SUMMARY:

29 years of Principal-level experience to assist a corporation's operating systems, clustering and storage technologies within their IT infrastructure. Proven design level, as well as hands-on implementation, across many technologies. Organized and able to manage multiple assignments in priority, able to work long or extended hours and travel as much as needed.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Applications Remedy, Radiance, IBIS, Kickstart, PCM, NetView, VCS, Connect IT, Exchange, Wincenter, VMware Fusion 3.1.2, Networker, Partition Magic, Ghostserver, KEA/Vtstar, Citrix MetaFrame / XenApp, Windows Terminal Server, WTS, FTP, NIS, NFS, RIS, X-11, CDE, Dump, Tar, DD, restore, TCP/IP, SMTP, SSH, Putty

O.S.'s Sun Solaris 10, 3.8 8 HP-UX, SCO, Tru64 v4.0f, 5.0,5.1, RedHat Linux 5.0 thru 9.0, Fedora 6, OpenVMS 3.5 thru 7.2, Windows XP, 7, 2003, 2008, MAC.

Hardware Intel, Alpha Servers, ES320, ES40, ES30, 4100's, 2100's, DS10, DS20, HP9000/730-832, SCSI PROBE, PAL, KVM, firmware updates

Networks FC, NFS, NIS, NAS, SANS, TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, DHCP, POP3, WAN/LAN Manager, DECNET, Pathworks 4-5.Xdos/MAC, Reliable Transaction Router, YP

Switches DEChub 90, DECserver, DECrepeaters, FDDI, GigaSwitch, Linksys, Netgear, 3com

Storage Sun StorageTek 6xxx, 3xxx, T3, T3 , T4, FC, HSG80, HSG60, HPStorageWorks, DSSI, Raid

Arrays Vendors, ATA, FDDI, DSSI, ESSI, SCSI

Volume LVM, CAM 5.1.0, Veritas, Solstice Disk Suite, Service Manager, LSM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IBM Hands and Eyes Data center technician

• Respond to inbound ASAP requests for reboots on 10,000 plus servers. Updated OS and firmware updates, Linux, Mac, Windows operating systems.
• Configure ILO's for servers, install VLAN 1 VLAN 2 cables, and Net MGMT cable, mounted servers.
• Provide 7x24 site coverage for Remedy trouble tickets and provide assistance to visiting customers.
• Yellow status light check, Secure hard bad hard drives into secure storage.
• Provide hands-and-eyes services for SSGA and State Street Bank Global customers.

Confidential

Data center technician

• Install, rack/stack, and test all mounted servers, disk arrays, and network devices.
• Install, debug, and document network connections to customers' equipment.
• Update and document all data center systems with troubleshooting and ticket support information.
• Provide 7x24 site coverage for ETMS trouble tickets and provide assistance to visiting customers.
• Respond properly to all alerts/alarms.
• Maintain all work areas in compliance with OSHA safety standards and Verizon cleanliness standards.
• Provide billable hands-and-eyes services for Web Hosting customers.

Confidential

Part-Time Reserve Special Police Officer

• Have worked over 300 Street details for Private Business's and the Town of Maynard.
• 24Hour on Call Basis 24 x 7 x 365
• 1 Monthly Patrol as required, and or coverage for other Special Police Officers if need be
• Secure/Control/Maintain street thruways, for vendors work as well as public traffic flow
• Assist public at any given time or location within the Maynard Town Lines
• Assist on tuning HP OpenVMS Pamet Systems police server and Toughbook PC's on certain occasions

Confidential

Systems Administrator /Consultant

• Contract systems administrator as well for small commercial and residential customers, for Windows Environments, Unix-Linux Environments, and HP OpenVMS
• Small business and home MAC/PC repair
• Supported clients and per call PC's, RedHat Linux, Fedora installation and configurations.

