SUMMARY:

Senior System Storage Engineer/Administrator with 20 years experience in various implementations of UNIX and Linux systems stand-up, configuration, administration, support, security hardening/vulnerability resolution and problem resolution at the highly advanced support level. Sun Solaris 6,7,8,9,10,11 RedHat Enterprise Advanced Edition V. 5.x 6.x, AIX 4.x, 5.x, 6.x system builds, TL updates, TL patching, LPAR configuration and customization, HP-UX 9.x, 10.x, 11.x. 10 years experience in SAN administration, particularly with Hitachi, EMC and the EMC Clarion product line, including NaviAgent installations, Navisphere storage management GUI and CLI, optimized LUN configuration and fine-tuning for high performance products such as DB2, Oracle, SAP, and MySQL databases solutions. plaiding Experienced with high availability Unix server solutions including IBM HACMP, SunCluster, and Veritas clustering solutions in both physical setup and configuration as well a virtualization. Several years experience as technical and/or project lead in related system migrations, consolidations, footprint reduction and upgrades, as well as 10 years experienced with virtualized server environments Linux Xen-based, VMWare, Sun Zoning, IBM HMC LPARS, HP LPARs. Familiar with IBM Websphere MQ series inter-process connectors/communication subsystems as well as LAMP solutions.

Seeking a FT-permanent position in the Jacksonville, Florida region OR preferred a remote support position with less than 10 travel.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Linux Systems DevOps Engineering

• remote support for the European DataCenter rollout
• Stood up VM servers required for Live Game Operations, Services Platform, Basic Authentication in Frankfurt, Germany remote through VMWare CLI and powershell script automation
• Experience with Chef, AntHillPro, JIRA, Confluence products in support of engineering activities
• Installation/configuration and bootstrapping of worker, login, and Live Game Ops severs utilizing AntHillPro in tandem with Chef
• Installation and bootstrapping of New Chef master servers into newly created VM environment
• Contract will be ending due to less than anticipated player subscription levels and player shrinkage since game release in March

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Linux and Unix administrator

• Collect NFS and SAN attached storage data for primary project of Zero Growth Initiative , aimed at reducing the hardware and system resource footprint across the enterprise manual as well as automated data collection through BMC BladeLogic enterprise configuration management tools and scripts
• Performed NAS migrations in support of NAS storage migrations to new platforms at end of lease flags old storage approaching off lease date
• Performed SAN migrations in support of same primarily EMC SAN equipment/devices-operating system side support
• Performed as initiator of communications to primary stakeholders on VLU very low utilization servers discovered requesting either decommissioning or migration to smaller footprint virtual machines
• Worked closely with the storage team, primary stakeholders and management in coordinating server migrations and/or decommissioning activities related to the VLU systems

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Senior Network Engineer

• Functioned as the sole AIX 6.1 System Engineer in support of Compupay's primary data systems PAM ashell running on
• Power6 and Power7 systems in the primary Doral, Fl datacenter and the Franklin, TN DR co-location.
• Initially, stabilized the HA cluster configuration with proper ether channeling as well as dedicated switch configuration the configuration for the HA cluster was un-automated and incomplete when I initially examined the configuration
• Migrated the existing physical staging, training, and QA servers from the existing F80 and Power5 servers in Miramar to virtual LPAR's in Franklin customized the data and application specific files and filesystems for each instance as directed by the application development and production application support teams
• Scripted several system monitoring programs to monitor the health of the AIX HA production cluster in Doral
• Performed software updates, patching, and maintenance on the HMC in Doral, the Power7 cluster in Doral, and the power6 server in Franklin
• Set up NIM server on a retired power5 server in Doral and added a NIM LPAR to the Franklin Power6 DR server
• Regularly performed Production to Staging data updates from the Netapp storage system snap restores from production LUN's to staging LUN's and re-attachment of the LUN's to the AIX staging server
• Assisted with Cisco and Junos switch configurations and troubleshooting communication errors/bottlenecks
• Assisted with fiber switch installation and configuration in the Doral datacenter

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Project Sunset Solaris Virtualization Lead Engineer

