2600 Crystal Drive #1821

Arlington, VA 22202
Phone (571) 332-7499
E-mail sean.hendershot@gmail.com

Sean Hendershot

Work experience Jan. 2009 – Current Canon USA Arlington, VA

Manager, Data Center Operations

§ Management of a geographically disparate team supporting multiple data

centers and 1200+ servers using HP Proliant and Integrity servers, EMC
storage and Cisco networking

§ Plan and manage day-to-day operational tasks including professional

development of staff, growth forecasting and technology evaluation

§ Primary responsibility of Disaster Recovery planning and coordination

§ Implementing lifecycle management for server hardware and software

§ Developing standard operating procedures for Level 1-3 support

§ Primary systems architect for all server and operating systems planning
including a recent Vmware vSphere 4.1 data center upgrade

§ Designing and implementing patch management procedures for Linux,

Unix and Windows systems

May 2006 – Dec. 2008 Canon USA Arlington, VA

Senior Systems Analyst
§ Team lead for data center operations

§ Administration of Red Hat EL 3,4,5 servers running Oracle databases and

applications, WebSphere application and web services and other custom
applications

§ Implementing clusters using HP ServiceGuard, Red Hat Cluster Services,

Microsoft Cluster Services, linux-ha and Oracle RAC

§ Primary architect of a multi-cluster Vmware ESX 3.5 installation utilizing 32

ESX hosts, 30+ Tb of EMC storage (DMX and Clarrion) running over 400
virtual machines

§ Administration of SuSE and Debian servers

§ Administration of HP-UX 11.11 and 11.23 servers running on both PA-

RISC and Itanium

§ Administration of Windows 2000/2003/2008 Servers

 Aug. 2005 – May 2006 Collegiate Funding Services Fredericksburg, VA
Systems Engineer
§ Administration of Red Hat EL 3&4 and Oracle 9i and 10g installations

§ Install and administer VMWare ESX hosts and guests

§ Storage Management using IBM DS4000 series SAN and McData

switches

§ Administration of Windows 2003 and Linux on IBM xSeries and

BladeCenter hardware

§ Implementing enterprise wide operational monitoring using Nagios

Nov. 2001 – July 2005 Peerless Manufacturing Dallas, Texas

Systems Administrator
§ Install and administer Red Hat and Debian Linux-based solutions including
web servers, e-mail servers, and file and print servers

§ Manage Windows 2000 Advanced Server machines that function as file

servers and MS-SQL servers

§ Maintain end-user Windows 98/2000/XP machines

§ Oversee several SGI Irix and Linux CAD workstations

§ Administer Cisco 1700 and 2600 series routers for T1 services and Lucent
Pipeline routers for ISDN services

§ Manage data backups and recovery using Veritas with DLT and LTO
libraries

Certifications Linux Professional Institute: LPIC Level 1

Vmware Certified Professional: VCP 3
Novell Certified Linux Administrator SLES 11
ITIL v3 Foundation Certified
ITIL v3 Intermediate CSI Certified