SUMMARY

• 30+ Years documentation and customer/end user support and training. Three terabytes of my personal documentation, over more than thirty years.
• 30+ Years, planning and managing various technical and/or IT projects, using spreadsheets, MS Project, Workbench, ZOHO, Linux PM, Clarity.
• 30+ Years requisitioning/buying of network, server, PC, storage and other equipment
• 30+ Years managing the life cycle of equipment and extending the life of retired proprietary equipment
• 30+ Years Systems security - volume, directory, file / user, group and resources.
• 30+ Years installing, upgrading and managing storage systems, SAN/NAS, Fiber channel, iSCSI, multi-pathing (MPIO).
• 30+ Years scripting GW/Quick/Visual Basic, Batch/Cmd, MS Edit/Edlin/Copy con, Bash, Bourne, Korn, Atom, PowerShell, NotePad++, for HTML5/CSS, PHP, Pearl, Python.
• 30+ Years building, configuring, generic Off The Shelf or OTS servers, PCs, and laptops.
• 30+ Years installing, managing and supporting various report writers, Q&A, ACT, R&R, Crystal Reports, and Ripplestone.
• 25+ Years database Installation, upgrade, maintenance and support, for DBase III/IV(XBase or flat databases), clipper, FoxPro, MS Access, MySQL, SQL, MSSQL, Acess, Oracle. Building DSNs for MS Server Apps.
• 20+ Years as Senior Systems Engineer of Windows/Microsoft and Linux (RHES/CentOS/Fedora, SLES, SLES SAP, SLED, Gentoo, BSD, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware) servers (retired Novell OS).
• 20+ Years installation, upgrade/maintenance and management of OpenDirectory, eDirectory(NetIQ) and Active Directory services.
• 20+ Years Resource security - SSH and SSL. Building PKI and creating RFCs, cleaning up and reissuing self-signed keys. Building SSO and Authentication systems. Tools would include SnifferPro, WireShark.
• 20+ Years of experience with the TCP/IP stack and protocols, DNS/DHCP/FTP/SFTP/FTPS/HTTP/HTTPS/SMTP/SNMP/LDAP and other protocols
• 20+ Years of IIS/FTP, Apache/Tomcat, LAMP, WordPress.
• 20+ Years of experience with regard to installation and maintenance of monitoring applications like HP SIM, What's up gold, Nagios, WebMin, SiteScope, WebJet, and latest iMFP or integrated Multifunction Printer.
• 20+ Years Installation, upgrade, replacement, supporting, monitoring and managing, print servers, print spool, Cups, printers and their drivers, on MS/MSPS, Linux and Android 20+ Years with HP servers, storage, networks and printers
• 20+ Years Installation, upgrade, maintenance of email servers and services, of Groupwise, MS Exchange, Open Exchange, SendMail and hybrids.
• 15+ Years of Virtualization/Cloud with VMware, Citrix (XEN Enterprise), XEN and Hyper-V experience and Oracle’s VirtualBox, LXC, Docker.
• 15 Years Business/Home Automation and Audio Video Surveillance.
• 10 Years Legato and Veritas Backup Exec, backup.
• 10+ Years with Dell servers, storage, networks and printers
• 5+ Years of Windows Server 2012, installation and maintenance.
• 3 Years, using Microsoft Windows server 2016.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Implementing and/or standing up, virtual servers, desktops and appliances, in home Lab.
• Linux Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu - WebMin/VirtualMin/UserMin, CUPS, LAMP, WordPress. OpenVPN, OpenLDAP Directory AD and DHCP/DNS.
• File Systems (SMB, NFS, CIFS), Linux File Server and FreeNAS (iSCSI).
• Windows Servers (2008r2 2012r2 2016 2018), Active Directory, MS print servers, storage, Workstations 7, 8, 10.
• Physical appliances, firewalls, proxy servers, Wi-Fi, switches/routers, print servers.created virrual storage, for this project to show how the software can failover, and use assigned storage

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on core FTP migration (working directly with Microsoft); A method to export the entire newer environment for backup and propagating changes to all servers.
