Stanley G. Stewart

P.O. Box 281

Delaware Water Gap, PA 18327


cell phone: 570-236-8185


e-mail: stan.stewart.ds@gmail.com

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stan-stewart/13/a/abb

Summary of Experience

• EMC storage solutions including CLARiiON CX3/4, Celerra (Integrated and Gateway), Unisphere, Navisphere and Navisphere Analyzer, DataDomain, ECC (Control Center) 6, DPA 5, DMX/Symmetrix, and Cisco (MDS) and Brocade SAN switches

• Experience as an I.S./I.T. Manager

• Backup systems including full solution comparisons, site architecting and customization, implementations, troubleshooting UNIX and Windows clients and servers and application customization

• UNIX, especially HPUX (11i), Linux (including Redhat Enterprise AS 3, 4 and 5), Mac OSX and Solaris (2.4-10)

• Architecting and implementing system monitoring

• Strong awareness of and ability to comply with business security requirements

• Excellent documentation and oral skills

• Build cost-effective solutions to fulfill business needs

• Diagnose and remedy technology issues based on root cause analysis

Employment Experience

03/2011-present CSC

Storage Team Administrator

• Administered a full range of storage services for a single-client outsource

• Celerra NAS (CLARiiON back-end), NetApp filers, DMX/VMAX tier 1, Cisco and Brocade SAN

• Highly-secured client requirements

02/2011 EMC

Celerra/NAS Specialist (contractor)

• Provided Celerra replicator V2 data integrity and efficiency review. Produced recommendations for client.

• Bare metal install of EMC NS40G version 6.0 including integration with existing gateway, SAN fabric, FailSafe Network, link aggregation, time sync, etc.

2008-09/2010 Sanofi Pasteur

Storage Systems and Data Protection Administrator (contractor)

• Technical lead for re-architecting data storage environment including upgrades from CX3 to CX4 (NS480 and NS960) including Celerra unified/NAS storage; SAN integration; storage tiering within arrays; improved storage layouts based on application and host requirements; NFS and CIFS NAS shares with deduplication

• Technical lead for upgrading the data protection environment including VTL (using EMC DL4xxx and Data Domain 880) for improved front-end resiliency and recovery times, built-in deduplication and data replication

• Performed data protection upgrades in 2008 to bring HP Data Protector to version 6.0 on HPUX 11i with RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 media servers and VTL's

• Managed VMWare storage integration, datastore presentation and troubleshooting, VCB and other backup technologies

• Administered, upgraded and configured EMC ControlCenter (ECC 6.1)

• Administered, upgraded and configured Data Protection Advisor (DPA 5.5.1)

• Performed day-to-day administration/troubleshooting of SAN and BURA

• Upgraded HP Data Protector to 6.11

2001-2008 Aventis Pasteur (became Sanofi Pasteur)

UNIX Systems Analyst (contractor)

• Performed all levels of administration for all types of UNIX, notably HPUX and Linux

• Analyzed, audited and improved system security

• Administered system access to EMC storage (CX700, NS700, DMX1000)

• Performed numerous significant analysis and upgrade implementation on backup servers

• Significantly improved backup infrastructure including implementing a SAN for tape access

• Primary workflow automation administrator using CA’s AutoSys software

• Administered VMware ESX

• Created auditing and standards for the backup system

• Developed a secure external DNS infrastructure for eCommerce and internal forwarding

• Developed and documented standards for operating system installations and migrations

• Architected TAN (Tape Area Network) and created specifications for virtual tape environments to provide significantly reduced backup times

1999 – 2001 Navis LLC Oakland, California

Information Technology and Systems Manager

• Hired a talented team of information technology professionals for this growing company

• Managed the I.T. team and its projects

• Coordinated I.T. projects with all business units to ensure technology that matched and exceeded requirements

• Led successful planning and implementation of two major moves of the company

• Quickly and successfully implemented contingency plans for rolling blackouts

• Improved LAN network security and reliability

• Built or migrated entire computing infrastructure to cost-effective Linux architecture

• Upgraded firewall protection and other security policies in order to maintain the company’s data integrity and privacy through filtering, intruder detection, tight host-based security and rapid implementation of vendor security patches

• Recommended and implemented significant cost-savings via telecommunication management

• Managed vendor relationships for all I.T. and telecommunications functions

1996 - 1999 TCSI Berkeley/Alameda, California

Systems and Network Administrator

• Worked with a team of system administrators to support and maintain a UNIX and MS-Windows network (600-800 nodes on WAN)

• Provided weekday and on call support to an international team of developers on Solaris 2.4-7

• Assisted team with several moves and new setups of network and computing facilities including a Tokyo, Japan office and affiliated WAN connections

• Specified, evaluated and implemented a new backup solution for enterprise backups (Veritas NetBackup) including building vast customizations for efficiency and tape management

• Improved infrastructure servers (sendmail, DNS, ClearCase, NFS, etc.) using kernel/system tuning, Veritas Foundation Suite, and improved hardware configurations

• Designed and implemented server setups that provide higher availability, faster reboots, faster backups, etc. (HA, RAID, xfs, etc.)

• Improved remote access issues including use of https, VPN, dialup/dialback and Cisco routers

1994 - 1996 Project Technology Berkeley, California

System Administrator

• Managed and implemented all network, operating system and computer hardware issues corporate-wide

• Administered (SunOS 4.1.4 and Solaris 2.5) servers in local and remote offices

• Setup, upgrade, maintain and administer LAN/WAN at four corporate sites

• Implemented network security for Internet connectivity and customer connections

• Research, testing and purchasing of all client (Wintel) hardware and software for all divisions

• Setup and maintained communications server and modem pool

1988 - 1994 Natural Language Alameda, California

System Administrator

• UNIX systems administered included SunOS, HPUX, AIX, DGUX and Solaris

• Supported developers on UNIX, MacOS and NT and other divisions on Wintel and Macintosh

• Planned and implemented move of company offices and services

Education

Drake University Des Moines, Iowa

Bachelor of Arts

Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas

Master of Divinity

References
Available on request.