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JACKSON SHEA

Objective

Enterprise-level Storage Architect and Systems Integrator.

Technical Strengths

AIX, McData, Brocade, Cisco, Hitachi, EMC, IBM, NetApps, Veritas, ILM, Virtualization, IP Storage, Automation, Storage Resource Management, Disaster Planning, Distance Replication

Experience

2002-2009 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 McData, Cisco and Brocade switches.

         Designed processes for the management of IBM Shark, DS8300, DS4800, EMC Symmetrix and Clariion storage on Solaris, AIX , Win2K, Linux RAC and VMware.

         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


         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

         Secretary, SNIA End User Council 2008-2009

Hobbies

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

References

Upon Request

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