SUMMARY:

• UNIX Engineer with extensive background in both design and architecting of solutions using high availability methodologies in the data center and support in large corporate environments. Effective in meeting customer needs with reliable, available and supportable solutions. Agent for change who is skilled at using modeling tools, best practices and technology to improve processes.
• Architecture Design
• Sun certified
• Leadership
• Large Data centers
• RAS
• UNIX Systems Engineer/Analyst/Admin
• Solaris 2.5.1/2.6/2.7/2.8/2.9/2.10/2.11
• Solaris Package Management
• Solaris Patch Management
• RedHat
• RedHat Package Management(RPM)
• Clustering - Veritas/Sun
• Server Migration Methodologies
• Virtualization (zones/containers, LDOMS)
• Volume Managers - Veritas/Sun
• Volume Replicator - Veritas
• TDMF - Data Migration Tool
• Qlogic ISR - Data Migration Device/Tool
• Networking, TCP/IP, Routing
• Scripting sh, csh, ksh, perl
• RBAC(Role Based Access Control)
• Security
• Monitoring - Tivoli, Dynatrace, Scripts
• Agile Project Mgmt Methodology
• Project management
• Security Clearance - Not at present

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SOFTWARE: Solaris Red Hat Zones/Containers/LDOM SVM ZFS VxFS Sun Cluster Server VERITAS Cluster Server VERITAS Storage Suite NFS/NAS NIS/NIS+/DNS/LDAP TCP/IP Networking Oracle DB & RAC Scripting Monitoring TeamQuest MS Applications MS OS XP/NT/2003

HARDWARE: Fujitsu PP650/850 Sun T1000/T2000 Sun T51xx/T52xx Sun M4000/M5000 Sun X4600 SunFire Range Enterprise Range Sun Ultra Desktop HP DL585 SAN EMC/HDS Sun Storage Networking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Snr Unix Infrastructure Architect Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead UNIX Infrastructure engineer for Million Dollar Flight Cargo application virtualized on RHEL 6.x used by airline for Dangerous Goods tracking and FAA flight operations validation. Supported billion dollar deployment of next generation airline freight/cargo web applications. Install and configured hardware and OS utilizing virtualization for application in zones and LDOMs and RedHat RHEL 6.x. Validated systems standard and deployment process for data center roll out into a distributed UNIX environment using Solaris 10/11 Operating system and containers and Redhat 6.x Virtual environments. Migrate legacy application based on Solaris 8/9 from Physical to Solaris 10/11 Virtual environments.
• Write and edit documentation for third party support personal to migrate and support application in staging and production environments. Manage Server OS with respect to rollout of Package/rpms and Patch levels, to ensure up to date and supportable operating environment. Assisted program project managers for roll out and prepared deployment and project documentation. Configure High Availability RAC shared Oracle environment using VERITAS Cluster Server and integrate with Oracle 10g. Work with Application teams to install Application packages and relevant patches, evaluate systems and tune OS and File systems for best performance. Wrote shells scripts to deploy system install configuration & monitoring. Wrote process control scripts and deploy to systems in production.
• Documented design of hardware and software configurations for operations runbook. Request Firewall and port allocation and test connectivity to third party managed servers. Provided systems engineering support and knowledge transfer to data center support staff. Provide Third Line support to third party managed server environment data center support staff.

Confidential, Woodlands Hills, CA

Technical Lead Solaris/Linux/Veritas UNIX Engineer SME

Responsibilities:

