SUMMARY:

• An experienced IT professional with more than thirteen (13) years of hands on experience in Information Technology and digital media.
• A resolute problem solver who is vast and experienced in almost every aspect of New Technology.
• A team leader with skills to communicate project ideas to team - members/owners/stakeholders
• Current experience in AWS, VMware, Automation,Configuration Management, Code Inspection, Physical Servers, Data Protection, Visual Graphics.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6/7, Ubuntu, x86/x64 platforms, Windows 2012, Mac OS X

OS: Linux, Windows and Mac

Hardware: Sun SPARC HP (ProLiant DL line), Dell PowerEdge 2950, R210, R720, R920

Software: Microsoft Office,SharePoint, Open Office, Adobe Creative Cloud, Final Cut

Languages: UNIX Shells (sh, csh, ksh, bash), Python, Javascript, Perl, HTML,JAVA

Storage Tech: LVM, VERITAS, Symantec NetBackup, EBS, S3, Glacier

AWS: EC2, Route53, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, Jenkins, Artifactoy, CloudFront, Remedy.

Other: Ansible, Wordpress, Jenkins, Nagios

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

DevOps/Migrate Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provisioned and configured GitHub Enterprise
• Optimized server accuracy, fail-over, performance and autoscale
• Installed, Configure and used Binary repository (Artifactory)
• Installed and configuration of Cloudbees (Jenkins) for Build
• Installed and configuration and administration of SonarQube, SonarQube Scanner and Mysql DB
• Used Ansible for configuration management
• Used cloud-formation for AWS Infrastructure orchestration
• Prepared training materials and trained Developers and other team-members
• Working knowledge of Remedy ticketing system
• Provisioned and managed windows 2012R2
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure

Confidential, Laurel MD

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create Amazon Cloud Architecture.
• Support current migration of Data Center to Amazon Cloud
• Configure, manage day-to day systems administration and maintenance of AWS cloud servers EC2 and RDS.
• Utilize AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data-stores to S3 buckets and created nightly AMIs for mission critical production servers as backups.
• Design EC2 instance architecture to meet high availability application architecture.
• Design roles and groups using AWS identity and access management (IAM)
• Configure Amazon VPC environment.
• Build and configure virtual machines, ESXi
• Use VMware/Vsphere to monitor servers, web applications.
• Use Cron for automation and scheduling automated jobs.
• Partner with platform data and app teams to ensure architecture and infrastructure meet business requirements
• Manage network security using load balance and security groups.
• Create and manage user accounts in Red Hat Linux, CentOs and Scientific Linux Manage Remote Access using third party software (Mobaxterm, PuTTY and VPN)
• Use vi, nano and vim editors to create and edit files.
• Design, build and troubleshoot Red Hat Linux, CentOs and Scientific Linux VMware.
• Perform server installation using Kickstart, Network, and DVD on physical servers, VMware. Implement NFS, DNS, DHCP, AutoFs, SFTP, Samba and FTP on CentOs, and Red Hat Linux.
• Introduce new servers to the network. Maintaining and troubleshooting network connectivity.
• Partition and manage disk using LVM and Fdisk; manage and create file systems.
• Managing Swap Space, Disk utilization and CPU utilization.
• Use bash shell scripting to schedule/automate processes including full/incremental backup via cpio, usfs and tar.
• Troubleshoot Linux network, security related issues, capturing packets using tools such as iptables, firewall, TCP wrappers and NMAP.
• Implement iptables and ACL on Red Hat Linux servers.
• Manage system processes and scheduling processes with the Cron, At and Anacron utility.
• Check alert logs, trace files and file System maintenance using requisite system tools.

Confidential, Elkridge, MD

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Managed packages on Red Hat using rpm and yum
• Created Virtual hosts containers for multiple web sites
• Implemented Network Communications on Servers
• Managed Red Hat drives/devices using Linux Logical Volume Manager
• Performed User/Group Account Administration; implemented password aging; monitored logins
• Troubleshot performance issues using vmstat, iostat and netstat
• Installed other third party applications on servers
• Updated server baseline documentation in line with changes on servers
• Created, mounted and un-mounted file systems
• Applied proficiency with design structure of Red Hat RPM and Yum utilities for package management Created, configured and diagnosed user and group permissions to facilitate System security.
• Applied use of kernel based visualization technology in Red Hat and CentOS

Confidential Norcross, GA

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Prepared security audit schedules for external auditors.
• Compared data contained in a variety of technical records in order to detect errors/ discrepancies Administered system accounts, system monitoring and reconciliations Initiated and Participated in severity calls and documented RCAs
• Monitored System Performance of Virtual memory, managing Swap Space, Disk and CPU utilization. Ran password configurations, process monitoring, Boot up and Shutdown procedures.
• Coordinated backup policy and execution of DR effort between home Data Center and Regional offices. Updated and documented Helpdesk tickets with Remedy ticketing system.
• Maintained system accounting files and logs and systems error logs Installed and implemented new patches to the Linux operating system software.
• Assisted with internal help desk functions including application setup, connectivity issues, and product training.

Confidential, New Carrollton, MD

Digital Media Director

Responsibilities:

• Hand Coded html, xhtml, css, php and text editor
• Designed and edited word-press pages
• Designed and maintained web-mail servers
• Worked with senior developers large and complex design projects
• Helped guide corporate clients on projects ideas and branding
• Carried out quality assurance tests to discover errors and optimize usability
• Helped clients design and manage SEO algorithm for web visibility
• Implementation of dynamic web design with Adobe Dreamweaver
• Provisioned and edited raster images for print, web and electronic media with Adobe Photoshop Designed and modified vector graphics with Adobe Illustrator Created and edited newsprint with Adobe In-design
• Produced and edited video with Final Cut, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Apple Motion

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Led major implementation and deployment of Internet infrastructure End Users/Stakeholder engagements to ensure effective deliverySuggested and help design organizational infrastructure and responsible for daily maintenance Improved system requirements by evaluating organization's needs and workload Implement hardware and software Installation, Configuration, and upgrades
• Security software installation and monitoring to deter intrusion and spam
• Collaborate with ISP vendors to troubleshoot and resolve network problems
• Remote Desktop Assistance
• Network hub installations and monitoring
• Webmail server configurations
• Internet Mast/Antenna installation and signal monitoring
• Ensure daily operations of technological infrastructure including VoiP phone
• Implementation of desktop computer user access control
• Resolution of IP conflict issues