• Performed complete physical systems analysis for potential virtualization on 500 physical servers worldwide
• Recommended best initial targets for virtualization efforts-'Proof of Concept' targets
• Successfully virtualized approx. 100 physical servers to M T-series Oracle Enterprise frames
• Worked directly with the PM for the project and the various GE business unit managers, technical leads and directors on proving full risk mitigation, options and strategies for best methods of moving to virtualization, and weekly status and planning.
• Performed migrations from Veritas Enterprise storage to Oracle ZFS storage solutions.
• Wrote and finalized GE Standard Operating Procedures documents for automated systems data gathering, systems analysis and selection for potential virtualization, and Physical-to-Virtual technical procedures for both direct P2V as well as systems migration virtualization methods.
• Debugged and re-wrote existing PERL, KORN and BASH scripts to automate data gathering on physical servers for handover to the L2 and L3 administrative teams GE.
• Performed interconnectivity and co-dependency requirements and full Systems Analysis of several dozen full Enterprise-level engineering, capital/finance, and human resources ERP Applications for virtualization requirements across the business.

Project Spring Cleaning Lead Engineer

• Took over duties as primary engineer on the global Solaris system Security and Recommended Cluster/Update OS patching Spring Cleaning project in November 2011.
• Brought the project from approx.. 50 health /completion to over 85 health /completion in less than 30 work days during November and December through testing, customer acceptance and implementation of the Solaris Live Upgrade system
• Assisted streamlining of the business and customer approval process with the L2 administration team leads
• Worked directly with the L2 and L3 support teams as lead L4 virtualization team contact for Live Upgrade implementation across several dozen existing large-frame Sun T5000, M5000/6000 global servers worldwide containing approx.. 100 local virtual machines, including Development , QA, Production and Disaster Recovery environments.

Confidential

UNIX Project and Technical Lead

• Functioned as UNIX technical resource and project lead for Blue Cross / Blue Shield Asset Discovery and Software License Management analysis project for UMS. Responsible for complete system software and publisher analysis on approx. 247 Solaris 7, 8, 9, 10 , 58 AIX 5.x and 6.x , and 36 Linux RedHat 5, 6 servers.
• Remote system analysis and reporting provided under W-9 agreement with UMS.
• Successful completion of project on schedule and provided additional value-added reports on logical server zoning and cpu hardware resource counts for licensing verifications provisioning.

Confidential

Unix Sr. Engineer Administrator

• Onsite Linux primarily RedHat Unix Support, AIX 5.x 6.x, HP-UX 10 11, Solaris 8,9,10 .
• Primary job function as hands and eyes hardware and software support for 1200 production, development and testing Linux and Unix server datacenter.
• Project work in systems reconfiguration for Oracle and DB2, SAN migration Veritas Enterprise Storage Foundation and Clustering solutions, , high availability solutions, system builds.
• Primarily AIX advanced support operations on system-p with RH, Sun enterprise and entry-level server hardware and some HP systems.
• Other projects included SAN system storage migration Veritas Foundation Suite to IBM XIV product , disaster recovery testing, and high availability cluster configuration and setup.

Confidential

Unix Sr. Engineer Administrator

• The Westgate Shop consisted of two data center collocations primary and DR site with approx. 130 Unix and Linux servers for which I was primarily responsible for as the senior administrator.
• Also responsible for 24 x 7 support of Unix print servers at all remote locations approx. 30 resorts
• Full design/engineering, administration and 24 x 7 support of Solaris 8, 9, and 10 Systems running on SPARC and X86 Dell Platforms: ZFS and Virtual Platform Setup, configuration, and administration Zoning hardware support, problem analysis, upgrade path development and execution.
• Familiar and expert level support of Veritas Enterprise solutions including Netbackup running to an ml-6000 LTO4 fiber channel robotic units as well as Volume Suite, etc.
• Apache and Tomcat application servers processing PCI and additional financial data in a secure environment PCI, SPI, S-Ox compliance, security hardening, etc .
• Oracle 10g and 11g upgrade/migration assistance at the OS level including kernel patching, etc.
• EMC Clarion System Management including LUN assignments, configuration, system monitoring, fine-tuning, SAN replication, RAID configuration
• Redhat and Oracle Enterprise Linux running on X86 platforms
• Brocade configuration, fiber channel multipathing configuration, system stand-up
• Hardware support, problem analysis, upgrade path development and execution
• Oracle database and application server system configuration and fine-tuning
• PCA Audit compliance testing and security hardening/problem resolution
• Supported SCO 5.1 Unix c. 1994 running on Dell hardware

Confidential

UNIX Project and Technical Lead

• Functioned as UNIX technical project lead for BCBS Asset Discovery and Software License Management project for UMS. Responsible for complete system software and publisher analysis on approx. 90 Solaris 7, 8, 9, 10 , 45 AIX 5.x and 6.x , and 10 Linux RedHat 7, 8 servers.
• Remote system analysis and reporting provided under W-9 agreement with UMS.
• Successful completion of project and provided additional value-added reports.

