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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Minnesota

Information Technology Specialist

Responsibilities:

Provide administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 virtual machines hosting the infrastructure for Confidential
Implemented configuration management and orchestration using Ansible.
There was no existing configuration management in place.
Created Ansible playbooks to enforce the requirements of MARS - E (Minimum Acceptable Risk Standards for Exchanges) and CIS Security Benchmarks.
Implemented Red Hat Network Satellite for patch management.
Developed a dynamic Ansible inventory script that gathers data from the Red Hat Network Satellite API to ensure all systems are managed.
Improved the deployment process for new virtual machines from hours to minutes allowing for rapid growth of the environment to meet the demands of open enrollment.

CONFIDENTIAL

Advisory IT Specialist

Responsibilities:

Installation, upgrade, problem determination and support of AIX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0, and Windows Server.
Designed the IT infrastructure for IBM operating systems and firmware development for products including AIX, OS/400, SAN and NAS storage controller products.
The environments were designed for HA and automatic failover.
Perform hardware, OS, and middleware support on 300 AIX servers, 200 Linux servers and 50 Windows servers used for source code builds, Rational applications, DB/2, Websphere, and Git servers.
Creation of dynamic LPARs on IBM pSeries systems and VMWare ESXi virtual machines on X86 to consolidate hardware resources while improving performance.
Support of DB/2, Websphere, ClearCase, Rational Team Concert, and Git on AIX and Linux including problem determination, backup/recovery, and performance tuning.