I am presently working at Macy’s Corporation in the eCommerce Architecture group as an eCom Infrastructure Architect. Responsible for designing/implementing solutions for Macy’s eCommerce Group. Responsible for design and architecture oversight relative to AIX v6.1 and v7.1, PureFlex Implementation, IBM SmartCloud Entry Implementation, IBM Flex Manager, HMC’s, Systems Director 6.3, VMControl, VIO Servers 2.2.2.2, Virtualization, SAN v7000 Control Enclosures and expansions with EasyTier and IILM Implementation. Also responsible for Capital Expense planning for ordering Hardware/Software including license management of JBOSS licenses, WebSphere Licenses, RedHat Licenses. Working with Network and Firewall Security teams to establish rules, redundancy and stability. Primary areas of expertise include solution design and architecting AIX, Linux 6.6, Virtualization and Storage solutions. Maintaining hardware inventory on the team site along with all the visio drawings for eCom. I am equally competent in project planning, implementation, documentation and skill transfer.

Infrastructure Architect/Systems Specialist @ Presently working in the eCommerce group as a Infrastructure Architect, designing and implementing solutions that fulfill eCommerce requirements for Storage using v7000 and PureFlex with the objective of migrating to the Cloud infrastructure. Implementing IILM with v7000 storage using SVC for automating the storage peak performance to move/migrate LUN’s. Establish capital expense planning procedures for hardware/software licenses for the eCom infrastructure. Working closely with IBM team to design and architect solutions as required via RFS and PCR’s for new requirements. Successfully upgrade all eCom AIX Servers to AIX 7.1 and now working on the Linux upgrade project rebuilding all Linux environment from 5.9 to 6.6. Designed a solution to migrate all AIX DB/2 & Cassandra databases to Linux 6.6. From June 2010 to Present (5 years 6 months) Systems Engineer @ Working in the infrastructure group supporting, installing, settingup, configuring AIX systems with AIX 5.2 & AIX 5.3 on p-520's, p-550's, p-570's and p-590's. Work on the SAP refresh for all the production, test and development servers upon the basis team's requests. Setup, configure, test and handover systems to the websphere team and SAP team. Work on Oracle database setup and work with Oracle DBA's upon request. Firmware and Software upgrades are performed on the AIX servers to keep updates with current releases from IBM. Manage and perform backups using TSM for all the AIX and Linux servers. Design of new solutions using the virtualization to implement and migrate old hardware to new p6 environment and retiring the systems. Participating in the Disaster Recovery tests for the company and writing scripts to implement the recovery automating the tasks. From April 2007 to January 2010 (2 years 10 months) Unix/AIX Consultant @ Fifth-Third Bank Cincinnati: Worked as an AIX Consultant in the successful implementation of p-5 pSeries 570's in Cincinnati with Micro partitioning and creating 7 partitions on a 8 way p-570 using the Virtualization technology procedures. Setup two Virtual I/O Servers on the p5-570 system, LPAR's, PLM, Ether-Channel, Shared Ethernet Adapters etc. From March 2005 to April 2007 (2 years 2 months) Unix/AIX Consultant @ Worked as an AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Consultant in the successful implementation of p-5 pSeries 570's and Tivoli Storage Manager v5.3 implementation in Atlanta. Implemented TSM with setting up Adic I2000 Library and migrated their data from other p4 systems to p5 systems and added 40 database clients for backups with Informix, SQL Servers databases etc. Documented and provided the procedures on AIX, TSM to the client's administrators and trained them on maintaining their systems. From March 2005 to April 2007 (2 years 2 months) Unix/AIX Consultant @ Worked as an AIX HACMP Consultant in the successful implementation of HACMP clusters on a p-5 pSeries 570's in Atlanta on a Two Node cluster. Trained six S1 Administrators on implementing HACMP and maintaining the clusters in future. Documented their HA cluster environment and provided them "admin" guide along with test suites for their HA environment. From March 2005 to April 2007 (2 years 2 months) Unix/AIX Consultant @ Worked as an AIX Tivoli Storage Manager Consultant in the successful implementation of p-5 pSeries 570's and Tivoli Storage Manager v5.3 implementation in Fort Myers Florida. Implemented TSM with setting up 3494 Tape Library sharing with the Mainframe. Setup and Configure the