Experience:

Lead Systems Engineer:

Confidential

• Team lead for 3 local System Engineers and 4 off shore System Administrators in India responsible for the implementation and administration of 900 Linux and 100 AIX OS installations. As team lead, responsible for schedule, performance reviews, mentoring and training. Acted as final point of escalation for all Production issues as well as worked 24/7 on-call support.
• Researched and presented Puppet Enterprise solution for automation of server maintenance to upper management. Have installed and configured for entire Unix/Linux environment. Have acquired funding and in progress of implementation of Puppet Enterprise solution. Created over 20 new Puppet Modules to install and maintain servers. Some of the bigger modules were for SSH, NTP, NetBackup and required users. Puppet Enterprise allows us to automate the installation and configuration of new servers as well as ensuring that the image remains consistent on all current servers. Configuration changes are monitored and secured against unwanted changes.
• Spear headed the Red Hat Satellite implementation from presentation of the technology to upper management through installation, configuration and documentation on usage for building new servers, patching existing servers and pushing server configurations out to multiple server sets. This enabled the limited number of administrators to maintain current OS installations with patching to pass both SOX and PCI audits.
• Lead Engineer on MapR project. This project brought in the new technology stack of MapR and Hadoop to provide the ability to perform business function on large amounts of live data. Using MapR also provided large savings on storage moving from large enterprise SAN solutions to much cheaper local storage spread across multiple servers. Storage savings alone was estimated at 75 with no loss of availability or redundancy.
• Developed automation to increase productivity for common administrative duties such as user creation, SAN volume scanning, and the creation of Oracle ASM disks so that multiple systems could be configured simultaneously. This resulted in increased productivity as well as reduced time to go live.
• Lead the upgrade and implementation of the PowerBroker utility from version 3 to version 7.0. This upgrade corrected multiple security vulnerabilities as well as adding new functionality that provided higher productivity by enabling administrators to run scripted solutions on sets of servers instead of having to log onto one server at a time.
• Developed system imaging procedures utilizing Puppet Enterprise and VMWare to speed deployment of new server OS's.
• Installed and evaluated new products such as Puppet Enterprise, Red Hat Satellite, MapR with Hadoop, PowerBroker 7.0, Red Hat Storage, CentOS, and OpenVZ.

Sr. Systems Engineer:

Confidential

• Senior Systems Engineer for over 3000 RHEL servers, 500 AIX servers, 300 ESX servers and a variety of one off servers including HP/UX, AS400, SUSE, and Solaris.
• Lead Systems Engineer for all of the AIX servers running AIX 5.3, 6.1 and 7.1 running on P4, P5 and P7 hardware
• Shell scripting for systems automation thru IBM HMC's and VIO servers for all AIX servers
• Lead Engineer for virtualization project migrating all physical servers to virtualization via IBM VIO or VMware ESX
  • this included setting up NPIV for SAN boot off of EMC VMAX and Symmetrix SAN frames
  • Migration included active production servers migrating the OS install as well as any application data with minimal down time
• Ensured maximum up time via preventative maintenance and monitoring of all midrange Unix systems.
• Worked with 24/7 secondary on call as a SME Subject Matter Expert for multiple disciplines to include AIX, RHEL, ESX, Veritas, UDB, Oracle, WebSphere and EMC SAN.
• 2 days per month operated the ACC Availability Command Center which was the front line Level 1 call center for any issues or outages. This included monitoring all of the midrange systems and taking internal customer calls for any slowdowns or issues that may arise during the shift.
• Participated in multiple long-term projects such as Life Cycle Management to ensure that server hardware was updated as needed to maintain functionality as well as better utilize Data Center resources such as floor space, cooling and power consumption.
• Lead Engineer designing and testing DR Disaster Recovery plans using such tools such as DRA, PowerHA, Veritas, VMWare and EMC SRDF.