• Documented entire upgrade and migration, in SharePoint.
• Re-tooled PowerShell script for reporting, to gather virtual directory data.
• Worked on the MOVEit Project with the Manager.
• Learned the current MOVEit process that was in place and created, tested, analyzed, refined and documented.
• Documented restarts. Documented clearing jobs. Documented moving trigger files back to kick off recopies, called .done files.
• Learned the current MOVEit Report process that was in place and created reports, tested reports, analyzed reports, refined and documented the reports, and their configurations.
• Learned the current MOVEit Directory Structure, Users, Groups and how they were correlated and how AD security was structured, that was in place and documented.
• Researched differences: Had local admin for group admin access for MOVEit DMZ (Userx).
• Servers Server1 and Server2, needed to have the service account "UserAccount", given the same Admin rights as on server Serverx.
• Researched differences: LDAP/AD for MOVEit DMZ (userX), LDAP/AD for Blue Awnings (Serverx), Client and server differences.
• Weekly: Closed Nexus request, Creating FTP configuration for CORPFTP/CORP2FTP, Learned Repliweb, installed on Linux and Microsoft platforms, Created tasks on Linux and Microsoft platforms, BP meetings in support of the core FTP/core test FTP, and MOVEit Environments, worked with specific BP, and diagnosed MOVEit Issues, Load balancing request made for UAT, Learned B2Bi, Created configurations for data transmission.
• Daily: Moved trigger files back for MOVEit .
• Completed: PowerShell, generating health server reports. Set up Remote Execution for PowerShell on 2008 R2 servers, Tested single imports, PowerShell scripts for Method 1 and 2, with and without usernames, and passwords, PowerShell scripts for migrating from IIS/FTP 6 to 7/7.5.
• Documentation: Built a new basic BU/TP account for B2Bi. myLearning: Technical Change Process Training WBT- 0043464 5/6/2014 , 2014 Information Protection 4/7/2014, 2014 Global Financial Crimes Course 3/19/2014, 2014 Enterprise Privacy 3/18/2014.
• Created testing for SSL certification.
• Project plan for testing FTP over SSL connection.
• Created process for testing FTP over SSL connections.
• Documentation for testing FTP over SSL, using the FTPS DOS utility.
• Tested FTP over SSL.
• Tested SSL certs.
• Core test FTP migration completed from FTP/IIS v6 to v7x.
• Supported FTP services, end to end, for and with Business Partners, to include Red Hat and SUSE distros, with SMB/CIFS protocols and file services. This also included, Support for applications such as MoveIt, Repliweb, and other in house applications, in Transact, such as their B2Bi and ESI.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Gentoo Linux builds.
• CentOS Linux builds.
• Supported DELL Servers.
• Installed Ubuntu DELL desktop.
• Installed the following on CentOS using wget and Gentoo: Nagios, WebMin, Zenoss.
• Created and updated SSH Certificates.
• On CentOS, at a bash prompt and using a basic script editor VI, configured iptables, multiple bound NICs in/etc/modprobe.d/bondage.conf and NICs in ifcfg-em#, /etc/ntp.conf, Postfix/main.cf, /etc/init.d/ntpdate and crontab, /etc/ntp.conf, java jdk 6, /etc/idmapd.conf, yum update, ssh-keygen.
• Basic shell prompt, adding users with useradd, bash your-script-name, sh your-script-name, ./your-script-name, chmod permission your-script-name, etc. An example would be the following: $ bash bar, $ sh bar, $ ./bar.
• Documented procedures.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• As one of the Lead Representatives, built ERP/SAP (HANA) systems with SLES, and Oracle 11g and migrated Oracle databases from HP UX.
• Supported SLES High Availability 10.x 11.x, building Logical Volumes/LUNS.
• Supported RHEL 5.x 6.x base installs for Web Services as a VMware guest.
• Supported VMware, P2V/V2V, installing and supporting Wintel and Lintel.
• Supported Windows, 2003R2/2008R2, installing physical and virtual.
• Supported HP SAN and NAS, building LUNS.
• Supported HP Servers BLs/DLs, updating firmware, installing the above OS.