Confidential

Accenture working at SAP/Sybase

Confidential

Systems Engineer

• Reported to site lead/Sybase on site and head of the Data Center Technologies Operations/Next Generation Data centers Accenture
• Supported issues for, DNS, IP, Addressing, Subnet Masks, Routing Gateways As applicable to servers and a Data Center Environment
• Manually, and via telnet, configured 2 entire buildings Networked printers for the IP addressing to be consistent with SAP Performed technical server validation with tools telnet, ping, NFS/CIFS mounts, trust relationships, etc.
• Followed precise directions while contributing expertise to solve problems on the fly
• Completed any remaining inventories on-site, Count, type, location of Assets for re-ip
• Changed up address of an asset via script or manually when needed
• Completed post work tasks, including but not limited to, rebooting of servers to verify change and validate return to service and privileged access and connectivity to machines
• Worked with vendor to resolve any physical hardware or software that may have occurred in the course of the re-ip project.
• Provided accurate reporting or documentation to project/site management.
• Citrix XenAPP for remote access to machines to be reconfigured.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

• Met expected and exceeded customer SLA's
• Utilize HP's Server Automation formerly known as Opsware for installs for Linux and Solaris operating systems, on IBM,DELL,HP hardware
• After stack and rack and networking the hardware work daily server/desktop requests out of Remedy ticketing system for northeast pool of cadence.
• Rack Stack new server workstation equipment, as well as migrate from user area's Unix/ Windows machines onto KVM switches in labs for consolidation process.
• Used kickstart and jumpstart to build machines to put into the compute farm.
• Altiris configuration updating on Unix desktop PC's to comply with Altiris server/client.
• Configure dual/boot Windows XP / REDHAT LINUX pc's into and out of the domain
• Added and configured Space Cruiser meeting.
• SAP client accounting profiles adding and removing privileges, adding printers, adding more physical memory.
• Build/configure new IBM 1U 335 Blades, T61P Dell D620's for the Cadence systems domain, promoted BDC to PDC's, put many laptops and desktops into the Cadence domain and users as well.
• Supported Exchange issues.
• Modified boot environment for grub loader for loading RedHat Linux or windows XP professional, data transfer from old laptop to new laptop environment. Favorites, desktop shortcuts, my documents, archive.pst,outlook.pst Completed pre-audit asset inventory audit on time, Adjusted differences in asset management corporate database.
• De-installed and cascade old equipment

Confidential

Technical Support Engineer III

• Help/consult customers' fix/repair/manage their x64 server platforms daily for external/internal case calls for x-64 server hardware platforms group on Sun hosts Sun / StorageTek arrays and host volume managers Veritas, CAM 5.1.3, Solstice Disk Suite, and Service Manager
• Call escalation or call transfer to other support groups on case by case needs
• IBIS / Radiance application for case management of case's created for internal/external customers

Confidential

Storage Technical Support Engineer III

• Help/consult work daily external/internal case calls for mid-range storage group on Sun hosts Sun / StorageTek arrays and host volume managers Veritas, cam 5.1.3, Solstice Disk Suite, service manager, on a Wed-thru-Saturday 4x10 coverage
• Call escalation or call transfer to other support groups on case by case needs
• Radiance application for case management of case's created for internal/external customers
• Help customers' fix/repair/manage their storage arrays with array software tools

Confidential

Systems Engineer

• Work daily server/desktop requests out of Remedy ticketing system for northeast pool
• Altiris configuration updating on Unix desktop pc's.
• To comply with Altiris Matrix Windows 2003 Server, MS-Exchange Server 5.5, modify user accounts overdrafts-quotas, password resets
• Windows 2000 MS-Exchange Server 5.0 supported Active Directory, Windows Servers, networking equipment and 3rd party software
• Met expected and exceeded customer SLA's
• Configure dual/boot windows XP / RedHat Linux pc's into and out of the domain
• Added and configured Space Cruiser meeting, sap client accounting profiles
• Adding and removing privileges, adding printers, adding more physical memory
• Build/configure new IBM T43p Dell D600's for the cadence systems domain
• Modify boot environment for grub loader for loading RedHat Linux or Windows XP professional
• Data transfer from old laptop to new laptop environment
• Configured Outlook.pst's c: drive and d: drive for data
• Completed pre-audit asset inventory audit on time.
• Adjusted differences in asset management corporate databases
• Installed new server equipment De-installed and cascade old equipment

Confidential

Technical Lead Unix Systems Consultant

• Consulting for various clients as a one-man focal point in a fast paced environment
• Installed/configured daily HP Tru64 Unix, HP OpenVMS 6.2, Linux 6.0 for government engineers
• Installed/configured daily Windows 2000 Server, HP-StorageWorks SCSI and DSSI
• Configured fiber channel on Compaq san, hardware cables and path layouts to San switches to storage for redundancy and swapped out bad hardware when located
• Responsible for hardware verification, staging and integration of customer orders
• Responsible for testing and software configuration of large scale orders to customer requirements, development of client relations, client/employee training, and consulting services
• Technical input to VIS team leaders and installation of completed solutions to customers sites

