SUMMARY:

• As a consultant, administrator and engineer, I've seen many types of networks and hardware/software problems and solutions. With many businesses adopting different infrastructures for different reasons, I ve been required through my career to prepare for VMware, Microsoft, UNIX and Linux on Cisco, F5 and HP fabrics. In my recent roles I have focused on a more enterprise/mainstream based curriculum.
• VMware ESX/ESXi Server 4.x/5.x and 6.x
• Chef and Puppet Infrastructure Automation
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Confidential, Solaris and deep familiarity with *NIX Technologies
• Microsoft 2Kx/NT servers
• Recent version and repository control with GIT, SVN, Jenkins, Nexus, BitBucket, Stash and Bamboo.
• Installation & configuration of Microsoft, OSX, UNIX and Linux Technologies.
• Cassandra, MySql, Redhat RAC and Oracle database server setup and maintenance.
• Broad understanding of TCP/IP subnetting and porting as well as Ethernet protocols.
• Cisco and HP routers and firewalls. Security assessment and hardening using access lists and hardware/software solutions.
• Avamar, FalconStore, Backup Exec, Arcserve, Retrospect, software/hardware raids, de - duplication, backups, business continuity & redundancy theory.
• PMS Opera, Micros Retail Terminals, SpaSoft and Hospitality Technologies
• SAN, NAS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel and data storage technologies including EMC VNX.
• Dell Confidential, RMM and HP Integrated Lights Out, Out-of-Band Management.
• Basic batch, bash, python, ruby and power shell scripting.
• Group policy design and active directory manipulation.

SKILLS:

• DNS, DHCP, SQL, IIS, ISA, Proxies, Exchange.
• Strong knowledge of databases and report writers.
• 802.11a/b/g/n wireless networking, implementation and security.
• Ethernet cable installation, troubleshooting & repair.
• Use of data recovery methods for databases, master boot records and file allocation tables.
• Intermediate understanding of Spanish

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Salt Lake City, Utah

Linux Operations Systems Administrator / DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• POC’d and setup a Performance Monitoring System using Grafana and InfluxDB.
• Created, Modified and Maintained Confidential 6 and 7 Linux Servers using Chef Automation into AWS, and two VMware UCS data centers.
• Helped develop and document a pipeline for Confidential from our old Jenkins/Maven/Nexus to our new BitBucket/Maven/Nexus pipeline using data bags with Chef Automation.
• Waterfall agile environment with developer and scrum master focused sprints.
• Help Manage and Develope Nagios alerts to Monitor and Alert our Linux Productions Systems.
• F5 and AWS ELB VIPs / Load Balancers for APP content control and Cluster High Availability.
• Chased down production liabilities and worked closely with Operations Engineers and Developers to improve uptime, customer experience and rectify highly visible downtime.
• Developed and incited JMX monitoring for our Operations and Development teams to get direct access to our Java Apps for Real-time Tuning and Application Insight.
• OSSO, Redis, RabbitMQ and SOLR Systems Maintenance and Development

Confidential, Murray, Utah

Linux Production Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked daily with SVN and Puppet to push versioning to Stage and Production Servers.
• Openstack backend systems used and maintained for Production VMs.
• Defined Nagios Alerts and Grafana to Monitor Linux Productions Systems.
• Netscaler Meshed VIPs / Load Balancers for APP content control and Cluster High Availability
• Worked with Confidential to maintain Hosts at the DataCenter.

