TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• HP - UX v1,v2, v3
• Sun Solaris 8,10,11
• IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1
• RHEL 4,5
• Performance Analysis
• Capacity Planning
• Kernel Tuning & Architecture
• Linux
• EMC Symmetrix SAN/NAS Environment
• Solaris Volume Manager
• Solaris Zones/Containers
• ZFS/Zpool configuration
• Veritas Volume Manager
• Veritas File Manager
• Veritas Cluster Server
• EMC Snap/Clone/SRDF
• MCServiceGuard
• Red Hat Cluster Suite
• RAID Architecture
• IBM Shark Zone & LUN Configuration
• SOX SA4 Compliance
• SUN/Solaris Clustering
• C7000 Chassis
• Virtual Connect
• BL860, BL870, & BL890 i2, i4, & i6 blades
• HP-UX Superdome
• NPAR, VPAR, HP-VM
• Disaster Recover Planning & Implementations for HP-UX and Solaris
• BL460c Gen 8 ProLiant Blades & DL360c 1U rack mounted ProLiant servers

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

HP-UX Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Implement C7000 infrastructure for BL860c i4 and BL460c Gen8/Gen9 blade implementations utilizing HP Virtual Connect FlexFabric 20/40 F8 modules.
• Architect and build Ignite-UX environment to perform installations of HP-UX on BL860c i4 Itanium blades in preparation for migration of RX7640 Cell servers to BL860c i4 blades.
• Developed Virtual Connect cookbook for IT department, such that employees can build a C7000 virtual server infrastructure based on outlined design to a final product.
• Assist with Lawson application issues on VMware Vsphere clients.

Confidential

C7000 Architect

Responsibilities:

• Develop installation/maintenance manuals of C7000 product line for Nokia/Verizon Wireless engineers. These manuals were used to train the implementation engineers and Linux administrators.

Confidential, Lewisville/Carrollton, TX

Systems Architect/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated/Implemented new HP-UX BL8x0 i2/i4 & i6 implementations for IBM DCC and HP Consolidation across C7000 Chassis frames, including all Gold Image refreshes and new builds. Effort was to migrate all Confidential Financial data from IBM/HP data centers to new Carrollton PROD and San Antonio MODEL/DEV Data Centers, including Disaster Recovery implementations.
• IMS Lead for Solaris & HP-UX Migrations from Lewisville Data Centers to new Carrollton and San Antonio CyrusOne Data Centers as part of the Confidential Bankruptcy separation of all Infrastructure and Business Unit applications.
• Develop and implement technical solutions for the Midrange UNIX team projects.
• Lead project managers with determining resource requirements across all HP-UX and Solaris 10 platforms, which includes obtaining quotes from the various vendors and outlining the system implementation requirements to meet the projected application growth.
• Developed strategies for Midrange team to implement Enterprise and mid-level web and database tier solutions across the Lewisville and Shady Oak Data Centers.
• Developed Performance Analysis and Capacity planning models for the Evergreen team to outline new technologies, which includes new Blade architectures and virtualization solutions across the UNIX landscape for ongoing technology refresh cycles.
• Development of tools or processes that enable the staff to become more efficient, such as e-Rooms and password safes, for information sharing and security apparatuses to prevent security breaches, while creating libraries for development of junior level team members, or to streamline the transition and training period for new employees.

Confidential

Sr. UNIX/SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Architected and performed the migration of the LPARs from the P4 P690 to the virtualized (VIO) p6 p550 servers, which included the project planning, and architecting of hardware configurations based on RPERF limitations, etc.
• Design/Implementation of SOX Policies and Procedures to meet Security audits. Senior lead in management of Performance/Monitoring tools within IT Infrastructure, including NetQOS, Foglight, and WhatUp Gold, Topas, and NMON.
• In corporation of various UNIX Security implementations, including incident management of Cisco MARS security violations

Confidential, Frisco, TX

IT Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Confidential Architects, Database Administrators, and Project Managers to implement PepsiCo’s End-To-End Midrange and Enterprise level UNIX implementations
• Implemented the virtual partitioning requirements for the Central UNIX servers, which include the RX7640 Itanium servers
• Architected methodology for ETC managers to obtain for the required UNIX requirements, and assist with coordination of the UNIX server move from the PepsiCo Enterprise Test Center to the Frito-lay Data Center
• Coordinated with Confidential lead architect and Project Managers to deliver the latest POC projects based on the required criteria and applications for emerging technologies
• Developed run-books for oversees engineers for the implementations and support of the various UNIX platforms and applications introduced into the new Confidential Data Centers.

Confidential, Plano, TX

UNIX Engineer/Sr. Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuration, implementation, and administration of the HP-UX and RHEL infrastructures for the Confidential IS UNIX Leveraged team, which includes support of the Vanguard and Federal Student Aid accounts
• Installation and configuration of RHEL 4.0 on the HP BL60P Blade and DELL 1950 servers
• Configured and supported the Red Hat Cluster Suite across both platforms
• Installed and administered HP-UX 11.23 across all midrange PA-RISC and Itanium based platforms

Confidential, Lewisville, TX

UNIX Architect

Responsibilities:

• Drafted architectural procedures for outlining the IT HP-UX infrastructure for the Confidential Midrange Engineering team, along with procedures for obtaining quotes and purchasing/leasing products from 3rd party vendors.
• Work with various project leads to implement applications that are required to meet the business need of Confidential .
• Created Security standards and worked with Cybersecurity vendors to implement strategies for managing business loans and applications for mortgage and auto loans that were being processed through the UNIX EFT applications.
• Created application that validated the security measures outlined by Confidential to standardize around SEC regulations to ensure safety and integrity of Confidential customer data between the UNIX infrastructure and funds transferring applications.

