JEFF JONES

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Seasoned, multi-Certified Professional with experience in Architecture, Data Center Deployments, Production Operations Unix Systems, and related IT activities in a variety of environments, including retail e-Commerce at Walmart.com. As United Airlines’ Senior Enterprise Storage Architect, I produced an Enterprise Storage Strategy to include; current state, 5 year visionary end state, and road maps for multiple disciplines in a Unix Systems – production operations landscape. CERTIFICATIONS

Certificate: VERITAS: VxVM (Storage Foundation), VxFS and VCS (Cluster Server) Certificate: Brocade, Certified Fabric Professional - 2008 Certificate: Integrating and Managing HP BladeSystem in the Enterprise – 2009 Certificate: EMC Control Center, EMC Timefinder

Certificates: Netscape, WebServer, Mail Server, News Server, LDAP Server, Publishing System

(PubSys), Merchant System

Competency: PCI Compliancy (Payment Card Industry) ; SOX Compliancy (Sarbanes Oxley) EDUCATION:

Golden West College: Westminster, California, 1984 Orange Coast College: Costa Mesa, California, 1985 TECHNCAL SKILLS::

Data Center Architect WALMART.com data center build out, SONY playstation data center buildout Operating Systems Oracle Solaris 11, Sun Solaris, RedHat Linux (4, 5, 6, 7), HP-UX, AIX and Windows NT/XP

Scripting bash, csh, ksh, awk, sed

Platform Oracle Solaris T5-2 / T5-4, T5-8 (supercluster) SUN SPARC, Intel, AMD, HP, SGI, IBM Storage/Switches EMC DMX, Symmetix series, Clarion, Netapp Filers HDS-VSP, HDS-USPv, HDS- USP 1100, HDS-9980, HDS-9985,, SUN T3, A5x00, D1000, Brocade, CISCO MDS, Qlogic, McData, ANCOR SAN switches

Tape Libraries StorageTek L8500, StorageTek L700, LTO Drives, DLT Drives, Exabyte Virtualization Solaris 10 and Oracle Solaris 11 zones, zpools and ZFS Software Tools SVM(Solaris volume Manager), VxVm (Veritas Volume Manager), Veritas Netbackup, Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), EMC Recover Point (formerly Kashya), BladeLogic, ProactiveNet, Remedy, EMC Control Center, TimeFinder, Navisphere, NaviAgents, HDS HiCommand, HDS Storage Navigator, IBM TPC, Silk Performer, Load Runner Enterprise Applications ORACLE, Oracle E-business suite. Oracle Agile, Apache, Apache- Tomcat, SunOne Apps

Appliances Ironport MTA’s, Cyclades Terminal Servers, EMC Recover Point (Kashya Data Storage Replication “K-box”)

Networking/Utilities NIS, NFS, Automount, Ethernet, DNS, SAN Troubleshooting snoop, gdb, Pstat, Pfile, truss, CRON Scheduling, and other inherent UNIX utilities, Veritas troubleshooting commands PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

5 Star Consulting LLC. Feb 2015 – Current

Oracle Solaris 11, Sun Solaris, Data Storage, UNIX Systems and VERITAS Architect/Engineer, Data Center Architect

Project 2:

Qualcomm - Principal Unix Solutions Engineer – San Diego, CA

· VERITAS Solutions Engineer for Unix – Solaris and Linux

·Installed and configured 8 two node VERITAS Cluster’s, Containing VERITAS Storage Foundation; VxVM, VxFS and VCS

·Installed the new VERITAS’ InfoScale 7.0 for Sun Solaris and Oracle Solaris 11

·Legacy Unix Infrastructure Operations, Engineering and Support

·Work closely with all stakeholders and business teams adhering to Agile Principals

·Data Migration based on SAN Fabric Zoning in of new SAN Storage Array, VERITAS Volume Manager, Mirror-Break methodologies on Solaris 10 and Solaris 11

