SUMMARY

• Adept with the aptitude of learning new technological environments, new skills & becoming astute at newly relevant state - of-the-art and evolving technologies, effective time management, multi-tasking, self driven, leadership ability & guidance as required, proficiency as a self driven starter & as a strong team player, keen on analytics, metrics and compliance.
• Technical service delivery utilizing Information Technology management, Security and technical skills in Storage/Systems Infrastructure Development, Storage/Systems Engineering, Storage Capacity Planning & Management, Solutions Architecture and Storage/Systems Administration.
• Linux/AIX Server infrastructure, monitor & Analysis, Performance & Tuning, Security & Hardening, Updates & Upgrades, Backup & Restore, Administration & Management, Software Installs & Storage Allocations, Planning & Processing, Scripting & Automation, Blades & Standalones, LVMs, HA Clusters & Networks, Document Policy & Procedures, ITIL & Audits, CCM
• Software Platforms Hosted includes Oracle DBs, Oracle Apps, Oracle, SQL Servers, WebServers, SAP Modules, VMWare (ESXi5) Systems and Configuration, Virtual Brick Cloning, Med Apps; also Server Cloning, Server Migrations, Server Consolidations, KickStart Implementation and Systems Support, O/S Upgrades, Application Upgrades, RHN RPM upgrades, Network Bonding and HA Cluster Platform Solutions, Systems Hardening and Remote Support in the Cloud/IaaS, as well as VMWare Enterprise Network Virtualization, troubledhooting & Security.
• Storage Provisioning includes NFS, CIFS, PFS, SMB and VMWare Windows data file shares migrating onto EMC VMax, VNX Block SAN, Isilon NAS with IBM and Netapp (interim) NAS.
• Infrastructure and Systems Administrative Production & Development Support for IBM PowerVM, Power 7, Power 6, Power 5 pSeries 770, 740, 720s, 595, 570, 560, 540, 520, 510, 505 AIX Server RS/6K platforms.
• Engineering Project assignments to scope and establish build outs, deployment standards/Stand Ups, Implementation of RHEL 4-7, Midrange Server based Oracle RAC Server HA Clusters for POC, RHN & RHS Support, Development, Test and Production Support, Stand Alone/Standup Server Infrastructures and subsystem build designs on IBM xSeries and Dell IDRAC x86 Hardware and other PC/Blade Platforms. Up to Level 3 diagnosis, troubleshooting and Performance Tuning for optimization and industry standards, as required.
• Perform Capacity Management on mainframes, storage platforms, server platforms, network systems & stand-alone systems.
• Expertise in Data Center operations, management, direct client interface, maintaining technical control & break/fix support in enterprise environments including IBM, ARAMCO, Delta, Coca Cola, Rikoh-Ikon, Confidential, Confidential, etc.
• Experience in Z/OS, MVS, VM, VSE, AIX, RHEL, Solaris, SLES, Windows, VMWare & Intel x86 platforms.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Red Hat V.5-7/SuSe Linux V.10-11
• IBM AIX 5L
• IBM Certified AIX Systems Administrator
• IBM Certified AIX Install, Backup & System Recovery
• IBM Certified eNetwork, Secureway Specialist
• IBM Mainframes
• Technical Spclst, Systems Network Architecture/SNA
• IRIX/Sun Solaris/HP-UX
• IBM Advanced VIO Virtualization & Provisioning
• MS Windows Server 2003, 2008, 20012 r2, Plus
• VMWare Certification
• Assembly/Machine Language/Basic/CShell/Cobol
• Korn Shell programming Certification
• PERL
• BASH
• SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Solutions/Infrastructure Engineering Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provide Hardware and Software Consultative Support to diverse small/medium size businesses from Server and Workstation infrastructure to Project Management of Technology Platforms, LANS, Internet Access Structure Engineering, Implementation, troubleshooting and documenting incidents and frequencies of technology failures.

