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Summary

Experienced IT professional specialized in Server, storage, virtualization, Data Protection & Cloud technology.
Always willing to learn new technology and Passionate to work on it.
Infrastructure Architecture, Designed and Implemented for Oracle, Peoplesoft, Oracle and SQL databases on backend storage EMC, XtremIO, and Netapp with operating systems includes AIX, Solaris, Linux, Nutanix & VMware Infrastructure.

Specialties: -
•EMC enterprise (SAN & NAS) storage systems, Pure Storage systems, and Netapp.
•Data Replication technology and data migration.
•Cloud Storage / Software-Defined Storage solutions / HyperConverged Systems on VMware/Nutanix 
•Specialized in solution Architect on Storage (SAN & NAS) and Virtualization technologies.
•Supported several large Oracle, Peoplesoft, MSSQL databases, and Business Continuity.
•Managed and lead multiple IT projects.
•Proficient in solving business challenges with efficient technology solutions

My key business strengths include: 
| HCI | Storage | Cisco MDS | VMware | LPAR | XtremIO | NetApp | Oracle | VMAX | Windows | Acropolis | IBM | EMC |  Nutanix | HPE Server | Dell Server | vSphere | Exadata | OnTap  | AIX | VIOS | Cloud Computing | Data Center | Virtualization | | Enterprise Architecture | Solution Architecture | Integration | Networking | Security | Linux | Troubleshooting | Networking | Operating Systems | Solaris | Storage Area Network | SAN | EMC Arrays | Hyper-V | Superna | Data Domain | EMC Isilion |Superna Eyeglass | Oracle | HyperConverged | Infrastructure | AHV |  

Skills

Hardware

Servers and Workstations large scale P870/P850/P595/P750/P690/P655/P550, Exadata X2-2, Sun E10/E5500/E4000/E450/E220, HP 7000 Blade and through all current hardware IBM Power, Sparc, and Intel.

SAN Storage Array

all EMC XtremIO X-Brick, EMC Isilon H500/A200, NetApp FAS-3240/8040, Symmetrix DMX4, EMC VMAX3, Data Domain DD2500/DD4500, IBM SVC  2145-CG8 , IBM DS4400/ESS-800 and Clariion/VNX.

Direct Attached Storage Arrays

IBM, HP, Sun, Dell, DEC Alpha Server, SGI, Intergraph.

SAN Switches

Cisco MDS, Brocade 7500

Cisco Switches

Catalyst 93XX, 65xx, 55xx, 35xx, and 29xx.

ETC

Intel PC workstations and servers & Macintosh desktops.

Operating Systems

IBM AIX 7.1-3.12, Nutanix Acropolis, VMWare Server/ESX/ESXi/vSphere 3.x-6.x, Windows Server 2000-2019, Linux (Debian/Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSe, Oracle Lunix), Solaris 2.51-10, Cisco IOS & NX-OS

Server Software

MSSQL 2000-2016, Superna, Apache, Tomcat, Postfix, Sendmail, DHCP, Bind, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Samba, NFS, Nagios, MS Clustering Services, Active Directory, IIS, Peoplesoft HRMS. Peoplesoft FMS.

Storage Software

IBM SVC, Netapp OnCommand Suite, Netapp Data OnTap 7.2.x-9.x, Powerpath, EMC ControlCenter 5.x, EMC Solutions Enabler 6.x, Navisphere/Unisphere 6.24.x, Symmetrix Management Console, Celerra Manager 5.6, Veritas VxVM 3.x-5, Legato Networker 7.2.x-8.x, TSM IBM 5.3.x, and Veritas NetBackup.

Programming/Scripting

PowerShell, Perl, Bourne, and C shell scripting

Work experience

Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling/Houston, TX
10/201807/2020

Sr Tech Specialist, IT Infrastructure

  • Deployed of 13 Nodes of Nutanix HCI cluster to replacement of HPE 7000 Blade server with EMC XtremIO w/ ESXi, and then migration of the VM from HPE and EMC XtremIO to Nutanix with vSphere 6.7 for both Prod/Dev.
  • Replaced IBM P6-595, P550, and P740 with IBM P870 and P850 with EMC XtremIO.
  • Oversaw information technology infrastructure on a global scale, including networking, voice and data communications, engineering, project management, and end-user technical support.
  • Implemented of two EMC Isilon NAS w/ +200TB each with Superna Eyeglass to replication DR site to enable the failover and failback of the production NAS
  • Completed the deployment and the migration 12 sites from VMware or vSAN into new Nutanix New Cluster per site
  • Designed, racked, cables, and implemented a new data center, including DC, IDF, InRow Coolers, and power.
  • Worked with 3rd Party vendors and internal customers, interfacing with management personnel, to accomplish requested technical tasks
Kirby Corporation/Houston, TX
07/201710/2018

