SUMMARY:

I have eighteen years of Enterprise IT experience in the most complex Infrastructure environments developing solutions in the UNIX, Storage & backup area. I am a creative and quick thinking leader with extensive experience in optimizing, difficult, high - pressure, production environments; I also have extensive experience in MSP, Medical, Financial, DOD and Telecom verticals. The key to my success is my ability to quickly identify the critical customer needs, and apply my results oriented mindset, excellent communication skills and problem solving to deliver the proper solution the first time.

TECHNICAL OVERVIEW:

• Confidential Expert, Datadomain Expert, Confidential Integration Lab
• Expert with Confidential architecture.
• Expert with Networker 8.1 architecture.
• Expert with Data Domain architecture.
• Expert with Symantec Netbackup 7.0.
• Expert with NDMP.
• Experienced with Commvault Simpana, TSM.
• Experienced with Quantum ADIC Scalar and STK Tape hardware.
• Experienced with many Confidential storage frames (CX, VNX, VMax).
• Experienced with Netapp FAS 6070 and 3070.
• Experienced with HP EVA & XP arrays.
• Experienced with Cisco and Brocade FC networks.
• Expert with Tegile Storage.
• Familiar with Isilon, Extreme IO.
• Converged Experience
• Experienced with VMware 5+
• Experience with Solaris Zones.
• Experience with UCS chassis.
• UNIX Experience
• Fifteen years’ experience with Solaris, and LINUX.
• RHEL, Redhat, SUSE, HP-UX, IRIX, Tru64, AIX, SCO, and more.
• Ten years experience with Sun Servers and storage
• Five years experience with Dell servers and blades.
• Executed Firmware Planning & upgrades, on multiple vendors server and storage hardware.
• Experienced with Citrix, with formal training.
• Experienced developing Shell scripts to meet operational needs.
• Experienced with Veritas Storage Foundation.
• Experienced with many change management systems, and policies.
• Experienced with FDA and SOX audit requirements.
• Experienced with many monitoring tools.
• Familiar with Oracle SQL / PL1 with formal training.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Professional Services Lead for the Northwest region, I owned the customer service experience.
• I assisted the Sales team with POC and RFP requests and also assisted Partners with deployments and training, while deploying units as required.
• My number one goal was to provide customer delight.

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• I initially joined Confidential through Commercial Mid Atlantic (Martin Rectenwald). Due to a desire to move back to the mid-west, Martin allowed me to transfer to Commercial Mountain Plains, in that role I was a key member of the Mountain Plains dedicated resource Pilot, working with Rod Leaverton.
• During this pilot, the PS resources executed installs taking direction directly from the PM’s and developed close ties with the SE community that I supported, during this time frame the team installed over 12M in PS per year, and maintained close to zero churn.
• When Commercial PS was rolled into Enterprise, I transitioned to Teri Treasure’s team.
• I have consistently handled the toughest customers, and the hardest Installs, to include performing as one of the two smoke jumpers on the team.
• During my time in Confidential, I have performed numerous check point services for Confidential, and was the only SA for the Visa BIA, I have built trust all through my time in West with the SE community, Confidential all levels.
• I also perform other tasks, including mentoring a Confidential and another member of Confidential, I am also on the Confidential review team.
• I also assist with scoping, and advising on proper PS Confidential ’s I have received multiple Confidential recognitions during my time in PS, culminating in 2014 in a Platinum player award for leading the Kaiser Permanente NDMP install.
• Currently I am the Sr Architect driving the total Networker transformation for Confidential .
• My focus is to drive customer for life satisfaction, and getting the job done, and finding a way.

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• I performed the final integration, and knowledge transfer for the Confidential grids installed Confidential the SSA data centers, due to the nature of the office, I gave multiple introductory knowledge transfer power point talks, meeting with over 10 internal teams.
• I also trained the permanent residency staff in order to hand off the Confidential solution, upon my departure.

Confidential

Backup Owner and team Lead

Responsibilities:

• I supported Confidential storage, Netapp filers, DDR, EDL, Networker 7.4.4, Confidential and Netbackup 6.5.3.
• I lead all phases Architecture, design, implementation and operations, to include capacity planning, throughput planning, budget planning.
• This was a customer driven chargeback environment, with constantly changing priority’s and customer desires.
• I performed a backup RFP for a 500TB datacenter footprint that was expected to double in size for the first four years.
• I also lead the team that implemented the winning solution of Networker with EDL and Data domain backup targets using Confidential for a VMware solution, this solution was designed for a very strict VLAN controlled network environment with Solaris Zones and Windows VM’s. It was delivered into two new cutting edge datacenters for Emerson Electric.

Confidential

Technical Site manager and Sr. SA

Responsibilities:

• I supported a government transportation contract on Confidential, I provide support for production and helped guide the environment as it changes and matures.
• I was also the forward facing customer contact for issue resolution.
• This was a mixed environment of Linux, HP, and Win2003.
• I Maintained the system roadmap, and plan for the 18 to 24 month timeframe. Held a secret DOD clearance.

Confidential

Sun Product manager

Responsibilities:

• I was the sun product manager, I tested and validated new Sun solutions and prepared them to be implemented into production in a company standardized version.
• I was responsible for Life cycle management, and patches, in order to maintain the overall Sun environment Confidential a supported level within the firm. Sun environment is 285 servers.

Confidential

Senor Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• I lead initiatives and projects that are both focused on Solaris servers and that spread across the entire environment.
• I spend large quantities of time coordinating resources in order to bring highly complex solutions to positive deliverables on time.

Confidential

Event Manager

Responsibilities:

• Work within the IP server support group Confidential the Bridgeton data center.
• Support mail for numerous large cable clients.
• Net backup support 24x7

Confidential

UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Sole point of contact for all issues UNIX related.
• Worked on Solaris 5.9 servers.
• Established a patching plan Patched all the servers within the environmentUsed Live upgrade to rebuild the root disk on all of production.
• Installed and setup Sun Management Center 3.5 update 1
• Attached servers to a shared A3510 storage device and installed VERITAS.
• Upgraded Veritas Netbackup from 4.5ga to 5.1 2
• Developed a comprehensive DR plan for the UNIX group.
• Installed & Patched Veritas for Oracle as required.

Confidential

UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Large Solaris, and Linux environment, with complex customer needs
• Managed production servers with NIS, veritas storage, and netbackup.
• Working with the rollout of a large scale LDAP conversion.
• Working on large grid engine clusters, linux with solaris control.
• Huge environment 700+ enterprise Solaris servers 300+ Linux grid engines

Confidential

UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Migrated and rebuilt systems as required for production.
• Implemented security on the Samba shared drive server.
• Built servers with jumpstart, veritas, and BMC patrol.
• Large environment 250+ servers.

Confidential

Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Migrated and rebuilt systems as required for professors, both Windows and UNIX.
• Developed a personal database for Athletic Media Relations.
• Wrote business requirements for many projects.

Confidential

UNIX Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead Systems Architect for a Sprint Enterprise E-solution.
• Interfaced with customers both internal and external, to insure quality of service.
• Built numerous servers in accordance with standards and polices.
• Designed the DMZ and configured Sun servers for Sun I-Planet Enterprise and Blue Martini E-solution.
• Planned and migrated Oracle databases and applications.
• Maintained system audit and GAP analysis information for Sprint Broadband.
• Accomplished planned hardware upgrades in compliance with production schedules.
• Used Big Brother as a capacity planning, monitoring, and reporting tool
• Installed and upgraded Veritas Foundation Suite.
• Small growing environment with 20+ servers.