Database clients for backups with Informix, SQL Servers databases etc. Documented and provided the procedures on AIX, TSM to the client's administrators and trained them on maintaining their systems. From March 2005 to April 2007 (2 years 2 months) AIX HACMP Consultant @ Designed and Implemented AIX/HACMP on two 550's with AIX v5.3 and HACMP v5.3 using XIO Tech SAN and Cambex Fibrecards with Dual Path Failover for this client. Created Network Installation Manager (NIM) on a p5:520 for Disaster Recovery of their environment and to make "mksysb" and "savevg's" images onto the p5:520 system. Automated the tasks to perform the backups regularly every week. Migrated their Enterprise GE application and its data from HP systems to AIX HACMP systems successfully. Trained the client's Administrator on AIX and HACMP. Documented their HA cluster environment and provided them "admin" guide along with test suites for their HA environment From March 2005 to April 2007 (2 years 2 months) Unix/AIX Consultant @ Worked as an AIX Consultant in the successful implementation of the Security, Accounting and Auditing on 18 AIX Servers in the production, test and development environment. Successfully implemented and documented the procedures for the client to the client's satisfaction. Also, helped the client in the HACMP, Backups and other AIX related issues. From March 2005 to April 2007 (2 years 2 months) Unix/AIX Consultant @ Caterpillar TSM Implementation: Implemented TSM v5.3.2 on Linux with DR using the Veritas Filesystem on one and DS4300 with RDAC on the other server with four instances of TSM running on each server. Configured the TS3310 Tape Library with 3592 Ultrium 2 LTO drives. Setup and Configure the Database clients for backups with Informix, SQL Servers databases etc. Documented and provided the procedures on Linux, TSM to the client's administrators and trained them on maintaining their systems. From March 2005 to April 2007 (2 years 2 months) AIX/HACMP Consultant @ Installed/Setup, Designed and Implemented 4-55A's and 4-p5:570's with AIX/HACMP creating HA clusters on the systems with AIX v5.3 and HACMP v5.3 using DS6800 with Dual Path Failover. Created Network Installation Manager (NIM) server for Disaster Recovery of their environment and to make "mksysb" and "savevg's" images along with Technology Level, Patches and Application software onto the NIM server. Automated the tasks to perform the backups regularly every week. Trained the client's Administrator on AIX and HACMP. Documented their HA cluster environment and provided them "admin" guide along with test suites for their HA environment From March 2005 to April 2007 (2 years 2 months) Unix/AIX Consultant @ Worked as an AIX Consultant supporting the SunTrust Bank account in Atlanta and Orlando. Recently, implemented p-5 pSeries 570's in Orlando with Micro partitioning and creating 29 partitions on a 8 way p-570 using the IBM procedures to the limit and successfully implemented the technology, providing the customer with the best results. Implemented NIM 5.3 server to migrate many systems in Orlando. Implemented Eight p-570's in the Micro-partition environment setting up two Virtual I/O Servers on each system, LPAR's, PLM, Ether-Channel, Shared Ethernet Adapters etc. Also, support their p-655's nodes in the cluster environment. Implementing the same in Atlanta Data Center for the Bank. Supported the DB2 and Cognos environment in AIX 5.3 running on p-575's. Worked with other clients and installed, setup, configure and train AIX Admins on implementing AIX 5.2 & AIX 5.3 on p-520's, p-550's, p-570's and p-590's. (Example: National Vision, ICE, eDelta etc). Extensive experience with implementing and supporting IBM p4 & p5 Series systems, ESS, SAN, DNS, Network, SAP, Informix, DB2, Virtualization, Micro-partitioning, HACMP, NIM 4.3 thru 5.3, TSM 5.1, 5.2 & TDP configurations, X-Blades, FastT, DS4XXX, DS8000, ESS-800, Racks T00, T42; TEC/TMR and Disaster Recovery procedures using my scripts to restore systems using NIM environment. Implemented 6 P-595's with Micro-Partitioning along with VIO Servers and also added Expansion Frames along with I/O Drawers and created many dedicated LPAR's with dedicated resources. Also, implemented PLM on each frame for the SunTrust Bank Atlanta. From March 2005 to April 2007 (2 years 2 months) Unix/AIX Chief Systems Engineer @ Worked as a Chief Systems Engineer supporting their Build Team to implement the NIM strategy along with HA cluster upgrades. Worked on different projects on Highly Available AIX clusters, Network Installation Manager implementation for DR restores, Setting up TSM servers on