TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SOFTWARE: Citrix 5.0,Cyrus IMAP v.1.5.14 Mail Server, Hummingbird Exceed, Legato Networker, Lotus Notes 4.5, Excel, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, NFS, Confidential, Samba, Oracle 10gR2/11gR1/11gR2, Red Hat Directory Server, TCPIP, TCP Wrappers, Tripwire, SSH 2.1, SUN PC/NFS, Veritas File System Mgr., Veritas Volume Mgr.,, Post. Office v3.5.1 POP Mail Server, Platform Computing LSF 4.0, Xen, Symantec Backup Exec, OnTap(Network Appliance), PuppetProgramming Languages: Korn Shell, Perl, Python

Operating Systems: AIX(4.3 - 7.1),,FreeBSD/NetBSD,, HPUX 10.x/11.x, IRIX (5.x-6.x), Microsoft Server 2008,2012, Oracle Enterprise Linux(5.1-5.6r)Red Hat Linux, 4.4-7.0,SunOS, Suse Linux(9.0-11.4),Solaris (2.5.1-10), Ubuntu ( .04 )

HARDWARE: 3Com MegaRaid, Adaptec SCSI controllers, Cisco Wireless Airport 1200, DEC Alpha 2100, EMC IP4700,Exabyte Jukebox, HP AutoRAID, HP Laser Printers, HP9000/, HP9000/835,,HP J6000,HP Integrity, IBM RS, Intel PCs, Netscreen & Linux Firewall, Network Appliance: 740,820,fas840 Filers, SGI Indy and Octane, Sun: X2200,T2000, Oracle Sun T4,, Sequent SE 30, Intel X86/64, AMD64

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• managing a mixed operating system environment of physical and virtual machines mostly on X86, X64 architectures, associated tasks included the following: package installation and updates; system builds for standalone and dual-boot Windows/Linux
• Workstations; VMWare Hypervisor deployments and subsequent VM host and guest management.
• A number of VM guest platforms were not officially supported by VMWare.
• The challenge of this environment is the number of platforms, and the nuances of each, which thwart a common procedure to resolve problems and perform sundry system administration tasks

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Senior System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported a development environment of HP-UX, Solaris, AIX; key tasks included the following: systems builds of physical and virtual machines, clustering configurationfirmware and patch remediation, creating golden images for system deployment.
• Attended vendor training or completed self-study on the following topics: high-availability clustering, virtualization, SQL, Oracle 11gR2 Database Administration

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Senior Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included the following: systems support for a mixed production and test environment of Solaris, HPUX, Red Hat Linux, Windows 2003; installation and integration of new technology and or processes into the production environment including: Citrix Metaframe

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Senior Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• 5.0 Presentation Server, Cisco Wireless LAN Access Point, Solaris Jumpstart Server, HP Ignite Server; research, recommend ordinary hardware and software purchases and capital expenditure items; ensure maximum of availability of all IT system resources in 24X7 environment; build redundancy through HP Ignite, Solaris Jumpstart, OS-imaged system disks, and processes and procedures documentation; initiation of an IT project to migrate production data from flat file to relational database and publish data using Apache, MySQL and PHP environment

Confidential, San Jose, CA

IT Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assemble, configure, test and support Windows XP desktop/laptops and Windows 2003 servers. Build and configure systems from raw components and assemble into a deployable system
• MS Exchange 2003 mail server administration: add/modify user accounts using ADC.
• File server backup and network system administration includes DHCP/DNS/WINS. Implementation and deployment of 3com NBX voice over IP phone/voice mail system.
• Create and administer PBX user accounts, install Ethernet cabling and program user phones. Install conference room cabling and ceiling mounted projection system.
• Provide after-hours IT help desk and network administration/support.
• Provide backup coverage for IT Director in his absence.
• Facilities responsibilities included: cubicle tear down and build, cubicle reconfiguration and personnel moves.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Sr. Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate existing data storage environment, recommend a new configuration to improve consistency of data on all systems and implement new solution with minimal impact to the production environment, configure Red Hat AS Taroon, 64-bit operating systemand seamlessly integrate the OS with Confidential and Automounter.

Confidential, Raleigh,NC

Sales Associate

Responsibilities:

• Assisted buyers and sellers in the facilitation of residential real estate transactions

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Systems support including: Confidential install and configuration.
• Samba install and configuration, rdist install and configuration.
• Performance monitoring and recommendations to correct bottlenecks.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Staff Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Front line systems support for both the ASIC Design and Wireless Multimedia groups.
• Responsible for daily support of both, ensuring availability of resources, stabilizing the legacy environment, planning for growth and sundry Unix administrator tasks.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported Unix Systems in a 24/7 multi-platform,Solaris,AIX,HPUX, production environment, including maintaining critical enterprise servers running Oracle and SAP.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Veritas Volume Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed corporate-wide roll out of new POP and IMAP mail servers, identifying and correcting non-Y2K compliant hardware and software.
• Responsible for capacity planning for growth and recommending specific solutions to system performance, secondary backup strategy for disaster recovery, installation/removal of OS kernel patches, compilation of 3rd party software packages as required by development.