SUMMARY:

• I am a Senior UNIX Systems Architect and Administrator with over nineteen years of experience. My focus of expertise is in the design of UNIX/Linux infrastructure and management of UNIX systems (HP - UX, Solaris, RHEL/Linux and Exadata systems)
• My area of expertise is within the architecture, engineering and configuration of HP-UX Serviceguard clusters and RHEL systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technology and Tools: Operating Systems and Hardware Platforms Red Hat RHEL 7.x, 6.x and 5.x HP - UX 11.31, 11.23, 11.11, 11.00, 10.20 Solaris 10 AIX 6.1 Exadata X4 Confidential Helion Hybrid Cloud Confidential Blade Systems and C-7000 Enclosures Superdome, Integrity (RX Series), RP, K and N-Class Servers HP-UX nPars, vPars and Integrity Virtual Machines Confidential ProLiant Servers Confidential Virtual Connect Confidential Serviceguard 11.20 OpenView, GlancePlus, SiteScope and PerfView EMC VMAX and Symmetrix Confidential 3PAR, XP, MSA and Smart Array Storage Devices Oracle Solaris T4 and T5 Systems SAP/R4, Oracle and PeopleSoft Environments Veritas Volume Manager and File System Version 3.5 IBM InfoSphere/WebSphere DNS, NIS and NFS Configuration C and Fortran Programming C, TCL/TK, Korn, Bash, Perl and AWK Scripting Software InfoSphere, WebSphere, Oracle, SAP, Tidal, WebLogic, HPSA NX Graphics (formerly known as Unigraphics), Cisco Tidal

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Systems Engineer and Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the build and management of all HP-UX and RHEL Linux systems. This includes Superdome servers, Integrity rx-Series servers and Confidential BL-Series Blade systems (460/860/870/890 ) as well as ProLiant servers for our RHEL environment. My daily responsibilities include the management of all hardware, storage and other operating system related functions.
• Administration of Confidential 3PAR Storage systems.
• Architecture and management of a large data center migration from an Confidential -owned data center in California to a newly built Confidential data center in Oklahoma. This is a very large project to move all the hardware for CalWIN into a newly upgraded and state of the art data center.
• Other duties also include the design of an Ignite-UX recovery solution as part of our DR Solution for CalWIN.
• Responsible for all firmware upgrade projects for all server hardware.
• Support of all Development Projects in regards to application configuration.
• Management of all tickets and incidents for our off-hours, offshore personnel.
• Management of all hardware and software support contracts.

Disaster Recovery Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design of Ignite-UX recovery environment for HP-UX systems.
• Design of Veritas VxVM and VxFS recovery procedures for Solaris systems.
• Creation of all DR engineering documentation.
• Assisting system administrators in the implementation of the DR configuration.

UNIX Systems Architect and UNIX Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Management of the Confidential Virtual Connect application used for the configuration of Confidential BL860/870/890 blades within Confidential Blade Chassis c7000 enclosures.
• Management of the Exadata Environment - I was responsible for the management of the Exadata X4 systems being used for Oracle RAC databases.
• Responsible for the build and configuration of Confidential Serviceguard clusters used for all of the Oracle databases.
• Responsible for the management of NetBackup scripts that utilize EMC VMAX clone devices.
• Architecture and support of the Ally DataStage IBM Infosphere platform.
• Responsible for the configuration of applications such as Cisco Tidal and WebLogic.
• Additional duties included the mentoring and of colleagues with the UNIX Operations team, developing methodology that is used by build engineers and the UNIX Support Group, and assistance on production data migrations to insure smooth and successful transitions to all of the newly migrated systems.
• When necessary, I also assisted the Operations Group in completing various production changes and resolving system outages.
• Technical Project Manager - I was responsible for managing multiple projects every week working with senior project managers to meet very stringent deadlines.

