SUMMARY:

Supporting UNIX/Linux VMs, physical servers and storage infrastructure as a systems administrator or solution architect.

EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential, Phx, AZ

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential ServiceGuard Metro cluster package application rolling upgrades.
• Data migration from Confidential XP storage to Confidential 3PAR storage.
• VM and Physical server migrations from legacy Confidential EVA & XP storage to 3PAR.
• SAN fabric (Brocade) zoning / storage presentation from storage arrays.
• Patching servers, SOX auditing and reports.
• Ignite and Golden image creation for fast VM deployments.
• Setup and configuration of Confidential C7000 blade chassis with Confidential Virtual Connect.
• P2V migrations of legacy systems to SuperDome
• A lot of LVM work adding LUNS increasing LVOLS & F/S on UNIX & Red Hat.
• Logical Volume Management (LVM), Clustered file systems, shared Volume Groups. Creation and troubleshooting.
• LUN presentation from Netapp Filers to new physical servers and VMs.
• Confidential 3PAR provisioning, replication for remote copy of storage. Configuration of Virtual Volume Sets, Host sets.
• Rack & stack of new servers, C7000 enclosures, SuperDome and storage array installations.
• Performance tuning for Oracle Linux servers; sysctl, huge memory pages, etc.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

UX L3 Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Replaced the legacy rp3440 ignite servers and virtualized them on BL860 blades.
• Automation tasks via shell scripting (BSH, KSH).
• ServiceGuard updates. New VM clustering.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Confidential ServiceGuard maintenance on the production Confidential - UX 11.iV3 servers.
• Configuring new storage - LVM configuration on Confidential -UX & Red Hat servers.
• Rolling out system patches to application servers and Confidential DB servers.
• Setup and configuration of Confidential C7000 blade profiles with Confidential Virtual Connect.
• Extensive shell scripting. (KSH, BASH).
• Built hundreds of Integrity & VMware Red Hat VMs for the Confidential Company.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Contractor

Responsibilities:

• L3 Break/Fix on Confidential -UX and Red Hat, CentOS servers.
• Confidential ServiceGuard rolling upgrades on Confidential -UX 11.iV3, 11.23, 11.11 servers.
• Configuring new storage as presented from the SAN team; and subsequent LVM work on the Red Hat and Confidential -UX servers. Server builds using Ignite.
• Documenting procedures & training off-shore L1 & L2 Linux administrators.
• Performance tuning / troubleshooting PA-RISC / Itanium. Core dump analysis.
• Rolling out system patches, Confidential -UX physical and virtual server builds on Confidential blades. Confidential -UX container creation on virtual machines for Confidential -9000 legacy apps
• Data Protector 8.02 for backing up the DC windows, Linux and UNIX servers.
• Configuration of Confidential C7000 blade chassis with Confidential Virtual Connect

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Documentation of existing server and SAN environment.
• Middleware (Apache & Tomcat) and Oracle application support on C7000 chassis racked BL870c servers running HPUX 11iV3.
• Ignite/UX installation & updates. Created Golden Images of the production Confidential -UX servers and rapidly deployed a new test and QA environment on Virtual Machines with no down time. .
• Confidential ServiceGuard v11.20 maintenance on servers, Integrity Virtual Machines running Confidential -UX 11i.V3.
• Iptables modifications on RHEL 5.8, 6.2, 6.3 for programmers and Oracle DBAs.
• Logical Volume Manager (LVM) work on Red Hat RHEL 5.8, 6.2, 6.3.
• Designed a solution to migrate the “boot from SAN” Blade servers from Confidential ’s EVA storage to EMC without any down time.
• Writing shell scripts to automate complex procedures such as SNAP mirror volume groups exports & imports, shutting down Oracle and refreshing TEST and QA environments.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Shell scripting for auditing tasks and user productivity.
• SOX compliance for the Bank’s RHEL servers.
• Patching and updates on Confidential DL380 servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Confidential servers, EVA storage and networking products.
• NetApp FAS and V class storage products.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

UNIX/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Remedy Help desk level 3 critical support break/fix.
• ILO configuration and remote administration on ML370 and DL380 Linux servers.
• NIS, Sendmail, Secure FTP. VMware ESX in a Confidential DL380 server environment.
• NetApp filers presenting LUNS via dual fabric A/B Brocade SAN.
• Rolling upgrades of ServiceGuard on rx6600 Confidential -UX 11.iV3 servers.
• Troubleshooting existing shell scripts and writing new scripts for automation.
• ASM Oracle raw volume multipath environment mapping back to NetApp. FAS3020 and FAS2040 filers under Data Ontap 8.0.
• NetApp deduplication, FlexCache, FlexShare (thin provisioning) SnapMirrors for backups and SnapClones for QA environment testing.
• Supporting application developers Tomcat and Apache Linux Virtualized servers.
• IBM FastT DS4100, DS8100 SAN storage under IBM’s Storage Manager.
• VMware ESX and Vsphere 4 for Linux deployment of virtual machines.

Confidential

UNIX/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for data consolidation and application migration to Red Hat servers.
• Itanium and PA-RISC Confidential -UX servers Confidential ServiceGuard vPar environment. iSCSI Aggregate/Volume/LUN presentation from the Network Appliance filers to the production and development PeopleSoft environment.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deploying Confidential Storage works EVA (Command View EVA) and MSA Storage.
• Business copy, Secure Path, and OpenView Storage Area Manager Installations.
• Enterprise backup solutions using Confidential ’s Data Protector.
• Installing and configuring Confidential VLS Virtual Tape Libraries, Including deduplication.
• ServiceGuard clusters including SAP integrations (SGeSAP).
• Integrity Virtual Machines, Virtual partitioning (vPars and nPars)
• SAN switch zoning on Brocade and Cisco hardware.
• Migrations from Legato, TSM and other backup products to Confidential ’s Data Protector.
• Troubleshooting existing server environments including performance tuning.
• Building virtualized partitions (vPars) on initial nPars with Integrity cell based servers; Integrity virtual Machines deployment.
• Installing Enterprise Red Hat Linux on Integrity Confidential servers such as the rx6600 through version 5.2 using Kickstart PXE boot.
• TiCAP (Temporary Instant Capacity) memory and processor activation during varied server loads;
• WLM (Work Load Manager) for resources moved between virtual partitions.
• Ignite/UX including building “Golden Image” images for fast server recovery.

Confidential

UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Confidential RP-7410 MC/ServiceGuard clustered Oracle DB servers.
• LSI Logic E460 Disk Arrays and IBM FastT (DS4000) under Santricity and IBM’s FastT Storage Manager.
• Confidential SureStore (Brocade Silkworm) Fabric SAN utilizing Confidential ’s SecurePath.
• Developing DR (Disaster Recovery) procedures and documentation for the corporate servers and storage.
• Linux (Red hat) for PeopleSoft Application (tuxedo) servers on X86 servers.