Primary project was to build out Symantec Storage Solution, hardware and software, build high availability into the access (Veritas Cluster Server, 2 In Band NICS, 2 Out of Band NICS). Carve up LUN's on the back end to Dell N8300 hardware array (a pair for high availability), present LUN's to front end Symantec Filestore for further divvying up of LUN's on a departmental basis. Capacity 2 Petabytes. System was used to back up all data, a storage area for VMWare Virtual Machine Images, and also has the data warehousing environment. Located 50 miles apart, with a dedicated 50 megabit link for replication between arrays. ISCSI, Dell Hardware, Symantec/Veritas Software. Day to day activities, ticket resolution, nominated cabling and rack'em stack'em person (fng). Work closely with developers performing data transforms, mining for data, looking for redundant or duplicate data via perl scripting skills. The devops portion of the assignment 40% of the work and it was either writing code (filters, joiners, whetever they needed) or performing transforms (mostly search and replace, or extract) on large (2gb-8gb) data sets.

Environment consisted primarily Redhat 4 and 5 Linux based servers. Approximate 20% of the environment consisted of Sun Microsystems/Oracle servers running a combination of Solaris 8, 9, and 10, utilizing Solaris virtualization technology, ie, containers and zones. A few AIX servers. Linux environment highly virtualized via VMWare ESX 3.x and ESX 4.x. Administration performed via vSphere. 3Par/HP storage hardware and administration tightly integrated to VMWare via SAN and 10g uplinks; petabyte range, SAN connected via core Cisco 4900 SAN switches. Hardware consisted of primarily large Dell M1000 class bladed servers. iSCSI SAN infrastructure in place. Day to day administration, and project work. Extensive perl scripting. Servers primarily ran Oracle database and application environments, with some mysql. Administration of primary production site (Chicago) as well as administration of Disaster Recovery site (San Francisco). F5 BigIP load balancer administration. Administration of internal LAMP environments (Mediawiki, in house intranet management site, various internal drupal, wordpress, joomla). Work from home position, with trips to datacenter to deal with new hardware builds, tape rotations, and whatever needed me to be at datacenter. Due to a high degree of contracts with Police Departments in active criminal investigation data processing, complete background check and trust screening required.

Systems and Network engineer, systems architect, and systems administrator for a Sun Microsystems shop. Day 0 datacenter build and design to final implementation and migration of business processes. Contract position initially, to full time. Position required knowledge of complete datacenter build and environments, as well as a high degree of technical knowledge in network and systems engineering, and finally administration. MySQL installation, database creation, ongoing administration, replication, backups. PHP front end (web based) interfaces to backend MySQL database. Day to day administration. Currently supporting remotely with 2-3 days a week in their datacenter. Currently performing email migration, and deployment of Big Brother monitoring and alerting for proactive support of the infrastructure.

Administer and maintain on a day to day basis 37 Linux based servers. Standard 3 tier architecture running Linux Fedora Core 6 with front-end Apache 2 web servers, middle tier Tomcat Application servers, and backend Mysql database. Application environment includes Mediawiki, PHP. Responsibilities include keeping servers secure through vigilance, security audits, and log auditing. User administration. Performance tuning and identifying potential or future bottlenecks in system. Additional duties include architecture of hardware environment as well as storage architecting. Capacity planning. Backup of database environments. Support of all developers on a day to day basis. 6-month term contract.

Provide Unix consulting services to a multitude of Portland, Oregon based clients running Sun Microsystems hardware. Service Steel: Install, configure, and maintain a pair of clustered SunFire 3800 Mid/Mainframe servers in a production environment. Fiber Channel 5200 Disk array maintenance via Veritas Volume manager and associated tools. Installation and configuration of Veritas Cluster Serv er. Sunridge Design: Maintain 9 Sun Microsystems desktop stations used for architectural design and engineering. Minimal support for Intergraph Microstation CAD software. Backspace Consulting services: maintain internal Sun enviroment. Inact: install, configure, deploy, and maintain Solaris based v480 servers architected for a highly transactional database environment. Customer maintenance, pre/post sales engineering,.

