Bob Lancaster 330-***-****

Stow, Ohio, ***** ac0hx9@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/in/boblanc

SUMMARY

Experienced information technology professional offering a versatile range of skills in infrastructure, servers and storage.

Server Provisioning/Administration Storage Engineering/Administration

Troubleshooting Networking

Root Cause Analysis Scripting

Operating Systems – VMware ESXi, Windows Server 2008-16, Red Hat Linux, CentOS, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, macOS server.

Software – Red Hat Satellite, Spacewalk, EMC Powerpath, EMC Unisphere, EMC Navisphere, EMC Control Center, 3PAR StorServ Management Console, Hitachi Command Suite 8.x, NetApp OnCommand, Veritas VxDMP and VCS, ServiceNow, HP OpenView, Virtual Wisdom. Hardware – HP DL560/580/Bl660c blade, Sun M9000/T series, IBM rs6000/SP2, HP 9000 series, Hitachi VSP G-series, HP 3PAR 7000, EMC Vmax and VNX, NetApp FAS, Cisco MDS and Brocade DCX series SAN switches.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Allstate, Hudson, OH 2012 - 2016

Personal lines insurance

Service Engineer Senior Consultant II Storage Engineer Design of storage solutions utilizing HP 3PAR, Hitachi VSP and G1000, EMC VMAX SAN arrays and NetApp NAS filers, and Amazon S3 cloud storage for VMware ESXi, Windows Server, Red Hat Linux and Solaris. Translation of project requirements into storage and data protection tasks and documentation for execution by storage administrators, and creation of cost estimates for clients. Research and respond to solution design alternatives, execution, and delivery inquires

Coordinated with application managers and storage lifecycle team to successfully migrate Solaris and Windows servers from HP 3PAR storage arrays to Hitachi VSP arrays.

Improved delivery of time sensitive projects by pre-staging configuration and provisioning of storage, resulting in reduced length of change execution by administrators.

Negotiated outages with application managers in order to successfully migrate storage for several hundred Solaris based Oracle databases to Red Hat Linux physical and VMware.

Worked with data center staff to troubleshoot and correct connectivity issues and resolve hardware failures.

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Jones Day, Cleveland, OH 2001 - 2012

Law Firm

Systems Administrator II

Installation and configuration of Red Hat and Solaris servers in addition to configuration of SAN connectivity for Windows Server 2003/2008 and VMware. Administration of the firm’s storage arrays, EMC VMAX, Celerra and VNX. Provisioning of clustered servers and storage to meet growth requirements. Configuration and upgrades of Cisco MDS switches. Unix/Linux scripting and application of OS patches and updates. Cross-trained on VMware vSphere.

Firm needed to relocate its southern Ohio data center within a limited timeframe. Coordinated the efforts of vendor and firm resources on site to resolve and correct issues, resulting in the successful relocation of the data center over the course of a weekend.

Worked with staff in Brussels, Hong Kong and Dubai to install EMC VNX storage arrays in each regional data center and integrate Red Hat, Solaris and Windows virtual servers into the SAN fabric.

Through proactive patching and effective monitoring was able to attain and keep server availability 99.9% within service level agreements.

Inherited the firm’s private Solaris based FTP server, improved security through penetration testing and hardening of the operating system. Later migrated to Accellion Secure File Sharing platform hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Provided support and training to users as needed.

Fed-Ex Corporate Services, Hudson, OH Senior Systems Analyst 1998 – 2000 Telxon, Akron, OH UNIX Systems Administrator 1998

HomePlace Inc, Valley View, OH UNIX Systems Administrator 1996 - 1998 Bell+Howell PSC, Seven Hills, OH Tech Support Specialist 1992 - 1996 COURSES

PostgreSQL 9.4 Administration 04/2017

linuxacademy.com

Python Master Class 05/2017

udemy.com

EDUCATION

Diploma, ElectronicsTechnology

National Institute of Technology, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Diploma, Environmental Management

Kenmore High School, Akron, Ohio

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