Jamal Hooks

**** **** **** ***** ·Chicago Il. ***37,

Tel: 773-***-**** · E-mail: addz1t@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

Solaris administrator since working at the Chicago Board of Trade/Chicago Mercantile Exchange in 1997.

Has worked with Solaris versions 2.5 to 11.3 in various large scale environments

Worked with SAN/NAS in a fiber channel network, using Brocade, Hitachi and EMC

Worked with Symantec Netbackup for more than 8 years, from version 3.4 to 6.5.

Earned Oracle Certified Associate for Solaris 11 (March 2016.)

Education

DeVry Institute of Technology

July 1989 – June 1992

Degree of Bachelors of Science in Electronics Engineering Technology (BSEET)

Technical Skills:

Software: Solaris 8/9/10,/11.3 Oracle LDOM v3.3, Veritas Netbackup, Netbackup Vault, Cisco IOS 12.X. Solstice Disk Suite, Data Ontap. Ksh, Perl, Veritas Backup Reporter, EMC Navisphere 6.X, Cisco SAN OS2 .1, ZFS. Oracle Virtualbox, Apple Mac OS X, Red Hat Linux 6/7.

Hardware: Sun Microsystems T3-1, v880 v240, T2000 and other servers. StorageTek L700, L40, L20. Brocade Fiber Switches (3200, 3800, 3900, 12K, DCX,) Hitachi SAN Array, NetApp NAS Device, Cisco Routers(877, 2520,2821,3825) and Switches(2900 and 3560). Lantronix SLC48 Console servers, EMC Clariion CX 300, Cisco MDS 9120.

Networking: DNS, NIS, FTP, SSH, TCP/IP, DHCP

Professional Experience:

TekSystems/United Airlines

March 2016 – Present

System Engineer

Environment: Red Hat Linux, Solaris, Unix, Windows, VM Ware, HP Openview, App Dynamics, Big Panda SiteScope, various hardware and software.

Engineer for the Application Recovery Team, whose purpose is second level support of the multiple hardware and software environments at United Airlines.

Monitoring of IBM MQ, App Dynamics monitor, and HP Openview, and Big Panda.

Fix problems such as connectivity, disk space, process/service management according to ITIL processes.

Escalate issues to other hardware/software groups.

Insight Global/NewYork Stock Exchange

October 2013 – December 2014

Consultant

Environment Red Hat Linux, HP DL360 Servers, HP Openview, Tidal Software

Works on the NYSE/ICE National Market Systems, a trading system that allows multiple participant exchanges to sell common commodities.

Job functions included monitoring of systems and minor Linux systems administration.

Escalation of problems to hardware, network and business groups.

Preparation of Start of Day processes.

US Cellular February 2009 - September 2009

Consultant - Solaris/SAN Administrator

Environment Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Brocade 24K and DCX, EMC Clariion, StorageTek L700 and Quantum iScalar tape libraries, Sun Microsystems Hardware

Contract with U.S. Cellular through Insight Global in the Network Operations Center.

Assisted in the upgrade of an environment of Linux servers.

Installed and configured hardware and software for thirty two servers, such as network, SAN, Netbackup and BIOS upgrades. The installation of these servers was using Kickstart and an in house script handled some of the systems configuration such as network, external SAN drives and installation of drivers for Fiber Channel interface cards.

Provided support for Solaris, Linux and Windows servers and monitoring of Netbackup environment.

Used Symantec’s Backup Reporter to monitor as well as aid in capacity planning.

Worked on a project to migrate SAN fiber cabling from current Brocade switches to newer model DCX switches and to EMC Clariion arrays.

Documented the current SAN from server to switch to storage and created new mapping to add patch panels in the environment to connect cabling to the new switches.

Chicago Board of Trade/Chicago Mercantile Exchange May 2008 - October 2008

Consultant - Solaris/SAN Administrator

Environment: Solaris(UNIX), Sun Microsystems, Hitachi, Brocade, ksh, Perl, Veritas Volume Manager(VxVM).

In order to extend my time at the merged Chicago Board of Trade/ Chicago Mercantile Exchange I was rehired as a Consultant through the MAKE Corporation. I was able to continue my normal responsibilities at the newly formed CME Group.

Included day to day administration of backup servers in the CBOT computer site, management of off-site media using Netbackup

Vault utility to send media to an Iron Mountain data storage facility and transition of information to the new merged company.

Chicago Board of Trade/CME Group October 1997 - March 2008

Solaris Systems Administrator/Storage Administrator

Environment: Solaris(UNIX), Sun Microsystems, Hitachi, Brocade, ksh, Perl, Veritas Volume Manager(VxVM), Netbackup, StorageTek L20, L40, L700.

Responsible for general administration of Solaris software and hardware. Includes work with Sun Ultra 2, Ultra 5, V240, V280R V880, and Sparc 5. Versions of Solaris used in environment started with Solaris 2.5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.

Worked as a Level 1 Administrator of CBOT’s Project A Trading system, a proprietary system running on Sparc 5 workstations using Solaris 2.5. Allow remote administration of client’s workstation such as disk space, fix local printers, and application troubleshooting.

Installed Solaris operating systems, installed or replaced various hardware components, such as HBA's, network cards, and memory.

Monitored performance of the hardware and software such as disk space, disk usage, and network performance. Ran operating system patches as needed.

SAN responsibilities included fiber network zoning of various storage media tape drive, and server end equipment, as well as working with NetApp NAS appliance in a Windows and Solaris environment. Worked with Hitachi storage with a Brocade network.

Installed various fiber channel host bus adapters, troubleshooting fiber wiring.

Netbackup functions consisted of installing backup clients, creating backup servers, maintaining attached tape drive/disk devices, monitoring and troubleshooting backups.

Performed upgrades and patches of Netbackup software.

Helped with Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for our backup and tape media processing. Instigated technical calls for various vendors to troubleshoot problems with software as well as hardware.

Coordinated systems administration of these systems in a remote data center.

Created and maintained Disaster Recovery procedures.

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