Jose Aguilar

• Installed HPE 3Par, Primera, Nimble, Alletra, MSA, and

Pure Flash arrays.

• Engaged in various projects daily, including training on

latest technologies for storage arrays listed. Brocade FC,

Cisco MDS FC, and Aruba switching work on a

professional services team that specialized in greenfield

and brownfield implementations and upgrades.

• Completed health checks on storage arrays, storage

switches, Veeam backup environments, and Wi-Fi

surveys.

• Installed HPE/DELL Brocade class fabric switches,

configured and upgraded fabric operating system,

configured new zoning, updated existing zoning,

converted existing zones to new fabrics from different

SAN vendors, and instructed clients on best practices

while training on functions after installs.

• Installed HPE Proliant and DELL PowerEdge servers,

configured iLO and iDRAC management, upgraded

firmware, provided specific drivers to client for operating

system, assisted with connecting servers to storage

arrays, configured specific storage patches and

prerequisites.

• Labeled all connections to various pieces of equipment

including storage components/networking switches.

• Documented all settings and provided summary on

configuration for storage arrays on spreadsheets and

Visio diagrams.

• Performed Wi-Fi surveys using Ekahau software and

Sidekick, performed packet captures, relayed survey

information after capture to SME for review.

• Installed Veeam backup infrastructure servers with

Proxy's, WAN Accelerators, Backup Enterprise Manager,

and licensing.

• Configured Veeam connections out to repositories and

cloud repositories and reviewed backup job report

statistics.

• Conducted health checks of existing Veeam backup

environments.

• Advised on best practices with product components of

solutions and guided on how to correct or improve any

deficiencies for best possible outcome.

• Coordinated and participated in support calls with

vendors to meet client goals while assisting and

supervising upgrades to new versions.

RS/600:

• Performed general administrative tasks including troubleshooting backups and restores with MKSYSB and minor TSM/NetBackup functions while performing and advising on verification of MKSYB backups.
• Configured putty connections to hosts and new LUNS on AIX operating systems from IBM FastT SAN and EMC Clariion SAN/HP EVA SAN/HP 3Par SAN. Performed patch maintenance and coordinated hardware replacements and pre-maintenance OS failovers of mirrored disks/SAN disk failovers to Hot Spare.

HP/9000:

• Completed administration of users and passwords, filesystem maintenance, OS upgrades, and critical patches.
• Configured putty connections to consoles and new LUNS on HPUX operating systems.
• Performed general administration tasks including troubleshooting backups and restores with SAM and minor Data Protector functions.

Linux:

• Completed administration of users and passwords, filesystem maintenance, OS upgrades, and critical patches.
• Performed SAN connectivity on IBM SVC/DS4K Class FastT SAN/EMC CX480 Clariion SAN/HP EVA SAN HP 3Par SAN/DELL EqualLogic SAN.

LAN/SAN:

• Performed general administrative tasks on multitude of operating systems while configuring, troubleshooting, and working on various administrative tasks.
• Re-configured RAID arrays, configured protect LUNS, administered multidomain fabric, performed firmware upgrades on fabric switches and associated SAN hardware, prepared hosts with recommended software and firmware, configured clustering capabilities and replication and setup monitoring on alerts, repaired DOA equipment, performed backups and remediation of failed backups, and completed snmp monitoring configuration.

Internal departmental LAN:

• Administrated local and regional networks, implemented and modified dos batch files on servers to automatic functions, performed operating system and application installs, repaired DOA equipment, researched and developed new improvements to environment, proposed and implemented approved changes, remotely administered servers and desktops, and configured users, shares, desktops, and laptops while capturing images.

Internal departmental LAN:

• Administrated local and regional networks, implemented and modified dos batch files, performed operating system installs, repaired DOA equipment, implemented new improvements, remotely administered servers and desktops, configured users, shares, desktops, and laptops while capturing images.
• Performed administrative tasks, configured putty connections to hosts, performed backups and verifications using Veeam/TSM/NetBackup/Storix. Remediation of failed backups and configured new operating systems for RS6K, HP9K, and external client LAN/SAN servers.

• Performed monitoring of multiple operation systems and

troubleshooting workstations and laptops.

• Implemented store DR plan for critical systems via

VMWare Workstation.

• Wrote and updated procedures for VM workstation and

specialized configuration and graceful monthly shutdowns

on AIX systems.

• Performed all responsibilities above as well as external client LAN/SAN services.