Lucas Hassing 305 S 16th ST Morehead City, NC 28557 (404) 556-8706 lhassing@gmail.com RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE ITLynk :: January 2017 - Present Titles: Systems Engineer, Storage Engineer - Lead of Storage consisting of Netapp, Nimble, EMC, and Windows File and Storage Services. - In charge of all Ubiquiti Unifi deployments (150+ Access Points) - End of the escalation path for customer service problems - Handled all linux customers from previous Peak Hosting job that were brought over in buyout - Documented new projects and old projects - Lead of our Veeam Backup infrastructure and functionality - Accountable for our monitoring platforms utilizing Solarwinds Peak Hosting :: June 2011 - January 2017 Titles: System Engineer, Lead System Administrator, Team Lead, Sr Systems Engineer, Lead Storage Engineer - Worked in a team to solve customer problems from hardware up to the application stack - Built new customer servers and internal servers in a lights-out facility - Built platforms for management in 5 datacenters with remote hands - Automation utilizing Perl of various tools to make the builds more efficient - Helped to build out new scalable and high availability customer solutions - Implemented puppet for repeatable facility specifc systems - Architected new infrastructure systems on various Linux OS's as required - Helped to write an inventory management system in Node.js - Built 5 datacenter systems using Puppet - Wrote custom puppet modules as needed. - Maintained Hitachi,EMC,Netapp, and Dell Powervault Sans and was Primary Vendor contact on each - Coded script platform for interaction with Netapp for monitoring and protection - Heavily documented all current and past projects in documentation tools (wiki/Confluence) - Worked with customers to define requirements and fulfill expectations for full stack migration - Trained new and current employees, institutional knowledge - Performed interviews of potential hires - Built HA VMware clusters across 5 datacenters with central management - Helped in a datacenter migration to move customers with limited downtime. Provided HA insight and solutions. - Implemented a monitoring solution utilizing nagios and mysql building nagios configs from CMS. Perl scripting still utilized 3 years later. - Lead engineer on Vmware implementations, VCP5-DCV. Vmware colo specific platforms and customer consultations with right-sizing migrations. - Lead engineer on EMC, Netapp, and Dell SAN implementations in a multi-tenant environment and following best practices. - Wrote software to monitor Netapp snapmirror progress to faciliate migration - Researched and Evaluated over 50+ various software applications for projects and provided un-biased scenarios to each Fun Projects: Wrote perl code to monitor 700+ netapp snapmirrors for a migration, utilizing code to monitor and prioritze volumes based on business priority and giving status reports over the course of the migration. Re-architeched DNS caching system to utilize BGP anycast resolvers in every facility with failover capability. Re-architeched Authoritative DNS system to utilize AWS Route53. Rebuilt our rancid system to utilize git and built with puppet. Benchmarked enterprise storage offerings in the form of LUNS and NFS exports. Web.com :: May 2007 - June 2011 Titles: Unix Systems Administrator 2, Unix Systems Engineer Responsibilities included: -Worked in a team to keep customer facing webservers and mail servers online -Provided support for apache, mysql, qmail, tinydns, control panels, and automated website generation tools -Maintained different web hosting clustered platforms including IRIX, Solaris, and Redhat based systems for high-availability and failover solutions -Lead on our Linux Developer Hosting cluster of 90,000 customers consisting of a 23 web server cluster and shared storage on a Netapp filer -Lead on our Redhat MySQL cluster -Member of the storage team maintaining Netapp filers, 3par, and a Hitachi AMS200 storage system -Member of the DNS team maintaining a tinydns system of over 200,000 domain names -Performed customer migrations resulting from acquistions, going from the negotiations of servers and storage all the way to building the platform and implementing the final change controls -Performed interviews of new hires -Scripted perl and bash as required for automation Global Net Access (GNAX) aka Atlanta NAP :: October 2005 - April 2007 Title: Datacenter Engineer Responsibilities included: -Provided technical support for over 2000 servers in a dedicated server and colocation environment -Managed and performed maintenance on Cisco routers and switches -Monitored A/C Units, UPS systems, battery backup systems, and generators -Organized a number of moves from one datacenter to another -Trained new employees -Provided support on cPanel and Plesk hosting tools Br-teknowledge :: March 2005 - October 2005 Title: IT Consultant Responsibilities included: -On-call support for varying businesses -Spy-ware, ad-ware, and virus removal -General PC maintenance EDUCATION -Obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science at Western Carolina University in Fall of 2004. -Online Netapp training for NFS implementations (Aug '10) -Weeklong bootcamp for Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Implementation - UCS (DCUCI) (March '11) -VCA-DCV Vmware Certified Associate Datacenter Virtualization (February '14) -VCP5-DCV Vmware Certified Professional Datacenter Virtualization (March '14) -8hr course Crucial Conversation classes (March '15) -AWS Solutions Architect Associate (Oct '16) SKILL SET -Operating System Familiarity: Vmware ESXi, Redhat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, Windows, IRIX, Solaris -Software: Apache, MySQL, Postgres, BIND, Squid, Sendmail, Exim, Postfix, Qmail, TinyDNS, Ftp daemons, SSH, Cpanel, 3ware, SPAM Firewalls, Syslog-ng, Rsync, PXE, Plesk, Directadmin, Webmin, Vcenter, Xen, Vmware ESX, KVM, Nagios, iSCSI, NFS, Veeam Backup, Puppet. -Programming languages: Perl, SQL, HTML, Shell, PHP, Java -Server brands: Dell, HP, IBM, Cisco UCS, Rackables, Ubiquiti