SUMMARY

• Seasoned Professional Systems Engineer in technical project management, with leading global manufacturing, financial and technology organizations.
• 7 years in a managerial role with Capital and expense budget responsibility of $3+ million. Expertise in controlling operational costs. Directed staff development, hiring, coaching, counseling, and review.
• Experience with the product in addition, backup exec and various OS backup methods. Utilizing tape, virtual tape, local and San based Storage.Exposure to Veritas Netbackup versions 4 - 6
• Cultivates productive and proactive working relationships with customers/technical teams/vendors to jointly resolve issues in corporate Datacenters. Managed Multiple Global Datacenters to meet and exceeded 99.999% uptime ensuring Service Level Agreements are achieved.
• Ensures professional and effective communication Confidential all times.
• Ensures, develops disaster recovery plan and business continuity plan are followed and tested. Managed DR sites for data integrity and replication. Promoted best practices for environment capacity, performance, and sustainability for peak performance. Strategic planning for growth and adjusting compute environment based on a company's growth.
• Installation, configuration and management of Windows 2003 and 2008 AD Domain infrastructure, IIS, Web Services, SQL, MS Cluster Servers, group policies, SNMP communities and traps.
• Architected, configured, tuned, and monitored VMware ESX 3.5, ESXi 5.x, vSphere 5.x, 6.x

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Austin TX

Sr Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Interfaces with internal Confidential management, internal SMEs, and technical teams.
• Reviews, Operational and JSPEC,EDP, IGs documentation for installations occurring in Production environment. Finalizes “as built” documentation and created Ops Plans for Operations Acceptance.
• Implemented NZ6 DNS for Neo Zone roll outs for production fully tested and ready ahead of schedule.
• Implemented Oracle GRID, RAC, Databases, and Clients in support of XDM Geo-Diverse platform for push automation provisioning security patches, firmware updates and VoLTE in AKR Datacenter.
• Engineers hardware/OS plans for Windows Server Sun Solaris, and Linux Suse/Redhat.
• Subject matter expert on VMware VSphere 5.5 in support of Production deployment of Automation BMC-BSA systems utilizing Virtual Center, HA, DRS, Vmotion and Storage Vmotion.
• Resolves trouble issues with installations, i.e. equipment function, and data cabling. Resolves engineering of VMware Host and Guest VMs.
• Implemented all 3rd party internal security tools with NetBackup and alarm monitoring tools.
• Resolves Deployment issues of Guest VMs in RedHat Linux along with Solaris Unix CDOMs/LDOMs.

Confidential, Austin TX

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project management of Confidential Mobility Production Support Lab (MPSL) build out. Excellent communications skills in a rapid dynamic build environment.
• Identifies funding for immediate and long term projects. Presents to upper management for review and analysis of pending projects. Reviews vendor quotes for correct project specifications.
• Interfaces with internal Confidential &T management, internal SMEs, and technical teams.
• Reviews, Operational and JSPEC, LEP, EDP documentation for installations occurring in Lab Space. Finalizes Lab “as built” documentation for review. Manages Lab Access physical/electronic for all clients/vendors.
• Manages trades for equipment installation, power, and data cabling. Engineers Copper/Fiber plant and hardware/OS plans for Windows Server 2008, Sun Solaris, Linux Suse/Redhat, Cisco/Juniper routers.
• Subject matter expert on EMC VMAX, VNX, DL/Clarion, and CISCO MDS9513 SAN Fabrics.
• Subject matter expert on VMware VSphere 5.5 in support of Lab internal support systems utilizing Virtual Center, HA, DRS, motion and Storage motion along with Implementing Orchestrator for flow automation.
• Assigns IP, VLAN, and VSAN with understanding of routing switching protocols. Supports use of tools SNMP, LDAP, and DNS along with test equipment Tektronix probes, Spirent, and Ixia.
• Manages installation and support of call path application environments in support of platform zones. This includes multiple Oracle RAC,GRID, and database systems, Directory Services, Open Charging systems, Policy systems, and Multi Proxy Services.

