Objective
Sr consultant , Infrastructure Architect , sys admin


Summary

Storage Management : EMC Software Utilities like TimeFinder, SRDF, PowerPath, ECC, WideSky Solution Enabler, Veritas Software like Volume Manager, File System, SRVM, Volume Replicator VVR, HDS/HP Management Tools like HiCommand, Remote Console, CommandView, AutoPath, Business Copy or Shadow Image, Fujitsu GR EC/OPC, SANView, Brocade Software like WebTools, FabOS, FaricWatch, SANHealth.
Server Hardware : Sun Enterprise Class Servers, IBM p series and x series, HP, CompaQDell
Operating System : Solaris, AIX, BSD, Linux, HPUX, Windows and NT.
High Availability : Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas FirstWatch, Sun Cluster, Fujitsu Prime Cluster, HACMP.
Database : Oracle 7, 8i, 9i, Informix, MicroSoft SQLServer.
Backup : Veritas NetBackup and Bare Metal Restore, StorageTek ACSLS, LibAttach, NDMP, Oracle RMAN.
Networking : Cisco routers and switches, Cisco/Nokia/Checkpoint firewalls, LocalDirector and BigIP.
Security : Information and network security planning, policy making, high-availability and disaster recovery planning.
Application : BEA Weblogic, EJB, Netscape/Apache web servers, Coldfusion, Clearcase.

Tuning and Monitoring : OS kernel parameter tuning, Oracle tuning, performance monitoring tools, EMC Work Load Analyzer, BMC Patrol, HP Openview, SAR, customized tools.

Other : Infrastructure design, project planning and management.


Employment

2004 -  Present
Nationwide : Senior Technical Solution Architect

As a Senior Technical Solution Architect, I am providing technical consulting services to IBM Global Services Outsourcing Strategic Team and their outsourcing clients in the areas of high-level technical advice, technical solution design and technical resource and project management :
Provide overall strategy advice and technical consulting on IT infrastructure, open system and mid-range applications, web hosting and business logic applications, database applications, data storage infrastructure, backup and restore, disaster recovery services.
Provide technical solutions for IBM tiered storage offerings with EMC technologies like DMX, Clariion CX, Celerra NSX and Centera, ECC, PowerPath, TimeFinder and SRDF, SAN fabric with Brocade and McData for various applications like database, business intelligent, web-based, etc. Design and select storage platform and tier, determine RAID level, capacity planning, performance monitoring and optimization.
Disaster Recovery environment assessment and requirements analysis. Develop DR strategies and SLAs. Vendor and technologies evaluations and selections.
Design and develop technical solutions of backup and restore, Disaster Recovery for IBM GS clients to replicate data between the geographically distributed data centers. Solutions are both server and SAN-based, Veritas NetBackup, Tivoli Storage Manager, Veritas Volume Replicator, Veritas Global Cluster Manager and Command Central Availability, HDS TrueCopy and Shadow Image, EMC TimeFinder and SRDF.
Participate in design of DR infrastructure, data center facility, network facility and bandwidth, SAN fabric. Planning the WAN and replication capacity. Build SAN replication network with CNT/McData/Brocade equipments and WAN connections. Plan for DNS, LDAP, Active Directory, Terminal services and Citrix infrastructure for DR.
Implement DR solution for IBM clients mission-critical applications like financial, travel related business ; OLTP and data warehouse ; security application, etc. between the geographically distributed data centers.
Migrate existing servers to new hardware platform in preparation for DR. Hardware includes SunFire servers like V1280, E2900, E15K and E25K, IBM P570 and 690 and Dell PowerEdge servers. Migrate the application and data from EMC/IBM SAN to HDS TagmaStore by Veritas Volume Manager and SAN migration tools.
Develop and build various technical solutions to IBMs outsourcing clients : applications, database like Oracle, UDB and MS SQL server, Application Server like Websphere application server v4/5, WebSphere HIS, LDAP, WebSphere MQ processor, Business Intelligence like Cognos, MicroStrategy. Reporting, QA, etc.
Design high-availability cluster solution with Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Global Cluster Manager for various applications.
Managing technical and project resources for IBM projects. Provide estimates on hardware, software and labor costs using IBM proprietary tools and processes.
Provide technical documentations on technical solutions, project summaries and delivery support guidelines.

