OBJECTIVE

• Experienced Systems Engineer who combines systems design and life cycle support coupled with a practical approach to support individuals and teams at all levels within the organization accelerating established goals.

SUMMARY

• Technology Specialist with over twenty years of experience in the design, implementation, and support of network and computing environments in the Government, Petrochemical, Accounting, Retail, and Medical industries.
• Design Production computing environments that include failover and disaster recovery solutions using latest equipment and security protocols.
• Expertise in the virtualization of network and SAN resources for IBM's AIX and VIO servers by leveraging LACP, VLAN Tagging, and partition mobility.
• Skilled in design, installation, upgrade, and maintenance of SAN fabrics and zoning.
• Skilled in installation, setup, administration, and maintenance of large NetApp Storage (Filer and eSeries) arrays and clusters as well as smaller storage islands.
• Skilled in installation, setup, administration, and maintenance of Brocade and Cisco SAN switches.
• Skilled in developing both strategic and tactical plans that include both the customer and technology for future growth, high availability (HACMP), continuance of operation and disaster recovery.
• Experience with setup and administration of IBM DS4/5K/7K series disk subsystems.
• Experience with setup and administration of EMC CX - 480 and VX-5700 disk subsystems integrating into the IBM SVC.
• Experience installing and setting up Azure and StorSimple 8100.
• Experienced in aspects of network infrastructure devices such as switches and routers, vlans and trunking.
• Design customized solutions utilizing Unix Shell scripting, KORN, Bash, C Shell, SSH, FTP, SFTP, and NFS.
• Able to quickly assimilate new skills and technologies.
• Fluently Bilingual in Spanish and English.
• Willing to travel up to 30%

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• IBM Filenet Basic Training
• Several IBM 'Lunch-n-Learn' classes
• Netcool Boot camp
• BMC Patrol Developer for UNIX
• Netware CNE
• Linux Server Administration
• Linux Advanced Server Administration
• Red Hat Linux Bootcamp
• PHP and PostgreSQL Web Site Programming
• Citrix WinFrame
• AIX System and Advanced System Administration
• AIX korn shell programming
• NetApp ONTAP 8.3 and 9.1 Administration .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Systems Architect III

Confidential, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Implement, upgrade and maintain the physical fiber plant in the Woodlands, Baton Rouge, and Plainfield data centers.
• Maintain and update the single initiator fiber zoning for all fiber fabrics in all locations on Brocade switches.
• Provision storage from Compellent, NetApp, IBM V7000 and DS8800, as well as EMC CX-480 and VX5700 in various corporate locations.
• Work on project teams across the company to help define storage needs and types such as NAS, CIFS, NFS, and/or fiber channel and, after project approval, define and implement it to the appropriate VCenter for the project.
• Maintain and update AIX environments for the various TSM servers as well as assisting in the day to day TSM checks and tasks through command line and Ops Center.
• Troubleshoot and repair TSM storage, tape drive and library issues
• Assist with the installation and support of Veritas NetBackup.
• Participate in the on-call support of the storage and backup systems and participate in after-hours activities.
• Liaison to DBA group for designing and maintaining the high performance flash storage systems for the databases.
• Work with System Admin teams to migrate/replicate storage and systems from one data center to another.
• Setup proof of concept for System Administrators to provision their own storage for VMware with VSC
• Apply patches and upgrades to storage and fiber switch systems without impacting production uptime.
• Participate in the weekly Change control meeting to approve change requests.
• Create and maintain documentation of the storage and fiber networks using Excel and Visio.
• Utilize applications such as Solar Winds, Brocade Network Advisor, and NetApp Unified Manager, OnCommandand, and the CLI (7Mode & CDOT) to monitor and manage the storage environment.
• During crisis situations, work with Management and team members of other departments to drive the issues to resolution while maintaining a calm and professional demeanor.
• When possible, script tasks to aid in configuration or maintenance tasks. Document the current environment and write proposals for upgrades and improvements.
• Troubleshoot issues that arise then escalate and work with the proper vendor support company to issue completion, verification and root cause analysis.
• Work with vendors on design, pricing and delivery within project requirements.
• Help support and provision storage on Red Hat and Oracle Linux systems from CLI .

