Engineer Sales
Resume:
DERRELL W. PAYNE
Azle, TX ***** ( H: 817-***-**** ( C: 817-***-**** (
*******@*****.***
FANCLOTH, Ft. Worth, TX.
Sales Rep
Cold calling High Schools and
offering product assistance with
their fund raising events. Customer
support rep.
AMBA, Ft. Worth, TX.
2009-2009
Insurance Sales Agent
Cold calling, setting up
appointments. Selling
Long Term Care, Dental & Cancer
policies.
IT SUMMARY
Unix Systems Professional with over 20 years experience in the IT industry
supporting Production level Sun Solaris systems. Expertise with supporting
Unix operating systems and supporting the user
community. Quality focused customer-centered approach. Dedicated, hard-
working employee
with consistent record of success. Core competencies include:
Solutions Oriented Problem Solving Communication / Listening Skills
Process Improvement Cross-Functional Team Building
Project Management Data Gathering and Analysis
Organization Development
KEY TECHNICAL SKILLS
Hardware: SUN, IBM RS/6000, HP, Sequent, MIPS, SGI, Cisco, SUN Disk Arrays,
A1000, D1000,
EMC Clariion 4700 & CX3-40
Software: UNIX System V, Sun Solaris v.8,9,10, Linux v3,4,5, Veritas, VCS,
SVM, NIS, YP, NFS, CA, TCP/IP, XWindows, Oracle, Informix, AIX, HP/UX,
Legato, NetBackup, TSM, Opsware, Java, WebSphere, EMC Powerpath, EMC
Navisphere
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
EDS, Inc., Ft. Worth, TX.
2001-2008
SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER
In 2001 EDS bought the Sabre IT group. I continued to support the
Production environment, under
A signed contract agreement between AA/Sabre and EDS. Proven abilities in
installing and maintaining Production SUN/HP-Solaris/Linux Servers. Our
group was responsible for 500+ Production servers.
The servers were in the American Airlines Data Centers in Fort Worth, Texas
and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I worked closely with the other engineering teams, ie., DB, Application,
Networking and Storage Teams.
I was responsible for building and maintaining 60+ Unix servers: Most were
Sun Solaris v2.6, 8, 9 & 10.
Running on SUN H/W including: e420r's, e450's, e3500's, v240's, v880's and
x4200's. Several were
HP H/W including DL380's and DL585's, running RedHat Linux v3, 4 & 5.
Worked with Backup
& Restore team to install, configure and test end to end successful
backups. Worked with Network
Team to assure secure network connections. Worked with Storage team to
allocate LUNS per
Client requests, including allocation of file systems and raw devices. I
used Veritas Foundation
Suite products to setup & configure root disk mirrors, oracle and
application file systems and
mirrors. I installed the UNIX OS, patches & 3rd party software products,
hardened servers based
On Security standards for Production implementations.
o Design & architect Unix System solutions for Production Databases and
Applications.
o Built 4 HP/DL585's, running Linux RHEL-AS V4 64bit. w/Oracle 10g RAC.
o Built 8 SUN X4200's / Solaris 10 servers with Containers and ZFS.
DERRELL PAYNE
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Sabre Inc., Ft. Worth, TX.
UNIX SYSYEMS ENGINEER
1997-2001
Promoted to Unix Engineering Sabre Group, for Production Systems.
o Setup, Configured new systems based on in-house standards along with
customer requirements.
o Worked closely with the database engineers to modify kernel parms for
best performance and to prepare the layout of all file systems for the
Oracle database.
o Setup NIS maps, sendmail, add user ids, performance tuning, installed
3rd party software, installed
and configured Ethernet network interface boards, setup file
systems & mirrors with Veritas.
o Assisted project management team with design issues, trouble-shoot
technical issues, rotating Oncall pager, install OS patches,
NFS mounts and Automounter.
o Added network default TCP/IP routes and assign IP's, test & prepared all
servers for the Production environment.
o Supported two SUN E-3500's using Cluster v2.2 Sun's High Availability
Failover software.
American Airlines, Ft. Worth, TX. 1990-
1997
UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
Set up Client/Server Systems, added work stations to the network, installed
new software products, trouble-shoot software and hardware problems,
rebuilt kernels, disk space allocation.
o Assisted users with application issues and other UNIX related problems.
o Setup printers, created backups scripts, performed system monitoring,
configured swap space partitions, trouble-shoot memory resources, setup
disk mirroring partitions on Sequent Systems, setup UUCP scripts to
automatically page the oncall support personnel when HIAV system
failover procedures begin, applied bug patches, scheduled system
outages. Rotated oncall pager.
CMI Weigh Equipment Division, Oklahoma City, OK.
1989-1990
Systems Analyst
Wrote, Tested and Debugged C-Language Programs.
o Created Informix databases and customer reports.
o Set up & Installed additional hardware & software for office Personal
Computers.
AT&T Network Systems, Oklahoma City, OK
1984-1989
COMPUTER TECHNICIAN
Created Programs in C-Language, Pascal, Oracle SQL to assist the operating
shop in meeting production schedules.
o Created graphic result charts for management.
o Resolved hardware problems for shop personnel.
o Calculated efficiency and investment results for assigned departments.
o Installed, setup and configured AT&T System V on AT&T 3B2 & 3B5 systems.
Trailmaster Tanks, Ft. Worth, TEXAS
1983-1984
Forklift Operator / Material Handler
Signed for parts when delivered, drove truck to pick up parts,
used forklift to retrieve parts and deliver to each group. Ordered
parts based on inventory needs. Drove owner to bank on Fridays.
SIE GEOSOURCE, Ft. Worth, TEXAS
1981-1983
Forklift Operator / Shipping/Receiving Clerk
Ordered parts based on company request, checked in parts when received,
drove
Truck to pick up parts, used forklift to retrieve parts and deliver to each
group.
ACTIVITIES
AT&T Computer Club,
Treasurer 1988
American Airlines/DFW Soccer Club, Treasurer 1994
Global Volunteer Day Team Lead for 4 years with EDS.
Meals on Wheels volunteer for 2 years.
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