Confidential

Sr. Unix Q/A Test Engineer

• Built and tested/managed HP Tru64 Unix daily ranging in all facets of system administration:
• HP Tru64 upgrades from 4.0f to 4.0g, 5.0a 5.1, R.I.S. CD-ROM patches and firmware updates
• Stress tested file systems daily ADVFS, NFS, MFS, UFS, and LSM volume file systems Scripts to stress out the machine over 120 to produce crashes
• Ran DBX debugger crash analysis program after crashes
• Citrix client.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Verified Y2K Compliance on HP OpenVMS/VAX production machines
• Verified Y2K layered products installed on 7 Alpha's and 4 VAX's, installed Y2K patches
• Recommend migration plan from older VAX's to Alpha Platform for increased production results
• Recommended turning Alpha's into NT 4.0 boxes or Linux servers to increase SLA's on MQSeries Application and increase OEM support level
• Disaster recovery procedure for HP OpenVMS nodes, Alpha/VAX System performance/tuning with VPA

Confidential

Systems Administrator Software Q/A Engineer

• On a daily basis built/installed/administered remotely configured NT4.0 Server boxes for production installations
• Ran daily Quality Assurance on systems before going into production environment
• Supported UNIFI'S production environment worldwide, provided 2nd tier network configuration support
• Supported daily Solaris 2.x, RedHat Linux, HP-UX, SCO systems in a production environment.
• Run Remotely Possible 32 to verify installations or changes in worldwide production codes before being release to worldwide systems that supported UNIFI'S corporate revenue to worldwide companies
• Used Citrix MetaFrame to access remote machines to update Unifi Products and reboot, and test for compatibility and functionality

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Supported daily an engineering environment that consisted of 40-60 engineers
• Primary role as primary systems administrator of 20-30 Digital Unix 3.x 4.x systems in a NT/PATHWORKS DOMAIN environment, supported citrix servers and DECwindows.
• On a daily basis installed, built, and supported NT 4.0 W95 PC' in the local DOMAIN
• Created inventory list of all software/hardware configured in EXCEL for better administration of software and hardware inventory control
• On a daily basis Administer/installed/configured 8-10 large LAVC'S
• Install/configure VAXstations 4000's, DSSI-SCSI storage arrays
• Administer 5 large CI HP Alpha/VAXclusters in a multi-platform client/server environment for 2,000 users connecting via Microsoft TCP/IP over Pathworks 4.x and 5.x
• Administer multi-platforms for Digital Unix, DEC OSF 1.4, Ultrix, and W9x NT HP OPENVMS
• Installed Windows NT, Windows 9x, Installed multi-layered products on HP OpenVMS and PC's
• Main emphasis on performance management/fine tuning of HP Alpha/OpenVMS
• CPU, Memory, IO recommendations regarding cluster performance
• Installation/recommendation of caching and defragmentation product s
• Support installed HP Unix and Microsoft variations of windows platforms and software
• Supported Microsoft Exchange 5.0 support desk, raised quotes, password resets and other miscellaneous problems with corporate personal accounts

Confidential

Support Engineer

• Installed software and hardware for multi-platform operating systems and layered products
• Pathworks Server/Client, infoservers, scanners, DEChub 90's, Teamlinks, Linkworks, All-In-One, CDD, Terminal Servers.
• Resolved daily software applications failures, resolved hardware, software, printer, terminal and network errors

Confidential

Support Engineer

• Software/Systems Support Engineer for Trade Shows responsibilities included systems management and technical support for Digital and 3rd party vendors.
• Installed multiple operating systems and layered products for Digital's trade shows
• Configured/installed Digital Unix, SCO-ODT
• Configured/installed NT 3.51Server, HP OpenVMS, Windows 3.1 3.11, Macintosh
• Designed/configured systems layouts and network configurations for trade shows booths
• Configured Multi-Platforms Storage devices SCSI, DSSI Supported 400 shows such as CTIA, DBEXPO, CTIA, ALPHA AXP announcement and DECworld 1992
• Saved several hundred hours in labor and cost by suggesting a streamlined backup for DECworld 1992 staging and event

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Installed managed multiple systems for 6000 users on HP VAXclusters and HP Ultrix systems throughout the Maynard Mill Headquarters. Capacity planning on HP VAXCLUSTERS and stand a lone systems.
• System performance management/fine tuning of VMS.
• Managed DECNET, LAT, MOP, MSCP, LASTCP protocols