Engineer System

GRANT LOWE

P. O. Box ******, San Diego, CA, *****

*****@*****.*** 858-***-****

Professional Summary:

Experienced system and storage administrator, with diverse skills in client-

server, heterogeneous, and distributed-processing environments. Seeking

position as storage engineer and/or UNIX system administrator.

Capabilities:

Experienced system and storage administrator, with diverse skills in client-

server, heterogeneous, and distributed-processing environments. Seeking

position as storage engineer and/or UNIX system administrator.

Capabilities:

. Proven responsibility with enterprise systems and storage, such as

Solaris, linux, HP-UX, and Windows computers, and Network Appliance,

Hitachi and EMC disk arrays.

. Successful team-player, in high-energy, detail-oriented, and high-profile

work environments requiring 99.9+% uptime.

. Demonstrated ability in solving complex and detailed problems.

. Expert in managing multiple operating systems in a heterogeneous, storage

area network and network-attached environments.

Technical Summary:

Solaris, SPARC, x86, OpenSolaris, linux, CentOS, HP-UX, SGI, FreeBSD, *BSD,

EMC, HDS, ADIC/Quantum, SAN, storage area network, RAID, disk arrays, LUN,

port zoning and masking, ZFS, ssh, DNS, NIS/YP, NFS, TCP/IP, HTML,

automounter, apache, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/2008, capacity planning,

performance monitoring and tuning, nagios, storage virtualization,

NetBackup, VxFS, VxVM, Legato, Navisphere, PowerPath, StorageTek, sar, sh,

bash, ksh, scp, sftp, ntp, tripwire, nmap, java, samba, data center design

and implementation, sendmail, Network Appliance, SNARE, packet filtering,

nessus, cfengine, virtual machines, VMWare, Nexenta, xen, VMWare, Microsoft

Domain Administrator, trunking, 10 GigE, Infiniband.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Teradata 2013-Present

Contract System Engineer

. Provide support for all generations of Teradata data warehouse hardware

and software from pre-release through end of life.

. Collaborate with design engineers in the introduction of new Teradata

hardware platforms into the Teradata Labs test environment.

. Set-up/installation of new Teradata data warehouse systems.

. Reconfiguration of Teradata data warehouse hardware and software.

. Trouble-shoot/debug issues with Teradata test systems.

. Drive process/efficiency improvements.

. Produce procedural documentation.

Quickplay Media 2013

Contract System and Storage Engineer

. Used knowledge of SAN/NAS design, implementation and administration,

clustering, replication, high availability, and multipathing operations

with focus on network storage appliances to consolidate company SAN and

NAS, protecting the company from downtime and service interruption.

. Worked with VMware vCenter Server and vSphere Client to manage VMware

clients.

. Delivered operational documentation to NOC to offload storage engineers.

. Installed, configured, and maintained up.time software to monitor system

and service performance and operations.

Sony 2012 - 2013

Contract UNIX Administrator

. Work as part of system administration team to build, monitor, and fix as

necessary approximately 3000 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS 5

and 6 servers.

. Install, migrate, and manage virtual machines using Xen.

. Engage system developers to test and deploy new software and mitigate

existing software vulnerabilities.

. Act as liaison between various in-house organizations for hardware and

software needs.

. Serve as engineer for hardware installation and upgrades.

Slacker 2011 - 2012

Linux System Administrator

. Build and install new Red Hat and CentOS computers for internal

engineering personnel and external customers. The installations included

OS customization and applications such as apache, apache-tomcat, and

java.

. Monitor and maintain as necessary, computer, firewall, and load-balancer

performance uptime, performance, and reliability. Used such tools as

nagios, collectd, iptables, cfengine, and other system and network

utilities.

. Perform monthly security scans to ensure systems and services met

security standards.

. Backup computer system and application data using NetBackup.

. Built and deployed virtual servers for LDAP, transcoding, and various

other functionalities.

. Maintain Network Appliance (NetApp) servers for file storage.

Napster 2009 - 2011

System and Storage Engineer

. Perform operating system upgrades, capacity planning, and performance

analysis as it relates to day-to-day operations.

