OBJECTIVE:

A progressively challenging and rewarding role in an environment where my proven skills as an enterprise scale UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator and solid background in LAMP systems design, deployment and support will be fully utilized.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator
• MySQL, MariaDB and Galera Cluster Architecture, Configuration, and Administration
• AWS Cloud Services management, inclusive of EC2, S3, IAM and DNS management in Route 53.
• Enterprise Scale Linux and UNIX Systems Administration in Highly Virtualized (VMWare, RHEV) Environments
• Extensive Enterprise Scale Apache and NGINX Web Server Administration
• Support and Administration of Enterprise Scale CMS Systems (Drupal, Django)
• Extensive and Intensive bash and ksh Shell Scripting Experience
• DNS Administration inclusive of BIND and IPAM in Split - Horizon Environments
• Code Version Control and Deployment with Git
• Log Analysis and Event Correlation with LogInsight
• Centralized Configuration Management with Ansible
• Centralized Systems Monitoring with Nagios
• Design, Document, Present and Deploy ITIL-ITSM Compliant
• Enterprise-Scale Infrastructure Solutions
• Create, Populate, Organize and Maintain Documentation Wikis and Knowledge Databases
• File Systems Administration, Management, and Tuning with LVM
• Tune kernel and IO parameters for Oracle and assist in related troubleshooting
• Bug Tracking with Jira

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Linux Systems Administrator and LAMP SME

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Responsibilities:

Contracted UNIX/Linux Engineer and LAMP SME currently servicing a large community college District Office in the Phoenix area. Red Hat Linux and OEL Systems Administration in both physical and virtual (VMWare) contexts. Administration and management of LAMP and CMS (Drupal 7) systems, clusters, and servers inclusive of MariaDB and Galera Cluster Administration. Patch management, package deployment, maintenance of multi-user, multi-codebase Git repository. Administration and Management of BIND DNS and IPAM. AWS Cloud Services management, inclusive of EC2, S3, IAM and DNS management in Route 53. Configuration management in Ansible. Task Automation in bash and ksh, package management in yum and rpm. Technical Support Lead and LAMP SME, providing Failure Analysis, RCA, knowledge-base management, and business to technical, technical to business translation for PMO, management and CAB review.

Senior UNIX Systems and HPC Cluster Administrator

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

UNIX/Linux Engineer working for HP Enterprise Services at BP Exploration in Anchorage, Alaska and later servicing BP’s flagship Westlake High Performance Computing facility in Houston. Coordinated and executed global deployments of modified ROCKS clusters managed by SGE, inclusive of initial setup and configuration of Serial and Parallel Environments with qconf, MPI (MPICH and OpenMPI) implementation, configuration, and tuning, as well as overall capacity planning and performance analysis. Configuration management in Chef. AWS administration of server instances in EC2 and storage in S3. Day to day work included provisioning of the head node, provisioning and configuration of execution nodes in HP C7000 Enclosures, configuration of internal fabric and management interfaces, and end-to-end troubleshooting of massively parallel jobs - as needed - and inclusive of RCA. Regular Systems Administration responsibilities outside the realm of HPC included NIS account management and attendant automounter configuration, architecture and administration of RHEL 6 and Solaris 10 servers, patch management, task automation and systems programming in korn and bash. Bug tracking in Redmine.

UNIX Systems Administration

Confidential, Anchorage, AK

Responsibilities:

C2C Servicing of UNIX/Linux Systems Administration contracts for Native Corporations (Tatitlek Corporation) and Engineering startups(TekMate) in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and the Slope. Red Hat Linux Installation. Configuration, Administration, and patching. Administration and support of SCADA. Task automation and systems programming korn and bash. Automated server deployment with kickstart. Monitoring with Nagios, inclusive of SNMP integration. Application rollouts from packages (i.e. via RPM) or source code builds. Kernel tuning for Oracle. File system configuration with LVM.

Senior UNIX Systems Administrator

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Responsibilities:

Senior UNIX Systems Administrator at Confidential, a leader in IT Process Management and Market Analysis. Worked hands on to transform business directives from the CEO and CIO into technical projects and solutions. HP-UX Administration, with kernel tuning for Oracle and cluster management with MC ServiceGuard. Systems Programming and Task automation in PERL, ksh, and Python. Extensive conversion of modperl CGI to PHP. Migration and expansion of data center to 10,000 square foot facility, with attendant data migration, capacity planning, and file system layout of EMC zoned SANs. Monitoring with BMC, inclusive of SNMP configuration and scripting for proactive recovery.

IT Consultant / Channel Partner

Confidential, New Haven, CT

Responsibilities:

Partnered with Tier 1 vendors to provide full life cycle Enterprise Computing and Storage ramp ups, from presales to training and handoff to their internal operations staff. Task automation in Korn Shell, Perl, and Python. Systems programming in PERL and C. A partial list of clients and partners during this period includes: Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential and Confidential, Confidential, and Confidential .