SUMMARY:

• Firstdata quarterly employee of the month award for the years 2000, 2005 and 2006 for outstanding support.
• Architected and Designed Companies first Ecommerce Internet servers by using Veritas foundation Sweet,
• Implemented Veritas NetBackup services for Unix throughout the company.
• Experienced in Planning, team leading and integrating software packages and operational planning.
• Designed, installed Sun Enterprise servers for Accountings Oracle Financials in High Availability
• Established System Security Policies, Proactive system monitoring to ensure server uptime.
• Assisted and established Confidential s Network Operations Center/NOC for system monitoring.
• Liaison for vendor purchasing of all hardware and contract negotiations for maintenance contracts.
• Designed Disaster recovery services for company Unix services and there databases in multiple locations
• Group membership of Firstdata s A&I Architecture and Implantation, and Board of Change Management.
• Established and negotiated maintenance and purchasing for onsite computer service contracts of branch offices.
• Conducted training classes and Technical support for Data General Processors and Unix system configurations.
• Restored customer relations for Confidential space systems, a $500,000 per year account by consistently and effectively resolving problems to minimize costly system downtime for the Space Shuttle.
• Experienced in Management, team leading and building skill level between multiple IT professional rolls.
• Designed and programmed companies first automatic installation and reorganization program/ $500k annually.

SKILLS:

Systems Administration / Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 2.5.1 - 2.10, Solaris containers/zoning, SunRay-4.1/4.2- Thin Client, HP-ux 9-11, Linux/Redhat 4-7 CentOS5, ESX3, VMware, AIX, Mac/Apple OS, Windows 3x-2003k, Data-General-UNIX, OS2, OS32-DOD, VMS, OpenBSD, BSD System-V. Micrsoft, Xenix, SCO UNIX, Xelos Unix OS, Novell 2.12-5.0.

Databases, Applications and Software: Oracle 8x-10g, SunRay-4.1/4.2, Sybase, Informix, Veritas Volume Manager-vers3,4,5, Veritas File System-vers3,4,5, Veritas NetBackup3.2-6.5.3, Veritas Cluster Server-vers1-5, Firstwatch Cluster ServerLegato backup, F5, Tivoli-TSM, Microsoft 3x-2003k, SQL, EMC’s TimeFinder, EMC’s Navisphere and Control center, Weblogic, Coldfusion, RAID 5-0+1/10, ksh/sh shell scripting, FTP, SSH, sendmail.

Storage, Hardware and Network Services: Sun Enterprise 3x00-6x00, Sun v4xx/v8xx, Sun Storage, EMC Symmetrix-DMX, EMC-Clariion, Isilon Storage, Hitachi Data storage, NetAppliance, Hewlett Packard-9000, HP DL Series HW, Concurrent-3000- 6000, IBM pSeries 5, Control-Data, fiber SAN Technologies, Brocade and McData switches, Cisco switches, Cisco Routers, Motorola TSU/DSU’s, 3Com switches, NFS, SAN, NAS, DNS, TCP/IP, SMTP, SNMP, LDAP

CAREER SUMMARY:

Confidential, Thousand Oaks, CA

Unix Team Lead and group Manager

Responsibilities:

• Unix Team Manager, Team guidance on company procedures and policies. Route Cause Analysis to Inform management on r solutions.
• Vendor liaison on hardware failures and action plans.
• Special projects to update Unix default installations via Redhat satellite and liveupgrades.
• Provided Solaris/Redhat Support for Business operational systems including remote offices and solving complex server clustering problems throughout the US an Europe.
• Level 3 support for IBM and various contractors, Veritas Cluster, Netbackup and EMC array support.

Confidential, El Segundao,CA

Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Maintained 80 Sun Solaris and 30 Redhat/CenTOS - 5.3-5-5 servers in with various versions of Solaris 8,9,10
• Implemented New NetBackup subsystem using the latest SAN, Tape Library and server technology reducing
• Backup windows and performance of backups and restores, and disk-to-disk backups using NetApp. and Isolon
• Provided Unix Technical Support for interpretability between Unix, Windows and Mac/Apple operating systemsincluding other offsite offices and solving complex Unix server problems throughout the US.
• Provided Mac/Apple Technical Support for interpretability between Unix and Windows systems.