Systems and Network engineer, systems architect, and systems administrator for a Sun Microsystems shop. Day 0 datacenter build and design to final implementation and migration of business processes. Contract position initially, to full time. Position required knowledge of complete datacenter build and environments, as well as a high degree of technical knowledge in network and systems engineering, and finally administration. MySQL installation, database creation, ongoing administration, replication, backups. PHP front end (web based) interfaces to backend MySQL database. Day to day administration. Currently supporting remotely with 2-3 days a week in their datacenter. Currently performing email migration, and deployment of Big Brother monitoring and alerting for proactive support of the infrastructure.

Support day to day operations in a 24x7 global enterprise. Primarily Sun Microsystems/Solaris (8, 9, 10) shop. SunFire 6800, 4800, v480, v440, v240, v210, e450 and various other Sun hardware including Netra telco grade NEBS compliant servers. SAN environment support with Brocade Silkworm fiber switches connecting various servers, Netbackup media servers to Hitachi 9960 and Spectra Logic tape libraries. Primary administrative support for Veritas Netbackup 4.5 Data Center enterprise wide backups including Windows based agents. Netapp filer support and administration; backup over SAN via NDMP. Support of high traffic production customer support ftp servers. Veritas Cluster server, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System based systems supporting Oracle databases. Support and installation of Lantronix based console servers connecting entire Sun infrastructure. Systems availability monitoring and alerting via Netsaint/Nagios as well as other in house developed scripts and procedures. Korn shell scripting for automation. NIS administration. RAID and file system administration on differing arrays and JBODS (Hitachi, SUN, Nexsan, Quantum, etc).

Support day to day operations in a 24x7 global enterprise. Primarily Sun Microsystems/Solaris (8, 9, 10) shop. SunFire 6800, 4800, v480, v440, v240, v210, e450 and various other Sun hardware including Netra telco grade NEBS compliant servers. SAN environment support with Brocade Silkworm fiber switches connecting various servers, Netbackup media servers to Hitachi 9960 and Spectra Logic tape libraries. Primary administrative support for Veritas Netbackup 4.5 Data Center enterprise wide backups including Windows based agents. Netapp filer support and administration; backup over SAN via NDMP. Support of high traffic production customer support ftp servers. Veritas Cluster server, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System based systems supporting Oracle databases. Support and installation of Lantronix based console servers connecting entire Sun infrastructure. Systems availability monitoring and alerting via Netsaint/Nagios as well as other in house developed scripts and procedures. Korn shell scripting for automation. NIS administration. RAID and file system administration on differing arrays and JBODS (Hitachi, SUN, Nexsan, Quantum, etc).

Support day to day operations in a 24x7 global enterprise. Primarily Sun Microsystems/Solaris (8, 9, 10) shop. SunFire 6800, 4800, v480, v440, v240, v210, e450 and various other Sun hardware including Netra telco grade NEBS compliant servers. SAN environment support with Brocade Silkworm fiber switches connecting various servers, Netbackup media servers to Hitachi 9960 and Spectra Logic tape libraries. Primary administrative support for Veritas Netbackup 4.5 Data Center enterprise wide backups including Windows based agents. Netapp filer support and administration; backup over SAN via NDMP. Support of high traffic production customer support ftp servers. Veritas Cluster server, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System based systems supporting Oracle databases. Support and installation of Lantronix based console servers connecting entire Sun infrastructure. Systems availability monitoring and alerting via Netsaint/Nagios as well as other in house developed scripts and procedures. Korn shell scripting for automation. NIS administration. RAID and file system administration on differing arrays and JBODS (Hitachi, SUN, Nexsan, Quantum, etc).

Build out new infrastructure for customer facing Symantec web sites. Installation, configuration, implementation and deployment of Development, QA/TEST, and Production environments. Sun Microsystems hardware running the Solaris 8 OS. Sun servers installed: Sun v240s (web servers), Sun v480's (database servers), and Sun 4800's (database servers). Support of existing Sun servers, as well as troubleshooting and resolving day to day administration issues. Veritas Database Edition for Oracle, Veritas File System, Veritas Volume Manager, and Veritas Cluster Server installation and configuration. Application servers Windows 2000 based running BEA Weblogic; implement and resolve issues pertaining to cross platform tiers. Configuration of Weblogic proxy and JDBC connection pools for proper communication between standard 3 tier architecture. Issuing of firewall requests, troubleshooting/diagnosing/resolving communication issues through all tiers. BMC Patrol agent configuration and console monitoring of servers. Configuration and administration of Iplanet web server as well as Weblogic proxy for connecting to application server tiers. Remedy Helpdesk usage as well change control procedures. Installation, configuration, administration of J2EE, Java, Java SDK, etc subsystems for development team.