Confidential

Linux Technical Lead Engineer

• Technical and engineering lead for migration of virtual CentOS LAMP servers to load-balanced RHEL 5.3 Enterprise Advanced Platform virtual servers running under Virtual-Iron xen-based platform on Dell hardware
• installed RH Enterprise Edition Advanced Platform kernels and advanced packages GFS, Clustering
• creation of RH apache clusters virtual nodes as well as paired redundant master-master MySQL database nodes for high availability running under RedHat 5.3 Enterprise Edition Advanced Platform
• configuration of virtualized database and Apache webservers to SAN-Based storage through IP and iSCSI connections StorMagic and NetApps SAN products
• proof-of-concept testing
• complete documentation of entire environment for customer.

Confidential

Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator / Systems Engineer

• Full 24 x 7 expert-level support.
• HP-UNIX, SOLARIS, AIX, and RedHat Linux System installation, OS loads and configuration fine-tuning , HACMP and SunCluster high availability software loads configuration fine tuning , system maintenance/ support/ performance/ monitoring/ auditing tool and software loads and configuration at the expert/advanced level
• SAN administration, LUN setup/design striping, plaiding for HA/Oracle, etc , hot swap hardware changes, DR planning and administration, with both EMC products as well as high-end Hitachi SAN solutions.
• Supported over 400 applications ERP, manufacturing, engineering, accounting, human resources at the system level-troubleshooting tcpip/networking, NIS , DNS/LDAP/Domain administration, communications, inter-system process timing and communications , as well as enterprise-level application migrations and consolidations in a 450 server and 3500 workstation global environment
• HP-UX, AIX, Linux, and Solaris system hardening, vulnerability patching and security tuning day-to-day operations as well as barebones installations utilizing NIM AIX and Jumpstart Solaris servers SSH, tcp/ip wrappers, service standardization and de-installation wall, tooltime, etc
• 15 years' experience in advanced file systems such as JFS1, JFS2 IBM , Tru64 ADVFS, Solaris AdvFS and many previous and current versions of Veritas advanced file systems
• Enterprise-level project management, solution design and rollout i.e. preventive approach to discovered vulnerabilities and/or bugs
• Complete expert-level familiarity with Veritas Clustering solution, veritas Volume manager, as well as StorageWorks RAID support/troubleshooting/disk operations
• Familiar at the expert level with hardware resolution on many HP Microsystem platforms, Sun Microsystems platforms e220, 440, v880, 12K as well as most or all IBM p-Series and e-series platforms
• Enterprise-wide experience in installing, applying and utilizing Unix and Intel system security and scanning tools such as H.E.A.T Hydra Expert Assessment Technology and CA Computer Associates system security tools such as Unicenter monitoring and other auditing/security tools
• Several years experience in virtualized platform design and management VMware, IBM AIX Virtual machine partitioning, Solaris logical machine partitioning
• Solaris 6,7,8,9,10 systems running on Sparc-based Sun hardware platforms in both stand-alone and high availability configurations SunCluster
• IBM AIX 4.x and 5.x running on IBM System p and Power processor based hardware platforms in both standalone and HA high availability HACMP configurations 4000 server environment in worldwide data center locations
• Red Hat Caldera Linux including CentOS systems versions/releases 5.x-9.x in both stand-alone and batch-ring processing 100 workstations configuration and fine tuning, server, batch workstation and stand-alone workstation stand up and troubleshooting Dell, Compaq, several other WinTel-based 386-786 hardware platforms
• DEC/COMPAQ Tru64 4.0 a-g running on DEC/COMPAQ Alpha-based hardware platforms End of Life system s
• HP Unix 8,9,10 running on both HP platforms/systems as well as some custom-manufactured hardware platforms
• Legato Networker Enterprise backup and disaster recovery design, installation, planning, daily monitoring and administration to both robotic tape library solutions as well as SAN-based storage solutions Hitachi and EMC
• Websphere MQ series inter-process communications application troubleshooting and configuration optimization.
• Veritas NetBackup Enterprise backup and disaster recovery design, installation, planning, daily monitoring and administration to both robotic tape library solutions as well as SAN-based storage solutions Hitachi and EMC
• Solutions scripting for job/batch automation including cron/at jobs in C shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell with some experience in PERL scripting as well backup monitoring, system patch level monitoring, distribution and application, availability checks, etc.
• Initial engineering hardware and software design participation, IBM High Availability HACMP systems most recent experience
• Routine Day-to-Day 3rd level break-fix response operations: Applications software, OS, networking, backups, disaster recovery, database function application and database components , etc-participated quite successfully as support or as technical lead on dozens of SRT's emergency service restoration teams over the past 10 years
• On-call emergency support 24 x 7 and complete familiarity and adherence to standard change control processes, standard problem escalation, customer notification, service restoration team, root cause analysis and final resolution procedures and processes as per ISO and industry quality standards
• Complete familiarity and experience in standard and accepted project management procedures and processes
• Solutions-oriented approach to system improvements and break-fix. Complete initial problem resolution, root cause analysis, and enterprise-wide solutions distribution and installation
• Intensive experience in private sector manufacturing, research, development, accounting/HR, and government operations support.
• As with any large 4000 server environment, a substantial number of tasks on a weekly and monthly basis are required to be performed on every server in the environment or a significant number of servers in a subset of the environment. I frequently wrote or rewrote many scripts to perform both simple as well as more complex data gathering monitoring and system updates and changes across the enterprise environment at both the Carrier Corp. business unit and the Pratt Whitney business unit of the CSC United Technologies account.

