Archie

Senior OpenVMS System Administrator experience with administering HP OpenVMS environments on VAX, Alpha, Integrity, and Charon-VAX platforms supporting mission-critical enterprise applications. Experienced in OpenVMS installation, upgrades, patch management, layered products, system security, performance tuning, backup and recovery, Oracle Rdb administration, DCL scripting, and infrastructure support. Strong background in incident management, root cause analysis, production support, security compliance, technical documentation, and collaborating with infrastructure, database, networking, and application teams to maintain highly available enterprise systems.

OpenVMS System Admin / Infrastr - Avery Dennison Corp

(2014-12 - 2026-02)

• Administered HP OpenVMS environments running on Alpha, Integrity, and Charon-VAX platforms supporting mission-critical retail manufacturing applications.
• Installed, configured, upgraded, patched, and maintained OpenVMS operating systems, layered products, and enterprise applications.
• Performed system monitoring, performance tuning, capacity planning, and resource optimization to maximize system availability.
• Administered user accounts, security profiles, batch queues, print queues, access controls, system parameters, and OpenVMS security.
• Managed operating system installation, upgrades, backup, restoration, disaster recovery, and business continuity procedures.
• Administered Oracle Rdb databases including backup, recovery, monitoring, and performance tuning.
• Developed DCL automation scripts for monitoring system resources, user processes, scheduler jobs, batch queues, logs, and system health.
• Supported Charon-VAX virtualization, virtual disk configuration, storage management, and system maintenance.
• Coordinated production maintenance activities with infrastructure, application, database, and networking teams.
• Investigated production incidents, performed Root Cause Analysis (RCA), implemented corrective actions, and documented preventive recommendations.
• Created and maintained system administration procedures, operational documentation, SOPs, and recovery procedures.
• Supported infrastructure security reviews, compliance activities, vulnerability remediation, and enterprise security standards.
• Assisted application teams during deployments, migrations, system upgrades, and production implementations.
• Participated in off-hours maintenance, emergency support, and production issue resolution.

OpenVMS System Admin | Princ Software Engr - Symantec Corp

(2005-06 - 2014-12)

• Administered enterprise OpenVMS environments supporting Symantec Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) and Control Compliance Suite (CCS).
• Installed, configured, upgraded, and maintained OpenVMS operating systems, layered products, and enterprise software.
• Developed OpenVMS security modules to collect and report user accounts, passwords, file permissions, object protection, auditing, networking, and system parameter information.
• Created DCL scripts to automate monitoring, reporting, resource utilization, scheduler jobs, queues, and system administration activities.
• Managed OpenVMS operating system security, backup, recovery, storage management, and performance optimization.
• Performed system troubleshooting, Root Cause Analysis, problem resolution, and production support.
• Supported OpenVMS server migration from VAX to Alpha and Itanium platforms using MACRO-32, C, and DCL.
• Collaborated with development, QA, infrastructure, database, and support teams to deliver enterprise security solutions.
• Maintained technical documentation, installation procedures, operational guides, and troubleshooting documentation.
• Delivered OpenVMS administration training to Development, QA, and Technical Support teams.

Sr Software Engineer - ACS Inc. (Xerox) – U.S. Dept of Education

(2005-01 - 2005-05)

• Developed and supported US Govt Student Loan applications (DLSS, GLS) financial applications on Alpha/OpenVMS environments.
• Supported application implementation, production support, issue resolution, Oracle Rdb databases, and system maintenance.
• Worked with COBOL, C, RPG, SQL, Oracle Rdb, DCL, and OpenVMS environments.

Bachelor of Electronics Eng - Electronics Engineering - Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University