TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows NT 4.0 (9 years), Window's server 2000 and 2003 (6 years), windows 2008and R2 (6 years )Centos 4 - 5 (3years), IBM Aix (3 Years), Windows 2008 R2 (6 years), Windows server 2012 (2year ), Red Hat Linux 5 and 6 (7 years )

SAN Platforms: EMC Symmetric/Clarion (X years), DMX, Storage Tek (4 years), Net app (5 years), Hitachi Storage (3 year), Nexsan disk storage system (2 years)

SAN Operating Equipment: Cisco, Brocade, EMC, Emulex, McData, and Data Domain Storage arrays (4 year) Dell power vault (2 years)

Backup Platforms: VERITAS Netback up (6 years), EMC Legato (1 year), CommVault Simpana 9 and 10 and 11 (6 years) Tivoli/TSM (2 years) Dell Appsure 5.3 2 year)

Shell/Scripting: bash / Korn shell (3 year), XML/ C++ (1 year), Power Shell (3 years), WMI (1 year)

Microsoft Products: Exchange 2007 and 2010 (8 years), SQL 2005 and 2008 and 2012

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Harrisburg PA

SR. Administrator system

Responsibilities:

• Storage migration for various platform and storage such as SAP, SQL migration from one storage to other
• Using CommVault and VMware to Migrate Government agency’s from P2V V2P deployment
• CommVault, NetBackup implementation, migration and support in various integration and platform.
• Implementation of various types of backup such as Oracle RMAN, VMware, SAP Integration, MSSQL, Lotus Notes,
• Backup infrastructure design and implementation using various tape library Disk based tape library, D2D devices and Design and implementation for DR for multiple data center sites
• . Storage implementation in various storage products like HP XP,
• Design, Implementation and migration of various storage array such as HP, NetApp, EMC and HDS.
• Migrating client from Tape based backup to Data Domain disk and Disk Base Backup’s
• Helping customer to decide vendor and product based on their requirement and budget.
• Disk based backup solutions, data De-Duplication backup and
• Replication disk backup to remote site for offsite storage.
• NetBackup and CommVault backup implementation on various and different platform and integrations
• Stream lined and resolved a multi-tier environment with multi Backup tools
• Work to improve and gain promotion in under a year with the company due to performance
• Help to Arc. and Design a global commvault 11 simpana solution with new featureSet to enterprise
• Help to cut over 1 million dollars in operate environment cost while gain feature and new tools
• Manage a HP and NetBackup legacy environment
• Help to recover 2 major system crash without software support
• Document and set process in place that where not their and to improve insight in the environment
• Migrate and large global backup environment. to a new platform
• Help setup costum reporting to help with sox and customer compliance

Director of IT services/SR. architect

Responsibilities:

• Ensures practice’s and standards are followed with in the company’s IT and Data center’s
• Project management and special one off project’s to further the company and its partner Data Center
• Hands on windows administrator of window’s Env. And Core related service’s
• Hands support of VMware 5.1 v and storage Env.
• Managed day-to-day IT Operations through close collaborative relationships with two IT Operations managers.
• Signing off the completion of engagements.
• Collaborates with senior decision makers to define, and implement, business and IT Strategies
• Responsible for understanding and managing financials and, budgeting.
• Forecasting and managing all aspects of the information technology, and service offerings.
• Plan and implement a Disaster recovery and Backup solution to fit the company’s needs

SR Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed and implemented QA process for clients hosted systems, and network
• Configure and stood up a Commvault One Touch bare metal restore CD system
• Also working to stream line the backup process for the QA of customers servers
• Manage and maintain customers, and in house active directory
• Restore and reconfigure remote APC PDU units for the complete data center
• Reconfigure and streamlined the Commvault Simpana 9.0 backup system Troubleshooting Microsoft O.S, applications, and, networking before and after Virtualization.
• R&D for the roll out of windows 2012 server
• Redesign of the Commvault Backup environment, and infrastructure.
• Excellent experience with designing and implementing VMware backup products and disaster recovery solutions.
• Working with the fastest Dell Hardware for the hosting environment.
• Performed Windows 2003 r2 to Window 2008 r2 Active Directory domain migration for three domains
• Manage mixed Windows, Linux, SQL, NAS client backups using Commvault Simpana 9
• Create user accounts with appropriate rights and assign to already established Commvault Active
• Work with provisioning team to automate install and configure system ‘s
• Working with the NOC center to help upgrade Nagios monitoring servers

