Objective:

To obtain a challenging position within a company who would benefit from my knowledge, skills and abilities with UNIX and Storage Area Networks.

Summery of Qualifications:

Senior UNIX Engineer with strengths in designing, deploying and managing enterprise wide UNIX systems. Have traveled internationally for deployment and implementation. Achieved several technical certifications and enjoy continuing technical education. Devised and implemented HACMP clusters and Storage Area Networks in North America and Europe. Also implemented related security policies.

Summary of Skills:

• Operating Systems: AIX 4.21-7.1, Solaris 2.5.1-2.10, Linux 1.2.13-2.6 Redhat Ent 2.1-6, SLES 8,9,10 11 CentOS FreeBSD 9-9.1
• Hardware: IBM p-Series 505,510,520,550,610,615,630,650,720,750,770 , RS6000, Intel x86, Sun Work group servers 220,280,420,480,880 Sun netra, v100,v120 EMC Symmetrix 8430,8730, DMX1000, DMX3, Cellera, Clariion cx700, Clariion Disk Library, McData switches, Brocade switches, STK L150, ADIC iscaler 200, IBM6800, IBM8100,IBM5300
• Languages: Perl, HTML, UNIX Shell Scripts, AWK,SED,PHP
• Networking: Apache, FTP, DNS/BIND, NFS, NIS, Automount/autofs, SAMBA, DHCP,Sendmail, Internet Firewalls Checkpoint, IPChains, IPTables , SSH, TCP/IP, Jumpstart, NIM,Kickstart, LDAP
• Databases: MySQL, Support of Oracle DBA's sql
• EMC: SYMCLI, Cellera, Connectrix Manager, Volume Logix, PowerPath, Time finder BCV's and SRDF , Open Replicator, Open Migrator, Replication Manager
• Miscellaneous: Nagios, Cacti, Ganglia,Twiki, iSCSI,puppet,forman,Katello, spacewalk, Satellite5x-6,IPA
• Virtualization: RHEV,ovirt,kvm,xen,LPARS,VIO
• Clustering: HACMP, Veritas clusters, RedHat clustering

Professional Experience:

Confidential

• Basic day to day duties on a 700 server environment of AIX 5.3-7.1, and RHEL 5.x-6.x servers. Implemented tools to help manage environment.
• Set up nagios to monitor our 700 server environment
• Set up IPA to manage users across environment
• Datacenter Migration
• Implemented Cacti for trending
• Implemented Red Hat Satelitte to manage server patching and installs
• Puppett management
• Grew environment from 40 servers to over 700 servers in 3 years

Confidential

• Responcible for day to day operation, submitting new storage proposals, interfacing with the customer and engineering new storage solutions.
• Conduct regularly scheduled Disaster Recovery test between datacenters
• Monitor the state of the arrays and switches.
• Engage vendors to find better solutions
• Day to day switch and array maintance.
• Attend change contol meetings to insure accuracy of storage involvement
• Manage AIX TSM Servers
• Provision new hosts on the SAN

Confidential

• Migrated off legacy SP systems to Micropartitioned P6 environment.
• Planning, installation, configuration and migration of systems

Confidential

• Responcible for High level design and architecture of new services. Acted as a liaison and single point of entry from all business units to Global Engineering teams for project sizing, resource allocation, costing, and escalation.
• Conducted project impact assessments and facilitate the project estimation process.
• Acted as single point of escalation to Engineering teams.
• Recommend and implemented process improvements for Global Engineering.
• Reviewed project schedules and assisted resource managers with work load balancing and projections.
• Provideed technical leadership across multiple services and projects simultaneously.
• Reviewed and approved project documentation HLE, SOW, SOWA prior to submission to Senior Management.

Confidential

• Migrated two DMX2 arrays to a DMX3 and a Clariion .
• Migration from a CX-700 to a DMX3-2500 .
• Migrated a DMX3-1500 to a DMX3-2500, moved the DMX3-1500 to another state, and set it up for Disaster Recovery.
• Set up two 2-node VCS clusters under AIX 5.2 .
• Set up and configured a Clariion Disk Library CDL .
• Set up Replication Manager at four customer sites.
• Used Open Replicator to migrate a DMX3-2500 to a Clariion CX-700.

Confidential

• Designed and implemented IBM Regatta environment to replace existing IBM/Oracle environment.
• Managed Enterpise Storage Area Network.
• Designed and implemented Production and Development SAN.
• Devised and impemented a six-node HACMP cascading cluster on a two-frame SP complex.
• Implemented monitoring and trending system using Netsaint/Nagios, Cacti, and NMIS.
• Conducted comparitive testing between IBM Regatta's, Sun 12K, and Linux/Oracle RAC to assist decision on our new enterprise environment.
• Conducted comparitive research between Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, Net Apps and IBM Shark, to help determine new SAN environment.
• Provided support for over 300 UNIX servers worldwide running Solaris, AIX, Linux, Digital OSF and HPUX.
• Set up 4 Sendmail servers to provide email services for 19 different client domains.
• Installed and maintained a group collaberation environment using Twiki.
• Set up centralized logging, including dumping to a MySQL db for easier reporting.
• Set up web based email using the Horde framework to allow us to provide email and other services to non corporate emplayees reducing licensing costs on our Exchange servers.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting for DNS, Oracle, NFS, HACMP, Internet Firewalls, System monitoring tools, and email among others.
• Assisted with Oracle, Genesys, and Remedy upgrades and installs.
• Provide extended on-site expertise to sites in Glasgow, Scotland, Toronto Ont., Sudbury, Ont., Mexico City, Mexico, Buenos Aires, Arg., and numerous other sites across North America.
• Implemented host based security, proxies, and firewalls throughout the enterprise.
• Upgraded five HP 9000 servers and 500 workstations from HPUX 9 to HPUX 10.2.
• Managed a network of 550 Nextstep workstation utilizing NIS, NFS, Kerberos, and Automount.
• Other duties included managing Sendmail, DHCP, DNS, print, SAMBA, central logging, Postfix
• Member of the Change Management process team.