SUMMARY:

• An Enterprise Information Technology Consultant with broad knowledge and extensive experience in mission - critical, high-availability, high-volume corporate infrastructure design and implementation looking for a challenging environment to provide technical leadership and expertise.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Storage Hardware: Confidential Symmetrix,/DMX/VMAX/VNX/Clariion, HDS USPV/VSP, Sun A3x00/5x00/T3 arrays, Sun StorEdge Arrays and Gateway appliances, Brocade Silkworm 2800/3900/12000/24000/48000 , McData Switches (6140, i10k), Cisco MDS directors (92xx/95xx), StorageTek Tape Library, IBM Tape Library, Confidential /Clariion Disk Library, Avamar GEN1 and GEN2 datastore servers.

Storage Management: Confidential Software Utilities (TimeFinder, SRDF, PowerPath, ECC, Solution Enabler, Storage Scope/SRM, Unisphere, Navisphere, Open Replicator, SMC, WLA, SPA), Veritas Software (Volume Manager, File System, SRVM, Volume Replicator VVR), LVM, HDS/HP Management Tools (StorageNavigator, Device Manager, Command Suite, HiCommand CLI), Cisco MDS Tools (Fabric Manager, Device Manager, CLI), Brocade Software (CLI, WebTools, FabOS)

Server Hardware: Sun, IBM, HP/Compaq, Dell, Cisco

Operating System: Solaris, AIX, BSD, Linux, ESX/ESXi, vSphere/vCenter, HPUX, Windows and Novell.

High Availability: Veritas Cluster Server, Sun Cluster, HACMP.

Database: Oracle 7, 8i, 9i, 10g/11g, Informix, Sybase, MicroSoft SQLServer, DB2/UDB.

Backup: Veritas NetBackup and Bare Metal Restore, Tivoli Storage Manager, StorageTek ACSLS, LibAttach, NDMP, Oracle RMAN, Avamar and Networker.

Tuning & Monitoring: OS kernel parameter tuning, Oracle tuning, performance and monitoring tools, Confidential Work Load Analyzer, BMC Patrol, HP Openview, SAR, customized tools.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• As the Infrastructure Migration Lead, provide technical advisory to the Program Management, functioning as a liaison and coordinator between the Migration Leads and various infrastructure teams to plan and execute migration activities and events to migrate over 3000 servers and 600 applications. Server platforms including: HP, Dell, IBM, Oracle and Cisco UCS hardware platforms; Windows physical servers and VMs; LINUX servers and VMs; AIX LPARs and Solaris servers; Oracle, MS SQL and DB2 databases; Confidential, HDS and NetApp storage arrays, Cisco switches and F5 appliances, DataDomain and Avamar devices.
• Lead the effort to re-discover the existing environment and data gathering using various tools such as EMCgrab, server configuration reports, storage capacity reports, etc. Analyze the data and extract the information, build and maintain the Infrastructure Migration Event Report (Infrastructure MER) database as the main source of the data used by all the areas of the migration project.
• Develop various procedures and templates used by the migration team based on Confidential Data Center Migration Methodology, including Pre-Migration plan, Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP), Hour-by-Hour (HBH) steps, Post-Migration Plan, Migration Activity Tracker, Services/Agent Enable/Disable Template, etc.
• Define and develop various migration methods and technologies, including: physical move with lift & shift; VM migration with VMWare tools such as vConverter, VMotion and Site Recovery Manager (SRM); server build and cloning with PlateSpin and mksysb/Jumstart; database migration with SQL backup/restore, Oracle RMAN and Datapump; database replication with Oracle Data Guard; storage migration with Confidential SRDF, Confidential RecoverPoint.
• Host daily and weekly infrastructure meetings, coordinate Wintel, UNIX, database, network, Middleware, SAN and NAS, backup resources to support the migration activities and plannings.
• Execute 30+ migration events during the week and on weekends, including managing the migration bridge line, distributing and coordinating the tasks, updating the status reports, managing the troubleshooting and escalation.
• Coordinate and participate the building and development of the new DR data center and procedures, including: implement DR replication between the production and DR data centers with Confidential SRDF, RecoverPoint, VMWare SRM and Oracel Data Guard technologies; implement DR “Bubble” testing strategy with Cisco techniques, Confidential TimeFinder clone and Oracle Data guard.

