SUMMARY

• Highly motivated and ambitious professional, with experience in the Information Technology field. Adept at solving networking, hardware and software problems. Effective communicator with proven ability to build strong working relationships with team members.
• Experience in AIX, RHEL and Solaris operating systems.
• Assisted in a recent acquisition and implementation of 54 - node p575 cluster consisting of 5 frames
• Knowledgeable in the installation and monitoring of the TSM server and client on host servers.
• Was lead coordinator of migrating Sun StorageTek equipment from one location to new permanent location.
• Familiar with various storage systems from IBM’s 4700 to Sun StorageTek 6140s.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Unix Administration Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Worked with GLS managed services for network router cutovers at various off-site locations. Verified with GLS support that MPLS was up about tested applications with local support to make sure network was working after the cutover.
• Upgraded 40 plus Fortinet network routers at various off-site office locations. Part of firewall upgrade to avoid any software bugs from running on old firmware version.
• Worked on Oracle Cloud to configure new VM instances and added the specified storage for that instance upon request.
• Built out new Ruby environment for Sydney office in order to migrate off old legacy FreeBSD server. Installed the need applications packages for specific application scripts to run.
• Increased filesystem mount points from the Solaris 10 global zones by increasing the necessary NetApp LUN the servers are attached too and then running resizing commands on the Veritas filesystems. Verified on the LDOMs that the filesystem LUN size was modified.
• Used the pgkadd command from the Solaris 10 global zones to push package updates out to the LDOMs.
• Maintaining patch levels on AIX P7 for Development and Production sites.
• Familiar with adding specific URL websites to the ZScaler application in order to monitor incoming and outgoing traffic.
• Maintain the Jira Production and Development servers that are running Tomcat on Red Hat Linux 6/7 servers.
• Configure SSL certificate on Linux servers to avoid certificate experatioin on applications.
• Resized Linux filesystems for addition space by increasing the Datastore in VMware.
• Edited the cronjob schedular on Linux server to migrate old backups files to be archived at a later date. Once that date arrived, any data that past a certain date was deleted.
• Knowledgeable in the installation of the OMS and NewRelic application on servers to monitor CPU, Memory load and filesystem utilization.
• Created new LDOMs for the App Hosting department that was used for new databases.
• Worked with CloudEndure to migrate VMware VMs into AWS. Verified with application owners that the new VM was operational after the migration.
• Migrated all of Development and Production NetApp storage environment off of old FAS8080 and onto AFF300 for storage efficiency and compression.

Confidential

Information Security UNIX Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Represented the Information Security Group as the information security and technical Subject Matter Expert in meetings with business owners, technical groups and outside vendors.
• Ensured that SOX Controls pertaining to the Information Security Group are consistently executed to ensure SOX compliance.
• Created product requirement specifications; collaborated with IT Architects on engineering specifications and technical designs in the UNIX environment.
• Identified application layer security issues, performed assessments and wrote security standards for various operating systems (HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, AIX), and applications (such as web servers, e-mail servers, etc.).
• Installed Tripwire agents on various OS within VMware vSphere 5.5. Followed security build procedure to harden the VMs once built.
• Maintaining a patch management process for current VM within VMware ESXi 5.5 for security hardening.
• Proficient in working with various Middleware/DBA groups in the organization to test open source technologies and analyzing the open source technology to verify and configure the technology for security enhancement.
• Administration of VM infrastructure with Virtual Center management server and provisioned VM guests on VMware vSphere 5.5
• Knowledgeable with the Tripwire application that is configured on production and test AIX, Solaris and Linux servers. Created hardening reports needed for SOX review.
• Migrated Tripwire version 8.3.7 from Windows 2003 to Windows 2012 host environments per the request of upper management. Verified that LDAP configuration was updated to new LDAP server.
• Managed Solaris LDOM servers that ran specific applications for the Security department. Maintained a user access list that was running on the LDOM.

Confidential

Manger of Unix/Linux Enterprise Systems

Responsibilities:

• Sized new IBM p740’s server purchases for future growth within the Cerillion application environment.
• Provide written technical documentation and support to local corp site administrators and staff for the Cerillion Billing application and technical specification on IBM enterprise servers.
• Consulted with vendors for quotes on varies enterprise system infrastructure, application licenses and support renewals on servers. Oversees the overall computer repairs and technical support on all physical equipment through vendor communications.
• Used best practice in repurposing existing technologies and resources to build out a development environment for out Dev team. Purpose was to create custom API code for Cerillion billing application.

