SUMMARY

• I am a IT professional with over 20 years’ experience as UNIX System Administrator on various UNIX platforms. I have strong technical, analytical and troubleshooting skills with a proven ability to design and deliver IT solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: HP - UX, Solaris, AIX, Redhat Linux, Suse Linux, Centos Linux, Ubuntu Linux,Tru64, Windows

Technologies: DNS, NIS, TCP/IP, SSH, SNMP, SMTP, NFS, Samba, CIFS, SAN, XML, HTML, SQL, C, Perl, Shell scripting, VMWare, AWS

SOFTware: Oracle, Tivoli Framework, Tivoli Enterprise Console, Tivoli Distributed Monitoring, Tivoli Software Distribution, Tivoli Netview, Remedy, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Connect/Direct, Tivoli Change Management, Legato Networker, HP Data Protector, Tivoli Storage Manager, HP Openview, CA Autosys, Business Objects, Amisys Advance, Tomcat, Apache, Roc Maestro, Roc Rhapsody, Cacti, WebSphere, Nagios, Centrify, SALT, SuSE Manager, Xymon, Graylogtechnical Training

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Warrenton, VA

LINUX/AIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Administration and maintenance of 200 Red Hat Linux and AIX servers
• As a consultant, provided an overview of various items and procedures that needed to be improved or fixed immediately
• Worked on various Service Improvement Projects that were assigned
• Provided support and information to various teams

Confidential, Shelton, CT

LINUX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Administration and maintenance of AWS services including: EC2, EFS, RDS, ELB, AMI, S3
• Administration of all Linux systems within active AWS production and test environments
• Monitoring and configuration of all security within the AWS environment with multiple VPC's.
• Setup of all new Magento Environments for new instances via docker containers and related components including Varnish, Redis, Apache, and PHP
• Worked with developers and project management on designing appropriate and secure technical solutions and the timely release of production code deployments

Confidential, Milford, CT

UNIX/LINUX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• UNIX/Linux systems administration of flight simulation servers
• Provide application support to development group which include configuring/installing various application such as gitlab, php, python
• Configure/troubleshoot SuSE Manager which is used for configuration management
• Provide UNIX/Linux support to various UNIX/Linux platforms in Engineering Lab
• Provide NIS support for Engineering Lab
• Configure and support Xymon for monitoring

Confidential, Milford, CT

UNIX/LINUX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• UNIX/Linux systems administration of web and application servers
• Monitoring and performance tuning of servers
• Various applications support and troubleshooting
• Provided UNIX support to development team
• Install/setup a SALT environment
• Support of AWS storage

Confidential, Brookfield, CT

UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• UNIX/Linux systems support of Corporate and various US sites servers
• Monitoring and performance tuning of servers via scripts, Cacti and Nagios
• Various applications support and troubleshooting
• Provide DNS and NIS support for the UNIX/Linux environment

Confidential, Hartford, CT

PRODUCTION SUPPORT/UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Support applications supported by Clinical IT
• Root cause analysis and troubleshooting of various integrated applications such as WebSphere, Java and Mule ESB on UNIX and Windows servers.
• Create various monitoring and reporting scripts
• Automate application startup and shutdown scripts.
• Improved processes and procedures by working closely with application programmers and architects.
• Create documentation for various procedures and technical reference material.

Confidential, Farmington, CT

UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for establishing a production ready UNIX environment for the migration of the company’s main application.
• Provided the Data Center Operations staff various menu driven scripts to automate their jobs
• Installing Operating System patches
• Support to the Development group for code migration to new environment
• Performance monitoring and troubleshooting of UNIX, Oracle and EMC environments
• Setup of secure file transfers
• Designed and created a new turnover process to Production and the User Testing environments
• Analysis and resolution of various application issues
• Perform application code releases and upgrades
• Setup, test, and document the first Disaster Recovery test for the new UNIX environment, which included various applications.
• Create and maintain scripts to proactively monitor systems and applications.
• Install and configured Cacti to capture performance data
• Setup and maintained security on systems and implemented security procedures

Confidential

SENIOR UNIX ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Provide UNIX day-to-day support for HP-UX, Solaris and Linux Operating Systems
• Ensured customer’s SLAs were maintained and achieved
• Ensure the server infrastructure performance and integrity are maintained
• Deployment of new servers in accordance to standard build procedures
• Maintain Sarbanes Oxley security compliance in accordance to security audits
• Provide security and general patch maintenance and Operating System upgrades.
• Provide proactive monitoring and performance analysis
• Participated in Disaster Recovery testing
• Provide support to various Application groups
• Provide CA Autosys application support and perform application upgrades
• Create and maintain server documentation and procedures
• Install, maintain and monitor ESX VMware servers
• Create and maintain Virtual Linux Clients in the VMware environment