SUMMARY:

Seasoned, multi - Certified Professional with experience in Architecture, Data Center Deployments, Production Operations Unix Systems, and related IT activities in a variety of environments, including retail e-Commerce at Confidential . I produced an Enterprise Storage Strategy to include; current state, 5 year visionary end state, and road maps for multiple disciplines in a Unix Systems - production operations landscape.

TECHNCAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Oracle Solaris 11, Sun Solaris, RedHat Linux (4, 5, 6, 7), HP-UX, AIX and Windows NT/XP

Scripting: bash, csh, ksh, awk, sed

Platform: Oracle Solaris T52 / T5 4, T5-8 (supercluster) SUN SPARC, Intel, AMD, HP, SGI, IBM

Storage/Switches: EMC DMX, Symmetix series, Clarion, Netapp Filers HDS-VSP, HDS-USPv, HDS- USP 1100, HDS-9980, HDS-9985,, SUN T3, A5x00, D1000, Brocade, CISCO MDS, Qlogic, McData, ANCOR SAN switches

Tape Libraries: StorageTek L8500, StorageTek L700, LTO Drives, DLT Drives, Exabyte

Virtualization: Solaris 10 and Oracle Solaris 11 zones, zpools and ZFS

Software Tools: SVM(Solaris volume Manager), VxVm (Veritas Volume Manager), Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), EMC Recover Point (formerly Kashya), BladeLogic, ProactiveNet, Remedy, EMC Control Center, TimeFinder, Navisphere, NaviAgents, HDS HiCommand, HDS Storage Navigator, IBM TPC, Silk Performer, Load Runner

Enterprise Applications: ORACLE, Oracle E business suite. Oracle Agile, Apache, Apache-Tomcat, SunOne Apps

Appliances Ironport: MTA s, Cyclades Terminal Servers, EMC Recover Point (Kashya Data Storage Replication K-box )

Networking/Utilities: NIS, NFS, Automount, Ethernet, DNS, SAN Troubleshooting snoop, gdb, Pstat, Pfile, truss, CRON Scheduling, and other inherent UNIX utilities, Veritas troubleshooting commands

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - San Diego, CA

Principal Unix Solutions Engineer

Responsibilities:

• VERITAS Solutions Engineer for Unix - Solaris and Linux
• Installed and configured 8 two node VERITAS Cluster’s, Containing VxVM, VxFS and VCS
• Installed VERITAS’ InfoScale 7.0 for Sun Solaris and Oracle Solaris 11, Legacy Unix Infrastructure Operations, Engineering and Support
• Veritas Data Migration based on Mirror-Break methodologies on Solaris 10 and Solaris 11
• Oracle T5-2, T5-4, and T5-8 (supercluster) configuration
• Oracle Solaris 11 and Solaris 10 experience
• ZFS tuning for performance with Oracle

Confidential - Santa Clara, CA

Sr. Unix Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Application installation and troubleshooting for Solaris and RedHat Linux
• Built Oracle SUN T5-2 Servers at it applies to installing the Solaris 11 Operating System, applying packages and patches from an internal Solaris 11 package repository, tuning the kernel, configuring LUNS, carving the zpools and building multiple zones per host.
• Built and Supported a Solaris 11 Package Repository Server
• Directly supported all Unix activities for an Oracle SUN T5-2 Server / Oracle Solaris 11 OS for an Oracle E-Business Suite infrastructure
• Directly supported all Unix activities for an Oracle SUN T5-2 Server / Oracle Solaris 11 OS for the Oracle AGILE infrastructure
• Solaris 11 zones, zpools and ZFS tuning for performance with Oracle
• Began integration of Active Directory into Solaris 11, but then changed to DNS

Confidential - Milpitas, CA

Owner, Data Storage, UNIX Systems and VERITAS Architect/Engineer, Data Center Architect

Responsibilities:

• Install RedHat Linux 6.5 and 6.1, Patch servers and configure on Dell M1000 Blade Servers
• Install and configure Symantec (formerly VERITAS) Storage Foundation / High Availability 6.1 on RedHat Linux 6.5 and 6.1, including Oracle failover for a SAP environment.
• Install SUN OBP Firmware and Oracle Solaris 11 for use by Sun Volume Manager (SVM) and Sun Cluster Server.