2003 -  2004
Senior Enterprise Storage Consultant

As a Senior storage consultant on State Farm's Enterprise Storage Service and Support Team, my role is to provide technical leadership to help State Farm team manage, serve, support and develop 1 of the largest SAN environment containing large SAN Fabrics and enterprise class storage arrays :
Manage, support existing SAN infrastructure, : Hitachi Data System 9960/9980/9570 arrays, HP SureStore XP arrays and EMC arrays serving State Farm Corporate and Operation Centers in north America region. Coordinating hardware installation with vendor, design RAID group and port allocation, assign storage, LUN security, capactity report and planning.
SAN Fabric design and support : design and build large fabrics with various topology like Core-Edge, Meshed, Island. Installation and configuration of switches, firmware upgrade, zoning, SNMP monitoring, Fabric Watch monitoring, performance monitoring.

Service and support customers for entire organization : server platforms include IBM AIX, HP-UX, Windows NT/2000/XP and Linux. Applications include Web Server, Web applications like Websphere, proxy, revision control, Databases like DB2/UDB, Oracle, MS SQL Server. Technologies include SAN boot, data replication and snapshot like with Business Copy, Shadow Image, Remote Copy, multipathing and load balance like EMC PowerPath, HP AutoPath.
Provide technical leadership to State Farm's Enterprise Storage Team and Management : review existing infrastructure design ; provide inputs and advices, evaluation of industry's new products, technologies and best practices.

Interface with other functional areas to help with highly-visible, mission-critical projects such high-availability, load-balance, SAN-based backup, etc.

2003 -  2003
Storage Infrastructure Architect

Back to Discover Financial Services to work on migrating from EMC Symmetrix 8830 to the new DMX 2000 :
Conducted planning of the overall strategy and project for DMX migration. Migrated from 4 symmetrix 8830 to 4 DMX with over 150 servers attached to. Used EMC SRDF as the main tool to migrate data to minimize the impact to daily production activities.
Coordinated the hardware move, facilities like power, cable patching, etc..
Prepared for migration with software upgrades like PowerPath, ECC, HBA drivers/firmware.
Migration plan implementation : Worked with EMC engineers to set up SRDF device groups, develop scripts to do zone changes, LUN masking changes, symconfigure tasks with solution enabler. Conducted host-level operations like lpfc changes, sd. conf changes, cfgmgr/ODM rebuilt, Veritas Volume Manager or LVM re-configuration, etc.

included re-establish all the BCVs on DMX, clean up the powerpath devices and ODM entries, bin file changes and zone changes.

2003 -  2003
Sun Consultant

Hired by Sun Professional Service for AON Corporation, I designed and implemented a high-availability and disaster recovery environment for 1 of AON's mission-critical applications using Sun Servers and Fibre Channel storage arrays integrated with Veritas technologies :
Designed the overall architecture for AON documentation management application to provide high-availability server and site failover, on-line snapshot, data replication for Oracle and Java application and disaster recovery between the remote data centers. Technologies used include Solaris 8, Sun Storage Manager, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Manager and File System, Veritas Volume Replicator, Veritas FlashSnap and Oracle 8i Standby Database.
High-availability was implemented between multiple Sun Servers with VCS 3.5 active/passive cluster. Applications, Oracle 8i server, Oracle 8i standby database, NFS and Java based applications.
Disaster recovery between the remote data centers was implemented with VVR 3.5 replicating non-database data and Oracle 8i standby database replicating the database over the LAN/WAN. Primary and secondary sites is failed over gracefully without losing transactions.
Implemented Veritas FlashSnap for online data replication and backup. Developed a menu-based tool to automate and streamline the snapshot operation. It provides a fast and efficient way to mirror the application and database in real time without interruption to the production for reporting, batch jobs, backup/restore and disaster recovery purposes.

