a method and utility that generated direct instance patches to the application packages.

The deliverables as defined by the functional requirements, and functional specification, were the utilities, unit test plans, detail design documents, release notes, user's guides, and a requirements traceability matrix.

Updated the XLP software installation, and XLP Administration guides to reflect the new installation methods

Installed, configured, and supported the following:

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
Solaris 8 Rational ClearCase ClearQuest
Microsoft Windows XP Professional CygWin Microsoft Office
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Project

Providence Hospital, Everett, Washington USA: August 2000

Evaluated the existing support systems in its IT department for the UNIX servers within the state of Washington

Performed information audit of systems and produced reports for management

Systems included equipment and enterprise wide applications for the health care industry like STAR

Installed, configured, and supported the following:

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
HP 9000 N-Class servers (Clustered) HP-UX HP ServiceGuard
AIX
Tru64
SCO OpenServer

Boeing Aerospace, Renton, Washington USA: May 2000 - July 2000

Contracted as a systems administrator and systems integrator

Evaluated the installation process of many off-the-shelf software packages deployed throughout the entire enterprise

Made recommendations where appropriate to automate the process, and assisted with the implementation

Performed a component level audit of the enterprise wide configuration management package, MIMS

Designed and directed installation and configuring the software and systems in a distributed lab environment as well as documenting the particulars of that client site installation.

Systems involved included Mincom MIMS, TP and BEC, and Microsoft Windows clients.

Installed, configured, and supported the following:

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
EMC Symmetrix HP-UX Ignite Oracle
EMC Connectrix Dynix Veritas Volume Manager
Sequent Microsoft NT 4.0 ClearCase
HP9000 Veritas NetBackup
Perl
AutoSys

S&S Worldwide, Colchester, Connecticut USA: March 2000 - April 2000

Contracted for 3 months to evaluate the IT processes and practices of a 97 year old leather hobby company

The company had migrated for the year 2000 from an environment of DEC VAX using OpenVMS and DIBOL applications to Compaq Alpha equipment, Tru64 Unix running a enterprise wide warehouse management solution written in Informix by a third party vendor in Wisconsin

Performed reviews and rewrites of Informix-4GL and Informix-SQL stored procedures and triggers for performance hits.

Assisted in re-writing many reports to present data in a user familiar format.

Completed the evaluation and submitted my recommendations early.

Installed, configured, and supported the following:

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
DEC VAX OpenVMS Informix-4GL Informix Dynamic Server
Compaq Alpha Tru64 Informix-SQL

AT&T Wireless Services, Bothell, Washington USA: August 1999 - February 2000

Contracted for 6 months to the Configuration Management Division to provide an automated data collection system that captured hardware and software component data on a wide verity of mini-mainframe, and microcomputer systems within all of the National Data Centers.

Produced a project plan based off the statement of work for the customer's approval.

Plan confirmed the scope and deliverables to the customer as well as gave a date of completion for the various phases and the overall project.

Provided accurate adjusted dates of completion when the customer requested that I shift my focus from one phase to the next.

Provided a weekly updated project plan and project status report to the customer that show the hours spent per task as well as goals for the following week.

The discovery tool -- written mostly in csh, sed and awk -- collected hardware and software information from servers using scripted native operating system commands and utilities.

The resulting data was transferred to a central repository for processing into human readable reports and export files to an existing configuration management / asset tracking database application.

The tool was written for and tested on the following platforms and EMC hardware

Assisted in the decision process and evaluation of barcode scanning equipment for the physical tracking of hardware components.

Installed, configured, and supported the following:

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
Digital Unix 4.x csh
IBM AIX 4.x sed
HP-UX 9.x-11.x awk
Sun Solaris 2.x
Sun OS 4.x-5.x
NCR Unix SVR4 MP-RAS 3.02
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (SPx)
Open VMS-Alpha 6.x-7.x
Open VMS-VAX 5.x-6.x
Microsoft Windows 95

Nash Finch Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA: March 1999 - July 1999

Contracted to Nash Finch, a national grocery wholesaler as a senior UNIX systems administrator.

Responsible for the planning and execution of the operating system upgrade of all the production warehouse systems to a year 2000 compliant release level.

Upgraded the installed release of AIX 3.2.0 to 4.2.1, applied service level patches, performed backups, reconfigured volume groups and performed year 2000 compliance testing.

Installed and configured the warehouse management application DALLAS/EXE, installed and configured Informix Dynamic Server and Informix-SQL, PVCS (volume manager and configuration builder), QMaster, and set up error logs, user accounts, print queues, etc.

Traveled to many of the company's warehouses, primarily in the Central and Eastern US, to perform installations, upgrades and backups.

Wrote project plans and procedure guides for the systems upgrades, in addition to the test cases.

Responsible for orchestrating the year 2000 compliant upgrades of all production TELXON scanning equipment, both vehicle mounted and hand-held units, for each warehouse.

AIX operating system, EXE software application, and TELXON upgrades were performed concurrently so each warehouse could be signed off as completed with one site visit.

Designed a remote monitoring system utility encompassing all production UNIX platforms and operating systems.

Wrote design documentation for the monitoring utility that explained the purpose and benefits of remote system monitoring, gave an outline of system components to be monitored, the time needed to complete the project, resources needed, and its deliverables.

The monitoring programs were written using sed and awk so that readable formatted reports could be produced

The main program written was intelligent enough to know what platform it was installed on and operating system version being used.

Used sendmail routing to Lotus Notes in the nightly notification process.

Prepared project plans using Microsoft Project.

Installed, configured, and supported the following:

Hardware:Operating Systems:Utilities:Applications:
IBM RS6000 3CT AIX 3.2.0 Informix-SQL Informix Dynamic Server
IBM RS6000 39H AIX 4.2.1 PVCS volume manager
IBM RS6000 F40 SCO OpenServer 5.0.5 PVCS configuration builder
IBM RS6000 J50 QMaster
IBM RS6000 59H
Digital Alpha Server 2100 4/275
Digital Alpha Server 2100A 5/300
Digital Alpha Server 2100 5/300RM
Digital Alpha Server 4100
Digital Alpha Server 8400 4/625
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