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Summary:

Advanced knwloedgge on SAN architectures and management, business continuity, disaster recovery.

Specialties:

Storage System: EMC Symmetrix and DMX, HDS Lightning 9970, Sun StorEdge D3310 and 3510.
Storage Software: HDS Storage Navigator, HiCommand, Truecopy, HDLM, EMC Control Center (ECC), EMC Powerpath, EMC Solution Enabler (SYMCLI), SYMCLI Configuration manager.
Brocade, McData, EMC Connectrix and Cisco directors.
QLogic, JNI, Emulex HBA' s.
Data replication: EMC SRDF, EMC TimeFinder, Hitachi TrueCopy, Hitachi Shadow Image.
SUN Enterprise Server administration
Veritas Storage Foundation  

In 1995 I got a degree in Computer Sciences in the "I.T.I.S. Sperimentale" (special technical institute) Leopoldo ed Alice Franchetti – Citta' di Castello, with a score of 48 out of 60.

For three years, from 1995 to 1998, I also attended the Bologna University, studying D.A.M.S.

Technical training classes:

Legato Networker on Solaris and module for SAP, Oracle, Exchange October 2001

EMC SAN Fundamentals November 2003

EMC SAN Management November 2003

EMC Symmetrix Dmx Architectural Overview November 2003

EMC Business Continuance with SRDF and TimeFinder November 2003

EMC Connectrix Architecture and Management November 2003

EMC Symmetrix Configure with Solution Enabler and EMC Control Center November 2003

Cisco MDS for Storage Area Network Technical Training April 2004

Veritas Storage Foundation 4.0 for Solaris September 2005

Veritas Cluster Server 4.0 for Solaris October 2005

Working experience:

November 2006 (still in this position) [snip] (Investment banking)  

Role: UNIX and Storage Engineer

Systems/Storage engineer experienced with highly available Solaris server implementations, various SAN storage products (including HDSLighting 9970, Sun StorEdge D3310, D3510, Brocade SilkWorm 4100, SanBox QLogic), Jumpstarts, Zones, Dtrace programming, Hitachi TrueCopy, Hitachi ShadowImage, Hitachi Storage Navigator, SUN Cluster 3.1, Veritas Storage Foundation, SUN V210, V215, V245, V290, V480, V490, V880, V890, SUN Fire T2000, SUN Fire E6900, SUN Fire E15K, SUN Fire E25K.

January 2005 – October 2006 [snip] - Italy (Permanent position)

Role: Unix System Engineer HA specialist

Member of a [snip] team of Unix System Engineer responsible for maintenance of over 700 Solaris systems on a EMC Symmetrix 8830/DMX and HP XP512/1024 based SAN, in 7x24 global operations environment. My day to day activities include:
Veritas Storage Foundation Suite (VxVm, VxFs, VCS, VxDmp) install, configuring, administer and troubleshooting. Solaris OS patching, installing and tuning. Shell script to automated task

November 2003 – December 2004 [snip] Milan - Italy (Contract position)

Role: EMC Associate implementation specialist

As part of the EMC onsite team at [snip], I was specifically involved with DMX2 configuration and setup, for Data Center Consolidation. On a daily basis I provided support for Symmetrix 8830 and DMX arrays, ECC, Solutions Enabler, SRDF, Timefinder, PowerPath, Symconfigure, lun masking, Connectrix Manager, Mcdata and Cisco zoning driver and firmware upgrades.

October 2001 – October 2003 [snip] S.p.A. Milan - Italy (Permanent position)

Role: Unix System Administrator Data Protection Specialist

Implementation of a centralized network backup solution on StorageTek and SUN libraries with Veritas NetBackup and Legato Networker for BPU Group, EDS Italy, H3g Italia S.p.A.

December 1999 – July 2001 [snip] Perugia - Italy (Permanent position)

Role: Linux System Administrator

Performed Linux (RedHat) system administration in a java development environment for educational software. My day to day activities include:

·       Administering www-services running on Apache, web application on Tomcat ,

·       Configuring and administering Windows file-sharing services via Samba on Linux,

·       Administering Sendmail, SSH, DNS, NFS and FTP services.

Skills:

Operating systems: Sun Solaris (from 8 to 10), RedHat Linux (from release 6.2 to Enterprise 4), Microsoft Windows NT/2000/2003/XP. Basic system administration on HP-UX11i and TRU64-UNIX.

Hardware: SUN Microsystem (from mid-range to high-end server). HP-Compaq DL & RX series, IBM X-Series.

Scripting and programming language: Perl, Shell scripting (Bash and Korn shell), Sed, Awk.

Storage Hardware: EMC Symmetrix-DMX, Emc Connectrix, Cisco MDS 9216, HP EVA, HP MSA, Brocade 4100, Mcdata ED64M, Emulex hba, Qlogic hba, Jni hba, Hitachi Lightning 9970.

Storage software: : HDS Storage Navigator, HiCommand, Truecopy/ShadowImage, HDLM, Veritas File System, Veritas Volume Manager, Linux LVM, Solstice Disk Suite, EMC Solution Enabler (SYMCLI), SYMCLI Configuration manager, EMC Timefinder, EMC SRDF, EMC Control Center (ECC), EMC Powerpath, EMC Connectric manager.

Networking software: Bind DNS, Qmail, Sendmail, DHCP, NFS, Samba, NIS, Openldap, SSH, SSL, PGP/GPG.

Cluster software: Veritas Cluster, SUN Cluster..

Backup software: Veritas Netbackup, Legato Networker, HP Omniback/DataProtector.

 
 
 
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