TECHNICAL SKILLS

Summary of Qualifications: UNIX engineer with an extensive background of experience spanning over 25 years, with strong system administration, infrastructure, migration, and network communication equipment configuration skills.

Hardware/OS/Misc. experience, Confidential: Xserver, XServer RAID, G5/G4/ Confidential Core2Duo

SAN: Qlogics, Emulex

Confidential: SunFire X2100, X4100, SunFire V240, 440, E1280/E2900/E4900, Confidential Enterprise X4xxx/T5xxx/ 450/4500/3500 , E220R/E420R Confidential Ultra & Netra Series, Confidential A/D1000, StorEdge 3500/4500.

Confidential: Proliant DL180, DL360, DL380, Confidential 9000 series

Dell: 1950/2950, 6xx, 7xx, 8xx, various laptops, storage systems

Confidential: x325,x335,x345,RS6000

PC: x86, x86 64, Itanium, AMD Athelon/Opteron

Palo Alto Firewalls: PA - 3020, PA-500, PA-200

Security: Firewall security certified (CCSA/CCSE) on Checkpoint VPN-1/FW-1 4.0/4.1, Nokia, Confidential PIX (515,525,535)/VoIP, Confidential IOS firewall, Netscreen.

Security protocols/utilities: IPsec, IKE, IDS, SSL, PKI

Application/Utilities/Programming: C/Bourne/Bash scripting, PERL, Awk/Sed, Make, iMake, RCS/ Confidential /Subversion/GIT, gcc, gmake, Cadence, Synopsys, Visual Basic, Photoshop

Web: Tomcat, NGINX, Apache web server including SSL, XML updates, minor CGI programming, and patch updates, Jabber, MS IIS.

Database: MySQL, Oracle installation and setup, Postgres, BDB

Configuration Mgmt: Puppet, Puppet Enterprise, Ansible

Monitoring: Confidential Enterprise, Confidential, MRTG

Unix/Linux: Linux ( Confidential RHEL, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, CentOS 5.x, 6x, 7x, Slackware 9-12.0, SuSE 9.2 Professional, SLES 9, 11, Debian), Mac OS X (10.4-10.13), SunOS/Solaris (4.14, 2.5.1, 2.6, 2.7, 2.8, Solaris9-10), Confidential -UX (9.5-11.0), IRIX, AIX, FreeBSD (8.x, 9.x, 10.x, 12.x).

Confidential: All MS Windows versions, XP, 7, 10 (and server)/ 2003/2008/2012 - Admin experience with networking and communication, installation and hardware. Word, Excel.

Confidential: Routers/Switches (25xx, 36xx, 48xx, 4506, 6509, Nexus, ASA firewall)

NAS: Network Appliance, Netcache, Auspex

Misc: Docker, Legato Networker, VERITAS Volume Manager

Hobbies/Interests: Motorcycling, Formula One, MotoGP, World SuperBike, MotoAmerica, Golf, Music, Audio Recording, Classic Audio restoration, Analog Electronics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sunnyvale, Ca

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Support of EDA design operations configuring scripts for monitoring virtual server instances, installing and configuration of Ubuntu based OS virtual images, and migration and configuration of new server platforms. Use of LSF for job scheduling and many in-house built configuration management and support scripts.

Confidential, San Jose, Ca

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Helped with build up of QA testing environment to emulate production for search engine app testing.
• Also stood up and tore down virtual server instances based on Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 and virtual server based on CentOS 7 environment using OpenStack.

Confidential, San Jose, Ca

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to outline and implement a build and deployment strategy for a 3D printer application in a github/docker integration environment.
• Used combination of docker-compose and Jenkins to automate build process and version tagging for development and staging builds.
• Also required to define OS run environment and installation configuration setup using CentOS7.

Confidential, Scotts Valley, Ca.

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for complete overhaul of system and service level monitoring using Confidential Enterprise and Confidential Network Analyzer.
• Involved set up and configuration of standard set of system and server monitoring plugins as well as migration of home brew monitoring for photo and imaging specific process monitoring. Was also responsible for server setup and configuration using ZFS file systems on a FreeBSD OS environment.
• Supported both FreeBSD 10.x and Linux 6.x and 7.x releases.

Confidential, Monterey, Ca.

