2006  *  August 2009 US Bank/Downey Savings and Loan Newport Beach, CA
Senior SAN Engineer 
Responsibilities include performing storage administration of just over three
hundred terabytes of raw storage that spanned both the primary site and disaster
recovery site using various tools, providing off-hours support when needed,
maintain storage continuity for disaster recovery, Fibre Channel Zoning, LUN
Masking, implementation of new Storage Array  's into the environment, storage
software Firmware upgrades, switch firmware upgrades, maintain D/R replication
process to company D/R site utilizing SRDF/AR solution, provide support to Server
Teams for disaster recovery testing, provide cost estimates for storage utilities
for budget projections, provide storage allocation statistics on a monthly basis,
implementation of Fibre cabling infrastructure utilizing Fibre patch panels.
Worked with Server Teams to ensure OS software and HBA Firmware/Drivers were
compliant with storage vendor  's support matrix. Provided assistance to the
Linux Team in racking/building/configuring Linux servers and ESX servers when
needed. Performed all of these activities while implementing/enforcing storage
vendor best practices, following proper change control protocol, and while
ensuring the availability of the storage infrastructure. 
Expert in EMC Storage, which includes Symmetrix DMX-3, DMX-2 and 8830, CLARiiON
CX300/CX600/CX700/CX3-80/CX4-80, Centera Gen-3 and Gen-4. Expert in IBM Storage,
which includes DS4100, DS4800, FastT500. Expert in SAN Switches, which includes
Cisco DS-C9509 and DS-C9216A, McDATA MD-140M, Brocade 12000/3900/3850/3200.
Expert in EMC Software, which includes Fibre Channel Switch Zoning, Connectrix
Manager, SRDF, TimeFinder, Navisphere, EMC Control Center, Performance Manager
WLA, PowerPath, VisualSRM, StorageScope, PowerLink. Expert in Emulex
HBA/firmware/drivers, QLogic HBA/firmware/drivers support. Expert in IBM  's
Storage Manager and array firmware upgrade process. Working knowledge of EMC NAS
Celerra Manager, iSCSI, NetBackup Client on Linux, CLARiiON Disk Library, STK FC
Tape Library, Onaro SANScreen, Linux LVM, VMWare Infrastructure, VTL, CDL. Expert
proficiency in PC tools as in Microsoft Office, Windows 2000/2003/XP, e-mail, and
the Internet. 

2004  *  2006 Farmers Insurance Group Los Angeles, CA
Systems Programmer, Distributed Storage Administration 
Responsibilities include performing storage administration of just over one
pedabyte of raw storage over ten different sites using various tools, providing
off-hours support when needed, maintain storage continuity for disaster recovery,
Fibre Channel Zoning, LUN Masking, implementation of new Storage Array  's into
the environment, storage software Flarecode or Firmware upgrades, provision
storage when requested, implementation of disaster recovery solution to IBM Hot
site utilizing SRDF/A while maintaining current SRDF/AR solution, provide support
during a disaster recovery test at an IBM Hot site for Mainframe Storage, provide
cost estimates of storage for new projects, provide storage allocation statistics
on a monthly basis, implementation of Fibre cabling infrastructure utilizing
Fibre patch panels, all while implementing and enforcing EMC storage best
practices.

2000  *  2004 Farmers Insurance Group Los Angeles, CA
Systems Programmer, Mainframe Storage Administration 
Responsibilities include performing storage administration on several different
MVS systems for various Mainframe clients. Providing off-hours support when
needed, and maintaining/performing disaster recovery procedures. Duties included
adding/deleting DASD volumes as needed to the MVS system, backing up and
restoring data sets, providing general assistance to developers, maintain DASD
pools. Also configuration of IBM 2105 DASD devices, worked with EMC DASD and IBM
3990 DASD. 

1998  *  2000 Systems Management Specialists Brea, CA
Systems Programmer, Storage Administration
Responsibilities include performing storage administration on several different
MVS systems for various clients such as Boeing Space Division, Denny  's Inc.,
BFGoodrich, Beckman, AVCO Financial, and nine other clients. Providing off-hours
support when needed, and maintaining/performing disaster recovery procedures.
Duties included adding/deleting DASD volumes as needed to the MVS system, backing
up and restoring data sets, providing general assistance to developers, maintain
DASD pools. Also configuration of STC Iceberg DASD devices, worked with EMC DASD
and IBM 3990 DASD. 
 1997  *  1998 Systems Management Specialists Brea, CA
Production Support Supervisor
Responsibilities include overseeing a staff of Production Support
schedulers/analysts in the everyday support of client  's schedules and job flow.
Coordinating groups work schedules, providing annual employee reviews, overseeing
problem resolution, and providing proactive problem elimination through
scheduling when necessary.
1995  *  1997 Systems Management Specialists La Mirada, CA
Production Support Project Lead
A responsibility included conversion of client  's old scheduling packages to
more a modern, automated scheduling package. Coordinated groups work schedule,
provided reviews, approval and scheduling of all change controls. One such
conversion reduced the scheduler  's time of performing daily maintenance from 20
hours per week to one hour per week.
1993  *  1994 Diana Software Los Alamitos, CA
Production Support Scheduler/Analyst
Contracted with Nissan Motors in Torrance to perform scheduling cleanup and
maintenance on CA-7. 
1992  *  1995 Software Maintenance Specialists La Mirada, CA
Production Support Scheduler/Analyst
Responsibilities included scheduling of client  's workflow on scheduling
packages such as JOBTRAC, CA-7, and Zeke.
1988  *  1992 Denny  's, Inc. Irvine, CA
Production Support Scheduler/Analyst
Responsibilities included scheduling of client  's workflow on CA-7 scheduling
package. Providing 24-hour analyst and scheduling support to operations when
needed.

1987  *  1988 Denny  's, Inc. La Mirada, CA
Production Support Analyst
Responsibilities included providing abend support during off-hours. Monitoring
job flow and addressing any problems in the job flow as a first level of support.
Contact programming support when needed and provide analyst assistance to
programmers when needed.

1985  *  1987 Denny  's, Inc. La Mirada, CA
Computer Operator I
1984  *  1985 Gibraltar Savings Burbank, CA
Data Control Clerk