Shawn Erbe

Current

• Senior system admin at Mercury Insurance

Past

• Senior System Engineer at Watson Pharmaceuticals
• Storage Engineer at Paul Hastings Janofsky and Walker
• Senior Network Systems Engineer at Solist Consulting

• Senior System Engineer at APX Logistics
• Senior System Administrator at IndyMac bank
• Server Administrator (Contractor) at Northrop Grumman
• System Administrator at Southern California Association of Govts
• Network/System Administrator at INDATA Services LLC
• Field Systems Engineer at Succeed.net (Sole Proprietorship)

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Education

• Portland Community College
• Yuba City High School

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Industry

Computer & Network Security

Shawn Erbe’s Summary

Continue to excel as a Storage Engineer with a well rounded background of System/network administration/engineer mixed in with decent programming skills to automate large or repetitive tasks.

 NT (8 years), Windows 2003 (3 years), Windows 2000 (6 years), NT Terminal Server / Citrix / WinFrame (8 years), Novell (4 years), Unix (6 years) (BSDi, Linux, AIX, Solaris, SCO), VMS (2 Years). Active directory (6 years), Website Admin (4 years), SMS (1 year), Veritas Netbackup (2 years)
 Extensive work with servers including: SCSI, RAID systems, drive mirroring, tape backups, tape libraries, SAN and brocade switches.
 Physical networking: routers, switches, hubs, high speed data lines (T1, Frame relay)
 Extensive NETAPP SAN/NAS experience including Brocade switches setup and configuration
 Very organized with excellent communication, Network Diagramming, and Server logging skills
 Experience in 24/7 shops with 99% uptime and a client base of over 5000
 Unix (mainly BSDI/Solaris/Linux), VMS (DCL), Vbscript and DOS scripting
 Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, IP subnets, ARP, PPP, UCX, ICMP)
 Extensive work upgrading and maintaining Active Directory environments including creating LDAP queries.

Shawn Erbe’s Specialties:

Storage, system and network engineering.

Shawn Erbe’s Experience

• Senior system admin

  Mercury Insurance

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

• Senior System Engineer

  Watson Pharmaceuticals

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WPI; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  2009 — 2009 (less than a year)

• Storage Engineer

  Paul Hastings Janofsky and Walker

  (Partnership; Law Practice industry)

  May 2006 — March 2009 (2 years 11 months)

  Accomplishments
  • Migrate 21 exchange servers at 8 sites to NetApp storage.
  • Upgrade entire backup infrastructure from CommVault 4.0 to CommVault 6.1
  • Manage/Deploy NBU 6.5.2 and implement flashbackup for VMWare ESX backups.
  • Implement a NetApp VTL solution in LA to help alleviate our backup window that was expanding into the working hours.
  • Deploy 8 NetApp clusters to the 6 largest sites in the US along with our 2 international Hub locations.
  Primary Job
  • Deploy/manage storage firm wide including (2) FAS 6080, (5) FAS 3070 , (1) FAS 270, (2) EMC Clariion array and (2) EMC Symmetrix 8830
  • Total raw SAN storage managed - NetApp 289TB – Symmetrix 25TB – 14TB Clariion
  • Responsible for all File server and disk space trending.
  • Manage VMWare 30 ESX 3.5 hosts and guests including backups, restores and other various tasks.
  • Manage McData director with ECC and the Brocade workgroup switches via the command line.
  • Maintain Symmetrix using SYMCLI and ECC.

• Senior Network Systems Engineer

  Solist Consulting

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2003 — February 2009 (6 years 2 months)

  This is a small consulting buisiness where I have a few clients that I work with in my Spare time.
  
  I act as a consultant to assist in the aquisition of new hardware/software and perform all implementations the company needs. This ranges from AD, Storage, networking or any other technology they want to implement based on their individual buisiness needs.

• Senior System Engineer

  APX Logistics

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  June 2005 — March 2006 (10 months)

   SAN administrator - 12TB clustered NETAPP
   Solaris 9 admin .
   Basic Administration of the Oracle and Informatica environment
   Active directory/Exchange 2000
   Design and implement AD migration of 16 NT 4 domains to the shipapx.com domain.
   Manage Cisco PIX 506 and VPN 3000 concentrator
   Security Administrator utilizing Nessus, Kiwi Syslogging, Windows SUS Server and Symantec Antivirus Corporate.
   Spam Firewall Monitoring and Administration
   Manage a team of 5

• Senior System Administrator

  IndyMac bank

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; IMB; Banking industry)

  November 2003 — June 2005 (1 year 8 months)

  Environment
   Support Windows AD environment on an enterprise scale with over 1000 servers on a national WAN and a 5 node (3 active 2 passive) Exchange 2003 cluster
   24/7/365 Datacenter environment
   100% Compaq environment
  Responsibilities
   Resolve network and server issues in production and development environments
   Restore and monitor backup jobs using veritas netbackup.
   Document and write procedures on internal data center policies and procedures.
   “Service Center” and Remedy to manage user requests and issues with servers.
   Troubleshoot DNS/WINS/Active Directory and authentication issues
   Monitor all servers across 3 sites with Empirix Onesight monitoring tool
   Limited SAN troubleshooting/configuration on a EMC SAN using brocade switches
   Managed large Citrix load balanced server farm consisting of more than 30 servers in multiple farms.
   Manage a BIG-IP F5 web farm consisting of about 100 servers.
   Manage NETAPP NAS.

