SUMMARY:

Experienced, high potential analyst and storage test engineer/IT professional with solid UNIX (Solaris/HP - UX/AIX/Linux) administration, SAN/ Confidential /DAS Storage, Database, Splunk, QA/Testing, Support and Leadership skills. Self-starter; Adept, motivated, organized individual; and strong team player; 4+ years IT management experience.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

HARDWARE: Sun SPARC, Sun 3/150, Sun Ultra 10s & 5s, Sun F15K, HP9000, IBM-PC, HP3000, HP B2000, IBM 3090, Confidential VTL, IBM RS/6000, DEC 5000/3000, Confidential PowerEdge, Powervault MD32/MD36, DL2xxx, PowerConnect, Blade M1000e, Compaq Proliant & Prosignia family servers, HP Integrity rx2660, HP Blade, Sun 220R, 420R, HP SAN/ Confidential, Cisco Switches, PIX Firewalls, and IDS; HP StorageWorks, Zenith BDR, Mitel 3300 ICP. Familiarity with BlueArc Titan 2000, Infloblox-250-A, EMC CLARiiON CX700 & Symmetrix; LSI 6500/6780 Storage Array, Brocade 5100, BlackBerry Curve 8520, EMC Data Domain DD670, 890; Quantum Scalar i40/i80 tape library; StorageTek SL 150/3000/8500 Tape Libraries; Confidential 5650, 2690.

SOFTWARE: C, Pascal, Ada, FORTRAN, UNIX, DOS, 68000 family assembly languages, PROCASE, QuickBooks, Autosys, MS Word, Excel, Pivot tables, Visio, Office365; Windows Server 2008, 2012, Windows NT, 98, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 7, 8.1, 10; DB2 ver 9.5, Legato BudTool 4.6.1, Networker; Visual Basic, MVS, JCL, Novell, Arcview GIS 3.0, Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD, DG/UX 5.4, IIS, PERL, Bash, Ultrix 4.3, SCO 5.0.5, AIX 5.3/6.1, IRIX, HP-UX 10.2, 11i v3, Solaris 2.7/ 8/ 9/10, DEC OSF/1, Red Hat Linux 4/5/6, Oracle Linux 6.6, CentOS 6.x, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.x, 11/11.1 Linux Mint 15; TCP/IP, JD Edwards, Oracle Database 9i, 10g, 11gR2, 12c, Symantec NetBackup 6.5, 7.1, 7.5; Backup Exec 9.1, 10d, 12.5, 2012; ePlus Document Imaging, CADIM/EDB a SAP add-on, Ubuntu 10.0.4, Lynx, Samba, LAMP, PXE, FileMaker, Lotus Notes, Access, SQL Server 2008/12, Exchange, AD, DFS, ILMS; Knowledge of eClinicalWorks 8.0, Spacewalk, Java, SIP, Cacti, Nagios, SOA, SCOM,XML, Web 2.0 Framework, PL/SQL, and Peoplesoft; PIC, Cobol, Cisco IOS, Keyscan System VII, Remedy, ServiceNow, MySQL, ftp Server, dbx, VMware ESX/i 5.x, 4.1/vSphere, Insight Manager, OpenView, vcs 5.1, WebFocus 7, HP Data Protector 6.11, ACT, Visio, HEAT, Track-It, SAS, HTML, Sendmail, Apache, Apache Spark, Splunk 6.5.1, PHP, Mozy Pro, WinSCP, Kaseya, McAfee UTM Firewall, Raritan, MD Storage Manager, SANtricity, ES Storage Manager, busTRACE 9.0, Confidential Database 13.10, 14.0, TARA 13.10, bteq, Arcmain, SQL Assistant, Visual Explain, TASM, TSET; Data Domain OS 5.0, Adobe Cold Fusion 9/10, Fusion Reactor 5, Puppet, PowerShell, Intronis 5.2 Cloud Backup, Avamar 7.1.1, Hamachi, Axosof t OnTime Scrum, HL7/Iguana Interfaceware 5.x, Sharepoint, MediaWiki, Splunk 6.5, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk Security Essentials, Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Exchange, SA-cim validator7/16/16 - present