Enterprise Architecture

  • Established and maintained relationships with strategic IT vendors. Documented, measured, and improved processes. Monitored the performance of assets and applications.  Maintained security and audited enterprise applications, ensuring company passed internal and external audits.
  • Achieved over $600,000 in annual savings by switching from iridium to VSAT onboard 70 Kirby offshore marine vessels.
  • Managed three data centers for power and cooling and ran the quarterly generator and battery failover tests.
  • Performed storage area network switch upgrade at two corporate datacenters. The outage was planned well and was received by the business, as there was no downtime or disruption of service.
  • Designed new VMware 6.0 environment for production and DR datacenter. Procured hardware and installed ESXi servers backed by a vCenter environment.
  • Updated production and DR NetApp 7-mode running 8.1RC to 8.1.4P1, also installed flash cache to help with disk contention on the storage area network. Disk workload was consistently over 75% utilization before the flash cache install. After the upgraded and installed hardware, disk utilization went below 30%.
  • Performed a VMware 5.5 migration to VMware 6.0, the migration consisted of different elements that included storage area network and network.
Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling/Houston, TX
10/199907/2017

Senior Tech Specialist, IT Infrastructure

  • Performed analysis to ensure system compliance with best practices and security guidelines. Planned for growth and capacity utilization. Created and improved processes for operations.
  • Architected, designed, inventory, and implemented the moving of the Houston Data Center into CyrusOne Data Center w/ in six months:
    • Inventory all of the servers at the Houston Data Center approx. 350 physical servers and all of the requirements for moving the to Colo in CyrusOne within three day weekend moving.
    • All of the requirements for green fielding a new data center: Rack, fiber patch panel, PDU, New SAN, etc.
  • Organized and plan installation and configuration of LPAR.
  • Engineering, planning, and implementing the transition of SAN storage from Symmetrix DMX4 to VMAX3, from Clariion CX3-80 and IBM ESS-800 to Symmetrix DMX4.
  • Oversaw VMware vSphere architecture, implementation, and support for the company using best practices for availability, reliability, and performance of computing, network, and storage resources to achieve dense virtualization ratios while maintaining SLAs. Specific tasks include:
    • Designed, installed, and configured VMware ESX, ESXi, within vSphere 5/5.5, and 6 environments with vCenter management, consolidated backup, DRS, HA, DPM, VMotion, and VMware Data Recovery.
    • Built, configured, and deployed VMs and templates. Completed physical-to-virtual, virtual-to-virtual and virtual-to-physical migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 R2 and Linux servers from VMware and Hyper-V and legacy hardware.
    • Architected, designed, installed, and implemented EMC XTremIO, EMC Clariion (CX, CX3, and CX4), EMC DMX, and NetApp SAN environments to ensure high availability and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware vSphere and SAN-backed applications.
    • Gained hands-on experience in NFS, and fiber channel protocols, fiber channel cabling, switching, and zoning.
    • Developed, tested, and maintained a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
    • Set up a virtualized environment supporting Exchange, SQL, and active directory.
  • Installed, upgraded, and maintained AIX systems 7.1, 6.1, 5L, 4.3, and 4.1 on P595, P740, P720, P550, P520, P560, P730, and S80.
  • Orchestrated planning upgrades of EMPAC 8.0 to 8.5 for 40 rigs running AIX and Windows 2000 terminal services.
  • Oversaw system architecture, platform design, and capacity planning of human resources and financials running PeopleSoft 7.05 to 8.X with Windows 2000 & 2000 Terminal Services, Solaris 8, and AIX 4.3.3 in 2001.
  • Upgraded Peoplesoft HRM, financials, and EMPAC server from J40 IBM to three IBM S80 within six months.

Education

ITT Technical Institute
08/198405/1986

Associates of Electronic Technology

TRAINING

Core APM230 Class - 2020

Windows 2019 Training & Azure Admin & Governance Training – 2020

Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Computing (DCUCI) v6.2 - 2018

Cisco Storage Design Fundamentals (CSDF) - 2012

Exadata Administration - 2012

Symmetrix Performance Workshop & Multi-Protocol SAN Implementation Workshop – 2011

Symmetrix Configuration Management - 2011

Symmetrix Business Continuity Management - 2010

Implementing Cisco Advanced Storage Networking Solutions 3.0 - 2010

Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization I: Implementing Virtualization - 2010

Configuring, Managing and Maintaining Windows Server 2008 Servers - 2010

Advanced SAN Implementation  & Invista Operations and Management - 2009

Implementing Cisco Storage Networking Solutions 3.0 - 2009

Storage Technology Foundations (Info Storage and Mgmt) Class - 2009

Storage Technology Foundations & Host to Storage SAN Implementation - 2009

Accelerated NCDA Boot Camp Data ONTAP 7-Mode & ESXi Sphere 4.1 - 2008

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3.2 Disaster Recovery Manager – 2007

AIX 5L System Administration III: Performance Management - 2004

Red Hat (R) Linux Networking and Security Administration - 2002

Peoplesoft Server Administration and Installation - 2001