·Oracle T5-2, T5-4, and T5-8 (supercluster) configuration

·Oracle Solaris 11 and Solaris 10 experience

·ZFS tuning for performance with Oracle

Project 1:

Exafort ( on assignment at Coherent ) - Sr. Unix Systems Engineer – Santa Clara, CA

·Application installation and troubleshooting for Solaris and RedHat Linux

·Built Oracle SUN T5-2 Servers at it applies to installing the Solaris 11 Operating System, applying packages and patches from an internal Solaris 11 package repository, tuning the kernel, configuring LUNS, carving the zpools and building multiple zones per host.

·Built and Supported a Solaris 11 Package Repository Server

·Directly supported all Unix activities for an Oracle SUN T5-2 Server / Oracle Solaris 11 OS for an Oracle E-Business Suite infrastructure

·Directly supported all Unix activities for an Oracle SUN T5-2 Server / Oracle Solaris 11 OS for the Oracle AGILE infrastructure

·Solaris 11 zones, zpools and ZFS tuning for performance with Oracle

·Began integration of Active Directory into Solaris 11, but then changed to DNS LEFT HAND GROUP Inc. June 2011 – Feb 2015

Owner, Data Storage, UNIX Systems and VERITAS Architect/Engineer, Data Center Architect Project 7:

Dilligent ( on assignment at SanDisk ) - Sr. Unix Systems Eng – Milpitas, CA

·Install RedHat Linux 6.5 and 6.1, Patch servers and configure on Dell M1000 Blade Servers

·Install and configure Symantec (formerly VERITAS) Storage Foundation / High Availability 6.1 on RedHat Linux 6.5 and 6.1, including Oracle failover for a SAP environment.

·Install SUN OBP Firmware and Oracle Solaris 11 for use by Sun’ Volume Manager (SVM) and Sun’ Cluster Server.

·Solaris Containers ( zones ) and ZFS configuration Project 6:

IE4SOLUTIONS ( on assignment at Nike ) - Sr. Unix Systems Eng – Portland, Oregon

·Troubleshooting Apache Web and Apache TOMCAT / mod-JK configurations on Sun Solaris

·Addition of Packages to an existing Jumpstart Server infrastructure

·Work closely with all stakeholders and business teams adhering to Agile Principals

·Deployments of new code into the NIKE production Web Application infrastructure

·Creation of scripts to automate the updating of files for Website automation Project 5:

Unified PORT of San Diego - Unix Systems Engineer / Trainer - San Diego, California

·Audit the Solaris SAP landscapes (22 systems) for consistency and improvements to the Unix hosts. (Not SAP) and fix.

·Participating in change control and team meetings to deploy and upgrade software and hardware, adhering to Agile principals

·Document the changes and incorporate those into the Operational “As-Built” documentation

·Create a complete Unix (Solaris) training plan (soup to nuts)

·The goal of this project is to install Solaris on a test host to the “Port of San Diego” specs and teach a WINDOWS-NT / Network operations team Solaris, adding to their day/day responsibilities

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Project 4:

Sears Holding Corp - Unix Systems Eng / Storage Eng - Chicago, Illinois

·Deployment of VERITAS Operations manager into Test/Dev Unix Systems Landscape

·Administration of 800+ Unix Servers (RedHat Linux) across the Sears business properties

·Sun Solaris (Unix) Server patching and installation of VERITAS software

·Audit of the VERITAS VCS pre-production and Production infrastructure Project 3:

Bridgepoint Education / Asford University - Storage Engineer - San Diego, California

·Lead Engineer/Architect for the Hitachi Storage Array Infrastructure

·Administration of Netapp FAS6200, FAS3200 and Vfiler infrastruction

·Sun Solaris and RedHat Linux (Unix) Server Administration

·Decommission of legacy Netapp hardware

·Administration of Brocade DCX SAN switch

·Evaluation of new hardware for virtualization infrastructure Project 2:

FORD Motor Company - Unix Systems Eng / Storage Eng - Dearborn, Michigan

·Team member supporting 650+ Unix hosts (Solaris and Linux)

·Lead the deployment of EMC Clariion arrays virtualized behind IBM’s San Volume Controller

·RedHat Linux, Oracle deployments

·Unix Systems Host Bus Adapter (HBA) configurations

·Briefly utilized IBM’s TPC application for performance measurement

·Carving LUNs to support virtual server growth

·NetApp Filer setup

·Brocade Switch Zone configuration

Project 1:

Digital Globe - Unix Systems Administrator / Storage Engineer - Longmont, Colorado

·Virtualization of Multiple AMS2500 arrays behind Hitachi VSP

·Administration of Hitachi HNAS Network Attached Storage

·Administration of NetApp Network Attached Storage

·Team member administering 2000+ Utility based Linux hosts. CITRIX ONLINE (Consulting) - Santa Barbara, California Nov. 2010 - Apr. 2011 Storage Engineer

·Lead Engineer for the Hitachi HDS Arrays

·Unix Systems Host Bus Adapter (HBA) configurations

·Configured Dynamic Pools, V-VOLS and LUNS for migration activity to HDS VSP from USP-V

·Responsible for creating Dynamic Pools and carving new V-VOLS and LUN's as required for Citrix XEN deployments.

CYBERSOURCE (Consulting) – Mountain View, California Apr 2010 – Jun. 2010 Sr. Systems Engineer

·Staff augmentation to assist in the deployment of new Sun Solaris servers

·Installed and Supported Veritas 5.x Storage Foundation, including VCS

·Utilized Solaris Jumpstart to install Solaris 10 on new hardware

·Participated in meetings to discuss the use of VMWARE vs Solaris Virtualization

·Participated in discussions regarding BladeLogic, and how to best use its technology

·Cybersource was acquired by VISA and projects and staffing changed SILVER SPRINGS NETWORKS (Consulting) – Redwood City, California Sr. Storage Engineer July 2009 – Feb 2010

·Wrote the Hitachi Array and AMS array infrastructure "current implementation" document, along with all LUN allocations, switch zone maps, host connectivity, array firmware and driver versions (HBA and multipath)

·Allocated storage within the AMS infrastructure for production use.

·Documented the USPv infrastructure and LUN mappings.

·Administration of NetApp storage

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JUNIPER NETWORKS / Taos Consulting – Sunnyvale, California Aug 2008 – Apr 2009 Sr. Enterprise Storage Consultant

·Onsite at Juniper Networks / Storage Architecture Team

·Upgrade 12 production (Solaris/ RedHat 4and 5) VERITAS clusters to 5.0mp3

·Deploy new VERITAS Clusters per project requirements on Unix

·Completed highly visible – 2008 year end VERITAS projects to support critical business needs.

·Patching and upgrading Solaris and RedHat to support the latest versions of VERITAS Storage foundation

(RedHat and Solaris (Unix))

·Deployment of new NetApp storage arrays.

UNITED AIRLINES – Chicago, Illinois

Sr. World-wide Enterprise Storage Architect Nov. 2007 – Nov. 2008

·Architecture role for Production Operations Storage Landscape, including:

·Enterprise Storage Arrays (Hitachi & EMC)

·Enterprise, Director Class, Storage Area Network (Brocade)

·Backup and Recovery (Physical Tape and VTL) (STK SL8500) Utilizing VERITAS NetBackup

·Architecture and Design of the utilization of a StorageTEK SL8500, scaling tape pools, decisions on Tape Area Networks (TAN’s) to be segregated for PCI requirements and also decisions for encryption on the Tape Drive VS. host level encryption

·Disaster Recovery and Business Continuance

·Monitoring and Capacity applications/tools i.e. Tuning Manager

·Research Emerging Technologies

·Data Lifecycle Management: Data Classification & Archiving (researched HCAP and Archivio)

·Full investigation and documentation of current state as it applies to each of the disciplines above, and produced an Enterprise Storage Strategy to include current state, 5yr. visionary end state, and road maps for each.