Senior Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Design, plan, and implement infrastructure support utilities and services, including monitoring, configuration management, application deployment processes and directory structure, Run application deployment process.
• Config managrment consisted of implementing Ansible playbooks for regular server management, Confidential Core 4 for server helath nd performance monitoring, authentication using a combination of Kerberos and OpenLDAP, Updated server security software to alleviate security vulnerabilities for Apache web certs, openssl, etc.

Confidential, Watsonville, CA

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Project work consisting of installing, configuring new Bugzilla version on CentOS Linux, migrating old version DB into new MySQL DB.
• Installing and configuring SNMP on legacy as well as newer Linux servers.

Confidential, CA

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Brought in to determine and implement solution for automated access and resource deployment for Confidential Government Cloud access by other Confidential centers.
• Decided upon overlapping use of Docker and Ansible tools using Confidential API for automated provisioning and configuration of Cloud resources such as servers configs and storage. M Tested and verified proof of concept.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented server build strategy providing an automated build mechanism for installing the OS, OS services and network configuration, and application install as well as automated updates and security fixes.
• OS environment consisted of CentOS 6.3 Linux and some SuSE 11.0 Linux. Also designed and implemented remote, Out of Band server management and networking access. Configured DHCP services, Confidential (BIND), application proxy (Squid) for secured network communication, Sendmail MTA for server status and general messaging, Server status and monitoring using Confidential . Configured Apache web servers. Installed, configured and used Puppet for configuration management of local data center infrastructure.
• Integrated interconnect with AWS CDN services as well as stand up of virtual servers, storage, and MongoDB backend in AWS, using EC2 and S3 services.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Hired to bring fresh outlook to server build and install environment and to bring automation by mitigating any manual interaction during the process.
• Utilized Cobbler for PXE/Kickstart framework to support many early and later releases of Confidential Linux.
• Incorporated latest release of Puppet Enterprise into build by reconfiguring current file system based structure to master/agent config, thereby allowing purely automated build. Also worked on solutions to user community issues using case number based tracking system solving various problems do to setup and configuration of users login environment as well as OS and networking issues. Other work involved verification of evaluation server hardware, primarily from Dell and Confidential, to test support for the on board Confidential and Disk controller on various Confidential versions.
• Wrote various shell scripts to implement Confidential bonding, of the current server inventory into the Cobbler configuration, and automated shutdown of servers for LSF version upgrade procedure.
• Currently working to help with multiple MySQL database migrations to new server hardware, mostly involving the installation of the proper package versions for MySQL and PHP.

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Senior Linux Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Brought in to help plan and implement OS migration strategy from Solaris on Sparc to Linux on X86 64 for various production environments.
• Developed OS provisioning via the use of Cobbler and various support scripts for custom environments. Scripting consisted of bash and python interface to Cobbler.
• Configured provisioning for Confidential Proliant DL180 and DL360 and Confidential X41xx Confidential /AMD hardware.
• Managed Confidential subscriptions Installed and configured Enterprise edition of Confidential monitoring application, including monitoring module installations and configuration using zenpack and scripting.
• Installation included Resource Manager, Global Operations Manager, Confidential, and Analytics. Configuration installations beyond server and network monitoring included set up of custom Dashboard.
• Managed systems and servers via Puppet Enterprise. Handled normal configs such as ntp. Root password, cron, apache, MySql, package versions, and security updates.

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Senior Linux Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Consultant role required travel to customer site to implement architecture design provided by Systems Engineering group.
• Responsibilities included understanding of customer environment implementation and configuration of OS and OS related applications and services, customer education, and documentation of implementation procedure and product install.
• Knowledge about various OS environments, networking, enterprise and development environments, Confidential OS, Satellite Server, Storage and Clustering, and Virtualization required.

Confidential, Belmont, CA

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Startup company supplying web, broadcast, video on demand.
• Responsibilities included managing a team of three for the development and implementation Confidential, backups using Amanda.
• Also responsible for initial data center design and bring up for production servers and services. Environment mix of Dell/Linux and Confidential /Solaris platforms.
• Involved in bring up of various application environments including Apache, Tomcat, PHP, Jabber, and MySQL.
• Responsible for development of scalable platform environment implemented by other SA's. Reported directly to VP of Engineering.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Senior Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Hired to architect and implement Confidential directory services, centralized user development environment, automated OS installs and configuration, and centralized deployment for web and apps in CentOS Linux environment. Installed openLDAP servers, replicated servers, and client. Configured BIND ( Confidential ) and stratum 3 NTP servers.
• Migrated all user accounts to centralized Confidential server with Confidential authentication. Utilized TLS/SSL for secure web server authentication, VPN access. Setup local Certificate Authority for key generation and authentication, and local signing

