Sr. Systems Engineer/Admin Resume

Title
Sr. Systems Engineer/Admin

Primary Skills
solaris, linux, veritas, hp-ux,aix

Location
US-MI-Warren (will consider relocating)

Posted
Oct-07-09


Principal Infrastructure Analyst with twenty years experience in IT and twelve years in enterprise UNIX administration/analysis/engineering/consulting

Skills:

OS Solaris 12 yrs (v10 2 yrs v9 5 yrs v8 7 yrs) HPUX 6 years (v11 4 yrs v10 2yrs) AIX 6 yrs (v5 1 yr v4 5 yrs v3 2yrs) Red Hat Linux 6 yrs (v5 1 yr v4 5 yrs v3 1yr)
HW Dell 6950/6850/6750/2950/2850/2750/2650/1950/1850/1750, Sun F25K E10K 6900/6800/6500 4900/4800/4500 2900 T5240/5220/2000 1000 890/880 490/460/450 380/340/220
DB Oracle 12 yrs 11/10/9/8 Oracle RAC 2 yrs Sybase 2 yrs, MySQL 2 yrs
Apps WebLogic 4 yrs WebSphere 4 yrs PeopleSoft 7 yrs Oracle Apps 6 yrs
Web Apache 6 yrs WebLogic 4 yrs
SAN Hitachi 4 yrs EMC 5 yrs Brocade McData
NAS NetApps 3 yrs
Shell Script bash/ksh/csh/sh 12 yrs
Veritas Storage Foundation (vxfs/vxvm) for Oracle 12 yrs Cluster (vcs) 4 yrs SFRAC 2 yrs

McAfee (SiteAdvisor) -- Linux Engineer July 2009 -- July 2009

• Support infrastructure of over 300 Redhat / CentOS servers and VMs
• Design & deploy LDAP server to replace NIS functionality on Redhat
• Lock down servers, establish sudo procedures
• Create storage map and plan to migrate from NFS servers to Net Apps
• Deliver backup solution for over 5 TB of data

USG -- Consultant (Oracle 10g RAC with Veritas SFRAC on HPUX) June 2009 -- June 2009

• Install, configure and document Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC 5 on HP-UX 11i v3.1
• Deploy three RAC clusters working with DBAs, Network and Storage Admins

Symantec (Veritas) -- Principal Sys Admin / Princ IT Infrastructure Analyst Oct 2004 -- Oct 2008

Member of UNIX/Linux Engineering Team working multiple deployment projects simultaneously in a large environment (Thousands of Linux servers, several hundred Solaris).

• Participate in design and solutions engineering
o Work with architecture, network engineering and solutions engineering to design solutions incorporating best practices for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Total Cost of Ownership, resulting in robust, resilient and cost effective solutions.
o Deployment of new infrastructure and upgrades
o Order new Sun/Solaris and Dell Redhat servers
o Create statements of work detailing the physical connections and specifications
o Submit requests for SAN/NAS provisioning, DNS/IP, monitoring, new firewall ports
o Install standard images via the network from Jumpstart and Kickstart servers
o Validate and configure ethernet, fibre channel, and NAS connectivity
o Configure Network Time Protocol
o Most web and app servers deployed on Redhat
o Final year most Oracle RDBMS servers on Redhat
o Engineered Oracle 10g RAC using Storage Foundation for RAC on Redhat
o Engineered enterprise NetBackup solutions on Redhat
o Engineered secure repository for analysis of global firewall logs
o Completed RH300 and RH133 for Redhat 5
o Configure storage -- create requested volumes and filesystems
o Configure redundancy in ethernet (IPMP/NIC bonding) and SAN (Veritas DMP)
o Configure/validate ethernet trunks
o Configure Solaris zones/containers and LDOMs
o Configure sendmail and cron
o Configure DNS client
o Configure NFS client when NAS is used
o Support project team members: DBA, developer, application and web admin
o Configure HA or RAC clusters with Veritas Cluster Server
o Extensive failover testing of HA
o Security hardening and validation
o Configure/validate backup client
o Configure/validate monitoring client
o Failover testing: clusters, NICs, HBAs
o Load testing
o Performance tuning
o Capacity Planning
o Create Platform Runbook for Operations
o Provide 24X7 support to the project team: break/fix, modifications, tuning
o Patching
• Own escalations with vendors of platform hw and sw
• Third level escalation point after project goes live.
• Support kickstart servers, jumpstart servers, Red Hat Satellite server
• Test new configurations and products in our lab