AIX/UNIX Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Maintain production and development billing system on AIX LPARS on IBM Power Blade servers for 6 different countries.
• Created the infrastructure of a Disaster Recovery environment for production systems on IBM AIX Blade servers for Cerillion Billing system.
• Knowledgeable with upgrading the oslevel on LPARS and IOS level on VIO servers.
• Patched development and production IBM VIO servers to latest firmware.
• Created new user accounts for Cerillion CRM+ Billing application access.
• Cloned and migrated Oracle Linux VM servers using OVM Manager for three off site location.
• Maintained Oracle RAC environment located at development site.
• Familiar with creating, cloning and migrating VMs on Xenserver 6.2.
• Used opensource Spacewalk for kernel patching and updates for Oracle Linux and CentOS servers.
• Created Solaris 11 VM golden image for provisioing servers on VMware. Golden image will be used at 4 off site locations.
• Implemented and maintained LAMP corporate development and production webservers on Oracle Linux servers.
• Configured the OwnCloud file share on internal CentOS 6 server to transfer documents and images between office locations.
• Knowledgeable in creating Linux and Solaris VM’s on VMware 5.5

Confidential, Miami, FL

AIX/UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Monitor IBM P570 production and development clusters that is part of the UChart Electronic Medical Records for the UM Hospitals.
• Used NMON to monitor p570 IBM cluster for CPU, disk and memory performance.
• Familiar with AIX 5.3 SP7 and AIX 6.1 SP5 operating system that housed the majority of UChart applications.
• Worked on EMC’s Symmetric VMX and DMX for the UChart EMR applications. Knowledgeable in configuring the FA director ports on the VMAX for storage.
• Created CIFS off an EMC Celerra NAS for UChart departmental shares.
• Knowledgeable with Dell Compellent Storage for creating LUN mappings to hosts.
• Familiar with configuring zones on a Cisco MD9605 for fabric management.
• Manually tested failover capabilities using HACMP on a production AIX cluster during specified maintenance widows.
• Created templates in VMware of Windows 2K8, and Linux distributions (CentOS, RHEL).
• Check daily error logs on key production systems for any abnormal events.
• Replaced faulted disks failures on various SAN storage systems, from IBM4700 to NETAPP FAS3140 in order to prevent any degradation of data.

AIX/UNIX Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Monitor a High Performance Computing environment consisting of 3 IBM p575 mainframe clusters, a Linux 1350 cluster and 3 IBM p690 mainframes for a Computational Science Department.
• Managed the IBM Linux 1350 Cluster running GPFS and MOAB for scheduling off an IBM4700 SAN.
• Worked with users on Linux clusters to troubleshoot any problems they had with scripts that was written through the MOAB scheduler.
• Setup 7 node Linux cluster running Platform Computing LSF for scheduling at the Engineering department at Gables Campus.
• Managed the IBM AIX p575 Cluster running GPFS and Load Leveler off an IBM4700 SAN. Separate LUNS were created to allow access for the GPFS clusters.
• Introduced new nodes into GPFS cluster by modifying the designated configuration files on the head node.
• Diagnosed any problems that occurred within the GPFS filesystem between the network and the storage.
• Upgraded HMC’s to new code in order to monitor several LPARs.
• Used NMON to monitor p575 IBM cluster for performance.
• Created Zpool (ZFS) filesystems on Sun Fire x4500 and x4540 data servers. Mounted the filesystems on several Linux servers for user access.
• Installed Sun Systems x4150 servers with Operating Systems ranging from Linux Centos 5.1, Windows Server 2003, and Solaris 10 x86 64. Configure the Sun servers on a specified VLAN in order for users to access each device.
• In charge of creating DNS hosts for each new Linux server added to the environment.
• Created a database of entire hardware environment that detailed the name, IP address, serial and what the server was being used for.
• Used Icinga Open Source Monitoring to monitor 70 + servers and switches for any alerts or unscheduled downtime.
• Familiar with configuring MySQL with Icinga Open Source Monitoring for Linux Servers.
• Installed Apache Tomcat for Web Developers for the Confidential Research Department.
• Knowledgeable in the installation and monitoring of the TSM server and client on host servers.
• Created user and group accounts on CentOS Linux per departmental request.

Desktop Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Transferred data from old PCs to new PCs when assigned a Work Order for designated region on and at off-site locations.
• Setup blackberries and iPhone devices for new users. Checked to make sure that users can receive email and calendar request.
• Transferred date from damaged Hard Drives to network storage in order to make sure user’s information is preserved.
• Provided email support for creating and modification of Exchange mailboxes and personal profiles as well as trouble shoot any problems
• Outlined a detailed diagram using VISIO of four switches describing which port is in use and where the cable is patched into.
• Investigated network problems whenever users are unable to connect to the medical domain.
• Setup users on wireless network at satellite locations.
• Made sure research departments were able to print to network printers. Troubleshoot any network problems that occurred with PC’s and printers.
• Cleaned out viruses from user’s PCs that caused data corruption with third party software.