Engineer System Administrator

Tsang Ting Yong *** Rio Robles East, Unit ***, San Jose, CA,

95134

Phone: (707) 592 Email: *****.****@*****.***

7356

Career Objective:

A system administrator. Interested in working with various products and

technologies and integrate them to improve efficiency and to reduce

business operating costs, especially in areas like virtualization and

storage. Also enjoy using programming to solve problems.

Work Experience:

CAD Engineer / System Administrator, May 2005 - Present, at Analog Devices,

California, US

. VMware infrastructure project. VMware virtualization engineer for

Analog Devices at San Jose business unit including 7 offices globally.

Achieve 8:1 consolidation ratio and reduce data center operating

costs. Redesign networking and storage framework to support VMware

infrastructure. Implement VMware HA, DRS, vMotion, update manager VUM

to improve flexibility, manageability, stability, and high

availability. Built PXE based kickstart automated installation for

ESX. Implement snapshot based VM backup to reduce per client backup

cost. Redesign and Integrate existing backup solution and business

continuity solution. Upgrade VMware infrastructure from VI3 to

vSphere4.

. Storage projects. Install and configure NetApp filers as NAS / IP SAN

(including remote offices) with a total of 10TB of data for product

line storage requirements and VMware infrastructure. Implement and

manage data synchronization / backup between offices using various

netapp technologies such as snapmirror and snapvault with out of sync

monitoring. Perform storage capacity trending analysis. Design

directory structure hierarchy and auto-archiving process. Optimize

storage utilization using deduplication and other packet level

compression technology. Evaluate storage vendors if needed to meet

ever changing storage requirements.

. Service consolidation and P2V conversion. Design VM templates (Windows

and RHEL), network, and storage architecture to control and maintain

optimal used in hardware resources and optimal VM performance without

over allocation. Refresh infrastructure services from Solaris 2.6 and

Solaris 8 based into RHEL linux based VMware platform. Also coordinate

with NT admins to perform and document P2V migration on windows based

services.

. System administration. Design and deploy standardize computing

environment (RHEL / Solaris) including servers, compute farms, and

workstations across seven remote offices worldwide within business

unit. Built PXE based and grub based automated kickstart install

infrastructure. Install 200+ RHEL compute nodes and workstations

remotely using PXE kickstart across various offices globally. Tune

system settings to optimize application performance in IO, virtual

memory, and network performance.

System Administrator, summer 2002, 2003, 2004, at City Boundry Ltd, Hong

Kong

. Design strategy for SMB computing environment with Active Directory.

. Install and configure RedHat linux server environment.

. Upgrade, maintain, and troubleshoot windows-based desktops environment

Skills:

. Project management. Provide excellent project management skills to

meet projects deadline. Example includes datacenter virtualization,

new office installation, storage upgrade deployment etc all within

limited time constraint. Typical work involved defining goals,

finalizing solutions, purchasing hardware, implement and integrate

solutions for the network, and document procedure.

. Operations support. Provide excellent level zero customer support for

design engineering community for Analog Devices at San Jose business

unit, supporting both Linux and Windows desktop users. Prioritize

projects, tasks, and user requests with excellent time management.

Implement and maintain service stability and performance monitoring

system. Apply various alerts and paging system to ensure 24x7

operations.

. CAD Application support. Provide support to user community include

installing and maintaining commercial CAD applications and open source

GNU Solaris / Linux applications. Provide programs and scripts for

automation used within the electrical engineering design community

using various programming lang such as bash, ruby, php etc. Design and

Implement procedure and howto documentation within our group using

various CMS and wiki application.

. Communication. Provide excellent communication with various internal

IT groups. Participate in company wide groups for strategic technology

deployment and standardization. For example, take part of the

worldwide network council representing seven remote offices within our

business unit, standardizing on Redhat Satellite as software package

management for 3000+ RHEL clients within the company worldwide, also

take part in global engineering IT team to standardize linux

engineering desktop environment and deployment process.

Knowledge:

VMware ESX, HA, DRS, Fault Tolerance, Vmotion, VUM Update Manger,

VirtualCenter, VMware vSphere SDK, NetApp storage, Snapmirror, Snapvault,

iSCSI, NFS, manage_ontap_sdk, Linux, RHEL, SunOS, Ubuntu, Active Directory,

LDAP, Redhat Satellite server, wiki, svn, mysql, apache, samba, NIS, CUPS,

pxe kickstart, grub kickstart, DNS, dhcp, ssh, openvpn, iptables, squid,

nagios, cacti

Programming:

bash, ruby, regexp, php, sh, tcsh, csh, awk, sed, (and basic knowledge of -

HTML, javascript, perl, css, xml, AJAX)

OS:

RHEL (3/4/5), Ubuntu, SunOS/Solaris (8/9/10), Fedora, MS Windows

XP/2003/Vista

Education:

University of California, Davis B.S. in Electrical Engineering 2002 - 2005

GPA 3.28/4.0

RedHat Linux System Administration

Nortel Network Passport 8600 network switch

Network Appliance (Netapp) Data Ontap Fundamental

VMware Certified Professional - VMware vSphere4 (VCP4) and VI3 (VCP3)

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