ATCIS -- Sr. Sys Admin Mar 2004 -- Sep 2004

Provided mission critical administration and engineering for just-in-time logistics for North American order fulfillment for AT&T Wireless/Cingular (pick, pack, ship 60K cell phones daily).
• Oracle and UniData back ends, Oracle Applications, MQSeries, custom middleware, running on HP-UX 11.0, N-Class servers, hand in hand with DBA's, developers and application support.
• Storage using LVM and Online JFS on top of SAN with HP XP 256 arrays using hardware RAID. EMC SRDF and TimeFinder, also VxFS filesystem snapshots for hot backups.
• Performance monitoring and tuning, some capacity planning.
• Patch management on all ATCIS HPUX platforms.
• Implemented sudo and root session logging on all ATCIS production UNIX/Linux.
• Managed escalations with vendors
• Wrote korn shell scripts/cron jobs to help automate administration, to implement new HP VPO/ITO monitors, to facilitate data transfer and upload into RDBMS.
• Installed, compiled and used GNU tools.
Implemented/reinvented “corebloc” website running Apache, MySQL, Perl, and PHP on Redhat in support of auto industry after market (Ford, Mazda)
• Compiled / configured Apache/MySQL/PHP together on Redhat
• Wrote shell/SQL scripts to upload weekly data transfers into MySQL. Wrote associated ITO monitors.
• Wrote scripts using mysqldump to perform hot backups of production data.
• Responsible for RPM package management.
Provided mission critical support for logistics and warehouse management in support of transmission remanufacturing and other automobile industry after-market channels.
• DR planning for Solaris platforms.
• Oracle RDBMS, Oracle Applications, custom middleware running on HP-UX 11.0 & Solaris 8.
• Responsible for patch management on all ATCIS Solaris production platforms.
• Installed, compiled and used GNU tools.
• Installed SE Toolkit, ProcTool to assist in performance analysis.
• Managed escalations with vendors.
ATCIS Common infrastructure and miscellaneous:
• Completed SixSigma Greenbelt training/project, analyzing and reducing system/service downtime.
• Read Critical Chain and Theory of Constraints, to optimize project management timelines
• HP VPO/ITO/NNM to monitor services, platforms and network.
• HP MeasureWare, PerfView, Glance and sar to gather, analyze performance data, importing into Excel to deliver weekly and daily graphs to customers.
• HP Data Protector (OmniBack) to backup/restore production services.
• Account and printer management.
• Provided 24X7 support.

Hewlett Packard / Ford Motor Company -- Sr Sys Admin Aug 2000 - Nov 2003

Provided mission critical support on escalation team for Ford corporate data centers in Michigan, UK, Germany and Australia. Several business units running a wide variety of multi-tiered architectures on 800 plus Sun, HP, IBM, Sequent and Linux/Intel servers with terabytes of storage. First year of tenure through Collective Technologies and Volt Technical Services.
• Conversion from Remedy to HP OpenView ServiceDesk to implement ITSM process control. Two weeks training from HP on ITSM. Wrote custom monitors for HP ITO.
• Platforms:
o Sun Enterprise StarFire 4800 and 6800, E10K with Solaris 2.6 & 8.
o HP N-Class, V-Class, SuperDome with HP-UX 11.0
o IBM RS6000 with AIX 4.3
o Sequent NUMA-Q with Dynix 4.1
o Intel with RedHat 7
• Supported Visteon one year Sun/HP with HP LSF cluster.
• Supported / deployed approx one hundred Redhat web and app servers
• Created/modified SuperDome nodes.
• Created and extended VxVM and LVM volumes running on SAN connected EMC Symmetrix arrays configured with hardware mirroring and software striping (RAID 1+0).
• Designed storage layouts.
• Supported SRDF and TimeFinder with custom scripts, tested SRDF failover annually.
• HA: remote support for SunCluster in UK and MC/ServiceGuard in Australia.
• Supported Oracle and UniData RDBMS.
• ERP support: PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle.
• Supported Netscape Web and Directory servers, WebLogic.
• SNA gateways.
• Supported MQSeries, Documentum, and numerous custom and vendor apps/middleware.
• Monthly security auditing using custom software provided by Ford.
• SeOS on FCP (financial, critical, private) servers. (very similar to SE Linux)
• Resolved performance and break/fix issues in accordance with SLA's:
o Extremely proficient researching issues on web through vendors and public domain.
o Excellent troubleshooter.
o Worked database issues with DBA team.
o Worked network issues with network team.
? Used snoop, tcpdump, and nettl from OS side.
o Worked apps/middleware issues with Ford teams.
o Managed vendor escalations / determinations of responsibility in complex configurations, cutting through occasional vendor finger pointing.
o Part of 24X7 on call rotation (one week per six weeks).
• Patched OS and applications.
• Implemented sudo and ssh.
• Installed ITO clients and MeasureWare/Glance.
• Account and printer management.
• Installed and configured Perl /Perl modules, Java, compilers, and tools on demand.
• Wrote shell scripts/cron jobs to further automate administration and promote customer solutions.
• Wrote custom ITO monitors.
• Tested Tru64 in lab after Compaq merger.
• ADSM/TSM backup/restore.

