N A Disaster Recovery
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Jose Luis Alexander
Skills
Data center design, implementation, migrations and transformation projects, physical, virtual, converged hybrid landscapes and high availability solutions. Unix system administration, support, performance tuning, optimization
OS and application upgrades, including cross platform migrations, consolidation and tech refreshes. Orchestrate, coordinate, manage and mitigate risk, STIGS compliance. Nessus, system hardening, Windows RedHat, Linux,
MacOS GPO, Kali-Linux, GitHub. Pentesting, Metasploit, OSINT, Wireshark, Nmap, Python, and Powershell.
Experience
September 2021 – Present N.A.S.A. Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD
Principle Engineer
Responsible for NASA mission operations and hardware tech refresh, provided presentations to leadership regarding
upgrade, STIGS compliance, risk mitigation, utilizing ForgeRock AM, IDM, OAUTH2, MFA, SSO, SUD0, storage
consolidation,, migration, backup/restore, performance tuning. and disaster recovery. EMC NAS upgrade and data
migration. Researched and identified hardware obsolescence, provided design, implementation plan, and upgrade path.
Worked with vendors for upgrade validation. Completed multiple Linux 7/8 certifications in areas of administration,
networking, high availability, patching and O/S upgrades. Designed a EMC NAS and Veeam backup/restore solution
for legacy Unix systems, from proof of concept thru implementation, in order to upgrade a legacy NAS system. As team
lead, headed up a project for Windows based server platform upgrades and lift and shift to a remote facility, including
upgrades for COTS applications ForgeRock, Splunk, BigFix, Tripwire, OpenAudit, Nagios, NESSUS, and patching, for
N.A.S.A, N.O.A.A. and U.S.G.S.
April 2019 – November 2020 J. P. Morgan Chase Tampa, FL
Associate Engineer
Responsible for enterprise wide hardware tech refresh of HP Superdomes I & II, Integrity Blade server, and firmware
upgrades, consolidations, and decommissions. Identified and resolved single points of failure, application and hardware
configuration issues. EMC SAN migration to 3Par. System administration, via CLI, iLO, OA, VC, Ignite, DRD, and
High Availability Service Guard. System hardening, SSO, IDS, MFA, Vendor coordination for hardware faults, failures,
upgrades and problem resolution. Participated in bi-annual Risk Governance, STIGS Compliance, risk mitigation, system
security analysis, operational sustainability, coordinated with ISSO for policy compliance for cyber defense and incident
response and Pentesting.
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 systems 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 systems experienced an extended outage, where all patents were entered manually for months on end till systems
were recovered. I was tasked to mitigate risk and impact due to any further outages, design a upgrade path for internal
proprietary applications developed and compiled on a PA-RISC platform. Phase I entailed design, purchase and acquisition
of HP Itanium systems, bare metal installs, and utilization of HP Aries Emulator to port binaries within HP Containers.
Phase II consisted of HP Service Guard implementation for HP Container builds, final Phase III was production cutover.
September 2016 – August 2018 General Electric Appliances Louisville, KY
Systems Administrator
As a Unix Consultant, my 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 system
administration, 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. Also worked on de-installs from multiple sites and reinstalls from lift and shift to logical moves to the 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,, provided upgrades solutions, project planning, vendor relations, maintenance, and support of
HPUX, Solaris and EMC SAN upgrades..
August 2013- February 2014 Ally Bank Inc. Dallas, TX – Detroit, MI
Systems Engineer
Facilitate a data center migration of Ally 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 daily 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 using Softek TDMF Unix technology on HP-UX versions
11.0, thru 11.31 on PA-RISC and Superdome Itanium platforms in order to move SAN production and test HP XP
attached servers to EMC DMX storage. Also responsible for the technology refresh of High Availability Service Guard
clusters 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 SD-UX
configuration for remote operations, patch, maintenance, decommissioning and consolidation of legacy systems..
January 2011-July 2012 Hewlett-Packard Company/Vale S. A. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Technical Consultant
As a Technical Consultant I was responsible for implementation, design, install, upgrades, consolidations and migrations.
Duties included expertise of HP-UX 11.0-11.v31, Solaris9-10, and RHEL 5 on both HP PA-RISC, Integrity Blades,
Superdome I & II, virtualization via VSE-OS, and vPars’s primarily for MC/Service Guard, Oracle and SAP platforms.
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 implementation 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 on 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 facility, along with a DR exercise. Duties included de-installation from multiple sites and re-installation to
a centralized site, along with providing upgrades, system administration, project planning, vendor relations, maintenance,
OS migration from 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, 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 on HPUX 11.0,
11i vPars and nPars. The HP 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 Service Guard, Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit for NFS, Oracle and CA AutoSys.The
Implementation consisted of a Service Guard 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 environment.
Education
1991–1993 DePaul University Chicago, IL
Masters of Science Computer Science
1980-2984 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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