SUMMARY:

• Worked as the hands on Technical Manager for the Systems Administration Team for the Confidential, CA for almost 5 years
• Was the sole Unix/Linux & EMC Avamar BRS asset for the entire Confidential for 5 years
• Has worked as a hands on Technical Manager and Unix/Linux System Administrator for three of the top Fortune
• 500 companies in the past 15 years. Supported both small and large organizations with up to 3500 servers.
• Excellent educational credentials, with two Bachelor degrees in the field of Engineering: a BS in Electrical
• Engineering and a BS in Computer Engineering.
• Excellent strategic planner; able to rapidly assimilate, comprehend and recognize informational context and patterns. Considered a well - rounded individual with strong problem analyzing/solving abilities.
• Broad technical knowledge combined with outstanding leadership ability and creative problem solving skills. Effective communicator able to explain complex concepts and ideas to non-technical individuals.
• Proficient in managing business needs and building strong relationships with internal and external business partners to meet project deliverables.
• Excellent team player, dependable, detail-oriented, and loyal with strong interpersonal and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Cisco CCNA classes 2005
• Server based FireWall
• Nagios monitoring system and Splunk troubleshooting system
• Apache Tomcat Web Server
• Network protocols including TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, and NetBIOS with regards to configuring workstations and servers for network connectivity in both FDDI and Ethernet networks.
• Unix Bourne and Korn shell scripting (sh, bash, & ksh), Unix tools (Sed, Awk, vi)
• Unix/Network security tools like ISS (Internet Security Scan), SATAN (Security Administrator’s Tool for Analyzing Networks), CPM (Check Promiscuous Mode), and TCPDUMP (Network monitoring and data acquisition).
• Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g Data Base Administration
• Oracle 11i Apps as well as Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Administration.
• HP OpenView VantagePoint Operations or VPO (formerly known as ITO) enterprise monitoring software.
• Legato’s Full-Time HA+ High Availability cluster management software.
• EMC Symmetrix SAN management software suite.
• Apache Web Server & Apache Tomcat.
• Confidential: MS Windows 2000, XP, & Vista, MS Office97-2007 suite of products, and Macintosh OS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Waukegan, IL

Sr. Unix/Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure, and put into production HP-UX 11i V.31 Operating System, configure networking and install additional user specific software.
• Part of 24x7 production support team.
• Support SAP environment.
• Design & create a repeatable process & procedure to patch well over 2,000 servers in Dev, Q&A, and Production environments.
• To create standards throughout the Unix team
• Execute intermediate to complex processes and system updates for the specialty area.
• Install, configure and ensure the maintenance of processes and/or systems related to environment: s such as Oracle, Redhat Linux/Solaris/HP Openview, Solarwinds,Splunk.
• Evaluate system and process performance issues including availability, utilization throughput, and latency.
• Lead the control of access rights, security settings and user privileges alignment with enterprise standards.
• Conduct briefings and demonstrations for users to enhance process and/or system
• Research new technologies and/or monitor and evaluate existing technology for improvement opportunities to support process/ technology life cycle.
• Troubleshoot and resolve all problems encountered with process or system.
• Ensure the successful planning and implementation for all upgrades or new additions to the IT process or system.
• Perform intermediate to complex IT environment monitoring and performance
• Prepare expenditure proposals and/or cost justification analysis.
• Provide support to the IT team and cross functional project teams.

Confidential, Glendale, CA

Sr. Unix/Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed vendor and internal client relationships.
• Worked with the management team and internal clients to determine needs, document current processes and make recommendations.Installation,
• Installed, Configured, maintained, & supported Cisco F5 Load Balancers behind our Web Servers
• Installed, configured, and put into production, Linux/Unix Operating System, configured networking and installed additional user specific software.
• Installed, configured, and put into production, Solaris Operating System, configured networking and installed additional user specific software.
• Configured, maintained & supported Oracle Linux High-Availability Clustering Solutions
• Worked with Puppet configuration management tool for automation
• Used Python for automation and small scripts to do different Systems Administration tasks
• Implemented Server based UNIX security policies, such as installing and configuring SELinux S/W package, hardening the server, i.e. implementing F/W rules, closing off FTP & Telnet services and replacing them with SFTP & SSH secured services, implementing password aging policies, implementing complex password policies
• Installed, configured, and put into production Nagios monitoring system and Splunk troubleshooting system
• Operated two EMC Avamar BRS grids. Performed all aspects of maintenance of these two grids, i.e. patching, updating, etc.
• Installed VMware ESXi 5.5 & VMware vSphere 5.5
• As the sole Back/Recovery Admin for Confidential with well over 2,000 end clients, I also worked with Tivoli BRS with tapes befor switching to EMC Avamar BRS solution.
• Installed, configured, put into production, maintained & supported the Puppet Configuration Management Tool
• Helped with design and implementation of the new additional segment to our Data Center
• Projected future storage growth to ensure appropriate capacity levels for support of existing and future business functions.
• Assisted in developing cost model for purchasing storage in support of upcoming and proposed projects.
• Provided monthly assessment of current storage capacity and potential risks.

