System Consultant Recovery Manager

Thomas Sydeski

Malvern, Ohio 330-***-**** *******.***@*****.***

SYSTEM ENGINEER

Extensive experience with System Engineering promoting many storage solutions utilizing various operating systems, including both hardware and software defined solutions. Proficient at creating backup solutions and architecting disaster recovery and disaster contingency plans. Effective collaborator, adaptable to geographic locations and supporting multiple sales teams. Competencies include:

Installation and Configuration Project Management Process Improvement Cross-Functional Teams

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Various Operating Systems: RHEL 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, SOLARIS 9, 10, AIX 6.1,7.1,7.2 many Unix skills including shell scripting

Virtualization and Cloud Computing: VMware ESX and ESXi, VMware vRealize Automation Center (vCAC) 7.x, VMware, vRealize Orchestrator 7.x, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, HPE Cloud Volumes, AWS, Microsoft Azure

App servers and SMTP Engines: Exchange Server 2000, 2003, 2007 Sendmail 8.12.11, 8.14.2

Backup Software: Veeam, Commvault, Veritas, HPE Recovery Manager

Volume Management: Solaris Volume Manager, Veritas Volume Manager 3.2 / 4.x / 5.x, Logical Volume Manager, Veritas File System

High Availability: Veritas Cluster Server 4.x, 5, Sun Cluster 3.2, PowerHA, GPFS

Server Management: Sun Management Console, HP Open View, Network Node Manager, HPE Peer Persistence.

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Unix Shell scripting – ksh, sh and csh.

Database Servers: Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g,11g,12c,12.2 on Solaris and AIX and Win NT/2000, MS SQL 7, 2000, 2005 on Win NT/2000/2003, IBM DB2 on AIX

Hardware: SUN SPARC Workstations along with enterprise servers, HPE Servers, StorageTek Tape libraries and tape devices, Disk arrays from various vendors including Hitachi, EMC Clarion, IBM, and HPE. Cisco UCS blade servers and Cisco C series servers. Brocade SAN Switches and associated software.

Networking Protocols: SNMP, SMTP, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, OSPF, BGP, IGRP, EIGRP, PPP, SLIP, UUCP, X.25, LAN, WAN, PCNFS, ARP/RARP, FTP/TFTP, RIP, DHCP, DNS, NIS, NIS+, NFS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

3PAR ( acquired 2010 ) Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2006-2020

Presales Consultant Technology Supporting Ohio and Penn

Provided Pre-sales support to multiple sales teams in multiple locations supporting many different types of customers including Enterprise and Commercial accounts.

Performed corporate training on new products and releases (Train the Trainer).

Represented customers’ interest with HPE products at many different vendors meetings.

Assisted customers in sizing various storage solutions and creating different reports supporting them.

Performed many corporate beta tests on various software and hardware solutions.

Built and configured many successful customer POC configurations and supported them.

Positioning various H/A virtualized solutions.

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ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

StorageTek (acquired 2005 SUN)

System Engineer Supporting Ohio and Penn

Performed Unix shell scripting to customize and meet customer requirements. Introduced “Open Systems” to a MVS Centric sales team. Provided presales support on StorageTek hardware and rebranded EMC Clarion disk products.

MILITARY EXPERIENCE

United States Navy (5 years)

Supported all the hardware for digitally controlled Flight Simulators and associated devices.

EDUCATION TRAINING

Computer Centric Classes, Pensacola Junior College

Programming Training, Pittsburgh Technical College

Electronics Training, Allegheny Technical School

Storage Solution Architect V2 Certification

Brocade Certified Professional Certification

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