WALMART.COM – San Francisco, CA / Bentonville, Arkansas Unix Systems Engineer/Senior Storage Apr. 2006 – Sept. 2007

·Walmart.com is one of the most highly transactional retail web infrastructures and payment gateway infrastructures, known to the Web.

·Architecture role for Production Operations, Solaris and Linux OS's and Storage Technology (Sun E25k, Sun E6900, Hitachi USP 1100s, Cisco MDS)

·Administered 1500+ Unix Servers for the front end, middle and backend, of the entire WalMart.com infrastructure

·Managing Hitachi USP 1100’s and 9500 Series offerings

·Responsible for the Payment Gateway Server Environment, including Credit Card processing, Application Uptime, Redundancy and PCI requirements, both Solaris Backend and Linux Frontend Servers

·Engineering and Administration of StorageTEK L700 Tape Array

·Deployment and Administration for Enterprise NetBackup for the production data center

·Deployment to include 2 master servers, 6 media servers and each of the other servers (60+) via the netbackup agent via TCP/IP

·Team member for 24/7 Operation team supporting the www.walmart.com site.

·Build and maintain the Solaris Jumstart Server (SPARC and X.86) for multiple client architectures

·Unix Server Environment is Solaris 10, Solaris 9 and RedHat Linux 4.x

·Server Infrastructure is VERITAS 4.1 VxVM, VxFS and VCS, BladeLogic for Automation

·BladeLogic implementation and scripting for automation of file deployment and OS level file and change management.

·Troubleshooting, production apps, including Apache Tomcat, CRM, financial apps, Oracle 9i/10g,

·Modified DNS records as required for new deployments 5 STAR CONSULTING LLC. – Los Gatos, California Dec. 2002 – Mar. 2006 Owner / Sr. Storage and UNIX Engineer

Projects to: PDF, KASHYA, VERIZON, Sony Playstation, Lightsurf and DSL Designs

·Deploy and Configure NIS Servers running on LINUX

·Build and maintain Solaris Jumstart and Linux Kickstart servers.

·Install and Configure Kashya’ Disaster Recovery and Replication Solutions for customers worldwide.

·Configuration of Brocade Switches for SAN Connectivity to Kashya LUNS, Replication LUNS and SNAPSHOT history Volumes. (now EMC’ Replication Manager)

·Configured SUN, EMC, Clariion, StorageTEK and JBOD storage arrays in SAN DR solutions

·Deploy EMC Clariion, Brocade switches and Dell servers for New SONY Playstation Online Billing System, Linux backend servers running Oracle 10g RAC,

·Administered current install of Enterprise Sun Servers and D1000 Storage

·Administered the installation of VERITAS products on RedHat

·Deploy and Administer Dell Servers running RedHat Linux

·Configure RedHat Servers for connectivity to EMC Clariion via SAN

·VERITAS VxVM, VxFS and VCS Administrator for EMC Storage Environment

·Monitored the health of the Openwave InterMail MTA's and Message Stores

·Messaging Services, Production Operations Engineer for large US Wireline / Wireless provider.

·Configure and Support LSI and StorageTEK Storage Arrays

·Configure and Support Hitachi Thunder 9500 Array

·Disk Storage configuration utilizing Qlogic’ SanBox2 switch

·Mail Server deployment and admin (SuSE Linux, Postfix, Cyrus, BDB, Mysql, OpenSSL, SASL 2) OPENWAVE – Redwood City, California May 2000 - July 2002 Manager, Messaging Performance and Capacity

·Managed the efforts of 8 performance engineers

·Negotiated purchases and leases of hardware and software

·Managed the development release cycle(s) for the performance and capacity benchmark efforts for 9 Messaging Applications across 4 OS platforms (SUN, HP, IBM and Compaq/DEC)

