Sr. Enterprise Architect at Red Hat
Austin, Texas Area
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- Sr. Enterprise Architect at Red Hat
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- Partner Engineering Consultant at Red Hat
- Senior Field Consultant at Dell, Inc.
- Network Specialist/System Analyst at Office of Court Administration
- Consultant at Netgineer Data Systems
- Systems Support Engineer at Micro Information Products
- Network Ops Center/Tech Support Manager at Data Foundry/Texas Networking
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- Red Hat Certified Architect
- Red Hat Certified Architect
- Red Hat Certified Architect
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Vinny Valdez’s Summary
I am a Red Hat Certified Architect and have been working with Linux for over 10 years. I have senior level experience with Linux System Administration, EMC and other Fibre and iSCSI storage, Dell PowerEdge Servers, HPC and other Clustering, Virtualization, and many other infrastructure applications. I have spent most of my career in consulting roles, though I have also acted in pre-sales capacity, and performed various engineering functions such as application development and bug reporting/testing/patching.
Vinny Valdez’s Specialties:
* Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
* Red Hat Certified Datacenter Specialist (RHCDS)
* Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
* Subject matter expert on Linux, storage and clustering
* Mentor and trainefield consultants on Linux
* Develop technical best practice documents
* Diagnose and troubleshoot software and hardware
* Systems Administration on cross-platform systems
Vinny Valdez’s Experience
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Sr. Enterprise Architect
Red Hat
(Public Company; RHT; Computer Software industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
Global Solutions & Strategy Office in Red Hat Consulting. I represent the RHEL product line and develop both pre-sales collateral and consultant documentation for the field in collaboration with various cross-functional teams. I also support partners and integrators, and assist with critical engagements when necessary.
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Partner Engineering Consultant
Red Hat
(Public Company; RHT; Computer Software industry)
July 2007 — April 2009 (1 year 10 months)
I was dedicated on-site at Dell in Austin, TX. I worked daily with the Dell Engineering team to test and validate various configurations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell systems running RHEL5 AP and Cluster Suite/GFS on top of Dell storage including MD3000, MD300i, and EqualLogic.
I also created "dell-config-cluster", a Python script to automate configurating Dell systems in a Red Hat Cluster, with a GTK UI. -
Senior Field Consultant
Dell, Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DELL; Computer Hardware industry)
July 2002 — July 2007 (5 years 1 month)
Senior Field Consultant for EMC Storage on Linux
Central repository for mentoring and assistance to field consultants on Linux
Scope and consult on High Performance Cluster deployments
Deployed Red Hat HPC Clusters from 10 to 200 ndes
Designed and presented a High Availability Clustering class on RHEL 2.1, 3, and 4
Automated kickstart installs of RHEL 3, 4, and 5 for remote training labs
Integrated RHEL 3, 4, and 5 systems with Active Directory authentication -
Network Specialist/System Analyst
Office of Court Administration
(Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Government Administration industry)
March 2001 — July 2002 (1 year 5 months)
Supported all Courts of Appeals for the State of Texas
Implemented and tested technologies such as intrusion detection and public DNS using Linux
Scripted a large migration to Windows 2000 from a NetWare environment
Created an automated upgrade script to install updates through Group Policies
Served 1000+ statewide users with various networking services such as file sharing using Red Hat 7.1 -
Consultant
Netgineer Data Systems
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2001 — June 2001 (6 months)
Executed jobs throughout Texas providing Linux services such as converting old systems into full network servers running Open-Source Linux
Trained client to use Linux and convert from Windows
Configure DNS for web hosting services
Configured mail servers for internet and domain processing
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Systems Support Engineer
Micro Information Products
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2000 — January 2001 (10 months)
Provided IT System Administrator duties
Maintained Red Hat Linux servers hosting public DNS and FTP services
Evaluated and recommended solutions using Linux
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Network Ops Center/Tech Support Manager
Data Foundry/Texas Networking
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 1999 — April 2000 (1 year 1 month)
Managed over 25 tech support employees, took escalated issues, wrote daily reports, interviewed/hired/fired as needed.
After night/weekend management, moved to Austin to become a Network Operations Center Technician.
Managed web hosting based projects in Data Center.
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Vinny Valdez’s Honors:
Developed a scripted automation method that was granted a patent at Dell.
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