Confidential, Segundo, CA

Team Lead / Sr. Unix/Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for isolating and correcting highly complex third level customer faults related to Infovista and Actuate network reporting Applications running on Solaris & Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms.
• Consult and support on matters related to OS requirements, Solaris & Red Hat Linux OS, OS/Application performance evaluation and enhancement, and capacity planning.
• Provided application support, creating the best Solaris & Red Hat Linux environments in which to run our network reporting applications.
• Troubleshoot network related issues (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP)
• Served as liaison between business users and application development team to define specifications for new or existing business applications.
• Supported InfoVista and Actuate network reporting platforms.
• Installed, configured, put into production, maintained & supported the Apache Tomcat Web Server
• Assisted customers/sales force with failed InfoVista and/or Actuate network reporting, by determining and permanently resolving the cause of the failure.
• Acted as a liaison with other groups, coordinating different teams’ activities to lead to a single comprehensive solution for the customers.
• Found and isolated faults with configuration/settings for the customers PE and CE routers as it relates to network reporting.
• Performed diagnostics and support for BT’s different networking tools, Including HUBMAN, APPMAN, ACCMAN, ATMMAN, PASMAN, VPNMAN, along with many other very complex networking tools.
• Performed diagnostics and support for BT’s array of networking products, including iVPN, IVS-ENCORE, AC-VPN, SiteWise, DIA, IVI, and many more as it related to network reporting.

Confidential, Corona, CA

Sr. Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Member of Sys Admin team responsible for installation, configuration, and support of Sun Solaris X-86, SCO Unix, & Red Hat Linux based servers, Oracle database 9i & 10g, Oracle applications 11i, & Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer on Unix/Linux servers. Environment comprised of more than twenty-five Intel based Unix/Linux Servers, and databases of about 100GB in size.
• Loading Operating Systems, configuring networking and installing additional user specific software.
• Implemented Server based UNIX security policies.
• Projected future storage growth to ensure appropriate capacity levels for support of existing and future business functions.
• Assisted in developing cost model for purchasing storage in support of upcoming and proposed projects.
• Provided monthly assessment of current storage capacity and potential risks.
• Developed shell scripts for performing various administration tasks.
• Installed, configured, implemented, and put into production AD services.

Confidential, Compton, CA

Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implemented Server based Unix security policies.
• Assisting in developing cost model for purchasing storage in support of upcoming and proposed projects.
• Provided project management support to storage administrators, DBA, and UNIX teams in relation to storage. i.e. snapview, snapshot and clone implementation and testing.
• Managed server hardware installation, maintenance, problem resolution, failure recovery, performance tuning, configuration and optimization issues.
• Maintained inter-operability between servers, workstations and other network devices in a multi-server, multi-operating system environment. This included the setup and maintenance of NFS data exchange between UNIX, Windows NT, Windows 95, Sybase, SQL server, Exchange Server, etc.
• Set up and maintained network printer services using multiple servers, queues and operating systems.
• Set up and maintained Internet e-mail services and internal and external network security.
• Provided technical support to application programmers, telecommunication and network administrators.
• Analyzed server performance against standards, and evaluated and requisitioned new hardware and software as required to maintain performance standards.

Confidential, Ridgecrest, CA

Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Member of Sys Admin team responsible for an environment comprised of more than ten Sun Servers (E3000 and SunFire 280R Servers), about twenty-five Sun/NT Workstations, and databases of about 300GB in size.
• Configured new systems and moved them into production with all the necessary software installed, i.e. OS, iPlanet Web Server, Oracle, Apache Tomcat, etc.
• Configured network interface devices, optimizing existing network configuration.
• Devised and implemented system security features and performed daily system security checks.
• Performed analysis and recommended policies for data access, security, integrity, and quality.
• Performed systems analyses and recommended new or modified hardware/software/network configurations.
• Managed/maintained/updated Network File System (NFS) and Network Information Service (NIS).
• Managed/maintained/updated day-to-day user services, i.e. creating accounts, adding/deleting passwords, and providing user training/assistance.
• Performed disk partitioning/formatting and file system allocation using Veritas VolumeManager and Veritas FileSystem.

Confidential

Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Successfully installed and configured Sun Solaris 2.6 and HP-UX 11.0 on more than 25 servers and brought them to production ready status.
• Assisted application teams to determine storage needs, carving up the local and shared disk arrays according to the application teams’ requirements.
• Installed and configured FullTimeHA+ cluster management software.
• Installed and configured HP OpenView VantagePoint Operations (VPO) enterprise monitoring software, and distributed application templates.
• Performed all production ready testing on the servers including failover testing, successfully moving them to production.
• Provided 24x7 third level support for the Operating System, the Operating System tools, and network connectivity of the servers.

Jr. Unix System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an Intern II in an application support team (DCS: Distributed Communications Software).
• Completed Tivoli installations.
• Wrote shell scripts to test and/or automate different daily tasks.
• Improved the ITO monitoring script, fs check, to better display and retrieve file systems’ information using shell programming.