Systems Engineer II:

Confidential

• Primary Systems Administrator for 36 IBM AIX servers ranging from H80's to P690's and P540's running AIX 4.4.3 5.3.
• Primary Systems Administrator for multiple one off Solaris, HP/UX and HP MPE servers.
• Started the first evaluations of RHEL servers to begin migrating workloads from AIX, Solaris and HP/UX to Linux.
• Integral role in the planning, purchasing, installation and ongoing maintenance of all new enterprise servers, SAN and networking solutions.
• Worked closely with application vendors for the day-to-day operations and maintenance of the Healthcare, Financial and HR applications.
• Administered 13TB of production Data on an IBM F20 Shark SAN solution
• Worked closely with end users to maintain operability of the back end systems.
• Worked closely with IT management for the ongoing expansion and monitoring of the data center.
• Installed and evaluated new software tools for SAN, network, database and server monitoring.
• Created and maintained shell scripts to automate the day-to-day functions of the Server Administrator job.
• Provided 24/7 on call support for all production issues.

Sr. Systems Engineer:

Confidential

• Senior Consulting Systems Engineer responsible for leading the design team to evaluate existing customer configuration and present new hardware/software solutions for large scale hospitals and clinics ensuring growth potential for 2-5 years. This included the Power AIX and Solaris backend servers, Citrix middleware, IBM SAN storage solutions, WebSphere MQ, HACMP clustering solutions and Oracle DB install and configuration.
• Installed and configured IBM Power4 / Power5 servers running AIX 5L.
• Installed and configured Dell X86 servers running W2K, Citrix MX.
• Installed and configured Thin Clients and client PC's.
• Installed and configured IBM Shark SAN solutions and the Fiber networking.
• Installed and configured the Cerner Millennium Health solutions suite including Oracle 8.1, AIX 5L, AIX LVM, Window's 2000 Server, Linux RHEL/SUSE , Citrix Metaframe, Tivoli Storage Manager TSM , WebSphere MQ, IBM HACMP clustering solutions.
• Responsible for the installation and maintenance training of customer's current IT staff concentrating on the Unix Administrators, Oracle DBA's, Network Engineers. This training included the Cerner Millennium Health suite, AIX, HACMP, WebSphere MQ, BMC Patrol and Windows Cerner tools.
• Trouble shooting of the initial implementation as well as continued support throughout the build cycle of the AIX OS, Oracle DB, Cerner Millennium Health suite, Windows OS, HACMP, WebSphere MQ and Citrix middleware installations.
• Creation of new shell scripts to assist with the automation of day to day systems administration tasks.
• Before turning over the project to the Client's IT staff, handled all systems administration for the client site to include:
• creation of user id's and user groups
• domain creation
• installation of service packs RPM's, APAR's, patches
• LVM work Volume Groups, Logical Volumes, File Systems
• Configuration of SAN volumes and multi-pathing
• Network configuration to include redundant paths bonding / etherchannel
• configuration of backup solutions for both OS and application data
• High Availability clustering to include HACMP and Veritas
• Performance monitoring

Systems Engineer:

Confidential

• Worked with Professional Services installing, configuring and maintaining hardware Sun Solaris, IBM AIX and Windows servers and software Solaris, AIX, Windows, Oracle and Orillion tele-monitor systems, OS and applications for fault and inventory management of large scale communication networks. major customers: McCleod USA, KDDI Japan, MCI
• Wrote design requirements for upgrades and new release software products to be sent to the Software teams in Hyderabad India.
• Presented product demonstrations in an Engineering Sales environment to upper management and customer engineering teams.
• Maintained project books for each customer containing code release levels, code customization requirements, hardware, personnel contacts and desired upgrades/customization requests.
• Utilized programing skills to Parse and Map alarm information into IOS alarms across multiple platforms and networks utilizing the Orillion created Parse Mapper utility.
• Managed team of engineers and technicians at customer site for installation and training of customer's IT staff.