Overview

A passionate, dedicated Senior Engineer with over 13 years of experience in designing, implementing and managing complex computing environments and solutions. A recognized leader with a focus on teamwork, mentoring and a dedication to quality. Regularly recognized for outstanding performance. Seeking a position where I can make a valuable contribution and at the same time expand upon my current skill set.

Technical Summary

Operating Systems: Solaris 8, 9, 10 , Red Hat Linux/Centos 5.x, 6.x, ESX/ESXi 3.5, 4.1, 5.x

Languages: Shell Script, Awk, Sed, Perl, TCL, Expect, Powershell

Software/Applications:

• Cisco UCSM/UCSC
• Sphere Site Recovery Manager
• Sphere Replication Manager
• VMTurbo
• Veritas Volume and Storage Manager
• Veritas Cluster Server
• Sun Cluster
• Veritas NetBackup
• Server
• Solstice DiskSuite
• LVM
• Solaris Zones
• Xen
• Solaris Live Upgrade
• Samba
• Sendmail
• BIND
• Jumpstart
• Kickstart
• BEA WebLogic
• JBoss
• Apache Tomcat
• Apache HTTP Server
• iPlanet
• PowerPath
• MultiPathd
• MPxIO
• vxDMP
• EMC BCV
• Checkpoint Firewall

Professional Experience

Confidential VMware/Cisco UCS Administrator

UCS Administration

• VMware Administration
• Build out, configuration and management of 5 UCS domains consisting of 6100/6200 series Fabric Interconnects and B-Series hardware in excess of 50 chassis and 350 blades.
• Lead of biannual firmware upgrades.
• Routing hardware troubleshooting and replacement.
• Installation and configuration of UCS Central environment.
• Daily health checks on all environments.
• Provisioning of resource pools, LAN networking, SAN networking, server policies, server profiles and implementation of automated daily config backup solution.
• Management of 4 vCenter environments comprising of 3000 virtual machines hosted on Cisco UCS B-Series and Dell Blade technologies with NetApp and EMC backend storage.
• Configuration of DRS server and datastore clusters.
• Migration from virtual Standard Switches to virtual Distributed Switches across the environment where licensed.
• Resource pool and vApp configuration and management.
• Storage enhancement via the configuration of Datastore Clusters, Storage-driven Profiles, Storage I/O Control, Storage Awareness VASA and Storage Integration VAAI .
• Implementation and administration of Site Recovery Manager SRM solution.
• Daily health checks on all environments, performance troubleshooting, resource management and server and cluster build outs.

Confidential

Senior UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator

Unix Operations team lead

• Technical lead focused on uptime, stability, and rapid incident / event resolution. Sun, Dell, HP, Compaq hardware running predominantly Solaris and Linux
• Lead the team's project work and performance.
• Develop and implement policies to meet SLAs and improve environment reliability.
• Quality stage gating for new server builds going into production.
• Hands-on system administration: performance troubleshooting, patch and firmware management, customer storage provisioning/management, hardware replacements, proactive system hardening, scripting, user access management.

• Cisco UCS Administrator

• Full technical ownership for two production UCS pods comprising 6140 UCS switches over 30 fully populated blade chassis.
• Responsibilities included hardware replacements, profile builds and deployments, firmware upgrades, user access management, environment tuning and monitoring configuration, future deployment and expansion planning, HA management and planning, performance troubleshooting.

• VMware Operations administration team member
• Environment comprised of over 30 clusters in 12 datacenters.
• Resource management CPU/Memory/Storage allocation and monitoring , server upgrades, collapsing and consolidation of older cluster environments, tools installs, new cluster build outs, performance troubleshooting, HA management and planning.
• Implementation team lead
• Manage timely system provisioning compliant with Tribune's standards.
• Evolve standards and best practices to ensure system performance, reliability and supportability.
• Partner and consult with infrastructure and solutions architects to problem-solve during project-phase and troubleshoot where necessary.

Confidential

Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator

• Hardware and software administration of over 30 Solaris and Linux production, staging, testing and development servers. Sun Enterprise- and Fire-class servers down through Ultra 5 and 10 desktop systems, Dell PowerEdge servers, all running Solaris 2.6 through 10 or Redhat Enterprise Linux.
• Veritas and Solstice volume and RAID control administration on all systems, including cluster and failover design, implementation and management.
• Network administration of Cisco- and NetScreen-based public and private networks
• iPlanet and Apache web server administration. Configuration and upkeep of all client and corporate web servers. Administration of DNS servers, Resonate load balancer, JBoss and WebLogic application servers.
• Administration of client and corporate email servers and spam filtering.
• Network and system security, involving Checkpoint Firewall administration as well as individual system security setup and monitoring.
• Backup management for all production, staging and development systems.
• Coordination of troubleshooting efforts and crisis escalation.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Working with Solaris Kernel Developers developing pre-integrated test suites in UNIX script, for new functionality being integrated into the OS, and subsequent packaging of these suites.