2016_Resume_Don Myers_rev3

Don Myers6732 Indian River DrCitrus Heights, CA 95621(916)717-4566

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I am an experienced System Administrator in small and large enterprise environments and virtualized chassis blade and rack/stack environments.

System Administration including, daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, user management and verifying completion of scheduled jobs.

Virtualization experience with HP-UX Virtual machine, VMware and Microsoft System Center Manager.

I have good skills in Linux/Unix and have experience in Windows Server 2008/2012 deployments, Microsoft System Center with Hyper-V servers and have experience in VMware environments.

I have experience with Lab in Openstack and have worked with an Azure Cloud on Cisco equipment.

I have good project management experience in the purchase and implementation of large capital equipment projects and have experience in Datacenter Analysis and planning and execution of computer projects.

I also have very good skills in the documentation of enterprise commuter systems using Visio and Excel and in the preparation of process documentation.

I am skilled in Unix shell scripting and using PowerShell in Windows environments.

Don Myers6732 Indian River DriveCitrus Heights, CA 95621(916)717-4566Don Myers6732 Indian River DrCitrus Heights, CA(916) 717-4566


Summary: Years of IT experience in Enterprise and data center computing environments.

Fundamental Skill Set: Enterprise level phone support in complex HP-UX, Windows, Linux and VMware environments. Complex It planning and implementation in a Change Control Production Environment Multi-vendor complex problem analysis and resolution Develop and maintain highly technical process documentation and datacenter Visio drawings

and cable matrix spreadsheets. Meet with Business partners to understand their IT environment and Design, Plan and

implement solutions that align to those business needs as well as comply with IT standards Assess current data center environment, capacity planning, recommend and implement IT

standards – including but not limited to configurations, monitoring, capacity planning and availability reporting

General and advanced system administration for Unix, Linux, VMware and Windows. Including daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, user management and verifying completion of scheduled jobs.

Complex Unix Shell and PowerShell Scripting and custom program creation in Excel Virtualization experience with HP-UX, VMware and Microsoft System Center with Hyper-V OpenStack lab experience with Ubuntu Linux. Cisco rack and blade experience with UCS Manager and 6000 Fabric Interconnects. Unix shell and PowerShell scripting Unix and Windows environments Monitoring experience with HP SIM and SolarWinds. HP-UX Virtual Machines and C7000 chassis and Virtual Connect virtualization experience Extensive server provisioning experience using Ignite, Windows sysprep, and other cloning

techniques Process Analysis and Data Center Documentation using Visio. Capacity planning and monitoring and planning experience Excellent organization, planning and time management skills Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills Ability to report on technical information, while tailoring to the audience

OS/Languages/Network knowledge: HP-UX, Red Hat, OEL, Dos, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server

2012, Unix, MS Basic, MS Visual Basic, SQL, dBase, C and C++, Windows Server Administration and Unix System Administration. Networking experience includes installation of Windows, Novell, and 3 Com and IBM networks.

Hewlett-Packard Training: Years of training on a variety of HP-UX related applications and operating systems. HP-UX

knowledge includes Ignite-UX, LVM, Virtual Partitions, Virtual Machines, VSE, Insight Manager System Management Homepage, Backup/Recovery, Disk Array, Fibre Channel, Filesystem, Performance, Printing/DPS, SD-UX, Trusted Systems/Security and Linux.

Software Application knowledge:


Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Freelance, Visio, FrontPage, MS Project, Microsoft FrontPage, AutoCAD 14, communication software and computer diagnostics.

Programming Experience: Experience in the development of custom programs for databases using Access, Paradox, C, and

Visual Basic. Created custom, macro driven spreadsheet applications for Excel

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEContract - Quest ConsultantOngoing projects – January 2014 - October 2015Quest: Is a system integrator that has two data centers here in the Sacramento area

Various data center project involving VMware, Hyper-V, and HPUX for the customer base transitioning to the datacenter.

Data Center rack documentation, Process and procedure documentation, implementation planning, server builds and custom power shell and shell scripts.