Confidential

IT Consultant / National Email Administrator ccMail

• Administered 14 regional email cc:Mail post offices/routers/servers with over 8,000 end users. Responsible for all administrative duties including mail router maintenance, archiving, spam filtering, inappropriate content filtering, virus protection. Served concurrently as the sole 3rd-level user troubleshooting and problem resolution analyst for NEC email issues nationally.
• Sole upgrade and migration engineer for initial cc:Mail full release upgrade on all post offices/ routers prior to National corporate migration to MS Outlook.
• Re-assigned to Compaq customer as consultant to CSC Computer Sciences Corporation functioning as a UNIX SA in April 1999 see above work experience after the MS Outlook migration was completed for NEC Network Services.
• Hired directly off contract as a full-time / full-badge employee by CSC in May of 2000.

Confidential

IT Systems Analyst / Database Administrator

• Complete responsibility for maintenance, problem resolution, upgrade, repair, and customer education services for 7 Federal judges in 5 locations in upstate NY along with their support staff of approx 120 .
• Workstation upgrade, data security, hardware and software problem resolution, installation.
• Our staff of 3 also researched solutions, cost-analyzed solutions, selected and implemented solutions to over-all procedural changes and automation of former paper processes requested by all 7 judges. I was also the primary trainer for the district on all new hardware, software and process systems.
• UNIFY Relational DB Administrator for the same Northern NY District event changes, overall schema updates, etc. Including:
• Recoverability - Creating and testing Backups
• Integrity - Verifying or helping to verify data integrity
• Security - Defining and/or implementing access controls to the data
• Availability - Ensuring maximum uptime
• Performance - Ensuring maximum performance
• Development and testing support - Helping programmers and engineers to efficiently utilize the database.
• Also was trained and responsible for all adult education and training with regards to existing and new applications, hardware, processes
• 14 weeks of training attended and completed successfully off-site in San Antonio, TX for Expert-level Unify Database administration and Train the Trainer Adult Education training

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3rd Level Onsite Workstation Support Analyst

• Supported approx. 8000 end users on site
• Experience in working well successfully with high-profile high-expectation end users Directors, VP's and President
• All levels of workstation support both hardware and applications
• Windows 3.x and 95 Expert level problem resolution application support
• Expert level network troubleshooting and support
• Expert level AS400 integration/workstation database and application connectivity support
• Expert level Web client and application support

• ZFS File system migration from VxFS Veritas File System for boot and data environment