Sean

Cummins

abqp3j@r.postjobfree.com Professional

Experience:

Senior Solutions Architect, EMC Federal Client Services/DoD --

**** -- *******

Air Mobility Command (AMC) -- Technical Lead.

Designed and implemented cross-country disaster recovery, SAN/NAS/CAS, and

backup solutions. Utilized EMC

SRDF/DM with SDMM and Veritas Global Cluster Manager to achieve automated

remote replication and application failover.

US Army Reserve Command (USARC) -- Technical Lead.

Designed and implemented multiple SAN/NAS/CAS solutions for USARC HQ, based

on EMC Symmetrix/DMX storage arrays and Brocade fibre switches. Conducted

knowledge transfer and training with USARC personnel, instructing in-house

administrators on best practices for storage management. Currently designing a business continuity

/ disaster recovery solution for USARC data centers.

Solutions Architect, --

2001 -- 2003 -- Technical Lead. Designed and

implemented SAN solutions in New York City

and Tampa for all of Time, Inc

corporate e-mail, based on the EMC Symmetrix 8830 storage arrays and

Brocade Silkworm 12000 fibre switches. Implemented Perl scripts to automate

Microsoft Exchange hot-split backups, and integrated scripts into existing

SAN based Veritas Netbackup infrastructure. Conducted knowledge transfer,

instructing Time, Inc personnel on EMC and storage management best

practices, hot-split backup methodology, and EMC Control Center 5.

Comcast

Cable Communications -- Technical Lead. Designed and implemented

multiple SAN solutions for many divisions of Comcast, based on EMC

Symmetrix storage arrays and McData fibre switches attached to a mix of Sun

Microsystems SunFire servers running Solaris 8. Conducted knowledge

transfer and training with Comcast personnel, instructing in-house

administrators on best practices for storage management. Integrated EMCControlCenter

into Comcast's existing SNMP Management framework. Migrated data from

existing EMC Clariion storage arrays on Brocade fabrics to Symmetrix arrays

on McData fabrics. Currently designing a solution for hot-split backups of

Comcast's VCS Oracle Cluster servers, as well as putting together the

architecture for the merger of AT&T Broadband data into Comcast data

centers by consolidating data from across the country onto EMC Symmetrix

storage arrays in Denver.

Random

House -- Technical Lead. Designed and implemented a SAN solution and

supported the migration of all data from offices in Times Square

to a new building on 55th & Broadway. Wrote Perl scripts to automate

hot-split backups of all fileserver and Exchange data, designing a creative

solution, which was later used by other engineers at other customer sites,

to overcome software limitations that previously were thought to render

multi-BCV (multiple volume snapshots of Exchange) impossible. Conducted

knowledge transfer with Random House personnel.

US

Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) -- Technical Lead. Designed the high

profile ESNCommandCenter, to allow centralized

management of SAN islands across Europe, including

sites in Germany,

United Kingdom,

Italy, and Turkey.

Implemented SAN and NAS solutions based on EMC Symmetrix storage arrays,

McData fibre switches, and EMC Celerra NAS servers. Implemented scripting

to facilitate hot-split backups of Microsoft Exchange servers, allowing for

very fast recovery of Exchange databases in the event of a failure.

Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) -- Technical Lead.

Designed and implemented SAN and NAS solutions in classified and

non-classified environments, based on EMC Symmetrix storage arrays, McData

fibre switches, and EMC Celerra NAS servers. Migrated over 8TB of data from

existing Win2k cluster file servers to Celerra NAS server. Instructed PACAF

personnel on management of EMC hardware and software. Wrote scripts to facilitate

hot split backups of Exchange servers.

and -- Solutions

Engineer. Diagnosed performance problems with capturing digital

streaming video over an extended SAN. Conducted pre-sales meetings and

presentations and met with key executives to design an EMC SAN and HSM

solution to solve storage management problems.

Manager of IT --

1999 -- 2001

Responsible for all aspects of network and systems

administration and data center operations.

Designed, implemented, and maintained a highly

available, scalable enterprise class network in a 24/7 Internet OLTP

operating environment for both production and development systems.

Built and led a team of Systems Administrators and

Network Engineers to ensure continual uptime of core revenue producing

business applications.

Achieved maximum uptimes by deploying highly available

system and network components, including multi-homed Internet connections

to geographically diverse ISP s using BGP4, and Sun Cluster 2.2 for Oracle

Parallel Server on Solaris.

Maintained maximum security by creating multiple DMZ s

with Cisco PIX Firewalls, using hardware accelerated SSL, automating

patchdiag reports on key Sun systems, and establishing secure VPN

connections to partner companies.

Deployed an NT/Win2k network with Exchange 5.5 to

support internal infrastructure, later upgrading to Windows 2000 with

Active Directory and moving file serving from NT to Network Appliance.

Created an Internal Systems Administration group to manage the NT/2000

network.

