Sr. It Engineer (contractor) Resume
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SUMMARY
- Over 20 years of extensive hands on experience architecting/supporting Unix/Linux, Windows, Storage, and Network environments.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Operating systems: Linux, Solaris, Windows, ONTAP, IOS, VMware
Network Storage: Network Appliance
Network Services: DNS, NIS, DHCP, SMTP, NTP, NFS, SSH, CIFS, Active Directory
Network Applications: Apache, Samba, Nagios, MRTG
Backup Environments: Veritas Netbackup
Enterprise Data Center Infrastructure: UPS/Electrical distribution, HVAC, and Fire Suppression
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SR. IT Engineer (Contractor)
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Worked wif internal teams Networking, Storage, Active Directory, Virtualization, & Backup developing a failover architecture and implementation plans.
- Designed a network cabling architecture, connecting 12 buildings wifin an 89 acre campus.
- Worked wif an architecture firm transforming a logical design into a physical design resulting in construction ready drawings.
- Worked wif networking team performing a live upgrade of the campus network replacing the core and distribution tiers.
- Worked wif internal teams and vendors architecting & implementing a physical to virtual migration of the DeltaV process automation systems.
- Created and implemented test plans ensuring all phases of the upgrade were documented and verified, ensuring compliance of validated systems.
- Authored Technical Recovery Guides, for both the network and Microsoft
- Performed failover testing ensuring the architecture operated per the design specifications.
Confidential
SR. IT Engineer (Contractor)
Responsibilities:
- Managed a team of engineers supporting the network, storage, AD, and Linux environment.
- Architected and installed wif a team an updated network and storage environment using Cisco and Network Appliance devices.
- Architected and installed a backup solution using Veritas NetBackup
- Architected a Disaster Recovery solution.
- Worked wif a team implementing a new Active Directory domain.
- Worked wif a team migrating systems to the new AD domain.
- Worked wif a team upgrading all workstations from Windows7/8 to Windows 10
- Installed local windows update servers “WSUS” ensuring all clients and servers are patched per the defined schedule.
- Created group policies ensuring all systems adhere to the company’s security policy.
- Created a Linux kickstart server, ensuring all newly imaged systems has identical configurations.
- Created VMware templates for both Linux and Windows servers.
- Deployed Linux and Windows servers in both a physical and virtual environment.
Confidential
Data Center Networks.
Responsibilities:
- Staff management, included mentoring staff, performance reviews, and addressing any issues as required
- 24 x 7 datacenter operations responsibilities include: server, network, desktop, security and facilities support for a user community of over 120 engineers.
- Responsible for the corporate IT budget.
- Managed vendor relationships, guaranteeing competitive pricing on hardware, software, licensing, and support contracts.
- Installed/configured VMware/vSphere Standard 5.5 infrastructure.
- Installed ESXi host systems.
- Installed vCenter management server.
- Configured isolated NFS Storage groups.
- Configured virtual networks (Virtual switches and VMKernel ports).
- Configured High Availability, Clustering (VMotion and StorageVMotion).
- Creation and Administration of virtual machines, clones and templates.
- Physical to Virtual server consolidation wif VMware Converter.
- Architected/Implemented global IT integration plan wif my peer at EZchip Corp.
Confidential
East Coast IT Manager
Responsibilities:
- Datacenter operations responsibilities include: desktop, server, network, and facilities support for a user community of over 450 engineers.
- Managed/Mentored the East Coast IT staff of 5 engineers; after cross training each member had a solid knowledge of Windows and UNIX/Linux.
- Responsible for the multi - million East Coast IT budget.
- Designed and implemented a network topology segmented into eighteen VLANS supporting over 2000 systems.
- Installed and configured six Network Appliance FAS 960 Clusters serving over 100 TB of NFS and CIFS data.
- Installed and configured Solaris 2.6 through Solaris 9. Typical tasks include installation/configuration of NIS, NTP, Apache, and many GNU products.
- Created jumpstart profiles to automate the installation of Solaris installs.
- Implemented a Linux compute farm which is comprised over 470 Linux servers running a mixture of Red Hat 7.2 and RHEL3
- Installed and configured Veritas Volume Manager/ Veritas Cluster server
- Installed and configured Veritas NetBackup
- Datacenter expansion project, worked wif architects, engineers, and contractors ensuring proper sizing and installation of UPS, generator, HVAC and fire suppression systems.