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Provided a wide-range of UNIX/Linux support and consulting services to a variety of Small to Medium businesses and large corporate clients. Some recent clients include; American Family Insurance, Merrill Lynch, Time Warner Cable, Kimberly-Clark, and GE Healthcare.
Implemented Vintela Authentication Services (VAS/VGP) which provided UNIX/Linux authentication against Windows Active Directory.
Assisted with PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) and Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliancy initiatives.
Consulted and Supported HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, AIX, SCO, and other key UNIX platforms providing support on a variety of tasks such as system patch management, upgrades, deployments, security auditing, etc.
Extensive support of high-availability clusters using Veritas Cluster Services (VCS) on Solaris, AIX, and Linux platforms and MC Service Guard on HP/UX platforms.
Exxtensive support of Veritas/Symantec Netbackup Datacenter 4.X and 5.X
Worked with Veritas/Symantec Netbackup for Operating System backups and Oracle agent for Oracle Hot, Cold, Checkpoint, and archive log backups.
Assisted Oracle DBA’s with installation, tuning, troubleshooting, and backups of Oracle databases.
Assisted with planning and execution in a large server consolidation effort that involved moving many smaller Solaris servers to several Sunfire 12K, 15K, and 25K platforms.
Creation and modification of many complex shell scripts utilizing Perl and standard UNIX/Linux shells
Worked extensively with Sun Microsystems Sunfire 12K/15K/25K platforms including day to day administration, partitioning, and dynamic reconfiguration
Extensive support of HP 9000 UNIX Server platforms including L2000, L3000, N4000, and RP-Class as well as various workstation class machines.
Support of various AIX RS/6000 and P-series workstations and servers.
Supported a large number of NetApp network Attached Storage (NAS) Appliances. Both support and implementation with Data ONTAP. Daily support activities included, but not limited to, replacing failed drives, volume management, troubleshooting connectivity/permissions to UNIX/Linux clients, snapshots, and performance management.
Storage administration in large NAS and SAN environments connected to Windows, Solaris, Linux, and HP/UX systems.
Managed software implementation of BMC Software’s Windows 2000 and UNIX Perform and Predict performance software (f/k/a BGS Best/1).
Performed detailed server consolidation studies for clients that were planning on doing a server consolidation.
Assisted clients with capacity planning of enterprise resources allowing them to better plan for growth and trends.
Worked with software architects to create a feasible and cost effective solution for the customer’s needs.
Installed and configured software agents on multiple platforms including Linux, AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows NT/2000, Oracle, and Microsoft Exchange.
Train customer on software usage and abilities of software.
Responsible for documentation of entire implementation project.
Responsible for the day-to-day operation of approximately 75 HP-UX, AIX and Solaris servers.
Administration of HP IT/O Operations Software, Legato network backup software, storage-tek tape and disk drives, Netscape Web Server installation and support, ADSM implementation.
Provided end-user support to approximately 15,000 users.
Worked closely with Information Security and Core Network teams to resolve critical business problems quickly.
Hewlett Packard’s Virtual Vault Operating System Administration.
Assisted with several server consideration and migration projects on both Solaris, HP-UX, and VirtualVault OS (VVOS).
Recommended the use of Linux RedHat running under VMware on company desktops to provide stable X Server capabilities for team member use.
Responsible for the daily operation of approximately 28 Sun Enterprise servers, including E3500 through E10000 class machines, running Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, and 2.7.
Over-saw the operations of 9 Hewlett Packard Unix servers, including T500, T520, K460, and E35 class, running HP-UX 10.10, 10.20, and 11.00.
End user support of: Lawson Financial Software, IBM MQ Series, Oracle, Sybase, Sun Workshop Software Development Suite, CA Unicenter TNG, BMC Software Best/1 Monitor, IBM ADSM, Cisco Server Suite, Sterling Connect ; Mailbox/Unix, and various in-house written applications.
Assisted with the planning and execution of a server consolidation project which consolidated many Sun Solaris servers to the Sunfire E10K platform.
Assisted with the support of company firewalls, including troubleshooting, upgrades, and new rule additions.
EMC 5700 and 5430 Enterprise Storage Array planning and support.
Administered a 14 node Unicenter TNG cluster responsible for over 152,000 scheduled jobs and over 1 million event records monthly.
Developed custom customer solutions for data delivery via various mechanisms.
HP ServiceGuard class, November 1997
Sun Microsystems Solaris System Performance Management class, October 1999
Sun Sunfire 12K/15K Server Administration Class, May, 2004
NetApp Data OnTap 6.5 Training Class, June, 2004
