Vernon Harris

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North Wales, PA ***54

267-***-**** (Primary)

215-***-**** (Home)

Qualifications Summary

Leverage 20+ years experience including Backup, Storage, Disaster recovery IT infrastructure, network management system operations, service management and disaster recovery in production and development environments. Expertly supported and provided implementation of small, medium and large scale IT projects, including Storage and Backup support and engineering including Netackup V3.4 to 8.1, Commvault V10 thru V12, storage including EMC, Netapp Enigineer and Hitachi. Oracle and SQL Server administration, Cloud based projects, networks and infrastructure from initial planning and development to implementation and enhancements.

Experience: 03/17- 02/20

Sungard Availability Services

401 N. Broad St

Philadelphia, PA

Position: Backup and Storage Engineer/Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities: Design, support and implementation of CommVault V11 and V12. EMC storage including Unity, Xtremio, Isilon X210, H400, H500, running OneFS, VNX and VMAX. NDM storage migration. Linux/Unix systems including RHEL V6 to V8, Solaris 11.4, AIX V7.2, Netapp Storage Engineer storage including FAS9000, AF700, and FAS 8040, Hitachi G800, G400, G1500. Integral part of development environment developing Cloud based products for the company’s public, private and hybrid Cloud offerings and experience integrating AWS cloud solutions. Familiar with load balancing technologies including F5. Expertise in disaster recovery using industry standard products such as Veritas Netbackup, Networker, Veeam Backup and Replication products working in a Dev/Ops environment using Agile development methodologies.

Experience: 02/07-12/16

Ebay/GSI Commerce

935 First Avenue

King of Prussia, PA

Position: Sr. Storage and Backup Engineer

Responsibilities: Provide technical expertise in Backup and SAN Administration. Assist in architecting and implementing data backup solutions company wide.

• Architect, design, implement and document new build outs of CommVault, NetBackup and Veeam, Netapp Engineer to include cost analysis.

• Analyze complex backup and recovery requirement situations and then design, test, and implement a viable solution that aligns to corresponding service level requirements, operational support, and backup and recovery requirements of that solution; this position will identify and align an appropriate solution response to the situation.

• Regulatory requirements awareness and capabilities to implement retention, media handling, encryption, or other policies to meet requirements.

Develop Standard Operating Procedures for new opportunities, technology updates, etc.

• Worked directly with operating system and database administrators, application support and customers to provide updates, information and resolve issues as needed.

• Identify, troubleshoot, and document varied complicated technical issues on multiple platforms and applications. Able to identify situations requiring vendor support staff and work with them effectively.

• Lead/participate in projects that include architecting, testing, and implementing enterprise-scale backup and recovery solutions involving hardware and software from multiple vendors and across multiple fields of expertise (network, O/S, SAN, tape, RAID, application, databases

• Designed, plan, implement, test, and perform the disaster recovery/business continuity of enterprise-level backup and recovery servers, media agents/servers and experience in working with third-party disaster recovery or media vaulting support sites such as Iron Mountain and SunGard.

• Able to analyze and troubleshoot backup and recovery performance issues in various situations.

* Strong expertise with EMC DataDomain Deduplication appliance and various tape library platforms.