Confidential

Sr. Storage Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Functioning on a Steady State focused Storage Team that is responsible for processes and procedures for the 24/7 support of Enterprise Storage and Massive Data in a distributed, heterogeneous expanding FAST environment.
• Engineered and Established High Availability storage standards multi-tiered for business & mission critical production, as well as development, QA and Test requirements, all designed to avoid Single Points of Failure (SPOF).
• Storage capacity planning, architecture and tactical strategies, designed to support a rapidly growing and dynamically expanding Enterprise SAN and NAS environment, as well as helping to design and develop Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategies. Recovery Point 5.0 deployment for (PIT) Point-In-Time Operational Recovery, Disaster Recovery and Data Replication Protection via EMC Unisphere Software Mangement to meet SLA recovery point & time objectives.
• Recovery Point Appliance utilized both Dedupliction and Data Compression options over Fibre Channel for VMax & VPlex for Block Level LUNs and over iSCSI for VNX Flat Files. Protection Schemes utilized included Fail-over, Consistency Group and Warm Standby-Modes.
• The Supported storage platforms consist of EMC SAN/NAS, IBM SAN and NetApp NAS Storage Arrays and File Servers.
• The primary functional responsibilities include storage migrations, Service Request Tickets & PMR resolutions, Firmware Updates, Patches & Software Upgrades for supportable infrastructure, daily provisioning, administering, managing, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, R/R (remove & replace) defective components, reporting & maintaining the storage requirements & Unix, Linux, Windows Servers and VMWare Data MStores, VMDK’s, RDM targets or storage device allocations.
• Key objectives are to ensure high levels of data integrity, availability, accessibility, reliability, serviceability and to meet security objectives aimed at business continuity and High Performace Computing (HPC) Clusters for Enterprise and Big data distribution Server Systems.
• Additional responsibility includes managing and implementing storage virtualization projects using Netapp 6280/3270/3020 and IBM DS43XX, DS8xxx for migrations to EMC VMax, VNX and Isilon platforms.
• Also provided support for provisioning Storage Shares on ESXi VMWare via VSphere/VCenter, Hyper-V and Network VLAN Virtualization Infrastructure Implemenation, operating with J2EE.
• Storage Provisioning includes NFS, CIFS, SMB and VMWare Windows (operating systems), DNS Servers, file shares/systems migrating onto EMC VMax, VNX Block SAN, VNX, Isilon NAS with IBM and Netapp (interim) NAS, including DMZ based Server systems.
• Migrate Business Critical SAN data from AIX PowerVM & Linux host based block storage data, including Mission Critical SAP Modules, Applications, Middleware, Oracle RAC, Oracle, SQL & Windows Exchange DBs & DB2 UDBs, MS Active Directory and other Apps to Tier 1 EMC VMax.
• Support a Tier 3, IBM DB2 based TSM (Tivoli Storage Management 6.x, 7.x) Backup Storage System connecting to EMC Data Domain VTL, working on the life cycle to design, architect, engineer, coordinate and implement the two platforms. Proficiency in required TSM Admin procedures.
• GUI & CLI supported FC, FCoE, iSCSI Networks and Tiered EFD, SSD, SAS & SATA Drive Technologies.
• The Storage Technology Platforms include Symmetrix Tier 1 200TB Active/Active VMax 40K SAN, VNX Tier 2 700TB ALUA NAS/SAN, EMC Tier 3 2PB Isilon NAS integrated with 900TB Quad Engine Active/Active VPlex for virtualization facilitation.
• Infiniband 48 port switches used on EMC Isilon platforms with Backup Accelerators over 10GB Ethernet FC through CISCO UCS, Nexus 5K/7K Extender/Switches, Enterprise network and internal user cloud network load balancing, troubleshooting and development.
• Brocade DCX SAN Director (DCFM) Core Backbone Switches and McData 6140/6064 (ECFM) SAN Core Switches requiring daily Monitoring, Maintaining, Zoning and Fabric Support and Engineering.
• Provide IBM B80’s, B40’s & B16 Edge/Blade Access GateWay, Fabric Switch monitoring and support.
• Management, Monitoring and Support Software platforms including Systems Resource Management Utilities SRM Prosphere, Watch4Net, EMC Navisphere, EMC OneFS, EMC InsightIQ, SyncIQ, SnapshotIQ (local roll back capabilities), Unisphere Analyzer/QSM for VMax & for VNX.
• Administrative/Engineering support for IBM ESS 800 Shark, DS4K, DS6K, DS8K SANs, NetApp vFilers, FAS/3200,V3240, V3270 and V6280 Filers/NAS.
• Provide Snap Technology support for ONTAP 8.0 7-Mode/Cluster (CDOT) Mode, Failover Cluster Monitoring and ONTAP 7, deduplication, running WAFL using RAID6/DP and RAID Technologies.
• Additional Support Software includes Netapp OnCommand Systems Manager 2.0, Netapp FilerView, Netapp Ops Manager, Netapp Management Console, Netapp Configuration Advisor, IBM Storage Manager, IBM System Storage and ESS Storage Management.
• Proficiency as a Systems Operations, Project Management Resource and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Remedy Ticket driven workload remediation, as well as, configure and manage system driven automated alerts, SNMP alerts, requiring timely resolution including third-party vendor engagement, event resolution and working relations for SR & Vendor PMR managing and documentation.
• Performance and Tuning and Capacity Analysis, Planning and Graphical Management Reports, utilizing Watch4Net and above mentioned utility tools and applications.
• Represented Storage Team in Management meetings, providing updates, reports and for engagement in technical planning, projections and scheduling, including conferring to evaluate and understand business needs & requirements for stakeholders.
• Effective documentation, RUNBOOK development, communication skills, both written & verbal.