Confidential - Portland, Oregon

Sr. Unix Systems Eng

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting Apache Web and Apache TOMCAT / mod - JK configurations on Sun Solaris
• Addition of Packages to an existing Jumpstart Server infrastructure
• Deployments of new code into the NIKE production Web Application infrastructure
• Creation of scripts to automate the updating of files for Website automation

Confidential - San Diego, California

Unix Systems Engineer / Trainer

Responsibilities:

• Audit the Solaris SAP landscapes (22 systems) for consistency and improvements to the Unix hosts. (Not SAP) and fix.
• Document the changes and in corporate those into the Operational “As-Built” documentation
• Create a complete Unix (Solaris) training plan (soup to nuts)
• The goal of this project is to install Solaris on a test host to the “Port of San Diego” specs and teach a WINDOWS-NT / Network operations team Solaris, adding to their day/day responsibilities

Confidential - Chicago, Illinois

Unix Systems Eng / Storage Eng

Responsibilities:

• Deployment of VERITAS Operations manager into Test/Dev Unix Systems Landscape
• Administration of 800+ Unix Servers (RedHat Linux) across the Sears business properties
• Sun Solaris (Unix) Server patching and installation of VERITAS software
• Audit of the VERITAS VCS pre - production and Production infrastructur e

Confidential - San Diego, California

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead Engineer/Architect for the Hitachi Storage Array Infrastructure
• Administration of Netapp FAS6200, FAS3200 and Vfiler infrastruction
• Sun Solaris and RedHat Linux (Unix) Server Administration
• Decommission of legacy Netapp hardware
• Administration of Brocade DCX SAN switch
• Evaluation of new hardware for virtualization infrastructure

Confidential - Dearborn, Michigan

Unix Systems Eng / Storage Eng

Responsibilities:

• Team member supporting 650+ Unix hosts (Solaris and Linux)
• Lead the deployment of EMC Clariion arrays virtualized behind IBM s San Volume Controller
• RedHat Linux, Oracle deployments
• Unix Systems Host Bus Adapter (HBA) configurations
• Briefly utilized IBM s TPC application for performance measurement
• Carving LUNs to support virtual server growth
• NetApp Filer setup
• Brocade Switch Zone configuration

Confidential - Longmont, Colorado

Unix Systems Administrator / Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Virtualization of Multiple AMS2500 arrays behind Hitachi VSP
• Administration of Hitachi HNAS Network Attached Storage
• Administration of NetApp Network Attached Storage
• Team member administering 2000+ Utility based Linux hosts.

Confidential, Santa Barbara, California

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Unix Systems Host Bus Adapter (HBA) configurations
• Configured Dynamic Pools, V - VOLS and LUNS for migration activity to HDS VSP from USP-V
• Responsible for creating Dynamic Pools and carving new V-VOLS and LUN's as required for Citrix XEN deployments.

Confidential, Mountain View, California

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Staff augmentation to assist in the deployment of new Sun Solaris servers
• Installed and Supported Veritas 5.x Storage Foundation, including VCS
• Utilized Solaris Jumpstart to install Solaris 10 on new hardware
• Participated in meetings to discuss the use of VMWARE vs Solaris Virtualization
• Participated in discussions regarding BladeLogic, and how to best use its technology
• Confidential was acquired by VISA and projects and staffing changed

Confidential, Redwood City, California

Sr. Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote the Hitachi Array and AMS array infrastructure "current implementation" document, along with all LUN allocations, switch zone maps, host connectivity, array firmware and driver versions (HBA and multipath)
• Allocated storage within the AMS infrastructure for production use.
• Documented the USPv infrastructure and LUN mappings.
• Administration of NetApp storage

Confidential - Sunnyvale, California

Sr. Enterprise Storage Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Upgrade 12 production (Solaris/ RedHat 4and 5) VERITAS clusters to 5.0mp3
• Deploy new VERITAS Clusters per project requirements on Unix
• Completed highly visible - 2008 year end VERITAS projects to support critical business needs.
• Patching and upgrading Solaris and RedHat to support the latest versions of VERITAS Storage foundation (RedHat and Solaris (Unix))
• Deployment of new NetApp storage arrays.

Confidential - Chicago, Illinois

Sr. World-wide Enterprise Storage Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architecture role for Production Operations Storage Landscape, including:
• Enterprise Storage Arrays (Hitachi & EMC)
• Enterprise, Director Class, Storage Area Network (Brocade)
• Backup and Recovery (Physical Tape and VTL) (STK SL8500) Utilizing VERITAS NetBackup
• Architecture and Design of the utilization of a StorageTEK SL8500, scaling tape pools, decisions on Tape Area Networks (TAN’s) to be segregated for PCI requirements and also decisions for encryption on the Tape Drive VS. host level encryption
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuance
• Monitoring and Capacity applications/tools i.e. Tuning Manager
• Research Emerging Technologies
• Data Lifecycle Management: Data Classification & Archiving (researched HCAP and Archivio)
• Full investigation and documentation of current state as it applies to each of the disciplines above, and produced an Enterprise Storage Strategy to include current state, 5yr. visionary end state, and road maps for each.

