SUMMARY:
Seeking a position to utilize my skills and abilities in the Information Technology Industry that offers Professional growth while being resourceful, innovative and flexible.
SKILLS:
- EMC
- UNIX/Linux Administration
- VERITAS Netbackup/Volume manager
- NetApps
- Windows 2003/2008/Vista
EXPERIENCE:
IT Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Working in partnership with clients, advising them on how to use information technology in order to meet their business objectives or overcome problems.
- Improving the structure and efficiency of IT systems in various organizations.
- Small, Medium and Enterprise Servers, Storage & Backup solutions designimplementation, and optimization services.
Resident Engineer, Professional Services
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Creation of datastores for storing VMs and data
- Deploy Virtual Machines and use Clones, Snapshots, templates
- Health Check for VMs and ESX host
- Present / Assign LUN to ESX host (Actually a storage admin task)
- Storage Provisioning on VMAX40k/20k, VNX (via Solution enabler, SMC and Unisphere), Isilon, Centera, VCE VBlock, VMWare. SAN Zoning (Brocade)
- Monitoring storage utilization and performance using SPA, Mitrend, Symmerge
- Migrate existing servers from HDS USP - V, VSP to EMC VMAX 40k (using
- VERITAS Mirroring, Open Replicator and SRDF)
- Performing Heath check tasks
- Provide capacity planning, provisioning and evaluation of data layout on a daily basis.
- Update process documentation and team websites.
- Review entire environment and execute initiatives to reduce failures, defects and improving overall performance.
- Communicate with peers and managers regarding storage administration issues.
- Provide instructions and guidance on best practices
- Configuration of various SAN protocols, i.e. FC, CIFS, NFS… etc.
- Zoning and mapping configurations (BROCADE, CISCO)
- Knowledge of clustering & high availability
- Knowledge of SAN architecture, multipathing, WWNs, FC
- Knowledge of external Disk Arrays, RAID levels, NFS
- Analytical problem-solving and root cause analysis skills
- Understanding ITIL processes
Team Lead
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Perform monitoring and maintenance of overall storage environment. Manage nline data backups and the overall execution of retention policies on both EMC
- Networker and VERITAS Netbackup solutions.
- Implementation and support management of Data Domain Devices (DD880)
- Provide capacity planning, provisioning and evaluation of data layout on a daily basis.
- Update process documentation and team websites.
- Review entire environment and execute initiatives to reduce failures, defects and improving overall performance.
- Communicate with peers and managers regarding storage administration issues. Provide instructions and guidance on best practices
- Configuration of various SAN protocols, i.e. FC, ISCSI, CIFS, NFS… etc Zoning and mapping configurations
Storage administrator, Senior I/T Specialist
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Perform monitoring and maintenance of overall storage environment. Manage online data backups and the overall execution of retention policies.
- Provide capacity planning, provisioning and evaluation of data layout on a daily basis. Update process documentation and team websites.
- Review entire environment and execute initiatives to reduce failures, defects and improving overall performance.
- Communicate with peers and managers regarding storage administration issues. Provide instructions and guidance on best practices
UNIX Administrator, Senior I/T Specialist
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Design/implement and maintain complex local and wide-area networks of UNIX platforms, performing upgrades when needed and best practices.
- Monitoring of system performance during peak hours suggesting and recommend upgrade if bottlenecks occurs.
- Establish/recommend policies and procedures for system use and services
Systems Engineer, I/T Specialist
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Install software, apply patches, manage file systems, monitor performance and troubleshoot alerts from commercial, open source and locally developed monitoring tools.
- System failure analysis and recovery; insuring the consistency and integrity of file systems.
- Business continuity planning
- Hardware/software configuration; and management
- Liaison with client offices, operations personnel, and field service personnel; interact directly with customers to negotiate solutions and implementation specifics.
- Technical support and general troubleshooting Support 100+ servers in a 24x7 data center.
- Manage and lead hardware and software migration and upgrade efforts of varying size and complexity.
