Sr. System Engineer Resume
SUMMARY
- Adept Confidential storage design, administration, installation, and troubleshooting. Excellent customer relations skills. Demonstrated ability to manage IT budgets and select appropriate hardware/software. Effective Project Manager who is able to train and motivate team members to achieve goals. Resourceful problem solver. Intelligent, analytical, and articulate.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Hardware Support: MS Windows NT 3.51, 4.0 and 2000, 2003 & 2008, Novell 4.x, Network Administration and Support, Netapp (Data OnTap), iSCSI, FCP, Brocade Director Class Hardware, Netapp 3000/6000/8000 , HP/IBM Servers, HP Blade Center, Compellent SAN. Isilon NAS, EMC SAN, Dell Blade Chassis
Software Support: Microsoft Office 95 - 2010 Microsoft Windows Active Directory, MS DFS (VFM), ArcServe, Veritas, SMS, DFM, Compaq Information Manager, Remedy, Rumba, Ghost, Remote Control, VPN, Citrix, Hummingbird Exceed, Norton Anti-Virus, McAfee Anti-Virus, Symantec Anti-Virus, Partition Magic, and EDR Commander, SAN Health Check, Compaq Insight Manager, Kronos, Flexi Financial, IBM Director, Brocade Manager, VMware, VSphere 4.x, ESX 3.5-4.1i, Enterprise Manager, Netapp OnCommand Insight/System Manager, Dell vFoglight
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Sr. System Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Team lead for 7 staff engineers with a wide variety of skills. Current team is responsible for all production infrastructure for Confidential broadcast systems; this includes all Linux, Windows, Storage, VMWare, tier3 monitoring, Dell server hardware and fiber channel directors. (Production includes over 3000 physical servers, 6000+ VMWare guests across 5 different vCenters, RHEL 4.1 to 6.2, Windows 2003, 2008 & 2012, VMWare 5.1 and 5.5, Netapp OnCommand Insight, Dell Open Manage. EMC Isilon, EMC Clarion, HP 3PAR, Netapp FAS and four Brocade Director class switches with over 600 ports)
- Perform daily maintenance & operations on all aspects of storage; which includes 3PAR, EMC, Netapp and Isilon systems. Responsible for design, planning and day to day support on systems in Los Angeles, Virginia, Colorado and Washington.
- Supported Brocade 48,000 and 8515 director class FC Switches.
- Provide Tier3 support for all storage related hardware, fiber infrastructure related to the SAN fabric, and windows server software and hardware.
- Support and Maintain VMware server farm; duties include building ESX servers, recommending future upgrades, design changes, resource management, commission & decommission procedures.
Confidential
Sr. System Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Perform daily maintenance on all aspects of storage; which includes Compellent (20 & 40 models) Responsible for design, planning and day to day support on three clustered systems in LA, NY and London.
- Supported the integration of new storage and fiber technologies into the infrastructure, this included Brocade DCX4 series directors and Network Appliance 6/3000 series filers and HP c7000 Blade Systems.
- Provide Tier3 support for all storage related hardware, fiber infrastructure related to the SAN fabric, and windows server software and hardware.
- Design, Manage and Configure HP C7000 Blade Farm.
- Support and Maintain VMware server farm; duties include building ESX servers, recommending future upgrades, design changes, resource management, commission & decommission procedures.
Confidential
System Admin
Responsibilities:
- Perform daily maintenance on all aspects of storage; which includes Netapp filers (3020, 3050, 6030 & 6070 series models) in both stand alone and cluster configurations. Responsible for maintenance and storage planning on HP XP 128, 512 and 1024.
- Supported the integration of new storage and fiber technologies into the infrastructure, this included Brocade 48,000 series directors and Network Appliance 6000 series filers.
- Provide Tier3 support for all storage related hardware, fiber infrastructure related to the SAN fabric, active directory and windows server NOS and hardware.
- Responsible for all future storage planning along with all data management for enterprise; including one, three and five year storage forecasting.
- Working directly with AIX, Linux, Windows and DB2 teams to support them with their storage needs. (iSCSI, FCP, NFS)
- Provide Tier3 and Engineering support for Windows applications such as Flexi, ITG/PPM, Kronos and others.
- Support and Maintain VMware server farm; duties include building ESX servers, Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 servers; trouble shooting, maintenance and upgrades.
- Design, Manage and Configure HP C7000 Blade Farm.
