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Jose Luis Alexander

Skills

Data center design and implementation from migration and transformation projects, physical, virtual and converged hybrid landscapes including highly available failover environments. Unix systems administration, support, performance tuning, optimization, OS and application upgrades, including cross platform migration, consolidation and technology refresh. Ability to orchestrate, coordinate, manage and mitigate risk, last minute changes, and STIGS compliance, security and hardening of systems.

Experience

September 2021 – Present N.A.S.A. Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD

System Administrator

Responsible for NASA mission operations and hardware tech refresh, provided presentations to leadership regarding, upgrades,

STIGS compliance, risk mitigation, data storage, consolidation, migration, backup/restore and systems performance. Server

maintenance and failed system(s) restoration. EMC NAS upgrade and data migration. Researched and identified hardware

obsolescence and provided a design, implementation plan, and upgrade path. Worked with various vendors and back line engineer

support for upgrade validation. Completed multiple Linux 7/8 certifications in areas of administration, networking, high

availability, patching and O/S upgrades. Designed a backup/restore solution for legacy *nix systems, from proof of concept

through implementation, consisting of 20 years of historical/archival data from a legacy NAS system. As a team lead, headed up

Windows based server upgrades and a physical lift and shift platform to a remote facility that consisted of upgrades for COTS

applications including, Splunk, BigFix, Tripwire, OpenAudit, Nagios,and patching, for N.O.A.A. and U.S.G.S, federal agencies.

April 2019 – November 2020 J. P. Morgan Chase Tampa, FL

Associate Engineer

Responsible for enterprise wide hardware tech refresh. HP Superdome I & II and Integrity Blade firmware upgrades, server

upgrades, consolidation, and decommissioning. Identifying and resolving single points of failure, application and

hardware configuration issues. SAN migration, EMC to 3Par. Daily system administration tasks, via CLI, iLO, OA, VC, Ignite

DRD, and High Availability Service Guard. 3rd party vendor coordination for hardware faults, failures, upgrades and problem

resolution. Participated in Risk Governance process to provide mitigation for system risks and security. System analysis with

operational sustainability, risk, safety and security.

November 2018 – March 2019 United States Patent and Trademark Office Arlington, VA

Technical Architect

A proof of concept engagement to design, implement and migrate a HPUX 11.0 legacy system running on a PA-RISC platform

to a HP Itanium based platform running HPUX 11v3. The U.S.P.T.O. had experienced a huge financial loss when their

legacy system experienced an extended outage, all patents were entered manually for months on end till system was recovered.

I was hired to mitigate risk and impact due to any further outages, design a migration path for internal proprietary

applications compiled on a PA-RISC platform. Phase I design entailed purchase and acquisition of a HP Itanium

system, bare metal install, and utilization of HP Aries Emulator, to port binaries within a HP Container environment.

Phase II of project: HP Service Guard implementation for HP Container build. Phase III move to production.

September 2016 – August 2018 General Electric Appliances Louisville, KY

Systems Administrator

As a Unix Consultant, my initial role was to assess and document the state of HP and Sun environments at GE appliances.

Once all legacy equipment had completed a thorough audit, including all Service Guard clusters across the HP/Sun

landscape, updates and patches where applied, MC/SG nodes and packages were decommissioned, consolidated and

migrated. Also migrated from EMC storage to HP 3Par. Once audit was complete my role transitioned to a system

administration role, working with Oracle, Centrify AD, Networker, performance tuning, O/S and application upgrades.

March 2014- September 2016 State of New York, Office for Information Technology Services Albany, NY

Unix Consultant

As a Unix Consultant, my primary objective was to support all state agencies. To include administration, upgrades, and consolidation of

HP and Sun systems during a migration project to a newly constructed state of the art centralized data center, purposely built to maintain all state

government agencies. My role included de-installs from multiple sites and reinstalls from lift and shift to logical moves to a new location, including

decommissioning legacy hardware, and/or repurposing existing HP servers ranging from Superdomes 1 & 2, to entry level PA-RISC and Itanium

Blade servers,, providing upgrade solutions, project planning, vendor relations, maintenance, and support of HPUX, Solaris and EMC SAN..

August 2013- February 2014 Ally Bank Inc. Dallas, TX – Detroit, MI

Systems Engineer

Facilitate with data center migration and of assets purchased from U.S. Government buy out of General Motors bankruptcy.

My primary function was focused on data base migrations and upgrades from previously IBM owned and managed assets

from GMAC along with day to day system administration tasks along with configuring and validating backups. Also responsible

for EMC NAS storage allocation and configuration for data storage/migration on both HP Superdome 2 and Sun platforms.

August 2012- December 2012 Johnson & Johnson Corporation Raritan, NJ

Systems Administrator

As a Technical Consultant assisted in a data migration project utilizing Softek TDMF Unix technology on HP-UX versions

11.0, thru 11.31 on PA-RISC and Superdome Itanium platforms in order to move multi TB production and test HP XP SAN

attached servers to EMC DMX storage. I was responsible for the technology refresh of Serviceguard high availability

environments for both RAID and striped configuration.

January 2012-July 2012 Hewlett-Packard Company/FedEx Corporation Pittsburg, PA

Technical Consultant

As a Technical Consultant provided administration support for HP Serviceguard, upgrades from RHEL and HP-UX in

both production and test environments. Activities included the standardization of existing Ignite/UX and Software Distributor

SD-UX configuration for remote operations, the decommissioning and consolidation of legacy systems and patch maintenance.