2002 -  2003
Storage Infrastructure Architect

As Senior Open System or Storage Infrastructure Architect, I am in charge of design the external storage and UNIX infrastructure for Discover's new headquarter data center at Riverwoods. This is a 100+ million dollar project that builds new corporate data infrastructure on new paradigm, embracing the industry's leading-edge technologies like EMC, Brocade, Veritas, StorageTek, SUN, IBM, Microsoft :
Design overall infrastructure for DFS' new data center. High-level design, Request for Proposal, Detailed Design, Implementation and Migration Plan documentations. It is a large environment with multiple security/networking zones, 7 environments for whole life cycle of enterprise applications, with open system platform and gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel SAN backbone.
Design and implement DFS enterprise storage infrastructure Core-Edge Dual Fabric SAN with Brocade 12000 switches, multiple EMC Symmetrix 8830 arrays like 50+ TB raw storage, 20+ Core/Edge Switches with 2000+ ports, serving 500+ servers.

Design and implement centralized SAN management solution with EMC Control integration with Brocade Fabric OS and other tools like WideSky Solution Enabler, EMC Work Load Analyzer, Optimizer.
Design total server backup and restore solution with Veritas NetBackup Data 4.5, BareMetal Restore, EMC TimeFinder, StorageTek Tape Library. Define corporate backup policy and restore strategy.
Design and implement Network Attached Storage solution with EMC Celerra File Server like Version 4, DataMover model 507 and 510 NAS backup and restore solution with NDMP.
Design UNIX server environment with Sun Enterprise server and IBM p-6x0 servers. Implement automated server build techniques like Jumpstart, NIM, IP MultiPathing and Load Balance like IPMP, NIB, Storage MultiPathing like EMC PowerPath, Veritas DMP, Disaster Recovery like Veritas BMR, MakeSysB
Design High-Availability solution for UNIX server with Veritas Cluster Server on Solaris 8 and AIX 5.1, in combination with redundant SAN solution.
Design Oracle 9.2 HA and online backup or restore solution with VCS, Veritas Advanced Database Edition for Oracle, 9i RAC and DataGuard, Oracle RMAN, EMC TimeFinder and SRDF and Veritas NetBackup.
Design data movement and migration solutions between different security zones and environments with EMC TimeFinder, SRDF and InfoMover tools.
Design enterprise disaster recovery solutions with EMC SRDF, Tape vaulting, Oracle 9i Data Guard.

2001 -  2002
Storage Solution Architect

I was engaged as an independent consultant to provide storage related professional services to Amdahl Corporation. As a Senior storage solution architect reported directly to a Senior Vice President in charge of storage product delivery, my role was to provide high-level technical leadership to develop storage related solution offerings and professional services and to assist marketing, sales and product development and delivering services :
Designed and developed storage solutions to cover wide area of interests, High-Availability, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Storage Area Network architecture, Storage Consolidation and Virtualization.
Designed, developed and certified Solaris-based packaged solutions. These solutions include the following : server HA cluster failover with Veritas Cluster Server on Solaris. No-data-loss hot-standby database HA/DR solutions based on clustering like Veritas Cluster Server, Oracle DataGuard, data replication like EMC SRDF, Hitachi Open Remote Copy, Oracle Advanced Replication Server and Hot Standby, snapshot like Fujitsu One-Point-Copy or Equivalent Copy, EMC TimeFinder, Veritas Snapshot File System, parallel server and server load balancing.

Participated Fujitsu GR product sales. Provided sales people with technical support for product, storage related and high-availability technology. Preparation of presentations and other sales collateral for sales support, customer education, marketing and internal training.
Provided consulting services to Amdahl/Fujitsu ? s clients. Services include but not limited to : high-level architecture design, assessment of the environment, solution design and implementation.
Trained Amdahl/Fujitsu internal consultants, MSEs and A/Es. Provide classes, labs, set up knowledge databases and develop internal white papers.
Evaluation of the existing technologies and best practices ; developing solutions based on the lead-edge technologies like EMC, HDS, Fujitsu GR, NetApps, Veritas, Legato, SofTek, DataCore, McData, Brocade, InRange, Sun, Oracle, etc.

Assisted product and solution sales and delivery team to work on RFP preparation, engineering design, implementation and project management.

