TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: Red Hat Linux 5, 6, 7 CentOS 6, 7 Ubuntu, Windows 2000/XP/2003/2008 R2

Networking: LAN/WAN, TCP/IP, Firewalls, DHCP, DNS, VLAN, Port forwarding, DMZ, Traffic shaping

Web Servers: Apache, Tomcat, LAMP, IIS, ftp, JBoss, SSL, SSH, GPG Encryption Key based authentication

Applications/Tools: AWS, MS Office, Anti - virus, Ghost, Shell, HTML, BASH, Python, Scripting, JBoss, VMware

Hardware: PC/server, routers, switches, firewall appliance, console, FTP service, Samba, Multipathing

Skills and Knowledge: Ability to breakdown and creatively solve problems, Flexible and adaptable at applying skills to different situations, Eager to learn and continuously improve

File Encryption: I have experience with the following encryption methods; gpg key, ssh, ssl, 3DES, AES

Quality Assurance: Systems Integration planning, testing, preparation, and execution using industry standards.

Specialties: Automation scripting, Server Administration, TroubleshootingTesting and Implementation of New Technologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Linux Systems Administrator

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• I have quickly become a valued resource as others come to me for help with technical questions such as encryption, ssh keys, scripting and automation with Red Hat Linux.
• I launched patching of our Re Hat Linux environment by creating a process for our Maintenance Team to follow, creating automation scripts to stop/start server applications, restart services or reboot servers as necessary with application status email notifications and push errata with Confidential.
• I lead a team of Engineers to create new user groups and modify file and directory permissions for our billing application SingleView to meet SOX compliance by migrating local UNIX users to Active Directory on Linux servers via Confidential .
• I helped VOIP Engineers with a BroadSoft migration by modifying their UNIX scripts to make them compatible with the new Red Hat servers and add alerting functionality to track files for billing purposes.
• I learned a little Python to create a script which strips the hash from the shadow file from Linux users for SOX audit purposes.

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Member of executive leadership for Confidential Information Technology (IT) division and report directly to the CEO.
• As Director, Organization-wide duties include providing direction and leadership for the development and implementation of new technology services, as well as serve as the IT leader for
• Strategic Technology Planning, Technology Services Standardization, Accessibility and Accommodation, Sustainability, and Marketing.

Senior Engineer - IT Consultant

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

Responsibilities:

• As an Information Technology manager I have helped businesses around the valley improve efficiency by improving internal processes and auditing internal quality controls.
• I helped improve vendor and customer relationships with a customer service approach to providing project and resource management services by regularly attending customer on-site work-flow meetings and establish a consistent work schedule for the team.
• I have helped with disaster recovery process audits and have been an active Change Control member.
• I troubleshoot escalated technical issues and perform root cause analysis for outages as well as offer a recommend solution.

IT Program Manager

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Domain Controller Schema extension
• Build Cloud Fail-over for Active Directory and DNS
• Active Directory migration
• Manage Exchange, Sonicwall, & Mail enabled Public folders
• Increase business by improving customer service
• Improve efficiency by adjusting processes
• Deploy Windows, Linux, Unix, and Network Systems for Confidential

Senior Windows System Administrator

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Administer 8000+ servers in a multi domain environment
• Automated patch management using SCCM 2007 & 2012
• Administer physical and virtual Windows and Linux Servers SSH, RDP
• Update, resolve incident tickets documenting system outages
• Analyze, troubleshoot, resolve alerts, capacity constraints
• Participate in change control process
• Perform root cause analysis for outages and environment errors, recommend approach

Enterprise Systems Administrator/Computer Maintenance Technician

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Administer 550+ servers in multi domain environment
• Integration of SQL Server, Oracle database with application server
• Integration of ASP. Net with SQL Server database
• Administer Windows, Linux Servers using VMWare/ESX, SSH, RDP
• Test and Roll out New Technologies
• Use of Satellite to patch Linux systems
• Worked as part of a team using VMWare clustering
• Update, resolve incident tickets documenting system outages
• ITIL Production Change Control best practices
• Participate in Change Advisory Board (CAB)
• Perform root cause analysis for outages, issues, break/fix
• Web Hosting with IIS, Apache, LAMP (Java, XML web services)
• Deploy n-Tiered web application using front-end reverse-proxy solutions
• Administer Active Directory environment