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Splunk Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, deploy and support Splunk Infrastructure and Logging solutions in a highly-available configuration
• Onboard and optimize ingestion of data into Splunk from several data sources, including F5, Nexgate, Proofpoint, Geoffrey SMS, Cyphort, MS Exchange 2016 message tracking logs, etc.
• Perform installation, configuration managementt, license management, data integration, field extraction, data onboarding, event parsing, parse Exchange logs with TA, regex, bash scripting; data preview and application management of Splunk 6.5.x platform
• Standardize Splunk forwarder deployment, configuration and maintenance in Linux and Windows platforms.
• Troubleshoot Splunk indexes, indexer, forwarder, Splunk apps and ad-ons problems.
• Create data retention policies and perform index administration, maintenance and optimization
• Create and maintain inputs, outputs, props, transforms, index configuration files; and relevant documentation for Splunk platform.
• Establish and maintain good working relationships with business partners, management, application owners, vendors and peers toward running several projects from the Dev stage to Production.
• Build, customize and deploy Splunk apps as per internal customer needs
• Set up and utilize HTTP event collector; set up, maintain/support Splunk apps, including Splunk F5 Analytics app; Qualys threat detection; Proofpoint, Geoffrey SMS, Cyphort for Splunk, etc.
• Do splunk side of some Arcsight Logging to Splunk migrations
• Administer and maintain Splunk 6.5.1 Dev system; create and troubleshoot role based access and SSO authentication issues for Splunk users.

Confidential, The Woodlands, TX

Linux / Splunk Admin

Responsibilities:

• Create/deploy, manage/monitor Oracle Linux server 6.6 vms with VMware vSphere web client 5.5; monitor vCenter servers. Backup administration with EMC Avamar 7.1.1 and Symantec NetBackup 7.x
• Assist in the management of Linux security; integrating Peoplesoft, Microsoft AD, and core Linux permissions with Oracle Database, application, web & ancillary servers while ensuring complete and accurate documentation is maintained. Patch SuSE Linux and Oracle Linux servers.
• Plan, coordinate and perform OS patching with ERP teams and immediate team members, utilizing working knowledge of virtualization, SAN, and Blade server technologies; EMC, VMware and HP product lines.
• Support Dev, Stage, Production ERP application environments: monitor and act on alerts, server patching, support vcs (veritas cluster server); bash scripting, etc.
• Install and Implement Splunk Enterprise 6.1.2 in Linux/Windows environments; utilize splunk to index and aggregate log files from many sources, making them centrally searchable to do analysis, reporting, and alerts.
• Configure universal forwarders, and splunk enterprise instances. Create Indexes toward syslog ingestion for the Network group. Configure alerts, dashboards in Splunk. Educate business owners to utilize product for search to gain valuable insights into security threats, monitoring, Big Data, and operational intelligence.
• Research extending the power of Splunk with add-ons and Apps like Palo Alto Networks security and analysis tool; FireEye App for Splunk, Splunk App for VMware, Splunk App for F5 Networks, Splunk App for Enterprise Security, etc.; log management and analytics; ad hoc responsibilities as required. etc.

Confidential, Stafford, TX

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provide 2nd level production support for Confidential integrated tools and Services, including Confidential ’s FOCUS Framework, WC3, JETS, OM, OSM, Process Automation; and GMC Inspire Automation 8.1 software in an Agile environment toward delivering high quality solutions like bank statements, reports, bills, cards, etc. for Financial clients.
• Duties involved resiliency and DR/business continuity planning; restarting or re-programming failed/interrupted production runs; analyzing files, logs, Splunk logs, data; debugging C# and COBOL code; monitoring Inspire Automation, FOCUS, Splunk; troubleshooting and resolving/escalating various software automation interruptions and issues; root cause analysis; interfacing with solution builders, business analysts and CSRs, as well as third party partners toward fixing process automation issues or handling customer support requests in a timely manner.
• Also storage and backup strategy; support, maintain, configure, provision EMC SAN storage and shares at Confidential filer/storage infrastructure; work with server and telecom teams to ensure backups are being done successfully at the 300+ physical and virtual/VMware servers.

Confidential, The Woodlands, TX

IT Systems Manager

Responsibilities:

• Supervise and motivate IT staff - provide direction with projects; prioritize projects, etc.
• Work closely with business managers of DBHC to ensure a tight alignment between technology, business strategy, and operations.
• Support IT applications including iPipeline’s Agency Integrator and CRM; Windows, Linux, MySQL, PHP/web internally developed applications; and reporting; Linux systems administration, storage and backup administration; advanced systems/applications troubleshooting
• Also business continuity planning and DR: develop, maintain, test, document plan; provide leadership and coordination of the plan during an actual event. Storage and backup strategy; support, maintain, configure, provision DAS/SAN storage and shares at Confidential filer/storage infrastructure.
• Perform special projects as assigned by the CEO of the parent organization, FFIG.

