HAO NGUYEN
Pearland, Texas
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www.linkedin.com/in/hnguyen911
VMware Admin
Experienced IT professional specialized in enterprise infrastructure, HCI, storage, and various X86 and IBM Power servers. Project manager with proven experience and ability to design, build, and manage large clusters, storage, network infrastructure, and support infrastructure while focusing on efficiency, ease of use, and return on investment. Known as a self -starter with knowledge of new technologies and a passion for working with those in field locations to increase efficiency and productivity. Strong interpersonal, communicative, and organizational skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Hardware: Servers and Workstations: large scale P870/P850/P595/P750/P690/P655/P550, Exadata X2-2, Sun E10/E5500/E4000/E450/E220 and through all current hardware IBM Power, Sparc, and Intel.
SAN Storage Arrays: all EMC XtremIO X-Brick, EMC Isilon H500/A200, NetApp FAS-3240/8040, Symmetrix DMX4, EMC VMAX3, Data Domain DD2500/DD4500, IBM SVC 2145-CG8, IBM DS4400/ESS-800 and Clariion/VNX
SAN Switches: Cisco MDS, Brocade 7500
Direct Attached Storage Arrays: IBM, HP, Sun, Dell, DEC Alpha Server, SGI, Intergraph
Cisco switches: Catalyst 93XX, 65xx, 55xx, 35xx, and 29xx
Intel PC workstations and servers & Macintosh desktops.
Operating Systems: IBM AIX 7.1-3.12, Nutanix Acropolis, VMWare Server/ESX/ESXi/vSphere 3.x-6.x, Windows Server 2000-2019, Linux (Debian/Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSe, Oracle Lunix), Solaris 2.51-10, Cisco IOS & NX-OS
Server software: MSSQL 2000-2016, Superna, Apache, Tomcat, Postfix, Sendmail, DHCP, Bind, OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Samba, NFS, Nagios, MS Clustering Services, Active Directory, IIS, Peoplesoft HRMS. Peoplesoft FMS
Storage software: IBM SVC, Netapp OnCommand Suite, Netapp Data OnTap 7.2.x-9.x, Powerpath, EMC ControlCenter 5.x, EMC Solutions Enabler 6.x, Navisphere/Unisphere 6.24.x, Symmetrix Management Console, Celerra Manager 5.6, Veritas VxVM 3.x-5, Legato Networker 7.2.x-8.x, TSM IBM 5.3.x, Veritas NetBackup
Programming/Scripting: PowerShell, Perl, Bourne, and C shell scripting
Database: Oracle DBA, Sybase
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TRANSOCEAN OFFSHORE DEEPWATER DRILLING – Houston, Texas 2018 – 2020
Senior Tech Specialist, IT Infrastructure
Deployed of 13 Nodes of Nutanix HCI cluster to replacement of HPE 7000 Blade server with EMC XtremIO w/ ESXi, and then migration of the VM from HPE and EMC XtremIO to Nutanix with vSphere 6.7 for both Prod/Dev.
Replaced IBM P6-595, P550, and P740 with IBM P870 and P850 with EMC XtremIO.
Oversaw information technology infrastructure on a global scale, including networking, voice and data communications, engineering, project management, and end-user technical support.
Implemented of two EMC Isilon NAS w/ +200TB each with Superna Eyeglass to replication DR site to enable the failover and failback of the production NAS
Completed the deployment and the migration 12 sites from VMware or vSAN into new Nutanix New Cluster per site
Designed, racked, cables, and implemented a new data center, including DC, IDF, InRow Coolers, and power.
Worked with 3rd Party vendors and internal customers, interfacing with management personnel, to accomplish requested technical tasks
KIRBY CORPORATION – Houston, Texas 2017 – 2018
Enterprise Architecture
Established and maintained relationships with strategic IT vendors. Documented, measured, and improved processes. Monitored the performance of assets and applications. Maintained security and audited enterprise applications, ensuring company passed internal and external audits.
Achieved over $600,000 in annual savings by switching from iridium to VSAT onboard 70 Kirby offshore marine vessels.
Managed three data centers for power and cooling and ran the quarterly generator and battery failover tests.
Performed storage area network switch upgrade at two corporate datacenters. The outage was planned well and was received by the business, as there was no downtime or disruption of service.
Designed new VMware 6.0 environment for production and DR datacenter. Procured hardware and installed ESXi servers backed by a vCenter environment.
