Salem, NY 518-***-**** ac8wb7@r.postjobfree.com / ac8wb7@r.postjobfree.com
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Systems administrator and DBA with many years of experience providing technical solutions through high-quality service and support. I really enjoy this work and the great feeling my team experiences by having a successful project completed. I have learned a lot through my tenure and I want to bring my experience to my next set of systems and learn and teach along the way.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Systems Consultant
Thibeau Services LLC October 2017 – Present
Windows Server and SQL Server installation & troubleshooting
Performance tuning & general technical assistance for internal and customer systems.
Engineered, documented, installed & configured hyper-V system for corporate network
o special attention applied to external access for customer systems testing. SQL performance tweaks.
Installation of ERP solutions. Including Desktop support
CentOS Linux support
Database Administrator / Systems & Storage Engineer
Informz Inc. Saratoga Springs, NY June 2008 – April 2017
Managed Windows 2008/2012/2016 servers running on VMWare and Hyper-V virtual hosts
Managed MSSCCM and MSDPM deployments
Created and deployed new servers as requested by development and Dev Ops teams
Managed multiple SQL Server VLDB systems running SQL Server 2008/2012/2014/2016
desktop and end user support.
Installed, Configured and Administered HPE Store Once storage Solutions, 3PAR Fiber Channel Arrays and StoreVirtual VSA Systems
Performed numerous Windows server and MSSQL database server system upgrades
Migrated cloud based SQL system to a merged VMWare HA System utilizing existing hardware
Migrated SQL Server 2008 mirrored HA solution into a 2008R2 N + N clustered HA solution.
Managed SQL Server storage and backup requirements utilizing storage snapshots, native SQL backups and Veeam back up software across hundreds of virtual servers spread across multiple clusters
Networking Support including Cisco ASA, Citrix NetScaler and HP Switch infrastructure
Performed security audits monthly and implemented server side DDL triggers to protect the database instances
Documentation of current systems using html, MS Visio and onsite help desk software
Performed scheduled maintenance where required and feasible using MSSCCM and WSUS
Scheduled System backups using Veeam and native backup software
TSQL/ PowerShell / bash Scripting of repetitive tasks
Off hours systems patching using MSSCCM and WSUS
Managed HPE c7000 blade systems. Managed multiple virtual storage solutions.
CoLo systems suport including Systems capacity planning
CentOS & Debian Linux installs
Installed and maintained Systems monitoring utilizing MSSCOM and Zabbix
Senior Systems Administrator
Roo Inc Malta, NY July 2007 – January 2008
Planned, organized and deployed in a team environment new Windows 2003R2 Infrastructure with MS ADS structure for a newly created business unit.
Installed IBM FastT200 fiber channel SAN. Planned, installed and deployed multiple RHEL server sites for the purpose of video transfers on the internet.
Utilized iSCSI SAN infrastructure for site storage and backups.
Leveraged NIS and LDAP for local and remote administration of IBM and HP servers.
Worked closely with Network staff to utilize F5 load balancing and Cisco firewalls to leverage apache and jboss server farms for high volume transfers of large video files on the internet along.
Installed and Managed MSSQL 2000 server cluster.
Maintained all DNS administration. Managed MySQL servers in a HA environment using Linux-HA software, IBM GPFS file system and database replication.
Storage Engineer / Database Administrator
WurldMedia Inc. Saratoga Springs NY March 2000 – June 2007
Developed and managed growing infrastructures for three major internet sites while assisting with internal network needs for multiple corporate sites.
Cooperated and assisted multiple engineers, with an emphasis in troubleshooting. Assisted with network design and further site implementations utilizing Linux and Windows based servers connected to iSCSI and HP fiber channel SANS.
Managed Both SQL Server 2000 and MySQL database server clusters in a Highly available server environment.
This also included day-to-day site management of all running sites with emphasis on security threat assessment and response.
Managed iSCSI storage utilizing Equallogic SAN Arrays
Migrated SQL Server cluster between multiple arrays to address performance issues.
Database Support Associate
Lilly Software Associates Hampton, NH June 1995 – March 2000
Phone support for Oracle
SQL Server and SQL Base database systems.
Provided on site analysis of customers database systems and network infrastructure.
Documentation of Customer Database Systems.
EDUCATION:
Southern New Hampshire University Manchester, New Hampshire June 1998
BS Computer Information Systems
McIntosh College Dover, NH January 1995
AA Computer Systems Studies
SKILLS SUMMARY:
SQL Server 2008/2012/2014/2016
Scalable MSSQL HA systems
Windows Server 2008/2012/2016
SQL security best practices
TSQL / Powershell / Bash management scripting
Performance Tuning and query Optimization
Hyper-V, Windows Svr & SQLServer Clustering
Veeam Backup Solutions
SolarWinds DPA & REDGate SQLMonitor
HPE Server and Blade Systems
Large scale VLDB database systems
MSSCCM / MSDPM / MSVMM
Systems Documentation & change mgnt
Nagios & Zabbix SQL Monitoring
SQLServer Performance Troubleshooting
Citrix NetScalar Load Balancers
HPE 3PAR scalable storage
HPE VSA Virtual Storage
VMWare 5.5/6 cluster management
HPE Store Once Backup Systems
Redhat / Cent OS / Debian Linux Systems
SQL DR Operations -Planning and deployment
IBM GPFS installation on RHEL
BCP / database data import experience
Desktop support
COTS Support
CentOS, RedHat and Debian Linux Support
Apache web server configurations