SUMMARY:

• IT Engineer with over 25 yrs. experience supporting data centers and end users in large and medium corporate environments.
• Proficient in desktop and back office support of Solaris, Red Hat Linux and Windows operating system’s using software like Logical Volume Manager, Cluster Server and Solaris Disksuite.
• Support of SAN and NAS technologies like EMC, Hitachi and Storagetek arrays and Brocade fabric switches.
• Various positions as team lead and Unix Architect. Experience with technical documentation and security standards and practices.
• Extensive experience with network installs like Cisco products.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: Solaris 2.4 to 11, RHEL 5,6,7, Win10, Windows server 2012/2016, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Clustering, Sun Clustering, RHEL clustering, Powerpath, vxdmp, Sun One Identity Manager, Sun One LDAP, Centrify, Veritas Net - backup, MC-Service Guard, Solstice disk suite, Hitachi Command suite 8.X, NFS, NIS, NIS+, Open-SSH, SMTP, Oracle, Solarwinds, Puppet, Ansible, Cisco, Adtran, Metamako L1 switches, RHN Satellite Manager, Kerberos, ZPool, ZFS, RSA securid, Autosys, TCP/IP, Raid Manager, EMC Solutions Enabler, Docker, Python, k-shell, BASH, Solaris10 zones and containers, Github, Remedy, Glance+, MS-Exchange, Jumpstart, ZFS, LDOM, EMC ECC, KVM, Microsoft Office Suite

Hardware: Sun Microsystem and Oracle servers, Fujitsu PrimePower, Confidential RS6000, Confidential: K through V class and blade servers, CISCO Routers, HP Proliant DL BL servers, ILO, RSC, EMC Symetrix and VMAX, HP disk arrays, Storagetek disk arrays, Hitachi San, Brocade Silkworm Fabric Switches and Mellanox

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Unix Engineer

• Work with internal business units, application owners and stakeholders to onboard all for new internal DevOps application with Jira and Agile.
• Write and append shell scripts on Linux and Solaris servers to facilitate internal application for new product.
• Schedule and train new users for application.
• Update all technical documentation and running lists.
• Installation of WIFI’s and RHEL and Solaris Server installations.
• Physical Datacenter hardware audits of newly acquired companies.
• Installation of Cisco and Adtran routers.
• Migration of end user Win 7 systems to Win 10. Migrate all user profiles and data to new environment.
• Deploy upgraded Dell laptops with windows 10 and assist users to transfer personal files using WDS.
• Assisted in transitioning LDAP over to Windows Active Directory.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Unix Engineer

• Administrate and build RHEL 5, 6, 7 Solaris 10 Sparc and X86 production and Development servers.
• Build virtual servers using Solaris Containers and KVM using EMC VMAX Hitachi and PURE storage using Docker.
• Create Ansible playbooks to automate critical updates and processes to adopt a DevOps infrastructure.
• Managed user environment with Centrify and Oracle Identity Manager using Ansible
• Installation of front facing applications like Apache and Tomcat.
• Lead Administrator responsible for NTP appliances for server time sync on all servers for FINRA compliance.
• Install and configure linux and Veritas clustering on Solaris, RHEL 6 and 7 servers
• Install and administrate Windows 2012,2016
• Installation of AD on linux servers.

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Senior Unix Engineer

• Build Oracle T7 and X86 servers to facilitate technology refresh and expansion of present infrastructure Using Solaris 11 and RHEL 6.
• Create LDOMS on T7 servers and cluster them together using Veritas Cluster Server and Veritas Volume manager.
• Work with system architects and project managers to seamlessly port new systems into service.
• Support day to day activities with present administrators to train them to support new servers.

Confidential

Senior Unix Administrator

• Work with the banks infrastructure team and Architects to transition GM Capitol unix and Windows server 2008, 2012, to Synchrony. This includes all Solaris and RHEL OS’s.
• Install new servers with low latency hardware using Mellanox and Cisco L1 switches for kernel bypass.
• Assist bank security to comply with all SOX and federal compliances to include Oracle Identity Manager.
• Implement Oracle Weblogic 12c servers and clusters on Unix servers.
• Help administrators transition ldap logins to new environment using Centrify.
• Update and configuration changes of servers using Puppet.
• Move zones/zpools and LDOM’s between Solaris servers on T and M series enterprise servers.
• Responsible for detailed documentation and automation using ksh.
• Move critical data using EMC Solutions Enabler to newer EMC storage.
• Team Lead for the Solaris team responsible for remediation of servers.
• Upgrade of Solaris 11.x operating systems to Solaris 11.2 and 11.3.
• Provision and manage new servers and Symmetrix and VMAX LUNS.
• Migrate to newer Brocade Fiber swiches.
• Provision new and existing servers using KVM.
• Installation and administration of Kerberos for proprietary information.