Network System Consulting, Inc or City of Chicago, Chicago, IL : Senior IT or Solaris Consultant July 2001 to Oct

Performed as a Senior consultant at City of Chicago Business and Information Services reporting to Deputy CIO. My role was to provide high-level consulting service in Unix system administration, configuration, performance tuning and monitoring ; corporate IT security planning, administration and policy making ; Oracle database capacity planning, performance tuning and administration ; EMC storage design and management :
Designed and implemented Oracle database backup or recovery or replication based EMC SAN technologies like TimeFinder, BCV, ECC, RMAN Proxy, BCV configuration, disk layout, scripting. Multiple sets of BCVs are split off against the production databases and used for tape backup and bring up reporting servers.
Solaris server performance monitoring with various tools like sar, vmstat, BMC Patrol, EMC Workload Analyzer. Oracle database performance tuning. Recommend and implement changes to the kernel parameters, hardware configuration and Oracle best practices to improve the database performance.

Developed and implemented a homemade performance monitoring utility to process and publish server statistics. Evaluate other tools like Oracle StatPacs, HP Openviews, SysEdge.
Sun Solaris system administration and Oracle 8i database server management. Environment includes Sun Enterprise servers running Sun Cluster 2.2, EMC Symmetrix Storage arrays with Brocade switches, Veritas Volume Manager and Netbackup, Oracle 8i database server and 11i application server.
As the primary security consultant, evaluate and oversee corporate security policies and practices. Define, implement and document data and network security best practices. Recommend and implement security patches, kernel changes and best practices.
Designed and implemented SAN infrastructure using EMC Symmetrix arrays, Connectrix 6400M and Brocade switches, EMC Celerra, JNI and Emulex HBA cards. Managed with ECC, ESN Manager, Symm Control Center, VolumeLogix and Workload Analyzer.
Designed and implemented strategy to enable business continuity, disaster recovery and based various cluster and DR technologies,, EMC BCV, EMC SRDF, Veritas Cluster Server and SRVM, Sun Cluster.

Northern Trust Company or Navidec, Chicago, IL : Senior IT Consultant July 2001 to Sept

Contracted by Northern Trust to work with their IT infrastructure team to evaluate their corporate environment, perform assessment and make high-level recommendations and advisories to the Senior Director of the Corporation IT regarding their overall high-availability and disaster recovery requirement and strategy :
Assessment of the corporate IT environment and current HA or DR configurations and requirements.
HA and DR configurations and requirements evaluation and analysis.
Helped client to define multi-tier HA service levels and solutions.
Evaluated currently available HA or DR technologies and make recommendations based on the requirements.
Proposed detailed project plans for HA or DR solutions implementation, HA system auditing, check list compiling, prototype design and building.

2001 -  2001
Veritas Consultant

I was the Senior Solaris or Veritas consultant on this ATTWS 3G Mail System project team that consists engineers and consultants from ATTWS, iPlanet, Sun Microsystem, EMC. My responsibilities include :
High-level design on Solaris platform for ATTWS 3G mail system environment, choosing hardware and software platform, capacity planning, network design.
Designed various high-availability cluster solutions for the master directory service running iPlanet LDAP server and Mail Store application running iPlanet Messenger Server using VCS 1.3 and Netscape Agent.

Implemented the cluster solution at ATTWS data center on Sun E4500 servers running Solaris 8, attached to dual Connectrix 32 - port switches and 2 EMC 8380 Symmetrix arrays with 1.5 Tera-byte storage. Works included OS installation, network connection, Veritas Volume Manager 3.1 and File Systems 3.3.4 installation and configuration of EMC PowerPath, Time Finder and SRDF.
Designed test plans and test VCS failover functionalities under various scenarios.
LDAP, SMTP and Mail server performance tuning like CPU, memory, I/O and network.
Documentation of design, implementation and operation of clustering.

2000 -  2001
Senior IT Consultant

As senior UNIX and Veritas cluster consultant, I was responsible to evaluate, design and implement the infrastructure strategy for high-availability, geographically distributed disaster recovery to accommodate the mission-critical business requirement for Xpede, a premier provider of Financial Relationship Management .I was working on designing and building the infrastructure environment for FRM solution that includes HA clustering, Business Continuity, Geographical Distributed Load Balancing and Disaster Recovery and corporate security policy making and administration :
Designed and configured high-availability cluster solution using Veritas Cluster Server running on Sun Enterprise servers with Sun Disk Arrays dual-attached. Designed and implemented failover strategy for Oracle 8i database and applications.
Evaluated and implemented database remote replication schema using Veritas Storage Replication Volume Manager to replicate live production database between primary site at West coast like Santa Clara, CA. and East coast like Herndon, VA. for disaster recovery.

