Open To Work
Corey Moran
IT Professional
Silver Springs,FL
Work Preference
Summary
Senior infrastructure engineer with over 20 years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise IT environments across Linux, AIX, Windows, storage, virtualization, cloud, and backup platforms. Specialized in resolving complex technical challenges and leading critical incident response efforts, delivering secure and scalable infrastructure solutions for commercial and government sectors. Expertise includes enterprise Linux and AIX administration, infrastructure architecture, disaster recovery, SAN, virtualization, automation, and Active Directory integration. Proven track record in mentoring teams, enhancing operational efficiency, and guiding organizations through complex infrastructure projects and migrations.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Administrator
ESSENDANT
Deerfield, USA
03.2019 - Current
- One of 4 administrators working on the day to day Administration of over 160 AIX P9, P8 and P7 Virtual LPARS running on over 60 VIO Servers and over 180 Redhat Servers.
- Managed administration for AIX, Pseries LPARS, and VIO Servers, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
- Executed troubleshooting, patching, firmware updates, and microcode management to maintain system integrity.
- Configured Disaster Recovery environment for system resilience.
- Cloned servers for Power path upgrade, repurposed and refreshed hardware, and decommissioned outdated systems to streamline operations.
Senior IT Support Engineer
CDI Technologies
Rockford, USA
06.2016 - 11.2019
- Administered migration of 2500+ disaster recovery servers for the Fannie Mae account.
- Organized, renamed, and re-IP-ed 2500+ multi-platform servers for relocation to new disaster recovery site.
- Server cloning, data replication and backup and recovery are crucial.
- This environment is being repurposed not only for DR but configured for a High Availability solution, Primarily Veritas across the board but PowerHA as well.
- This is a very complex infrastructure which consists of 60% SUSE, 10% RHEL and 30% AIX.
- This includes AIX, VIOS, Solaris, SUSE and RHEL.
- Collaborated with global teams to improve cloud services and optimize infrastructure management.
Senior IT Cloud Engineer
CSC Technologies
Falls Church, USA
03.2013 - 06.2016
- One of 5 worldwide senior level “last in line” infrastructure Engineers.
- Senior Level Support for the Entire Cloud Division.
- I was solely responsible for all UNIX infrastructures for the Metlife account and a disaster recovery specialist.
- Design and Implement UNIX Infrastructure solutions for the CSC Cloud Division.
- Diagnosed and resolved issues in SAN implementation and migrations, enhancing infrastructure reliability.
- Performed general server and network problem determination, and SAN troubleshooting for 3par, EMC, and Netapp, ensuring optimal performance.
- Collaborated with global cloud organization to deliver comprehensive support for diverse cloud solutions.
Certified IT Consultant
CDO Technologies
Waukegan, USA
03.2010 - 03.2013
- Design and Implement IT Infrastructure solutions for the United States Military Processing Command.
- Delivered IT infrastructure technologies to government agencies, enhancing operational capabilities through consulting services.
- Managed enterprise-wide backup and recovery processes across mainframe, Linux, Windows Blade Servers, applications, and AIX.
- Determined TSM problems, implemented SAN solutions, and migrated AIX LPARs.
- Managed inventory of 118 AIX servers to ensure operational readiness.
- I lead a small team teaching them the proper techniques and procedures for a stable, redundant AIX Infrastructure.
- While at CDO, I was able to obtain my Security Clearance.
Certified System Engineer
IBM
Schaumburg, USA
04.2001 - 03.2010
- Administered AIX for seven years, enhancing system reliability and performance.
- I maintained and used troubleshooting skills for Windows, RS6000/P4 and P5 LPARs and all related hardware.
- Monitored system performance daily, implementing corrections to maintain optimal functionality.
- I wrote scripts of automation to detect hardware and software failures.
- This includes automated tape library functions within a TSM environment.
- Coordinated application support, maintenance, and problem determination scheduling to ensure seamless operations.
- My accounts consisted of New York Times, Textron, Bell Helicopter, Cessna Aircraft, Washington Mutual Bank, State of Michigan, Cigna Health Care, and AIG Insurance.
- Each of these clients had completely different infrastructures, and I was able to coordinate change control and account management for each of these clients simultaneously.
- I strived to be 100 percent audit ready and earned a 100 percent success rate for internal and external audits every year I was with IBM.
- My team leadership abilities have made my teams meet and exceed IBM’s customer satisfaction requirements.
- Led global initiatives in information technology and global services.
Education
Associate of Science - Electronic Engineering
DeVry University
Addison, IL06-1995
Skills
- AIX
- POWER
- VIOS
- HACMP
- LINUX
- Ansible
- Satellite
- VMWARE
- VMware vCenter
- Veritas
- Windows
- NT
- SAN
- EMC
- Netapp
- Pure
- Isilon
- TSM
- Commvault
- Netbackup
- Networking
- Disaster Recovery
- SAN implementation
- Server migration
- Disaster recovery
- Data backup
- Infrastructure design
- Technical documentation
- Change management
- Problem solving
- Effective communication
- Attention to detail
- Strategic planning
- Team leadership
- Cloud solutions
- AIX administration
- Network administration
- Server performance optimization
- Flexible schedule
- Data analysis
Timeline
Administrator
ESSENDANT
03.2019 - Current
Senior IT Support Engineer
CDI Technologies
06.2016 - 11.2019
Senior IT Cloud Engineer
CSC Technologies
03.2013 - 06.2016
Certified IT Consultant
CDO Technologies
03.2010 - 03.2013
Certified System Engineer
IBM
04.2001 - 03.2010
Associate of Science - Electronic Engineering
DeVry University