Confidential

Sr. Storage Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed a very large mission-critical environment with multi-PB storage ( Confidential, HDS, NetApp, TMS) and large-scale SAN fabrics (Cisco, Brocade) supporting high-volume transaction trading applications and databases.
• Performed storage design and configuration with Confidential VMAX, DMX, Clariion/VNX, HDS USPV and VSP, NetApp Filers and TMS Solid-State Disks, using Solutions Enabler,/symcli, ECC, SMC, Symcli, Storage Navigator, HDS Device Manager/Command Suite, HiCommand, Navisphere tools. Virtual/Dynamic provisioning with Confidential VP and HDS HDP. LUN mapping, masking, auto-provisioning. Meta/LUSE creation. Tiered storage management with Confidential FASTVP and HDS Tiered Storage Manager. Performance monitoring with ECC, WLA, SPA and HDS Tuning Manager.
• Provided storage support to CME UNIX and Windows environment and applications including setting up SAN related host configuration on Solaris, RedHat Linux, Windows, HBA configurations, Unix native file systems, Veritas Volume Manager and Cluster Server, multipathing with Confidential PowerPath, VxDMP and MPIO, supporting Oracle RAC 10g and 11g and ASM raw devices.
• Designed and executed migration solutions to perform data migrations within and between the datacenters using SRDF, Open Replicator, OpenMigrator, LVM/VxVM mirroring or Oracle ASM.
• Managed large SAN fabrics with mixing of Cisco MDs 95xx and Brocade 48000s with Cisco Device Manager, Fabric Manager, Brocade WebTools and command line. Managing vsans, zonesets, zonings, aliases, port channels, fcip.
• Designed, configured and maintained data replication across multiple data centers using Confidential SRDF, SRDF/A, multi-session consistency group, Confidential TimeFinder Clone and Hitachi Replication Manager. Support DR testing.

Confidential

Sr. Storage Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Physical and logical build of vBlocks, consisting of Confidential VMAX/VNX storage, Cisco UCS and blade servers, Cisco MDS and Nexus switches, running VMWare ESX/ESXi and vSphere.
• Design and configure storage components including Confidential VMAX and VNX/VNXe storage array. Thin provisioning, pool creation, LUN carving and assignment, storage group creation and LUN masking, Implement FAST and FAST on VNX and VMAX.
• Configure Cisco MDS switches, apply licensing and perform zoning/aliasing using CLI.
• Install ESX/ESXi OS on Cisco C200 and blade servers. Deploy and manage VMware virtual hosts (Windows 2003 and 2008) using vCenter.
• Install PowerPath/VE software and license server on VMWare virtual hosts and manage storage multipathing.
• Create service profile and manage Cisco UCS with UCS Manager.
• Use Confidential UIM (Universal Infrastructure Manager) to consolidate vBlock build process.
• Deliver vBlocks at customer site by completing both physical and logical build. Train customer and partners with build process.
• Provide as-build documentation, perform acceptance tests.
• Participate site survey and requirement accessment. Review Logical Configuration Survey.

Confidential

Sr. Storage Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed a very large mission-critical environment with over 1000 TB storage ( Confidential, HDS, NetApp, TMS) and 5000+ switch ports (Cisco, Brocade) supporting high-volume transaction trading applications and databases.
• Performed storage design and provisioning with Confidential VMAX, DMX and Clariion, HDS USPV and UPSVM, NetApp Filers and TMS Solid-State Disks, using ECC, SMC, Symcli, Storage Navigator, HDS Device Manager/Command Suite, HiCommand, Navisphere tools. Virtual/Dynamic provisioning with Confidential VP and HDS HDP. LUN mapping, masking, auto-provisioning. Meta/LUSE creation. Tiered storage management with Confidential FAST and HDS Tiered Storage Manager.
• Provided storage support to CME UNIX and Windows environment and applications including setting up SAN related host configuration on Solaris, RedHat Linux, Windows, HBA configurations, Unix native file systems, Veritas Volume Manager and Cluster Server, multipathing with Confidential PowerPath, VxDMP and MPIO, supporting Oracle RAC 10g and 11g and ASM raw devices.
• Managed large SAN fabrics with mixing of Cisco MDs 95xx and Brocade 48000s with Cisco Device Manager, Fabric Manager, Brocade WebTools and command line. Managing vsans, zonesets, zonings, aliases, port channels, fcip.
• Installed and configured storage management and tools such as ECC, StorageScope, Performance Analyzer, SMC, SPA, Unisphere, Cisco Fabric Manager, HDS Device Manager, Command Suite and Tuning Manager.
• Designed, configured and maintained data replication across multiple data centers using Confidential SRDF, SRDF/A, multi-session consistency group, Confidential TimeFinder Clone and Hitachi Replication Manager. Support DR testing.
• Executed migration plans to move data from DMX to VMAX using standard and cascaded SRDF to maintain DR replication intact. Perform storage migration between Confidential and HDS arrays using Open Replicator, LVM/VxVM mirroring or Oracle ASM.

