OBJECTIVE:

To advance my career, as a systems architect/engineer or manager, within a dynamic and an enjoyable environment. To leverage my skill sets with 10+ years of experience and expand my capabilities as a leader in system design, engineering and Operations. Particularly, in a Unix/Linux environment.

SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience with various UNIX and Linux operating systems.
• Red Hat Linux, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE Enterprise Linux, Debian and various other Linux Operating Systems and Confidential platforms.
• Troubleshooting and working with Virtual Network Functions including: Nokia, Ericsson, Cisco, Maviner, Redhat, Star OS, and Meta Switch.
• Production and lab environment support using: Linux, Confidential, and Ansible tower and Cisco UCS servers
• Automating manual tasks using: Shell script and Python
• Monitoring all hardware and software health using: Nagios and HP Open View
• Deploying Redhat Confidential on Cisco UCS servers to support VNFs for IOT and 5G networks using: Kubernetes.
• KVM and RHEV Hypervisor architecture and administration, libvirt, and including RHEL Clustering and HA.
• VSphere Linux client implementation/administration.
• AWS & Cloud Infrastructure administration (OS levels).
• Sun/Oracle Solaris Unix administration including LDOMS and zones/containers.
• Linux Dockers/Containers, Red Hat OpenShift.
• Capacity planning and management.
• Apache/Nginx and github experience.
• Kickstart, Jumpstart, Saltstack, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.
• Borne, Korn, Perl, Bash scripting, TCL, Ruby and Python scripting.
• Oracle RAC architecture deployment (OS level) and system administration.
• P2V and V2V migration planning and implementation (Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise & CentOS).
• Kernel Tuning/configuration and management.
• Mac OSX architecture, planning and administration.
• OS support/implementation of various monitoring platforms (Zenoss, LibreNMS, etc).
• Windows AD/LDAP/OpenLDAP architecture and administration (Unix/Linux/OSX).
• VMware VCM SCR node administration, Vrealize, Veem.
• System/OS Hardening and security.
• Lead technical troubleshooting and problem solving in Operational Production environments.
• NTP experience and assurance of proper stratum to the reference clock(s) and servers.
• Enhancing relationships with management, client users, vendors, and team members to ensure the appropriate and on - time delivery of projects and solutions with a strong ROI.
• Well versed/experienced in utilization of Qualys Scans for compliance remediation, vulnerability and security review.
• Well versed/experienced in ITIL & ITSM, ISMS, NIST, ISO 31000, HIPAA and SOX compliance.
• Experienced in 2FA/MFA integrations.

EXPERIENCE:

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Involved in all phases of customer interaction including customer analysis and design implementation.
• Support NFV infrastructure for IOT, 5G and 4G LTE network elements.
• Deploy Redhat Confidential for Production & Labs.
• Design and build Confidential cloud infrastructure on bare-metal hardware for Confidential IOT, 5G, 4G LTE projects.
• Support Virtual Network Functions (VNF) team in deploying, configuring, and upgrades. Automate tasks using configuration management tool.
• Monitor Health of Confidential and hardware.

Senior Manager - Unix

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead in migrating client from Axway sftp solution to Multifactor SFTP solution utilizing Gemalto SafeNet Mobilepass with Token+OTP integration.
• Technical lead in providing technical direction, planning, vision and implementation for numerous client environments, concerning Unix/Linux environments.
• Provide recommendations for reduction in operating costs, performance tuning, capacity planning, virtualization & clustering solutions.
• Provide technical direction, planning and execution with implementing new Unix/Linux environments within Vsphere infrastructure as well as stand-alone, monolithic servers.
• Establish and enhance relationships with management, users, vendors, and team members to ensure the appropriate and on time delivery of projects and solutions with a strong ROI.
• Evaluate and/or create new tools/scripts and techniques to facilitate effective development practices, OS hardening and automation in implementation rollout.
• Lead design and implementation of Windows AD integration of linux clients.
• Assignment architecting and implementation of RHEV environment supporting multiple Oracle/Oracle RAC, MySQL Hypervisors and Application VMs, including redundancy and DR environment.
• Design and implement multi-node/redundant RHEL environments utilizing Vsphere for numerous clients, with redundancy and DR.
• Lead planning and implementation for LibreNMS monitoring environment.
• Implement VMware VCM SCR Linux nodes, in support of VCM automation environment.
• Design and implement Squid proxy environment to support client software subscriptions and licensing requirements (RHEL, VMware, etc) and including patching support.
• Qualys Scans for compliance remediation, vulnerability and security review.

