SUMMARY

• Senior Linux Engineer committed to supporting internal and external customers.
• Extensive experience with complicated system infrastructure, including but not limited to Linux, UNIX, SAN, and networking.
• Utilizing the knowledge and needs of the client, has an aptitude to balance or triage issues until ultimate resolution.
• Equipped to facilitate communication between clients and management, is ready to identify potential unforeseen problems and rectify issues before impact.
• Ready to utilize expertise and past background to develop solutions for new and untested technology and concepts.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Operating Systems: Linux (RHEL 4,5, 6 and 7, CENTOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc), UNIX (Solaris, 8, 9, 10, AIX, HPUX, Tru64), SAN - EMC timefinder/ SRDF, Hitachi, XIOTech, IBM, and client operating systems: Windows, Mac, Linux.
• Hardware: Cisco UCS, Amazon AWS, IBM H series blade servers, commodity rack mount servers (including IBM, HP Dell, Cisco), Legacy RISC/Alpha hardware (Sun, DEC, HP Fujisu), Cisco routers and switches. DNCS, PC, EMC VMX, Hitachi Lightning, XIOTech, McDATA, Brocade and firey (EFI).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for testing and implementation of Active DIrectory (MS) to RH IDM (IPA). HADOOP Kerberos integration, hardening and automation. Compliance and PHI projects. Amazon AWS test case and POC. Hardware used - Amazon Cloud.
• Responsible for two hundred plus Red Hat Linux systems, as well as Oracle Solaris systems.
• Responsible for clone disk management (Veritas, Disksuite, LVM), RHEL Satellite patching, VMWare support, disaster recovery (sungard), install and deployment (including appliances), LDAP printers and users (including sudoers). Hardware used - Cisco UCS, Dell, IBM, Oracle, EMC, HP

Confidential

Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting operations and development of cable head-end system, including Linux, database (Oracle) and set top box support.
• Engaged in monitoring utilization and errors on primary and ancillary systems through scripts and Tivoli (NMS).
• Trouble resolution and documentation via Wiki, and ticket system.
• Communication and project management of new technology with internal and external clients. Development of scripts and procedures to implement solutions to common tasks.
• Documentation of architectural changes, procedures and bugs. Ensuring reliability of production and test environments.
• Implementation and compliance with corporate and federal regulations. Integration of the new SCIN/ TRIO software in an OCAP environment (responsibilities include DNCS provisioning, Sea Change management, Big Band administration, QAM/GQAM and RF maintenance, STB (set top box) account management and DOCSIS software downloads (Via SNMP). Documentation of procedures, and general support of lab environment/clients.
• Facilitation of a migration from SARA to Trio (NDS product) allowing simultaneous use of the cable plant by both systems. Ensuring viability and reliability of plant services including RF path, network and server availability.
• Provide quality assurance through the application of STB on board diagnostics, and external tools, spectrum analyzer, or TS Reader Pro.

Confidential

Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all CAS systems, including Verimatrix, Cisco Flex Key, Gigacrypt/PISYS, and NDS. Upgrade and implementation of the HE2.2 system (Myrio, Nokia Siemens), and the Cisco ISDP middleware. Management of bulk decrypted sites utilizing the Gigacrypt system for the high definition channels (outer layer encryption) and the NDS bulk decyptors (utilizing control word servers CWS).
• As a second level CAS engineer, was able to triage complicated middleware and Conditional Access troubles. Ranged from content delivery via ATM for the HATEL (Hawaii Telephone company) to the core national channels delivered over the point to multi point satellite system.
• Support of ancillary devices, which included the confidence monitoring of the ‘core' channels the provisioning of ‘clear content' STB's (Set Top Boxes), and troubleshooting procedures (secondary roles). Responsible for NDS Super Head End System (SHES): middleware (Metro) and the Conditional Access System (CAS). On site support for an IPTV startup company.
• Monitoring the multiple servers in the SHES backing up the servers (daily), subscriber management and troubleshooting, content delivery and troubleshooting, routine database (oracle 9i) maintenance, interaction to the client, maintenance and operational procedures (MOP) implementation and execution. Customer training and education.

Confidential

Unix/San Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working in a team of three engineers, the ‘phoenix' department was in charge of technology integration in a sales organization of approximately 500 people. This ranged from deploying laptops to remote clients, to IBM power 5 HMC deployment of a SAP R/3 environment. backup administration and maintenance, marketing maintenance (including support for high volume copy/printers, and Apple Macintosh Power5's/Intel machines) SAN administration (via a Clarion CX500 and McData switches) to deployment of DNS and web-servers via our Linux (SUSE, RHES).
• Contracted to maintain a computer lab network for quality assurance testing. Proof of concept on new technologies and software. Coordination of hardware and software vendors to meet specific needs. Remote deployment and automatic install of minicomputer systems including, jumpstart, kickstart, and NIM. Remote system management of disks (SAN and local) and machine resources.