Confidential, Irving, TX

Sr. Lead Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the production UNIX servers for the UNIX Administration team in the various Confidential Data Centers

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the UNIX Engineering team at Confidential in the Plano facility as a contractor for Confidential
• Worked with the UNIX Engineering team to consolidate the HP-UX environments after the merger of the Frito-Lay, Pepsi, Tropicana, and Quaker divisions
• Worked with the Confidential team to perform installs, upgrades, and consolidations of legacy HP-UX servers into the new HP product lines, and installation of diagnostic packages for tracking of hardware failures, along with generating HP-UX MeasureWare performance reports and configuring the OVPM environment to do trending analysis of the UNIX infrastructure
• Worked extensively with the Enterprise Portal team to engineer server configurations and assisted to resolve various Apache and BEA Weblogic Load Balancer issues for the migration of existing Portal configurations into the Enterprise Portal. I also assisted with on-call System Administration duties for the HP-UX infrastructure and on the AIX servers on a limited basis
• Performed and coordinated training sessions for UNIX Engineering, along with interviewing prospective UNIX administrators for the group

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the Confidential UNIX Engineering team in migrating HP-UX servers into one centralized environment, which followed the Confidential standards within the Confidential Plano Data Center
• Worked included developing scripts and incorporating various HP-UX products to assist the various support teams in monitoring and troubleshooting the HP-UX environment Worked with other divisions to in corporate the latest HP ISEE Online Diagnostics for remote monitoring of HP-UX servers, which included monitoring through the Hewlett-Packard Response Center. I worked on various server implementations for current/future upgrades/installations of HP-UX 11.00 and 11i OS levels, along with kernel modifications associated with various application requirements.
• Implemented VPAR and PRM solutions to resolve various implementation/licensing and financial issues that arose during the planning stages for various product divisions
• Assisted with the zoning and configurations of the SAN disks for both the IBM Shark and XP-1024 SAN arrays. Was involved in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 SA4 compliance requirements within Confidential, which included developing and monitoring of all login activity, and super-user activities within the HP-UX environment
• Wrote the majority of the ksh scripts for inventory tracking, user creations, and system configurations, along with writing all documentation associated with the HP-UX environment, including installation procedures for basic installs, all partitioning, and Ignite builds

UNIX Specialist

Confidential, McKinney, TX

Responsibilities:

• Engineering, configuring, and support of UNIX servers, SAN environment, and backup/recovery solutions
• Worked with the Confidential -McKinney UNIX Engineering groups to support, configure, and engineer the various Solaris midrange servers to the E10K domain servers, which included the implementation of the Veritas Suite of products, including Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)

UNIX Specialist

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and perform required installs, de-installs, for UNIX servers on Nortel PLAID contract. Coordinate between the various support groups the installation and documentation of all Nortel servers requiring a Netbackup solution
• Installed and de-installed all support infrastructure tools for those Nortel servers that were, or were not, to be supported by Confidential
• Involved in the tools certification process for support tools being implemented on Nortel account

UNIX System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• System Administrator on Global Production Operations Helpline (24X7X365 global support) for NortelNetworks Supported UNIX servers (3000+ )
• Supported Global Production Operations UNIX servers (Solaris 2.X, HPUX, AIX, etc.), including UNIX system administration issues that are reported via the Remedium ticket tracking system, or through the ANF paging system
• Resolved all priority 1 issues, or coordinate long-term resolutions between the client and the associated support group. Participate in all Severity One Major outages when requested
• Worked with SAN support group to configure EMC meta-volumes on UNIX platforms and configure filesystems through Veritas Volume Manager, or HP-UX LVM Support Veritas VM, VCS, and HP-UX HA environnent

Sr. Technical Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Serve as Architect, Project Manager, and/or Implementation Engineer to Commission, Decommission, and upgrade UNIX servers for internal Information Services customers
• Provide training sessions for various Information Services support groups. Establish project plans, coordinating all aspects of the Commissioning, Decommissioning, and upgrading phases of each project, which includes determining requirements for the project to establishing warranty/maintenance issues and cost projections for the customers
• Perform upgrades and consolidations on Solaris and HPUX servers when required, along with establishing kernel optimization/tuning, performance analysis, and other system requirements, as needed
• Worked with Storage Array Networks group for SAN (EMC Symmetrix) configurations between the UNIX servers and the SAN environment, and architecting RAID environments with LVM or Veritas Volume Manager

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Sr. Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Serve as Architect, Project Manager, and/or Implementation Engineer to Commission, Decommission, and upgrade UNIX servers for internal Information Services customers
• Provide training sessions for various Information Services support groups
• Establish project plans, coordinating all aspects of the Commissioning, Decommissioning, and upgrading phases of each project, which included determining requirements for the project to establishing warranty/maintenance issues and cost projections for the customers
• Perform upgrades and consolidations on Solaris and HPUX servers when required, along with establishing kernel, performance, and other system requirements, as needed

Team Lead/Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of 20 software developers in implementing the Nortel Re-use program, which required the Web developers, DBAs, and software developers to adhere to an approved list of licensed utilities for future development of Nortel projects
• This was done to cut licensing costs, and reduce the number of unsupported products that were being utilized for the business

UNIX Performance Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• UNIX Performance analysis activities identifying performance issues on various HP-UX, Solaris, and MVME fileservers/desktops
• Identified bottlenecks are then determined and a recommendation is made to the proper department based on trending and capacity planning metrics
• Performed various UNIX Administration duties when requested, including upgrades and consolidations
• Software/hardware development of new technologies on HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris 2.X, and other SYSV operating systems, along with performing upgrades on all Print Servers which included performance monitoring and kernel tuning on associated platforms