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System Engineer

Location:
United States
Posted:
April 28, 2014

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VLADIMIR ROSENBAUM

*** ******* ****, ***********, ** 60073

847-***-****

*****.*********@*****.***

US Citizen

PROFILE SUMMARY

Over fifteen years of experience with mission-critical UNIX Syste

Cellular, Tenneco Automotive]

• Proficient in implementation, configuration and administration o

SUN, HP-UX, AIX and Linux Servers

• Five years of experience with Linux Red Hat Enterprise Server

• Five years of experience with VMWare

• Strong experience with Backup, Storage, and SAN

Strong knowledge of backup and recovery concepts with “advan

• Strong experience with Symantec Netbackup, Veritas Volume M

Server, EMC Control Center Suite, MC/Service Guard, IP Multi

• Proven ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and changi

adhere to strict moral values and ethical code

• Possess great leadership skills and excel within highly compet

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

US Cellular, Bensenville Sept 2007 - Present

Systems Engineer

In a ten-person team supporting back-up &

HP-UX, AIX, Linux servers.

TECHNOLOGIES USED

• Symantec Netbackup

• Deduplication

• SL3000 tape library with LTO4,

LTO5, TO6 tape drives

• Linux, HP-UX, AIX SUN Solaris

operating system

• RedHat Satelite Server, kickstart

server (PXE, TFTP)

• HP-UX: rx8640,rp54xx, rp74xx, HP

Blade Center

• IBM: Power 750,770; IBM Blade

Center, x3650 M4

• SUN:T5220, Jumpstart Server

• DS8000, XIV, Clariion storage arrays

• MDS9000 SAN switches

• VMWare

• Citrix

HIGHLIGHTS

• Backup environment optimization led

to $500,000 savings in license and annual

maintenance costs

• Increased backup success rate from

97% to 99.85%

• Improved server configuration until

we reached 100% SOX control pass

• Created shell scripts to alert admins

of server problems, drastically reducing

downtime

• Created a web application that

allowed all parties affected by backup

failures to monitor backup status and

download reports, freeing significant time

for system admins

• Introduced first implementation of

VMWare backup

• Led an IVR project team in charge of

building and deploying 27 SUN Solaris10

servers in six call centers

• Led a team in a CISCO MDS switch

replacement project in three datacenters,

replacing MDS9509 switches with

MDS9513 switches

• Led a project implementing an

Oracle ZFS Storage array

• Led implementation of Netbackup

Analytics which replaced Glass House

Service, saving $300,000/year

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Developed and maintained standards

for HP-UX, SUN, AIX and Linux RedHat

Enterprise Server operating systems

• Performed Logical Volume

Management, security, kernel

configuration, performance and tuning,

debugging of software and hardware

related problems, and various operating

system upgrades

• Administered Symantec Netbackup

environment, overseeing upgrades,

configuration, and troubleshooting from

version 3.4.1 to 7.6.0.1; Implemented

deduplication appliances, and Oracle VTL

library; Moved short term retention

backups from tape to disk; Optimized the

backup environment by consolidating

backup servers and tape libraries

• Supported HP ServiceGuard on HP

rx8640 nPars and VPars

• Supported Veritas Cluster Server for

AIX servers

• Created development environments

allowing for software upgrades to be

tested before being moved to the

production environment

• Documented procedures for server

configuration and tasks, as well as

backup environment using Visio diagrams

• Maintained MDS9509 and MDS9513

SAN switches; Created zones, performed

firmware upgrades, troubleshot fiber

connectivity

• Migrated servers from EMC

Symmetrix to IBM DS8000 and XIV

storage arrays

• Supported database administrators

with all database upgrades

• Worked with external auditors to

ensure all operating systems were SOX

compliant

• Created shell scripts for various

UNIX tasks and for monitoring servers

• Followed proper change

management procedures for any system

downtime

• Configured Netbackup to backup

VMware using snapshot

Tenneco Automotive, Lincolnshire Apr 1997 – Sept 2007

UNIX and Windows System Administrator

TECHNOLOGIES USED

• Symantec Netbackup

• SL3000 tape library with LTO4,

LTO5, TO6 tape drives

• Linux, HP-UX, AIX operating system

• DS8000, XIV, Clariion storage arrays

• MDS900 SAN switches

• VMWare

• Citrix

• Windows 2003 Active Directory

HIGHLIGHTS

• Introduced first VMWare server

• Introduced first Windows 2003 Active

Directory

• Achieved 100% success on Disaster

Recovery test

• Introduced AIX servers

• Successfully introduced disaster

recovery procedure for Citrix, reaching

100% success on disaster recovery

testing.

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Maintained HP-UX servers and

applied HP-UX Operating system

proactive patch bundles and SUSE Linux

Enterprise Server Service Packs on a

yearly basis

• Performed upgrades from HP-UX

11:00 to 11:11 and created weekly

backups using Ignite

• Performed Logical Volume

Management, security management,

kernel configuration, performance tuning,

debugging of software and hardware

related problems

• Provisioned EMC and Clariion disk

• Led the team effort for the periodic

data migration from old EMC to a new

EMC Symmetrix (a technology refresh)

• Implemented AIX servers and

migrated European Datacenter to

Lincolnshire, IL using TSM backup/restore

• Maintained Windows servers,

performing monthly patching and

upgrading Windows 2000 to Windows

2003

• Maintained Citrix environment

• Participated in Proof of Concept for

VMWare Server

• Administered Symantec Netbackup

environment for Unix and windows

Servers

• Documented procedures for both

HP-UX and Windows servers and

participated annually in disaster recovery

testing off-site at IBM

EDUCATION

Electrical Engineering degree 1986

Traian Vuia Polytechnical Institute

Timisoara, Romania

TECHNICAL COURSES

• HP-UX System and Network

Administration I and II

• POSIX Shell Programming

• Hands on with LVM and Mirror disk

HPUX

• SUN Solaris administration I and II

• Windows 2000 Server Administration

• Windows 2003 Active Directory

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Optimizing and Troubleshooting

• Technical writing Skills

• AIX virtualization

• HP-UX Virtualization



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