SUMMARY:

Have 15 years in depth networking specialty experience. Hold Microsoft, Novell, and Linux Certifications, possess solid experience in infrastructure design, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, problem resolution and avoidance as well as on-going client and user training and support. Comfortable working on MAC, Linux, Microsoft, or Novell environments, have a firm understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of each. Possess experience in Oil well drilling operations on drilling rigs, formerly employed by OXY Petroleum of Peru.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware:

• Servers: Compaq Prosignia, Proliant lines, Prosignia, HP, IBM, Dell. Storage Fiber Channel Raid Array SANs . Compaq SANs solutions. EMC Clarion CX series, Avocent KVM/Serial Switches. All SCSI RAID levels. Dell Blades, HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosures, HP BladeSystem c4000 Enclosures, with HP ProLiant BL400c Server Blades. Virtual Connect modules.
• Network Operating Systems: Netware , SUSE Linux, Windows Servers 2012R2, 2008R2, 2003R2, 2000, NT, Windows 8.1, 7 Enterprise, XP Professional, 95, 98 MS/DOS MAC Oss. Unix. SCO v 5.05, DG UX v 4.11, RH Linux 7.2, RH Linux ELS 4.5 Advanced Server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Systems Engineer/VMWare Administrator

• ESX 5.x , 5.5 , Hosts Design, installations, configurations.
• Virtual Machine Windows Deployments, Configuration, Administration.
• VMs Migrations, Cloning, Capacity Planning.
• Virtual Disks expansions, HW/SW installations, Updates.
• ESX Host Updates. Problem Troubleshooting, Resolution, Remedy System Tracking, RCA Root Cause Analysis investigation/resolutions.

Confidential

Systems Engineer/VMWare Administrator

• ESX 3.5, 4.1, Hosts installations, Configurations.
• Virtual Machine installations, Configuration, Administration.
• VMs Migrations, Cloning, Capacity Planning.
• Virtual Disks expansions, HW/SW installations, Updates.
• ESX Host Updates. Problem Troubleshooting, Resolution, Remedy System Tracking, RCA Root Cause Analysis investigation/resolutions.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

• Systems Administration Windows Servers 2008R2, ADS configuration/administration.
• ESX 4.1, Hosts, and VM Deployments on EMC FC ISCI Compellent SANs. Network Troubleshooting, User Support. Avamar backup administration, VMWare Hosts, and VM troubleshooting. Data Migration from EMC Clarion FC to iSCSI Compellent array . Conversion of several Netware 6.5 servers edir to MS ADS servers in a domain environment. Netware Volume data migration to MS Windows 2003, 2008 servers.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Management of Windows Vistax64 deployments, HP VWS Installation/Configuration, and Geological application software access and configuration. Red Hat ELS v 5.3, installation and configurations. Network troubleshooting. Systems Administration. MS SQL Server 2008, Installation/Configuration, client access and client support. SQL Scripting, DB access. MS SQL Server installation/configuration. W2K8R2 ADS 2 node cluster install/configuration. Norton AntiVirus Servers installation configuration. ADS administration, network client support. HP Blade Enclosure C7000, Blades BL460c, BL465. Onboard Administrator configuration and management.

Confidential

Senior Engineer

Management of Microsoft Active Directory Services, Windows Enterprise Server 2003. DNS/DHCP configuration troubleshooting. Support all network clients with usage if all Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Windows 7 32 bit and application software residing on LAN/WAN Design, Maintain, Troubleshoot Netware, Microsoft, Linux, EMC SAN. Server Administration. in a WAN environment, Backup/Restore Engineer. Windows 2003R2 Server Administration, user account creation, administration, application access policies Windows XP Professional network configurations, Microsoft, Novell, and Linux Administration. Windows Enterprise Server 2003R2, Active Directory Services configuration. All systems configured and maintained in a RAID 1, 5 SCSI configurations. Windows 2003R2 ADS Print Server configurations. Windows 2008 Active Directory Services Configuration, Pre Production testing of Windows 2008 Enterprise, VMware ESX 3.5. installation, troubleshooting, administration, VMWare vSphere 4, VMWare Server 4. P2V migrations to EMC SANs.

Confidential

Senior Engineer

• Novell 6.5 eDirectory, and server configuration/administration.
• Windows 2003 Active Directory Services design, configure, server installations Relocation, setup, build of SAN LAB. EMC Clarion CX700. Connectivity of heterogeneous environments. Sun Solaris, Microsoft, Novell, Linux. All systems configured and maintained in a RAID 1, 5 SCSI configurations. Cisco 6500s Switches, Cisco 9509 SAN Switch. FC Host access utilizing Emulex LP 9000, Qlogic, and EMC HBAs. LUN assignment, Switch Zoning. Data Migration from NFS arrays to EMC FC CX700 SAN array.

Confidential

Senior Engineer

Network Administrator. Responsible for supporting over 320 Novell Servers in a WAN environment throughout the state of Ohio. Netware connectivity, server configuration, and administration. MS W2K, XP, and Win98 operating systems. All systems configured and maintained in a RAID 1, 5 SCSI configuration. Switches, Cisco Routers, Arcserve backup solutions, Compaq MSA1000 SANs. Infrastructure design, installation, troubleshooting, Client/Desktop support utilizing Remedy as a resolution database. Groupwise 6.5 email servers administration. Member of te SAN Infracstructure team, participated in design of new SAN environment in existing WAN. Arcserve backups /restores.

Confidential

Senior Test Engineer

• Develop and documented Test Plans.
• Raid Array Fiber Channel SANs, Multi Storage configurations. Proliant Servers line running Netware 5.1. Windows Server 2000,Windows 2000 WS, Fiber Channel DRM configurations on Netware 5.1 . Microsoft Win2K /Novell 5.1, Cluster configurations. All systems configured and maintained in a RAID 1, 5 SCSI configuration. RH Linux 7.2 SAN configurations. RH Linux 7.2 with Legato and Compaq DLT backup configurations, Fiber Channel HBAs configurations in single or dual mode fail over within cluster configurations, 1 2 GB
• Brocade Switch SAN attached and cluster configurations. Arcserve, Veritas, and Legato backup/restores.
• University of Houston Downtown Graduation and Forward 1989 2000
• I held numerous jobs so I could finance my education while attending college. I worked as an electrician's apprentice, a welder, construction worker, worked also as a computer lab assistant. Held numerous computer short term assignments/contracts so I could get more experience in my field of study. This is why there is a gap from 1989 -2000, and did not want to include these sometimes non related field of study assignments.

Confidential

Drilling Foreman

Wells drilled spud at 300' drill to TD 6800', Supervised drilling crew, operations and made sure safety was compliant Operations included Rig setup, spud, mix drilling fluids, POH, RIH, Well Logging, Bit changes, surveyed deviation thru TOTCO, troubleshoot stuck pipe, pressure control, etc. Attended 'Murchison Drilling Schools'- Oil Well Blow Out Prevention, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Hughes Tool Company Drilling Seminar.