• Supported Million dollar migrations of business critical & operational application migration to Client & IBM Data centers. Subject matter expert for migration engineers for Solaris Operating System and Veritas product suite with respect to server system migrations. Architect migration methodologies to best utilize virtualization provide by Solaris 10 Operating system. Assist storage team to install and configure TDMF and Veritas Volume Replicator under Solaris/Linux. Lead a team of 10+ migration engineers supporting client physical/virtual server migrations as subject matter expert and provide technical expertise and documentation for methodologies for all migrations. Install and configured hardware and OS utilizing virtualization for application in zones and LDOM s.
• Validated systems standard and migration process for data center roll out for P2P,P2V and V2V configurations.Wrote migration tool to simplify server migrations and transition from Source to Target data center. Validate Server OS Release, Package and Patch levels and remediate for migration in Global and Local Zones.
• Assisted program project managers for roll out and prepared migration and project documentation.
• Configure High Availability Oracle environment using VERITAS Cluster Server in Active/Passive and Active/Active modes. Configure Veritas VVR and assist with TDMF data replication for client data transfer to new data centers. Support client validation of migrated systems for production signoff and turnover to steady state teams.

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Senior Unix Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported billion dollar deployment of next generation airline freight/cargo web application. Install and configured hardware and OS utilizing virtualization for application in zones and LDoms.
• Validated systems standard and deployment process for data center roll out into a distributed UNIX environment using Solaris 10 Operating system and containers.
• Manage Server OS with respect to rollout of Package and Patch levels, to ensure up to date and supportable operating environment.
• Assisted program project managers for roll out and prepared deployment and project documentation. Configure High Availability RAC shared Oracle environment using VERITAS Cluster Server and integrate with Oracle 10g.
• Work with Application teams to install Application packages and relevant patches, evaluate systems and tune OS and File systems for best performance. Wrote shells scripts to deploy system install configuration & monitoring.
• Wrote process control scripts and deploy to systems in production. Documented design of hardware and software configurations for operations runbook. Provided systems engineering support and knowledge transfer to data center support staff.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

Senior Solutions Architect Software manufacture/Implementer

Responsibilities:

• Supported Sales staff in all aspects of customer projects and meetings as technical resource.
• Prepared technical solution design from customer specifications for Data Center deployment. Validated customer data center for facilities to support deployment and prepared design documentation. Installed solution on customer site and attended customer deployment meetings with project manager. Prepared deployment and project documentation. Installed High Availability services using VERITAS Cluster Server and integrated application into cluster framework.Planned and upgraded customer software suite s including VCS/VxVM/VVR/VxFS and verified for production.
• Test monitoring and PTO signoff of system to production. Documented design and hardware configuration as server hardware and software deployed. Provided customer support staff with solution knowledge transfer.

Confidential, Houston,Texas

Senior Solaris/RedHat UNIX systems Build Engineer Financial

Responsibilities:

• Designed Production and Disaster Recovery solution for trading floor application to provide performance, application availability and system redundancy.
• Supported large Data Centers in excess of 1500 servers in multi region locations. Data center facilities for system deployment, configure San and networking. Installed operating system Solaris/Red Hat and configured storage and networks for availability.User account authentication using Keon (BOX/SEOS)
• Installed application dependant software.
• Configured Cluster Services for application
• Configured Zones/Containers
• Configured system hardware/software monitoring to mission control displays.
• Documented design and hardware configuration as server hardware and software installed.
• Documented and performed system Disaster Recovery process.
• Provided system knowledge transfer to support staff.
• Supported systems for all production issues.

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

Senior Technical Solution Architect/ Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported Sales staff in all aspects of customer projects and meetings as technical resource.
• Prepared technical solution design from customer specifications for Data Center deployment and integration. Validated customer Data Center for facilities to support deployment. Installed solution on customer site and attend customer deployment meetings with project manager. Directed third party vendors in install of facilities if required or monitored customer facilities staff in deployment for network, power, storage and Data Center facilities. Configured system storage and File systems using EMC/Hitachi Arrays and ZFS/VxFS file systems. Installed application dependant software. Installed High Availability services using
• VERITAS Cluster Server, Configure HA services for customer application, wrote numerous application controls scripts. Configured/interfaced solution with customer hardware/software monitoring environment. Test monitoring and PTO signoff of system to production. Documented design and hardware configuration as server hardware and software installed. Provided customer support staff with solution knowledge transfer. Configured customer runbook guide on web server. Provided support for customer performance/capacity issues.