Jamie Apps

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ABOUT JAMIE APPS

Over 25 years experience working with IBM IBM System P, IBM Power Systems Hardware, IBM AIX 4.X, AIX 5L, AIX 6.1, AIX 7.1, AIX 7.2 and 7.3! High Availability solutions for AIX (HACMP/PowerHA), PowerVM (VIOS), NIM, TSM, Netbackup, Experience in handling Storwize V3700, FS5200, FS7200 and exposure to IBM Smartcloud for Power Systems.Very Good Technical understanding and troubleshooting skills on IBM Hardware/AIX/High Availability and Storage.Experience in providing Level 3 AIX/Power Systems support to globally established companies including Banking/Finance, Media, Retail and MOD (government sectors) with security clearance. Experience in design, build, administration of Unix Systems infrastructure on IBM Unix Hardware platform, mirroring a solution architects role. Currently working closely with solution architects in an advisory capacity from technical solutions team. Experience in design, build and implementation of Disaster Recovery Solutions using traditional methodology, Metro/Global Mirroring solutions using IBM / Storage Hardware, and VTL solutions using Falconstor products.Experience working in a management team whilst delivering measurable KPI\'s and militating team to deliver high performance and excellent customer service, and be innovative whilst delivering new solutions to meet customer requirements. Automation with Ansible experience, with Red Hat, Suse, Centos for x86 and Power (Big and Little Endian) experience. Specialties: IBM Certified Systems Expert - Virtualization Technical Support for AIX and Linux - v2IBM Certified Systems Expert - High Availability for AIX (HACMP/PowerHA)IBM Certified Systems Administrator - AIX 5.3, 6.1 and 7.1Certified for VTL and CDP using Falconstor AppliancesCertified IBM Tivoli Storage Manager V6.3 Training on IBM Storage Storwize V3700 & to Lpic 1 and Lpic 2 certified level - Red Hat