AREAS OF EXPERTISE

CAREER PATH

Confidential

• Designed and implemented VMware vSphere 5.5 on Cisco UCS B/C-series and EMC VNX FC and Netapp iSCSI , migrated data from Netapp to VNX.
• Designed and built Oracle VM Server pools on Oracle Sparc T5 and T4 server using Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c with Netapp iSCSI and EMC VNX FCoE storage. Solaris LDOM deployment, patching and live migration.
• Migrated Solaris 10 zone servers from M2000/3000 series servers to virtual Solaris 10/11 LDOM on T5 platform.
• Managed and services EMC Unified VNX and Netapp storage adding disks/shelves, creating aggregates/raid groups/pools, managing snapshots, CIFS/NFS shares, LUN assignment, MDS/Brocade zoning, Netapp ONTAP/firmware upgrades, VNX block and file software upgrades.
• Re-designed and aging backup infrastructure, identified and eliminated bottlenecks and implemented best practices EMC Networker 8.1, vSphere 5.1, Netapp/VNX, VADP, NDMP Netapp backups to VTL, Quantum DXi 6702 de-duplication appliance, Quantum Scalar i6000 physical tape library, EMC/Brocade switches with 50TB/week
• Migrated legacy VMware VADP backups to EMC Data Domain appliances

• Deployed multiple VMware clusters on Cisco UCS blade chassis
• Deployed Cisco C-series standalone servers and set up storage multipath on Linux connected to EMC VNX with fiber channel
• Deployed Oracle Database Appliances in single system and virtualized configurations, created databases, installed and configured Oracle Enterprise Management Server 12c.
• Deployed Oracle VM for Sparc on T4 servers, used Logical Domain Manager to configure service and guest domains, configured ZFS filesystems and volumes installed Oracle 11g on Solaris and Linux

Implemented multi-cell redundant vCloud Director software stack vCD/vShield/vCloud Usage Meter for the Global Cloud Vision platform across multiple datacenters

• Led effort in upgrading VMware infrastructure from vSphere 4.1 to 5 and Cisco UCS/Flexpod from 1.4 to 2.0 in multiple datacenters
• Led efforts to develop RedHat Linux installation templates and implement security hardening
• Led efforts to install and configure Linux Satellite servers and repositories, develop and implement patching policies, develop patch procedure runbooks for the operation teams worldwide
• Architecture design lead for Multi-Tenant Cloud Service Offerings using NetApp vfilers and VMware vShield

• Redesigned SAN storage infrastructure EMC Clarion to fulfill the Disaster Recovery requirements in dual-site VMware virtualized environment
• Built Linux RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu and VMware VUM patch repositories and established patch policies and procedures

• Developed Linux installation scripts using kickstart RedHat Enterprise 5 and autoyast SuSE Enterprise 9 and 10
• Maintained Linux installation, patch repositories RedHat Satellite, mrepo, SuSE SMT and VMware Linux templates
• Documented Linux and VMware installation and troubleshooting procedures for operations and support staff. Acted as a point of escalation for production support
• Designed Linux virtualization solution based on SuSE Enterprise XEN and supported production rollout of 80 hypervisor hosts and hundreds of virtual machines
• Designed XEN clustering solution based on SLES11/Pacemaker/OpenAIS/OCFS2/DRBD that provided live migration of XEN virtual machines in a cluster
• Designed VMware infrastructure design based on VI3/ESX 3/HP Proliant. Built and maintained Linux installation templates. Created operational procedures
• Designed VMware infrastructure based on vSphere 4.1/ESXi/IBM blade servers/EMC VMAX/Power Path
• Carried out hundreds of Linux physical and virtual server builds, P2V, V2P and Solaris to Linux migrations, SAN storage migrations.
• Team lead for UNIX production support team. Responsible for managing, troubleshooting and building hundreds of Sun Solaris and Linux servers in different datacenters
• Implemented and supported Symantec VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS Cluster Server products
• Provided LUN assignment/masking on EMC Symmetrix/DMX and Hitachi HDS storage arrays. Managed Brocade fabric switches, upgraded Fabric OS, managed fabric zoning. Provided performance analysis and troubleshooting
• Provided Sun Solaris operating system and Sun SunFire and Enterprise servers support and maintenance. Server builds, rack mounting, firmware upgrades, patches, system controller setup, hardware replacements, kernel tuning, metadevice RAID setup.

• Supported Sun Solaris, SunOS and Linux servers in the application test lab
• Built and configured servers according to application and test requirements
• Performed server hardware installs, cabling, parts replacement, patching
• Supported application QA testers, wrote test automation scripts in shell and Perl, provided performance analysis, troubleshooting.

Provided SunOS and SuSE Linux administration and support for application software development and servers

• Provided web application support Apache, Stronghold
• Implemented VPN access for software developers

• Monitored and analyzed application performance with HP Open View
• Monitored network load with HP Network Node Manager
• Wrote scripts to generate statistics reports.

• Supervised a team of system administrators supporting multiple ISP points of presence throughout the city including dozens of Linux servers, routers, DSL lines and modem pools
• Managed Cisco routers and led efforts to design network topology and routing OSPF, BGP
• Maintained DNS and mail sendmail services
• Reviewed security vulnerabilities, maintained patch repositories and oversaw maintenance schedule

• Managed UNIX servers, Cisco routers, mail and file services for university network
• Led a team of system administrators and engineers supporting the network connecting several academic and research institutions.

• Programmed computer models of automated control systems
• Designed electronic circuits and printed circuit boards.