SUMMARY:

• Highly organized and skilled in systems development and testing, network administration, system administration and configuration, automation and quality control in a test or development environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: PC, PowerEdge Servers, Confidential Inspiron and Latitude laptops,,HP9000, Confidential pSeries, TANDEM, TI1500, TI990, SUN WORKSTATION,(Sparc*), VAX, EquaLogic, Confidential PowerVault Storage MD1000 - MD3800 RAID Arrays, Cisco Routers Cisco Switches, Confidential Switches, HBA, NIC, iDRAC

Languages: C, C++, COBOL(MS & RM), MS Visual Studio, PASCAL, PERL, Python, SQL, Shell, Powershell, AWK, NAWK, BASIC, Visual Basic

O/S: Windows Server 2000-2016 Client 7-10, RedHat, SuSE, Ubuntu, VMware ESXi, DX10, VAX/VMS

Tools: HTML, racadm, MS Office, Excel, Fibre Channel, Framework, FTP, Ghost, HTX, I/O Basher, I/O Gen, I/O Monkey, ITDT, LDAP, Loadrunner, LSF, LYNX, Niagara, Confidential Open Manage (OMSA), Confidential MDSM, NDMP, NetVault, NFS, Packet Tracer, Procom+, PXE, RAID ARRAY (0,1,5,6,10), RMU, Retrospect, SAM, SAMBA, SAN/NAS, SATA, SCSI, iSCSI, Serva, Sharepoint, IPv4, IPv6, Telnet, Bugzilla, QMetry, JIRA, Agile, tar, vi, vim, VDS, VNC, Wiki, Word, busTrace, CommVault, Retrospect, busTrace, Serva, ITDT, Backup Exec, NetVault.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

General Manager/System Administrator/Programmer

• General Manager/Owner of small trucking company that hauls sand for the Oil Industry.
• Responsible for long term Operations, management (office management, planning, financing, etc), planning, expansion, etc. Administer Linux and Windows based servers, LAN and automation in Python and Shell scripting.

Confidential

Test Engineer - Confidential cards

• Executed test cases written by development Engineers.
• Troubleshot defects found during testing Confidential HBA, CNA. Tracked and reported defects in JIRA/QMetry.
• Testing involved networking - Fibre and Ethernet configuration, and debugging network traffic.
• PXE, LifeCycle Controller, iDRAC, racadm, RMU, Nic Partitioning, Agile, Outlook Express, BIOS and UEFI boot and Install, SNMP, CNA, HBA, NIC, PowerShell

Confidential

Test Engineer - Storage Validation - System/Network Administration

• Responsible for building, configuring and testing multi-server and multi-array systems running multiple Windows Server and Linux Operating Systems and Confidential ’s MDSM Array controller software. Verification of iSCSI solutions on Windows Server 2008, 2012, SUSE and Redhat using various test tools including Iometer, Iogen and Iomonkey.
• Debugged and tracked defects using Bugzilla, Agile, QMetry JIRA, and to find root cause of defects.
• Validated vSphere, VMware, esx, esxi and VMware plugins on Confidential Storage.
• Oversaw lab layout including but not limited to switches, serial replicators, cabling of 1G, 6G 10G and 12G ethernet and fiber networks. Created lab procedures and new test cases to aid existing and new employees.

Confidential

Test Engineer - Data Backup - System/Network Administration

• System Administrator for Windows and Linux servers in the lab network. Tested new and unreleased versions of Windows and Linux Operating Systems. LAN Administration. Ran test cases to ensure the functionality and reliability of PowerVault and Imation backup devices. Setup PXE Server, DHCP Server and DNS server as needed for testing.
• Installed, configured and tested new Firmware revisions and drivers for HBA's and devices used to back up small and large amounts of data. LTO (Linear Tape Open) technology, and Tape libraries / Experience with Enterprise tape drive and tape libraries. Automation using Bash Shell (Linux) Python and Powershell (Windows).

Confidential,Round Rock,TX

Software Test Engineer

• Worked on PowerVault Storage, DX Storage and MDSM programs.
• Designed, coded and documented Shell Script, awk. Python and Powershell programs to automate MDSM testing reducing test execution time by 30 percent.
• Recreated field service events using customer level enterprise hardware. Tested Confidential ’s MD1000, MD3000, MD3000i MD3200, MD3200i, MD3600i, MD3660, MD3800i and MD3800i series Arrays in relation to Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 CLI, Windows Server 2012, and VMware, esxi, vSphere

Confidential,West Texas

• Attended TSTC-Brownwood and received an AAS degree in Computer Network System Administration in August 2010. While attending school have worked as a freelance Computer Technician for myself and also working 2 Confidential .
• Interning at Apollo Computers in Brownwood performing basic computer maintenance (virus issues, OS installs and upgrades and Troubleshoot and fix problems.) Also, interning at West Central Wireless in Brady. Perform the same basic functions in both Confidential

Confidential,Round Rock,TX

Storage Test Engineer - System/Network Administration

• Verification of IPv4 iSCSI solutions on Windows 2003-2008 Server, SUSE and Redhat 4, 5 and 6 using various test tools including Iometer, Iobasher, Iogen and Iomonkey. Ran test cases utilizing the Command Line Interface for
• Confidential Disk Storage Manager. Monitored multiple Terabytes of data during failover events using Confidential Disk Storage Manager. Debugged defects using Wireshark and other internal debug tools to find root cause of defects.
• Acted as System Administrator for multiple Confidential platforms and Operating Systems including Linux and Windows.

