PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Storage and UNIX specialist with over 15 years of industry experience. An experienced UNIX Administrator with Solaris, HP/UX and Linux .
• Large scale NetApp administration on NetApp 6290 and certified NetApp NCDA 7 - mode and CDOT (2013-2015).
• Also, high volume EMC storage administration experience with CX-380 through to VNX product lines.
• Recently made a decision to learn AWS and get certified as an AWS Certified Solutions Architect,

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Compute (ec2, etc), Storage (S3, etc), DB, Solutions Architect Functions, Developer associate Functions
• Netapp ontap OS maintenance
• Solaris, HPUX, Linux zoning brocade switches & connectrix manager
• Ldap management
• Sun One Messaging/Email
• SQL Server 2000/2005
• Crystal Reports
• ASP/HTML Web development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Technical Consultant / Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Short contract to do NetApp data migrations from older 7 - mode filers to a CDOT DPC (Data Protection Container) client data environment
• Moving data mostly via RSYNC (their preference) into the DPC some NDMPcopy migrations.
• A few side projects while waiting on access revolved around some basic Perl scripting, regular expressions, AWK and SED.
• Some storage admin work on both 7-Mode and CDOT environments

Environment: Heavy Linux, with some Solaris. Storage was NetApp.

Confidential

Technical Consultant / UNIX and Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• UNIX server support at AHS (hardware and OS), supporting over 150 UNIX servers (most of these servers being Oracle/Solaris, but also HP/UX and some Linux boxes as well)
• Storage support of EMC CX-380, CX-500, CX-700 and VNX as well as zoning through brocade switches for Alberta Health
• Storage support for the NetApp CDOT operating system environment
• Previously a 7-Mode NetApp environment, until we became one of the first adopters in Canada to move to CDOT using the 7MTT transition tool
• NetApp ONTAP Upgrades at client request
• Quarterly patch windows for largely Solaris environment of UFS and ZFS file systems
• Also Linux patching and assisted vendor with HP/UX patching approximately once per year
• Work with vendors on providing root cause for major incidents
• LUN discovery and presentation of LUNs on Solaris side after creating on the SAN
• Regularly extend HP/UX LVs and VGs on client request
• Manual manipulation and maintenance of sudoers
• Control of all the unix print queues (Solaris and HP/UX)
• Configuration and maintenance of the system monitoring tool we were authorized to use: Big Brother
• Solaris Zone administration
• Set up Unix Static Routes to ensure that only essential network traffic goes through a certain interface
• 24/7 After hours on call support rotation between 8-10 people
• Managed operations team responsible for supporting UNIX servers and storage for the Confidential contract owned by Confidential .
• Handled all UNIX, NetApp and EMC support for 200 plus devices total, until the account was in-sourced back Confidential 

Confidential

Technical Consultant / eEnablement support specialist

Responsibilities:

• eEnablement support for Confidential
• Sun One Email Administration
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) administration
• Some NetApp storage provisioning
• Basic EMC SAN disk provisioning tasks and discovery on the Solaris side
• Worked hand in hand with the AHS Unix team on their Solaris environment
• Creation and maintenance of Unix FTP Publishing Accounts
• Responsible for the client’s Oracle Financial Analyzer (OFA) account maintenance and upkeep
• Password management for all eEnablement controlled user accounts
• Maintenance and Implementation of User created apps
• 24/7 After hours on call support rotation between 2 people
• Responsible for supporting the mail infrastructure for upwards of 10,000 Confidential email accounts. Managed and supported accounts for the LDAP environment of AHS.

Environment: SUN Solaris 2.6, SUN Solaris 8, SUN Solaris 9, SUN Solaris 10, Oracle Solaris 11, Red Hat Linux 2.6, HP/UX, NetApp ONTAP 8, NetApp 7-Mode, NetApp CDOT, NetApp FAS 2040, NetApp FAS 6030, NetApp FAS 6290, EMC Connectrix Manager, EMC CX-3-80, EMC CX-500, EMC CX-700, EMC VNX, Brocade Fabric, LDAP

Confidential

Systems Integration Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Creation, continued development and adjustment of Crystal Reports
• Working with, querying and manipulation of SQL Server 2000 and 2005 Databases - Enterprise Manager & Query Analyzer and eventually with the SQL 2005 tools
• Tech support of client’s point of sale Matrix Inventory Management System
• Remote POS software support via VNC remote control software
• Technical documentation
• Roll out and installation of the point of sale management system at client locations throughout North America
• Walk the client’s sales staff through steps over the phone on how to complete tasks and assist with troubleshooting
• After hours on call support
• Point of sale software development company, dealing with all kinds of computer related issues.
• Exposed to many different aspects of information technology, above and beyond programming and software development.
• Upkeep, repairs and changes to internal ASP intranet
• Programming / creating web pages in ASP, HTML and management of an Access database

Environment: Windows, ASP, HTML

Confidential

Technical Service Coordinator / Call Manager

Responsibilities:

• Administration of a Government Account, ensuring network functionality 24 hrs a day
• To service out agents and technicians which reported directly to myself
• Special project staffing and coordination
• Review and interpretation of work related progress reports, as well as providing reporting to agents
• 24/7 on call support
• Assured that all client sites were operational and stable
• A Calgary based team which consisted of three co-ordinators that individually dealt with different aspects of the business and in some cases, different areas of the province.
• Responsibilities revolved around the break/fix functionality of all work stations, peripherals and servers in Calgary and all other areas in Alberta with the exception of Edmonton.

Environment: Windows 98, Windows NT