Confidential

Storage Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• CSC/Motorola DMX refresh and SAN migration: Design solutions to migrate SAN from existing McData switches to new Cisco MDS 9513s. Design solutions to replace Nishan switches by Cisco MDs 9222i switches for FCIP data replication. Implement FCIP on Cisco with IVR and VSANs for Confidential SRDF replication. Design solutions to migrate storage from DMX2000 frames to DMX3 frames using SRDF, Volume Manager mirroring, Confidential Invista, and Open Migrator. Design storage virtualization solution for data storage by Confidential Invista technology.
• Avamar National Practice: Install Avamar GEN1 and GEN2 datastore hardware and Avamar backup software (v3.x - v4.x) at Confidential clients. Configure Avamar backup software, create backup objects (datasets, schedules, retention policies, groups) Install Avamar client agent on various platforms include Windows, Windows Cluster, Solaris, AIX, Linux, VMWare, SCO UNIX. Develop backup scheme for OS backup, file system backup, database (Oracle and MS SQL) backup and Mail server (MS Exchange) backup. Configure Avamar monitoring, reporting and external authentication. Develop scripts and reports for monitoring capacity and activities. Configure Avamar integration with Confidential Networker. Configure Avamar Tape Out solution. Perform Solution Architect role on various Avamar project. Responsibilities include meeting with customer, gathering information, designing and documenting the solutions.
• Accenture SAN and data center design: Design SAN architecture and solutions for Accenture Bangalore data center. Dual redundant fabrics with Cisco MDS 9513s. Storage solutions with Clariion Cx3-80s for Oracle database HA cluster with Veritas Cluster Server and Exchange servers and MS SQLserver 2005 hosts in HA clusters. Storage management solution with ECC, StorageScope. Design SAN solutions for backup and restore using Confidential Legato Networker, Confidential Disk Library and Physical Tape Libraries.
• American Redcross (ARC) Data Center move and migration project: Moving entire data center from east coast to a new location in Midwest. Including 3 Confidential Symmetrix frames with 6TB data, SAN fabrics and over 500 servers, including larger database servers and HA cluster (Veritas Cluster Server). I was responsible to develop the Confidential detailed data migration and implementation plan using Confidential SRDF and TimeFinder multi-hop replication over FCIP WAN. Functioned as the primary resource to execute the entire migration plan including the following: developed scripts to discover and gather information for migration preparation; created device groups for SRDF and TimeFinder devices between the existing data center, DR data center and the new data center; implement SRDF over FCIP on Brocade 48Ks; performed SRDF and TimeFinder operations for data replication and monitor the performance of server, array and switches; perform storage allocation and provisions for migrated servers; developed scripts to automate SRDF and TF operations, as well as masking/mapping tasks and zoning. Also participated troubleshooting activities to support ARC production storage.
• National Academy of Sciences (NAS) DR project: Design and implement database DR solution between the production data center and the DR site using SRDF Asynchronous (SRDF/A) technology to achieve the RPO of less than 1 hour. Implement SRDF/A between two DMXs, with advanced features enabled to maintain the stability if the DR session. Troubleshoot performance problem.
• INOVA HealthCare Migration Project: Lead SAN fabric migration project for INOVA, migrating existing McData fabric to new Cisco MDS fabric. Installed ECC and Performance Ananlyzer. Developed detailed plans and step by step implementation. Participated data migration from DMX3000 and Clariion CX700 to DMX3 using Open Replicator.
• Disney migration and refresh: Design and implemented SAN migration solution using Confidential Open Replicator, SRDF and PPME to migrate peta-byte SAN storage from existing IBM, Confidential, HP arrays to Confidential VMAXs.

Confidential

Storage/Backup Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Vertias Cluster Server on Solaris 10 NFS file server and Veritas NetBackup 6.0 and MP5 on two Solaris 10 master servers. Configuration of NetBackup server and clients (Windows and Solaris), creation of policies, media servers. Configuration of STK SL500 Tape Libraries and HP Ultrium III tape drives for NetBackup.
• Set up SAN infrastructure and fabrics with Brocade 4100 switches. Creation of zones. Set up Sun StorEdge 6130 Storage Array for SAN, NAS and iSCSI usage.
• Set up Sun StorEdge 5320 NAS Gateway to serve NAS file shares to Solaris SunRay clients and iSCSI LUNs to Windows MS Exchange server.
• Installation and setup of SunRay server and clients with Gnome Desktop and NFS shares for home directory.