Confidential,Austin,TX

Test Technician for Hard Drives/Sys Admin

• Testing Hard Drives from Hitachi, Seagate and Fujitsu.to ensure functionality and compatibility with
• Confidential pSeries computers. . Utilized Confidential tools Smit, Diag, Niagara, HTX, Tivoli Storage Manager and custom scripts to configure and test hard drives. Built and tested RAID arrays, SAS and SCSI drives.
• Acted as System Administrator for Windows, LINUX (Redhat & SUSE) and AIX boxes. Installing O/S,
• Applications, tools patches and upgrades on all boxes.

Confidential,Austin,TX

Hardware and Software Test Technician

• Building, troubleshooting and testing Confidential ’s Enterprise and PowerEdge Systems. Installing and configuring hardware, O/S(all flavors of Linux and Windows) and applications(databases, web servers, file servers, mail servers, etc) used to stress(using Loadrunner) the boxes. Configuring and troubleshooting RAID Arrays, SCSI and PERC cards and hard drives. Installing and configuring SAN (Emulex, Confidential and HBAs). Running test cases inLoadrunner as specified by Engineers and monitoring the boxes using OMSA, ISA, DRAC, Vivaldi, VNC, etc.
• Setting up, configuring and testing wireless networking for Confidential ’s Inspiron and Latitude Laptops. Testing Network Interface Cards, Video cards and drivers.

Confidential,Austin, TX

System/Network Administrator

• Building, troubleshooting, repairing servers running Windows, Red Hat and SUSE Linux. Installing, provisioning and configuring all named O/S. Testing servers to ensure functionality. Configuring and installing raw devices and
• Fibre Channel storage. Programming in Perl, AWK and shell scripting.

Confidential,Brady, TX

Freelance Systems Administrator

• Troubleshooting and repairing PCs(both hardware and software) running RedHat Linux and all flavors of Windows.

Confidential,Austin, TX

Programmer/Systems Administrator

• Responsible for maintaining existing COBOL code and developing new COBOL code for FastParts inventory tool.
• Spent half my time dealing with customers through the help desk, troubleshooting and finding solutions to their problems. Also responsible for building, testing and troubleshooting problems with PCs running RedHat LINUX and all flavors of Windows.
• Tools I dealt with include FastParts, RMCOBOL, Telnet, FTP, Procom+ and LYNX (for accessing information on the internet).

Confidential,Austin,TX

Programmer/Systems Administrator/Tester

• Acted as backup to the system builder on LDAP project, building and testing the build (BVT) of both development and released versions of LDAP.
• Worked with developers to upgrade O/S including, Windows NT and 2000, all flavors of UNIX (AIX, HPUX, SOLARIS & LINUX), compilers (across all platforms including Confidential ’s PowerPC and RS/6000 boxes) and build and make tools (ODE). Wrote scripts to automate processes and procedures.
• Act as LDAP build representative to the ISO9000 effort, defining and documenting LDAP build process.

Confidential,Austin, TX

Programmer/Systems Administrator/Tester

• Installing, testing and troubleshooting Tivoli's FRAMEWORK tool to ensure the build (BVT) is installable and workable across all interps including UNIX (AIX, HPUX, SOLARIS and LINUX), Windows (95, 98, 2000 and NT), OS/2 and Novell (Netware).
• Testing and troubleshooting reported defects as part of SVT (Software Verification Test) using Confidential ’s (PowerPC and RS/6000), HPUX boxes and Windows PCs running Windows and Red Hat Linux.

Confidential,Austin,TX

Programmer/Systems Administrator/System Builder/LSF Controller

• Responsible for simulating, compiling and building software systems running on Terradyne j971 and j973 Chip (k6 & k7) test sets. Maintained code used to automate system using Perl, C, AWK and RedHat LINUX shell scripts.
• Responsible for LINUX farm consisting of 100+ k6 and k7 machines controlled by Load Sharing Facility (LSF) and manipulating LSF to keep the queue running accurately and efficiently.

Confidential,Austin, TX

Systems Administrator/System Builder & Tester/DBA/Programmer

• Worked various contracts with different groups.
• Acted as Administrator for db2 and ORACLE databases, developing, building and testing code and maintaining existing code with SQL imbedded in C programs.
• Acted as Systems Administrator for various servers (PowerPC, RS/6000), setting up, configuring and maintaining UNIX (AIX, LINUX) and Windows NT boxes. Acted as Systems Builder for both AIX/OS and group projects, using AIX build and make tools (ODE).

Confidential, Austin,TX

DBA & Programmer

• Administered and maintained multiple ORACLE databases using SQL, C & UNIX (SOLARIS). Wrote UNIX and
• Perl scripts as assigned by System Engineer.