Confidential

Senior UNIX Administrator New York, NY

• Work with in-house Unix Administrators and 3rd party vendors to facilitate the technology refresh.
• Architected new Netbackup platform to support newspaper editors and writers.
• Technology refresh of all Microsoft servers and desktops.
• Documented the current environment and created procedures to manage and support the current environment using Solarwinds.
• Augmented present administrators for day to day administration of the Windows 2012, Solaris and Linux environment.
• Helped create a WebLogic environment for creation of new applications.
• Administered and created new and updated profiles of all VMware servers using VSphere ESXi on X86 servers to include Solaris, Red Hat and Windows 2008, windows 2012.
• Administered all legacy EMC SAN drives and upgraded Apache/tomcat, veritas cluster and volume manager.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior UNIX Administrator

• Team lead who assisted in creating project plan to transition legacy Solaris, AIX, RHEL, Microsoft, Ubuntu and SCO servers and coordinate with the other core infrastructure entities.
• Coordinated with specific user groups and business units to reduce production downtime.
• Provided troubleshooting to all operating system issues like Solaris, HP, SCO, and Linux that had arose.
• Transition legacy EMC storage and Hitachi AMS 2500 and Brocade fiber switches to new site.

Confidential

Senior UNIX Administrator

• Work with Confidential transition team to move 1500 Unix servers to the 2 Confidential host datacenters.
• Provided troubleshooting of all Solaris and RHEL issues and tracked all problems on the steady state team.
• Worked with other administrators to create automated scripts using Ksh.
• Worked with other transition teams like steady state and Storage to resolve any migration issues like Veritas cluster and volume manager Solaris Zones and Logical Domains/LDOMS.
• Worked with all Broadridge business units to ensure production environment uptime.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior UNIX Administrator

• Server builds using JET, jumpstart, kickstart and BladeLogic with pre-approved OS builds.
• Patched 1000 Sun and Fujitsu servers under Solaris 10 using BladeLogic and cluster patches.
• Assist any junior member of the team by training and mentoring them.
• Carved and presented new LUNS From EMC and Hitachi SANS to newly built servers and also built fabrics on Brocade switches.
• Worked with other administrators to create automated scripts using Ksh.
• Support of middleware like Confidential WebSphere Application Server.

Confidential, New York, NY

UNIX Administrator

• Architected new platform to support new subscription customers.
• Troubleshooting and Solaris system builds using Zones and LDOMS for the heavy holiday season.
• Worked with internal and external clients and vendors to support infrastructure.
• Built iSCSI Celera NAS for storage on newly built servers.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Solaris/Linux Administrator

• Supported SMTP, DreamMail and other 3rd party software in a production and development environment.
• Installed networking and security infrastructure like Juniper Netscreens.
• Supported of DNS zones and BIND.
• Administered and provided troubleshooting of Veritas volume manager, Veritas and Sun cluster server, NetBackup, Hitachi SAN and Brocade switches.
• Worked with vendors and external clients to support environment like dreammail and F5 Big-IP.
• Created virtual Solaris and Linux servers using VMware, Zones and LDOMS on Sparc and X86 systems. Installed and provided troubleshooting TCP network issues like SSH, SFTP.
• Created project plan to harden all servers in production and development environments.
• Upgraded and Patched Solaris and Red Hat servers using Solaris Patch Clusters and RHN Satellite manager on production and development servers.

Confidential

UNIX Systems Administrator

• Daily tasks of an administrator to include account and file system creation using Veritas Volume Manager and Solaris volume manager.
• Support of in-house and COTS software to include KEON, Mantas and the Sun One product line.
• Worked with other administrators to create automated scripts using Ksh.
• Troubleshoot server and end user issues.

Confidential, New York, NY

Infrastructure Assessment Engineer

• Worked with vendors, Netezza, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, to get best performance and pricing for Confidential .
• Evaluate how a Data Warehouse appliance would fit into present infrastructure.
• Team Lead who prepared Proof of Concept and initiated it with multiple pilots with vendors.

