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Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Primarily supporting VMWare, NetAPP, Veeam, and secondarily supporting IBM Power, AIX, VIO, HMC and XIV storage.

Jordan, Mn

Corporation offers expertise primarily in areas of IBM AIX, Tivoli Storage Manager, PowerHA high availability and other related technologies. They are experts in providing best practice IBM IT solutions. Contracted by Delta Airlines as Subject Matter Expert for UNIX Midrange systems team.♦ Analyzed OS configuration and previous implementation of 150 IBM p-Series systems.♦ Modified AIX configuration/installation for each system, developed individual plans so each system performed optimally and was correctly configured for high availability.♦ Discovered existing Network Installation Manager (NIM) environment was not functional, so reconfigured and implemented IBM Network Installation Manager.♦ Trained UNIX administrators on how to use and administer NIM environment.♦ Analyzed and corrected issues with HACMP clusters globally.Contracted by Chipton-Ross to provide Linux support for Northrup Grumman on behalf of USPS in Eagan MN.♦ Worked on Proof-of-Concept projects for Tanium and Tripwire

Hamel, Mn

Corporation offers expertise primarily in areas of IT infrastructure, cloud and software solutions. They help companies thrive by providing modern and innovative IT solutions to best manage their data. Retained by corporation as outside consultant providing analysis, design, implementation, testing, performance, capacity planning and maintenance for their clients. After one year, made permanent member of corporate team.♦ Subject Matter Expert on AIX, VIO, HMC, PowerHA, IBM Power servers, Enterprise storage, SAN and network♦ Principal strategist and visionary developing best solutions for clients, and creating enduring relationships. Design IT processes including analysis, design, implementation, testing, performance, capacity planning and maintenance for clients ranging in size from small to Fortune 50 companies.♦ Utilize balanced mix of technical and business skills to create solutions based on initial client meetings and user requirements.♦ Subject Matter Expert engaged to resolve issues in areas of systems, storage, SAN, backup, network and high availability for customers nationwide across 500+ project life-cycles.♦ Created systems that reduced costs and maximized productivity across 250+ project lifecycles by implementing virtualization and system consolidation.♦ Worked with Application vendors (Oracle, Epic, SAP, IBM) to provide corporations with systems designs that meet all performance and capacity goals.♦ Created automated system health check process and reporting that was implemented as managed service at several customer sites.♦ Tested, documented, and configured AIX, SUSE and Red Hat systems to use LDAP to authenticate via Active Directory for companies ranging in size from 50 to 50,000 users.♦ Performed migrations and upgrades of systems, storage and SAN across 300+ project life-cycles.♦ Performed eight data center migrations to new data centers.

Eden Prairie, Mn

Corporation is a multi-channel video retailer and American cable, satellite and broadcast television network. Manage the UNIX support team and enterprise infrastructure: ♦ Manage, hire, review, mentor Unix Administrators ♦ Select and manage multiple external resources for system support, implementation and project management ♦ Support the design and build of a new data center and coordinate the migration to the new data center ♦ Design, negotiate, purchase, implement and support infrastructure architecture for core business systems. ♦ Design, implement and maintain enterprise and mid-range Power systems, enterprise storage, SAN, networking, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery for the successful implementation and subsequent support of an enterprise wide Oracle ERP environment.

Bloomington,Mn

Thermo King Corporation is an American manufacturer of transport temperature control systems for trucks, trailers, shipboard containers and railway cars as well as HVAC systems for bus, shuttle and passenger rail applications.Provide technical support specializing in: ♦ Power systems ♦ AIX ♦ EMC and IBM disk storage ♦ IBM tape storage ♦ SAN ♦ Network ♦ High Availability ♦ Backup and recovery ♦ Disaster recovery design, implementation and maintenance ♦ Performance tuning and platform migration of SAP R3 instances, and Oracle databases

Eagan, Mn

Dart Transit Company provides truckload dry van service with long-haul nationwide delivery, dedicated fleets, regional, and short-haul service. Dart Portable Storage provides temporary on-site storage units on a monthly rental basis. Dart Advantage Warehousing, Inc. provides a long list of inventory solutions including food-grade storage, inventory control, product fulfillment, delivery, and more. Dart Intermodal provides shippers with cost effective door-to-door truckload service from shore-to-shore by combining the flexibility of trucks with the low cost of rail. Installation and administration of: ♦ Unix systems (AIX, Data General, Solaris, Unisys) ♦ Mainframe (Unisys A-Series) ♦ Databases (Informix, DMSII) ♦ Windows servers. COBOL Programming: ♦ Developed a custom EDI system ♦ Developed a new Marketing system

Golden Valley, Mn

♦ Daily Burroughs mainframe operations ♦ Install and upgrade mainframe system software ♦ Perform database compiles and reorganizations ♦ COBOL programming

Biology/Math

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