Summary

15 years experience in administering UNIX/ Linux along with Windows Servers in a LAN/WAN network environment. Proficient in Bash Shell, Perl/ CGI, Python, JavaScript, HTML 5, Java, PHP, ASP 3.0 MySQL

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 2650 and 1750, SonicWALL TZ 170 firewall, Cisco PIX 501 and 515e firewall, Cisco 1600, 2600 routers and 1900, 2820 3560 switches build/ upgraded Workstations, and Servers
• Operating Systems: FreeBSD 7.1, CentOS 5.5, Solaris 9 and 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2, Fedora 14, Suse Linux Enterprise, Gentoo Windows XP, Server 2003 Small Business Solutions/ Enterprise IOS
• Networking: Experienced in installing: wired/ wireless network communication, peer to peer and client/server networks, Active Directory Tier level Domain installations, System Migration, Hubs, and Bridges setup RRAS, NAT, NIS, NFS, FTP, TFTP RRAS, WINS, DNS, DHCP, DHCP Relay, SAN technology, Apache, IIS 6 and 7, Tomcat 6/ JSP, Ant 8.1., VMWare vSphere ESXi's, Chef, Puppet
• Amazon AWS ES2
• Programming: J2EE, Java Script, Shell and Perl, MySQL, Action scripting, PHP, ASP, XHTML, CSS, Python

EMPLOYMENT

Confidential

Professional Service Systems Engineer

• Configure and support an enterprise wide NMS Network Monitoring System
• Setup a personal lab test environments in ESXi, VMware's vSphere utilizing Chef deployment tools to simulate our appliance in virtual Linux based network clustered environments
• Use GIT for Perl and PHP scripts version control management
• Assist in script code reviews, tests and deployment
• Developed script tools utilizing Bash, PHP, Perl and MySQL
• Utilized proprietary scripts to generate custom reports generate poll reports of the following:
• SNMP, ICMP, Processes, IPSLA, Proxy Ping, NBAR, DNS, HTTP, Portshaker, WMI, and JMX
• Familiar with the ICMP, TCP and UDP protocols In conjunction with the DNC Dedicated Netflow Collector - configure system policies and thresholds to evaluate custom alert conditions
• Contribute documented procedures to our in house repository FishEye
• Develop and provide custom training material for our supported clients on operational system usage

Confidential

Systems Engineer Lead

• Installed/ integrated, and supported performance tuned communication systems along with mass storage
• devices on Windows server 2003, Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu and Unix Solaris systems
• Maintained network systems via network monitor tools: Nagios, and Impact
• Installed and configured the following: server clusters, Barracuda load balancers, Physical and Virtual
• SAN storage servers LVM volumes configured and manage IIS and Apache web servers
• Utilized standard configuration management tools: Chef, and Puppet for server provisioning
• Poses exceptional and innovative problem solving skills built web tools using Perl, MySQL and PHP
• Developed a highly utilized Incident and Critical Systems Change notification web tool along with
• an in house ticketing system that kept track of failed hardware provided graphs and spreadsheet reports
• Developed a in house video training program called VODTub
• Configured and maintained Cisco: Radio Frequency Gateways and Remote DVR systems
• Wrote high-level SQL queries to generate daily/ weekly reports
• Supervised up to 6 consultants planned and coordinated activities provided weekly milestone reports

Confidential

Unix and Linux Systems Engineer

• Administered 14 Server systems ranging from Suse version 10, Red Hat Enterprise, FreeBSD 5, 7.1 to
• Centos 5.5, VMWare Virtual Center ESXi
• Built kickstart server for Linux Centos
• Configured the following Cisco PIX 501, and 515e firewalls and Catalyst 3560 switch
• Setup server clusters, and load balancing technologies
• Conduct innovative and resourceful problem solving skills
• Provided reliable and sensible attitude in a 'live, operational datacenter' environment
• Proficient with writing Bash Shell, Perl, CGI, PHP, Java, HTML and TCL scripts
• Identified and troubleshoot hardware issues in Dell PowerEdge 2650 and 1750 servers, replaced system
• boards and other hardware components
• Configured both software and hardware RAID 5 installations for both individual Dell system and
• VMware ESXi server installations
• Installed and configured the following programs: Apache, DNS BIND , TCP/IP, Sendmail, Zimbra Mail Server, Samba, NFS, NAT, ClamAV, Nagios, LogWatch, Tripwire, IPFW and IPTables Firewalls
• Experienced with configuring Linux VPN IPCop and VOIP Systems
• Monitored systems utilizing Nagios, logged reports daily for basic activities and changes
• Purchased and installed CA certificates as well as performed hardware procurement activities

Confidential

Systems Engineer

• Administered over 800 Web Servers ranging from UNIX Solaris version 9, and Linux Red Hat
• Enterprise version 5.2 and Suse Linux Enterprise
• Baselined new machines configured the following: Apache, Vignette, DNS BIND , TCP/IP, Sendmail,
• Samba, Endeca, Kerberos, NIS, BMC ProactiveNet, Precache, Stager distd/ injectd , Tomcat and
• ClamAV
• Proficient in writing Bash Shell scripts, Perl, CGI, PHP, Java, HTML and TCL scripts
• Monitored system activities by utilizing Toga, Site Scope, BMC ProactiveNet and Watcher
• Managed all access request issues, for example: setup ssh gateway accounts for remote users,
• administered secure ID keys, created ftp accounts, Kerberos User and System accounts,
• modified file and directory permissions setup auto mount user accounts
• Knowledge of the following Protocols and Standards: HTTP, SSL, CGI, JSP, NFS, LDAP, NIS
• Performed after hour support for on-call issues rotated this responsibility every 6 weeks
• Excellent communications skills attended weekly meetings with group leads from EW, People, Instyle
• US/ UK/ Weddings, This Old House and Health.com to discuss projects and deployment plans
• Proficient in documenting procedures and storing them in our web knowledge base repository