Engineer Customer Service
Resume:
THOMAS M. SCHAEFER
Trafford, PA 15085
abmd64@r.postjobfree.com
EXPERTISE
Installation, maintenance, and upgrade of servers, storage, and networks
including Sun Servers, robotic tape libraries and RAID disks, Windows and
Unix Server systems.
Full vendors / platforms experience:
StorageTek Compaq Sun
Emulex JNI IBM
H-P Brocade Clariion
LSI Qlogic Quantum
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Decision One - Sun Business Partner
January 2006- Present
Perform system maintenance on all Sun Products including all Sparc based
and AMD based servers.
All Sun badged Quantum and Storage Tek tape products and Sun badged disk
storage.
Custom Hardware Engineering August
2005 - January 2006
Maintained IBM and Storage Technology mainframe storage
The National Association of System Engineers
March 2003 - August 2005
Maintained IBM Risc servers and storage, Sun Servers and HP UNIX and NT
servers
STORAGE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
June 1996 - April 2002
Senior Customer Service Engineer
Implemented Storage Tek's products along with other vendors' offerings to
provide storage solutions for all computing platforms, from desktop to
midrange and mainframe, including SANS.
. Installed a two-tier tape SAN at Bayer with one 9310 tape robot
installed onto a storage network with fibre tape drives and EMC disk,
and one 9310 tape robot installed onto a mainframe with Escon and
bus/tag tape drives.
. Designed, installed, maintained and upgraded all robotic tape and raid
disk solutions for large and small customers. Assisted in
successfully relocating Alcoa's North American Data Center. Managed
Alcoa's 100-server farm through Y2K. Installed a SAN with Storage Tek
9840 tape and Clariion RAID disk using Storage Tek fibre hubs, and
then migrating to Brocade switches.
. Maintained all NT and HP UX servers for Alcoa for three years. This
included over 100 servers and their Clariion storage, using Navisphere
software.
. Provided storage systems for hospitals for storing CAT scans, X-rays
and MRIs.
. Installed robotic tape in large mainframe shops using Escon attached
tape through Escon directors with tape drives attached to multiple
virtual machines.
NETWORK SYSTEMS CORPORATION
July 1987 - June 1996
Network Engineer
Installed and maintained all company products, which included hardware such
as HPPI, FDDI, Ethernet routers and switches. Other vendors such as
VitaLink, Bytex, Bustek and Nortel made some. Software included RDS for
channel networks and Netex file mover software.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (continued)
. Installed and maintained the Pittsburgh portion of the Verizon
(formerly Bell Atlantic) channel extension network that covered most
of the East Coast, from Boston to Richmond.
. This network uses T1 and T3 links running multiple protocols,
including TCP/IP and Hyperchannel.
. Installed the Hyperchannel network at Bettis labs, to connect the Cray
Ymp, then later the Cray C-90 to the switched FDDI network. At Bettis,
Also assisted the installation at the HPPI network.
. Installed a Hyperchannel network at PNC Bank and Mellon Bank. These
were Escon-attached to IBM mainframes, providing connectivity to
diverse platforms such as Stratus, DEC, and Tandem.
Ket Services
June 1984 - June 1987
. Installed and maintained Memorex Disk Subsystems and communications Front
Ends.
Storage Technology Corp
December 1979 - June 1984
. Installed and maintained IBM plug-compatible tape and disk subsystems.
ITT North Electric
June 1977 - December 1979
. Installer of Class 4 and Class 5 telephone switching.
EDUCATION
The Pennsylvania State University
Associate Degree, Electrical Engineering Technology - June 1977
Sun Certified Professional Engineer - February 2007
TECHNICAL TRAINING
. Installation and maintenance of robotic tape libraries and Open
Systems disk products, including LSI, Clariion, and Storage Tek Raid
. 97xx and L series Open Systems robotic tape libraries in UNIX and
Windows/NT environments, SCSI and Fibre Channel attached
. Robotic tape libraries (Silo's) Model 9310: ESCON and Parallel
attached to IBM mainframes
. Clariion RAID 913x, 914x and 916x and STK 9175 and 9176 (LSI) Raid
subsystems in direct-attach and SAN configurations
. All Quantum DLT tape, 4000, 7000, 8000 and SDLT
. All STK tape, including 4480, 4490, 9490 and 9840
HP server refresher Learning Tree ATM
STK 9176 raid disk and L700 tape library Nortel Magellan Passport switch
9121 IBM mainframe Xylan switch
STK SAN Crossroads Bridge
HP Netserver hardware All Network Systems routers, hubs,
HP 9000 Unix server switches, and channel extension.
Microsoft Windows NT Administration Cisco FDDI concentrator
EMC Symmetrix 3 and 4 IBM AS400 hardware
LSI Disk Sun Server
Cisco router configuration Advanced Sun Server
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