SUMMARY:

Excellent customer rapport, superior troubleshooting skills, very robust & deep technical skills, excellent quality of work, quick response times, well documented service reports, complete tough projects, read and follows plans, efficient use of available tools. I am a self sufficient (will fulfill my role & more) person that works well in a team pulling together the individual skills of the team for the best results. I have been in this field for 20 plus years operating at a high performance level at all stops I am resourceful coming up with resolutions of tough issues for the short & long term. I maintain my technical skills with dedicated personal computer laboratory with over 10 different servers custom built and a few proprietary, managed switches, tape libraries, ESXi, Linux, Windows etc...

CONCEPT KNOWLEDGE:

Basic to complex networking, Routers, Backup software/DRP, scripting OS administration processes, complex system integration, clusters hardware and software, high availability solutions, performance optimization, load balancing, database concepts, data migrations audio & video streaming, remote system administration and troubleshooting, solution architect, design system, Storage, SOW creation using Visio, PowerPoint and other presentation methods. Deep debugging of application and OS to the kernel levels, including core file analysis. I am able to architect solutions from beginning to production, hardware\firmware debugging. I have done numerous POC’s (proof of Concepts) and R&D prototype testing.

APPLICATION & OS KNOWLEDGE:

OS: HP - UX, Solaris, Linux (Red Hat, SUSE, Centos, Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE etc..), Windows(All NT technologies, up to W2008 r2), Cloud Technologies limited AIX, SGI, NCR, SCO, BSD. Perl, Python. PHP

Applications:

Storage: Data Protector, Openview Storage Mirroring, Storage Essentials, Openview Storage Area Manager, Asynchronous & Synchronous replication. Snap Shot management, CommVault, Veritas, Deduplication, FreeNAS, HP Virtual Library

Monitoring\System Administration tools Utilities: Nagios, Cacti, Openview Operations, Network Node Manager NNM, Puppet

Web\Web 2.0: Mysql, Apache, Movabletype Blog software, Joomla & Drupal CMS, Gallery2, PostgreSQL, PHP, Perl. MySQL

Desktop: Windows Office Suites, Microsoft Project Visio

Other: NIS, Visio, headless Xterminals/thin clients, BDNA, Vmware, Spacial Audio, LVM, Veritas Volume Manager, IPTables, Selinux, Modsecurity, FTP, SSH, Clustering (ServiceGuard & Windows), Oracle, Vmware, ESX & ESXi, IPTables, Selinux.Java NFS,TCP/IP, RAID, Business Continuity, Load Balancing, Continuous Access, Disaster Recovery. EMC clarion, EMC Navisphere. Powerpath, iSCSI initiators. ILO, IPMI, KVM, Openstack Vision Solutions Double-Take/ High Availability, Clonezilla, ngnix.

HARDWARE FAMILARITY: HP 9000 platform, HP Proliant, x86, x86 64 Intel & AMD platforms, PARSC, IA (Itanium), tape libraries, VTL (Virtual Tape Libraries), EVA Disk Arrays, MSA Disk Arrays, NAS & SAN devices, SAN switches like Brocade & Cisco, printer setup, UPS, KVM, LAN\VLAN layered 2 switches, SAS, SCSI, SATA, Storage Tier concepts, RAID, C7000 Blades, FreeNAS, TrueNAS Dell.I have performed project design for entire NOC’s to single user systems (literally over 10,000 documented custom systems so it is second nature to me. I have designed projects with all direct DC powered systems with Backup power or AC.

EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential

Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Serve as technical lead to mentor team members by defining procedures for development, QA and production environments, while at the same time performing technical needs assessments, architecture/system recommendations, and implementing server based solutions.
• Systems consist of Sun Solaris and Linux mostly with Solaris zones and the Linux systems virtualized.
• Currently assessing configuration and system migrations steps to improve the process and getting into the initiative to help implement CI with Puppet.
• Help support Apache, nginix ProxMox KVM environment for development POC on FreeNAS and JBOD.

Confidential

Network System Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure analysis of remote site’s infrastructure to prep for migration of data to central site, virtualization, server, application, Storage /SAN &, OS (2012 r2, RHEL) refresh. Supporting EMC,VNX, Clarion, TrueNAS Navisphere, Data Domain Cisco/Brocade Storage devices, VMware, physical servers, VDI, XenServer, Backup Exec, NetBackup, Docker and application infrastructure.
• Consolidating and refreshing SAN, server and virtual infrastructure, medical applications and imaging, plus apache IIS and niginx working with remote and data center teams.

Confidential, Roseville, CA

Senior System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to enterprise R&D Agile software development efforts by providing a global infrastructure for development and testing to meet the needs of Openstack\KVM developer s infrastructure they use for testing.
• Virtualization support of VMware, networking, HP Storage, C7000 blades, Linux (Ubuntu/Redhat), Windows (2012 r2, 2008 R2), Brocade SAN switches, Data Protector, LAN, vlan support to separate environments.
• Upgrade3PAR Disk Storage arrays constantly for testing with new/latest yet to be released. Daily shifting of SAN/LAN resources for testing purposes Reimaging of blades and deployment of VMware systems Deployed systems with Puppet and Clonezilla for developers.

Confidential, CA

Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Storage support for clients Storage platforms including Data Protector, HP EVA’s. Answering support tickets and monitoring day to day activities of Storage infrastructure reactively and proactively.
• Environment includes several Oracle databases, Windows (2012 r2, 2008 r2) physical and Virtual systems, HP-UX.
• Perform month ending reports for upper management Debugging correcting issues causing failures in Storage environment making them more reliable.
• Monitored Storage capacity, performance and allocated Storage to various groups. provided expertise for critical upgrade of enterprise Backup infrastructure to meet specifications to be at required standards and performance to meet SLA's

Confidential, Rancho Cordova, CA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performing migrations and system refresh builds of various systems in the customer’s infrastructure.
• We are doing this in the local data center as well as performing virtual migrations in other data centers as needed.
• The migrations can be Windows or Linux, Virtual (VMWare) or Physical.
• We also performed migrations to Storage platform’s to data centers from remote file servers to centrally located NAS devices for business units.
• Migrations methods moving databases like SQL setting web applications that used Apache and IIS. Interacted with application developers for web based applications and provided and environment for PHP, Python, C++ based applications.
• I helped setup EMC Avamar and POC HP Data Protector.Confidential Response Center Openview Engineer (Storage emphasis)Roseville, CA 01/00 - 10/07(Telecommute last 6 years)