Systems Administrator Resume
Summary
Innovative information technology expert with 20 years of experience in
both Healthcare and main stream technical support. Seeking a position in a stable company with the ability to utilize my management experience, technical training and skills to bring greater profitability and efficiency to the company.
Employment Experience
Confidential
Sr. VMware Engineer
- Responsible for the VMware environments in 3 datacenters.
- Assist system administrators in daily tasks
- Maintain VMware systems to allow uninterrupted service.
Confidential
Sr. Network Analyst / VMware Team Lead
- Responsible for the VMware environments across 11 hospitals, and 2 regional datacenters.
- Upgraded the VMware environments from a mix of ESX versions, to 5.1.
- Implemented and executed VMware Site Recovery Manager in a multi-site to site redundancy and recovery design utilizing vSphere replication and SAN based replication.
- Moved the corporate datacenter to a new 10M underground datacenter.
- Implemented VMware clusters at the two remaining hospitals.
Confidential
Network Engineer
- Responsible for the various healthcare and administration servers, workstations, and printers for a two hospital environment. Created a workstation imaging process to streamline the refresh of the hospital's workstations Implemented a 3 node VMware ESX cluster environment hosting over 100 virtual machines to improve reliability and availability of services
- Implemented Tivoli Storage Manager to provide a stable recovery solution for the data center
Confidential
Network Planning Administrator
- Overall responsibility for enterprise wide storage subsystems, disaster recovery systems, centralized backup system, and UNIX systems.
- Responsible for VMWare infrastructure servers, Secondary support for companywide GroupWise email system. Assist vendors with proprietary software installations. Enhanced the Novell environment to reduce service interruptions. Implemented multi-tier storage architecture to reduce storage costs Introduced VMWare infrastructure to the environment utilizing multi-site failover and migration capabilities within a nine node cluster. Implemented dual site data storage for critical data needs.
Confidential
Systems Administrator
Overall responsibility for the nationwide network of Novell, Windows, and Linux servers. Provided third tier support to end users, desktop technicians, and junior systems administrators. Management of junior level staff. Implemented and administrated of an EMC CLARiiON storage array that provided storage for AIX, Linux, Novell, and Windows Servers. Created a high availability clustered environment for the datacenter to reduce downtime and aid in system maintenance. Increased effectiveness of employees by deploying wireless synchronization between email system and employee's PDA. Created a cost savings of 40 by converting the data backup environment from a decentralized to a centralized structure. 1993-2000 Increasing levels of network and computer administration
Areas of Expertise
- IBM DS4000 / DS8000 / V7000 EMC Clariion IBM SAN Volume Controller VMware Server
- VMware ESX 3.01-5.5
- VMware Site Recovery Manager Brocade and Cisco fibre channel switches SuSe and Redhat linux
- Altiris
- Microsoft Windows Servers NT-2008 Tivoli Storage Manager Netbackup
- Backup Exec
- LTO / DLT Tape Libraries Novell / Windows Clustering Active Directory Infrastructure Microsoft SQL Microsoft Exchange