Manager Project

Aleks Saul

Union City, NJ *****

E-mail: *****.****@*****.***

Mobile: 646-***-****

SUMMARY:

A skilled technology professional demonstrating technical and

analytical ability. Defines objectives with a systematic

approach to problem solving in an environment that will offer

opportunities for professional growth and development.

EDUCATION:

STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Hoboken, NJ

Degree: Masters in Engineering Management, December 2009

Degree: Bachelors in Computer Engineering, May 2005

Honors: Presidential Scholorship, Dean List

SKILLS:

HP C Class Blade enclosures, BL685, BL465 Servers, Proliant DL,

EVA8100 SAN, EMC Clariion Storage, EMC Celerra Network Attached

Storage, SNAP 520 NAS, Brocade/Cisco Fabric switches, Oracle

8,9i,10g, Shell Scripting/Programming (VBScript, C#, Powershell,

bash, Python), RHEL 4, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, Vmware ESX

3.0/3.5/4.0, Vmware View/VDI, TSM, SLES 9, Vertias Netbackup 6.5

CERTIFICATIONS:

VMware Certified Professional, Microsoft Certified Professional

PROFESSIONAL

EXPERIENCE:

12/2005-Present Eisai Inc., New Jersey

Senior IT Consultant: Primarily responsibility to implement 24/7

support system including on-site and remote coverage for

Infrastructure systems. Key initiatives include architecture of

Virtualization systems, Consalidation & Virtualization and

Business Partner integration.

. Review project proposals to understand scope definition,

determine project schedule time frame, define work &

resource estimates, define approach for accomplishing

project objectives & deliverables, staffing requirements.

. Technical lead in Collocation data center project which

includes performance testing of production servers and

relocattion of existing data center to new collocation

facility with minimal downtime to the business.

. Team lead for 24/7 managed services agreement.

Responsibilities include scheduling and assistance of

resources to ensure uptime. Team responsibilities include

support of Windows/Linux/ESX systems, SAN/BAN/NAS/Fabric

support and management.

. Implemented an automated server provisioning system

including qualification of ESX/Windows 2003-2008/Red Hat

Linux servers based on HP Rapid Deployment Pack. Using

Qualify once deploy many methodology transitioned

provisioning process to reduce deployment cost, time and

paperwork required for qualification

. Technical lead for internal and external audits for

compliance. Responsibilities include auditing

infrastructure, finding and remediating issues. Worked with

multiple external partners like Deloitte and Touche, Grant

Thornton, KPMG to ensure Japanese Sarbanes Oxley

. Architecture of VMware Infrastructure in Development and

Production environments powered by HP Proliant C series

blades, HP EVA 8100, Clariion CX40 in multiple Data Centers

throughout NJ, NC, NY

. Utilized VMware capacity planner to conduct physical-to-

virtual migration of legacy servers for data center

consolidation project. Project benefits include reduction

in administrative costs, data center requirements, increase

in growth capabilities and agility.

. Conducted disaster recovery projects on cold ( IBM,

Sterling Forest) and hot sites (Releigh, NC) working

together with Business Continuality department to ensure

success of tests.

. Integrated the DNS and AD infrastructures of newly acquired

companies. Planned and implemented migration of systems,

users and resources to ensure successful and rapid closure

of acquasition.

. Implemented, Qualified and Administreted BMC Control-M for

enterprise job scheduling for business critical Data

Warehouse project.

. Designed and implemented Microsoft Server Cluster Services

for high availability of EMC Documentum.

. Team lead for day-to-day administration of US Area Windows

and Linux Servers and infrastructure applications such as

SMB, Print, DHCP, DNS, Antivirus, WINS systems

. Designed and implemented DFS infrastructure for high

availability of File Services including testing and

implementation of data de-duplication technologies.

. Designed and implemented Role based Active Directory

administration. Trained help desk technicians on Active

Directory administration

. Developed scripts for auditing, deployment, migration and

health check of infrastructure services.

. Successfully detected Bruce force attack on the network,

eliminated the warm and provided post incident support and

suggestions for remediation.

. Architecture of ECM Ionix infrastructure for change

management and systems compliance

1/2003-12/2005 Mars Inc., New Jersey

Backup Administrator/Server Infrastructure Engineer: Primary

responsilibilty architecture and development of new generation

Server provisioning system to be used Globally. Key initiatives

include planning and implamantation of Data Center migration

from UK to US, conducting Disaster recovery testing, Tier 3

support of Windows Systems.

. Implemented New Generation Server provisioning system based

on Altiris Deployment Server to be used globally in 5 major

data center and hundereds of site location for rapid

deployment of Windows, ESX and Linux systems

. Planned and implemented new infrastructure to support data

center migration from UK to USA. Infrastructure including

HP P class blade enclosures and EMC Clariion Storage Area

Network. Successfully migrated over systems over-wire and

cold backups.

. Provided Tier 3 support for Tivoli Storage Manager ensuring

successful backup completions and scheduling of business

critical applications such as; SAP, Peoplesoft, Siebel

. Provided Tier 3 support for Windows Systems in running on

various Compaq/HP hardware and applications. Infrastructure

combined include four hundered physical and one hundered

virtual servers.

. Hands on involvement with Windows NT to Active Directory

migration of 17,000 users, over 1,000 systems. Responsible

with testing business critical applications, facilitating

communication between multiple business groups.

. Planned and implemented Patchlink infrastructure and agents

to Linux and Windows systems for centralized patch

management and deployment.

. Assisted with testing, documentation and implementation of

Vmware ESX 2.0 and VMWare GSX systems to support

Virtualization strategy.

. Development of Tivoli Storage Manager client deployment and

update system. Detected servers with no backup strategy and

braught up backup completion rates.

. Monitored and maintained Tivoli Storage Manager servers

running Solaris 8

. Architected Disaster Recovery environment running on

Solaris 8.0, Tivoli Storage Manager, Storagetek ACSLS 6.1

. Provided solutions for improving backup environment based

on compression, data archive, network bandwidth tests

. Initiated hardware changes to the Windows Servers for

maintenance and upgrade purposes

. Racked, built and configured Windows servers running on

Proliant DL and ML series

6/2002-12/2002 Vestel Elektronik Inc, Turkey

Technical Support Specialist: Primary responsilibilty meeting

with business groups to discuss IT systems expectations and

provide solutions. Key initiatives engineering and

administration of Windows NT 4 and Windows Server 2000 systems,

documentation of critical systems lacking documentation.

. Met with key business groups to elaborate Information

Systems requirements and provide recommendations to

problems.

. Engineered and administred Windows Server systems running

on DELL and Compaq systems. Troubleshoot hardware and

software errors to ensure business availability.

. Created, processed, technical and user level documentation

to alloborate knowledge transfer of the environment.

. Conducted end user training for business groups resulting

in reduction of incident tickets and better user

satisfaction with systems and applications.

. Provided day to day support for user accounts, access

rights running on Windows NT Domain.

. Supported e-mail, remote dial-in, Internet/Intranet access

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