OBJECTIVE:

Graduate with 7 years of Experience with Linux/Unix Systems Administration and high analytical skills Seeks for A Full - Time Position with a Fast-Growing Company to put knowledge and experience into full use

SUMMARY:

• The planning and engineering of enterprise infrastructure with Virtual Linux Machines.
• Virtualization and Scheduled maintenance on virtualized environments.
• Deployment and monitoring of application on servers. Package managements like yum, rpm, apt, Git hub,
• Management of small projects, PMP, Business Intelligence and analysis.

SKILLS & ABILITIES:

SOFTWARE: Puppet, Drupal, Chef, Bash, Perl, Jenkins, Remedy Ticketing System, AWS, Ansible, VMware EXSI, Linux (Red hat), Splunk, Hadoop, Nagios, Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic, WebSphere, PHP, MySQL, FTP and Cisco

CORE COMPETENCE:

• Handled, managed and executed excellent control over the resources of a small family growing business as its Manager for 3 years realizing amazing results
• Designed and implemented sales strategies like advertising, promotions, lower profit margins, good return policies in a family owned business which improved sales above 60% in consecutive seasons
• Understand the importance of oral and written communication as a vital key to a great customer service
• Write and speak effectively and convincingly clear in English.
• Lead and supervised a team of security officers for Pepco Electric Company between 2009 and 2011 earning 100% of the client trust and satisfaction
• Lead several group projects in school.

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential, WASHINGTON, DC

Linux Systems Administrator / Application Support

Responsibilities:

• Manage User account on Linux servers
• Install and manage open-source software such as Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, PHP, among others.
• Daily monitoring and troubleshooting of issues using Nagios/Groundwork and Footprints ticketing system.
• Troubleshoot networking problems and maintain security and integrity of the systems.
• Troubleshoot network and infrastructure services such as VLAN, Routing, DNS, NTP, Syslog, and SMTP
• Responsible for configuration, system management of Linux Systems.
• Allocate and configure storage on venter using VMware tools.
• Deploy Virtual Machines and use Clones, Snapshots, templates.
• Automate company routine projects like batch report prints and other system processes with the use of crons
• Create Virtual Machines in ESXi environment to facilitate development and test operations.
• Installed patches, Maintenance levels and security fixes for Linux (SuSE/Red hat) and AIX servers.
• Responsible for various hardware and software acquisitions and implementations.
• Perform monitoring of log files, writing and running scripts to automatically watch the resources, CPU, memory, I/O, and paging space.
• Install and configure LAMP stack on company server to support all systems in the environment configure and Troubleshoot Apache as a proxy server
• As part of Productions support, extensively work on troubleshooting Application, restarted JVM's in WebSphere Application server 7.0 and restarted Apache/IBM HTTP Web servers.
• Create Input Queue, Request Queue, Error Queue in WAS 7.0. Monitored Queues via Queue Monitor and queue Stat Monitor.
• Extensively worked with Zena & Zeke to schedule jobs.
• Worked with ITSM Process called CA Service desk to open tickets, Change requests with different teams.
• Used to Monitor Application and system performance with the third-party tool called HP performance Manager and system monitor commands such as top, free, netstat etc.
• Gathered requirements with other Analysts on Healthcare Confidential Interfaces to develop controls.
• Gathered requirements for Confidential Project called Retail Market Administrative services for the new Confidential Enrollments (834).

Confidential, Alexandra, VA

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in System Administration, Installation, Upgrading, Patches, Migration, Configuration, Troubleshooting.
• Experience with working in a cloud environment and Red hat clusters.
• Experience with SIEM and Intrusion detection systems,
• Vast knowledge on VMware, Vmotion and Vrealize
• Configured Host based Intrusion detection system (HIDS), OSSEC HIDS, Splunk.
• Managed Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning on Linux (RHEL) systems.
• Configure Storage, Disk Management, Logical Volume Management (LVM) and logical partitioning.
• Install chef into Linux staging environment
• Configured BIND in DHCP & DNS configurations.
• Patching of RHEL5 and Solaris 8, 9, 10 servers for EMC Power Path Upgrade for VMAX migration.
• Configuration of LVM (Logical Volume Manager) to manage volume group, logical and physical partitions and importing new physical volumes.
• Install and configure Drupal for content management
• Configured the Kernel parameters and updated the Kernel for MySQL Database
• Troubleshoot connectivity to Servers and Network systems
• Wrote and executed Korn shell scripts to automate Cron jobs and system maintenance.
• Installing and configuration of Splunk in a staging environment
• Configure Splunk for log monitoring, log rotation, activity monitoring
• Configure remote access to Splunk and send CLI to remote server
• Migrated Splunk Configuration file to multiple remote servers
• Enabled Log debugging in Splunk
• Monitor system backups and restore files as needed
• Trouble shoot, research and resolve general systems errors or malfunction as they occur

INTERN/ LAB ASSOCIATE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in research procedures under guided protocol at Confidential ’s laboratory of Neuroscience and regenerative medicine, Confidential .
• In a team spirit, ensured general cleanliness in the laboratory and sterility in all sterile areas.
• Animal Training; Trained research animals used in testing behavior
• Gait analysis: worked with ferrets, analyzing their behavior before and after brain injury
• Prepared brain slices from research animals for tissue analysis.
• Assisted the NIH personnel in Magnetic Resonance Imaging ( Confidential ).