. Design and provision storage area network (SAN) disk using appropriate

RAID configurations on HDS disk arrays.

. Logical Unit Number (LUN) configuration and masking, and SAN hardware

monitoring, ensuring system and data security.

. Work with Oracle and Sybase database administrators to design, build, and

deploy new database servers as well as maintain existing database

infrastructure. Systems configured used Oracle ASM, Veritas Volume

Manager (VxVM), or Oracle ZFS as needed for volume management and system

backup/disaster recovery. Ensure database servers met PCI standards to

protect cardholder data.

. Install and maintain VMWare guests CentOS and Fedora Core linux for

development and QA environments, eliminating the need for 100+ physical

machines and saving the company $5000 a month on utility bills.

. Setup, upgrade, and maintain several hundred Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora

Core linux clusters for wma and mp3 file ingestion, encoding, and

storage. Used kickstart to bring new systems online.

. Monitor systems, storage, and networking with nagios, ensuring system

uptime and integrity.

. Support engineers developing apache and tomcat applications.

Kyocera Wireless 2007 - 2009

Senior System Administrator

. Lead and mentor junior system administrators and operators in UNIX system

operations.

. Work with database administrator and engineering personnel to optimize

Solaris UNIX boxes for optimal performance and security, thereby

maximizing system uptime.

. Install 3rd-party system and service monitoring software to ensure system

and service reliability, and saving several thousand dollars in

commercial software.

. Upgrade and maintain EMC SAN and NetApp network-attached servers (NAS)

appliances running VxVM and Veritas File System (VxFS).

. Advise engineers on commercial and 3rd-party tools for software and

hardware builds for their linux workstations.

. Responsible for performing monthly security audits to meet security

standards according to company and external security guidelines.

UCSD 2007

Programmer Analyst III

. Support mail, database, and UNIX /Windows shared servers.

. Provided backups to faculty, staff, and student computers.

. Maintain ROCKS (CentOS linux) compute clusters, including install new

compute nodes, troubleshoot compute jobs, build clusters, etc., enabling

researchers to do high-performance chemistry and physics computations.

. Perform system security and forensic analysis, from system scanning to

system hardening, minimizing security risks and longer system uptime.

ASEG 2006

Contractor

. Plan, configure, and implement test plans for SAN and NAS appliances.

. Conduct trade studies and do system and network testing for various

Department of Defense (DoD) subcontractors, researching new technologies

for high-performance transactional computers (HPTC).

. Install and tune linux servers for hosting various 3rd-party

applications.

Raytheon 2005 - 2006

Contractor

. Performed security audits of classified and unclassified servers to

ensure system integrity and security and meeting government security

standards.

. Migrated data from older servers, to newer network-attached (NAS)

servers, increasing such metrics as disk space and faster read/write

access.

. Jumpstarted UNIX servers thereby enabling systems to come on-line faster,

more efficiently, and with more accuracy.

. Installed, upgraded, and "locked down" Solaris, Microsoft, and Red Hat

Fedora Core linux computers, including new network drivers, kernel

modifications, etc., to provide system security and integrity.

Verance 2004 - 2006

System Administrator

. Put into place and enabled sendmail on servers to provide system alerts.

. Supported such enterprise applications such as Oracle, mysql, JBoss,

Exchange, and other enterprise software applications.

. Installed, upgraded, and provided backup support as well as fault

isolation and detection of servers.

. Used various 3rd party software for system monitoring, capacity planning,

and other system metrics.

EDS 2003 - 2004

Infrastructure Specialist

. Lead engineer for various UNIX and Windows projects, including system

security, system diagnostics utilities, and tape backups.

. Engineered and supported various SAN, NAS, and JBOD solutions with

various vendor hardware and software, to support 400,000+ users.

. Provided technical support for engineering and operations personnel.

. Supported entire total delivery lifecycle of products, from

conceptualization to finished product.

EDUCATION:

. Bachelor of Arts, Communications/Visual Arts, University of California,

San Diego

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