SUMMARY:

Senior System Storage Engineer/Administrator with 20 years experience in various implementations of Linux and UNIX systems stand-up, configuration, administration, support, security hardening/vulnerability resolution and problem resolution at the highly advanced support level. RedHat Enterprise Advanced Edition V. 5.x above , Sun Solaris 6,7,8,9,10,11 , AIX 4.x, 5.x, 6.x system builds, TL updates, TL patching, LPAR configuration and customization, HP-UX 9.x, 10.x, 11.x. 10 years experience in SAN administration, particularly with Hitachi, EMC and the EMC Clarion product line, including NaviAgent installations, Navisphere storage management GUI and CLI, optimized LUN configuration and fine-tuning for high performance products such as Apache, iPlanet, Netscape server, and IBM websphere server Tomcat application server optimization and break-fix problem resolution Several years' experience with VMWare and VMWare ESX enterprise virtualization and storage management tools and administrative interfaces/applicatiios many years experience with DB2, Oracle, SAP, and MySQL database solutions. plaiding Experienced with high availability Linux and Unix server solutions including RedHat Xen-based open platform virtualization, RHEV Redhat Enterprise Virtualization , IBM HACMP, SunCluster, and Veritas clustering solutions in both physical setup and configuration as well a virtualization. Several years experience as technical and/or project lead in related system migrations, consolidations, and upgrades, as well as 10 years experienced with virtualized server environments Linux Xen-based, VMWare, Sun Zoning, IBM HMC LPARS, HP LPARs. Familiar with IBM Websphere MQ series inter-process connectors/communication subsystems. Many years' experience with system hardening, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, and similar secure communication protocols, including initial installation, configuration, and optimization timeouts, active ssh daemon limits, etc Experienced with RedHat GFS global filesystem and GFS2 file systems migrations and optimization. Broad experience with managing Enterprise systems configuration using Bcfg2, kickstart, jumpstart, and NIM server management tools for Unix. In addition, I have significant experience with system kernel optimization and configuration through direct sysconfig and similar boot kernel parameter optimization.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Engineer, IBM AIX SysMirror/HACMP systems RedHat Linux Enterprise Systems

• Functioned as the sole AIX 6.1 System Engineer in support of Compupay's primary data systems PAM ashell running on
• Power6 and Power7 systems in the primary Doral, Fl datacenter and the Franklin, TN DR co-location.
• Initially, stabilized the HA cluster configuration with proper ether channeling as well as dedicated switch configuration the configuration for the HA cluster was un-automated and incomplete when I initially examined the configuration
• Migrated the existing physical staging, training, and QA servers from the existing F80 and Power5 servers in Miramar to virtual LPAR's in Franklin customized the data and application specific files and filesystems for each instance as directed by the application development and production application support teams
• Scripted several system monitoring programs to monitor the health of the AIX HA production cluster in Doral
• Performed software updates, patching, and maintenance on the HMC in Doral, the Power7 cluster in Doral, and the power6 server in Franklin
• Performed RHEL system tuning and optimization as well as security hardening on Tomcat and MQ Connector app servers running on Apache webserver.
• Set up NIM server on a retired power5 server in Doral and added a NIM LPAR to the Franklin Power6 DR server
• Regularly performed Production to Staging data updates from the Netapp storage system snap restores from production LUN's to staging LUN's and re-attachment of the LUN's to the AIX staging server
• Assisted with Cisco and Junos switch configurations and troubleshooting communication errors/bottlenecks
• Assisted with fiber switch installation and configuration in the Doral datacenter

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Project Sunset Solaris Virtualization Lead Engineer

• Performed complete physical systems analysis for potential virtualization on 500 physical servers worldwide
• Recommended best initial targets for virtualization efforts-'Proof of Concept' targets
• Successfully virtualized approx. 100 physical servers to M T-series Oracle Enterprise frames
• Worked directly with the PM for the project and the various GE business unit managers, technical leads and directors on proving full risk mitigation, options and strategies for best methods of moving to virtualization, and weekly status and planning.
• Performed migrations from Veritas Enterprise storage to Oracle ZFS storage solutions.
• Wrote and finalized GE Standard Operating Procedures documents for automated systems data gathering, systems analysis and selection for potential virtualization, and Physical-to-Virtual technical procedures for both direct P2V as well as systems migration virtualization methods.
• Debugged and re-wrote existing PERL, KORN and BASH scripts to automate data gathering on physical servers for handover to the L2 and L3 administrative teams GE.
• Performed interconnectivity and co-dependency requirements and full Systems Analysis of several dozen full Enterprise-level engineering, capital/finance, and human resources ERP Applications for virtualization requirements across the business.