• Server Administrator (Contractor)

  Northrop Grumman

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

  June 2003 — September 2003 (4 months)

  Environment
   Windows AD/Exchange 5.5 environment on a national WAN
   Large scale 5000+ user base (at the El Segundo site)
   Work with a team of 6 Server administrators
  Responsibilities
   Troubleshoot SMS package issues
   Write automation scripts to create users in AD using VBscript
   Troubleshoot, maintain and Setup servers on a StorageTek SAN using the Lantricity Software.
   Backup, Restore, maintain and create policies for servers using Netbackup on a L700 Tape library with a 1344 tape capacity
   Document and write procedures
   Used “Service Center” as a Detailed ticketing to manage customer requests
   Create/remove/manage users and data in a complicated AD environment
   Daily reporting on backups, DHCP availability, Services running and Drive space.
   Usage of Hyena Software to monitor disk space
   Build servers and go through a server design review for approval

• System Administrator

  Southern California Association of Govts

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

  June 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 7 months)

  System Administrator (Consultant)
  Primary Duties:
   AIX/VMS/NT/2000/Novell administration with a total user base of 500+.
   Manage AIX environment consisting of 5 RS6000’s with two SSA drive arrays running SAS and proprietary Fortran models.
   Manage development/test environment and production servers (This includes moving test code into production).
   Write and improve scripts that monitor resource utilization, backups, send emails when a problem occurs.
   Upgrade/Troubleshoot Compaq Proliant servers w/ drive arrays consisting of 12 drives and dual power supplies.
   Improve/upgrade Network architecture.
   Network/System security. Including Norton anti-virus, firewall, NT/2000, routers, and AIX machines
   Resolve Network connectivity issues (ISP and user).
  Secondary Duties:
   Document server procedures and create network/system diagrams, NT/Novell/Network administration, SAP implementation.
   Supplemental support for desktop problems.

• Network/System Administrator

  INDATA Services LLC

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2000 — February 2001 (1 year 2 months)

   Work extensively with SQL, Windows 2000, Exchange 2000/5.5/5.0, Active Directory, Windows NT, Windows 98, firewalls, networking, Access98/2000, Proxy server, Citrix, DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, IIS 4 and 5.
   Worked with Mcafee’s Gauntlet firewall system for testing and evaluation, which includes configuration and setup.
   Installed/setup/maintained Firebox II firewall
   Responsible for maintenance and upkeep of all workstations, servers, routers, firewall, and Client Installations. Maintained entire network at the San Diego, CA and Greenwich, CT offices.
   Migrated Indata’s servers from NT 4.0 to Windows 2000
   Troubleshoot Visual Basic scripts for the companies online web based application.
   Troubleshoot Indata’s proprietary application which used Visual Basic 6.0, Access, and SQL Server
   Hardware brands used / supported: Compaq and Dell
   Setup Beta environment for Active Directory migration.

• Field Systems Engineer

  Succeed.net (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1998 — January 2000 (2 years 1 month)

   Work at Client job sites to build, repair, and upgrade Client servers, workstations, and networks
   System Administrator for Succeed.net systems and servers including: BSDi, linux, NT 4.0, NT 2000, and Macintosh.
   Performed security audits for Succeed.net and its customers.
   Analyzed system logs on a daily basis for security, maintenance, and error messages.
   Create network diagrams for clients and Succeed.net using Visio Enterprise Edition.
   Setup and configured routers for Internet, LAN, and WAN connections.
   Installed, setup, and maintained backup systems. Supported and maintained hardware from all major vendors.
   Write shell scripts for Unix and NT

Shawn Erbe’s Education

• Portland Community College

  computer science 1996 — 1998

• Yuba City High School

  Diploma , GE , 1992 — 1996

Additional Information

Shawn Erbe’s Interests:

digital photography, professional networking, snowboarding, reading novels, video games, MMRPGs, biking, traveling, fish tanks, anime, animals, dogs, sail boating, sky diving, roller blading

Shawn Erbe’s Groups:

•    MCSE
•    Storage Professionals
•    EMC Storage Architects Group
•    NetApp
•    NetApp Administrators

Shawn Erbe’s Contact Settings

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