Updated production and DR NetApp 7-mode running 8.1RC to 8.1.4P1, also installed flash cache to help with disk contention on the storage area network. Disk workload was consistently over 75% utilization before the flash cache install. After the upgraded and installed hardware, disk utilization went below 30%.
Performed a VMware 5.5 migration to VMware 6.0, the migration consisted of different elements that included storage area network and network.
TRANSOCEAN OFFSHORE DEEPWATER DRILLING – Houston, Texas 1999 – 2017
Senior Tech Specialist, IT Infrastructure
Performed analysis to ensure system compliance with best practices and security guidelines. Planned for growth and capacity utilization. Created and improved processes for operations.
Architected, designed, inventory, and implemented the moving of the Houston Data Center into CyrusOne Data Center w/ in six months:
Inventory all of the servers at the Houston Data Center approx. 350 physical servers and all of the requirements for moving the to Colo in CyrusOne within three day weekend moving.
All of the requirements for green fielding a new data center: Rack, fiber patch panel, PDU, New SAN, etc.
Organized and plan installation and configuration of LPAR.
Engineering, planning, and implementing the transition of SAN storage from Symmetrix DMX4 to VMAX3, from Clariion CX3-80 and IBM ESS-800 to Symmetrix DMX4.
Oversaw VMware vSphere architecture, implementation, and support for the company using best practices for availability, reliability, and performance of computing, network, and storage resources to achieve dense virtualization ratios while maintaining SLAs. Specific tasks include:
Designed, installed, and configured VMware ESX, ESXi, within vSphere 5/5.5, and 6 environments with vCenter management, consolidated backup, DRS, HA, DPM, VMotion, and VMware Data Recovery.
Built, configured, and deployed VMs and templates. Completed physical-to-virtual, virtual-to-virtual and virtual-to-physical migration of Windows NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2012 R2 and Linux servers from VMware and Hyper-V and legacy hardware.
Architected, designed, installed, and implemented EMC XTremIO, EMC Clariion (CX, CX3, and CX4), EMC DMX, and NetApp SAN environments to ensure high availability and acceptable performance characteristics for VMware vSphere and SAN-backed applications.
Gained hands-on experience in NFS, and fiber channel protocols, fiber channel cabling, switching, and zoning.
Developed, tested, and maintained a disaster recovery plan for critical VMs and application data.
Set up a virtualized environment supporting Exchange, SQL, and active directory.
Installed, upgraded, and maintained AIX systems 7.1, 6.1, 5L, 4.3, and 4.1 on P595, P740, P720, P550, P520, P560, P730, and S80.
Orchestrated planning upgrades of EMPAC 8.0 to 8.5 for 40 rigs running AIX and Windows 2000 terminal services.
Oversaw system architecture, platform design, and capacity planning of human resources and financials running PeopleSoft 7.05 to 8.X with Windows 2000 & 2000 Terminal Services, Solaris 8, and AIX 4.3.3 in 2001.
Upgraded Peoplesoft HRM, financials, and EMPAC server from J40 IBM to three IBM S80 within six months.
EDUCATION / CERTIFICATIONS/TRAINING
Associates of Electronic Technology – 1986
Core APM230 Class - 2020
Windows 2019 Training & Azure Admin & Governance Training - 2020
Cisco Storage Design Fundamentals (CSDF) - 2012
Exadata Administration - 2012
Symmetrix Performance Workshop & Multi-Protocol SAN Implementation Workshop – 2011
Symmetrix Configuration Management - 2011
Symmetrix Business Continuity Management - 2010
Implementing Cisco Advanced Storage Networking Solutions 3.0 - 2010
Power Systems for AIX - Virtualization I: Implementing Virtualization - 2010
Configuring, Managing and Maintaining Windows Server 2008 Servers - 2010
Advanced SAN Implementation & Invista Operations and Management - 2009
Implementing Cisco Storage Networking Solutions 3.0 - 2009
Storage Technology Foundations (Info Storage and Mgmt) Class - 2009
Storage Technology Foundations & Host to Storage SAN Implementation - 2009
Accelerated NCDA Boot Camp Data ONTAP 7-Mode & ESXi Sphere 4.1 - 2008
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3.2 Disaster Recovery Manager – 2007
AIX 5L System Administration III: Performance Management - 2004
Red Hat (R) Linux Networking and Security Administration - 2002
Peoplesoft Server Administration and Installation - 2001