Confidential, Utah

Linux Production Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Linux/Unix/Solaris Installation, Configuration and Maintenance. This includes setup of RHEL VMware Host volume licensing, install, configure and monitoring of RHEL High Availability, Clustering, GFS2, Resilient Storage, Fencing and Quorum Disk technologies. Due to my previous 18 years in the windows field I also support the Windows Production Servers and all of the datacenter platforms as well.
• Moved our RedHat/PHP/MySQL Web Based Asset Management system from a 14 year old 8U server to redundant VMs running RHEL 6.5. This required research and PHP code changes.
• Deployed 16 RHEL servers, 2 of which were HA, Clustered and Resilient.
• Maintain over 200 Solaris, RHEL and SUSE servers.
• Setup Centralized Linux Authentication to 2008R2 AD Servers using Linux Identity Management, Kerberos, NIS and Winbind as a POC.
• Helped manage and maintain 17 (26 node) cluster servers which includes FTP, SQL Clustering, Kerio Mail, HP 3PAR SANs, VMware 5.5 ESX hosts on HP DL 380 Blades.

Confidential, Utah

L2 Technical Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Received focused training on Avamar Backup Systems and De - duping technologies.
• Worked directly with the federal government, state departments, banking institutions and international companies on triaging, recovering and improving throughput and performance of their VMware environment and backup systems.
• Closed over 1000 high profile, high urgency cases and POCs
• Developed a focused and detail oriented approach on a rotating queue of 10+ cases of which 95% were S2 or higher urgency value.
• Highest average closure rate on my team. (14 per week)
• Highest number of closures in one week within all teams. (25)
• Volunteered for all available training which included, Avamar Subject Matter Expert Training L2 (3 weeks), VMware vCloud Director (3 days), Avamar Extended Retention with Engineering. (4 weeks), VMware 4.x Advanced Troubleshooting. (3 days), VMware VCP 5.1 Install and Config. (1 week), Avamar Advanced Performance (3 days), Excellence in Managing Customer Conversations (2 days), Unix/Linux in depth training (1 week) Advanced Avamar Non-Windows Client training (3 weeks), Logic and Diagnostics (3 days) and Information Storage Management (1 week). ISM focuses on SAN, iSCSI and Fibre Channel as well as database and in depth data storage technologies.

Confidential, Park City, Utah

Information Technology Assistant Manager

Responsibilities:

• Helped train and enforce a 25 million a year resort for PCI compliance within a 250 node environment.
• Implemented 600+ VOIP phones in a PBX environment on an HP fabric.
• Helped develop a plan and the code to make a never before tested software suite work within a nearly 100% virtualized environment. This was a beta environment for PMS Opera that was built for a desktop environment to create printer location mapping.
• Rewired, routed and developed plans as necessary for large groups for conventions within the hotel to handle PCI compliant security. These guests included charities, banks and investment firms that required heavy transactional throughput. I also punched wiring for residential DSL installs.
• Worked on a daily basis to provide a service oriented data center and support system for 450 employees and responded to emergency guest requests.

Confidential, Salt Lake City, Utah

Information Technology Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installed & troubleshot 80% of all mainstream hardware and software technologies used within the last 15 years.
• Cable installations, workstation repair/build/installs, server upgrade/implementations, setup internet access, VPN's and Remote Access Services from modems to routers, dial - up to T1. Secured those resources from the elements with security training, firewalls and software techniques.
• Implemented disaster recovery solutions for the unexpected as well as the expected problems that may and will eventually occur.
• Worked in a number of contract positions developing complex mid-level scale network systems.
• One of which Included a robust 25 server network (15 Physical, 10 Virtual) that connected to UofU and LDS hospitals connected through an L7 EDI interface that carried patient data securely and stored it in a secure and reliable manner.
• Technology included Cisco VPN concentrator, Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2000, Chameleon L7 interface, Exchange Server, Merak Mail, Microsoft Virtual Server, and customized scripts for 30 remote WS downloads.

Confidential, Salt Lake City, Utah

Computer Consultant / Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared and pressure tested a .com network for the 2000 turn over as well as aiding in security design.
• Designed and maintained a 6 server, 25 node LAN/WAN.
• Maintained mail, back - ups, databases, printing and hardware
• Built server farm, firewalls, routers, switches, cabling and racks
• Engineered DNS, DHCP, WINS, SQL, IIS, PDC's and BDC's
• Assisted in an 800 user NT roll out for Alliant Technologies