Experience

California Department of Transportation

• Civil Engineering
• 700 & Above Employee

• Information Technology Specialist I

  • Jul 2016 - Present

  Administrator supporting local and statewide LINUX Servers. Provide technical consultation support and expertise in administering all functions of hardware and software installed on LINUX platforms. Work with Database Administrators and Application Developers to assist in installations, monitoring and tuning servers. Work with business units to provide technical leadership making IT system virtualization/consolidation recommendations, designs and implements the solutions that align with current standards for LINUX server environments, future state architecture and Caltrans strategic goals. Show less

• Associate Information Systems Analyst

  • Oct 2014 - Jul 2016

  Primary responsibility is the backup and recovery administration of data using Symantec Netbackup, EMC Data Domain, Avamar, Cloud Tiering Appliance and Atmos I am responsible for performing backup and recovery of our servers, the installation and configuration of new hardware. firmware upgrades, patches, maintaining and monitoring our current environment. I am also responsible for solving backup and restore performance problems, capacity planning vital to the operations of caltran



Intel Corporation

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Engineer

  • Jul 2008 - Apr 2014

  Designed, implemented and maintained large storage infrastructures for a variety of corporate projects. Designed the deployment and implementation of CEPH storage for OpenStack capabilities such as Snapshot, Boot from Volume, Live Migrations, and Thin Provisioning. Designed, implemented and maintained server environments for VMWARE and OpenStack for large, medium and small site locations. Designed storage solutions for EMC SAN Storage in an Enterprise Environment. Prepared feasibility study requests, systems requirements, design and test specifications and implementation plans. Evaluated emerging technologies; evaluated current storage infrastructures; and established standards and procedures. Administered storage, backup and recovery infrastructure for large, medium and small site locations. Managed migrations and replication of data between data centers. Managed virtual environments to ensure reliability, high availability and security for Windows, Linux and other VMs. Show less

• Systems Analyst

  • Jan 2006 - Jul 2008

  Oversaw design and maintenance for five customers and Vendor supplied applications within Intel’s Corporate Services group. Responsibilities included 3rd level day-to-day sustaining activities and driving sustaining improvements for the applications owned, and a technical escalation contact for break-fix issues and a technical lead for working projects. Performed upgrades, migrations, patch maintenance and vendor management for the applications owned. Lead technical reviews, created data cleanup processes, performed significant amount of data and user cleanup for the migration project to EOL an old version of Documentum and migrate to a new EMC Documentum – Enterprise Content Management environment. Show less

• IT Support Specialist

  • 2004 - 2006

  Responsibilities included 2nd level support and on-call duties for Intel’s worldwide deployment of CLARiiON and HP SAN frames and Brocade switches. Responsibilities included uptime of storage/frame, day to day support and maintenance, provided scripts and documentation to support partners, delivered storage continuous improvements, storage HW landings and installations, customer engagements of new storage requests, supported IT infrastructure projects such as frame EOL, Server EOL, Data Migrations and new deployments, work with vendors for solution to the storage issues. Show less

• IT Systems Programmer

  • 1995 - 2004

  Responsible for scalability, capacity, system management and customer service for Hosting and Online Solution Technologies environment. Provided engineering design and support services. Coordinated system implementations, provides technical and customer support for solution, and drove asset management and worldwide server implementation to IT standards. Led e-Workforce Operation Support Group Formation to spin-up a new operations team in IT Global Infrastructure to take over 2nd level support for the SharePoint application. Performed application installation installs for SharePoint, Microsoft Clustered Servers, network load balancing across multiple regions. Designed and forecasted disk capacity needs for over 200 supported servers globally. Show less