Lead Sr. Unix/Linux/VMware Administrator/Systems Engineer Resume Fort Meade, Maryland - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

RHEL Linux, Unix (Solaris, Tru64, IRIX), VMS System Administration, and Windows Server
SAN and NAS storage (NetApp, HP, Oracle, EMC, NEC)
System tuning
Computer selection and optimization
Computer security lockdown, Risk Management Framework and STIGs
Software testing, benchmarking, System Tuning
Facility design Architect, long range forecast, totaling over $1,500,000 per year
Select, Plan, Test, and Supervise the Transition of Data Processing from Obsolete to new Architectures

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Install, Patch, STIG, Setup Logical Domains (Solaris SPARC VMs)
VMware ESXi/vCenter - Install, Patch, STIG, Shared SAN Storage
Red Hat Linux - Install, Patch, STIG, Monitor, and Tune
SAN and NAS storage - Install, Setup, Zone, Design Fault Tolerant Configurations

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fort Meade, Maryland

Lead Sr. Unix/Linux/VMware Administrator/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Supervise three Unix/Linux/Windows Administrators.
Sets goals and priorities for team.
Consults with Pre - production and Production groups to address their problems.
Setup test environments to test their solutions.
Configure equipment specifications and obtain quotes for their purchases to improve lab capability.

Confidential, Laurel, Maryland

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

I was totally dedicated to being lead Linux administrator and Facility design architect, for many small to medium size dedicated Missile Simulation Labs.
For ten years prior to September 2015 I spent twenty percent of my time in this role.
Included layout, and power and cooling restraints
Number of CPU cores, Ram size, disk Raid controller, number of disks and layout, compute GPU, CUDA configuration, user graphical GPU requirements
Selection of Linux based file servers with attached SAN or NETAPP filer, this also included operating system tuning using bench marks to simulate load. I manage six SANs with eleven RAID arrays with about 800 disks.
Layered products, language installation, and Active Directory Single Sign-On. Computers were duplicated by kickstart or by disk cloning.
Confidential STIG Compliance, work with security personnel to verify compliance of lockdown work with users to optimize their procedures and other help as necessary
Weekly computer audits Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Windows. Monthly patches; RHEL repo, Windows 7 and Windows Server IAVA.

Confidential

Facility Manager

Responsibilities:

Facility design architect, I am responsible for long range forecast, yearly budgets and day to day expenses, design selection/procurement, layout, installation, tuning, daily operations, and user training for seven missile mathematical modeling and simulation closed facilities totaling $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 per year.
These labs had over 300 users, and had over 160 Linux server class computer with over 3000 core.
Used Ganglia, SAR, iostat, strace, spec benchmarks, rrd based monitoring tools to tune systems and solve day to day problems.
Set up Confidential grid engine to help users run large number of jobs.
Used SCAP tool and SELinux to lock down systems.
Also, consulted with Raytheon Missile Systems in Arizona on Optimization of their Computer Cluster.
This entailed writing scripts to remotely collect System data.
I than analyzed this data and made extensive cluster reconfiguration recommendations back to Raytheon.
These years were filled with transitions:
DEC ULTRIX to SGI IRIX to DEC/HP Tru64 Unix to SuSE Linux to RHEL Linux
As the OS changed this necessitated a thorough testing of compilers and other software local storage ULTRIX Unix NFS servers to Tru64 Unix NFS server with SAN Fibre Channel storage to NETAPP filer with SAN Fibre Channel storage
The Ethernet network transition from thinwire to switched 10Base-T to 100Base-T to 1 Gb to 10 Gb.

Confidential, Columbia, Maryland

Senior Engineer, Plant Production Computer System Manager

Responsibilities:

Perform system management on a mixed environment of computers; ALPHA, SPARC Stations, VAXs, and PCs.
Recommend hardware and software additions. Installed hardware, operation systems, and user software.
Diagnose hardware and software problems, interface with vendors for their resolutions.
Also consulted part time from May 1995 to December 1998, doing above work.

Confidential, Rockville, Maryland

Senior Quality Software Assurance / Software Support Analyst

Responsibilities:

Perform tests on all software products before release.
Analyze and write software development plans and implement them for both VMS and UNIX.

Confidential, Mclean, Virginia

Senior VAX Systems Manager/Analyst

Responsibilities:

Perform system management of VAX/VMS Cluster, SUN UNIX, PDP-11s.
Advises on hardware and software additions, both for internal usage and for bids.
Lowered the bid for a major contract by $1,500,000.
Provide technical assistance to staff on program optimization, CM, data conversion and other daily operations.
Conduct technical research of commercial available products.
Evaluated software packages.