ABNER CORDOVA
PROFESIONAL INTEREST
Collaborate in areas related to planning and implementation of IT infrastructure solutions. My experience include areas of project manager, storage system administrator, Unix sysadmin, and some background on networking administration.
ABILITIES
I have ability for planning and design strategies, I’m organized, tenacious, and self-learning. I can easily adapt me to different work groups and collaborate with all kind of persons. I have good mediator skills and open and clearly communication.
OBJECTIVE
Collaborate in a position of leadership in the area of project planning or IT solution architect related to storage SAN/NAS areas that allow me to align the IT strategies to the business objectives.
EXPERIENCE
07/2016–Current Softtek Dallas, TX.
Storage Senior Lead
Lead the storage tower in order to assure the service to the client. Coordinate human resources, assure the SLA accomplishment, generate capacity management plans, SAN performance analysis, SAN management and troubleshooting for devices like HP EVA and 3PAR. Generate documentation for SOPs, Infrastructure Diagrams, KB articles, etc.
02/2014– 07/2016 Dell Home Office, Hermosillo, Sonora.
Storage Sr. Administrator
Storage management and troubleshooting for SAN and NAS storage equipment like EMC CX3-40F, CX4-240, VNXe, VNX, DMX, VMAX, and XtremIO. Also have experience with NETAPP, Equallogic, and Compellent. SAN administration with Brocade and CISCO. Certified on ITIL Foundation and used to work under this framework. Daily activities include storage provisioning and decommissions like masking luns, vluns, cpg s, tpv s, NAS create, aggregates, volumes, shares CIFS & NFS, snapshots, snapmirrors, etc. Generate documentation for SOPs, Infrastructure Diagrams, KB articles, etc. Experience with OS like Solaris, Red Hat Linux, ESX, Citrix, Windows. Monitor storage performance, space usage, and troubleshoot issues.
06/2010– 02/2014 Softtek Aguascalientes, Ags.
Storage Administrator
Implement and administer miscellaneous SAN and NAS storage equipment like HP 3PAR S400, T400 and V400, with EMC CX500, CX3-40F, CX4-240, CTA/ATMOS, and VMAX, with NETAPP V3040, FAS3220, and FAS3420. Design storage solutions, like sizing, groups of disks, type of RAID s, FAST policies, etc. Administer storage provisioning like masking luns, vluns, cpg s, tpv s (Thin Provisioning Volumes), on NAS create, aggregates, volumes, shares CIFS & NFS, snapshots, snapmirrors, etc. Migrate luns assigned to hosts using diverse tools like Veritas Volume Manager, Solaris Volume Manager Metadevices, ZFS, RAW devices, PowerPath Migration Enabler, etc. Experience with OS like Solaris, Red Hat Linux, ESX, Citrix, Windows. Monitor storage performance, space usage, and debug issues. Obtain emcgrabs and Hear Report and apply SAN remediation to meet the Heat Report requirements.
Administer CISCO MDS 9000 switch s for zoning purpose, like creates zones, zone sets, activates interfaces, etc. Monitor switch operation and debug issues. Also knowledge on Brocade SAN switches.
2008– 05/2010 HP Cd. Juarez, Chih.
Infrastructure Project Manager
Project manager related to IT infrastructure (hosting, networking, DB, application, and datacenters) for current or new clients. During the year of 2010 I Lead 2 projects for different clients, one related to implement a Trade and Customs application on a Oracle RAC Cluster. The another project was the relocation of the main Mexico Datacenter of a client where they have hosted critical applications like payroll, customs, manufacturing, etc.. During the years of 2008 and 2009 I lead the implementation of 11 projects for new clients and 6 projects for currents clients. The IT solutions include configurations of clusters with Symantec Veritas HA 5.5, HP Dataguard, Oracle RAC, DRP’s, virtualized environments, etc. The application solutions implemented were Payroll & RH (META4 & LMS), and Trade & Customs (2TS).
Design of IT Solutions including model cost and components, configuration and functionality diagrams.
Research and testing of technologies that support business strategies like cost reduction, delivery quality assurance, and availability of IT environments. (VMware, Oracle RAC, grid computing, blade servers, Solaris 10 x86, Linux, etc.)
Installation, configuration, and testing with servers platform x86 and Solaris 10 for DB purpose using Oracle 10g and 11g. Also I have experience with servers Sun Fire Sparc IIIi, T1 & T2 (v240, v245, T2000 & T5120) for DB purpose using Oracle 10g.
On virtualization I had been working for more than a year with VMware products like Workstation, Server, and ESXi 3.5. I implement more than 20 virtual machines for production and testing environments. Also have experience with Sun VirtualBox.
I have basic experience installing and configuring platform PA-Risk and HP-UX 11.23i. I have basic skills to administer HP-UX, DataGuard, and DataProtector.
I have good experience with Symantec Veritas HA 5.5 for cluster configurations. Integrate new resources to the cluster, maintenance, logs review, create new Veritas file systems (vxfs), etc.
2005–2007 EDS – Delphi Team Field Services Hermosillo, Son.
System Administrator
Supervise and coordinate the installation of IT infrastructure of Delphi Hermosillo plant for the Ford CDXX project.
Support the datacenter of Delphi Hermosillo plant, with 6 servers, 4 communication links, 2 routers, 1 STU, 3 switches. Also assure the backup process, participate in the development of the IT contingency plan.
Support, configure, and training the personal in the application (In Sequence System) to manage the just in time manufacturing process. This application is the core to receive, control the manufacturing process, and shipment delivery for the electronic orders sent by Ford.
Coordinate the execution of the IT contingency plan in there 3 layers (network, hosting and industrial PC’s, in sequence system).
