IT Senior Consultant

4/2008 – 9/2009

- Creation of concept to centralize ClearCase
- Server and application installations
- Cloning of the production environment from Antwerp too Stuttgart
- Problem: CC over WAN
- successful implementation and proof of the technical feasibility with superbatch test on a real product

Enterprise Architect (EA)

10/2007 – 3/2008

- Migration of 870 sites into 6 Mega-Datacenters
- SPOC for EMEA (Technical Solutions)
- management of several Workgroups to create new standards to deal with the technical problems to avoid issues during the centralization
- Proactive prevention of problems

Enterprise Architect (EA)

9/2006 – 9/2007

- defining worldwide standards for Alcatel-Lucent + Solaris 10 Zones (container)
+ IPMP
+ SAN
+ Storage Foundation
- Administration of approx. 1000 Unix Servers in different
EMEA datacenters
- Solaris, Linux, HP-UX
- Installation and conception of Solaris Zones
(Oracle, Peoplesoft, Tuxedo, Weblogic....)
- Installation of several Veritas HA Clusters SF 5.0
with Oracle Databases for IPTV

HPUX, Oracle Solaris (SunOS), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)

12/2005 – 7/2006

- planning of the new datacenter, racking and cabling - creation of the concept for the move
- creation of shutdown and start-up scenario
- creation of disaster recovery concept
- consulting for the network infrastructure - consulting for the power planning
- creation of cable plans
- analysis of risks
- Technical responsible for the move SAN, Libraries and Storages included
- approx. 100 Solaris and 80 Wintel Servers

Enterprise Architect (EA), Enterprise project management (EPM)

9/2004 – 12/2005

- Migration of all Solaris Systems onto new hardware
- Migration of ClearCase Vob- View- und Build- Servers
- Consolidation of all Oracle Databases
- Migration of all Services (DNS, NIS, Samba, etc)onto new hardware
- installation of a new backup infrastructure
incl. SAN (on EMC CLARIION Basis)
- NIS Domain Merging
- installation of a SUN N1 Grid with 25 Grid Members
- creation of standards for root disk mirroring with SDS and Veritas, IPMP Multipathing,
Storage management etc.
- performance Troubleshooting of 100 Solaris und 80 Wintel Servers
- Migration of all Solaris Systems onto new hardware
- Migration of ClearCase Vob- View- und Build- Servers
- Consolidation of all Oracle Databases
- Migration of all Services (DNS, NIS, Samba, etc)onto new hardware
- installation of a new backup infrastructure
incl. SAN (on EMC CLARIION Basis)
- NIS Domain Merging
- installation of a SUN N1 Grid with 25 Grid Members
- creation of standards for root disk mirroring with SDS and Veritas, IPMP Multipathing,
Storage management etc.
- performance Troubleshooting of 100 Solaris und 80 Wintel Servers

Environment:
AWK, Apache, Citrix Metaframe, DSL, EMC, Emulators, Ethernet, Exceed, FDDI, FTP, Firewall, SUN Grid, HTTP, HTTPD, Hub, ISO/OSI, Internet, Intranet, LAN,
Legato Networker 7.1.2, Lotus Domino, Lotus Notes,
MS Internet Explorer, MS Office, MS Project, MS Visio, NFS,
NetBios, Netscape Navigator, OpenSSL, POP3, RFC, RPC, Router, SAN, SMTP, SNMP, SUN, SUN OS, Solaris, Samba,
Shell-Scripts, Spark, Sun Solaris 4 ,5 ,6, 7, 8 , 9 ,10, Sun Solaris Hardware, Sun Ultra Sparc, TCP/IP, Telnet, Unix, VPN, Veritas Volume Manager, Win NT,
Windows 2000, Windows XP, X.400, X.500, ksh, make, MySQL, sed, sendmail

Enterprise Architect (EA), Enterprise project management (EPM)

7/2004 – 8/2004

- Installation und Configuration of Veritas Netbackup Enterprise Server 5.0 on Sun Fire V250 and Compaq
MSL5026 Library
- Integration in existing SAN
- Disaster Recovery Scenarios for
Netware 6, Sun Solaris 8, Windows 2000, Citrix and Lotus Notes

Back up / Recovery

4/2004 – 5/2005

- Installation and Configuration of a Monitoring Server basing on RedHat, Nagios, Apache, MRTG and SMTP
- Visualization of the complete Network in 2D- and 3D
- Integration of all servers and applications and switches into the monitoring
- Notification configuration when problems with Servers, services or active network components occur, as well as when thresholds are reached in regards to performance
- training of all Admins

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Apache HTTP Server, Nagios

7/2003 – 4/2004

- creation of a new IT concept for an application developing enterprise
- restructuring of the entire IT
- Creation of new NIS domain containing several Unix machines
- Migration to Solaris 8
- Patching of all Systems
- Installation and configuraion of SSH, Samba, NIS,
nagios, amanda, SDS (solstice disc suite) and jumpstart
- restructuring of NDS
- creation of new a new conception for software distribution - testbled installation
- Unattend-Installation
- packaging of software packages
- migration of printing to NDPS
- Iistallation and configuration of NFS 3.0 for Novell

Enterprise Architect (EA)

11/2002 – 2/2003

- setup of a backup testenvironment
- Evaluation of Veritas Netbackup 4.5 or Legato Networker 6.2.1
- Consulting
- Installation and configuration of Veritas Netbackup
and Legato Networker on a SUN Enterprise
5000 with a L1000 Library and Solaris 8
- conception and realization of testscenarios for backup and restore (desaster recovery) of different operating systems and databases

EMC NetWorker, Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)

12/2001 – 10/2002

- creation of a new backup concept
- Migration from Legato Networker 6.02 to 6.1.1.
- Troubleshooting of existing backup environment on a SUN Cluster 2.0
- dissolving of the Cluster
- Performance analyses of the backup servers
- migration on a SunFire 880
- Upgrade of two StorageTec L700 Librarys and one
IBM LTO Library into a Backup-SAN
- Implemention of NDMP
- Migration of all databases from T3 storage on EMC SAN enclosures
- migration of the database backup to RMAN and snapshots - Installation and configuration of Netsaint (Nagios)to monitor Backups and Backup-Servers including
120 Clients
- Duplication of this environment in a second datacenter for desaster recoveryen
- Billingsystem of 7 Million telephone company clients

Back up / Recovery