Confidential

Sr. Storage/Backup Architect

Responsibilities:

• Analyze the current backup process and infrastructure. Review the backup risk and issue report prepared for CIO office and identify the items need to be addressed with high priority. Develop short-term and long term mitigation plans.
• Working short-term mitigation plans including adding more capacity to the current TSM backup infrastructure (TSM 5.3 on AIX 5.3), implementing Tivoli Data Protection (TDP) for database backups (UDB and MSSQL) and Lotus Domino server and Notes databases. Test TSM LAN-free option to backup large databases.
• Identify backup related procedures and processes and develop documentations on these. Develop backup and restore related documentations. Develop backup and restore related policies, SLAs and OLAs for Zurich organization and implemented these at daily operations.
• Gather both business and technical requirements for backup and restore testing at Zurich and estimate on financial and resources and prepare the presentation to the upper management for project funding.
• Design the infrastructure of Zurich Operational Recovery Center (ORC) at Schaumburg with Confidential, Cisco, IBM products and technologies.
• Design Zurich tape area network (TAN) with MDS 9513 directors at Schaumburg and LA sites. Developed methodology to allocation switch ports for different backup equipments to achieve both performance and high-availability.
• Design and implement tape backup infrastructure with STK(L700)/IBM(3584) physical tape libraries and CDL ( Confidential DL7x0/DL4x00) virtual libraries.
• Design and implement NDMP backup for NAS data Movers with TSM backups.
• Evaluate current backup products and technologies on the market and look for long term backup solution for Zurich.

Confidential

Sr. Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement tiered storage solutions with Confidential DMX3 and Clariion storage arrays and Celerra NAS appliance for a technology service provider. Storage layout and optimization for various application, BIN file modification, Symm configuration changes, storage provisioning.
• Design Oracle backup and restore solutions with Confidential TimeFinder mirror, clone and snapshot techniques. Develop TimeFinder scripts for automation. Convert existing scripts with MirrorView/SnapView and SANCopy for database backup and replication to TimeFinder Clone/Snapshot and SRDF based scripts.
• Design and implement storage replication solutions with Confidential SRDF and SRDF/A, and Clariion Replication Manager and Recovery Point.
• Design and implement ECC, Storage Scope and Performance Analyzer for storage management, capacity planning and performance monitoring.
• Design Oracle RAC infrastructure for online application with Clariion CX3-40/80 array, Brocade switches, with OCFS on RedHat Linux platform. Monitor performance and statistics on SAN and server.
• Design storage migration solution with Confidential Open Migrator to migrate MicroSoft Exchange servers from Clariion to DMX.
• Troubleshooting performance problem on DMX and Clariion with ECC Work Load Analyzer and Navisphere Analyzer.

