SUMMARY:

• IT professional with over 23 years of network and systems administration experience.
• I am experienced with reinforcing network security access on WAN / LAN, installing configuring and maintaining Unix systems.
• I have been assigned in foreign countries.
• I wrote Korn/Bash shell scripts.
• In addition to the administration of Unix & Linux servers, I am experienced with Ingres and Oracle databases implementations, unix user group accounts and printers queue, OS patches, upgrades and backup/DR.
• I have excellent verbal and written communication skills and proven abilities with documentation and problem solving in client - server environments.
• I consistently take initiatives to complete assignments. I work well under deadline and in pressured situations.

LATEST SKILLS:

• Actifio RMAN DB snapshots and dedup copies
• RHEL6.x and RHEL7.x Oracle Linux 6.x and 7.x HPUX, Solaris: installation, configuration, upgrades, maintenance
• Oracle RAC 11g and 12c
• Samba shares on Linux
• Veritas (Symantec) Netbackup 7.x, 8.x
• Repository build up for HPUX machines and Oracle Linux OL6.x OL7.x
• HPE Service Pack for Proliant (firmware) upgrades; HP ILO integrated lights out
• SUN ALOM advanced light out manager; SUN Flash Archive Disaster Recovery
• VMware vSphere5.x and 6.x
• Brocade (now Broadcom) SAN Network Advisor
• Migration of Brocade Director SAN switches
• Infinidat InfiniBox disk array
• HP 3PAR P 8440 ; HP P6000 - EVA8400
• RSA securID remote login, VPN
• HP virtual connect manager ; HP BladeSystem Onboard Administrator; HP Blade hardware
• HPUX 11.31 Itanium; HPUX Integrity Virtual machines; HP Ignite Disaster Recovery
• HPUX LVM logical volume manager
• Linux LVM (Logical Volume Manager - device mapper)
• Linux Relax and Recover (ReaR) Disaster Recover
• RHEL Satellite and local repos implementation (RHN - RHSN)
• Virtual Local Access Network VLAN
• Oracle ASM, OCFS2, DRBD, ext4, vxfs, NFS file systems for Shared Storage (application, Oracle Exadata database clustering)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Hierarchical Storage Management HSM, Dell 3650, Storage Arrays (HP EVA8400, 3PAR 7400/8440 & 10000, VNX, InfiniBox), HP Blade, Proliant, Itanium, PA Risc, FC SAN (Brocade switch, Fabric zoning).

Software: Solaris10 (sparc & x86), RHEL, OEL, SUSE Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, FreeBSD, HP-UX11, AIX5.2/5.3, SGI Irix6, Mac OSX, VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere5.5, HP ILO integrated lights out, Sun ALOM advanced light out manager, SUN Flash Archive recovery, HP virtual connect manager, HP Blade System Onboard Administrator, HP P6000 - SAN Network Advisor EVA8400 RSA securID remote login, VPN.

Applications, GUI, etc...: Secured Shell (open SSH, putty, Xming), NetSaint, NIS & NIS+, LDAP, File Systems (NFS, CIFS, OCFS2 with DRBD, ext4, vxfs, XFS), Automount, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Sendmail, Postfix, Veritas Volume Manager & NetBackup, Visio, HTML, Apache, SAR, traceroute, Samba, Mentor Graphics, Omnibus Netcool, sudo, HP OpenView service desk, TCP/IP,. Monitoring/notification tools (BigBrother, Nagios, SiteScope, Foglight, tripwire, Splunk, Telalert), WiKi Moin, Linux Relax & Recover ReaR, HPUX ignite. Actifio. HP iLO integrated lights out, SUN Alom advanced light out manager, SUN flash archive recovery setup, HP Virtual Connect Manager, HP BladeSystem Onboard Administrator, Oracle 11g 12c RAC.

Programing: Bash, Korn, C, Bourne shell scripting (unix). Some knowledge of PERL,JAVA, Python.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Kansas City

Sr. Unix systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• RHEL, HPUX, Solaris and Oracle Enterprise Linux implementation, administration, configuration, monitoring, and updatingof physical and virtual servers (HP virtual machines and VMWare ESXi) in a large heterogeneous environment.
• Hardware maintenance (server cards replacement, cabling and rack installation (including HP 3PAR, Actifio, Veritas appliances).
• Interacted closely with architects and helped refine existing Linux infrastructure and implementation.
• Interfaced with Security, Audit, DBA, Networking, Microsoft, development groups and all levels of employees, both technical and non-technical.
• Repository server build up for HPUX machines, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle Linux. Disaster Recovery process implementation and procedures, NetBackup, (Satellite and repo implementation), yum RHEL6.x and 7.x and Oracle Linux 6 repository and Patch Management settings and maintenance.
• Administration of SAMBA, CIFS, NFS. Supported recovery and backup (Veritas Netbackup) to disk pools and tapes, policy create and modify.
• Linux, VMs migration between Data Stores and/or V Block environments.
• Linux Server VM template builds. Actifio implementation for RMAN DB snapshots and Dedup copies.
• Storage Vmotion migrations. HP 3PAR Snapshot, Snap mirror, Snap restore and Clone, hosts & provisioning & remote copy creation for multiple hosts in Oracle RAC environment. HP 3PAR performance reports.
• Followed change control processes (CIPS, NERC, FERC) for all modifications to production environment.
• Participated in monthly whole week on call rotation coverage.
• Participated in Disaster Recovery tests and develop DR scripts/documentation for HP/UX and Linux servers.
• Disaster Recovery setup of Relax and Recover software, builds and templates of Linux servers.
• Data move from HP PA RISC to HP Itanium.
• Replicated data over Vcenter in peer persistence at two data centers in virtual machines environment.
• Heavy participation in Outage management build up project (EMS) Energy Management Systems Confidential Kansas City electric power grid.
• Implementation of Splunk on RHEL6 servers according to Federal regulations.

Confidential

Network Compliance Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Supported Identity and Access Management group OSS, RHEL network elements, TACACS, RADIUS and LDAP servers, firewalls, routers, switches, business critical applications, Service Level Agreements (SLA)
• Confidential at Bank Of America Implementation Engineer, Unix consultant
• Supported Compuware Vantage AMD (Agentless Monitoring Device), RUM (Real User Monitoring) on RHEL and Windows servers.
• Analyze customers network traffic and conclude what to monitor on AMD.
• Artech Information Systems LLC at SPRINT, Information Systems Analyst consultant
• Migrated servers from AIX, Solaris to RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
• Analysts International Corp, DoD (Marine Corps)Sr. Linux Systems Administrator
• Responsible for R&D, software testing, implementations and deployment on Linux RHEL with ACL (Access Control Lists).
• Maintained Syslog, audit and STIG files distributed in HTTP format with CACTI and NAGIOS.
• SPRINT Enterprise Systems and Database Integrator
• Supported Oracle, Informix, SQL server, Teradata, DB2 UDB and Goldengate DB on Windows, AIX, HP/UX, Linux RHEL and Solaris (100+ servers). On call duty and 24/7 pager rotation.