Confidential CA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed Market Data Feed infrastructure in Solaris and Red Hat Linux environments.
• Implemented Strategic Storage initiative reducing costs in disk recovery management from outage. The Primary and DR data centers utilized clustering technology over a Gigaman link. When outages occurred, by design storage disks were not available for production access until full disk rebuilds occurred. Outage impacts of 8-15 hours were not acceptable. With the implementation of Mini copy and Mini Merge utility, the time was reduced to less that 10 minutes after a system stabilized from reboot. Cost avoidance continues today. Average outage cost $500k depending on data set impacted. Returned savings in 2008 $1.5M, In 2009 $1M.
• Increased cost containment by promoting Virtual Machine environments utilizing VMWARE ESX 3.5 with Virtual Center, HA, DRS,Vmotion through structured virtual server migrations. Routine patching tuning of ESX hosts. Daily administration duties AD, WSUS patching and application installations. Daily administrative duties of RISS/IAP email archiving platforms.
• Interfaced with Compliance officers for, SAS70, and All Securities Exchange Audits.
• Consulting for LAN/WAN engineering, installations and configurations.
• Architect VMware Clusters to meet customer requirements.
• Windows System Administration, installation, configurations server 2000-2012.
• Storage Administration, installation, and configurations. Utilizing workgroup NAS Netgear, Dlink NAS appliances.
• PC Workstation remote administration installations and configurations XP-Windows 10.
• Syslog Auditing, Server diagnostics for Small Business.

Confidential TX

Manager of Technical Support

Responsibilities:

• Managed, designed and implemented company computing resources Confidential Division level.
• Managed and deployed strategic MES computing upgrade within GaAs FAB. The following benefits were Year 2000 compliant, an improved operational environment, minimal retraining, and improved data integrity with reduced maintenance costs over 5 years for $1 M implemented during transition to TriQuint in 1998.
• Provided engineering analysis during development of maturing TI WORKS MES System now known as Factory Works from Brooks Automation. Analyzed business impact on GaAs FAB for a conversion to TI strategic path. A direct cost avoidance of $2.8 million was realized.
• Project management of Oracle database refresh, a consolidation of DBMS and flat file databases bringing all to strategic Oracle SQL functionality utilizing Oracle Discoverer as a common interface.
• Designed 10,000 sq/ft data center to accommodate 8 node VAX cluster with growth for proposed HP/UX servers. Designed from blue print, electrical grid, and ran environmental capacity for AC and chillers. Managed vendors and developed capital plan for DEC move.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Systems: VMWare ESX3.5,5.5,6.x VSphere 5.0, 5.5,6.x Virtual Center, Windows (98/NT/2000/XP/VISTA/WIN 7/Server 2000 - 2008, (2012 Lab Only) Solaris 10, 11,Redhat,SUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu.

Hardware: HP DL,ML, Blades, Dell Poweredge,SunV210, V215, T5220/5440, X4670, X4200, 6000 Chassis, Brocade 5100/5300 Fiber Channel Switch, Cisco UCS 5108 and Fabric Interconnects 6248.

Storage: EMC VMAX, VNX, DL/Clarion Net App Filers700 Series, HP EVA3000/5000, Sun JBOD, DEC/Compaq/HP Storage Works.

Applications: VMWare HA, DRS, VMOTION, SRM, Orchestrator, Workstation, Converter, Platespin, Hyper-V, MS SQL 2000/2005 Server, IIS6/7, WSUS, MOM/SCOM, MS Office Suite 2003,7,10, SNMP, Citrix XenApp, Exchange 5.5, Oracle SQL/Codasyl DBMS, Discoverer, DB2, MySQL, Cacti, Solar Winds IP Mon, Veritas Backup Exec, NetBackup . HP Insight Control, Systems Insight Manager, EMC Solutions Enabler - Navi/Unisphere, SYMCLI, ESRS, PowerPath, ECC, Network Appliance ONTAP.

Network: Cisco Routers, 3600,3400,1000, 760x, 7010, CRS Switches 2900, 3000 5000, MDS 9513 SAN, Brocade SAN, Juniper MX320,480,580 Strm, TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, SNMP, SSL, LAN Ethernet, Fiber 1G-10G fabrics, Wan - Pots, T-1, T-3, OC3, OC12, ATM, Frame Relay, Cabling Plant Engineering and Installation to BICSI standards.

Managerial: Customer Service, Financial Management, Budget Preparation, and Project Management, Risk