Confidential, Houston, TX

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• In charge of deploying, supporting, and administering company IT infrastructure, which included Cogent optical internet, LOGIX PRIs, SonicWALL firewall, VPN, ShoreTel VoIP system, Confidential servers, switches, etc; administer Office365/outlook, RedHat/CentOS 6.x, SuSE 11, Solaris 10/11; Splunk; Windows Server 2008 R2 systems. Support production live deployments of ChartAccess and ChartNotes at rural hospitals.
• In an Agile scrum environment: Build/configure, architect and deploy VMware based EHR and Financials systems that were deployed at rural and community hospitals - these systems were based on VMware ESXi 5.1, Windows 2008R2, SQL Server 2008, Adobe ColdFusion 9, IIS 7, Java, ChartAccess EHR software, Mozy Pro, Hamachi, Iguana; CentOS 6.3/6.4, Apache Web Server, MySQL, ChartNotes Financials software.
• Unit and system testing of Chart Access software releases; integration testing.
• Provided leadership with Backup strategy and DR/Business Continuity Planning
• Provided 2nd and 3rd Level sustaining support to existing clients utilizing ChartAccess EHR and /or ChartNotes Financials software; typically interfaced with CIOs, CTOs and senior systems administrators at rural and community hospitals; also provided printer support with CUPS; work with/troubleshoot SSL certificates; test, debug new system enhancements and make changes to existing software; software build and release management with Puppet.
• Special projects including eDiscovery - utilized Office365 eDiscovery in conjunction with PowerShell and dropbox to create various B2B email archives for litigation purposes; also analysis for senior management; successfully managed remote consultants working on a persistent Cold Fusion/Fusion Reactor memory leak issue; root cause analysis evaluated and purchased new hardware/software; and managed the relationship with the vendors.
• Provide vision, enable innovation; understand IT industry trends and development that can create business value. Research of new technologies and concepts.

Confidential, Rancho Bernardo, CA

Software Engineer/Quality Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential platform performance characterization
• Planning, configure & executing black box testing of Confidential internally- developed BAR (backup, archive, restore) applications including Confidential Database 13.10, 14.0; and TARA running in conjunction with 3rd party software and hardware, i.e. Symantec Netbackup 7.1, OST 2.5; Data Domain OS 5.0, DD Boost, VTL; data replication to other sites, etc. in a SuSE Linux environment.
• Generate, monitor and communicate metrics describing progress, risks, and quality.
• Utilized strong working knowledge of running backup applications/ Netbackup and its command line: bpexpdate, etc; and of storage, enterprise disk and tape storage devices, de-duplication; networking/tcp ip, tcpdump, arp, etc; fibre channel protocols, fibre channel SANS/zoning, SAN storage provisioning, Brocade switch upkeep; system theories and field concepts; unix shell commands, database concepts, Perl, C/C++, and SQL knowledge toward profiling; performance analysis and tuning of Confidential BAR: OST/B2D, VTL and disaster recovery/replication solutions.
• Plan and load test data into Confidential databases; write SQL queries (inserts, updates, delete statements) and use joins as necessary to test units of code impacting functionality/performance of the solution.
• Confidential database backup/recovery strategy utilizing multi-stream, single-stream, ALLAMP, parallel-ALLAMP, etc; monitoring procedures utilizing PMON to maximize availability of database; write, debug and tune sql, macros, and procedures; Confidential database 13.10 and 14.0 administration.
• Write, re-write complex SQL queries using multiple join conditions; performance tuning of the Confidential database; database operations utilizing Confidential utilities including bteq, FASTLOAD, MULTILOAD, TPUMP,
• Other duties included the following: develop and execute Confidential ARCMAIN scripts that utilized Netbackup 7.1 and TARA to backup/restore Confidential database tables; provide recommended configurations for optimal performance to the Feature Team Lead or Product Manager; develop the certification test report and best practices & guidelines; also review certification test reports & requirement specifications from peers. Participate in architecture reviews, performance recommendation reviews, scrum meetings; level III production support, and meetings with partners: EMC and Symantec.

Confidential, Round Rock, TX

Software Tester/Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Work with Confidential Storage software development team to develop test plans, procedures, scripts and automated tests.
• Execute test plans for functionality and usability of MDSM array software throughout the development lifecycle.
• Maintain testing environment, including hardware: arrays, servers, switches; and software: MDSM, firmware, OS.
• Thoroughly document the outcome of all testing activity and provide feedback on functionality and usability
• Log all identified defects in BITS/TeamTrack, the Confidential ’s issue tracking system
• Verify that issues and defects are properly corrected
• Perform regression testing and impact analysis
• Test premium features including Snapshot, replication, mirroring, virtual disk copy, and SSDs.