Confidential

Sr. Technical Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided overall strategy advice and technical consulting on IT infrastructure, open system and mid-range applications, web hosting and business logic applications, database applications, data storage infrastructure, backup and restore, disaster recovery services.
• Presented Confidential for IBM tiered storage offerings with Confidential technologies (DMX, Clariion CX, Celerra NSX and Centera, ECC, PowerPath, TimeFinder and SRDF, SAN fabric with Brocade and McData) for various applications such as database, business intelligent, web-based, etc. Design and select storage platform and tier, determine RAID level, capacity planning, performance monitoring and optimization.
• Disaster Recovery environment assessment and requirements analysis. Develop DR strategies and SLAs. Vendor and technologies evaluations and selections.
• Designed and developed Confidential of backup and restore, Disaster Recovery (DR) for IBM GS clients to replicate data between the geographically distributed data centers. Solutions are both server and SAN-based, including Veritas NetBackup, Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), Veritas Volume Replicator, Veritas Global Cluster Manager and Command Central Availability, HDS TrueCopy and Shadow Image, Confidential TimeFinder and SRDF.
• Participated in design of DR infrastructure including data center facility, network facility and bandwidth, SAN fabric. Planning the WAN and replication capacity. Build SAN replication network with CNT/McData/Brocade equipments and WAN connections. Plan for DNS, LDAP, Active Directory, Terminal services and Citrix infrastructure for DR.
• Designed and implemented DR solution for large data warehouse applications using Oracle Data Guard, VVR and Confidential SRDF/A. Replicate large databases across major data centers.
• Implemented DR solution for IBM clients’ mission-critical WebShpere 5.x applications. Built WAS 5.x DR hubs and cells for various applications with dedicated or shared JVMs. Built shared NDM and LDAP infrastructures for DR.
• Migrated existing servers to new hardware platform in preparation for DR. Hardware includes SunFire servers (V1280, E2900, E15K and E25K, IBM P570 and 690) and Dell PowerEdge servers. Migrate the application and data from Confidential /IBM SAN to HDS TagmaStore by Veritas Volume Manager and SAN migration tools.
• Developed and built various Confidential to IBM’s outsourcing clients: applications including database (Oracle, UDB and MS SQL server), Application Server (Websphere application server v4/5, WebSphere HIS, LDAP, WebSphere MQ processor), Business Intelligence (Cognos, MicroStrategy). Reporting (Actuate iServer), QA (Mercury products), etc.
• Designed high-availability cluster solution with Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Global Cluster Manager for various applications.
• Managed technical and project resources for IBM projects. Provided estimates on hardware, software and labor costs using IBM proprietary tools and processes.
• Provided technical documentations on Confidential, project summaries, and delivery support guidelines.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Sr. Enterprise Storage Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Manage, support existing SAN infrastructure including: Hitachi Data System (HDS) 9960/9980v/9580v arrays, HP SureStore XP 256/512/1024 arrays and Confidential arrays serving State Farm Corporate and Operation Centers in north America region. Coordinating hardware installation with vendor, design RAID group and port allocation, assign storage, LUN security, capacity report and planning.
• SAN Fabric design and support: design and build large fabrics with various topologies (Core-Edge, Meshed, Island). Installation and configuration of switches (Brocade 2800/6400/3900/12000 ), firmware upgrade, zoning, SNMP monitoring, Fabric Watch monitoring, performance monitoring.
• Service and support customers for entire organization: server platforms include IBM AIX, HP-UX, Windows NT/2000/XP, and Linux. Applications include Web Server (Apache), Web applications (Websphere, proxy, revision control), Databases (DB2/UDB, Oracle, MS SQL Server). Technologies include SAN boot, data replication and snapshot (with Business Copy, Shadow Image, TrueCopy and VVR), multipathing and load balance ( Confidential PowerPath, HP AutoPath, HDS DLM).
• Lead efforts in SAN performance monitoring and tuning, troubleshooting. Monitor and tune fabric performance with SANHealth, Statsgopher and customized tools. Monitor and tune storage array performance: CHIP utilization optimization, RAID Group layout optimization, RAID level selection with AutoLun, Cruise Control, and Performance Advisor.
• Develop technical documentations, guidelines and procedures for large-scale SAN support, management and troubleshooting. Mentor level-2 support staff.
• Provide technical leadership to State Farm's Enterprise Storage Team and Management: review existing infrastructure design; provide inputs and advices, evaluation of industry's new products (Cisco MDS, Nishan, CNT), technologies (FCIP and iFCP, Fabric over extended distance), and best practices and solutions. Vendor selection process.
• Interface with other functional areas to work on multiple highly visible, mission-critical projects such as high-availability, load-balance, SAN-based backup, etc.

Confidential, Riverwoods, IL

UNIX / Storage Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Conducted planning of the overall strategy and project for DMX migration. Migrated from four symmetrix 8830 to 4 DMX with over 150 servers attached to. Used Confidential SRDF as the main tool to migrate data to minimize the impact to daily production activities.
• Coordinated the hardware move, facilities (power, cable patching, etc.).
• Prepared for migration with software upgrades (PowerPath, ECC, StorageScope, Performance Analyzer, HBA drivers/firmware).
• Migration plan implementation: Worked with Confidential engineers to set up SRDF device groups, develop scripts to do zone changes, LUN masking changes, symconfigure tasks with solution enabler. Conducted host-level operations (lpfc changes, sd.conf changes, cfgmgr/ODM rebuilt, Veritas Volume Manager / LVM re-configuration, etc.)
• Post-migration works: included re-establish all the BCVs on DMX, clean up the powerpath devices and ODM entries, bin file changes and zone changes.
• Pre-migration data backup with Confidential BCV and Veritas Netbackup.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Veritas / Sun Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed the overall architecture for AON documentation management application to provide high-availability server and site failover, on-line snapshot, data replication for Oracle and Java application, and disaster recovery between the remote data centers. Technologies used include Solaris 8, Sun Storage Manager, Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), Veritas Volume Manager and File System, Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR), Veritas FlashSnap, and Oracle 8i Standby Database.
• High-availability was implemented on multiple Sun Servers (E280) with VCS cluster. Applications including Oracle 8i server, Oracle 8i standby database, NFS, and Java based applications.
• Disaster recovery between the remote data centers was implemented with VVR 3.5 replicating non-database data and Oracle 8i standby database replicating the database over the LAN/WAN. Primary and secondary sites can be failed over gracefully without losing transactions.
• Implemented Veritas FlashSnap for online data replication and backup. Developed a menu-based tool to automate and streamline the snapshot operation. It provides a fast and efficient way to mirror the application and database in real time without interruption to the production for reporting, batch jobs, backup/restore and disaster recovery purposes.
• Incorporated Veritas FlashSnap with NetBackup to create off-host backup scheme to offload the backup process from production server. This method dramatically reduced the backup window and performance impact to production server and network.

