Highly skilled technologist with more than 20 years experience in Information Technology.
Specializes in automation and Disaster Recovery solutions using Veritas software.
Excellent interpersonal and troubleshooting skills.
Provides strong leadership, works well in a team environment and communicates effectively with customers, vendors and management.
Automation High Availability Disaster Recovery Replication Performance Tuning Troubleshooting Virtualization Product Management Veritas InfoScale Enterprise Solaris Linux Windows JavaScript Perl Python SEO Shell Scripting Firewalls
Storage Team Lead for Federal Reserve Bank private cloud environment responsible for VCS clustering, Disaster Recovery, Hitachi and EMC SAN storage for three data centers.
Reduced RPO from 30+ minutes to ~30 seconds by migrating from EMC SRDF/AR to Hitachi Universal Replicator.
Developed generic failover script to reduce RTO from 1-2 hours to ~20 minutes using VCS Global Cluster Option (GCO) to automate failover of multiple application components on multiple clusters to DR site.
Successfully performed production Disaster Recovery failover in two hours for multiple business applications.
Developed custom VCS agents for application components.
Developed scripts for maintaining configuration standards across 28 different VCS clusters consisting of 124 servers total.
Performed root cause analysis for multiple technical incidents / performance problems.
Primarily responsible for the care and feeding of VCS and Cluster File System clusters in financial production and test environments.
Clustered the following applications for High Availability: Oracle, WebLogic, WebSphere, Siebel, Shareplex, DB2 and MQ Series.
Performed troubleshooting and root cause analysis of cluster issues with vendor, including one case which resulted in upgrading Storage Foundation Cluster File System software on all cluster systems.
Upgraded Veritas Storage Foundation software from 3.5 to 4.1 to 5.0 on over 270 servers.
Implemented strong security practices on Solaris servers to protect financial applications.
Developed custom Jumpstart framework used to rebuild over 300 systems in a secure fashion.
Worked as liason between operations and project management team on multiple projects to integrate and deploy new servers.
Performed host-based data migration with zero downtime using Veritas Foundation Suite. (EMC Symmetrix to DMX)
Developed custom scripts for SRDF / Storage Foundation integration for Disaster Recovery of financial applications.
Senior Systems Engineer
d-tech corporation
2002 - 2004
Supported pre / post sales of storage / application availability solutions for multiple clients.
Designed and implementated VCS clusters for multiple clients to support SAP, PeopleSoft and Oracle environments.
Designed ShadowImage implementations for zero downtime Oracle backups and environment refreshes.
Participated in development of Linux appliance for High Availability, Disaster Recovery and backups for SMB market.
Replaced company infrastructure with a custom Linux HA solution, including firewall, VPN, e-mail (anti-spam), DNS, web services, and Cisco / Foundry router configuration.
Technical lead for team of Collective consultants working with client to design and build development / test / production environments for Navigator project.
Gathered requirements from client teams to design 3-tier data center for Navigator project.
Designed and deployed highly automated Jumpstart server for installing Solaris and application software.
Automated installation of Oracle 8i / 9i, Veritas Foundation Suite, Veritas Cluster Server, Solstice Disk Suite and Veritas Netbackup.
Rearchitected previous incarnation of project to be highly available.
Designed redundant Linux iptables firewalls.
Documented Navigator project configuration, including system architecture, configuration and maintenance tasks.
Worked with vendors to purchase Sun hardware and Veritas software.
Provided system administration support for Oracle, BEA WebLogic and Interwoven Teamsite.
Recommended and installed Unix console terminal server, Lightwave 3200.
Worked with client to push new code / content to test and production servers.
Installed / configured SAN connections on Solaris systems.
Interviewed various hosting providers to select a site for production environment.
Developed a generic service level agreement (SLA) for projects.
Developed automated scripts for creating Oracle database instances.
Team leader for a 7-9 person team of system administrators responsible for providing computer support for a large defense contractor in a diverse multi-vendor environment using client-server technology.
Architected a single NFS automounter environment across SunOS, Solaris, IRIX and NetApp.
Handled performance tuning, NIS / DNS configuration and OS upgrades.
Defense Systems & Electronics Group, IT Computer Services
Developed automated scripts to facilitate administration of 150+ Unix workstations. (resource monitoring and routine maintenance)
Collapsed multiple NIS domains into single NIS domain to reduce administration overhead and facilitate resource sharing.
Deployed Unix Load Sharing Facility (LSF) to 100+ Unix workstations.
Mentored site-wide group of Unix system administrators to facilitate knowledge sharing and establish common site-wide practices.
Performed hardware upgrades as necessary.
Consolidated distributed storage environment to centralized NetApp file server.
Webmaster for site-wide Unix web server running Netscape Enterprise Server. Created CGI scripts and JavaScript code for forms, as well as setup web areas for other groups.
Created end-user web interface for submitting problem tickets to the mainframe problem tracking system.
Created web based alpha-numeric paging utility.
Converted fleet of Unix systems from bridged to routed network. Performed several network upgrades (FDDI and Fast Ethernet).
Setup redundant X-terminal bootp servers.
Setup redundant FLEXlm license managers and developed web interface to FLEXlm / FLEXadmin. Automated FLEXlm license metrics collection.
Setup network printers for multiple OS (Unix, OpenVMS, NT) access.
Developed LSF standards guide, X-terminal standards document and user guide with a team of systems analysts.
Deployed Unix and X-terminal standards to multi-site organization.
Responsible for assigning, grading and helping students on semester project to simulate an operating system, holding office hours and assisting professor by holding lectures.
Managed four Data General Aviion Unix workstations and sixty PCs running Portable NetWare.
Provided technical support for over forty employees.
Planned fiscal computer budgets, maintained several laser printers, installed hardware and software upgrades for PCs, and managed software packages using an Informix SQL database.