Confidential, CA

Senior Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing PXE/Kickstart automated OS installs and configuration for CentOS 5.x.
• Also re-wrote initrd install configs to automate OS install for Slackware 12.0 and Slamd64 12.0(64-bit Slackware).
• Configured and implemented four PXE/Kickstart servers in regionally separate areas.
• Created automated sync routines via dialogue script for keeping them up to date.
• Configured and implemented OpenLDAP for QA and development labs, as well as Data Center Operations for authenticated access into Unix/Linux based web and database servers.
• Working on Confidential consolidation to simplify and make more efficient the overall Confidential structure and zone information.
• Also required to deploy web content and virus definitions as well as utilizing Test Track Pro for handling of trouble tickets involving hardware and software issues.

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Support and administration of Confidential Store website resources. Periodic pushes of XML and application code to web and applications servers. All XML and related code version tracked using SubVersion. Checked out and in configuration file for updates, and ran build scripts for update of application servers.
• Developed scripts for process automation. Installation, configuration, and burn in of site database, application, and web servers with Mac OSX and Solaris.
• Backup install, config, and support for Confidential Store website and departmental servers using Jumpstart and Mac CD/Image disk based installations.
• Coordination of company product announcements for updating entire website including several global locations. Lead for departmental implementation of Confidential version of Confidential .

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Sr. Staff Engr./IT Lab Manager, OS Imaging Team

Responsibilities:

• Based on Business Unit Requirements, configure, test, certify and deploy OS images on various platforms( Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, x86,x86 64). Configuration and testing consisted of driver testing for network, hard disk/RAID controller, video accelerator, and graphics testing. Other services testing to include Confidential, automount, amd, sendmail, NIS/ Confidential (server/client). and compiler testing.
• OS config and testing on x86( Confidential and SuSE Linux), Confidential (Solaris), Confidential -UX, Confidential /SuSE), and Confidential ( Confidential /SuSE, AIX) platforms. All OS configuration and setup files for certified OS’s were version controlled using Confidential .
• Installed and configured centralized Confidential server and outlying development clients for departmental code change operations. Install, config, and deployment of Opsware auto-provisioning application for OS deployment to Linux, Windows, and Solaris platforms.
• Installed, configured, and utilized VMware for proof of concept testing within the Cadence application environment.
• Started Lab Improvement Project to consolidate system resources, move extraneous systems from cubicles and provide better managed environment for different groups’ testing. Also, to be used for overlapping of platform resources for testing to be achieved by web-based scheduling process.
• Involved in Data Center Management evaluation of KVM/Serial Console solution for all data center system console access.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Lab Manager/Windows-Unix systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Manage Windows(2K Server & Advanced Server) and Unix(Linux, Confidential 8.0 & EL 3.0/3.1, SuSE 9.0, & UL) compiler development labs for X86 and Itanium based platforms Install, configure, and test Windows 2k, 2003 Server, and various Linux distributions.
• Automate post install procedures, review, and document Involved in lab improvement design, purchasing, and implementation

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Operations Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Monitor various Web and Database systems for fault occurrences in both hardware and application levels.
• Use network based tools to access systems and resolve current fault conditions.
• Monitor network and system load conditions and resolve as needed.
• Scripting and Perl programming of file distribution and system configuration programs.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Part-time Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Solaris installations(Solaris 7/8) and configuration, including OS performance tuning for different production environments, i.e. Oracle, Synopsys, Cadence.
• JumpStart installation and configurations including auto loading of applications and app profiles, Confidential Workshop, JDK, GCC/G++.
• Installation of Confidential storage arrays, A/D1000, StorEdge 3500. Installation of Ultra and Enterprise class machines, Ultra 1 - 80, E3500, E4500.
• Configuration of Confidential Automounter and NIS to provide for different platform access to user accounts, development environments, and localized utilities.
• Sendmail/ Confidential setup and config, ISP connectivity, and Apache installation and initial setup.
• Checkpoint and Confidential PIX firewall installation and configuration, including VPN setup and DMZ B to B, and Internet services hosts i.e.
• Sendmail relay, Confidential server, Citrix client/server. Config of Confidential Routers (26xx - 36xx), switches (29xx, 35xx, 45xx), and PIX 15, 25 firewalls.