Confidential, Riverwoods, IL

UNIX / Storage Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed overall infrastructure for Confidential ' new data center. Including High-level design, Request for Proposal (RFP), Detailed Design, Implementation and Migration Plan documentations. It is a very large environment with multiple security/networking zones, seven environments for whole life cycle of enterprise applications, with open system platform (UNIX and Windows) and gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel SAN backbone.
• Designed and implemented Confidential enterprise storage infrastructure Core-Edge Dual Fabric SAN with Brocade 12000 switches, multiple Confidential Symmetrix 8830 arrays (50+ TB raw storage, 20+ Core/Edge Switches with 2000+ ports, serving 500+ servers).
• Designed and implemented centralized SAN management solution with Confidential Control Center (Open Edition 5.1.1) integration with Brocade Fabric OS and other tools (WideSky Solution Enabler, Confidential Work Load Analyzer, Optimizer). Integrated SNMP alerting and monitoring with Tivoli to monitor the SAN environment through ECC.
• Designed total server backup and restore solution (both SAN-based and LAN-based) with Veritas NetBackup DataCenter 4.5, BareMetal Restore, Confidential TimeFinder, StorageTek Tape Library (L5500 library with LTO drives and ACSLS). Define corporate backup policy and restore strategy. Provided backup/restore solutions to all Confidential applications including Oracle, MS SQLServer, VMWare, Lotus applications, and NAS.
• Designed and implemented Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution with Confidential Celerra File Server (Version 4, DataMover model 507 and 510). NAS backup and restore solution with NDMP.
• Designed UNIX server environment with Sun Enterprise server (from V K) and IBM p-6x0 (from ) servers. Implemented automated server build techniques (Jumpstart, NIM), IP MultiPathing and Load Balance (IPMP, NIB), Storage MultiPathing ( Confidential PowerPath, Veritas DMP), Disaster Recovery (Veritas BMR, MakeSysB)
• Designed High-Availability solution for UNIX server with Veritas Cluster Server (Version 3.5) on Solaris 8 and AIX 5.1 (VCS Version 3.2), in combination with redundant SAN solution.
• Designed Oracle 9.2 HA and online backup / restore solution with VCS, Veritas Advanced Database Edition for Oracle, 9i RAC and DataGuard, Oracle RMAN, Confidential TimeFinder and SRDF, and Veritas NetBackup.
• Designed data movement and migration solutions between different security zones and environments with Confidential TimeFinder, SRDF and InfoMover tools.
• Designed enterprise disaster recovery solutions with Confidential SRDF, Tape vaulting, Oracle 9i Data Guard and Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR).

Confidential, Rosemont, IL

Storage Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed storage solutions to cover wide area of interests including High-Availability (HA), Business Continuity (BC), Disaster Recovery (DR), Storage Area Network (SAN) architecture, Storage Consolidation and Virtualization.
• Designed, developed and certified Solaris-based packaged solutions. These solutions include the following: server HA cluster failover with Veritas Cluster Server on Solaris. No-data-loss hot-standby database HA/DR solutions based on clustering (Veritas Cluster Server, Oracle DataGuard), data replication ( Confidential SRDF, Hitachi Open Remote Copy, Oracle Advanced Replication Server and Hot Standby, Veritas VVR), snapshot (Fujitsu One-Point-Copy / Equivalent Copy, Confidential TimeFinder, Veritas Snapshot File System), parallel server (OPS) and server load balancing.
• Participated Fujitsu GR product sales. Provided sales people with technical support for product, storage related and high-availability technology. Preparation of presentations and other sales collateral for sales support, customer, marketing, and internal .
• Provided consulting services to Amdahl/Fujitsu’s clients. Services include but not limited to: high-level architecture design, assessment of the environment, solution design and implementation.
• Trained Amdahl/Fujitsu internal consultants, MSEs and A/Es. Provide classes, labs, set up knowledge databases and develop internal white papers.
• Evaluation of the existing technologies and best practices; developing solutions based on the lead-edge technologies such as Confidential, HDS, Fujitsu GR, NetApps, Veritas, Legato, SofTek, DataCore, McData, Brocade, InRange, Sun, Oracle, etc.
• Assisted product and solution sales and delivery team to work on RFP preparation, engineering design, implementation, and project management.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. IT / Solaris Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented Oracle database backup / recovery / replication based Confidential SAN technologies (TimeFinder, BCV, ECC, RMAN Proxy), including BCV configuration, disk layout, scripting. Multiple sets of BCVs are split off against the production databases and used for tape backup and bring up reporting servers.
• Solaris server performance monitoring with various tools (sar, vmstat, BMC Patrol, Confidential Workload Analyzer). Oracle database performance tuning. Recommend and implement changes to the kernel parameters, hardware configuration and Oracle best practices to improve the database performance.
• Developed and implemented a homemade performance monitoring utility to process and publish server statistics. Evaluate other tools (Oracle StatPacs, HP Openviews, SysEdge).
• Sun Solaris system administration and Oracle 8i database server management. Environment includes Sun Enterprise servers (up to High-end E6500) running Sun Cluster 2.2, Confidential Symmetrix Storage arrays with Brocade switches, Veritas Volume Manager and Netbackup, Oracle 8i database server and 11i application server.
• As the primary security consultant, evaluate and oversee corporate security policies and practices. Define, implement and document data and network security best practices. Recommend and implement security patches, kernel changes and best practices.
• Designed and implemented SAN infrastructure using Confidential Symmetrix arrays, Connectrix 6400M and Brocade switches, Confidential Celerra, JNI and Emulex HBA cards. Managed with ECC, ESN Manager, Symm Control Center, VolumeLogix and Workload Analyzer.
• Designed and implemented strategy to enable business continuity, disaster recovery and high-availability based various cluster and DR technologies including, Confidential BCV, Confidential SRDF, Veritas Cluster Server and SRVM, Sun Cluster.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assessment of the corporate IT environment and current HA / DR configurations and requirements.
• HA and DR configurations and requirements evaluation and analysis.
• Helped client to define multi-tier HA service levels and solutions.
• Evaluated currently available HA / DR technologies and make recommendations based on the requirements.
• Proposed detailed project plans for HA / DR solutions implementation, including HA system auditing, check list compiling, prototype design and building.

