Engineer

Raymond Fagnon

A creative and logical Systems Engineer with 20+ years of experience in the IT support field. Recognized for top technical support performance in a variety of Linux/Unix operating systems, and hardware components.

Professional Experience

Mindtree / Catalina St. Petersburg, FL Oct 2015 -Preset

Systems Engineer

On site L3 consultant. I was hired to help deploy new server equipment, analyze virtual environment, and help stabilize the virtual and physical footprint.

●Deployed new AIX LPARS with NPIV.

●Setup Linux standard and developed Vcenter template for Linux virtuals.

●Deployed Azure Linux vms from market place that housed web based coupons.

●Provisioned Azure Splunk servers

●Provisioned Ubuntu, Centos mysql servers in Azure.

●Discovery of customers physical and virtual footprint and document apps and purpose of servers.

●Vmware admin for Vsphere 5 and 6.

●Was a team member in migrating applications and databases from AIX to Linux VMs and physicals.

●Added servers to AD via centrify. and setup Users and Groups in AD for access to specific Linux servers.

Atos/Brooksource, Telecommute, July 2013- Oct 2015

Systems Engineer

Work with team of engineers to consolidate and migrate customer data centers into a VCE VBLOCK. Using NetApp, VMWare Vshpere, AIX and Linux.

●Built virtual Oracle RAC clusters in Vsphere 5.x, configuring multiwriter mode in Vmware for the RAC to be able to ASM share physical VMDK disks.

●Used NetApp arrays with NFS and snapmirror to migrate vm’s over a WAN from Iowa customer DC to Texas DC.

●Discovery of customers physical and virtual footprint and picked physical candidates for virtualization

●Built RAC cluster on cisco UCS and troubleshot installation and other RAC related install issues.

●Built virtual RAC and Oracle DB server Templates in vmware for quick deployment

●Provisioned Storage on the IBM Nseries array (rebranded NetApp) running ontap 8.0 7mode.

●Built luns to be used to clone OS for Oracle RAC DB server on UCS blades.

●Built a RedHat satellite server to deploy, monitor, provision, and manage all the RHEL 5.x and 6.x servers/virtuals.

●P2V Windows physical 2008 and 2012 servers.

Amscot Financial Tampa, FL March 2013- July 2013

Systems Engineer

Onsite Senior System Engineer for Amscot Financial Services. Main responsibilities are to maintain the transaction, billing and customer service database, that is running on Vmware, AIX LPARS, and HP/IBM physicals with a GPFS clustered file system.

●Maintained AIX 5.x and 6.x servers that ran the financial processing system.

●Integrated GPFS so the reporting servers could generate real time data.

●Built Windows 2012 server for Vcenter with SSO.

●Managed and maintained vmware 3.5 Vsphere5.x environment.

●Tuned vmware environment for the customer LAMP database, this included adding new blades, performance analysis using Vcenter.

●Installed RHEL 5.X and 6.x configured, tuned and added to reporting cluster via GPFS

●Provisioned Storage on the IBM Nseries array (rebranded NetApp) running ontap 8.0 7mode.

●Worked with developers to fix performance issues related to code.

●Built a RedHat satellite server to deploy, monitor, provision, and manage all the RHEL 5.x and 6.x servers/virtuals.

Health Plan Services September 2012 - March 2013

Senior Systems Engineer

Onsite Senior System Engineer for HealthPlan Services. Main responsibilities are to maintain the LAMP billing and customer service database, that is running on VMware with a GPFS clustered file system.

●Maintained and tuned the GPFS clustered file system.

●Led migration effort to move our customer data from EOL array to the new DS8700 using GPFS clustered file system.

●Tuned vmware environment for the customer LAMP database, this included adding new blades, and performance analysis using Vcenter.

●Installed RHEL 5.X and 6.x. Configured, tuned and added to the LAMP GPFS cluster

●Worked with developers to fix performance issues related to code.

●Built a RedHat satellite server to deploy, monitor, provision, and manage all the RHEL 5.x and 6.x servers/virtuals.

●Built Windows 2012 server to install Vcenter on it with SSO.

Tek Systems/Serve Enterprise ST Pete, FL July 2011 – September 2012

Systems/Storage Support Specialist

Onsite Engineer deploying Oracle RAC11 with Oracle ASM,on Linux and HP GL servers for payment card processing. While working on the Linux team I was teaching myself NetApp OnTap and Cisco MDS fiber switchings and was asked to join/become the storage team. Storage provision dropped from 2 weeks to 4 day turnaround.

●Installed, configured, and provisioned NetApp Filers with OnTap 7.x and 8.x.

●Zoned storage on Cisco MDS Nexus.

●Created Igroups, fc aliases, luns, volumes, nfs exports on NetApp filers

●Installed and configured NetApp 7.x and 8.x.

●Built LUNs on NetApp, added to IGROUPS for ISCSI and FC storage.

●Used RedHat Satellite to build and provision servers via PXE Install.

●Built, configured Vsphere Clusters on UCS and Flex pods.

●Configured NFS storage for VMware datastores on NetApp filers.

●Install, configuration and troubleshooting of Linux servers on HP X86 servers.

●Integrated Linux servers into AD via SAMBA winbind.

●Built Oracle Enterprise Manager server on VMware virtual.

●Setup disks for Oracle ASM and imported into ASM.

●Setup Linux multipathing for Oracle ASM .

●Install and configure OnCommand and InSight balance for array and server monitoring.

●Used InSight Balance and OnCommand for storage trending and capacity planning.

2510 Granada Cir W,

ST Petersburg, FL 33712

Phone: 727-***-****

ac8ntx@r.postjobfree.com

Education

Associates Degree, 1994

Electronic Engineering

DeVry Institute of Tech

Atlanta, GA

Areas of Expertise

Linux

AIX

VMware

NetApp 7 mode

TCP/IP

Vlans

Professional References

Dao Nguyen

Phone: 813-***-****

Mitchell Hanson

Phone: 734-***-****

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