Confidential - San Francisco, CA / Bentonville, Arkansas

Unix Systems Engineer/Senior Storage

Responsibilities:

• Architecture role for Production Operations, Solaris and Linux OS's and Storage Technology (Sun E25k, Sun E6900, Hitachi USP 1100s, Cisco MDS)
• Administered 1500+ Unix Servers for the front end, middle and backend, of the entire Confidential infrastructure
• Managing Hitachi USP 1100’s and 9500 Series offerings
• Responsible for the Payment Gateway Server Environment, including Credit Card processing, Application Uptime, Redundancy and PCI requirements, both Solaris Backend and Linux Frontend Servers
• Engineering and Administration of StorageTEK L700 Tape Array
• Deployment and Administration for Enterprise NetBackup for the production data center
• Deployment to include 2 master servers, 6 media servers and each of the other servers (60+) via the netbackup agent via TCP/IP
• Team member for 24/7 Operation team supporting the www. Confidential site.
• Build and maintain the Solaris Jumstart Server (SPARC and X.86) for multiple client architectures
• Unix Server Environment is Solaris 10, Solaris 9 and RedHat Linux 4.x
• Server Infrastructure is VERITAS 4.1 VxVM, VxFS and VCS, BladeLogic for Automation
• BladeLogic implementation and scripting for automation of file deployment and OS level file and change management.
• Troubleshooting, production apps, including Apache Tomcat, CRM, financial apps, Oracle 9i/10gModified DNS records as required for new deployments

Confidential - Los Gatos, California

Owner / Sr. Storage and UNIX Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deploy and Configure NIS Servers running on LINUX
• Build and maintain Solaris Jumstart and Linux Kickstart servers.
• Install and Configure Kashya’ Disaster Recovery and Replication Solutions for customers worldwide.
• Configuration of Brocade Switches for SAN Connectivity to Kashya LUNS, Replication LUNS and SNAPSHOT history Volumes. (now EMC’ Replication Manager)
• Configured SUN, EMC, Clariion, StorageTEK and JBOD storage arrays in SAN DR solutions
• Deploy EMC Clariion, Brocade switches and Dell servers for New SONY Playstation Online Billing System, Linux backend servers running Oracle 10g RACAdministered current install of Enterprise Sun Servers and D1000 Storage
• Administered the installation of VERITAS products on RedHat
• Deploy and Administer Dell Servers running RedHat Linux
• Configure RedHat Servers for connectivity to EMC Clariion via SAN
• VERITAS VxVM, VxFS and VCS Administrator for EMC Storage Environment
• Monitored the health of the Confidential InterMail MTA's and Message Stores
• Messaging Services, Production Operations Engineer for large US Wireline / Wireless provider.
• Configure and Support LSI and StorageTEK Storage Arrays
• Configure and Support Hitachi Thunder 9500 Array
• Disk Storage configuration utilizing Qlogic’ SanBox2 switch
• Mail Server deployment and admin (SuSE Linux, Postfix, Cyrus, BDB, Mysql, OpenSSL, SASL 2)
• Managed the efforts of 8 performance engineers
• Negotiated purchases and leases of hardware and software
• Managed the development release cycle(s) for the performance and capacity benchmark efforts for 9 Messaging Applications across 4 OS platforms (SUN, HP, IBM and Compaq/DEC)
• Confidential developed our own Performance Measuring tool, primarily looking at I/O at the OS and application level
• Executed large scale performance tests for the three tier Unified Messaging DB Application
• Architect and Deployed the SAN and Storage Arrays for performance testing.
• This included 4 EMC Symetrics 3830’s and one 8830, EMC Clariion, Netapp F840’s and F880’s, and Sun D1000 Disk Storage Arrays
• Designed and deployed the Performance Messaging SAN utilizing Qlogic and Brocade switches
• On-site expert for VERITAS Volume Manager, File System, VCS and First Watch
• Architect, Deployed and Administered the 300+ node performance testing data center.
• Setup Sun E4800 hardware resources for use by Virtual System Domains
• Deploy and Support for the EMC and Sun Storage Arrays (EMC 3830’s and SUN D1000’s)
• Operations Team expert for VERITAS Volume Manager, File System and Fail-Over technology
• Remote Network and Systems Infrastructure: TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, NFS, Alteon Load Balancers, Cisco 6509 Switches, Checkpoint Firewall, power management solutions + more for remote data center environments
• Deployed / administered Apache, Oracle, Netscape Calendar App, Software.com’ DB Email App.
• Deployed Confidential ’ Unified Messaging products to Fortune 50 Corporations world wide
• Managed the deployment project schedules, customer deliverables and personnel for the Unified Messaging Deployment Team (Team Lead)