Sr UNIX System Engineer Resume Coppell, Texas - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

UNIX Senior System Engineer, insightful and results - driven professional, experience with notable success directing a broad range of corporate IT Unix engineering initiatives while participating in planning, analysis and implementation of solutions in support of the business objectives.
Excels at providing comprehensive implementation of migration and transformation design, system analysis and full life cycle system management.
Hands-on experience leading all stages of system development efforts, including requirements definition, design, architecture, testing, documentation and support.
Outstanding project and program leader; able to coordinate and direct all phases of project-based efforts while managing, motivating, mentoring and guiding teams and as well as third party vendors.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: UNIX (AIX, Solaris, HP-UX), Linux (Redhat, Suse, Oracle), VMware (ESX, ESXi, VxRail)

Networking: TCP / IP, Ethernet, SSH

Languages: UNIX Shell Scripting, C, C++, COBOL, RPG II

Tools: HP Openview, BMC Blade Logic, Vision Solution Double-Take Share, HMC, IVM, Systems Director, vCenter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Coppell, Texas

Sr UNIX System Engineer

Responsibilities:

Successfully assisted lowering business TCO by 30% with migration of business core heterogeneous ERP Unix infrastructure to new leading-edge technology “VxRail Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Software Defined Datacenter”
Successfully assisted with migrating Aix environment to VMware x86 RedHat Enterprise Linux environment
Performed key Unix SME role working with Wintel engineer team with migrating business environment from one Datacenter to another Datacenter utilizing VMware VMotion and vSphere Replication
Assisted with defining, design and build out of Aix Disaster Recovery Environment located in Chandler AZ
Performed key Unix Aix role by migration of local Production Datacenter to Remote Co-Lo Production Datacenter
Successful evaluation and installation of 3rd party vendor BDNA Discovery application and servers to assist with global initiative
Successful defining and implementing Unix SME ownership of Oracle Exadata appliance system support turnover to Unix Engineering team

Confidential, New York City, New York

Senior System Engineer

Responsibilities:

Recruited to assist with the datacenter migration of over 5000+ UNIX servers that were impacted by hurricane Sandy.
Database servers were recovered utilizing EMC PowerPath commands and VMware vSphere and vCenter and HP ILO.

Confidential, Fort Worth, Texas

Senior System Engineer

Responsibilities:

I ensured the integrity and validation of database migration data for the Solaris to Aix transformation.
Assisted with designing of the Confidential Unix module for the Solaris To AIX Migration and Transformation Playbook
Instrumental in the redesign, implementation and documentation of the Business Continuity and AIX Disaster Recovery process and procedures for the Livingston New Jersey and Fort Worth Texas datacenters
Managed 3rd party vendors and application developers to keep project on schedule

Confidential, Broomfield, Colorado

Senior System Engineer

Responsibilities:

Promoted to Migration-Transformation Unix lead.
Through constant communication and coordinated efforts with both business and application owners at all times, ensured a smooth transition for multiple customers, that successfully migrated from a local data center environment into a hosted data center and expectations were set for a full lifecycle of a shared environment.
Developed application for Unix systems discovery and disaster recovery
Developed application for operation helpdesk to assist with Unix Oncall support
Received several customer services s and customer commendations

Confidential, Broomfield, Colorado

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities included visiting customer’s facilities to perform environment discovery and due diligence for system migration / integration
Established relationships with customer for knowledge transfer and service transition
Established process to analyzed customer computing platforms to determine best use and make recommendations for replacement or upgrade
Worked closely with architect to design and document system requirement to take advantage of cost reduction by utilizing virtualization
Researched current systems technology and serves as chief architect on complex systems processes and procedures.

Confidential, Lewisville, Colorado

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Responsible for day to day support of multiple customers running AIX, Linux, HP-UX, and Solaris platforms
Implemented strategic objectives for the Unix team to establish high levels of quality and documentations
Perform customers due diligence, disaster recoveries and environment discoveries
Established interpersonal skills with user base community to build a rapport that will continue to help produce high customer satisfaction and acknowledgement

Confidential, St Louis, Missouri

Senior System Engineer

Responsibilities:

Senior member of the Unix Engineering Team, responsible for corporate architecture and design implementation on existing SunOS servers
Upgraded Novell systems to Windows NT
Additional responsibilities include: technical team development, new product evaluations, and backline support for resolution of user problems.
Performed successful migration of all datacenter business continuity systems from local datacenter to Dallas, Texas corporate datacenter.
Managed the successful migration of business continuity systems during corporate integration project