Bernard B.

Skills Solaris/Linux crash dump Analysis, Applications troubleshooting, Oracle Solaris Cluster 3.x/4.x, SPARC T-Series, LDOMs, SPLIT I/O, NPIV, OVM for SPARC, DELL EMC Storages, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (DELL EMC VxRail) Work Experience Senior UNIX Administrator LAU (Lebanese American University) ­ 2005 – now • Responsible for the planning, specification and installation of Solaris hardware & software solutions. • Responsible for the Consolidation based on VMware and EMC VNX Storages with High Availability and automatic recovery in case of disaster. • Provide guidance & technical leadership in UNIX related design & implementation strategies • Produce support documentation to assist with knowledge transfer within the team. • Lead the development and implementation of the Disaster Recovery solution. Product Technical Support SUN MICROSYSTEMS FRANCE ­ 2002 – 2005 • Provide Support and Training to the Sun Support Engineers with highly technical product expertise in the following areas : ◦ Cluster 2.x, 3.x and Oracle Parallel Server ◦ Solaris kernel crash dump analysis ◦ Hardware Servers : Sun Fire series; Sun Fire 15000 ◦ Storage : T3, SAN, HDS, Disk Suite, Volume Manager ◦ Sun One Products in cluster environment : Directory Server, Web Server, Application Server, Messaging Server, ◦ Delegated Administrator for Messaging, Calendar Server and Portal Server. Timezone Support Engineer SUN MICROSYSTEMS CALIFORNIE ­ 2001 – 2002 • Support Engineer providing assistance for French speaking customers during out of work hours in Europe and Canada for the following products : ◦ Cluster 2.x, 3.x and Oracle Parallel Server ◦ Solaris kernel crash analysis ◦ Hardware Servers : Sun Fire series, Sun Fire 15000 ◦ Storage : T3, A5200, A3500, DiskSuite, Volume Manager Support Engineer SUN MICROSYSTEMS FRANCE – 1999 - 2001 • Support Engineer in the Cluster team, providing 8x20 hours and 7x7 day phone assistance for Gold and Platinum customers on the following products: ◦ SunOS from 4.x to 5.7 (installation, updates, upgrades, usage ...), ◦ Storage (DiskSuite, Volume Manager), ◦ HA 1.3, Sun Cluster 2.0 to 2.2, O.P.S ◦ Panics and Hangs Analysis, ◦ Performance Analysis on Servers, ◦ Hardware Servers : E250, E10000, Storage : SSA,A5000, A3500 ◦ Hardware support include failure detection, parts sending and on site assistance in order to bring the machine up and running. ◦ Provide customer follow up for critical account Education Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III - D.E.A Informatique Fondamentale Computer Engineering 1994 – 1995 Universite Paul Sabatier Toulouse III - D.E.S.S Informatique Computer Engineering 1992 – 1993