Steve Hoff Email & Phone Number

Rochester, New York Area

Principal Systems Engineer, Compute Provisioning and Automation• Write Terraform code using OCI provider to update OCI infrastructure• Used Maxwell (In-House tool similar to Chef Compliance) and Kibana to evaluate Chef cookbook deployments• Write Chef cookbooks to automate provisioning using ruby, git/gitlab, and ALM.• Continuous Configuration Management (CCM) using Chef Server• Write bash shell scripts to automate numerous processes.• Document procedures using Confluence.• Manage work/tasks/issues with Jiras• Manage Chef cookbooks for security tools: McAfee, Splunk and Tanium

Rochester, Ny

• Contract to Wegmans Food Markets, Rochester, NY• Wrote UNIX Korn (ksh) shell (Wegmans standard) scripts to automate a variety of tasks• Worked with Wegmans internal security auditing team to ensure that the UNIX servers were more secure and remained that way• Responsible for day-to-day UNIX system administration of ~100 IBM AIX 5.2 – 6.1 servers (LPARs) and ~200 Oracle Solaris 5.9 and 5.10 servers (zones)• Responsible for IBM AIX hardware and infrastructure: Power servers, HMC, VIO servers (SEA and NPIV), and NIM• Worked with developers to configure SSH, SFTP and PGP for file secure file transfer• Responsible for RHEL6 host administration of IBM Netezza system and NPS• Attended Centrify training and worked with UNIX team on the design for the implementation of Centrify on the UNIX servers at Wegmans

Rochester, Ny

• Provided both pre-sales (technical sales) and post-sales (implementation) support to the sales organization for Western New York, specializing in storage and servers• Configured SnapMirror, performance monitoring and analysis, and SnapRestore for Health Care customers using IBM System Storage N series and NetApp FAS series• Attended IBM training on AIX versions 5 and 6, IBM DS 4000, IBM PowerVM, VIOS and HMC (IBM POWER virtualization)• Performed AIX and firmware upgrades for IBM Power servers• Assisted with a $1M+ sales by providing technical pre-sales support• Built over 150 LPARs (Virtual Machines) using BMC's BladeLogic for a large international insurance company

Rochester, Ny

• Exclusive contract to NetApp• Participated in ninety days of NetApp training and NetApp New Hire Training• Obtained NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA) certification• Provided NetApp Professional Services Consulting to customers in upstate Western New York• Experienced with NetApp Active/Active filer configuration, SnapMirror, SnapLock, VIFs, and Operations Manager

Rochester, Ny

• Assumed additional responsibilities of: VMware 2.5 Infrastructre: HP ProLiants (BL and DL series) running VMware ESX (Linux) 2.5, Vmotion• Assumed additional responsibilities of: EMC Infrastructure: EMC Symmetrixes and CLARiiONs, Connectrix (McData Fibre switches), Connectrix Manager, EMC ControlCenter (ECC), Navisphere and NaviCLI, storage provisioning, planning and acquisition. Research of SAN virtualization: EMC Invista, HP StorageWorks 200 Storage Virtualization System (SVS200) and IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC)• Engineered Oracle database server farm based on HP-UX PA-RISC servers• Worked with Oracle database administrators and application engineers to stress test and tune infrastructure• Moved Oracle database server farm from development into production• Provided on-going system administration (24x7x365)• Documentation of server builds, server configuration, and system administration• Managed HP-UX support contracts and renewals• Worked with corporate (Citigroup) security auditing team to baseline security of HP-UX servers• Wrote scripts and designed reports to implement security improvements• Evaluated NetIQ’s Vulnerability Manager product for HP-UX• Collaborated with EMC to develop scripts for automation of Oracle backups (both hot and cold)• The scripts use the Symmetrix Command Line Interface (SYMCLI) to implement rotating Business Continuance Volumes (BCVs/TimeFinder) and data replication to our Continuity of Business (CoB) site in Frederick, MD using the Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF)• Used EMC Navisphere Command Line Interface (NaviCLI) to configure CLARiiON storage from HP-UX servers

Rochester, Ny

• Analysis, design and implementation of various technologies for clients across Upstate New York• One of a two person team that implemented HP OpenView Operations (ITO, VPO) in a global infrastructure services company• Analyzed, designed and implemented Microsoft Windows 2000 (including Active Directory and DNS) and Microsoft Exchange 2000 for a small company• Sole technical resource for Oracle Database and Oracle 9i Application Server• Wrote scripts for Oracle hot-backup using HP Data Protector and snapshot technology on a HP VA 7410• Wrote scripts for HP Ignite-UX recovery• One of a two person team that designed and implemented an e-commerce website for a client using perl and Apache

Rochester, Ny

• Second and third tier phone-line support for LPA products• Diagnosed and resolved issues in the environment in which LPA products operate, which included but was not limited to: Operating Systems (UNIX and MS Windows), networking (TCP/IP), windowing (X11) and databases (Oracle, Sybase and Informix)• Obtained Client databases for problem resolution by development – exporting, transporting, importing and configuring• Client training• Review of product Release Notes and Technical Publications documentation• Wrote scripts to enhance the products and made recommendations to development for product enhancements

Santa Cruz, Ca

• Delivery of Quarterly Business Briefings (SCO product positioning, competitive information, future directions and sales training) to Value Added Resellers in the US and Canada• Research of SCO OpenServer and UnixWare, Networking and Layered Product issues for Field System Engineers and Customers• Installation, configuration and tuning of SCO OpenServer, UnixWare and Layered Products on Intel based multiprocessor server (Compaq, IBM, Unisys, etc.) systems• Staffing for Industry Trade Shows

Milpitas, Ca

• Delivered the: System Administration (SunOS, TCP/IP and NFS), Advanced System Administration and Sun Network Manager (SNM) courses• Developed the networking content of the Advanced System Administration course by researching TCP/IP routing and subnetting in a lab