Andrew V Cordova Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il

Northbrook, Il.

Solaris and Red Hat 5/6 Server Build Subject Matter Expert. Planned, reviewed, and executed system changes and upgrades per documented change process. Instrumental in reducing server delivery by 20% and increasing availability from 91% to 97%.• Migrated 400+ Solaris physical and zones to Linux physical and VMware VMs, including 50+ Solaris (Oracle HW) RAC to Linux (HP Hardware) Oracle RAC environment meeting EOSL deadlines resulting in tens of thousands in support costs savings.• Served as technical lead of the consolidation of five data centers into two. Documented process for decommissioning of 500+ Solaris servers and the build of new Solaris physical and Zone replacements including 50+ Veritas and Oracle RAC clusters. Met deadlines saving company one million dollars in lease costs.• Designed and deployed Solaris lab. Added Linux physical and VM servers. Updated Process from Open-loop non repeatable builds to close loop repeatable steps ensuring consistent state at time of server delivery.• Participated in numerous projects working closely with Project Managers and customers taking projects from lab to production in an expedited manner, (i.e. 100+ Cisco UCS C240 M4 Rack Server builds for Hadoop Test, Dev, DR, and Prod environments across two datacenters).

Exelon Corp. Joliet, Il

Responsible for Solaris and AIX server builds configuration, hardening, and security script maintenance. Server Performance Testing & Analysis. Implemented mandated SOX server monitoring tools.• Planned Veritas Volume Manager Ver 3.x to 5.x. upgrade on 5 SUN 15K Domains and numerous stand alone servers.• Built Veritas Clusters utilizing Sun 6900 servers.

Westmont, Il

• Charged with performance tuning of Solaris E10K Oracle systems. Executed server Performance Testing & Analysis of Solaris and AIX servers.• Co-Administered EMC SAN of approximately 7 terabytes. Implemented and configured EMC ECC administration package. Working knowledge of EMC BCV and snapshot products. • Proposed and implemented resolutions resulting in 400 fewer calls per month to the Eddie Bauer Help Desk. Created numerous scripts for use by the help desk reducing time to resolution and increasing Tier 1 first call resolution. • Performed country wide upgrade of 500 IBM Model 140 and 150 AIX systems at 250+ locations from home office eliminating the need to deploy system administrators to each site.

Lucent Technologies, Denver Co. Naperville, Il.

• Support the Lucent Technologies account via an IBM Global Services contract. Provide nationwide tier II and III Sun Solaris 2.x support. Full root authority of remote large scale Unix clusters. System administration duties included Sendmail, BNU support, Build directory create and quota management, SAMBA, User account creation.• End user counseling for general Unix usage, Openwin and CDE user interface. Troubleshooting of UNIX E-Mail agents, 5-ESS Tools, X11. Exceed configuration and application support.• Focal in charge of remote site rollover to centralized support. Escalation management focal in charge of facilitating technical problem resolution. Process management team member creating numerous process and procedure documents.• Develop and conduct Unix classes for Operations and Helpdesk personnel.