VMware/Systems/Storage/Network Administrator

Summary: Over twelve years' experience as a System Administrator. Working knowledge in VMware ESX, vSphere, vCenter, Linux, Solaris, EMC/NetApp storage, and Cisco network administration. Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. Always willing to take on new projects and ideas, while using excellent troubleshooting skills and the ability to quickly resolve issues. Detail oriented, dependable team player, ability to multitask and work independently with little or no supervision.

Hardware:

• Server HP/Dell/IBM/Supermicro rack mount servers 1/2/3/4/5/6U, Cisco UCS/HP/IBM/MDS blade servers
• Storage EMC Clariion/Celerra/VNX 5500/5700 series, NetApp FAS3xxx
• Switch Brocade FC, Cisco UCS 6120/6248/5020/5548/4900M/MDS 9124 Cisco/Arista/HP/Dell/Foundry Networks/Force10/Extreme Networks 10G

Software:

• VMware ESX/ESXi, vSphere Client, vCenter Server, Workstation, and Fusion
• EMC Clariion Unisphere/Navisphere, Celerra DART, NetApp Data ONTAP
• Brocade Fabric OS
• Cisco IOS, UCS Manager
• Extreme Networks XOS
• RHEL, Fedora, CentOS, Sun Solaris, Windows Server Datacenter

Current Project: Lead in charge of coordinating data center moves nationwide, international, and newly acquired companies. Part of a team in charge of infrastructure build out for OneCloud, AppCloud, vCloud, vBox, and SAN Box groups that includes core HWs of Cisco UCS 6120/6140/6248UP and Blade Servers, EMC/NetApp SAN storage systems, Cisco/Extreme Networks/Dell/HP/Arista 10G switches, and Brocade FC switches.

Confidential

Current Employee Status: permanent

• Participated in VMworld 2008 Las Vegas VMware Infrastructure 3 Running, Maintaining ,VMworld 2009 San Francisco SRM Site Recovery Manager Advanced Troubleshooting , and VMworld 2011 Las Vegas Venetian Demo Cloud Booth infrastructure consist of 4 UCS Blade Server Chassis, 2 Cisco 6120, 2 Nexus 5020, 2 Nexus 5548, 2 Extreme Network Summit 450, NetApp FAS3170
• Participate in 24 x 7 on-call rotation
• Excellent written, verbal communication and leadership skills with outstanding customer service
• Documented Data Center Move Process internal and newly acquired company, Emergency Power Outage, Cabling Best Practices, Deploying Cisco UCS Blade Server with UCS Manager, VMware Storage Best Practices, etc
• Trained various lab groups in deploying Cisco UCS Blade Servers
• Provide mentoring to new hire and Junior Tech Ops Engineers
• Storage decommissioning and upgrading.
• Storage provisioning: logically carve up physical disk space for storage capacity configure RAID/LUNs assigning servers/hosts to appropriate storage masking servers and zoning the network
• Manage data center moves nationwide and international travel as needed
• Primary contact for Cisco UCS deployments
• Deploy and maintain rack mount servers, storage systems, and switches
• Data Center Systems/Storage/Network Administrator

Confidential

Provided network and systems

• Participated in 24 x 7 on-call rotation
• Wrote how-to documents
• Coordinated lab move, planned bldg power shutdown, bldg power outage, and lab bring up
• Implemented RHEL4AS kickstart and Solaris 8 jumpstart server
• Installed, configured, and supported of Solaris 8/10, RH7.1/3, RHEL3/4AS, Cisco Enterprise Linux 4.33/4.34/5.00/5.04, Ubuntu Linux 5.10/6.06, Knoppix Linux 3.4, Debian Linux 4.0, FreeBSD 6.0, Windows 2000/XP/Server 2000/2003, Cisco routers and switches, and test equipments

Confidential

• Participated in 24 x 7on-call rotation
• Scheduled and supervised lab move, bldg power shutdown, bldg power outage, and lab bring up
• Created and implemented scripts to backup servers running on Solaris including restore procedure
• Developed and customized Perl script for monitoring lab backbone infrastructures
• Planned and implemented lab backbone infrastructures
• Maintained web server which run case tracking system upload lab and how-to documentations, modify web page, perform full tape backup, primary point of contact
• Acquired, installed, configured, and supported Solaris 6/7/8, RH7.1/3, Mandrake Linux 7.1, Windows NT, Windows Server 2000, Cisco routers and switches in engineering environment
• Team leader of three lab engineers and a Network Administrator to handle network and systems tier 1 support

Confidential

• Performed real-time performance and error reporting analysis, data generation, and error injection testing which runs on a cluster of RS6000 processors
• Performed feature testing in the Development of fiber channel controller card for Enterprise Storage Servers

Confidential

• Participated in 24 x 7on-call rotation
• Troubleshoot complex internetworking issues in a timely manner
• Installed, configured, and supported IBM AIX and IBM Enterprise Storage Servers
• Planned and directed day-to-day activities to four team members

Confidential

• Responsible for the detailed failure analysis of line and field cards, collection and presentation of failure data, and driving corrective actions and product improvements based on failure analysis activities
• Provided card and component failure analysis under AIX environment
• Performed chip de-lamination down to circuit device through the use of chemical de-processing, scanning electron microscope, die probing, and other various techniques
• Presented and recommended corrective action based on findings to dept, upper mgmt, and suppliers
• Performed unit and final test on IBM enterprise storage machines