Implemented Oracle Hot Standby database as read-only instance for reporting, data warehouse and backup purposes. Evaluated other database replication tools like Oracle Advance Replicator and Quest ? s Shareplex.
Evaluated the corporate security policies. Defined various security policies and best, Solaris security guidelines, user security policy and network security policy.
Designed and implemented Oracle online and offline backup strategy and mechanism using Veritas snapshot volume, snapshot file system, Oracle RMAN and Veritas Database Edition Checkpoint for Oracle.
Oracle database data layout planning and I/O performance benchmarking and tuning by implementing various RAID levels with Sun Raid Manager and Veritas Volume Manager.
Participated design of a new multi-tier FRM e-business application solution, web tier, application tier and back end database tier. Migration of existing CORBA based application to J2EE based application. The web and application layers were load-balanced by Cisco Local Director 420 and F5 ? s BigIP and clustered by Weblogic cluster server to achieve the maximum availability and scalability.

2000 -  2000
TotalMRO.com : Senior Consultant

As a senior consultant, responsible for the overall infrastructure design, planning and implementation for totalMRO.com, a B2B e-commerce subsidiary of W.W. Grainger, specializing on forming a central market place for buys and suppliers of Maintenance, Repair and Operation. My responsibilities include :
Infrastructure design or engineering : Planning overall infrastructure for TotalMRO ? s application environment. Interacting with vendors to research and identify technologies, tools, hardwares and softwares for TotalMRO environment. Designing network architecture, data flow, application and strategy.
Data center planning and implementation : Working closely with ISPs like Exodus, DIGEX, Comdisco to plan hosted data center for TotalMRO ? s e-business environment. Reviewing and finalizing RFPs and SLAs.
Server implementation : High-end Sun Enterprise server hardware installation and operating system configuration. Configuration of High-Availability using Veritas Cluster Server, Sun Cluster. Database clustering with OPS and Advanced Replication Server. Veritas Volume Manager or File System. Veritas Database Edition for Oracle or Checkpoint.
Networking implementation : planning and implementing TotalMRO network consisting of 10/100/1000 BaseT and Fiber with CISCO 650x/36x0 routers and switches, VLANs, ArrowPoint smart web content switches, load balancing with BigIP and Local Director, VPNs and Secure Shells, Firewall implementation and rule defining. Network monitoring and Intrusion detection.
Deployment of Java or Weblogic based application packages on Solaris environment. Installation and configuration of BEA Weblogic 4.5 server, Weblogic Ecommerce package, Webmethods package. Software package installation and configuration of JAVA, XML, Webmethods, Requisite tools like ECManager, ELoader.
Performance monitoring and tuning for Solaris OS, web server, application server and database server with BMC Patrol, Workload Analyzer. Web statistics collection and analysis with Webtrends. Implementation and maintenance of internet content management softwares.
Database design and management : Oracle database like 8.0. x/8i logical or physical design for application, database management, performance tuning, database off-line or on-line backup or restore like using export, RMAN, BCV, data warehouse or datamart architecture and implementation.

EMC storage : TotalMRO ? s environment is designed as EMC-Proven by choosing EMC Symmetrix Frames and Connectrix SAN switches hardwares, zone file configuration and implementing various EMC packages, like PowerPath, TimeFinder/BCV, SRDF/DR, SymmManager, Work Load Analyzer and DBTuner.
Exploring and testing non-stop non-disruptive solution for TotalMRO business by evaluating and testing Sun cluster server, Oracle parallel server and geographical distributed environment.

1998 -  2000
InfoTech s : Senior Consultant

Worked as a Senior consultant for IBM Global Services servicing the Lucent Technologies account .I was responsible in engineering and implementing several data warehouse projects that operate Oracle RDBMS with middleware and web server on Sun clusters.