UNIX Systems Engineer

Confidential, Tomball, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Daily monitoring and maintaining of the systems in the Tomball Datacenter
• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining the Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup environment and schedules for AIX, Linux, and Windows OS as well as TDP schedules for Oracle and SQL backups on physical and virtual environments.
• Manage daily TSM tape archival to off-site storage.
• Monitor and maintain IBM SAN storage consisting of XIV, 8100 and an SVC, as well as NetApp storage.
• Migration of the SAN switches from Brocade to Cisco equipment.
• Management of the SAN fiber zoning on the Cisco fiber switches.
• Define and present storage to AIX, VIOS, VMware, and Windows systems.
• Worked with project teams to make sure all required resources were made available to them.
• During crisis situations, worked with the project team members to drive the issues to resolution while maintaining a calm and professional demeanor.

AIX Systems Engineer

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Planning, designing, documenting, building, and deploying AIX 5, 6, and 7, P5, P6 and Power7, 550, 570, 595, 740, 720, and PureFlex servers, and SAN with V7000 storage systems.
• Participate in the on-call support of the systems.
• Automate Operating System, patch deployment processes, and mksysb backups using IBM’s Network Installation Manager (NIM).
• Work with the application teams to recommend best practices in relation to computing environments.
• The use of the Hardware Management Console (HMC) to configure and modify the hardware resources for each Logical Partition (LPAR) and also used it to perform Live Partition Mobility to move live virtual partitions between different physical servers.
• The implementation of the Virtual I/O servers to share resources efficiently among the LPARs in each hardware frame utilizing NPIV, SEA, Ethernet trunking, and Logical Partition Mobility
• Responsible for the SAN lun sizing, placement and designation for SVC to SVC replication to DR site.
• On the team for the design of Disaster Recovery plans and testing.
• Script many of the daily tasks and processes with error trapping and email notifications.

AIX Systems Engineer

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Planning, designing, documenting, building, and deploying AIX p4, p5, and p6 550, 570 and 670 servers, and their associated storage systems.
• Participate in the on-call support of the systems.
• Automate Operating System and patch deployment processes using IBM’s Network Installation Manager (NIM).
• Work with the product teams to recommend best practices in relation to computing environments.
• The use of the Hardware Management Console (HMC) to configure the hardware resources for each Logical Partition (LPAR).
• The implementation of the Virtual I/O servers to share resources efficiently among the LPARs in each hardware frame.
• Installation of Brocade SAN switches hardware to allow the shared use of the storage hardware.
• The setup and administration of IBM DS4K series disk subsystems with creation of Arrays and LUNs on the SAN for assignment to the various systems.
• Tivoli Storage Manger administration and support on the server and clients.
• Focal person for the design of Disaster Recovery plans and testing.

Senior Lab Systems Engineer

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Planning, designing, documenting, building, and deploying UNIX / Linux based servers, storage systems.
• Participate in the on-call support of the systems
• Automate Operating System deployment processes
• Installation, configuration, maintenance, and support of Cisco routers and switches.
• Work with Development Teams to recommend best practices in relation to test environments.
• Implement and maintain KVM over IP on systems in the Labs to allow console access and testing from programmer/tester desks as well as other sites.
• Integrate newer systems into the resource pool while removing systems that no longer meet the technical specifications.
• Interfacing with the various departments to assist in the placement and timeframe of the project equipment.
• Supported systems include:
• IBM p5, AS/400, HMC, and others
• Sun E250, V120, 280R, Sunblades, and Ultra 10
• Miscellaneous Intel based systems running various versions of Windows, and Linux.

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working with the customer to understand the current and desired computing environment.
• Interfacing with various groups such as Communications, Software, and Storage to insure desired functionality and capability.
• Interfacing with the various departments to assist in the pricing and acquisition of the project equipment.
• Being the technical liaison during the implementation phase of the project.