Support existing infrastructure and current administrators to lighten workload. Sun Enterprise 10000, SunFire 280r, Sun 5500, Sun 4500, Sun 3500, and a multitude of other Sun based hardware running Solaris 8 Operating System. Heavy emphasis on kernel tuning (Solaris kernel as well as tcp/ip parameters). Veritas Volume Manager administration. Main focus here to install and deploy Sun Management Center for infrastructure wide monitoring. Installation, configuration, and deployment of Sun Management Center, as well as agent installation across 100+ servers. Korn Shell scripting for problem solving and automation of tasks. Filenet administration.

Provide support for entire Unix infrastructure consisting of Linux, Solaris, HPUX and AIX. Predominantly Sun Microsystems/Solaris based environment. Regular scripting for automating of point of sales data, as well as customized reporting for management. Deployed Sun Management Center to assist in easing administration, proactive monitoring, and alerting for infrastructure. Management role responsible for scheduling time and tasks for junior and Windows administrators (5) located; Also doubled as network engineer and assisted in troubleshooting network related issues. Heterogeneous environment consisting of Unix's mentioned above, as well as Windows 2000 domain controllers. Install and deployed Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit for cloning and network installation of Solaris servers/workstations.aH Worked closely with development team; download current versions, install, configure, administrate, and patch Java development system (Java, J2EE, Java SDK, etc.) and work closely with development team to assist in resolving bug issues relating to the Java subsystem.Yahoo/Inktomi (www.yahoo.com, www.inktomi.com

Provide support for the entire backup operations of Inktomi's server farm during the Yahoo! Buyout/merger. Confirm and maintain backup schedules. Produce daily reporting on backup volume. Sun Microsystems hardware environment running Solaris 8. Legato Enterprise backup software backing up multi terabyte databases to Qualstar 8000 series DLT IV jukeboxes. Additional duties including maintenance of Norton Ghost infrastructure for Intel/Windows based network installs/cloning. Maintenance of Windows based Legato backups.

2 Month contract. Install and deploy redundant HP Openview servers w/ Performance monitoring and Net-SNMP polling. Hardening of Sun Microsystems Solaris 8 based Openview servers. Installation of 300+clients/agents, including mibs etc for network devices. Installation of hardware (2x Sun Microsystems 280R) and installation of Solaris 8 Operating Environment. System performance optimization. Included pre/post sales engineering and implementation.

Consolidate existing Sun Microsystems based systems and Oracle instances on a Sun Microsystems Enterprise 3000. Sun Microsystems 220R, Ultra 2, Enterprise 250, and a pair of Hewlett Packard 9000 K570s running an in house database. Primarily goal to ensure the application and database integrity, and troubleshooting issues involved with the migration. Architected backup on Qualstar TLS-4000 series tape library. All systems running Trusted Solaris.

Installation, configuration, day-to-day administration of Sun Microsystems Sunfire Servers (SunFire 15000, Sunfire 6800, Sunfire 4800, Sunfire 280R). Administration of Hitachi 9960/9980 enterprise arrays. Support for SAS statistical analysis on the system side; i.e., not direct application support. Deployment of Sun Management Center for 24x7 proactive monitoring of production servers. Heavy and customized Korn shell scripting for customized reporting on infrastructure monitoring. C programming at the Unix system call level for interfacing incompatible systems (custom messaging), software, and processes. System and disk architecting for production Oracle database installations, as well as capacity planning & architecting of data warehouse. Performance/kernel tuning. 24x7 on-call support. System architecting and capacity planning for large BEA Weblogic installation. In addition to above duties, was primary administrator of Host based security utilizing Sun Microsystems JASS security software, valid service/port identification, host based access filtering. Created custom monitoring scripts for daily security auditing, as well as log file monitoring. Maintenance of Jumpstart infrastructure. Primary administrator of RSA Ace Server SecurID token authentication. Primary administrator of all firewalls utilizing Sun Microsystems 280R hardware running Checkpoint Firewall NG and Stonebeat firewall clustering software. Primary administrator of backup infrastructure utilizing Veritas Netbackup for development servers, and Tivoli Storage Manager for production based servers. Primary planner for disaster recovery scenarios. System administration of IBM ‘P’ Class and ‘M’ series servers.

