SUMMARY

• I am looking for a challenging position as a Storage Area Network (SAN) Administrator/Engineer using EMC, Cisco, Brocade, IBM, HP, Qlogic, Linux/UNIX technologies.
• A position with a company who needs a Storage Area Network or Unix System administrator with 15+ years experience with EMC, IBM, Cisco and Brocade storage technologies, AIX, Linux, Solaris; who is a team player and has great communication (I speak three languages) and leadership skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Software: AIX 4.3.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, RHEL 2, RHEL 3, Solaris 6, Solaris 8, Solaris 10, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Veritas Foundation Suite 3.4, KSH, PERL, BASH, AWK, SED, Connectrix Manager

Hardware: EMC Symmetrix 8830, DMX3000, DMX800, McData 6064 and 6140, Spherion, IBM DS8300, Shark F20, FAST - T. Recent familiarity with SVC and SANFS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Centralia, WA

Storage Area Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Currently contracted to IBM Global Services working on a team of approximately 40 Storage Administrators.
• Currently support The Hartford Insurance for IBMGS
• 10,000+ port SAN using IBM XIV; Storwize V7000; IBM SVC; Cisco DS - C9513, 9148-K9, 9124 and 9140 switches; FC3171 Intelligent Passthru Modules (IPTM); Qlogic 8GB IPTM in IBM Bladecenter or IBM Pureflex System environments;
• Design storage allocations including device type; RAID level pursuant to storage tier.
• Department Security Focal ensuring all team members are aware of security issues, trained in security measures and following same. Also as Security Focal I manage all SAN Shared IDs for systems we manage (about 300 IDs), as well as performing quarterly employment verifications and privileged access reviews to ensure only authorized users have access to our systems and any employees who have moved on have had their IDs removed from all systems.
• SAN Team Dispatcher requires me to monitor client incident and change queues to dispatch new work and monitor work in progress in order to ensure work is completed on priority basis (where applicable) and nothing is forgotten or left behind.
• Considered to be in team leadership position as a team dispatcher and department security focal. I am a team player who can work within a team and will take lead if necessary.
• In the past at this position I worked as a Storage Area Network (SAN) Administrator responsible for remotely administering the SAN architecture of several IBM customer accounts including Ameriprise and Confidential . These various accounts used a variety of storage systems EMC VMAX, DMX, Clariion, Symmetrix, IBM DS8000 series, IBM DS4000 series, Cisco, Brocade, Qlogic, Emulex, etc. Administration work ranged from basic sustainment work to initial builds/transition work and deep dive problem determination as well as decommissioning and removal from datacenter.
• EMC Storage (VMAX, DMX, Clariion, Symmetrix,) subject matter expert.
• Headed up SAN aspect for American Medical Optical's migration to an IBM Data Center. Installing CX3-80 and DMX3000 onto a Cisco and Brocade heterogenous SAN.
• Maintained Confidential Co. ~100 port SAN connected to IBM DS8300, EMC DMX2000, EMC Clariion CX400, two McData 6140 directors, IBM P595 (6 LPARs), HP9000 and Windows 2003 servers
• Maintained Ameriprise's three DS4800's in an ~80 port SAN geographically separated between St. Louis, MO. To Lexington, KY. Including flashcopies and Disaster Recovery
• Maintained SAN for 40 servers for Security Capital Assurance on two DS4800's in a 95+ port configuration.
• Administered Confidential IBM SAN including multiple EMC DMX, IBM Sharks, Brocade and Cisco switch fabrics in a 10,000+ port SAN config.
• Performed initial server backups for new Intel servers using Veritas Netbackup
• Responsible for Backup/Restore of HP Openview Data Protector attached servers
• Performed installation/administration of IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC)
• Basic SAN administration duties ( user issues, filesystem maintenance, patches, system security, etc..).
• Performed storage system upgrades and adding trays of new disk to arrays, server storage upgrades, new server builds including building filesystems using LVM with emphasis on performance.
• System Administrator knowledge of Unix (AIX, Solaris, HPUX and Linux), Windows and VMware was necessary in order to successfully contribute to this position. I have been a Unix System Administrator mainly using AIX, Linux (Redhat), and Solaris over a 20 year career. I have experience with SCO Unix as well.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Contracted to Confidential Co. to assist in conducting upgrades of AIX CATIA/VPM workstations for the AEW&C (Wedgetail) program.
• Upgraded approximately 300 AIX workstations from AIX 4.3.3 to AIX 5.3 via NIM upgrade process, usually via alternate disk install (NIM).
• Inventoried all (approximately 200) CATIA workstations accountable to the AEW&C (Wedgetail) program.
• Assisted in ensuring workstations and servers adhered to security rules as set down in the Computing Security Manual.
• Performed trouble shooting of the “Big Brother” system and network monitoring software, and applied fixes where necessary to get application performing correctly.
• Basic AIX system administration duties ( user issues, filesystem maintenance, patches, system security, etc..)

