SUMMARY:

Career IT professional with an apt ability to function within cross - functional technical teams in developing, implementing and supporting cost-effective and highly efficient IT solutions. Vast experience in implementing, administering, and supporting information systems. Expert at providing onsite and remote help desk operations. Experienced in strategic planning, lifecycle management, creating and implementing policies and procedures, and in implementing key initiatives under budget and within required deadlines.

AREAS OF STRENGTH:

• Analytic Problem Solving Troubleshooting Systems Design
• Collaborative Teammate Help Desk Management Policies/Procedures
• Leadership Technology Solutions to fit budgets.

TECHNICAL SKILL:

Operating Systems: Microsoft (Server 2003/2008/2012 ), Mac OS, VMware (ESXi, VSphere Client, Workstation) Linux (RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, etc.).

Software: Apache, Jboss, Samba, Putty, FTP, DNS, Jira, GIT, Fail2ban, Nagios, McAfee Endpoint Protection and Encryption, Bind, Nagios, Rsync, VPN, MS Office, Webmin, Lynis, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Elastic Load Balancer, Identity Management, Puppet.

Programming: Bash scripting, Kickstart, AWS EC2, Amazon, Puppet

PROFESSIONAL AND WORK EXPERIENCE:

Linux System Administrator

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, securing and monitoring of system infrastructure
• Work and support developer by setting up development workflow and managing them
• Analyze system logs and identify potential issues with computer systems
• Created and deleted user accounts enforce security and compliance rules to regarding passwords and access to computer systems.
• Perform routine audits of systems and software
• Perform backups and backup maintenance checking
• Provide End to End Linux Administration including installation, configuration, upgrades, and maintenance and troubleshooting of Linux systems.
• Created Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) stance and service groups using AWS.
• Coordinated traffic between application and AWS instances using Elastic Load Balancer
• Monitoring instances using
• Day-to-day, hands on work building, and maintaining Linux systems in a highly virtualized (VMware) environment.
• Use of Kickstart to build automation into daily processes, including server builds
• Backup Administration duties include: monitoring backups across a variety of technologies, implementing new backup policies, restore of d Confidential, and remediation of backup issues
• Provide thorough documentation of the various issues handled along with the resolution
• Provide use of shell scripting in Red Hat Linux for automation of tasks.

Linux System Administrator

Confidential, Rockville, Maryland

Responsibilities:

• Install, upgrade and manages packages via RPM and YUM package management.
• Accomplish a variety of tasks in a timely and organized fashion
• Monitor system hardware and software performance
• Build type1hypervisor Vmware exsi, hardware support
• Express proficiency at written and oral communication on the ability to work with people at every level
• Provided on call support by rotation 24x7x365
• Installation, setup and configuration of RHEL and Centos.
• Installation, configuration and support of Apache, MySQL, Tomcat.
• Version control using Git.
• Run, maintain, setup schedule work (Cron), protect and rescue file systems
• Configuration and troubleshooting of LAN issues.
• Installation and support of software based firewalls using McAfee
• Setting up domains, group policies and organizational units using AD
• Setup of NFS and Samba file sharing services on Linux and Windows environments
• Install Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration, performance tuning
• Monitor System Performance (Virtual memory, Disk and CPU utilization)

System Administrator

Confidential, Confidential, MD

Responsibilities:

• Experience administering, installing, configuring and maintenance of Linux.
• Experience installing, upgrading and configuring RedHat Linux 5.x, 6.x using Kickstart Servers Interactive Installation and partitioning.
• Responsible for creating and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring in Solaris, CentOS and Redhat Linux
• Configures DNS, NFS, FTP, remote access, and security management.
• Creates Linux Virtual Machines using VMware Vsphere Client.
• Installs, upgrades and manages packages via RPM and YUM package management
• Installs Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration, performance tuning on Unix/Linux systems.
• Installs, configures and supports Apache on Linux production servers.
• Manages Patches configuration, version control, service pack and reviews connectivity issues regarding security problem.
• Reset password and unlock locked user account
• LAN, router and switches configuration.
• Configure and perform TCP/IP trouble shooting on servers
• Monitor system logs and activity on all servers

Help Desk Technician

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Responsibilities:

• Experience administering, installing, configuring and maintenance of Linux.
• Provide technical support to customers via telephone, email and update tickets
• Analyze and troubleshoot software and hardware issues.
• Identify and resolve issues pertaining to network configuration
• Create held desk documentation with step by step instructions on problem resolving techniques.
• Installed operating system, software, and antiviruses.

Internet Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Grant users access to the internet.
• Troubleshoot internet related issues
• Upgraded from Windows Pentium 3 to Pentium 4
• Installed antiviruses to the servers