Installation, configuration, day-to-day administration of Sun Microsystems Sunfire Servers; . Administration of Hitachi 9960/9980 enterprise arrays. Support for SAS statistical analysis on the system side; i.e., not direct application support. Deployment of Sun Management Center for 24x7 proactive monitoring of production servers. Heavy and customized Korn shell scripting for customized reporting on infrastructure monitoring. C programming at the Unix system call level for interfacing incompatible systems (custom messaging), software, and processes. System and disk architecting for production Oracle database installations, as well as capacity planning & architecting of data warehouse. Performance/kernel tuning. 24x7 on-call support. System architecting and capacity planning for large BEA Weblogic installation. In addition to above duties, was primary administrator of Host based security utilizing Sun Microsystems JASS security software, valid service/port identification, host based access filtering. Created custom monitoring scripts for daily security auditing, as well as log file monitoring. Maintenance of Jumpstart infrastructure. Primary administrator of RSA Ace Server SecurID token authentication. Primary administrator of all firewalls utilizing Sun Microsystems 280R hardware running Checkpoint Firewall NG and Stonebeat firewall clustering software. Primary administrator of backup infrastructure utilizing Veritas Netbackup for development servers, and Tivoli Storage Manager for production based servers. Primary planner for disaster recovery scenarios. System administration of IBM 'P' Class and 'M' series servers.

This was a 1-month contracting position to reclaim storage. The datacenter environment consisted of ~100 Hewlett Packard HPUX servers, ~10 IBM AIX Servers, ~40 Sun Microsystems servers. These servers were connected to ~30 EMC Symmetrix arrays and ~10 Hitachi Data Systems (Sun & HP branding) 99xx enterprise arrays. The nature of the project was storage reclamation and file system restructuring, and consolidation. ksh scripting for automation and documentation of script and procedures for operational staff. Custom software was produced for data gathering and reporting, platform independent. 14 terabytes of data to be restructured, 4.5 terabytes to be reclaimed. The working environment consisted of the above hardware running Oracle databases, SAP Peoplesoft, Informix, and other hosted applications. 24x7 production environment with scheduled maintenance windows, backup windows, and strict change control procedures. Servers were nationally distributed across California and Arizona for disaster recovery, fault tolerance, and to assure uptimes in service level agreements, etc etc. SAN analysis (Brocade switches, McData directors, Fabric Login and well as Fiber Channel SAN architectures, WWN, switch zoning).

Migrate existing application base from Sun Microsystems 420R (UltraSparc II) hardware platform to Sun Microsystems V880 (UltraSparc III platform. IBM RS6000 (H80's through F50's); AIX 3.1 through 4.3.3 support. Smit, logical volume (SSA 7133) management. Perform QA on existing backup procedures, with extensive reconfiguration via Veritas NetBackup and various tape subsystems including Sun StorEdge L9 robotic tape libraries. Veritas Volume Manger/File System/Database Edition for Oracle administration. Upgrade existing Solaris 2.5.1 through Solaris 7 systems to Solaris 8; Audit existing host/network security procedures; extensive upgrades/reconfiguration of existing systems. Install proactive and active security measures with extensive host based 'hardening'. Migrate Linux based DNS servers to Solaris based DNS servers. Install/configure sendmail servers. System and disk subsystem performance tuning including kernel tuning. User/process/system accounting. Work closely with developers and Oracle DBA's to troubleshoot and resolve issues with hardware/OS upgrade. Extensive shell scripting and shell script debugging. Disaster recovery logistical planning. Jumpstart infrastructure installed, configured, deployed for Solaris server/workstation network based installations, custom configurations, and maintenance of configuration files.

