SUMMARY:

Experienced, driven IT professional with year after year of successful project implementations. Team - oriented senior systems administrator with a solid record of IT server support for several multi-million dollar companies. Self-starter with excellent communications skills and a “quick-study” in order to support new technologies and corporate directions.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Operating Systems: Solaris 2.5.1 through Solaris 10, RedHat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5 & 6, VMWare ESX 3.5, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 and AIX 5.3, 6.1

Hardware: Sun Ultra Enterprise including E10K, E15K, and E25K, StarFire, and SunFire models including E3x00’s, 4x00, & 6x00’s. IBM P770 and P795 with VIO server Sun StorEdge arrays, EMC Symmetrix and Clariion SAN storage arrays, Hitachi Data Storage arrays, Dell 2950, R710, R910, and R905, HP Blade servers and C7000 enclosures

Software: Microsoft Office suite including Access, Veritas products including Volume Manager, File System and Cluster Server versions 3.1 through 6.1, Sun Cluster software versions 3.1 and 3.2. Checkpoint Firewall-1 versions 2.x, 3.x, and 4.0

Networks/Protocols: TCP/IP, WINS, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, FTP, Telnet, Ethernet, ICMP, OpenSSH

Programming: Unix Shell scripting, FoxPro(DOS and Windows), FoxBASE+(DOS and Unix), dBase IV, Turbo Pascal, Clipper 5.2, and Microsoft C

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• responsible for RHEL and CentOS 5/6/7 support on physical and virtual servers which includes troubleshooting, root cause analysis, documentation and planning of new and existing servers.
• Also support VMware environment including configuration of ESXi hosts, VM templates for deployment, and datastores.
• Configuration management using Jenkins as well as frequent scripting using PowerCLI, Expect and BASH.
• Support for Apache, Tomcat, MySQL and Postgres also included.

Confidential

Unix/Linux Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring Service Level Agreements are met by providing high server availability through proactive diagnosis of potential problems as well as the quick resolution of outages caused by unforeseen events. Also provide root cause analysis for unplanned outages by working with vendors as well as application and database support personnel. Responsibilities also include support and troubleshooting of Veritas Cluster Server, Sun Cluster, and HP Service Guard. This support includes all facets of system administration which ranges from routine maintenance to performance and tuning both of the operating system and disk subsystems.
• Participated in migrations from ESX3.5 to ESX4.1 as well as migration from ESX4.1 to ESXi 5.0. Also installed ESX hosts into existing clusters, created new clusters, modified VM templates and developed scripts to quickly deploy VM’s for the client in a large, i.e. 1900-2000 VM, environment. Routinely patched ESX hosts and performed storage migrations to new storage arrays without client impact or downtime.
• Involved in some AIX virtualization projects as well as light experience with HPUX.
• Participated in data center consolidation efforts and disaster recovery drills for clients requesting such services.
• Also involved in mentoring junior team members and knowledge transfer as well as participating in technical planning and consulting discussions as needed.
• Successfully worked as a team member for numerous highly visible projects. Some of these projects included server builds and support for the Nextel Online system and Norton AntiVirus support servers. This required working with vendors as well as the support teams from receiving dock until server implementation and client acceptance.
• Available in the on-call rotation as well as off-hours directly to assist in maintenance and/or problem resolution.

Confidential, Shreveport, LA

Senior Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Provided support to business units through engineering, building, administration and maintenance of Sun servers used to run business applications and databases.
• Participated in annual budgeting and analysis of technology needs.
• Also provided Confidential Netware and WindowsNT server network and desktop support for internal users.
• Provided support for remote access via terminal servers and dial-up devices including the Confidential Access Switch.
• Duties also included daily monitoring and administration of two Sun ES3000’s, three E250’s, and several Confidential ’s and Ultra 10’s in Shreveport as well as Sun servers in our Houston location. I was also involved in the consolidation of several of these servers into a Sun E10000.
• This entailed performance monitoring and proactive administration.
• Occasionally required shell scripting and the use of crontabs to resolve issues or support the users and programming staff. Available on-call to resolve problems outside normal work hours.
• Heavily involved in technical infrastructure planning as relating to business direction. Also experienced in dealing with telco vendors during installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of ISDN, Frame Relay, and T1 equipment and service.

Confidential, Shreveport, LA

Rate Department Load Research Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Also responsible for all PC programming in the Rate Department which includes converting Confidential programs run on an HP-1000 mini computer to run on the LAN.
• Also functioned as the Network Administrator on the Confidential v3.11 Token Ring Network.

Confidential, Shreveport, LA

Analyst/Programmer

Responsibilities:

• responsible for development and maintenance of various PC Systems using DbaseIV, FoxPro, FoxBASE+, Clipper, and C.
• Assisted in development of the Confidential Advantage Electronic Data Interchange System.
• This system runs under SCO UNIX System V on a Compaq SystemPro.
• Also responsible for support of clients using WordPerfect, Lotus and various other software packages on stand alone PC's and through Confidential Token Ring Networks.
• Mainframe experience includes use of TSO and CICS on an IBM 3090 running the MVS/ESA operating system.