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Design network infrastructures and data storage systems.
• VMware Virtualization project. Of a main infrastructure systems
• Create and maintain network maps for the Network Operation Center.
• Configure and install Microsoft servers with DNS, DHCP, RAS, HTTP, FTP, POP3, and VPN.
• Participate in the qualification and selection of the Service Desk Solution and Service Desk Provider
• Manage and support the production datacenter network.
• Monitor and troubleshoot networks.
• Troubleshooting Microsoft O.S, applications, and networking before and after Virtualization.
• Manage a Windows 2003 AD and Exchange 2007 Sharepoint servers and system.
• Also maintain and tune Red Hat EL 5 server running company built software package.
• Also install and configure sonic wall VPN firewall and remote access.

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• System auditing and monitoring and tuning windows 2003 and 2000 argents servers.
• Wrote and maintained WMI script's that are executed by the argent monitoring server.
• Maintained and managed file and printer share's along with user accesses.
• Patched and upgraded server 2003 and 2000 prod and Dev. Environment.
• Resolved an argent server memory with a bad processer on a dell 2650.
• Created, updated, and maintained network and systems policies, procedures related to the argent and DMA paperless share.
• Managed issues that arrive from the argent Email system using exchange 2003 and outlook 2007.
• After hours and on call support and with remote support.
• Maintained SQL 2005 data base server that back end's to the argent monitoring software package.
• Worked with custom software packages to maintain test env.
• Worked with Argent backline engineer's for Full hands off failover of argent main engines and SQL 2005 database server to the DR site.

Senior System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and created user right and access to window's file share 2003 Env.
• Day to Day administration of the test dev and prod server.
• Worked to migrate a server 2000 env. To a server 2003 env.
• Helped to build out the data center for Verizon Business data center in blue hill.
• Deployed system 5 package on Solaris 9 and 10 boxes.
• Set up a VMware server for testing and diag. of issue in the prod env.
• Maintained a 2003 server base across 3 data centers for High availability Env for Fed. Gov.
• Participated in root-cause analysis of recurring issues, system backup, and security setup.
• Performed software installation, upgrades/patches, troubleshooting, and maintenance.
• Supported a large infrastructure of Sun Enterprise-class servers running Solaris, providing corporate IS infrastructure.
• Worked with share plex to copy oracle database from local site to DR site.

Senior Backup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migrated SAN media servers mix to Sun Solaris and AIX OS from Veritas Net backup 5.0 to 5.1.
• Supported a Lotus notes data environment running on Aix and Solaris server's on a daily basis.
• Maintained 7 windows 2003 Sql 2000/san-media sever run Netback up 6.0 mp3 with Fiber attach Storage/drives.
• Helped Migrate email servers from lotus note 3.65 to Exchange 2003.
• Successfully built and deployed a Veritas Netback 5.1 environment with master and media server running on SUN Solaris 9.0 in a direct attached environment to a 3584 Library.
• Worked with windows and Storage team to support 10 terabyte Netapp and VMware farm being backup by Netback up 5.1 mp6.
• Configured NDMP backups for 6 Network Appliance NAS devices on Veritas Netbackup 5.1.
• Completed a disaster recovery exercise using Sun hardware and Solaris 9 master and media server.
• Supported an Rman Oracle backup system running on Solaris 9 and AIX server.
• Supported Lotus Notes environment running on AIX and Solaris servers.
• Coordinated administration of a remote Netback up 6.5 global data environment running on a Solaris 9 master and media server.

Independent Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Due to market conditions was only able to find employment as an independent contractor for short term assignments through SMC Consulting, Vision Technologies, Haymaker Technologies and Lockheed at the following positions.

