Manager Project

Earl Hartsell

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Summary Earl is a proven administrator with extensive full life-cycle

management for infrastructure solutions including virtualization,

SANs, servers, and data protection. A recognized leader in lowering

IT Infrastructure costs and managing projects for on-time and under

budget deliver of completed package.

Experience

Unix/Linux Provide full time Unix/Linux Build and Administration expertise to

Build State of Georgia contract.

Consultant Build for new servers for Solaris 10, Red Hat Linux 6.5, and AIX 7.1

OS consisting mainly of IBM x3650 and Sun T4-X servers.

HKA/IBM Provide post installation support for Linux, Solaris and AIX in a

671+ server environment

August Perform Patching and Firmware upgrades as needed on all platforms

2013 - Install Linux servers in existing VMware environment

Present Maintain documentation for servers and environment

Provide automation expertise for environment

Managed and patched servers running ldoms (Oracle Virtual Machine

for Sparc)

Senior Wrote suite BigFix/IEM/TEM modules to support update of OEL and

Unix Solaris servers including patching, software updates, and firmware

Administra updates using shell scripts (BASH, and Korn)

tor Provide total system administration and installation for Solaris10

CedarCrest (Sparc & Intel), Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 (RHEL clone),

one Oracle RAC servers and VMware Vsphere 5 and OVM Virtual Machines

Build servers on a regular basis from scratch as well as using

October kickstart

2011 - Automate using Bash scripts, BigFix (TEM) fixlets and Puppet

August manifests

2013 Setup/maintain network resources like FTP/SFTP, NFS, DNS, SMTP,

LDAP, NTP, TFTP, & Samba as well as storage software like ZFS, SVM,

and VxVM

Manage hardware components like Networking and RAID configurations

as well as repair/replace CPU &Memory and RAID controllers

Work with Oracle DBAs to improve databases services and workout

storage issues with ASM

Consult and advise on use of NetBackup to implement improved backup

services

Maintain over 251 existing Oracle/Sun Solaris systems and 417 OEL

Linux servers running on Dell M610/M710/M620 blades as well as

VMware and Oracle Virtual machines

Wrote scripts to utilize live upgrade to patch Solaris servers

online

Provide setup and support of Solaris and OEL servers running as

VMware Virtual machines

Recommend improvements to existing processes and document newly

discovered shortcuts

Managing Unix implementation of Tivoli End-point Manager/Big Fix

solutions for 648+ servers

Maintain existing VCS clusters and install/migrate to new storage as

needed.

Mentor other Unix Admin on best practices

Lead Patched, upgraded, and managed on 100+ Solaris servers

Systems Completed multiple Solaris live upgrade with conversion to ZFS

Analyst Pioneered use of ZFS at this site and setup first production servers

AGL

Resources Installed, managed and upgraded multiple production VxVM servers

Configured and maintain Solaris 10 containers

June 2008 Manage entire NetBackup infrastructure that includes 700 clients

- October Improved NetBackup completion statistics from 96% to 100%

2011 Completed successful DR tests at SunGuard facilities to validate

restore of critical servers including Exchange, File shares, and AD

for Windows environment and Oracle database servers for Unix

Manage support contracts with Symantec, Fujifilm and other IT

vendors

Reviewed and updated processes/documentation to match actual

processes

Recommended improvements to infrastructure that resulted in over

250K year over year savings

Migrated and improved EMC BCVs implementation on multiple mission

critical servers

Work extensively supporting Oracle DBAs on Unix/Linux platforms

including storage allocation and backups

Installed and managed REHL 5.X server as specified, purchased and

installed multiple STK fiber tape libraries.

Installed multiple Brocade DS5100 switches into storage/backup

infrastructure including connectivity and zoning

Redesigned the NetBackup enterprise backup solution to include

deduplication

Upgraded entire enterprise to latest version of NetBackup and

implemented separate backup network for large backup clients.