HP / Critical Path (Corporate Web Mail Hosting) -- Sr Sys Admin Feb 2003 -- Nov 2003

Secondary HP contract added to Dearborn support group. Replicated multi-tiered architecture delivering full-featured web mail services to global clients (i.e. -- Virgin UK). Data centers in California, Colorado, UK, and Japan. Forty million email users from numerous clients.
• Production support of existing infrastructure:
o Web proxies running FreeBSD with POP & IMAP.
o Custom web mail running on two hundred plus Redhat servers.
o Oracle back ends and NFS file servers running on Sun E4500's
• High Availability
o Proxy load balancing and manual removal/addition of app servers in middle tier.
o Manual backend failover using VxVM, shared storage cluster and virtual IP's.
• cfengine for configuration management.
• kerberos, ssh and sudo for security, as well as SUNWjass and other tools.
• Resolved issues within SLA's with Critical Path Sr App Support, developers, and customers.
• Prod support and rollout of next generation infrastructure:
• Implementation and support of “service nodes” in four way shared storage clusters.
• Manual HA service failover via Veritas vxdg import/deport and virtual IP's.
• Load management via manual addition/subtraction of “service nodes”.
• Mail queue management. Qmail.
• Performance monitoring and tuning, HP ITO.
• Spam identification, removal and suppression via custom regex submitted to custom spam software.

Collective Technologies -- UNIX Consultant Jan 2000 -- Jan 2001
SunPS / BellSouth
• Production support Sun Enterprise Servers and SGI.
• Stabilized problematic E10K.
• Analyzed patch levels and built custom patch clusters for prod servers.
UUNet Technologies
• Co-authored perl for backup management website.
• Wrote perl to identify duplicate labels in regionally dispersed media pools resulting in unique labels on all tapes under central management.
• Worked in backup group managing NetBackup controlled jukeboxes.
Digex
• Prod support for large co-location web farm.
• Solaris/Sparc
• Clarify ticket management


Lakeshore Consulting -- Consultant Nov 1999 -- Dec 1999
• Onsite with Forsythe Consulting.
• Consolidated several Sun Enterprise servers onto single E10K.
• Migrated Veritas volumes on SAN to E10K.
• Implemented DNS.

ERP-Link -- Consultant May 1999 -- Aug 1999
• Onsite for SunPS with KPMG at Ingram Micro in support of eCommerce rollout, transitioning from Windows/Intel to Solaris/SPARC.
• Deployed and configured E10K's and other Sun Enterprise Servers.
• Support developers and DBA's to meet rollout deadlines.
• Oracle, Netscape web servers, Cisco load balancers, Vignette Story Server, Netegrity SiteMinder, Gemstone Enterprise Java Beans Server, and SiteScope.
• Lock down root access and establish stable Solaris environment.
• Spec out Oracle replication and HA clustering products and strategy.
• Veritas Database Edition and EMC Symmetrix.
• Train Ingram Micro Sys Admins in E10K administration.

EDS / GM Jan 1997 -- April 1999
• Onsite at GMSPO World Headquarters
• Unix Tech Lead on first Sun E10K ever implemented at GM.
• Worked with Sun, Oracle, EMC and Veritas to provide production Data Warehouse for Warranty Analysis and Reporting System (WARS). The system paid for itself within one year due to discovery and elimination of common modes of component/parts failures
• UNIX Tech Lead on Build Out Diary Project, using CORBA and Oracle to track, identify and remove production dies as automobile model lines are retired.
• Migrated Vehicle Sales and Service Database to E10K.
• Supported custom Sybase Decision Support Systems running on AIX4.1.5/RS6000's.
• Led Y2K compliance effort. Also implemented Legato backup solution.
• Site lead for conversion to GM Common Engineering Environment UNIX standards.
• Wrote shell scripts to automate support tasks and turned them over to operations.
• UNIX Tech Lead on Aperture Card project to scan 200K plus microfiche drawings of parts and manage them through Oracle and Documentum on AIX/RS6000 to increase productivity of ParTech service group providing phone support to GM dealers.

Education:
Mass Institute of Technology 1979 -- 1981. Physics, Calculus, Chemistry, Biology, Writing Program. Member of Delta Tau Delta national fraternity.

Completed over 1000 hours of Professional Training: Sun/Solaris, E10K, Fault Analysis, Performance Management, Solaris Zones/LDOMs/containers, Oracle, Netscape, Sybase, HP ITSM, Veritas Cluster, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Volume Replicator, RedHat Linux, AIX

Certifications:
Solaris (expired), HP 11.x Certified Professional HP-UX Admin, Six Sigma Greenbelt.

Certifications
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