Confidential, Allen, TX

Sr. Solaris / Veritas Consultant

Responsibilities:

• High-level design on Solaris platform for ATTWS 3G mail system environment including choosing hardware and software platform, capacity planning, network design.
• Designed various high-availability cluster solutions for the master directory service running iPlanet LDAP server (active / passive) and Mail Store application running iPlanet Messenger Server (N+1) using VCS 1.3 and Netscape Agent.
• Implemented the cluster solution at ATTWS data center on Sun E4500 servers running Solaris 8, attached to dual Connectrix 32-port switches and two Confidential 8380 Symmetrix arrays with 1.5 Tera-byte storage. Works included OS installation, network connection, Veritas Volume Manager (3.1) and File Systems (3.3.4), installation and configuration of Confidential PowerPath, Time Finder and SRDF.
• Designed test plans and test VCS failover functionalities under various scenarios.
• LDAP, SMTP and Mail server performance tuning (CPU, memory, I/O and network).
• Documentation of design, implementation and operation of clustering.

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Sr. IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and configured high-availability cluster solution using Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) running on Sun Enterprise servers with Sun Disk Arrays dual-attached. Designed and implemented failover strategy for Oracle 8i database and applications.
• Evaluated and implemented database remote replication schema using Veritas Storage Replication Volume Manager (SRVM) to replicate live production database between primary site at West coast (Santa Clara, CA.) and East coast (Herndon, VA.) for disaster recovery.
• Implemented Oracle Hot Standby database as read-only instance for reporting, data warehouse and backup purposes. Evaluated other database replication tools such as Oracle Advance Replicator and Quest’s Shareplex.
• Evaluated the corporate security policies. Defined various security policies and best including Solaris security guidelines, user security policy, and network security policy.
• Designed and implemented Oracle online and offline backup strategy and mechanism using Veritas snapshot volume, snapshot file system, Oracle RMAN and Veritas Database Edition Checkpoint for Oracle.
• Oracle database data layout planning and I/O performance benchmarking and tuning by implementing various RAID levels with Sun Raid Manager (RM6) and Veritas Volume Manager.
• Participated design of a new multi-tier FRM e-business application solution including web tier (Apache and Stronghold), application tier (BEA Weblogic 5 server), and back-end database tier (Oracle 8i). Migration of existing CORBA based application to J2EE (Weblogic) based application (Re-Arch). The web and application layers were load-balanced by Cisco Local Director 420 and F5’s BigIP and clustered by Weblogic cluster server to achieve the maximum availability and scalability.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure design / engineering: Planning overall infrastructure for TotalMRO’s application environment. Interacting with vendors to research and identify technologies, tools, hardwares and softwares for TotalMRO environment. Designing network architecture, data flow, application (N-tier) and strategy.
• Data center planning and implementation: Working closely with ISPs (Exodus, DIGEX, Comdisco) to plan externally hosted data center for TotalMRO’s e-business environment. Reviewing and finalizing RFPs and SLAs.
• Server implementation: High-end Sun Enterprise server hardware installation and operating system (Solaris 7) configuration. Configuration of High-Availability using Veritas Cluster Server, Sun Cluster. Database clustering with OPS and Advanced Replication Server. Veritas Volume Manager / File System. Veritas Database Edition for Oracle / Checkpoint.
• Networking implementation: planning and implementing TotalMRO network consisting of 10/100/1000 BaseT and Fiber with CISCO 650x/36x0 routers and switches, VLANs, ArrowPoint smart web content switches, load balancing with BigIP and Local Director, VPNs and Secure Shells, Firewall implementation and rule defining (with CISCO PIX and CheckPoint Firewall-1). Network monitoring and Intrusion detection (ISS Real Secure).
• Deployment of Java / Weblogic based application packages on Solaris environment. Installation and configuration of BEA Weblogic 4.5 server, Weblogic Ecommerce package, Webmethods package. Software package installation and configuration of JAVA, XML, Webmethods, Requisite tools (ECManager, ELoader).
