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Lakewood, Ca, Us

Lakewood, Ca, Us

Pico Rivera, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Senior systems administrator responsible for their VMware / Hyper V / Linux and Windows platforms at Ares Management. Work and design the storage systems with NetApp and HP hardware with either 10GB NFS or 8GB Fiber Channel. Handle the ADFS single sign on implementation and integrations with external vendors like Sales Force and Oracle. Maintain all of our HP Blade and Proliant servers: purchasing, hardware design, mounting, cabling and maintenance tasks like firmware updates. Responsible for the architecture, design and implementation of their virtual and physical infrastructure worldwide. Consult with several internal and external teams on new projects.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Have been promoted at Herbalife to principal engineer of the Linux/Virtualization IS Department. My department is responsible for our RedHat Linux and VMware infrastructure which spans worldwide and consists of hundreds of servers.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Working as a Senior Linux Administrator within their IT department. The environment we support consists of hundreds of Linux RedHat servers running on HP Proliant Servers, Blade Centers and Integrity's. This work consists of installing new RedHat servers, building Oracle Rack clusters with OCFS filesystems. Responsible for the architecture of Herbalife's online web presence. Apache, ATG, Jboss, Tomcat environment Herbalife.com and MyHerbalife.com websites. Responsible for the architecture and maintenance of our VMWare ESX clusters. Creating VMs, setup VMFS luns, VMotion, HA and DRS. Perform SAN related tasks on our EMC Clarion, Symmetrix. Zoning, hyper's, meta's, masking and mapping of luns. Perform backup tasks, BCV sync's and splits. Perform lun migrations within the Clarion, creation of device groups, binding of luns, etc.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

During my short stay at Perot Systems I was responsible for building their new hospital patient tracking system. This system ran on hundreds of windows 2003 servers running in a active/active cluster environment. Architected the environment, purchased the hardware, racked the servers, installed fiber optic, Ethernet and power cabling. Installed the software, setup clustering for SQL2005 and worked with the developers on the installation of the applications.

Irvine, Ca, Us

• Project lead Engineer on Server, Desktop and Storage products.• Traveled overseas to closely work with our Asian partners on projects. • Created and maintained the Engineering datacenter used for virtualization and testing.• Performed custom jobs for Gateway’s customers: Linux kernels, Clustering and VMWare.• Performed routine performance analysis of new hardware and software projects.• Worked with IT departments on datacenter, LAN/WAN and wireless projects.• Worked closely with outside sales reps with hardware, software and storage problems.• Led our Gigabit Asic design projects for desktop, notebook and datacenter devices. • Created custom windows and UNIX based scripts for performing automation tasks.• Performed routine LAN/WAN protocol analysis and debug for customers.• Lead network engineer at 2002 Winter Olympics for Gateway computers. • Designed LAN/WAN environment for Gateway Lake Forest campus.

• Created a fault tolerant virtual web hosting farm for the company. • Installed VMWare virtual servers running Windows 2003, Sharepoint, Linux, Exchange, MySQL and MsSQL systems. • Created a Gigabit Ethernet backbone with multiple switches offering redundancy. • Laid out firewall and server security with intrusion detection systems.• Created the company website and worked with search engine companies for website submissions.

Irvine, Ca, Us

• On-Site Training and Trouble Shooting for OEM Accounts.• Designed and maintain SMC Product Support Lab for customer problem recreations.• Worked directly with large OEM customers on SMC network products.• Helped IT department in the design of several corporate projects.• Interfaced directly with customers for problem isolation and network analysis.• Developed several UNIX installation scripts for UnixWare, SCO UNIX and Solaris.

• Responsible for the design, installation and testing of Network/Telephone wiring.• Performed on-site walkthroughs and prepared bids for jobs.• Trained in Cat 3,4,5 10BaseT, 100BaseTX & T4 Coax, Token Ring & Fiber Optic cabling.• Installations of Computer Room - Patch Panels, Relay Racks, Router & Switches.• Performed testing and certification of all network-cabling types.

Vcp, Virtualization

Redhat Rhca Certification

Cvp, Commvault Certified Professional

Mcsa, Microsoft Certification

Cne, Novell Certified Network Engineer

Fiber, Trained In Fiber Optic Technlogies

Sniffer, Trained In Tcp/Upd Protocol Analyzation