End user support for IT related issues (networking, PC, applications). Also support for the industrial IT equipment like manufacturing PC’s, printers (Zebra & Printronix), PLC’s, etc.
Development of application to monitor the manufacturing process and communicate with the PLC s.
2004–2005 Self Employee Hermosillo, Son.
IT professional integrator
Develop an application for a Pharmaceutical business to support their sales activities. The application was developed with Delphi 7.0 and MYSQL. Also End User support and PC maintenance activities.
Hosting support to GIFFIN local facilities during 6 months.
Networking activities for ATC Corporation, installing a 10 nodes network with DSL Internet access and MS ISA firewall.
Networking activities and End Users support for SIEM.
2002–2003 Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Social para los Trabajadores del Estado de Sonora (ISSSTESON). Hermosillo, Son.
Chief Information Officer
Planning IT strategies to support ISSSTESON health care and social services.
Coordinate IT efforts from the different groups like developers, dba s, hosting, operations, help desk, and networking.
Coordinate the planning and implementation of the new datacenter, included the upgrade of hosting equipment and migration of applications. The new datacenter support the consolidation project of regional operations.
Implement network connectivity between ISSSTESON Headquarters and 3 hospitals and 24 pharmacies in 17 different regional locations.
Migration of 4 applications from Foxpro to Visual Basic and MSSQL server.
Member of the government staff of ISSSTESON.
2001–2001 Only Sonora Hermosillo, Son.
Chief Information Officer
Planning IT strategies to support Only Sonora program to expedite temporary permits to intern of foreign vehicles to Sonora State.
The application to expedite permits must to work 24x7 during all year. It was developed in Delphi language and use MS SQL server. There are 3 foreign offices in Nogales, Naco, and Sonoita within the Sonora State, the permits are expedited in the foreign offices but the database is consolidated at the Hermosillo Headquarters.
Upgrade of network equipment to support data and voice over IP between headquarters and foreign offices.
1997–2001 Comisión Federal de Electricidad Hermosillo, Son.
IT Professional
Develop client server’s applications for the Northwest Regional Submanagement of Administrative area of CFE. The main applications developed was “Evaluation of the Administrative Process”, it was developed in Delphi language with MS SQL server, the database was consolidated in headquarters, and the client application was deployed in 6 foreign plants with 3 users average by plant. Also was developed an application to support the finances services, accountability, human resources, etc.
Web developer for training and course contents to support the Training and development area.
Gain experience using Solaris, SCO, Windows Server NT & 2000, MS SQL server, and Informix.
EDUCATION
2007–2010 Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey – Campus Sonora Norte Hermosillo, Son.
Master Degree in IT Management.
1992–1997 Instituto Tecnológico de Hermosillo Hermosillo, Son.
Bachelor in Systems Engineer.
Participate in national creativity concourse with 2 projects.
NON FORMAL EDUCATION
DELL
ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
Compellent Certified Solution Architect
Softtek
Symmetrix Configuration Management – Online ILT
Rainfinity Global Network File Virtualization Introduction
HP / EDS Trainning on internal process.
Oracle RAC 11g Installation and System Administrator 2009.
Exploring Terminal Services in Windows 2008
Introducing Terminal Services in Windows 2008
CA Unicenter NSM 10.2
Advanced Administering Solaris 10.
Basic Administering Solaris 10.
Basics of Root Cause Analysis: Putting RCA In Practice.
E-Commerce: Introduction.
Executive and Manager MS Project Web Access.
Seeking Digital Business.
Incident Management & Services Levels.
Managing and Troubleshooting Devices, Drivers, Local Security, and User Logon.
Simulating of Dynamic Systems
Microsoft Windows XP Administration Part 4: Remote and Mobile Computing.
Leadership for sustainable develop.
Microsoft Windows XP Administration Part 3: TCP/IP and Remote Support.
Microsoft Windows XP Administration Part 2: Networks and Remote Support.
Microsoft Windows XP Administration Part 1: Installation and Configuration.
Service That Matters: An Introduction to Client Delight.
Leadership development delegation.
EDS ITIL Process Suite (IPS) R5 IT Asset Management Introduction.
EDS ITIL Process Suite (IPS) Overview
Design and Managing a Web Site with Dreamweaver 4.
Getting Started with Java.
CISCO Networking Technologies Introduction.
Basic Networking.
CISCO – Executrain
Configuration of routers CISCO. (2003)
IDG Next Generation Center - Intel
Mission critical course (2003)
Mobility course (2003)
Business value course (2003)
Business intelligence. (2003)
Microsoft - Executrain
Microsoft Official Curriculum course: Programming MS SQL Server 7. (2000)
Microsoft Official Curriculum course: Administering MS SAL Server 7. (2000)
Microsoft Official Curriculum course: Supporting Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Core Technologies. (1999)
Microsoft Official Curriculum course: Administering MS Windows NT 4.0. (1998)
CFE training (1999)
Database design with Informix and Informix On Line
Delphi Client Server 4.0 with Interbase DB.
Borland, San Francisco, CA. (1999)
Borland Advanced Course: Delphi Client / Server 4.0
LANGUAGES
Spanish born natural language, and English 100% reading, 80% writing, and 90% conversation.
INTERESTS
I like to play basketball, sometimes I play my guitar, I love to read about history novel and technical stuff. For last but not least I enjoy to travel with an especial interest for beach or forest.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name: Abner Cordova Suarez
Date of birth: December 24, 1973.
Native City: Hermosillo, Sonora. Mexico
Status: Marriage, with 3 kids.
Current Address: 4701 Charles Place apt. 225. Plano, TX. 75093
Mobile Phone: 214-***-****
Email: **********@*******.***
PHONE 214-***-**** • E-MAIL **********@*******.***