Cisco UCS, Hyper-V, VMware, and HPUX. General system administration/server installs, datacenter analysis and developed datacenter

documentation for various customers. I worked on their Azure Cloud, writing Powershell scripts to gather server configurations and

program Cisco hardware and maintained datacenter drawing.

Contract - Quest Consultant in CDCRRancho Cordova, CA June 2011 – November 2014Department of Corrections

General system administration with HP-UX and Linux, server builds, system documentation, how-to documentation.

Planning and implementation of firmware updates for servers and C7000 Chassis in a production environment, including naming standards and normalization.

Assessed provisioning practices and documentation. Identified gaps and worked with management to roadmap a solution to align the Computing resources to the business needs and over all architecture realignment.

Deployed off the shelf monitoring and management capabilities (HP-SIM), augmented with custom scripts to update previous manual process and further automate administration.

Process development, and documentation, resource provisioning and re-provisioning on both physical and virtual servers. Worked with several teams to create OS images to meet various business unit needs including configuration standardization and resource allocation in a mixed environment that included VMware, Windows, Linux and HP-UX.

24 HP C7000 blades chassis’s HP C7000 Virtual Connect network and storage configuration 300+ TB EMC DMX 4 SAN Worked with following teams to implement changes:

o Application developmento Operations o Oracle DB Adminso Network o UNIX

Don Myers6732 Indian River DrCitrus Heights, CA 95621(916)717-4566Systems Engineer/ConsultantVarious Contract PositionsShort term, contract positions and periods of unemploymentSacramento Area 2010 – 2011This period was during the Great Recession and jobs were hard to come by.

System Administration / Data Center Documentation in HP-UX, Linux and VMware environments, the longest being with Imagining Micro doing server upgrades and general office support for branch office.

System Administration included, daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, user management and verifying completion of scheduled jobs.

Hewlett-Packard: Roseville, CA 1999 to 2009Product: Computer products.

I have been doing system administration tasks during the entire time at HP, since as a Response Center Engineer, I was continually configuring/updating new hardware, disk drives and Arrays also supported the first versions of VMware and Linux when they first come out.

System Administration tasks included, daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key

processes, reviewing system and application logs, user management and verifying completion of scheduled jobs.

Customer Support backline engineer for Mission Sensitive Enterprise customers supporting complex software environments for PA-RISC and Itanium servers.

Provided direct phone support for a variety of HP-UX Operating system versions. Created customer facing documentation for the solution of complex problems Technical support of complex software configurations on HP-UX and support the following basic

software categories: Ignite-UX, LVM, Virtual Partitions, Virtual Machines, VSE, Insight Manager, System Management

Homepage, Backup/Recovery, Disk Array, Fibre Channel, Filesystem, Performance, Printing/DPS, SD-UX, Trusted Systems/Security.

System administration on a wide variety of HP-UX servers and arrays.

Hewlett-Packard: Roseville, CA 1996 to 1999Product: Computer products.

System Administration including, daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key

processes, reviewing system and application logs, user management and verifying completion of scheduled jobs.

Daily Process and Facilities Engineering support of various process areas for returned goods. Highlights over the last two years are:

Project Management responsibilities in the design of the process areas and supervision of the move of all of the Lincoln Returns processes to a new 81,000 sq.ft. Facility, transforming this facility from warehouse to light manufacturing use.


Coordinated facilities improvements with the leaseholder to increase electrical service, task lighting, install dock doors, forklift access doors, heating and cooling systems and restrooms.

Designed and coordinated the movement of a large part of the existing Returns production areas from Roseville to the new Lincoln depot including:

Custom computer programming to develop and install a Serial Number and Turnaround Time tracking system to track return goods.

Supervised facility repairs necessary to meet insurance needs. Fire suppression, ducting and MFL wall penetrations.

Installed and upgraded the lighting systems to support Returns and Accessories areas Wrote computer programs/databases to support production processes: Return goods planner. Modification and Approval of Disposition plans. Evaluation of Returns data, Returns analysis, Capacity planning.

Education: On-going, extensive IT training in a wide variety of hardware and software. HP-UX Certified Administrator Attended Arizona State college – engineering Various community college classes.

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