SUMMARY:

• I am seeking a Linux administrator or Senior Linux administration position where I can utilize my extensive knowledge and experience with multiple operating systems and applications to increase availability, efficiency and revenue.
• I have over 35 years professional experience in the information technology/information systems field including, computer operations, computer programming, systems administration, application support, ecommerce, storage, networking and management.
• I have experience within large homogeneous and heterogeneous computing environments, including multiple databases, Petabytes of storage, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning, I am skilled in performance tuning and automating system and business processes.
• I have experience in key managerial positions.

SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE:

Operating Systems: Solaris 2.3 - 11 Sun OS 4.1.x HP-UX 9-11i AIX 3.5 - 4.4.3 IRIX Ultrix SVR4 Redhat 4.2-9.0 Fedora core 1-15 FreeBSD BSDI Debian Ubuntu Mac OSX SuSe 9-10 RHEL 4.2 - 7 CentOs 4.2-7 Windows 3.11 - XP

Protocols: Ethernet Token Ring FDDI TCP/IP SNMP BIND(DNS) DHCP NIS NFS SSH/SFTP LDAP SMTP Sendmail Postfix IMAP POP IPChains IPTables HTML

Databases: Oracle Sybase Informix MySQL PostgreSQL MariaDB

Languages: Php Perl awk sed bourne /bash/korn shells C COBOL Fortran Assembler Java

Applications: Veritas Volume Manager Logical Volume Manager Tivoli RAID (all levels) XWindows CDE DCE Openwindows X11 Netscape Enterprise Server SunOne Apache EDI (Harbinger/Peregrine ) Spam Assassin ClamAV WebMethods Asterisk 11-13 Cyclone eRights Clear Commerce Cisco Fabric Manager Stornext ACSLS QIP CVS SVN VOIP

Hardware: Sun SPARCstations, servers NCR workstations IBM RS6000 DEC VAX HP8000 & 9000 SGI workstations Intel Servers several mainframes various PCs

Storage Hardware: Auspex Network Appliance Sun SSAs IBM SSAs EMC StorageTek SAN HP XP 24000 IBM DS 4700/4800 Sun StorageTek SL8500 and SL500 Xiotech Emprise 5000 Cisco 6509 Hitachi AMS 2500

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Resposible for multiple Linux systems including physical, Vms and AWS.
• Supporting application requirements for system being utilized by many hospitals areound the country and Internationally.
• Configured a Kubernetes and docker cluster wihtou any prior knowledge or experience.
• Also worked with developers to containerize appliction and automate deployment using Ansible.
• Responsible for setting up numerous applications to satisfy government requirements as well as performing security scans (STIG) of servers and Linux workstations.
• Worked with other IT staff and departments for ATO accredidation.

Confidential,

RSA/Linux Administrator, Sr.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of RSA systems and supporting the underlying Linux functions.
• Designed and Developed custom scripts and APIs to automate functions and facilitate bulk modification capabilities.
• These tools were instrumental for merging acquired companies into existing systems.

Confidential

Lead Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects (full LAMP stack) of modifying and maintaining over 75 unique websites with multiple domain names associated with each, including html, javascript, php and database calls.
• Designed and deployed website for client which increased their number of hits by 800% and sales by 620%.
• Manage and maintain existing VOIP (Asterisk) installation and designed web interface to automate forwarding and unforwarding of numbers which reduced turn-around for clients an average of 11.5 hours per request.
• Designing new installation of Asterisk to reduce existing bottleneck and allow scalability to increase number of supported stores from 900 to over 1800.
• Ensure staff, systems and applications adhere to PCI and HIPAA requirements as necessary.

