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Data Center/Systems Engineer @ California Resources Corporation • Responsible for effective design, provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of server compute (Dell/HP), enterprise storage (Netapp/Pure/Tintri), disaster recovery, hardware and software related infrastructure • Providing operational support of Windows Server 2008R2–2016 (including Active Directory), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5-7, VMware vSphere 6.x, and AWS cloud• Supporting data protection...

Data Center/Systems Engineer @ California Resources Corporation • Responsible for effective design, provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of server compute (Dell/HP), enterprise storage (Netapp/Pure/Tintri), disaster recovery, hardware and software related infrastructure • Providing operational support of Windows Server 2008R2–2016 (including Active Directory), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5-7, VMware vSphere 6.x, and AWS cloud• Supporting data protection (Commvault/Cohesity), disaster recovery, and OS patching Greater Los Angeles AreaPrincipal IT Administrator @ ShotSpotter, Inc. • Administer VMWare vSphere infrastructure to deploy and effectively manage high availability server and SAN storage environments in the company office and clocation production data centers. Implement and maintain enterprise data protection and backup strategies. • Plan, deploy, manage, and support of the enterprise IT production and engineering environments. Maintain server patch levels and security across a mixed environment of Linux and Microsoft Windows. Install, manage, and support of application and productivity tools.• Setup and maintain proactive monitoring of company infrastructure as well as deployed customer installations.• Provide documentation of procedures, policies, including knowledge based articles for IT staff and end users.• Projects including: Migrations of workloads to public cloud data centers, vSphere 5.x upgrades, new enterprise storage provisioning and realignments, evaluation/test/deployment of enterprise data protection tools, data center and engineering lab build outs, deployment of OOB management environment. From March 2013 to September 2016 (3 years 7 months) Newark, CASenior System Administrator @ Marfic Technologies • Provided mixed OS system administration for 16 companies over 3 years with an IT managed services company team. Responsibilities included regular office and data center visits to provide computer system and network infrastructure support. • Typical tasks included: collaboration with a remote located support team for task and project completion, ordering and deployment of new computer systems, maintaining network backups, resolving end user support requests, systems troubleshooting and recovery, network systems capacity planning, deployment/maintenance of server virtualization, and working with technology vendors for equipment procurement and product support issues.• Projects included: multiple design and deployments of new VMware virtualization infrastructure to replace legacy data center equipment (including P2V migrations), office moves and infrastructure data center relocation, deployment of new network backup systems, M&A infrastructure transition/handovers.• Participated in collaborative projects with a Bay Area technology VAR partner providing technical sales consultation on VMware Infrastructure and Desktop VDI deployments. Work included demos and presentations to showcase server and desktop virtualization technology solutions. A major project included the redesign and implementation of a Windows Active Directory for a state governmental agency. From November 2009 to February 2013 (3 years 4 months) San Jose areaSenior IT Engineer @ CoWare • Provided routine systems and network storage administration in mixed OS platforms that included: Windows Server, Solaris UNIX, Linux, and VMWare vSphere. Responsible to deliver and maintain all core network services: AD, NIS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, mail, platform collaboration, NFS/CIFS file and printer sharing. Utilization of data protection tools to provide network backups and managed malware prevention.• Provided LAN/WAN network administration at the corporate HQ site and co-location data center site that included: switches and routers, firewalls, SSL VPN, WLAN, and VoIP phone system. Employed various tools for monitoring availability and performance of IT infrastructure and minimize service interruptions. • Maintained engineering development environment including CAD tools/licensing, code management tools, and lab server environments.• Documentation of procedures, policies, including knowledge based articles for IT staff and end users.• Project management and implementation experience included: multiple office and data center site infrastructure build-outs and relocations, tradeshow support, enterprise-wide replacement of office firewall platform, and large scale virtual machine server deployments using VMware ESX/ESXi, replacement of mobile sales demo platforms. From July 2000 to November 2009 (9 years 5 months) San JoseIT Systems Administrator @ Caere Corporation • Administration of Windows network user accounts, file share access privileges, print services and Microsoft Exchange mail accounts.• Assisted network administration team to implement various tasks and projects.• Provided desktop support of Windows and Macintosh systems, including: OS and application installations and upgrades, troubleshooting system problems and failures, hardware upgrades, and printer maintenance.• Responsible for the configuration, ordering, and deployment of new PC systems.• Documentation of procedures, policies, including knowledge based articles for end users. From June 1998 to July 2000 (2 years 2 months) Associate Product Support Engineer @ Caere Corporation • Provided technical product support on multiple OCR products via phone and e-mail. Successfully addressed questions on product usage and resolved problems on supported desktop operating system platforms. • Promoted to product lead for Recognita and Macintosh products with responsibility for resolving escalated product support issues. Conducted training sessions with documentation to other product support staff. • Assisted software engineering and QA groups to test new product and patch releases. From April 1997 to June 1998 (1 year 3 months) Systems Management Analyst @ APL • Participated on a project team to provide system integration and support for an enterprise computer software asset management using Novadigm EDM. Provided system administration and support, including: product client installation and problem resolution on Windows and Macintosh systems, conducting electronic system audits and remote distribution of desktop productivity software, and deployment of product upgrades and patches.• Hardware and software asset management administrator.• Participated on a software evaluation team to determine new standard desktop productivity software applications across company. From September 1995 to April 1997 (1 year 8 months) Oakland, CASenior Systems Engineer @ AmeriHome Mortgage Company, LLC • Setup, maintenance, and administration of Windows 2012/2016 R2 servers and services, along with underlying VMware vSphere 6.x infrastructure. • Deployment and support of AWS cloud hosted infrastructure, including: VPC, EC2 compute, S3/Glacier storage, and Workspaces VDI.• Responsible for production data backup/archives and data replication to remote sites. Project lead on evaluation, selection, and deployment, and support of these data protection tools.• Provide support of enterprise applications and interface with external vendors as necessary for product support and problem resolution.• Develop internal documentation, user manuals, and policy and procedure information for storage/systems/applications architecture.• Team participant in a recently completed production data center redesign and relocation project. From September 2016 to April 2018 (1 year 8 months) Woodland Hills, CA