SUMMARY

• Over the years I have gained extensive experience with storage & backup systems, administering NIX & Microsoft Windows operating systems, virtual infrastructures and enforcing security procedures.
• I can demonstrate a record of success troubleshooting complex computer systems, increasing operational efficiency, thorough documentation and team leadership.
• Installation, implementation and administration of many storage and backup technologies
• Operating system installation and configuration
• In depth system troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Server and application monitoring systems
• Deployment and management of commercial and open - source monitoring systems
• Operating system, application and hardware life cycle management
• Extensive experience with standard services such as DNS, NFS, DFS/CIFS/SMB, SMTP and LDAP/Active Directory
• Backup strategy design, implementation and administration
• Disaster recovery planning, implementation and off-site DR validation exercise experience
• Shell and automation scripting (primarily BASH & Korn and PowerShell + PowerCLI)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Linux (primarily RedHat and their major derivatives)
• Microsoft Windows (NT4 - 2019) including Hyper-V core deployments
• VMware ESX / vSphere (2.5.x - 6.x)
• Linux + Apache Web Server + MySQL + PHP (LAMP) web hosting platforms
• Microsoft Active Directory, Policy Services & Azure AD synchronization + pass-through authentication
• Microsoft IIS
• Microsoft Exchange Server (5.5 - 2013)
• Microsoft Clustering Service (MSCS)
• Microsoft SQL (2000 - 2014)
• Open Compute Project x86 Servers
• Dell / EMC PowerEdge x86 Servers
• Cisco UCS (B & C Series)
• HP x86 Servers
• IBM x86 Servers
• Dell / EMC VNX & VNX2 series disk arrays (block & unified)
• Dell / EMC CLARiiON CX3 & CX4 series disk arrays
• Dell / EMC RecoverPoint
• Dell / EMC Replication Manager
• Dell / EMC Celerra NAS devices
• Dell / EMC Avamar (3.x - 7.x)
• Dell / EMC Data Domain
• NetApp low to mid-range filers
• Nimble Storage Arrays
• Veeam Backup & Replication
• Zerto Virtual Replication
• Cisco MDS & Nexus switches
• IBM TS4500 series tape libraries
• ADIC Scalar series tape libraries

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Build complex deployment packages on various configuration management engines. IE: Chef, Kaseya, and SCCM.
• Re-Implement RedHat satellite and remediate hosts which have not patched in years.
• Retire a number of legacy Windows domain, each requiring a lengthy discovery process to migrate straggler apps/users.
• Evaluate and deploy SIEM platform (Rapid7) to a fragmented mix of obsolete & modern operating systems.

Confidential

Data Center Production Hardware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage the local Open Compute Project hardware lab operations, capacity and technician(s)
• Work globally to help other data center regions, and participate in discussion groups to share procedures & methods with my peers around the world
• Mentor, assist and facilitate escalations from on-site tier 1 & 2 server break-fix teams
• Facilitate building maintenance activity with tier owners as required, often at large-scale
• Consistently help our team meet or exceed SLA’s for server repairs & escalations
• Develop, write and update documentation as the server repair processes evolve
• Assist Confidential hardware team in diagnosis, repair and remote hands during lab, FA and troubleshooting events

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Deployed EMC Avamar backup systems and assist with migrations on a consulting fee basis
• Implementation and administration of dedicated multi-tenant Veeam Backup & Replication appliances on commodity hardware
• Installation, operation and maintenance of a large multi-tenant EMC NetWorker and EMC Avamar backup platform
• Installation, operation and maintenance of multi-tenant Cisco UCS compute platform
• Installation, operation and maintenance of various EMC “mid-range” storage platforms (IE: CLARiiON / Celerra / VNX)
• Created a fully automated open-source server build system to offload tasks onto lower tier personnel
• Retired and consolidated many obsolete Intel based servers (Windows & Linux based) to ESX and Hyper-V.
• Development and implementation of the “gen 1” multi-tenant hosted VMware platform
• Consolidated many disparate & obsolete Linux servers to a single standard distribution
• Implement MSCS clusters hosting IIS, Microsoft SQL and MySQL for customers