| Dan Evans |
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Education: Bachelor of Science, July, 1995 - WV Wesleyan
College.
Professional Certifications: Sun Certified System Administrator
Related Employment Experience:
Manager of Server Support, Madison River Communications (2/00 - present)
Maintain distributed, mission-critical environment of Sun midrange servers (approximately 50 servers, models Netra T1 (105 and AC200), E250, E450, E220, E420, E5500, E6500), workstations (SparcStation 20, Ultra 5, Ultra 10) running Solaris UNIX (versions 2.51 through 8). Write/modify administrative and end-user shell scripts (ksh, sh, bash). Maintain disk subsystems (using RAID Manager and Disk Suite for RAID). Hardware/software upgrades/maintenance. Migrated production Oracle data from local storage (Sun's Fibre Channel-attached A5200, SCSI-attached A3000, A1000, D1000) to Network Appliance Filer cluster while maintaining OS files on local disks.
Research, evaluate, install and maintain centralized NAS storage system (Network Appliance F760 Filer cluster and a standalone F760) with 5.5 TB of total Fibre Channel-attached storage. Evaluate and engineer dedicated gigabit ethernet network for storage using Sun, SysKonnect and Foundry hardware for Filers serving both UNIX (NFS) and NT (CIFS). Have also worked with F840 series of Filers and have performed head swaps from F760 to F840 and back in production environment.
Maintain approximately 40 NT/2000 servers (mostly Compaq server-class systems). Responsible for daily upkeep, upgrades, patches, hardware maintenance, software installation and installation of new servers into the domain. Migrated acquired company's users to new domain and migrated data from remote office servers to centralized repository on corporate Filers.
Maintain VMS servers running on Alpha 1200's providing back-end provisioning systems for Seimens DCO switch. Responsible for end-user support and everyday server management including hardware/software upgrades, DCL script writing and nightly dumps of data via NFS to data warehouse.
Coordinate upgrades/downtime with users affected by outages around US (NC, IL, MS, GA, LA, FL and TX).
Ensure data integrity through management of Veritas NetBackup media server using ATL P1000 and P3000 tape libraries. Assisted with planning and implentation and ongoing support of iPlanet software for complete (50,000+ users) migration off disparate server platforms (NT, RedHat Linux, VMS) to Sun servers using Veritas Cluster Server, File System and Volume Manager. Team-integrated all user and RAS data into single LDAP structure for core provisioning and system management. Hands-on experience with iPlanet/Netscape (NDS) 4.12 and Messaging (NMS) 4.15 and exposure to RADIUS software functions and operation (Steel Belted Radius).
Maintain mail relay (Exim) to filter incoming corporate email for "suspicious" attachments and/or spam.
Assist with RedHat Linux administration and virtual services (Apache web and Sendmail e-mail hosting) as well as configuring new and modifying existing DNS (BIND) entries for server name resolution.
Advise and support internal groups with system and network engineering for deployment of ISP services, internal OSS software, system upgrades, capacity planning, performance tuning and operation.
Conduct formal in-house training sessions for UNIX to local application administrators as necessary. Maintain corporate firewalls (CheckPoint FW1 NG/4.1 and Linux ipchains).
On-call 24x7 for NOC support questions related to internal and ISP issues.
Absorb and digest daily telecommunication operations and business to keep workflow manageable as well as lay foundation for the future of the company with respect to current technology by advising management of trends and current issues. Corporate Network & Systems Engineer, Mebane Packaging Group (10/95-2/00)
Senior-level Technical manager for seven operation across US and Puerto Rico supporting 300+-node WAN.
Maintain mission-critical physical networking and WAN communications .
Install, maintain, document, upgrade and patch:
Novell Netware 4.1 and 4.11 for corporate directory and file/print services as well as storage for NT-based CAD systems and Macintosh-based Graphic Design departments; HP 9000 (HP-UX v9&10) servers running core business application (Progress), email (HP OpenMail), WWW services (Netscape Enterprise), firewall (Raptor Eagle); RAS; CAD/CAM services (Artios Laserpoint); NT servers for shop-floor data collection and front-end CAD; PC's using Windows 3.1 through Windows 98 and NT 4.0 Workstation across all sites.
Organized and managed central helpdesk for corporation creating SOP for helpdesk and PC technicians.
Designed original WAN then later migrated from use of HP to Cisco routers upgrading bandwidth over frame relay circuits to all operations.
Create and execute plans for Y2K compliance with respect to all MIS functions in all operations.
Conduct in-house training classes at each site for end-user applications.
Planned and executed migration of structural design engineers in each location from Artios Laserpoint CAD/CAM packages on HP 9000 (UX 9.04) to NT4-based system in conjunction with graphics department integration using back-end data store on Novell Netware.
Expanded knowledge of serial communications during migration of large-bed sample cutting knife plotters from HP-UX to NT4.
Network Engineer/Consultant; McVey & Associates (1995 - 2000)
Assist with network design consulting projects as needed.
References available upon request.
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