Priya Palaniappan
Mainframe Storage Administrator and Mainframe Operations
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Having 20 years of experience in Mainframe Storage Administrator and Mainframe Operations. Currently Working as Associate Consultant at HCL Technology Chennai from June 2024 to till date.
Experience
Associate Consultant at HCL Technology (2024-06 – Present)
Managed 200 Lpars and Hardware environment.
- Micro code upgrade for DASD/VTS/ATL (Schedule the IBM engineer and to be followed the checkout after completion of it)
- Certificate update for DASD/VTS/ATL/TSSC/CSM once it has been expiried
- Alert event monitoring in DASD/VTS/ATL and followed/verified their case initiated by call home
- GDPS Health Check to verify the links, their paths and Geo Error by execute the scripts
- Created/Added LCU and add/expand volume over the LSS in GUI
- Initialize the spare volumes to empty pool(which Maintain by Mainview for AUTOADDv/Manually addition if required)
- Added skeleton volser in the existing storage group to maintain spare
- Monitoring the mvsrm alerts and required action to be taken
- Move the volume for reclaim the space (I.E Either mod9 to mod54 or Lpar to Lpar)
- CDS reorg for HSM and RMM
- SMS ACS code and construct update, Filt list and rule list have been updated in the Mainview
- Defined/created the User Catalog and to connect to master catalog when it gets full
- Provide on-call support for storage activities
Senior Storage Administrator at Kyndryl (Formerly IBM) India Pvt LTD (2016-10 – 2024-05)
Provided support in Storage related operations - management, technical maintenance, trouble-shooting and tuning of storage configured to the mainframe.
- Provided 24/7 support to the customer and resolving the oncall issues
- Administering and managing storage groups on Mainframe
- Performing restoration & backup activities of datasets as per the requirement & monitoring on daily basis
- Supporting problem and change tickets for storage systems involving problem determination and implementation of changes to storage devices, data backups, software, applications or network systems
- Amending ACS SMS Routines as per user & client requirements
- Fixing DFHSM issues, e.g. CDS Reorg, Recall Issues, CDS/Journal backups problems etc
- Initialize DASD volumes to Storage groups as per requirement
- Handling space issues and restore, recover datasets as per user requests
- Participated in testing of Disaster recovery activities
- Resolving tape problems performed RMM CDS Reorgs
- SMS changes to be performed as per various projects coming on the systems
- Testing the Storage Products during Z/OS Upgradations
- Handled FDRABR Backup, Archive and reporting
- Handling SRTs (Service Restoration) and RCAs (Root Cause Analysis) of problems/incidents
- Providing on-call support for storage related activities
Principle Consultant – Mainframe Operation at Ford Technology Services India Ltd (2016-03 – 2016-10)
Specialist – Mainframe Operations at AXA Technology Shared Services (2013-04 – 2016-02)
Program Analyst at WNS Global Services (2007-03 – 2013-04)
Education
B.E in Computer Science – Velalar College of Engineering & Technology (2001 – 2005)