Confidential, Camarillo, CA

Sr. Unix Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planned and performed complete Solaris and Veritas patching policy management on all Confidential
• Unix/Oracle database servers world wide.
• Implemented Redhat Linux services in VCS Clustered configurations for Oracle databases and Applications
• Maintained 84 Sun Solaris and 12 Redhat/VMware servers in with various versions of Solaris 8,9,10.
• Implemented New NetBackup subsystem using the latest SAN, Tape Library and server technology reducing
• Backup timing and performance of backups and restores, and disk - to-disk backups using NetApp.
• Engineered and designed New NetBackup sub-system, clustered environments using Veritas Cluster Server
• Training of IT Staff in Unix security and administration for the network operations of Windows staff.
• Provided Unix Technical Support for interpretability between Unix, Windows and Mac/Apple operating systemsincluding other Confidential branch offices and solving complex Unix server problems throughout the World.
• Provided Mac/Apple Technical Support for interpretability between Unix and Windows systems, VMware including other branch s and solving complex Unix server problems NetBackup support.
• Performed Project Management on new Oracle financials databases/Applications server upgradesOracle-SAP Implementations and 12 other Oracle database servers, Member of Change Management board.

Confidential, Camarillo, CA

Sr. Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained 28 Sun Solaris servers, with various versions of Solaris8 - 10, Re-engineered NetBackup sub-system.
• Mentored and trained IT Staff in Unix security and administration for the network operations of Windows staff.
• Provided Unix Technical Support for interpretability between Unix, Mac and Windows systems, including
• Branch offices and software problems throughout the US.

Confidential, Moorpark, CA

Sr. Unix-Oracle Administrator / Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• System Installations, Maintenance, patch updates, system upgrades and High Availability.
• Established IT Security infrastructure by eliminating Unix network services and implemented maintenance change management and patch scheduling policies.
• Mentored and trained IT Staff in Unix security and administration for the network operations center.
• Provided customer support for CSI s outside sales force and its secure file transfer server.
• Assisted in company Change Management system and policies for patch management and network security.
• Architected and designed Veritas NetBackup subsystem for all Unix servers.
• Performed Project Management on 2 Oracle financials databases/Applications services, 2 Remedy
• Implementations and 7 other Oracle database servers for Inter voice response services.
• Provided technical support for interpretability between Sun Solaris, HP - Unix, Novell,Mac/Apple and
• Windows servers both internally and for over 3,000 internal and outside sales, supporting both help desk and special projects.
• Administration for all Unix server backups, System Architecture and Oracle Design.

Confidential, Woodland Hills, CA

Sr. Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of 105 node Novell and NT system, backups, Network and PC troubleshooting.
• Performed Solaris, SCO and HP - ux system administration, reconfiguration, and tuning of Unix
• Kernel, IP/IPX troubleshooting of network and systems problems such as modem communicationspermissions, uucp, cron, and print services.
• Vendor Liaison on new system purchases and contracts.
• Provided Unix Technical Support for branch offices and software problems throughout the US.
• Conducted hardware integration, Cisco router & SCO UNIX operating for all branch offices .

Confidential, Westlake Village, CA

Sr. Unix Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Performed system administration and troubleshooting of Sun, SCO, HP, Novell and NT operating
• Systems, Mac reconfiguration of Unix kernel, modem communications, printers and hardware upgrades.
• Provided Technical Support for 260 Unix customers throughout the United States.
• Conducted hardware & Unix system training for field service and technical support staff.
• Installed and integrated SCO UNIX Servers, routers for new customer site installations.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Sr. Systems Engineer / Area Manager

Responsibilities:

• Local Area Manager for Westlake/Ventura office with a staff of four engineers.
• Provided National Support for Data General, Micos and Sun OS and Unix system V Systems.
• Installed and maintained computer systems for Confidential, the Air Force and Naval bases of Concurrent
• OS32, UNIX system V and Novell 3.11 - 3.12 operating systems, Cisco routers.