phone: 503.706.4750

email: job@joethefish.com

JACKSON SHEA

Objective

Enterprise-level Storage Architect and Systems Integrator.

Technical Strengths

Sun Enterprise Hardware, Solaris, AIX Micropartions, McData, Brocade, EMC, IBM, NetApps, Veritas, ILM, Virtualization, IP Storage, Automation, Storage Resource Management, Disaster Planning, Distance Replication

Experience

2002-present  The Regence Group (BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon, BCBS of Utah, etc)

Technical Lead in Storage Administration

§         Designed and implemented SAN designs in three states on 14 McData Directors and a dozen edge switches.

§         Designed processes for the management of IBM Shark, DS8300, DS4800, EMC Symmetrix and Clariion storage on Solaris, AIX , and Win2K with Veritas Volume Manager.

§         Performed multiple data migrations and fabric consolidations, developing scripts and documentation to automate the process.

§         Designed and implemented NAS and Virtualization to deliver tiered storage and additional migration options.

2001–2002  Portland State University  Portland, OR

Senior Unix Systems Administrator

§         Performed evaluation of Veritas Cluster vs. Sun Cluster server and architected a deployment plan.

§         Performed network bandwidth evaluation of Sun Rays.

§         Performed evaluation/assessment of Solaris based calendar server solutions.

§         Maintained Solaris based web, mail and file server services for a 20,000+ plus user community.

1999–2001  Enron Broadband Services  Portland, OR [Houston, TX]

Senior Unix Systems Administrator (started as contractor, hired to permanent)

§         Deployed and supported Virtual Private Network remote access solution to entire company of 1500 located globally

§         Deployed and supported Cisco’s fault-tolerant DHCP solution

§         Veritas Volume Manager, File System, Cluster and Netbackup on Solaris and NT

§         Built, tuned and maintained Oracle Sun servers

§         Constructed and maintained Internet infrastructure:  SMTP, DNS, RADIUS and SecurID

§         Supported and designed LAN and WAN/remote access infrastructure

 

1997–1999  Regence BlueCross BlueShied of Oregon  Portland, OR

Senior Unix Systems Administrator

§         Integrated an innovative secure single sign-on solution to existing statewide web online membership information application

§         Instituted centralized, integrated management of over 12 web servers.

 

1996–1997  Oregon Health Sciences University  Portland, OR

Senior System Software Analyst

§         Enhanced reliability of dialup remote access by integrating a fault tolerant managed redundant Netblazer with Telebit modem rack

§         Built, tuned and maintained bastion host

§         Enhanced reliability of campus web server by installing integrated Netscape Enterprise servers

§         Developed and maintained majordomo mailing list infrastructure   


 

Education

Lewis & Clark College  Portland, OR

§         B.S., Philosophy with minors in:  communication, chemistry

Portland State University  Portland, OR

§         Completed coursework towards Computer Science degree, GPA 3.78

Additional Training

§         COMPUTER ACTION TEAM training, Electrical Engineering Department, PSU, Portland, OR, 1994-1995: UNIX training for campus-wide systems administration

§         NETWORLD+INTEROP TRAINING, Las Vegas, March 1995: workshops on WWW security and other recent networking developments

§         SUN: SUN SOLARIS ADMINISTRATION (SA-285), Portland, OR, May 1997

§         SUN: INTRODUCTION TO JAVA PROGRAMMING (SL-230), Portland, OR, June 1997

§         VERITAS:VOLUME MANAGER AND PERFORMANCE TUNING AND RECOVERY Mountain View, CA, March 1998

§         Axent:  Raptor Firewall, Boston, September 1998

§         VERITAS: Vision 2000, Advance Volume Manager, Las Vegas, October 2000

§         VERITAS: Veritas Cluster Server and VCS for UNIX Planning, Trouble-shooting & Agent Development, Mountain View, CA, Mar 2001

§         EMC Enterprise Storage Network Manager:.  Irvine , CA, Feb  2003

§         VERITAS: Vision 2003, Oracle RAC, Las Vegas, May 2003

Certification

§         SNIA Fibre Channel Storage Networking Professional, Apr 2003

 

Professional Development

§         Co-instructed Storage Management Hands-On Lab at Storage Networking World, San Diego 2006, 2007 and Orlando 2006

§         Delivered presentation on Storage Virtualization at IDC Tech Forum, Boston 2006 and the Data Protection and Archiving Forum, New York 2006

§         Cofound Portland Storage Networking Users Group and recipient of SNIA End User Council Volunteer of the Year Award 2006

 

Hobbies

Modern Art, music, philosophy, inline skating, cycling, backgammon, family.

References

Upon Request