Designed and maintained highly available Apache web

servers, load balanced using Cisco s Local Director, and secured by SSL

with Verisign signatures.

Automated production and development processes using

Perl and shell scripts.

Played a key role in technology related decision-making

and policy by participating in strategic business planning meetings, and

providing technology recommendations to senior management.

Presented major accomplishments, milestones, and

potential future projects to company board of directors.

Established and maintained relationships with vendors

and partners.

Systems Engineer --

1998 -- 1999

Involved in both pre-sales and post-sales technical

consulting projects.

Performed on-site installation, consulting, and support

for clients with mixed networking environments, concentrating primarily on

Sun Microsystems solutions.

Recommended, designed, and implemented security

solutions for clients, including firewalls, VPNs, and security audits.

Designed and implemented highly available services on

Solaris and Citrix Metaframe platforms.

Projects ranging from short-term installations to

longer-term server support and system administration.

Systems Administrator --

1997 -- 1998

Support and administration of heterogeneous mostly Sun

LAN/WAN environment.

End user support of Sun workstations and PC laptop/desktops.

Administration of Citrix Winframe & Metaframe

servers housing Sales database clients. Back end on Sun running Oracle.

MIS --

of Exton

1995 -- 1997

Administration and support of Novell, Windows, SCO UNIX,

Linux, and Citrix network environment.

Planned and implemented corporate TCP/IP rollout,

Checkpoint Firewall-1 installation, and Linux-based mail solution.

Internship --

1994 -- 1995

Administration and support for SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris

2.5.1 workstations and servers.

Education:

Drexel

University, BSGS Computing Technology

2002 -- Present

Degree in progress - graduation expected in Q4 2006.

Drexel

University, IST

1996 -- 1997

Professional Certifications and Classes

Sun Enterprise & Workgroup Computing Certified (SCSA/SCNA

equivalent), Sun Cluster 2.2 Certified, EMC Proven Professional (Master

Architect and Operator), Brocade Certified Fabric Professional, Cisco

Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP),

Citrix Certified Administrator, Linux+ Certified, Network+ Certified, A+

Certified.

Designed and instructed classes on Storage and Storage

Area Networking technology. Acted as

an advisor for upper level emerging technology courses at PennStateUniversity,

focusing on Storage Area Networking.

Veritas Volume Manager course, Veritas Netbackup course,

Sun Fault Analysis course, Sun Cluster 2.2 course, Solaris Performance

Tuning course, EMC Advanced TimeFinder and SRDF course.

Hardware:

Sun SunFire 280 through 15000, Sun Ultra 250 through e10k,

HP K-class HP-UX servers, EMC Symmetrix/DMX, EMC Celerra, EMC Centera, EMC

Connectrix, Brocade and McData fibre channel fabric switches, Sun StorEdge

T3, StorEdge A1000/D1000/A5x00, SPARC Storage Array, Cisco 7204, 3604, 2501,

1600, AS5300, Local Director, PIX 520, Catalyst 3600 series switches, ATL,

ADIC, Compaq, StorageTek Tape libraries, Compaq, Dell, IBM, and HP x86

Servers. Server

Operating Systems:

10 years - Solaris

7 years - Linux, Windows NT, Novell Netware

5 years - Windows Terminal Server, Citrix

Winframe/Metaframe

3 years - Cisco IOS, Windows 2000 Server

3 years - AIX, HP-UX, Irix, MP-RAS, FreeBSD & SCO UNIX

Server

Applications and Services:

Sun Cluster, Veritas Cluster, and Microsoft Cluster

servers

Apache web server, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas

Filesystem, Veritas Foundation Suite, Veritas Cluster Volume Manager, Veritas

Netbackup, Veritas Backup Exec, Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, Sybase SQL Server 11,

Informix, MySQL

NFS, CIFS (Celerra/Samba/NT/NetApp), NIS, DNS, SMTP

(sendmail, qmail, courier-mta, Exchange, Notes), SNMP

Cisco PIX Firewall, Axent Raptor Firewall, Checkpoint

Firewall-1, SSH/SSL, HTTPS, nCipher hardware accelerated SSL, Tripwire,

Snort, Interscan VirusWall

DHCP, WINS, MS Exchange, IIS 4.0, Active Directory

EMC ESN Manager, Solutions Enabler, EMC Control Center,

TimeFinder, SRDF, Connectrix Manager, Volume Logix, PowerPath

Advanced Perl scripting, Korn, Bourne, & Bash shell

scripting, and cron for process automation

PHP, HTML, Javascript Networking:

SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, SCSI

TCP/IP, Ethernet Topology, Ethernet Switching, VLANs

Frame Relay, T1/DS1, ISDN PRI & BRI, Telephony

(DNIS/DID)

TCP/IP routing, BGP4, RIPv1, RIPv2, NAT, ACLs, VPN

LAN & WAN networking design and administration

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