Senior Unix Infrastructure Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Assignment working with Portfolio Analysis team to Confidential through Corus360.
• Provide technical direction, planning and vision to clients concerning Unix (Oracle Solaris, AIX and HPUX) and Linux (RHEL, SuSE Enterprise, etc) infrastructure.
• Provide recommendations for reduction in operating costs, performance tuning, capacity planning, virtualization & clustering solutions.
• Provide technical direction, planning and vision to clients in recommendations concerning Websphere and JBOSS environments (upgrade, consolidation, migration from WAS to JBOSS where appropriate, etc).
• Evaluate and/or create new tools and techniques to facilitate effective development practices.
• Communicate development needs and interests to product and project teams and others.
• Assignment architecting and implementation of RHEV environment supporting multiple Oracle RAC, MySQL Hypervisors and Application VMs, including redundancy and DR environment.
• Assignment working on Cross-browser project for testing lab environment. Introducing Mac OSX clients into existing Windows AD, management of OSX clients through ARD, VNC and RDP through Aquaconnect Terminal Services, etc.
• Datacenter Architect assignment. Design and implement multi-node/redundant RHEL environment utilizing VMware ESX for major pharmaceutical client. Providing customer facing web access to billing, accounting and purchasing. Multiple physical node implementation utilizing Oracle 11g RAC, with redundancy and DR.
• Datacenter Architect & Implementation assignment. Design and implement multi-node/redundant RHEL Cluster/HA environments under VMware ESX, supporting BMC ProactiveNet.
• Datacenter Architect & Implementation assignment. Design and implement multi-node Ubuntu 12.04.05 LTS environment for POC analysis under VMware ESX conversion & migration from AWS migration.
• Datacenter Architect & Implementation assignment. RHEL Satellite design to support multi-tenant environment.

Senior Unix Systems Engineer

Confidential, Kansas City, MO

Responsibilities:

• Migrated DNS servers from CentOS to RHEL, serving both internal and external views and administrated/maintained DNS environment.
• Migrated Windows Name servers (DNS) that were acquired by acquisition of another company to RHEL and configured caching-only name services.
• Assured system time accuracy through utilization of NTP and assurance of proper stratum to the reference clock(s).
• Lead in design, architecture and implementation of new Solaris Zones/Container/ZFS/LDOM environment, replacing existing Veritas Cluster environment, realizing a savings of a quarter of a million dollars in yearly licensing and providing a more robust and dynamic operations environment and a more stable level of service.
• Architect, build and maintain multi-node Oracle 10g and 11g RAC cluster utilizing GRID and Clustering. Production RAC multi-node, Disaster Recovery RAC.
• Architect, administer and maintain Various Solaris x86, Ubuntu, SuSe CentOS and Red Hat Linux nodes and VMs through VMWare ESX infrastructure.
• Administrate and maintain health and availability of E-class Sun Servers, including T-series.
• Administrate and maintain health and availability of Bind 9.x DNS servers running on CentOS 5.x. and RHEL. Entry and update DNS records, caching servers, forwarders, etc.
• Produced Capacity plans and management reports by evaluating trends on existing systems and working with the Delivery and Dev teams to understand future roadmaps.
• Support and maintain user-base of over 1,000,000 customers for accounting and usage metrics (Billing) through Oracle Database Servers.
• Administrate and maintain health and availability of E-class Sun Servers (E-series, Sunfire, etc) and various mid-range Sun Servers (280r, V490, etc.).
• Administrate and maintain health and availability of a variety of Linux-based Servers.
• Support and maintain user-base of over 1,000,000 customers for accounting and usage metrics (Billing) through Oracle Database Servers.
• Write and maintain shell scripts to support platform and maintain reporting of availability and customer usage statistics.
• Responsible to refine and develop detailed operational processes.
• Lead all technical troubleshooting and problem solving in the Operational Production environment.