SUMMARY:

Self starter with 18 years of professional experience in a wide variety of primarily *nix - based environments from small, family owned businesses to fortune 500 companies. Often assisting with neglected environments without the benefit of backup support. Utilizing strong root cause analysis skills, a wide breadth and depth of experience, and highly logical reasoning to resolve technical issues and recommend solutions.

RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential

Sr. Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Joined after previous Linux administrator of 20 years passed and company had been running without one for several months with previously unfamiliar technologies.
• Completely re-designed environment for stability, scalability, and agility.
• Utilizing VMWare, AWS, plus several backup and monitoring solutions working closely with developers and DBAs.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the care and daily maintenance of the UNIX systems in the Delta environment.
• Geographically diverse environment of co-mingled HP-UX, AIX, Solaris and Linux systems.
• Employing a variety of clustering software and authentication methods.
• Responsible for request queue and provide assistance in resolving incidents as they arise.
• Work with a wide variety of departments to meet needs in a long-term sustainable method.

Confidential

Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for a diverse array of business client projects.
• Examples include T1/DSL installs, ASA installs, datacenter moves, office relocations, and linux cluster turn-ups.
• Also responsible for internal infrastructure projects including core switch/router replacements, automation and coding projects such as developing vmware guest file recovery software for internal use.

Confidential

Technologist

Responsibilities:

• Solaris, Linux, OpenBSD system administration, and perl coding projects in the Center for Biomedical Research Informatics at the Confidential .
• This department had its own datacenter and managed mail/networking for several departments in the Confidential .

Confidential

Sales and technical support

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the sales floor and fielded technical questions and problems.
• Took in service requests and worked on customer's computers to resolve issues.

Confidential

Co-Founder

Responsibilities:

• Created iPhone application to create a heat map of real-time social media activity as an event and an advertisement platform.
• Developed custom algorithm to estimate population densities.
• Utilized AWS as back-end for geo diversity, scalability, and security.

Confidential

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Evening and weekend contract support for RedHat Linux environment primarily serving routing via iptables and DNS functions.
• Emergency reference for both the RedHat Linux environment and Vmware environment.