• Performance monitoring and tuning for Solaris OS, web server, application server and database server with BMC Patrol, Workload Analyzer. Web statistics collection and analysis with Webtrends. Implementation and maintenance of internet content management softwares (Cohera).
• Database design and management: Oracle database (8.0.x/8i) logical / physical design for application, database management, performance tuning, database off-line / on-line backup / restore (using export, RMAN, BCV), data warehouse / datamart architecture and implementation.
• Confidential storage: TotalMRO’s environment is designed as Confidential -Proven by choosing Confidential Symmetrix Frames and Connectrix SAN switches hardwares, zone file configuration, and implementing various Confidential packages, such as PowerPath, TimeFinder/BCV, SRDF/DR, SymmManager, Work Load Analyzer and DBTuner.
• Exploring and testing non-stop non-disruptive solution for TotalMRO business by evaluating and testing Sun cluster server, Oracle parallel server, and geographical distributed environment.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure engineering and planning: Worked closely with Lucent CIO project management team to analyze the business and technical requirements from customers. Designed the infrastructure and network for key projects such as Lucent 5ESS switches performance data warehouse server and customer relationship management system.
• System implementation and integration with high-end SUN Enterprise Servers: Solaris installation and patches; system performance monitoring; kernel tuning and debugging; network configuration with Ethernet and ATM; management of NFS and NIS; software and package installation and administration; Capacity planning and management with Veritas Volume Manager and FileSystem.
• Oracle database design and management: Logical and physical design of database; installation of Oracle RDBMS; routine database administration; database performance monitoring and tuning; database on-line backup.
• Configuration of application servers: installation and implementation of various applications and middlewares (ColdFusion, Clarify, Clearcase products, Netscape Enterprise Server, Tuxedo).
• Implementing High-Availability cluster using Veritas FirstWatch with the capability of failing over Oracle database engine and applications.
• Storage management with Confidential Symmetrix and Sun disk arrays: I/O monitoring and tuning with Confidential SymmManager and Workload Analyzer; dynamic multi-path with Confidential PowerPath 1.3; data warehouse on-line backup with BCVs.

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed a large distributed, heterogeneous UNIX environment including Sun and NeXT with NIS and NetInfo tools.
• Performed daily system administration works and help desk and 7x24 on-call support: Backup/restore; mail, printer, network trouble-shooting; NFS and automounter; patches; performance monitoring and tunings; Shell scripting.
• Participated design and planning for various projects: SunOS and Solaris migration; JumpStart server setup; migration of NeXT to NT and integration with Sun; Setting up Y2K test network and firewall.

Confidential

Sr. UNIX/Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Content hosting server design and implementation: Hardware Installation of SUN Enterprise and IBM RS/6000 servers; configuration of Solaris and AIX operating systems; application software installations; network configuration (ethernet, FDDI and Token ring).
• Routine system administration (7x24 on-call): user account management; managing disk space, network, I/O activities; performance and kernel monitoring/tuning; trouble shooting.
• Network security: Installation and configuration of internet and intranet firewall (Firewall-1) on Sun and NT servers; installation/setup of security packages (SeOS, ESM, TCPWrapper, Trusted Computing Base (TCB)).
• Customized Intarnet/Intranet solutions for Sears project including secure wen server and Oracle database for on-line transactions.

Confidential

Research Associate/UNIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• System installation and upgrade Solaris 2.X, SunOS and Linux. Routine system administration (user/security, backup/recovery, NFS/NIS+, network setup, package/application installation).
• Participated development and testing softwares used in synchrotron radiation and materials science research, using FORTRAN, IDL and EPICS.
• Worked extensively with other platforms such as PC, Windows, Mac, VAX/VM.