SUMMARY:

Senior IT Systems Engineer capable of designing, managing and growing an enterprise - class data warehouse, cloud computing or application infrastructure.

AREAS OF CURRENT IT EXPERIENCE:

Infrastructure Planning

VMware Infrastructure

Disaster Recovery

Data Center Architecture

VMware ESX / vSphere 4

ITIL-Foundation 3

Data Center Relocation

Oracle RAC

RHEL - RHCE

High Availability Architecture

RMAN

HP XP / EVA / VTL

High Performance Computing

Net Backup-Enterprise

EMC SAN, NAS, NFS

Centrify

MySQL Cluster & Replication

Semiconductor Manufacturing

HP Proliant Servers

PHP, MySQL, Apache

Perl, Bash, Ksh

Dell PowerEdge C Servers

Unix Administration

Unix Networking

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Computing

Cloudera Hadoop

Map Reduce, HBase

Informatica Support

Data Warehousing

ETL Support

Infrastructure Planning

Data Center Architecture

Data Center Relocation

Parallel Data Warehouse

R

High Performance Computing

VMware Infrastructure

VMware ESX / vSphere

Oracle RAC

RMAN

MySQL Cluster & Replication

PHP, MySQL

Apache / Tomcat

Platform Map Reduce

Platform LSF

Centrify Direct Control

HP Proliant Servers

Dell PowerEdge Servers

Distributed File Systems

Grid Computing

Disaster Recovery

ITIL-Foundation 3

Abinitio Support

RHEL AS 4,5,6

SAN (HP, EMC, SGI)

NAS (EMC, NetApp)

Perl

Bash

Windows Server 2008

EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential, Austin, TX

Systems Engineer-Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Systems support & project management for data center expansion & IT Operations
• Project lead for data center power infrastructure upgrade
• Administered, maintained and improved 1.3PB Isilon storage cluster.
• Implemented data center power & cooling infrastructure monitoring.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Systems support for the IT Infrastructure Operations Team.
• Day-to-day Linux administration, server OS deployments, systems monitoring setup using Splunk.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr. Systems Engineer/IT Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Defined and implemented system & application solutions that provided availability, reliability, stability, manageability, scalability and security to the manufacturing engineering data warehouse infrastructure environment.
• Designed IT infrastructure architecture to satisfy business-defined requirements and constraints.
• Worked within IT infrastructure service groups to document as-is state, forecast demand, and define roadmaps to meet forecasted demands.
• Coordinated & implemented the 2009 AMD/GlobalFoundries manufacturing data warehouse transition from a department level development environment to an enterprise-class, 200TB production data warehouse.
• Designed, implemented & supported primary & DR data warehouse environments in Austin, TX and Ft. Collins, CO.
• Coordinated the consolidation of the Singapore ATMP data warehouse to Austin, TX & Ft. Collins, CO data centers.
• Designed, implemented & supported a primary & DR VMware ESX/vSphere VM environments for production & development EDW ETL & Business Intelligence groups.
• Designed & implemented development & production Hadoop environments to supplement existing ETL loading, capable of scalable growth for 2 years or longer.
• Designed and documented the Hadoop DR fail-over solution to the new Georgia DR data center site.
• Designed, implemented & supported a Centrify single sign-on user environment for the data warehouse user base.
• Supported the growth & scalability of two HP XP24000 storage arrays into the Oracle RAC data warehouse environments in the primary & DR data centers.
• Supported the growth & scalability of multiple HP EVA SAN arrays for the EDW ETL production & development ESX environments.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr. UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided server & switching infrastructure support throughout corporate LAN/WAN.
• Responsible for Oracle database backup, recovery and administration using OEM and RMAN.
• Improved corporate backup & recovery systems by upgrading applications and consolidating SAN/NAS resources.
• Maintained web application servers and backend reporting and accounting systems.
• Streamlined and automated server admin tasks using Ksh, Bash and Perl scripts.
• Implemented and maintained server and systems monitoring with Nagios & Webmin.
• Responsible for managing vendor service & support contracts, and new hardware purchases.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr. UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated a major SGI to SUN systems expansion and upgrade.
• Configured and installed SGI and SUN, SAN and NAS storage systems.
• Installed and maintained SUN 2-4 CPU and SGI 8-16 CPU high-performance servers and SAN systems.
• Planned and implemented a highly available Fail-Safe/Fail-Over disaster recovery server solution reducing downtime by 25%
• Maintained online customer facing live and staging application websites, daily backups, nightly website updates and web log reporting.
• Automated basic and advanced admin tasks using cron jobs, Bash/Ksh scripts, Perl scripts and Perl-based applications.
• Configured and maintained network security systems, firewalls, and client-server security systems.
• Installed, and maintained hardware peripherals, network switching-routing devices and data communications hardware.
• Responsible for initiating and maintaining hardware and application support contracts, licenses, vendor services, consultants and contractors.
• Wrote proposals, product specifications, RFP’s, and system performance benchmarking reports.
• Responsible for server room environment, physical infrastructure, equipment installations and upgrades.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Applications & Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided onsite and remote support for software & hardware installation and consulting.
• Supported day-to-day operations of corporate UNIX servers and workstations.

Confidential, Austin, TX, Grand Rapids, MI

Applications & Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed Pre & Post sales Applications and Systems Support for Austin, Dallas, and Houston branch offices.
• Conducted pre-sales customer technical contact, application demos, customer meetings, seminars, performance benchmarks and technical discussions.
• Provided after sales Installation, networking and support of UNIX and NT hardware, CAD software, and Internet-based applications.
• Installed and supported Workforce Solutions Oracle-based PDM/PLM software on SGI, SUN, HP, and DEC UNIX operating systems.
• Conducted center & onsite basic, advanced, and custom-designed ProEngineer and OS admin customer classes.
• Responsible for Austin office shipping and receiving, hardware & application ordering and inventory.