Senior System Analyst /Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Resolved and rebuilt a 5 node 2003 cluster with san attach storage array's
• For file and print share to the whole Center for Medicaid /Medicare infrastructure.
• Supported a Unix SA with the Netbackup master running on Solaris 9 64-bit.
• Unracked and removed old Compaq and hp nt 4.0 server for decommissioning.
• Tested/patched CMS prod /dev windows Env. Using Mom and admin.
• Day to day administration of the Veritas Netbackup 5.1 mp6 global data environment running on Solaris 9.
• Created and modified user access and right's in a server 2000 active directory.
• Wintel server management for over 287 government server's.
• Racked and configured server 2003 rc2 Hp servers.
• Moved 10 Cisco 6500 content switch's from Baltimore datacenter to the Dc data center.
• Troubleshot and tracked chronic problem servers in the Net backup environment.
• Tracked and managed SAN storage disk usage.
• Resolution and closure of CMS user trouble tickets ranging from Desktop issue to user access and print right and file share access.
• Day to day administration of the Back Up Exec 9.1.
• Managed the DHCP servers and network monitoring of cluster for win2003k boxes.

Senior UNIX Admin for IT Data Center

Responsibilities:

• Stood up a 5 node cluster running Solaris 10 to support a new research project.
• Maintained and supported Solaris 8 and 9 workstation and server.
• Installed and configured 10 Sun Fire v220 servers.
• Resolved and recovered a server 2000 with a 2 terabyte disk array without data lost.
• Supported full range of problems on approximately 1,500 customer Linux servers.
• Helped maintain a server 2000 and mixed 2000 and xp Desk top's.
• Maintained/patched about 892 mixed 2000 and 2003 server.
• Performed design, configuration, monitoring, tuning, and maintenance of stable and scalable Linux.
• Performed maintenance and failure analysis on Dell, HP, Compaq, IBM, Cisco, and Nokia equipment.
• Helped to maintain network speed's and switch ports.
• Supported storage arrays, EMC SAN and NAC storage systems.
• Managed CD based installations, upgrades, and automated patch deployment utilizing Red Hat Network and Windows SUS services.

UNIX Admin/Middleware

Responsibilities:

• Set up and maintained Solaris 9 servers for research and development lab environment.
• Configured, tested and deployed DNS using F5 Linux DNS appliances, FTP and SFTP servers.
• Extensive experience in Linux performance tuning, such as patching and building.
• Maintained internal and customer secondary DNS (Linux / Bind).
• Backup & recovery using TSM.
• Maintained Red Hat with security updates and bug fixes.
• Decreased problem solving times by evaluating new Linux kernels and applying necessary patches.
• Key implementation and configuration of QA Network utilizing SCO Unix and Red Hat Linux.

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and administrated Solaris Net backup master and Media Servers.
• Day to day administration of a Solaris 9 server for Netbackup.
• Monitored and tuned Solaris 9 master and media Servers.
• Member of the SAN and NAS team to manage about 400 TB of data across a global data network.
• Maintained and tuned STK L700 Tape Libraries and SN3400 fiber bridge.
• Auditing, and implementing SOX policies in a backup environment.
• Restored Exchange 2000 mail boxes.
• Supported SOX compliance initiative.
• Provided management, support and operational recommendations to DR/BCS functionality and testing.
• Researched and worked with the SQL and Oracle team's.
• Audited and streamlined Network Appliance and EMC NAS policies in Netbackup.
• Successfully reduced wasted tape space by well over 50TB.
• Implemented and maintained EMC Virtual Tape Library.
• Researched and deployment KVS archiving.
• Monitoring and performance tuning of Netbackup resulting in increased performance and time to backup.
• Monitored system, memory, drive, and network performance.
• Monitored and maintained remote master and media servers.
• Reached and developed proof of concept for Net backup 6.0 upgrade/install.

Network Manager

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and administered Solaris Net backup master and media servers.
• Installation and Maintenance of Red Hat Linux boxes for NIS.
• Managed software and network projects of the company, overseeing to completion, ensuring customer satisfaction.
• OS server patching for the credit union data center.