Infrastructure engineering and planning : Worked closely with Lucent CIO project management team to analyze the business and technical requirements from customers. Designed the infrastructure and network for key projects like Lucent 5ESS switches performance data warehouse server and customer relationship management system.
System implementation and integration with high-end SUN Enterprise Servers : Solaris installation and patches ; system performance monitoring ; kernel tuning and debugging ; network configuration with Ethernet and ATM ; management of NFS and NIS ; software and package installation and administration ; Capacity planning and management with Veritas Volume Manager and FileSystem.
Oracle database design and management : Logical and physical design of database ; installation of Oracle RDBMS ; routine database administration ; database performance monitoring and tuning ; database on-line backup.
Configuration of application servers : installation and implementation of various applications and middlewares like ColdFusion, Clarify, Clearcase products, Netscape Enterprise Server, Tuxedo.
Implementing High-Availability cluster using Veritas FirstWatch with the capability of failing over Oracle database engine and applications.
Storage management with EMC Symmetrix and Sun disk arrays : I/O monitoring and tuning with EMC SymmManager and Workload Analyzer ; dynamic multi-path with EMC PowerPath 1.3 ; data warehouse on-line backup with BCVs.

1997 -  1998
Technical Solutions : Senior Consultant

At Swissbank account worked in a high-paced financial industry ? s IT department that runs a large and heterogeneous UNIX environment like SunOS, Solaris, HP and NeXT.

Managed a distributed, heterogeneous UNIX environment, Sun and NeXT with NIS and NetInfo tools.

Performed daily system administration works and help desk and 7x24 on-call support : Backup/restore ; mail, printer, network trouble-shooting ; NFS and automounter ; patches ; performance monitoring and tunings ; Shell scripting.
Participated design and planning for various projects : SunOS and Solaris migration ; JumpStart server setup ; migration of NeXT to NT and integration with Sun ; Setting up Y2K test network and firewall.

1997 -  1997
IBM Global Services : Senior UNIX/Network Administrator

Worked at a major IBM ? s server farm for its Internet Solution and eBusiness like Internet Mail, News, Content Hosting, Customized Internet/Intranet, e-commerce.

Content hosting server design and implementation : Hardware Installation of SUN Enterprise and IBM RS/6000 servers ; configuration of Solaris and AIX operating systems ; application software installations ; network configuration like ethernet, FDDI and Token ring.

Routine system administration : user account management ; managing disk space, network, I/O activities ; performance and kernel monitoring/tuning ; trouble shooting.
Network security : Installation and configuration of internet and intranet firewall on Sun and NT servers ; installation/setup of security packages SeOS, ESM, TCPWrapper, Trusted Computing Base.
Customized Internet/Intranet solutions for Sears project, secure wen server and Oracle database for on-line transactions.

1992 -  1997
Argonne National Laboratory : UNIX Administrator/Research Associate

Performed UNIX system administration and programming and engineering/research at Advance Photon Source.

System installation and upgrade Solaris 2.X, SunOS and Linux. Routine system administration like user/security, backup/recovery, NFS/NIS+, network setup, package/application installation.
Participated development and testing softwares used in synchrotron radiation and materials science research, using FORTRAN, IDL and EPICS.

Worked extensively with other platforms like PC, Windows, Mac, VAX/VM.

1989 -  1992
Northwestern University : UNIX Administrator

Managed UNIX servers and workstations for Materials Research Center.

Set up lab machines operating Interactive UNIX, SunOS and Linux. Performed daily system administration work.
Developed a program that controls X-ray machine with precise motion and collects experimental data using C and SPECS programming tools kit.

1985 -  1989
Beijing United University : Lecturer/Lab Director

Miscellaneous

Managed Physics and Micro-Electronics Laboratory funded by United Nation Education Science and Culture Organization in Beijing.

Supervised the evaluation, introduction and operation of computer and electronic equipment.
Taught FORTRAN and IBM Assembly language classes.

Professional Training

SUN Advanced System Administration SUN Network Administration
Veritas Cluster Software Veritas Database Edition for Oracle
AIX Basic/Advanced System Administration AIX Performance Management

BS of Physics, Peking University, July, 1985
PhD of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Dec 1994