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator

• Daily administration and troubleshooting of existing UNIX servers.
• Installed and configured in house and 3rd party software like Apache, MQ series etc.
• Responsible for server hardening on all production servers using Kerberos and SecurID. Created Servers using Solaris 10 Zones, VMware ESX and workstation.

Confidential

Team Lead

• Daily support of end user society and software in the business units.
• Part of the upgrade team to migrate Veritas volume manager 3.2 to 4.1. Administered Sun Cluster 3.1 Server, Sun One Webserver, Apache, LDAP and Volume Manager Systems.
• Created servers for DR and test environment using Solaris 10 zones, LDOMS and Domains.
• Responsible for SAN disk upgrade’s and provisioning on EMC Symmetrix using ECC.

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior UNIX Systems Administrator

• Responsible for the installation and administration of Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server, Sun Volume Manager and Sun Cluster 3.0 Server HP OpenView OTO, Service desk and NNM.
• Installed and administered Keon security servers and clients.
• Team lead responsible for the installation and configuration of Sun One LDAP, Sun One Identity manager and Web Server for all production and test servers for the MANTAS anti-money laundering system.
• Administered network using Lucent QIP under TCP/IP and also FIX.

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

UNIX Systems Administrator

• Support of 25 magazine editors to accomplish a 99.5 percent accuracy rate of the magazine content to digital format.
• Daily administration tasks to support 30 HPUX and Solaris based servers.
• Audited and applied patch upgrades to Solaris systems.
• Assessed and make recommendations for company’s UNIX Systems.
• System analysis of Enterprise Boxes consisting of existing Sun Solaris ver. 2.5/2.7 upgrading to ver. 2.8/2.9.
• Installed, configured, and trained Systems Administrator with Clustered HP-L 2000 servers running HP-UX 11i.
• Installed and configured Veritas clustered HP-L 2000 servers running HP-UX 11i.
• Trained new Unix Systems Administrator on HP-UX and basic UNIX security.

Confidential, New York, NY

UNIX Systems Administrator

• Responsible for problem identification and resolution of FIX and TCP/IP network problems.
• Assisted in building and maintenance of Sun Enterprise, Sunfire and Win2k servers.
• Assisted in Disaster Recovery implementation over SAN using Veritas NetBackup.
• Responsible for administering Siteminder security authentication for existing web clients.
• Supported administration of Checkpoint firewall utilizing VPN.

Confidential

UNIX Systems Administrator

• Installed EMC Symmetrix and Veritas NetBackup solution for the disaster recovery site.
• Administered Veritas and Sun clusters and volumes for group.
• Administered Linux servers and desktops.
• Responsible for daily backups using Veritas NetBackup on Storagetek tape silos.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Provided administration, scheduled maintenance and patch upgrades on all production and development servers.
• Reviewed and implemented system, application and kernel changes and upgrades for all servers.
• Provided recommendations for capacity planning and backup solutions for servers using Veritas NetBackup and Omniback.
• Responsible for the administration and installation of Oracle, Veritas volume manager, Autosys, Tivoli, Vignette, Legato, and RAID Manager.
• Responsible for the installation and setup of HP Openview’s ITO, OTO, Glance Plus and NNM. Responsible for scripting, administration and discovery of new systems and creation and testing of new templates and API’s.
• Worked with vendors for all hardware and software ordering.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Administered in-house Confidential DSL provisioning production and test servers on AIX, SUN and Win-NT.
• Installed and tuned SUN disk arrays and JBOD’s using RAID Manager, Veritas volume manager and Solstice.
• Responsible for system, developer and end-user security, provisioning and satisfaction.
• Responsible for the installation and on-going support of Oracle, Veritas Volume Manager, NetBackup, MQ series, RAID Manager and System patches.
• Responsible for user and system level accountability, security and maintenance using Sysadm, Siteminder and administrative commands.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Responsible for implementing new software and patches from Test environment to Production servers.
• Responsible for administration and installation of Oracle, SUN Cluster, Veritas Volume Manager, RAID Manager and System patches.
• Accountable for the maintenance contracts and licenses for all UNIX servers and their software.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Developed and coordinated installation of new security protocols mandated from the Department of Defense.
• Team responsible for the design and implementation of a 1000 node TCP-IP subnet on the military installation using Cisco routers.
• Responsible for training of new system administrators.

Confidential

UNIX Administrator

• Responsible for the training of new Systems Administrators.
• Installed and maintained Oracle, Netscape Server, Raid Manager, Lifekeeper, and Veritas Volume Manager.