SUMMARY:

Senior IT professional with 20 years experience installing and tuning UNIX and Linux servers both physical and virtual. I have experience with various types of high availability software including ServiceGuard, Veritas Cluster Server and Oracle RAC. I have worked at multiple sites in the government and private sectors. My responsibilities at those sites ranged from operations support to team/technical leader. I participate in an on - call rotation and support global business units. Current focus is building and migrating systems to multiple cloud solutions.

SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE:

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Linux

RedHat Linux (versions 4-6)

HP-UX 11i (versions 2 and 3)

SuSE Linux (SLES 10x and 11x)

HP ServiceGuard (11.17 - 11.20 )

HP ServiceGuard for Linux (SGLX 11.20)

Veritas Cluster Server (versions 5x - 6x)

Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC

EMC Symmetrix Command Line Interface

EMC PowerPath

Automox

Ansible

HP C7000 Blade Enclosures

HP SuperDome (Gen 2)

HP DL Model servers

Cisco UCS Blade Chassis

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Staff Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Staff Engineer working in the Advanced Computing Services division of Confidential responsible for daily operations and global support of over 3000 linux systems both physical and virtual. Duties include provisioning and migrating systems to multiple cloud vendors,
• Ansible playbook development to automate tasks, developing standards and processes to manage and build linux and UNIX systems and ensuring mission critical system availability.
• Current role requires in depth knowledge of clustering solutions such as Veritas Cluster Server, ServiceGuard and Oracle RAC.
• My experience also includes multiple filesystems types like ext3, ext4, xfs and vxfs. Knowledge of LVM on linux and HP-UX and shell scripting in C shell, bash, korn and bourne.
• I currently work with EMC technologies to offload backups from production processing servers to backup servers using TimeFinder/Clone snapshots.
• Work with multiple application, database and web teams to solve problems that may arise.
• I have worked on many different types of projects including major data center migrations and consolidations. Very familiar with various hardware from HP and Cisco.
• Have experience with various Amazon Web Services products like EC2, S3, EBS, ELB and Glacier.
• Experience managing and troubleshooting various applications like Oracle RAC, Oracle JDEdwards (E1), Agile, Siebel, Oracle Fusion Middleware, WebMethods and others. Experience working with our Information Security team to mitigate risks to the business.
• Developed processes and procedures for patching all linux systems on premises and in the cloud using Automox software.

Senior Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead systems administrator working on the Interstate Identification and Indexing project for Confidential.
• This project requires 24/7/365 operation with 99.5% availability.
• The hardware consists of, but is not limited to, HP 32000 Superdome servers connected to EMC DMX 3000 RAID units.
• This system contains an Oracle 9i database that is kept highly available using HP MC/ServiceGuard software.
• The system is monitored with HP/OpenView and locally developed programs.
• Confidential is used to communicate with other systems in the facility. Veritas Netbackup is used for nightly backups and off-site data storage.
• As lead administrator, ensuring the availability and integrity of this highly visible federal government system is an important part of my daily responsibilities.
• Other duties include creating system policies and procedures as well as training and managing SA team consisting of junior to senior level members.
• Also responsible for creating staff and on-call schedules and coordinating tasks associated with current project and other projects.
• I also lead a successful Disaster Recovery project for this customer.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Systems administrator working on the Interstate Identification and Indexing (III) project for Science Applications International.
• The hardware used was SGI Challenge XL 10000 servers and Clarion SCSI RAID units.
• The tape backup solution was an Confidential tape library. BMC Patrol and local scripts and programs were used to monitor the system.
• An Oracle 7.3.3 database was used and SGI Failsafe 1x kept it highly available.
• Confidential was used to communicate with other systems in the facility.
• Systems administration duties included troubleshooting hardware, COTS, and locally developed programs.
• Other responsibilities included shell scripting, nightly backups using SGI utilities and Alexandria software, and general preventive maintenance.
• The III team upgraded the hardware to later model SGI Origin 3400 servers and Oracle 8i database stored on fiber optic (SGI/LSI) RAID.

Shift Lead/Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• My duties as shift lead included managing up to eleven operators, SAs and help desk staff per shift. Systems administration duties included maintaining and supporting 20 HP servers and over 200 end-users accessing the ITN system.
• The servers contained multiple Oracle databases and fingerprint images on optical compact disk media.
• The CDs were stored in HP SureStore optical jukeboxes SCSI connected to HP D210 servers.
• AMASS software was used to manage the media in the jukeboxes.
• HP AutoRAID was used for disk storage.
• Confidential was used to communicate with the other systems in the facility.
• The system was monitored with OpenView and kept highly available with MC/ServiceGuard.