OBJECTIVE:

Systems Administration in an Engineering / Financial environment

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

• Supporting Engineering/Financial data centers
• Configure & Build Solaris / Linux servers supporting both Engineering & Financials
• Build & Support Model N servers in test and production
• Build & Support BI servers in test and production
• Re engineer and move EXAR, Sipex, and HI/FN Engineering networks to new VLAN
• Configure & Support VNC remote VPN connections
• Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer systems
• Introducing and integrating new technologies into existing data center environments
• Performing routine audits of systems and software
• Performing backups
• Applying operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes
• Installing and configuring new hardware and software
• Adding, removing, or updating user account information
• Answering technical queries
• Responsible for security
• Troubleshooting any reported problems
• System performance tuning
• Ensuring the network infrastructure is up and running.
• Apply SOX standards including change - control procedures

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS environments: Solaris, Red-hat, Linux Help Desk tools: Remedy - System Maintenance Contracts Veritas volume manager disk modeling - MS Project Management Firewall & DMZ environments - BEA tools Middleware Tuxedo, WebLogic content filtering Corporate network topology, availability - sh, csh, ksh, bash System Monitoring: Remon, Tivoli, SRS - Alerting CA Unicenter, Cacti & Nagios/RRD Sun ReMon/SRS/CA Unicenter Big Brother - Network IDS Firewall IDS & Network Analysis - Legatto / Veritas Netbackup Ipchains, Masquerading, NAT - AppWorx Scheduling

COMMUNICATION SKILLS: Comfortable working with all ranges of colleagues from entry-level to executive management, with the ability to articulate clearly to all situations. Excellent presentation and writing skills.

Ability to guide team / co: workers utilizing influence and encouragement to motivate.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS: Strong skills in managing projects from inception through deployment, exercising interpersonal, technical, managerial, and problem-solving skills to successfully meet objectives. Tracked and reported to management projects using MS Project Gantt and Pert (Project Evaluation and Review Technique) charts.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Staff Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Support both the Engineering and Financials Data Centers.
• Primary Systems Administrator and on-call 24x7 support for Sun/Solaris and Red-Hat/Linux servers.
• Engineering environment comprised of 52 Sun/Solaris and Red-Hat Linux servers. 70 Solaris / Linux workstations.
• Financials environment comprised of 32 Sun/Solaris and Red-Hat Linux servers running Oracle Database/Financials
• 24X7 support for all production servers and processes

Confidential

Sr. UNIX Sys Admin

Responsibilities:

• Provide UNIX Systems Administration services to clients of Confidential including Computer Sciences Corporation, Electronic Data Systems, and Sun Microsystems. Key assignments and accomplishments for these clients included:
• Provide technical architecture leadership to drive a large scale project to consolidate 600+ Sun Solaris Enterprise servers.
• Create, document and implement global standards for Disk-Modeling using Veritas File System and Volume Manager.
• Architect servers with Database and Application Administrators to deploy/consolidate iPlanet, Apache, LDAP, Oracle servers.
• Derive a build process flow for development, test, staging, and production environments and ensuring architectural compliance.
• Develop and maintain functional specifications of all environments.

Confidential

Sr. UNIX Sys Admin

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining the corporate UNIX / Solaris systems, 24x7x365 in both domestic and overseas data centers.
• Provide internal customers with maximum availability of business-required applications and processes.
• Sr. Systems Administrator/Lead of team of Sun Solaris / Linux administrators supporting worldwide manufacturing and R&D processes.
• Manage business fundamentals, including manufacturing downtime due to server unavailability.
• Administer corporate Internet access and security using firewall technology.
• Design and deploy Internet access policies.
• Assist the NT server group on maintenance projects.
• Planned and implemented two data center moves.
• Work with management and customers to plan and budget for future projects and growth, forecast rolling quarter and fiscal budgets.
• Unix, Solaris, Linux, Open-VMS: Plan/Install/Administer Sun Servers using Solaris / Sun OS, Linux servers and VAX/VMS-Open-VMS.
• Veritas vxfs, vxvm, and NetBackup on corporate Sun Enterprise Servers, supporting the Corporate Engineering, Development, ERP, Document Control, and HR environments. Extensive Disk Modeling using Volume Manager.
• Plan/Install/Administer AppWorx Scheduling software.
• Deploy and support PeopleSoft ERP on Sun Solaris Servers
• Deploy and support BEA Tuxedo Middleware for PeopleSoft
• Support the Corporate Help Desk and implemented the UNIX-based Remedy application.
• Implemented and Administered File System / Raw Partition Database backups using Veritas NetBackup & SQL Backtrack.
• Support the Data Transfer Process Improvement Teams' NFS solutions in the Production Environment.
• Implement and administer the corporate network security & policies using CheckPoint FW-1. Also Ipsec, Ipchains, Masquerading/Ipforwarding, NAT. BIND/DNS and Sendmail