Sun Microsystems Ultra Enterprise 450, E3000, E3500, E4500, Netra T1/X1, and Sunfire E6800. Solaris (2.5.1 through 2.8). IBM AIX OS running on IBM H70's, J50's, 43P's, 44Ps, P Series 660. Smit, HACMP; SSA support. Performance tuning, system/process accounting. Veritas Volume Manager, File System, Cluster Server. Day to day support in a pre-production environment with close communication with developers. Enterprise. Senior level Unix system administration. Networking support. SAN, EMC Symmetric 8000 series and Hitachi Data Systems 9900 series drive arrays. Remote administration of servers in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York. Shell scripting, implementation and administration of system/network security utilizing encrypted communication channels and file encryption. Configuration and deployment of intrusion detection system. Inception, design, and deployment of secure Internet hosts and hardening procedures as relates to international banking requirements. Administrate servers running Apache web server and Oracle database for high volume trading system; highly available oltp intensive environment. Disaster recovery and backup/replication. Jumpstart network based install servers installed/deployed/configured, DNS, sendmail, NFS, NTP. Evaluate and build Linux environments for research and development. Additionally, set up and administration of training lab for junior administrators, as well as operational staff. Lab consisted of 4 way Sun Microsystems Enterprise 450 Servers (fully configured; 20 scsi drives (1/2 terabyte of data), 4 processors, 4 gigs memory) with various Sun Microsystems Ultra 5 through Ultra 60 workstations. Lab infrastructure consisted of Solaris 8 running various in house supported applications, Veritas Volume Manager/File System/NetBackup, and various applications (Oracle, Sybase, Informix) specifically for training new employees, as well as for employee professional development purposes. SAN integration . Jumpstart technology.

Technical support for SunOS/Solaris/SCO/Linux and general Unix support. Unix system administration support (HP-UX, Solaris, Linux AIX). Heavy internet application support including low level TCP/IP troubleshooting, FTP, telnet server, DNS Server, Apache Web server, Firewalls, routers, DSL, cable,. Some web and HTML support. Other duties included Help Desk and staff as well as client support. Systems security and integrity accounting of in house and contracted client networks. Extensive field work, on call, troubleshooting. MS Windows - Unix integration. Extensive Veritas Volume Manager and File System usage. Build custom Linux installations for research and development.

Technical support for SunOS/Solaris/SCO/Linux and general Unix support. Unix system administration support (HP-UX, Solaris, Linux AIX). Heavy internet application support including low level TCP/IP troubleshooting, FTP, telnet server, DNS Server, Apache Web server, Firewalls, routers, DSL, cable,. Some web and HTML support.; duties included Help Desk and staff as well as client support. Systems security and integrity accounting of in house and contracted client networks. Extensive field work, on call, troubleshooting. MS Windows - Unix integration. Extensive Veritas Volume Manager and File System usage. Build custom Linux installations for research and development.

Contracted to install 4 4-way Sun Ultra Enterprise 450 Servers running Solaris 2.5.1 for use as 24x7 production servers. Servers running and maintained on these machines include Telnet servers, SSH servers, DNS servers, Sendmail servers, NFS Servers, FTP Servers, Hardened and heavily modified Apache Web Servers. Complete development environment installation; Sun C Compiler as well as GNU Development environment. Extensive shell scripting. Machines formed clustered pairs for full redundancy with all clustering performed in house via shell scripting. Linux system administration. Performance tuning and monitoring. User/System/Process accounting. System security auditing and administration. Also maintained management server which was used as a central point of management via Sun Management Center. Administration of all networking issues host side.

Troubleshooting and technical support for Solaris/AIX/Linux/SCO Xenix based operating systems and Microsoft Windows based operating systems. Hardware/Software Upgrades, troubleshooting. In-house/On site and telephone support. Administration of in house and contracted client Unix networks. Microsoft Windows network administration and support. Internet application support revolving around client/server model including, HTML, Web server maintenance, Firewalls, FTP, Telnet server administration. Help desk. System and Internet security accounting for in house and client networks.

Technician support for Microsoft Windows based operating systems and Unix operating systems. Hardware/Software Upgrades, troubleshooting. Microsoft Windows network support. Help desk support and Internet application support. Ascend and Cisco router configuration and implementation. T-1, frame relay, and WAN experience.

In house technician supporting Microsoft Windows based operating systems and also DOS support. Unix/Xenix support. Hardware repair/upgrades/troubleshooting.