SUMMARY

• An experienced and a responsible System Administrator with a great ability to support the server. Currently, seeking to achieve meaningful employment with a company that would allow me to address and solve their technical needs, by applying my experience within the areas of system administration and ability to complete deadline - driven projects.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: RHEL 4/5/6/7, CentOS, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Fedora

Hardware: HP ProLiant, Blade servers

Software: LAMP, Linux file system, ESX 4.x, 5.x, JBOSS Tomcat, Web/ Application Server, Apache, Oracle, Spacewalk/ Red Hat Satellite, Samba, Check MK

Leadership: Former management experience - led a team of five

Services: NFS, SSH, Telnet, Apache, DNS, NsLookup, Netstat, Nagios, TCP/IP and TCP Dump, LDAP, Bash scripting, Python (intermediate level), Ansible and Chef

OS: Windows XP/7/8/10; Microsoft Office 2010/2013/2016 RedHat/CentOS 4/5/6/7 (Microsoft Active Directory; Windows Server 2008; Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Firefox, Citrix, Cisco Any Connect, Mobile Digital Computer; Mac OS X Support; Service Now

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Washington, D.C.

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing Red Hat Linux using Kickstart and applying security policies for hardening the server based on company policies
• Responsible for management, troubleshooting and maintenance of NetBackup environment which includes documentation and removal of daily, weekly, and monthly tapes.
• Implements COTS installation, changes, upgrades and applies patches
• Applies quarterly patches to all DEV, UAT, and PRD Linux environments per company policy
• Utilizes IBM IT Help Software to manage IT Help tickets and change management process
• Experience monitoring and allocating vSphere datastore storage to virtual servers
• Manage user access and privileges via LDAP/AD
• Configure DNS, NFS, and APACHE on newly installed machines
• Installation of SSH and configuration of keys bases authentication
• Work with Database administrators to tune kernel for Oracle installations
• Install and upgrade video cards, modems, hard drives, IDE controllers, SCSI drivers, power supplier and memory components.
• Provide technical support by troubleshooting Day-to-Day issues with various servers on different platforms

Confidential

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured Swap volumes for automatic mounting to survive a Power cycle at system reboots
• Used CRON to schedule jobs and automatic system administration duties like file system clean ups
• Implemented a LAMP Stack to support and Web Applications for clients
• Installed and configured Apache Webserver, setup HTTP based Installation server for Kickstart
• Configured web services to enable access to document roots and protect other directories
• Performed Network Security Administration on Windows and Linux network systems
• Performed installation of Red Hat Linux servers on the Virtual Machines
• Configured network interfaces on VM with Hostname, IP and Gateway records
• Modified server configuration files to establish default run levels based on system requirements
• Configured and deployed various Linux Distributions such as Red hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora
• Managed File Systems and Users on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform
• Created and configured multiple Virtual Machines on a bare metal Red hat installation platform
• Enforced System Security, managed system hardening on LINUX environments.
• Knowledge of Government Security Standards - NIST and FISMA Security Frameworks
• Detailed Troubleshooting and Password recovery for Red Hat Linux and CentOS Servers
• Performed User Accounts and Access Control implementations in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers
• Created and activated Swap volumes to enhance system performance
• Coordinated all Information Technology needs of the organization.
• Fixed software and hardware issues on Linux and windows systems
• Performed software and hardware driver updates
• Performed Secured Remote Login with SSH for system maintenance

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided on-call support by rotation to provide 24x7x365 support.
• Acquired comprehensive requirements from Project Managers, Team Leads pertaining to the servers to be migrated.
• Utilized Remedy for data center service requests (Network requests for IP's, ILO's, and DNS changes).
• Automated server building using System Imager, PXE and Kickstart.
• Was responsible for upgrades, installs, configuration and administration and monitoring on Linux servers.
• Excellent experience with patches and packages installation on Linux/Unix Environment
• Built, configured and deployed Virtual machines and templates.
• Gained hands-on experience in configuring ESX, ESXi and vSphere4 with virtual center management.
• Took part in VMware ESX installation, updates, patches, and gathered information for capacity and performance analysis to identify potential servers for virtualization.
• Setup and configure failover load balancing using IP bonding for network cards.
• Worked on Volume management, Disk Management, software RAID solutions using VERITAS Volume manager. File system Tuning and growing using VERITAS File System (VxFS), coordinated with SAN Team for storage allocation and Multi path.
• Used Iptables to set up, maintain, and inspect the tables of IPv4 packet filter rules in the Linux kernel.
• Gained experience with iptables commands including those used to add, append, delete, insert, or replace rules within a particular chain
• Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands.

Confidential

Operations Manager

Responsibilities:

• Generated metric reports to identify and analyze key aspects of rider and driver experiences.
• Served as Manager for a team of five
• Implemented auditing and collection of system logs and monitoring activity
• Advised on and documented security standards, load balance, and failover strategies
• Successfully launched and tested UberEATS and UberRUSH for the Chicago market.
• Authorized parts of the playbook for the launch of the partner phone support in Manila, Philippines.
• Established processes and executed on deliverables focused around supporting the riders and drivers through the app.
• Contributed to the pilot of the Uber COE and launching of the official COE in Chicago.