UNIX Systems Architect, Senior Systems Administrator and Storage Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I was the lead Systems Administrator and Storage Engineer for the GE Aviation UK SAP Jet Engine Service Work Order Management System. This was an SAP application that resided on an Confidential Serviceguard Cluster. This was a mission-critical application responsible for the management of jet engine servicing for all GE customers within the UK and Europe. This also included the servicing of all NATO military aircraft. This is a system that is responsible for bringing in over $1.5 billion of revenue per year for GE Aviation.
• Designed an automated EMC BCV backup that allows data to be archived onto tape from another host without having to impact production and the performance of the systems.
• I also designed an automated Ignite-UX recovery environment that will allow for servers to be reinstalled in hours rather than having to restore them manually.
• Personally migrated 2TB of production data from an old EMC Symmetrix to a new VMAX all while the systems were active in production. No down time was incurred during this migration.
• Primary systems administrator for PeopleSoft Serviceguard clusters for the GE Interpark Group in Chicago. This engagement involved the relocation of their entire environment from the GE/GIS datacenters in Connecticut into a new data center located in Chicago.
• Responsible for the management and operation of all OpenView monitoring systems. I also was responsible for the migration of the storage for these systems to a new EMC VMAX enclosure from an older Symmetrix environment.
• Designed and built a 3-Terabyte HP-UX Serviceguard cluster for GE Advanced Materials (now part SABIC industries of Saudi Arabia) to be used for an SAP product ordering and manufacturing control system.
• Responsible for the configuration and maintenance of NBC Universal PeopleSoft Production and Development clusters.

UNIX Systems Architect/Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed an Ignite-UX solution to facilitate the creation of centralized network recovery images. This was a very high-profile project since a third of the systems were located in data centers outside the US that did not have dedicated onsite support.
• Working with management in the capacity planning of all new hardware. This included working with hardware vendors in regards to the best possible hardware solution for the least amount of capital expenditure.
• Working with the Storage Administration team in regards to disk allocation and performance. This included working with both Confidential XP and EMC storage environments.
• Working with database administrators in regards to database configuration and performance tuning.

Enterprise Architect and UNIX Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• The installation and configuration of Confidential Superdome systems to be utilized for this new SAP/Basis application.
• Working with EMC to configure storage for all newly built servers.
• Creation and installation of patch bundles and firmware for all of the SAP/Basis servers.
• Designed and configured the Superdome DR solution for this new SAP environment.
• Provided off-hours support for the SAP/Basis Development group in regards to operational incidents and configuration changes.

Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• As a Senior Lead Systems Administrator I was responsible for the daily installation and maintenance of over two hundred (200) HP-UX and one hundred (100) Solaris based UNIX systems. Applications utilized on these systems were used for domestic and long distance phone call billing. I was also responsible for the design and configuration of an Ignite-UX server to be used for network-based operating system recoveries. These systems were located in the Columbus, Ohio, Denver, Colorado and Omaha, Nebraska data centers. Other duties also included on-call support and assisting database administrators in the troubleshooting of all customer-service applications.
• Creation of all pre-installation and post-installation Ignite-UX scripts to automate the operating system installation process for all new servers. I developed scripts that would automate boot disk mirroring, user account creation, and network and kernel configuration. Other than storage and file system configuration, no other manual work was required.
• Responsible for the management of all HP-UX software depots and patch bundles.
• Working with EMC to design and configure the storage environment for all HP-UX systems.
• The creation of new HP-UX software packages for products such EMC SYMCLI software and non-bundled public-domain software such as OpenSSH.

Sr. UNIX Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and maintenance of Ignite-UX and Solaris Jumpstart.
• Confidential Serviceguard cluster design and configuration.
• Storage support (EMC and Confidential arrays).
• Daily support to all customer database administrators who required assistance in areas such as performance tuning and file system management.
• During times when I was not involved in technical support duties, I engaged in technical sales support duties for the Broadwing sales team. This included meeting with new customers to discuss our offerings to finalizing the actual support contract.