Confidential

Unix Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of 50+ Linux (Redhat) and Solaris machines as well as supporting SAN infrastructure including a Netapp 3140 and 3210.
• Tasks ranged from planning, designing and creating Solaris 11 zones; planning and installing new Linux servers; migration of data and databases from stand-alone servers to zones; planning and creating new filesystems in SAN; VLAN design and configuration for servers and storage hardware; supporting database and application support staff.
• Provided capacity planning/forecasting for new system installs.
• Ensured monitoring of systems, security and services to provide 99.99% uptime and HIPAA compliance.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managing a bind 9 environment supporting over 600 domains for external DNS.
• Also managing a QIP installation managing over 107000 hosts for internal DNS across a 16 DNS/DHCP server cluster supporting world wide infrastructure.
• Administer and manage Proofpoint Enterprise server cluster for spam and anti-virus protection. Principal technical engineer for migration of HSM architecture including SAN fabric configuration/management, upgrade to and partitioning of HP XP 24000 array and upgrade of Stornext from version 3.1.2 to 4.0.
• This architecture is used by all on air production teams in obtaining and editing video for broadcast and involved less than 10 hours downtime to upgrade or replace all aspects of the system.
• Consulted with and assisted development team in re-designing code to take advantage of new features and to improve efficiency of legacy applications.
• Responsible for all aspects of eCommerce application support including purchasing and member services.
• Designed and developed deployment tool which reduced time to deploy new versions of the java web application from 45 minutes to 15 minutes.
• Upgraded 4 servers for Clear Commerce application servers while maintaining 99.8% uptime.
• Designed and developed custom monitors including a monitor which provided database connection information including attempts, active connections and failures.
• This information was imperative to solving database connection timeout failures.
• Designed and developed numerous scripts to automate processes and reduce both time and errors.

Confidential

Manager, IT Services

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of internal development and infrastructure support servers.
• Managed group of 6, including systems administrators, database administrators, network administrator and data analyst.
• Responsible for maintaining 99% uptime as well as planning for disaster recovery hardware; software and network infrastructure.
• Planned and purchased hardware needed to support DR capabilities and provide business continuity during power or system outage.
• Provided technical assistance to business continuity planning (BCP) project manager as well as being hand-picked to lead one of the BCP planning teams.
• Managed and maintained Sarbanes -Oxley (SOX) controls for servers, applications and procedures within the group.
• Designed and developed new processes, procedures and scripts on Debian Linux and Solaris systems.
• Assisted with planning and system specifications for LDAP implementation and integration project.

Confidential

Senior Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting and maintaining Commerce Services applications on HP-UX 11.0 and 11i systems which support divisions throughout the company.
• Responsibilities include support and administration of EDI translation software in excess of 1.5 million transactions per month, maintenance and improvement of FMC (internal) application, performance monitoring/tuning of Unix servers, capacity planning for integration of Fort James EDI traffic and writing custom scripts to improve data throughput or efficiency.
• Designed and developed numerous applications to migrate data from Gentran translator to Inovis (formerly Peregrine) translator.
• Planned move of HP-UX servers to Green Bay data center while maintaining 99.2% uptime by utilizing fail over servers.
• Designed and developed CVS tracking system on Redhat Linux server.
• Solely responsible for implementing mono server for HR pilot project on Redhat Linux server.

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for remote systems administration services.
• Responsibilities include reactive and proactive Unix systems administration for AIX 4.3 and 4.4.3; HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00 servers.
• Duties include monitoring server performance, performance tuning, patch administration, operating system upgrades, designing custom scripts, coordinating hardware replacements and effective communication to the customer.
• Designed and developed customer notification system on Redhat Linux server which reduced daily customer notifications from 4 hours to 15 minutes.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of 24x7 tier 2 support organization supporting both Windows and Unix (Redhat Linux, Solaris and Cobalt) based servers.
• Responsibilities included staff scheduling, prioritizing issues,, customer issue resolution, system management, resource management and reporting metrics to senior management.
• The group improved from an 84% to a 98% solution rate while reducing mean time to resolution (MTR) by 25%.
• Increased revenue generated by department by 15% by clearly defining billable services.
• Designed and developed processes and procedures for group.
• Coordinated efforts to migrate over 400 customer servers to new data center.
• Designed process for shift logs to ensure communication and work flow between shifts.

Confidential

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, integration and performance tuning of Sun, HP and IBM UNIX servers.
• Supported all aspects of UNIX servers supporting internal and third party applications. Installed and configured Sun E450 and Sun SSA. Installed and configured HP L2000.
• Installed and configured IBM RS6000. Installed and integrated Storage Area Network(SAN) using fiber switches, hubs and bridges, EMC array, Sun SSA, IBM tape library and array.