January 2011-July 2012 Hewlett-Packard Company/Vale S. A. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Technical Consultant

As a Technical Consultant I am responsible for implementation, design, install, upgrades, consolidations and migrations.

My duties include expertise of HP-UX 11.0-11.v31, Solaris9-10, and RHEL 5 on both PA-RISC and Integrity Blade Technology,

Super Dome I & II, virtualization utilizing VSE-OS, and vPars’s primarily for MC/Service Guard, Oracle and SAP environments.

May 2010-December 2011 Freeport McMoran Inc. Phoenix, Arizona

Unix Team Lead

As a Unix team lead I was responsible for day to day systems administration activities, along with defining corporate

computing standards and implementing such across the environment. Additionally responsible for standardizing of SAP and

Oracle installs, virtualization, performance tuning, upgrades and troubleshooting. The projects main focus was building,

installing and support of SAP and Oracle on a HP BL870c Integrity Blades running HP-UX 11.31and Sun Fire/Enterprise

servers running Solaris 10.

August 2007- January 2010 State of Virginia –Virginia Information Technology Agency Multiple Cities in Virginia

Technical Architect

As a Technical Architect assisted various state agencies administer, upgrade, consolidate and migrate legacy systems to a centralized

production location, and also a disaster recovery facility. Duties included de-installation from multiple sites and re-installation to

a centralized location, along with providing upgrades, system administration, project planning, vendor relations, maintenance,

and OS migration for Solaris to HPUX. The project involved builds, configuring and administration of HP, Sun, Fujitsu,

and EMC equipment.

March 2000-July 2007 U.S. Department of Defense Multiple U.S. Military Bases

Technical Architect

As a Technical Architect provided a HP MC/ServiceGuard solution for the Department of Defenses’, Defense Logistic Agency’s,

Business Systems Modernization Project. The project involved HP MC/Service Guard design and implementation of development,

test, and production server environments consisting of HP Superdomes, rp8600’s, rp8400’s, 7410’s and N-class systems

attached to EMC DMX Symmetrix frames, and STK tape silos using Veritas for backups running HP-UX 11.0/11i vPars and nPars.

The HP MC/Service Guard clustered applications consisted of SAP R/3, BMC Patrol, and Control-M. The projects main objective

was to migrate a 20 year old, proprietary application, for multiple D.O.D inventory control points to a highly available

infrastructure utilizing three tier applications.

June 2001-August 2001 Tyco Electronics, Inc. Harrisburg, PA

Technical Architect

As a Technical Architect provided a HP MC/ServiceGuard HA solution for Tyco Electronics, Inc.,

Incorporating HP MC/ServiceGuard, Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit for NFS, Oracle and CA AutoSys.

The implementation consisted of a MC/ServiceGuard Cluster for the AutoSys Server/Client job-scheduling tool along with a

SAP R/3 AutoSys adapter module, in a HP-UX v11.0 production and test environments.

Education

1991–1993 DePaul University Chicago, IL

Masters of Science Computer Science.

1980–1984 DeVry Institute of Technology Chicago, IL

B.S.E.E.T., Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering Technology

Certifications

2021-2023 NASA SATERN Training GSFC, MD

January 2023 NASA Cybersecurity

October 2023 Systems Security Certified Practitioner: Network and Communications Security

December 2022 Elevated Privileges on NASA Information Systems

December 2022 Cisco Jabber 11.8 for Windows: Setting Up the Client

October 2022 Software Defined Networking Fundamentals

September 2022 Cybersecurity and Privacy Awareness Training

March 2022 CompTIA Linux+ 2014 Powered By LPI: LX0-104 Scripting and Administrative Tasks

February 2022 Red Hat Certified System Administrator: Scripting and Scheduling

February 2022 Shell Scripting

February 2022 Red Hat Certified System Administrator: Introduction to Virtualization

February 2022 CompTIA Linux+ 2014 Powered By LPI: LX0-103: Advanced GNU and Unix Commands

January 2022 CompTIA Linux+ 2014 Powered By LPI: LX0-103: GNU and Unix Commands

January 2022 TestPrep LX0-104 CompTIA Linux+ Powered by LPI Exam 2

January 2022 Red Hat Certified System Administrator: SELinux and Troubleshooting

January 2022 CompTIA Linux+ 2014 Powered By LPI: LX0-104 Security, Data, and Accessibility

January 2022 Red Hat Certified System Administrator: Remote Connections and Access

January 2022 Red Hat Certified System Administrator: Processes, Networking, and Logging

January 2022 CompTIA Linux+ 2014 Powered By LPI: LX0-104 Networking Fundamentals

January 2022 TestPrep LX0-103 CompTIA Linux+ Powered by LPI Exam 1

January 2022 Red Hat Certified System Administrator: The Command Line

January 2022 CompTIA Linux+ 2014 Powered By LPI: LX0-103: Installation and Package Management

December 2021 CompTIA Linux+ 2014 Powered By LPI: LX0-104 Essential System Services

December 2021 CompTIA Linux+ 2014 Powered By LPI: LX0-103: Devices and Filesystems

December 2021 Red Hat Certified System Administrator: File Systems and Device Management

December 2021 Red Hat Certified System Administrator: Administration and Permissions

December 2021 CompTIA Linux+ 2014 Powered By LPI: LX0-103: System Architecture

December 2021 Red Hat Certified System Administrator: Boot Process and Installation

December 2021 Red Hat Certified System Administrator: The Environment

November 2021 IT Security For Systems Administrators - Intermediate Level

November 2021 IT Security For Systems Administrators - Beginning Level

October 2021 CompTIA Linux+ 2014 Powered By LPI: LX0-103: System Architecture

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