CAREER OBJECTIVE
Business Systems Analyst utilizing my extensive business and technical background
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
- Highly Motivated & Energetic Achiever with 20+ years Technical/Engineering background
- 12+ Years Experience in network security products/services
- Combined Business and Technical background experience making a perfect liaison between development teams and end users
- Proven management background to keep projects on task and on budget
- Worked for leading tech companies including Juniper Networks (Netscreen), Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, SecureSoft & OneSecure
- Extensive Hardware, Software and Product knowledge to build systems with high tolerance, high availability, redundancy, scalability and replication for disaster recovery and load balancing
- Experienced systems architect for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- Extensive knowledge of Enterprise Storage Systems and Virtualization Platforms
EXPERIENCE
Senior Database Analyst, City of Roseville, Roseville, CA 04/2013 – 10/2014
- Manage 50+ Oracle/MS SQL Server databases, 200+VMs using VMware, Enterprise storage (NetApp, EMC Data domain, Nimble)
- Migrate Oracle from HP-UX to Linux/VMware to virtualize this environment for better efficiency and fault tolerance.
- Analyze performance issues with databases.
- Work with business units to gather requirements and create technical specifications for developers
Data Center Systems Administrator/Consultant, Dasher Technologies, Campbell, CA 11/12 – 03/2013
- Helped on data center project for CloudEra.com. Built/installed 198 HP servers and nine racks fully loaded from top to bottom with storage systems
- Loaded each server with 12 x two terabyte hard drives, SAS controller, 10 gigabit network adapters, dual processors, 128 gigabytes RAM and Linux Operating system
- Cabled and laced all servers within each rack neatly for a very professional and tangle free look
- Built a data center with a total storage capacity of 4500 Terabytes of storage
Senior Project Manager/Consultant, Mirasys, San Ramon, CA 5/05 – 11/12
- work on long term contracts as project manager/product manager with most recent contracts being:
- Palo Alto Networks (2009-Present), Pace Place (2006-2009)
- Manage development of next generation firewalls and network security products
- Interact with customers and partners to understand requirements and needs
- Collaborate with product marketing, sales and engineering departments to strategically plan features to be delivered
- Involved with complete product development life cycle from conception, definition, development, to release of product
- Prioritize features and their implementation for products
Business Systems Analyst, Juniper Networks Sunnyvale, CA 11/04 – 5/05
- Performed requirements analysis and feasibility studies for Intrusion Detection firewalls
- Met with end users and development teams to make sure that we deliver an exceptional product
- Interact with customers and partners to understand requirements and needs