Confidential, Portland, OR

Unix System Administrator/Storage Area Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Build IBM P-Series servers and maintain them for internal customers. LPAR of Regatta Class servers.
• As Storage Area Network Administrator I managed an approximately 600 port SAN split between three data centers (Portland, Salt Lake City, and Tacoma)
• Utilized EMC Symmetrix, Clariion, EMC Control Center 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, EMC PowerPath 3.0.2, 4.2.0, 4.4.2, EMC Solutions Enabler, Navisphere Manager, Navicli, Symcli, Timefinder, Symclone, EMC Performance Manager, IBM ESS, SDD, ESSutils, FibreZone bridge, McData 64 and 140 port directors, IBM Total Storage Manager.
• System administrator dedicated to 40TB datawarehouse operations, including provisioning SAN storage, creating and maintaining filesystems, troubleshooting filesystem and performance issues.
• Most of the server and SAN work was completed remotely from Portland to the main Datacenter in Salt Lake City.
• Created utility scripts (Kornshell, Perl and Bash) for myself and other team members.

Confidential, Vancouver, WA

Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for day-to-day support of 5 IBM AIX RS P Running AIX 4.3.3 servers, 4 SUN Solaris E4500 running Solaris 6 servers utilizing Informix database and Compaq SAN. Administered daily backup plan, carried out work of problem tickets, implemented system change requests using change management system.
• Installed and supported RedHat Linux 7.2 servers responsible for serving DHCP, DNS, NTP and HTTP Service for internal LAN, as well as serving a MySQL database and PHP integrated accounting of all project related documentation.
• Installed and supported RedHat Linux 7.2 desktop PC's for personnel requiring a versatile and affordable Unix workstation solution. Also provided LINUX system and application training to personnel upon request.
• Updated project related documentation; relocating the documents into a cogent filesystem structure easily indexed and retrievable from a MySQL/PHP integrated web page.

Confidential, Washougal Wa

Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Created, updated and managed Netscape Messaging server in rapidly growing company. On any given day I was adding 30 to 90 people to the database, verifying them in LDAP and ensuring their e-mail was accessible via the web.Responsible for installation and configuration of company printers nationwide using HP JetDirect printer administration tool. As this was a burgeoning company I was configuring and verifying 5-10 printers per day and monitoring print servers, and troubleshooting network connections to printers and print servers.
• Responsible for day-to-day administration and monitoring of 5 Sun Solaris servers on Solaris 6, E-mail administration, network administration, printer administration and user administration.
• Created GNOME desktop window management interface for use between Solaris server and Hummingbird Exceed X-window server on Windows98 desktop for users needing X-windows type access to Sun Servers.
• Solaris 6 and Windows NT administration; Veritas Volume Manager and Filesystem; Installed and configured Cisco switches as part of wireless network installation I performed.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Updated documentation including Standard Operating Procedures for all production Unix servers.
• Conducted security audit of Unix servers, and compiled a report for management with prioritized recommendations to bring systems into compliance.
• Administered Continuus Change Management application, which had had no administrator for two years.
• Administered Apache web server for software development group, creating, adding and removing web pages when requested, and adding or implementing Apache modules when necessary, among other duties.
• Administered IBM Websphere on production servers conducting changes as requested using Model 1 change management techniques.
• Supported software development team identifying problem areas of the software (i.e., memory leaks) that became apparent from version to version.
• AIX 3.2, AIX 4.X, IBM ADSM ; Veritas Volume Manager and Filesystem; Raid Arrays; Korn Shell; PERL; DNS/BIND; TCP/IP, Sendmail, Apache, and much more.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ.

Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• As a member of 17-member team I took on the role of security countermeasures subject matter expert. Due to my knowledge of information collection methodology I was able to help the company by identifying weaknesses within the IT operations procedures and making recommendations on correcting them.
• As the change management administrator I reviewed all changes, verified the work to be done, verified that the person conducting the change understood what was to be done, and verified that the change followed Model 1 change management policy.
• Responsible for day-to-day support of one 7 frame IBM RS6000SP2 system and one 5 frame IBM RS6000SP2 System (both data warehouse environments). Also responsible for 15 node travel related services systems utilizing H50 servers, and occasionally responsible for back-end administration of E-mail hub system.
• Created Standard Operating Procedures pertaining to server security and how to maintain information security by not volunteering server information to people who have no need to know, etc.