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Jacob Clark
Objective To pursue challenging positions within the
Information Technology field that offers the
opportunity for continued learning and professional
growth.
Experience 8/2006-10/2010 Northrop Grumman IT/NSS-NA Oklahoma
City, OK
Unix Technical Support Representative
Provide Tier I-III technical phone support on Sun,
HP 9000, and IBM RS/6000 hardware and software.
Trained internal personnel on Sun, and IBM RS/6000
hardware and software troubleshooting.
Traveled throughout the nation to other clients
troubleshooting and repairing Sun and IBM RS/6000
systems both hardware and software as an escalation
point.
Travel to new contract locations to work closely
with customers during the transition.
Implemented a new Knowledge Management System
utilizing Cyn.in
10/2005 - 8/2006 AG Edwards and Son's Inc. St.
Louis, MO
Product Engineer/Solaris
Gather requirements from users, Design, Implement,
and Document the Resulting Solution
Monitor and report to Management, Sun's Technology
roadmap.
Document Sun hardware and Solaris policies and
procedures.
Manage and test all Solaris releases and patching.
Evaluate and test new Sun products.
Tier III contact for all Sun hardware and Solaris
issues and questions.
3/2005 - 9/2005 Northrop Grumman IT O'Fallon, IL
Senior Field Engineer
Planned and implemented Backup and disaster
recovery using Veritas Foundation Suite, Jumpstart,
Flar, and general shell scripts to automate the
processes.
Performed a Reliability Availability Survey.
Presented these to client management, and
implemented the changes to include disk layout,
data centralization, installed and configured Sun
Storedge Storade Utility, Installed and configured
cfengine, customized BMC Patrol Modules to monitor
hardware and software errors and performance, added
and reconfigured hardware to ensure redundancy,
Implemented Patch and Firmware management, and
automated documentation of system configuration.
Troubleshot and repaired Sun/IBM RS6000 hardware
and software
Traveled throughout the nation to other clients
troubleshooting and repairing Sun and IBM RS/6000
systems both hardware and software as an escalation
point.
6/2004-3/2005 Northrop Grumman IT Kansas City, KS
Unix Technical Support Representative
Provide Tier I-III technical phone support on Sun,
HP 9000, and IBM RS/6000 hardware and software.
Designed and implemented a hardware and software
monitoring utility for a heterogynous environment.
Trained internal personnel on Sun, and IBM RS/6000
hardware and software troubleshooting.
Traveled throughout the nation to other clients
troubleshooting and repairing Sun and IBM RS/6000
systems both hardware and software as an escalation
point.
1/2004 - 6/2004 Northrop Grumman IT Kansas City, KS
Senior Field Engineer
Helped plan and implement a nationwide service
contract with over 30 locations, and over 6000
servers in just under two weeks.
Served as customer liaison and POC handling all
escalations across the country until they were
resolved, reported to the customer on contract
performance on a monthly basis.
Traveled throughout the nation to other clients
troubleshooting and repairing Sun and IBM RS/6000
systems both hardware and software as an escalation
point.
8/2003 - 12/2003 Northrop Grumman IT Dallas, TX
Senior Field Engineer
Helped plan and implement a nationwide service
contract with 3 locations, and over 100 IBM RS/6000
servers.
Performed a Reliability Availability Surveys.
Presented these to client management, and
implemented the changes to include disk layout,
data centralization, added and reconfigured
hardware to ensure redundancy, implemented Patch
and Firmware Management.
Troubleshot and repaired IBM RS/6000 hardware and
Software.
Served as customer liaison and POC handling all
escalations across the country until they were
resolved, reported to the customer on contract
performance on a monthly basis.
4/2001 - 7/2003 Northrop Grumman IT Rolling
Meadows, IL
Senior Field Engineer
Helped plan and implement a nationwide service
contract with 3 locations, and over 2000 Sun
servers.
Performed a Reliability Availability Surveys.
Presented these to client management, and
implemented the changes to include disk layout,
data centralization, added and reconfigured
hardware to ensure redundancy, implemented Patch
and Firmware Management.
Troubleshot and repaired Sun, HP 9000, IBM RS/6000
hardware and software.
Served as customer liaison and POC handling all
escalations across the country until they were
resolved, reported to the customer on contract
performance on a monthly basis.
Implemented and managed a Unix Help Desk. Handled
all scheduling, customer satisfaction issues, and
personnel performance reviews
Traveled throughout the nation to other clients
troubleshooting and repairing Sun and IBM RS/6000
systems both hardware and software as an escalation
point
5/1999 - 3/2001 Decision One Lenexa, KS
System Service Engineer
Performed on-site diagnosis and repair of Sun
servers, workstations and storage products as a
representative of Sun Microsystems.
Familiarity with Sun specific internal support and
diagnostic tools.
5/1995 - 5/1999 US Army Ft. Hood, TX
Company Clerk (E4)
Implemented and operated five computer LAN.
Troubleshot and repaired faults both hardware and
software.
Designed, implemented and maintained a Microsoft
Access database to automate company record keeping.
Trained personnel in office operations, PC
Maintenance, and Administrative functions.
Education 1990 - 1995 Hartford High school Hartford, KS
Training 1999 Solaris Fundamentals
1999 Sun Desktop Systems Maintenance
1999 Sun Ultra Enterprise Server Maintenance
1999 Sun Storedge Storage I
1999 Solaris System Administration I
2001 Solaris System Administration II
2001 Sun Storedge storage II
2002 Solaris TCP/IP and Networking
2003 System Fault Analysis
2006 Solaris 10 for Experienced Administrators
2006 Symmetrix Foundations
2006 CLARiiON Foundations
2006 PowerPath Foundations
2006 SRDF Foundations
2006 MirrorView and SAN Copy Foundations
2006 Backup Technologies Foundations
2006 ControlCenter Foundations
2007 Sun High End Server Admin (12K-25K)
Skills Expert, organized, methodical approach to hardware
and software troubleshooting
Expert Knowledge of all Sun servers, workstations,
and storage through the E25K
Expert Knowledge of all IBM RS/6000 servers,
workstations, and storage through the Regatta
Expert Knowledge of Solaris 2.4 - Solaris 10
Expert Knowledge of AIX 4.3 -V6.1 With knowledge of
V7
Expert Knowledge of customer service and account
management
Excellent Leadership and Accountability
Understanding and Implementation of Linux, HP-UX,
Windows (95 - 2003), SAN, NAS, iSCSI, Backup
Strategy, Disaster Recovery, System Sizing, System
Modeling, Capacity Planning, System Performance,
Veritas Foundation Suite, Sun Cluster, Veritas
Cluster, LPARs, HACMP, Sun Management Console, HP
Openview, BMC Patrol, Drupal, Amanda, cfengine,
Perl, shell scripting, Ruby, LDAP, DNS, NIS, NIS+