·Openwave developed our own Performance Measuring tool, primarily looking at I/O at the OS and application level

·Executed large scale performance tests for the three tier Unified Messaging DB Application

·Architect and Deployed the SAN and Storage Arrays for performance testing. This included 4 EMC Symetrics 3830’s and one 8830, EMC Clariion, Netapp F840’s and F880’s, and Sun D1000 Disk Storage Arrays

·Designed and deployed the Performance Messaging SAN utilizing Qlogic and Brocade switches

·On-site expert for VERITAS Volume Manager, File System, VCS and First Watch

·Architect, Deployed and Administered the 300+ node performance testing data center. (Sun Enterprise Server E4800’s, Sun E4500’s, 420R’s, 220R’s, Netra T1/X1’s

·Setup Sun E4800 hardware resources for use by Virtual System Domains

·Deploy and Support for the EMC and Sun Storage Arrays (EMC 3830’s and SUN D1000’s)

·Operations Team expert for VERITAS Volume Manager, File System and Fail-Over technology

·24 / 7 Messaging ASP Data Center, Production Operations Team Member (www.onebox.com)

·Remote Network and Systems Infrastructure: TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, NFS, Alteon Load Balancers, Cisco 6509 Switches, Checkpoint Firewall, power management solutions + more for remote data center environments

·Deployed / administered Apache, Oracle, Netscape Calendar App, Software.com’ DB Email App.

·Deployed Openwave’ Unified Messaging products to Fortune 50 Corporations world wide

·Managed the deployment project schedules, customer deliverables and personnel for the Unified Messaging Deployment Team (Team Lead)

VERITAS SOFTWARE – Mountain View, California May 1999 - May 2000 Sr. Systems Engineer

·Support Engineer for Volume Manager, File System, First Watch and Cluster Server

·Production Operation troubleshooting and support for large enterprise multi-node VCS installations

·Replicated customer systems, storage arrays and fail-over scenarios in a lab environment for troubleshooting, problem resolution and bug isolation

·Assembled Servers from Box to Net, including switches, disk storage hardware and software for Highly Available Web and DB Application Solutions testing utilizing VCS Agents NETSCAPE COMMUNICATIONS CORP. – Mountain View, California Technical Support Escalation Engineer 1996 - Jan 1999

·Managed / Escalation liaison for Technical Support Engineer call issues into the software development department

·24/7 Technical Support Engineer/Acct. Mgr. to: NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Gartner Group, CBS Sportsline, LA Times, Sweden Post and Finland Post

·Facilitated customer interaction and prioritization to software development for fatal product issues

·Architect and built the E-Commerce Support Solution Center and served as Lab Manager

·Architect the Netscape software installs and cross platform OS bases for the support labs

·Maintained two Sun E4000’s, two Sun A5000 disk arrays utilizing the Veritas Volume Manager and File System products

·Benchmarked the Netscape Application Server (NAS) E-Commerce product for Netscape and Sun sales efforts utilizing Load Generation tool; Load Runner and watching the I/O at the server level

·Used SILK Performer and Load Runner Load generator applications against NAS to provide Sun hardware system performance statistics utilizing vmstat, sar, iostat, vxstat and top.

·Provided technical data and technical input to sales efforts on Solaris

·Demo Netscape’ E-Commerce products on the Sun platform at customer sites Technical Account Manager - 24/7 Sr. Technical Support Engineer

·Managed technical needs of Netscape’s’ strategic customers as it related to Netscape Server software and Netscape’ E-Commerce data base applications

·Team Lead for Netscape’ E-Commerce database applications technical support group

·Understood the business direction of my customers such that I could be proactive in providing bleeding edge direction and information regarding Netscape technology

·Recognized Netscape sales opportunities within my customer’s organization

·Worked together with the engineering staff for quick resolve of customer issues

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