Configure network services like FTP, NFS, NIS, NTP, TFTP, Samba,

Apache, as well as Solaris SVM, and Sun Cluster

Gathered Storage Baseline Audit of entire enterprise

Act as IT representative for contract negotiations between legal,

management, external vendors, and external leasing agents

Principal Authored shell scripts and C code to automate system functions like

IT Analyst backups, directory cleanup, and virtual machine replication, and

provide proof of concept

Supported Oracle DBA including backup solutions like RMAN and BMC

Solvay SQL-Backtrack.

Pharmaceut Mentored less experienced UNIX administrators in migration, problem

icals remediation, and troubleshooting methodology

Managed highly available (MC/Service Guard) clusters including

September migration of preexisting non-HA applications into Service Guard

2000 - May Negotiated with vendors to lower cost for solutions from EMC, HP,

2008 and Symantec solutions

Managed phased move to third party to support for HPUX system that

reduced overall cost of hardware and software maintenance by 212K

per year

Facilitated vendor relationships that resulted cost savings for EMC

and other vendor's products.

Worked with vendors to provide additional upgrades or bundled

components to "sweeten" deals so that they would be more cost

effective and complete solutions

Acted as IT representative for contract negotiations between legal,

management, external vendors, and external leasing agents

Managed efforts of local outsourced Help Desk and Data Center to

ensure compliance with IT goals and provide better resource

utilization

Purchased and managed distribution of over 500 HP laptops and

desktops in the company

Trained IT personnel at application vendor's site on the completion

of internal IQ/OQ documents

Implemented and Supported Oracle Automatic Storage Manager for Data

Warehouse projects

Recommended and setup Oracle RMAN backups to support multiple

database instances

Installed and managed VMware ESX servers on HP hardware that include

management of the Symantec NetBackup solution for over 122 virtual

machines

Delivered Disaster Recovery Business Impact Analysis utilizing

external and internal resources that was under budget and on

schedule. Managed DR Project and setup multiple DR sites

Managed multiple server/SAN migration projects as well as provided

technical expertise to migrate to EMC Clariion arrays using SANCopy

Managed team to relocate entire Data Center including UNIX, and

Windows servers, SAN Storage, and LAN/ WAN hardware. The Relocation

project and met or exceeded all stated goals. Provided planning

documents in Microsoft Project and Visio

Created validated installation documentation for HPUX (11.X)

operating systems, HPUX OS, and SAN upgrades, Symantec NetBackup

Senior Managed multiple HP-UX Systems including kernel tuning, LVM, glance

Technical performance monitoring, trouble-shooting and software patching and

Analyst new installs

McKesson Creation of Monthly status reports for customers that include

HBOC performance usage statistics, future needs assessment

Managed MC/Service Guard implementations

July 1999

- July

2000

System Administration of SCO, HP, Digital, & other UNIX systems and

Administra provided: backups, disaster recovery planning, maintenance, and

tor upgrades

Knox Worked with LVM, SD-UX, and SAM on regular basis. Designed,

County implemented, and managed disaster recovery for all departmental and

Schools multiple remote site's data

Setup network security system that consisted of a Digital AltaVista

July 1995 Firewall

- June Consulted with other departments on administration of their UNIX

1999 systems on regular basis

Responsible for design and testing of programming tasks in C/C++,

and shell scripts

Education/ University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Bachelor of Arts, 1994

Certificat HP Certified Systems Engineer - HPUX

ion Linux Professional Institute Certified

ITIL Foundations Certified

Honors and InfoWorld's Top 10 Most Innovative IT Projects -Sales Force

Awards Effectiveness Project (2007)

InfoWorld's Top 100 Most Innovative IT Projects -Virtualization Team

(2006)

Solvay Global Pharmaceuticals, Innovation Pioneer Award

-Virtualization Team (2006)

Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Pioneer Award -Server Virtualization Team

(2005)

Solvay America, President's Award (2004)

Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Summit Award (2004)

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