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Project Spring Cleaning Lead Engineer

• Took over duties as primary engineer on the global Solaris system Security and Recommended Cluster/Update OS patching Spring Cleaning project in November 2011.
• Brought the project from approx.. 50 health /completion to over 85 health /completion in less than 30 work days during November and December through testing, customer acceptance and implementation of the Solaris Live Upgrade system
• Assisted streamlining of the business and customer approval process with the L2 administration team leads
• Worked directly with the L2 and L3 support teams as lead L4 virtualization team contact for Live Upgrade implementation across several dozen existing large-frame Sun T5000, M5000/6000 global servers worldwide containing approx.. 100 local virtual machines, including Development , QA, Production and Disaster Recovery environments.

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UNIX Project and Technical Lead-repeat of 2008, 2009 projects

• Functioned as UNIX technical resource and project lead for Blue Cross / Blue Shield Asset Discovery and Software License Management analysis project for UMS. Responsible for complete system software and publisher analysis on approx. 247 Solaris 7, 8, 9, 10 , 58 AIX 5.x and 6.x , and 36 Linux RedHat 5, 6 servers.
• Remote system analysis and reporting provided under W-9 agreement with UMS.
• Successful completion of project on schedule and provided additional value-added reports on logical server zoning and cpu hardware resource counts for licensing verifications provisioning.

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Unix Sr. Engineer Administrator

• Onsite Linux primarily RedHat Unix Support, AIX 5.x 6.x, HP-UX 10 11, Solaris 8,9,10 .
• Primary job function as hands and eyes hardware and software support for 1200 production, development and testing Linux and Unix server datacenter.
• Project work in systems reconfiguration for Oracle and DB2, SAN migration Veritas Enterprise Storage Foundation and Clustering solutions, , high availability solutions, system builds.
• Primarily AIX advanced support operations on system-p with RH, Sun enterprise and entry-level server hardware and some HP systems.
• Other projects included SAN system storage migration Veritas Foundation Suite to IBM XIV product , disaster recovery testing, and high availability cluster configuration and setup.

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Unix Sr. Engineer Administrator

• The Westgate Shop consisted of two data center collocations primary and DR site with approx. 130 Unix and Linux servers for which I was primarily responsible for as the senior administrator.
• Also responsible for 24 x 7 support of Unix print servers at all remote locations approx. 30 resorts
• Full design/engineering, administration and 24 x 7 support of Solaris 8, 9, and 10 Systems running on SPARC and X86 Dell Platforms: ZFS and Virtual Platform Setup, configuration, and administration Zoning hardware support, problem analysis, upgrade path development and execution.
• Familiar and expert level support of Veritas Enterprise solutions including Netbackup running to an ml-6000 LTO4 fiber channel robotic units as well as Volume Suite, etc.
• Apache and Tomcat application servers processing PCI and additional financial data in a secure environment PCI, SPI, S-Ox compliance, security hardening, etc .
• Oracle 10g and 11g upgrade/migration assistance at the OS level including kernel patching, etc.
• EMC Clarion System Management including LUN assignments, configuration, system monitoring, fine-tuning, SAN replication, RAID configuration
• Redhat and Oracle Enterprise Linux running on X86 platforms
• Brocade configuration, fiber channel multipathing configuration, system stand-up
• Hardware support, problem analysis, upgrade path development and execution
• Oracle database and application server system configuration and fine-tuning
• PCA Audit compliance testing and security hardening/problem resolution
• Supported SCO 5.1 Unix c. 1994 running on Dell hardware

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UNIX Project and Technical Lead-repeat of 2008 project

• Functioned as UNIX technical project lead for BCBS Asset Discovery and Software License Management project for UMS. Responsible for complete system software and publisher analysis on approx. 90 Solaris 7, 8, 9, 10 , 45 AIX 5.x and 6.x , and 10 Linux RedHat 7, 8 servers.
• Remote system analysis and reporting provided under W-9 agreement with UMS.
• Successful completion of project and provided additional value-added reports.

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Linux Technical Lead Engineer

• Technical and engineering lead for migration of virtual CentOS LAMP servers to load-balanced RHEL 5.3 Enterprise Advanced Platform virtual servers running under Virtual-Iron xen-based platform on Dell hardware
• installed RH Enterprise Edition Advanced Platform kernels and advanced packages GFS, Clustering
• creation of RH apache clusters virtual nodes as well as paired redundant master-master MySQL database nodes for high availability running under RedHat 5.3 Enterprise Edition Advanced Platform
• configuration of virtualized database and Apache webservers to SAN-Based storage through IP and iSCSI connections StorMagic and NetApps SAN products
• proof-of-concept testing
• complete documentation of entire environment for customer.