AIX platform (currently on Mainframe). Worked on the Data Center move to Austin Texas in the month of December 2004 when all the production servers along with mainframe were moved. Worked on DB/2 Version 8.2 upgrades on all Prod and QA servers. Created procedures and documentation for AIX 5.2 installation, HACMP 5.1 install and configure, NIM setup, configure and restore of "mksysb's" on clients. Worked on New Build configuration of Hardware and software for P-Series 650's, 670's and 690's and setup partitions. From July 2004 to March 2005 (9 months) Systems Engineer @ I was managing and implementing with support of all AIX servers. I was the Unix speciailist working on implementing, installing and supporting AIX servers, TSM servers, HACMP and Virtualization. From 2000 to 2005 (5 years) Unix/AIX System Administrator @ Worked as a Unix/AIX Senior System Administrator, supporting and managing Riverwood Corporation paper mills systems based on the SP nodes, SP Frames; Control workstations, AIX Firewall and AIX Webservers. Managing their backups and restores using Tivoli Storage Manager. Manage the Tivoli Storage Manager(TSM) for backups and restores using the 3584 Tape Library. Manage and configure the nodes in the HA clusters. In charge of installing and setting up AIX machines including S-70's, S-7A's, SP High nodes, Wide Nodes, F-50's, B-50's and Control Workstations. Manage all the three TSM SAP Servers and 3584 Tape Library. Configuration, management and Administration, ESS Expert, SAN McData Switch configuration. Manage Paper Mills Optivision servers running in AIX/HA environment. Design, Configure, Implement, Administer and Maintain ESS. Design, Configure, Implement, Administer and Maintain HACMP Design, Configure, Implement, Administer and Maintain Tivoli Storage Manager Library, Tape Drives and all the TSM Servers and Clients at TSM 5.1 Version Design, Configure, Implement, Administer and Maintain LPAR Pseries 630, 650 and 690 Setup, Configure and Manage Network Installation Manager (NIM) to upgrade and Install systems using AIX NIM 4.3.3 and AIX NIM 5.2. Moved and Configured SAP 3.1 and 4.6c systems to AIX 5.2 on p-series logical partitioning. Expert in configuring and using vpaths ESS disks, Flash copy on ESS, ESS Specialists, ESS Expert and McData configuration. Setup the IBM FastT disks with Fibre cards attached and configured on SAN McData ED-5000 switch and created Arrays and moved systems to use the FastT disks along with ESS Shark disks. Upgraded SAP systems to AIX 5.2, 64-bit kernel, TSM upgrade to 5.2 on servers and clients and TDP clients for Informix database restores. LPAR configurations using DLPAR on each system, NIM restores with Flash copy tasks for SAP From April 2000 to July 2004 (4 years 4 months) Unix/AIX System Administrator @ Worked as a Unix System Administrator at the General Motors Doraville Plant supporting and managing all of their Unix sytems. Successfully implemented and upgraded their AIX systems from AIX 3.2.5 to AIX 4.3.2 and upgraded HACMP 3.2.2 to 4.3.1. From February 1997 to April 2000 (3 years 3 months) Systems Engineer @ Supporting their unix systems at General Motors Corporation at the Doraville plant in Atlanta. From June 1993 to April 2000 (6 years 11 months) Systems Administrator @ EDS Provided workstation support and administration on Novell v4.11, Windows NT 4.0 and Microsoft Outlook v8.04. Coordinate and perform the installation and testing of desktop products and system components. Provide assistance and on-line support with hardware configuration and software installation and ongoing support. Maintain documentation on LAN infrastructure. Performed various functions as a Unix and LAN administrator. Manage user requests and perform system maintenance functions on Unix, Novell v3.12 and NT file servers. Perform upgrades to Novell3.12 LAN, Sun workstations, IBM - PC's and perform Windows95, WindowsNT and Office 97 upgrades. Work on Material Planning System project for the General Motors Corporation programming in COBOL II and IEF. Perform various on-call duties with scheduling of JCL jobs and coordinate Control - M/R. Maintain shell scripts for backups of Unix servers. Completed SAP3.0: Systems and Technical Overview, ABAP/4 Fundamentals and Report Layout/Creation Techniques courses. From June 1994 to February 1997 (2 years 9 months)

MS, Computer Science @ Clark Atlanta University From 1991 to 1993 Bader Sarmast is skilled in: Disaster Recovery, Servers, Virtualization, System Administration, Cluster, DNS, Operating Systems, Active Directory, VMware, Windows Server, ITIL, Troubleshooting, AIX, Unix, Data Center, IBM AIX