Confidential

Sr. Linux/Unix Remote Cloud administration

Responsibilities:

• Provide private, trusted, multi-tenancy vCloud remote support deploying Virtual Computer Environment (VCE) Vblock infrastructure solutions, using RSA SecurID acessibility to HaaS, IaaS and SaaS, OS and infrastructure platforms architectured and Configured to various flavors of Linux and Unix operating systems (OS's) including SLES, RHEL with Red Hat Satellite Network, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and PowerVM, Hosting ERP, DB, Oracle Box VMWare and proprietary Medical & Application platforms utilizing SAP/CRM and BMC Patrol Monitoring and other Utilities for over 5000 Clients Hosts/Servers at Medical Facilities, nationwide. Hardware consisted of the integration of Cisco UCS 5K Blade Nexus Switches, 6140 Nexus Switches, Cisco 9500 Series Directors, EMC SANs, VMax external storage, Internal EMC Solara NSGA Models, VMWare ESX for VM (virtual machine) virtualizations and consolidation with pre-built, pre-engineered, pre-validated, Java based Vblock (narrow/wide) IBM/Dell Blade server chassis integrated components that are pre-configured for high performance, end to end management accountability, connectivity, interoperability, redundancy and high availability.
• The vBlock can be easily virtualized for scalable computation upgrades, storage growth and networking expansion and trouble resolution. Further infrastructure integration composed of Intel Blades to FEX (fabric extenders), ½ or full (4 or 8) width cards, 10GB (Ethernet, FC, FCoE) virtual interface cards to ESX Host, FI (fabric interconnects) for cluster creation, UCS 8 blade slots, redundant power & cooling, NV Memory stored configurations using high performance B200, B250 interconnect switches.
• The aggregation or networking layer is designed for storage and network scalability, flexibility, performance, availability, simplification, automation, transformation and shared architecture, with all resources, namely, storage, network load balancing and computing nodes converged with an integrated infrastructure poised for scaling up and scaling out.
• Functional software capabilities include servicing automated storage tiering with petabyte scalability and application classification; also non-disruptive hardware management of 1 TB/2TB Sata Drives, VBlocks, NAS, SAN FC storage, 512 FC ports, up to 32 Blades, 65 hosted user/clients, 500+ VM's, 64 Nodes per Frame.
• Management software included UIM, SMC, Unisphere, vSphere, WEB access via Cisco UCS Manager and Proprietary Capacity Plannng Utilities. Worked to resolve SAN & NAS configuration issues on EMC, NETAPP & IBM Platforms. LPARs and Hardware Virtualized Platforms include AIX VIO Server/Clients, as well as DELL, HP, SUN and Intel x86 Server Architectures.
• Various Software Platforms Hosted, which included Oracle Databases, Oracle Applications, Oracle RAC, SQL Servers, DNS Servers, Clustered Servers, WebServers (AWS), SAP Modules, VMWare (ESXi5) Configuration, Virtual Brick Cloning, Med Apps; also Server Cloning, Server Migrations, Server Consolidations, Failover Management, KickStart Implementation and Support, O/S Upgrades, Application Upgrades, RHN RPM upgrades, Patches, Network Bonding, troubleshooting and HA Cluster Platform Solutions and Remote Cloud Support.
• Symantec Automated Netbackup and Image Replication Backup Issue Resolution, SAN/NAS configuration issues, support and problem resolution. LVM Management, Performance, Tuning & Optimization. Effective Client/Technical communication.
• Collaboration and Coordination with DBAs, Users and Management, as required for meeting technology objectives, corporate policy and customer satisfaction.