Seeking a Senior Unix and Storage Administrator position. I am confident that my skills which include over 23+ years of Unix system administration, management, pre-post sales, my passion for technology and my team oriented mindset are a perfect match for a Senior Unix/Storage position.

Background Summary

Over 23+ years experience of UNIX systems support, including systems administration, training and pre-post sales marketing support.  Work experience includes different line of businesses, ranging from commercial to vendor.

Significant design experience managing enterprise class servers in an enterprise level data center. In-depth knowledge of different UNIX flavors, experience with Ignite-UX, Veritas File system, and HP’s patch management process. Also, in-depth knowledge of kernel tuning and configuration, installing software packages/compiling software from source code, ability to write scripts in either Shell or Perl and C programming. Experience with HP Superdomes, C-Class Blades running RedHat Enterprise Version 5.2/5.3, RedHat Kickstart, RedHat Clustering, HP ILO, H/W  partitioning, virtual partitioning, managing an EMC and HP EVA based SAN environment and extensive experience with HP ServiceGuard clustering.

Responsible for the complete migration of all our production and development PA-RISC servers to Integrity servers (rx8640s, rx7460s and BL860/870s).

Primary Administrator responsible for all system performance analysis issues, ad hoc system script development, disaster recovery, business continuity (EMC SRDF/TimeFinder), software depot creation/maintenance and MC/Service Guard (Clustering)  implementations.

Reponsible for installing and managing all of Liz Claiborne's Proliant Blades with RedHat 5.3.

Software

UNIX (HP-UX 11.11, 11.23, 11.31, 10.X), Red Hat (RHEL 5.2 and 5.3), SVR4, SVR3, Solaris 2.X. AIX 3.X), LVM, Solutions Enabler 6.2.0 (EMC SRDF/Timefinder),  HP MC/Service Guard A.11.16 (Clustering), NPars/Vpars (Partitioning), HP Integrity Virtual Machine 3.5, KShell, "C", Perl,  Ignite-UX,  OpenView  (OVO), X Windows, Oracle, NFS, NIS, NFS Diskless Clusters.

Current Hardware

HP: Superdome, BL870c, BL860c, Proliant Blades, RX8640, RX7640, RX6660, RP8420s, RP74xx, K Series and N Series.

EMC Storage: DMX3, DMX2000, DMX1000, 8830, CLARiiON Disk Array.

HP Storage: HP EVA 4400

Professional experience

·        Successfully completed the PA-RISC to Integrity migration consisting of 60+ PA-RISC servers residing on a Superdome, various rp8420s and miscellaneous N-Class servers.  The new servers will reside on various BL860/70s, rx7460s and rx8640s.

·        Successfully migrated our Openview OVO Management server from the old PA-RISC server to a new Integrity Blade server.

·        Configured/installed and tested a new warehouse solution that requires multiple HP Integrity blades (BL870c and BL860c) running 11.23.  The backend storage is housed on an HP EVA4400.

·        Configured and installed a new customer service solution that required multiple HP VM guests running 11.31 on various RX6600 Integrity Servers.

·        Developed various OVO Openview templates and monitors scripts to manage the various Linux clients.

·        Configured multiple OVO Openview nodes across our DMZ zone.

·        Currently involved in migrating various administrative tools from a PA-RISC environment to the I-64 development environment.

·        Developed various courses in C programming and Shell programming for our in-house Unix Administrators.

·        Currently involved in supporting four VMware guests running RHEL5 to support a Full Circle application for one of our West Coast apparel brands.

·        Successfully managed the migration of all our leased EMC Symmetrix disk arrays. (DMX2000 to a DMX3), (DMX1000 and an 8830 to a DMX3).

·        Responsible for configuring and implementing a “data recovery” solution utilizing EMC’s SRDF/Timefinder, between our New Jersey HQs (R1 Symm) and our New York facility (R2 Symm). 

·        Responsible for the planning/developing/testing/implementing a suite of shell scripts that automate the system Legato backups utilizing our Business Continuity Volumes (BCVs). 

·        Responsible for configuring and implementing a “data recovery” solution utilizing EMC’s SRDF between NJ (R1 Symm) and NY (R2 Symm). 

·        Migrated 12 N4000 servers to three RP8420 complexes consisting of 12 nPars.

·        Upgraded the Core business application server from an HP V2500 to an HP Superdome (24 way, 24 GB of memory).  Simultaneously coordinated the upgrade of the EMC symm disk storage array from an EMC 3930 to an EMC 8730 by having EMC copy the 3930 data to the 8730 via SDM copy.   Eventually migrated 1 TB of  data from the 8730 to a newly installed DMX.  Migrated 5.5 TB of data from a DMX 1000 to a larger DMX 2000 array.

·        Coordinated the OVO migration portion of the CISCO Layer 3 migration.

·        Consolidated various K Class servers operating under HP-UX 10.20 to the HP “N” Class servers running HP-UX 11.0.  Worked closely with various application groups to upgrade various application servers N(s) and V(s) from 11.0 to 11i.

·        Received various professional acknowledgements from the CDI Imaging, PeopleSoft and Replenishment projects in the on-going support of both projects.    Specifically in the areas of capacity management, performance analysis/system tuning and technical assistance.

·        Spearheaded the data migration plan of the LCI CAD system from an older EMC 3500 to the newer EMC Clariion class disk arrays (FC4500).

·        Installed and configured 4 (2 node) MC ServiceGuard clusters to support the distributions center in Mt. Pocono PA and the Core business application in North Bergen NJ.

·        Investigated and discovered a major I/O bottleneck on Liz’s core business application. Recommended and implemented the offloading of all the Oracle hot tables across various stripped meta EMC volumes. Eventually installed EMC PowerPath to load balance across various FibreChannels.

·        Developed a script utility to create a vg00 copy on another volume group to support system recovery. Developed a file transfer utility between New York City and the Honk Kong sales office.

·        Developed various administrative system shell scripts to automate cleanup, monitor and backup procedures.  Implemented make_recovery procedures for all HP-UX systems.

·        Continued managing all patch depot implementations for the system administration group.

HP Integrity Blade System Administration

HP-UX Partition Management with vPars

HP-UX 11i V3 for Experience System Administrators

HP-UX 11i V2 for Experience System Administrators

Inside the HP-UX Operating System Hands-On with MC/ServiceGuard

HP-UX Performance and Tuning

HP OpenView Operations

Practical UNIX and Network Security

EMC Symmetrix Business Continuity

EMC Host to Storage SAN Implementation

Perl Programming

Introduction to Linux

Advanced Linux Shell Programming

C Programming