Employment History and Experience

Systems Engineer

• Work on daily AS400 backups and shipped them offsite to Iron Mountain and also
• Work on data destruction requirements as needed.
• Successfully worked on failover issues with Cellera Datamovers
• Work on Avamar backup and restore and participated in 2 grid upgrades to version 6.1
• Maintain and daily backup report for Sarbanes Oxley requirements and account for any
• Failed backups and provide corrective action.
• Work on provisioning of CX4 and VNX 7500 arrays as well as maintenance and have
• Installed DAEs for Fiber Channel and SATA II.
• Have worked on Recover Point software to maintain replication
• Between our Roseville and Minneapolis locations. Have participated in
• Recover Point upgrades from version 3.5 to 4.0.
• Work with Service Now ticketing system and Solar Winds alerting.
• Work on Performance Analysis collecting performance files and
• Running MiTrend reports as required to look for hot spindles or
• Other performance problems.
• Work a weekly on call rotating schedule. Worked some with Citrix , ZenApp and Active Directory.

Confidential

• Working as a Solaris and Linux engineer involved in Nagios configuration maintenance and configuration.
• to Netapp 6080 cluster providing storage primarily to Windows server utilizing iCSCI.
• worked on building an additional nameserver in the University of Pacific DR site.
• Worked on Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Manager, ZFS, Solaris Zones

Confidential

Systems Engineer

• I was responsible for all restores required for customers on both the SpectraLogic and NetApp as well.
• Worked on standing up an Exadata unit in our facility and I built an ASR server, 2 Solaris Weblogic App servers with Whole Root Zones on single one terabyte LUNs. I also built 2 Linux database servers as well and had them patched and scanned by our Security Team.
• I also worked on creating scripts to notify members of our team when certain core files were filling up partitions. I also worked on
• Nagios configuration and installing agents and updating configuration files to add and remove notifications and hosts as well.
• Was part of the on call team with a rotation of four team members available on a 24/7 basis and worked 24 hours straight during a Data Center outage to bring systems and arrays back online without affecting our production environment.
• I also was a key player in installing our Raritan KVM systems so our server consoles could be accessed 24/7 remotely.
• I was also responsible for code promotion for Oracle applications and this work was done after hours during a 8:00 to 9:00 p.m. window once a week.
• I worked on Active Directory accounts by verifying permissions for certain users, adding users and system, and unlocking accounts as authorized to do so. With Vcenter 4 I built several VM servers for various projects and occasionally used Storage Vmotion, when needed, to migrate storage to Data Portals or other systems as required. Also, used EMC SnapView and SnapClone to copy data from one server to another.

Confidential

SAN Administrator

Fully supported multiple HP, Netapp and EMC storage devices in global multiple site environment. Supporting SAN based disaster recovery replication, including SAN TAP Cisco and Recover Point EMC . I have broad experience supporting multiple NAS devices including Netapp of multiple types and EMC Clariion, with multi site replication. Have worked with just about all san switches out there Including McData, Brocade, and Cisco. I have experience managing both EMC CX line as well as Symmetrix / DMX, full range of netapp FAS series and HP EVA line. I have setup and supported local lun replication with Replication manager utilizing Time Finder technologies to Netapp Snapmirror. Full range of storage management from Command line NAVI CLI, and Solutions enabler , HP SSU, Netapp telnet/ssh command line. Local management Symmetrix Mangare Navisphere, FilerView and Command View. To more powerful global management software including EMC ECC EMC Control Center Netapp Data Fabric Manager. Upgraded and maintenance of FAStT DS4800 storage arrays.

Confidential

SAN Administrator

• Working with 10 Clariion arrays, including CX500s, CX700s, CX3-80s, and CX4 platforms. Expanding Windows disk partitions, allocating LUNs, upgrading HBA firmware and drivers and working with powerpath and HBAnywhere,lputil, emcgrabs and HEAT reports for new and existing servers as well as creating MetaLUNs, RAID Groups, and Storage Groups are everyday tasks. Also, I have been migrating existing CX700 and CX500 arrays to CX4-480 and CX-960 arrays. Currently working with Brocade 4000,5000 series switches using Webtools for zoning and switch management. Working with Navi Toolbar performing array configuration and performing server audit using naviseccli as well as Navisphere reports. Completed Flare Code upgrade on two CX4 from version 4.28.5.003 to 4.28.5.707. Successfully completed project providing configuration backups and restores of all 20 SAN switches onsite. Also, installed Virtual Provisioning Enabler software for 2 CX4 arrays to be used for Virtual Provisioning and eventually FAST implementation.
• Day to day tasks include creating and destroying flare LUNs and MetaLUNs, RAID Groups, Storage Groups, adding and removing hosts, enabling and disabling switch ports as well as Port Administration to map current HBAs to current switch ports, zoning, and acting as liaison between EMC and my Intel group to coordinate DAE installations and additional of 136 GB, 300 GB and 450 GB 15K Fiber Channel disks which are the main storage units in our environment, Also, tasks like enabling licensing for SPFs for SAN switch ports as well as Windows Admin, including hardware audits.

Confidential

• Currently working as SAN Designer and head a team of 8 SAN Admins and keep track of all allocated and unallocated storage and provide my team with provisioning information once a customer request has been received. Experience on EMC Control Center Console in concert with Clariion and DMX arrays for LUN provisioning and zoning for OpenVMS, UNIX and Windows servers. Also, experience in working with EMC Celerra NAS devices. Worked on various SWAT Teams generating HEAT reports and providing SP Collects and NAR files for problem Clariion arrays while working with Windows and IBM Account Teams to bring Windows and UNIX servers into compliance for firmware upgrades. Worked with IBM Account Team on Severity 1 outages and participated in Clariion Flare Code upgrade to Version 26 Release 25 to correct performance issues with several arrays.
• Working with Webtools on Brocade switches, including core 48000, 5000, 4100 and 3900 series, to perform port, switch and configuration administration of switches. Developed scheme to backup all switch configs on designated servers.
• Attended training, installed and configured two HP XP 24000 arrays in Rancho Cordova Data Center. This included LUN provisioning and developing provisioning documentation as well as implementing Continuous Access and RAID Manager server for OpenVMS platform. Headed up project to move data from multiple EMC DMX and Clariion arrays to 2 Hitachi XP 24000. Also, involved in Business Copy solutions for backup purposes. POC for firmware upgrade of XP 24000 arrays to release 60-0510 and 60-05-14/2 enabling manual UUID entries for OpenVMS. Experience utilizing Cisco Fabric Manager for zoning as well as IBM SVC. POC for move of the two HP XP 24000 arrays to IBM Data Center in Boulder, CO.
• While at Healthnet have obtained a National Security Clearance required for working on Federal Data and HIPAA requirements.

Technical SKILL

• Product Knowledge Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux
• Hardware Platforms PCs, Sun SPARC, Linux servers
• Operating Systems Windows, Solaris, Linux
• Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP
• Solaris Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, 9. Sparc Server Ultra 5, 10, 250, 420R, 450, E6500, E6800, E10K, E15K
• Linux Red Hat RHEL4 and 5 , Mandrake 7.2, Ubuntu 7.10, SUSE 10
• HP XP 24000 Arrays, including Business Copy, RAID Manager and Continuous Access
• EMC CX4 Arrays, EMC VNX Arrays, Celerra NAS devices
• Have used EMC virtual provisioning in most of my positions.