Experience

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential

• Managed, maintained, and administrated Cisco ASA 5525-x, Cisco Nexus 5596T switches with Nexus 2k
• fabric extenders, Juniper SSG 320M, and Dell PowerConnect Network devices
• Setup and managed Kemp LM 2000 and 3600s
• Installed, implemented Dell PowerVault MD3660 and Dell Compellent SC8000 filers. Provisioned storage
• based on business requirements and rate of growth
• Configured iSCSI logical switch failover using Dell PowerConnect 6248, SAN-to-SAN replication with Dell
• Equallogic PS4100 arrays
• Help with acquiring Metro Ethernet Circuit to use for data replication using Zerto software
• Designed security postures to improve management access
• Helped with redesigning LUNs to use RAID 10 instead of RAID 5 when implementing SaaS
• Installed, Maintained, and troubleshot IIS server issues running our SaaS Platform
• Installed, configured,maintainedVmwareESXi 5.1 and 5.5 DRS clustering, cpu/memory resource pools,
• implementedZerto virtual replication appliance, used RV tools to inventory virtual environment.
• Configured IT infrastructure for fault tolerance and redundancy for Edge Aggregate Access network layers,
• DRS clustering for VMware along with triggers for fault tolerance resource limitations
• Zerto replication to disaster recovery site the ViaWest DC in Dallas,TX,
• Installed, configured, managed cisco nexus 5596T and cisco 3850 series switches
• Troubleshooting VPN tunnel issues on Juniper ssg 320m and cisco asa 5525-x

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential

• Performed backup with Veeam 6.5 and practiced restores on a monthly basis
• Configured, monitored, and performed configuration changes on EMC CX3-700 devices, Sun StorageTek
• Tape Devices, Netapp 3050c and R200 filers with MKII FC disk shelves, and HP StorageWorks MSA 1000
• devices
• Created diagrams that help upper management make decisions based on the current hardware environment
• Managed backup jobs with CA ArcServe, ArcServe backup software, and Veeam 6.5 replication
• Created LUNs for Windows/Linux based servers, configured QoS settings on Cisco catalyst chassis for
• better throughput
• Coordinated Projects between offices in Argentina, Spain, and the main office in Irvine, Ca
• Configured VmwarevCenter for load balancing VMs, DRS clustering
• Performed vCenter installation maintained and configured
• Configured Netapp Filer via CLI, System Manager 2.1 performed backup via SnapMirror with SnapDrive
• Configured and Maintained HP SAN Director FC switches performed failover configuration
• Provide analytics reports storage IO performance, storage capacity, fault tolerances, and memory usage
• Used IOmeter to perform storage IO testing on FC, SATA, and SAS drives
• Perform firmware performance analysis, how previous firmware performs against latest firmware
• Spoke freely about analysis reports, ideas for improving performance and servicing model as a Cloud
• Service Provider
• Administered EMC and Netapp devices for business continuity purposes DR replication of VMs and
• Netapp volumes using snapmanager suite snapmirror
• Configured EMC with Navisphere 6.x and Netapp Devices with System Manager 2.1
• Knowledge of Netapp Data OnTap 7.2.4 and 8.1
• Setup CIFS and NFS on Netapp and EMC devices NAS technology
• Installed and configured CentOS and Ubuntu Servers CIFS, NFS, and FC to Sun StorageTek L700e
• Cabled and configured NetApp DS2246 and DS4243 disk shelves
• Created VLANs on Brocade BigIron 800, 8000, and 15000 series switches

Data Storage Engineer

Confidential

• Installed, Maintained, and Configured Brocade 8000 and 6510 FC/FCOe, Cisco Nexus 5020 FCOe
• switches.
• Installed, maintained, and configured HP MSA storage devices, Oracle sunfire x4450 and x4470 M2
• servers Dell R820, R710, R620, and R610 servers
• Lead Engineer for solving issues with Dell and Oracle issues
• Performed performance testing with Netapp 6080 filer and EMC CX3-40 storage devices.
• Performed performance testing with FibrePCIe for servers such as QLogic HBA 8300, 8200, and 2600
• CNA cards.
• Configured and maintained HP EVA P6300 and HP EVA MSA P2000 FC/iSCSI storage devices
• Provisioned scalable Storage LUNs to anticipate future storage business needs

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential

• Help support DR sites for data replication/business continuity
• Designed and Created VPNs between branch offices
• Part of SAP support tech team
• Operated and maintained Cisco ASA 5520 setup VPNs, failover clusters, encryption domains
• Perform network troubleshooting skills with BlackBox analyzer
• Configured switches Cisco 3750 and 2960, HP 5406zl , routers 3825, 1841, 2821, 2911 , and
• security gateways Cisco ASA 5520, Checkpoint 4607
• Installed and configured Dell server R610, R710, Poweredge 2850, 2950, 1800.
• Knowledge of Dell's RACADM command line
• Design network physical and logical topologies for increased performance, security, and data integrity
• of frames/packets traversing network
• Helped IT director develop IT governance rules
• Worked with vendors like AT T and XO communications to implement a cost effective network
• solution
• Installed, Configured, optimized Cisco Aironet 1240G devices setup root and repeater access points
• Installed, Configured, and managed EMC VNX 5300 filer plus Cisco 1900 MDS fiber channel
• switches
• Reversed engineered Data Center creating multiple Visio documents to represent current state and
• proposed states previously vendor controlled
• Performed BGP, VRRP, and HSRP protocol functions
• Configured and Installed Raids, LUNs, Zones, CIFS, and NFS
• Knowledge of SCSI, iSCSI, and FC protocols
• Setup data replication for disaster recovery planning with remote location sites
• Managed SAN with EMC Unisphere management tool
• Troubleshot NAT-T branch offices have to sit behind one LAN that is translated into a public address to
• AT T hosted solution in Anapolis.

Data Storage Engineer

Confidential

• Performed analyzer bus traces on NetApp equipment using FinisarXgig bus tracer Analyzed
• communications between host bus adapter, SAS controller, and SAS/SATA HDD
• Responsible for Creating Test Plans for performance and protocol tests
• Wrote weekly status reports to upper management
• Spoke to customer NetApp about issues with HDD firmware and pushed those issues further
• Established metric for performance in the NetApp subdepartment
• Created error reports for firmware engineers
• Worked with FCOE, SATA, and SAS protocols.
• Operated Netapp Filer FAS 2050s, 3050s, 3070s, and 6080s.
• Operated Netapp Disk Shelves MKII, DS2246, DS4243.
• Performed installations, configurations with VmwareESXi 4.1
• Troubleshot vSwitches, PortGroups, and Network Interface cards using ESXi command line utilities

Data Network Administrator

Confidential

• Created ACLs on Cisco 1700 series routers for University of La Verne, LA county fire department
• Managed network with NetFlow analyzer
• Cabled Cisco 2600 routers, Cisco 2950 switches in the data center at the University of La Verne
• Configured IGRP, OSPF, BGP Routers to update route topology and databases
• Configured Frame relay routers for cheaper connectivity to branch offices
• Configured site-to-site VPN to remote campuses using Cisco PIX security gateways
• Experience in Trackit and Remedy ticket tracking systems