09/03/2024
I have enjoyed 30 plus years as a seasoned, multi-Certified Information Technology (IT) Professional with experience in Unix Systems and Data Storage Architecture, Data Center Deployments, Production Operations, Unix Systems Engineering / Administration, Data Storage Engineering / Administration and related IT activities in a variety of environments, including retail E-Commerce at Walmart.com. As United Airlines’ World-Wide Senior Enterprise Storage Architect, I produced an Enterprise Storage Strategy to include; current state, 5 year visionary end state, and road maps for multiple disciplines in a Unix Systems – production operations landscape.
CERTIFICATIONS
Certificate: VERITAS Storage Foundation: Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM), Veritas FileSystem (VxFS) and Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)
Certificate: Brocade, Certified Fabric Professional - 2008
Certificate: Integrating and Managing HP BladeSystem 7000 in the Enterprise – 2009
Certificate: EMC Control Center, EMC Timefinder
Certificates: Netscape, WebServer, Mail Server, News Server, LDAP Server, Publishing System (PubSys), Merchant System
Competency:
PCI Compliancy (Payment Card Industry)
SOX Compliancy (Sarbanes Oxley)
EDUCATION:
Golden West College: Westminster, California, 1984
Orange Coast College: Costa Mesa, California, 1985
TECHNCAL SKILLS
Data Center Architect:
WALMART.com Data Center Buildout, SONY PlayStation Data Center Buildout, United Airlines Data Center Fibre-Channel Refresh
Operating Systems:
Oracle Solaris 11, Sun Solaris (1 - 10), SunOS (4.1.1 - , RedHat Linux (4, 5, 6, 7), HP-UX, AIX and Windows NT/XP
Scripting:
bash, csh, ksh, awk, sed,
Computing Platforms:
Oracle / Sun Microsystems: T5-2, T5-4, T5-8 (supercluster) SUN SPARC, Intel, AMD, HP, SGI, IBM
Storage/Switches Platforms:
EMC DMX, Symmetix 8830 (Pre-DMX), 3830 series, Clarion, Clariion (Pre-EMC), StorageTEK, Hitachi HDS-VSP, HDS-USPv, HDS- USP 1100, HDS-9980, HDS-9985, , SUN T3, A5x00, D1000, Netapp Filers , Brocade DCX, Brocade 48K, Brocade 7500, Brocade Sikworm, CISCO MDS, Qlogic, McData, ANCOR SAN switches
Tape Libraries:
StorageTek L8500, StorageTek L700, LTO Drives, DLT Drives, Exabyte (shoe-box) SCSI (DAS)
Virtualization:
Solaris 10 LDOMS and Solaris 11 zones, zpools and ZFS
Enterprise Applications:
ORACLE, Oracle E-business suite. Oracle Agile, Apache, Apache-Tomcat, SunOne Apps, SVM(Solaris volume Manager), VxVm (Veritas Volume Manager), Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), EMC Recover Point (formerly Kashya), BladeLogic, ProactiveNet, Remedy, EMC Control Center, TimeFinder, Navisphere, NaviAgents, HDS HiCommand, HDS Storage Navigator, IBM TPC, Silk Performer, Load Runner
Appliances:
Ironport MTA’s, Cyclades Terminal Servers, EMC Recover Point (Kashya Data Storage Replication “K-box”)
Networking/Utilities:
NIS, NFS, Automount, Ethernet, DNS, SAN Troubleshooting (fcinfo, svcadm, luxadm disks, drvconfig, devlinks, Linux based sleuthing based on `cat /proc/scsi/ [hba vendor]` ), prtpicl, prtconf, snoop, gdb, pstat, pfile, truss, strace, CRON Scheduling, and other inherent UNIX utilities, Veritas troubleshooting commands
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