Andrea Dainese

Current

System Engineer at Cerved S.r.l.

Past

System Administrator at H.M.S. Sipac S.p.A.
Consultant at Networkingitalia
Software Technician at Sapes

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Education

Politecnico di Milano
Liceo Scientifico E. Fermi
Hewlett Packard Training

Other Training

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Industry

Information Services

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Andrea Dainese’s Summary

Always interested in computer systems as well as computer networks, Andrea has especially worked on Microsoft and Unix/Linux platform based on x86, Alpha and 'virtual' hardware. He holds the following active certifications: Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Watchguard System Professional (WSP), ALPHA Server GS80/160/320 Installation & Maintenance.

In the past, he worked in Telecom Italia as System Administrator, implementing high availability solutions for mission critical environments.

Actually, he's working as System Engineer at Cerved B.I., developing server consolidation project to run a multi-server application in a reliable virtual machine environment.

Andrea can be can be contacted by email at andrea.dainese@gmail.com.

Andrea Dainese’s Specialties:

- Installing and administrating Unix (Digital Unix, Tru64 Unix, TruCluster Server), Linux (especially Red Hat and Debian based distributions), Microsoft operating systems.
- Installing, maintaining, tuning and repairing x86 and Alpha server (especially 8400/GS140, GS60/80/160/320 and GS1280 series), storage systems (especially on ESA, EMA and EVA series), SAN and NAS environments.

Andrea Dainese’s Experience

System Engineer

Cerved S.r.l.

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

Andrea works as System Engineer managing systems, front end services, backup and disaster recovery processes included related security issues.

The performed tasks were:
- installing, configuring and maintaining several high availability servers involved in core business activities;
- administring storages (EMC CX and Celerra series, NetApp FAS series)
- managing system backups (using Dataprotector suite) and disaster recovery processes
- developing a server consolidation project especially using VMware and Xen technologies
- managing and securing front end application servers based on Apache/ISS and Tomcat software
- developing a full centralization solution for logging all system and service health (hardware, software, network and application services issues)
System Administrator

H.M.S. Sipac S.p.A.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2002 — June 2006 (4 years 5 months)

Andrea worked as a System Administrator for Hewlett Packard at Telecom Italia, implementing and managing high availability computer systems for mission critical environments. He collaborated to realize new projects managing people and resources.

The performed tasks were:
- maintaining several high availability servers involved in core business activities;
- installing and managing x86, Alpha and Itanium servers (especially made by Hewlett Packard): Proliant and AlphaServers series
- implementing and configuring high availability fault tolerance clusters
- installing and managing storage area network (SAN) solutions, especially based on Hewlett Packard hardware (ESA, EMA and EVA storage interconnected by Brocade FC switchs)
- log analysis and failure prediction in hardware systems
- hardware problem identification and resolution analyzing crash dump files
- technical support 24/7
Consultant

Networkingitalia

(Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2000 — February 2002 (1 year 8 months)

Andrea worked as System Administrator managing and securing core application servers. He also acted as system integrator developing enhanced customer solutions.

The performed tasks were:
- applications servers managing
- basically security checks
- intrusion prevention
- implementing of multi platform anti virus solutions (especially using Sophos suite)
Software Technician

Sapes

(Information Services industry)

July 1999 — July 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Andrea worked as Software Technician in Sapes, installing, configuring and customizing proprietary Sapes software for customers, identifying their own needs. He also teaches customers how to best use Sapes software packages.

The performed tasks were:
- installing and configuring Novell Netware networks
- north-est Italy customer support
- customer training
- remote technical assistant (especially using Intel LANDesk over ISDN)

Andrea Dainese’s Education

Politecnico di Milano

Bachelor Degree , Computer Engineering , 2004 — 2010 (expected)
Liceo Scientifico E. Fermi

High School Diploma , Scientific High School , 1993 — 1999
Hewlett Packard Training

02.2004 - Tru64 UNIX V5 TRUCluster server configuration and management
02.2004 - LSM and RAID Configuration and Management
07.2003 - ALPHA Server GS1280 Installation & Maintenance
07.2002 - ALPHA Server GS80/160/320 Installation & Maintenance
Other Training

12.2008 - Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
10.2008 - Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
05.2007 - Hand On Hacking 2 (Zone-H)
02.2003 - Watchguard System Professional (WSP)
12.2008 - Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)

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Andrea Dainese’s Interests:

Andrea loves international travels, seeing other countries and meeting different cultures. He also is a freestyle/freeride snowboarder in winter and a motorcyclist in summer, even if He prefer to practice Usui Reiki and Channeling. He definitely loves wide-open silence places.