Experience: 3/96-02/2007

GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals

630 Park Ave

King of Prussia, PA

Position: Sr. Storage and Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities: Provide technical expertise in Unix systems and SAN Administration implemented Storage Area Network technology based upon EMC Symmetrix, Brocade hardware technologies. Configured and maintained mission-critical NAS environment based upon EMC Celerra technology. Install and maintain Storage Management software, including ESN and ECC. Configure and manage Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM). Maintain Veritas NetBackup installation, consisting of UNIX and Window clients backing up data to 3 locations. Provided support for System Administration staff for fault resolution, performance problems and HA design. Experience with EMC Symmetrix, Brocade, EMC Celerra, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas NetBackup--UNIX--Windows. Oracle Database Administration support in a heterogeneous environment. Operating systems included Solaris 2.x thru Solaris 9, Redhat Linux ES3, HP-UX 9.04 thru 11i, IBM AIX 4.2.x thru 5.x and DEC Alpha TRU64 operating systems. Also administered Windows NT 4.0 Servers and Window 2000 Server. Implemented and supported Compaq StorageWorks and EMC Celerra SAN based storage connected to Brocade Silkworm Fibre Channel Switches, Cisco MDS 95xx fibre channel switch administration and McData Sphereon switches using SanPilot and EFMC san management tools. Completed Oracle Master’s Certification Course for DBA. Duties included initial setup and configuration of above hardware platforms, network integration, performance tuning and monitoring. Installed and configured the following administrative packages: Performed installation and configuration of Veritas Netbackup V3.2, V3.4 and V4.5 including BPVault configuration. Configured STK9710 using DLT4000, DLT7000, SDLT and LTO drives for use withVeritas Netbackup and HP Omniback V2.55. Configured Sybase and Oracle database clients to use Netbackup Database Backup Modules with the Sybase Backup Server interface and Oracle RMAN and EBU backup modules. Also installed and configured the following products: Omniback II, BMC Patrol, HP Openview, HP Operations Center, Sun-Solaris Online Disk Suite, BMC SQL Backtrack and others. Proficient in perl, ksh, csh, and borne shell scripting.

Experience: 11/96-2/97

Merck & Company

West Point, PA

Position: Sr. Unix Systems Administrator (Part Time Consultant)

Responsibilities: Provide system level expertise in Unix system and network administration. Provide system administration support on HP-UX 9.04, 9.05 and 10.x operating systems. Including custom shell scripts for system installation and configuration. Installed, configured and maintained NIS/NFS, TCP/IP. Performance tuning and monitoring. Setup and configured DNS under HP-UX. Also provided help desk assistance. Also provided assistance to the Sybase/Oracle System Administrators under Sybase11.x and Oracle 7.x

Experience: 9/95-3/96

Securities Industries Automation Corp (NYSE) (Consultant for Volt Services)

2 Metrotech Center

Brooklyn, NY

Position: Sr. Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities: Provide system level expertise in Unix system and network administration. Provide system administration support on IBM AIX 3.2.5 and AIX 4.13 and 4.14, Sun Solaris 2.4 and HP-UX 9.04, 9.05 and 10.0 operating systems. Including custom shell scripts for system installation and configuration. Installed, configured and maintained NIS/NFS, TCP/IP. Performance tuning and monitoring. Setup and configured DNS under HP-UX. Also provided help desk assistance. Also provided assistance to the Sybase/Oracle System Administrators under Sybase 4.9.2 and Oracle 7.0

Experience: 5/94-9/95

J.P. Morgan Services (Consultant for Zeitech Inc)

500 Stanton-Christiana Rd

Newark, DE 19713

Position: Sr. Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities: Complete software and hardware setup and configuration of Unix environment. Including operating system installation and configuration. Capacity planning and implementation. Performance tuning and monitoring. Load balancing. Kernel configuration. Operating systems include SunOS 4.1, AIX 3.2.5, HPUX 9.4. Familiar with a variety of modem protocols including Xmodem, Zmodem kermit and others. Perform systems and network administration duties in a heterogeneous Unix/Sybase environment. Instrumental in planning, setup and configuration of disaster recovery systems. Performed web server installation and configuration. Includes third party software test and evaluation, new hardware test and evaluation. Knowledgeable of all components of network security. Evaluates in-house software applications prior to going into production.

installation and configuration, printer setup and administration and performing daily backups. Wrote shell programs to automate routine tasks in C-shell and Bourne Shell.

Education: Degree:

Florida State University BS. Economics

Tallahassee, FL

Ursinus College C-Programming Course

Collegeville, PA

Oracle Master’s DBA Certificate 12/97

Berwyn, PA

Certifications/Vendor Training

Solaris8 Administration 8/2003

Brocade Certified Fabric Professional 5/2006

Netapp Certified Data Administrator (NSO161) 2/2020

Netapp Certified Implentation Engineer (NS0509) 3/2020

Netapp Certified Technology Associate (NSO002) 2/2020

References:

Dave Allen 508-***-****

Elijah Golden 267-***-****

Don Nguyen 713-***-****

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