SUMMARY:

As a highly experienced system administrator skilled with multiple operating systemsI seek a position in a diverse environment which will challenge and inspire me.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: LINUX, UNIX, BSD, SunOS, Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, AIX, RedHat, Fedora, Centos, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, ESXI, DOS, Windows, MAC

Scripting Languages: UNIX shell (bourne, C shell, Tshell, Korn, bash), PERL, TCL, TK, Expect, SQL Beginner Python, Able to read Ruby, Java, PHP

Databases: Oracle, MySQL, SQL, Postgres, Ingres, DB2, Unify, Informix

Applications: GNU & other open source applications, Veritas Vol Mgr (vxvm/vxfs), Veritas Cluster (VCS) Sun Cluster, Veritas net backup, Legato Networker, Solaris virtual machine (zoning, domains & containers), Solstice Disksuite, Sun Store edge, Sendmail, IIS, HP Openview, Sun Net Mgr Docker, Tivoli, SunOne, IPlanet, Apache, WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, Sun One, Jboss proxy server, caching servers, Lotus, Autocad, Frame, Redhat Identity Manager, single sign on sudo, Remedy, Budtool, SCCS, RCS, CVS, SAP, ESXi, VMWare, vSphere, vCenter, Openstack VirtualBox, Xen, KVM, Solaris Zones & Domains, CFEngine, Chef, Salt, Ansible, Puppet, Catalina Microsoft productivity applications (Office etc), Opensource productivity apps

Communications: RS232/422/449, SCSI, PATA, SATA, X25, Ethernet, TCP/IP, IPX, LAT, SDLC, HDLC, SNA, 3270 Token Ring, Fibre Optics, FDDI, FOIRL, CDDI, X11, NIS, NFS, DNS, SNMP, SMTP, Broadband Wireless LAN, PPP, ISDN, Frame relay, T - 1, T-3, Channel bank, Laser, Microwave, IPMI, ILO

Hardware: Sun, HP, IBM, SGI, Compaq, Dell, INTEL, AMD, DEC, PC clone, Mac

Misc: Fiberchannel, Disk arrays, Storage array networks (SAN), Network attached storage (NAS), Isilon Filer, HP HSV array, Network Appliance, Hitatchi, Brocade, McData, Compute clusters, webcams Media stackers, Terminal servers, Console access servers

Network: Hubs, switches, routers, bridges, load balancers, terminal servers, X-terminals, rmon probes network sniffers, channel banks T-carrier multiplexers, 3Com, Cisco IOS, Cabletron, Lucent, Juniper Alteon, Foundry, Extreme, F5, Avocent, Cyclades, KVM, ILO, IPMI, Infiniband, fiber

Skills: System administration, system install, setup & upgrade, mail, system security, instruction network administration, system backups & redundancy disaster recovery, virtual machines resource & expansion planning, project management, systems integration, NIS, NIS+ LDAP, enterprise architecture, fax & paging systems, web servers, scripting & tools telecommunications (Voice, Data, Common Carrier), telephone switch, PBX, VoIP technical writing documentation & training, database admin, RAID, Solaris Jumpstart Linux Kickstart, Windows autoinstall, lab & server room design & upgrade revision & configuration control, emergency power & facility monitoring

EXPERIENCE:

Systems Security Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Cyber Security, Security remediation in Linux, Centos, Windows cloud environment. Security scanning & remediation, single sign on, Redhat Identity Manager, sudo, RBAC, Zantaz, Autonomy, Linux IDM, Kerberos, LDAP, DNS, SUSE, Windows AD, system patching, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible, coordinating updates, process automation, shell and Python scripting.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prod Ops & Dev Ops systems administration for email marketing company. Linux & Windows, troubleshooting, server room cleanup, datacentre support, production support, rebuilt QA environment, sorted out power problem, server room & datacentre cage auditing, built mail relays, RSA tokens certificate installation & troubleshooting, office upgrade to gig ether, dev & QA support, backups, CFEngine, Cobbler, Puppet, Salt, Kickstart, Jira, Confluence, brocade, EMC, Hitatchi, Net App, documentation, ticket tracking, Rackspace datacentre organization tool.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Contract systems admin, Linux, Centos, data centre operations, managed server break fix queue for edge network (11000 machines), server diagnosis & failure analysis, physical access control lists task queue tagging, network troubleshooting, circuit & cross connect provisioning & decommissioningdata centre upgrades, built tools with Osmosis workflow system, LINUX scripting, beginning Python Chef, automated LSI flash RMA process.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Systems administration in a cloud based SAAS & IaaS, environment. Redhat, Centos Oracle LinuxSolaris, Windows, Oracle Rac, LDAP, WindowsAD, DNS, FLACM configuration management toolSSL cert mgmt, F5 loadbalancer config, EMC, Dell storage, SAN Switches, Solaris Containers Subversion SVN repositories, monitoring infrastructure with Mon, Zabbix, & Nagios, Apache, Tomcatrotating off hrs support, exposure to Python & Ruby.

Service Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Contract systems administration with LINUX & BSD UNIX, Red Hat, Fedora, RHEL Centos, building & maintaining grid computing & Hadoop infrastructure, virtual servers, VMWare, Openstack, Virtualbox, Puppet, server break fix, trouble tickets, scripting, RPM pkg, remote configuration & provisioning.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Contract Systems administration, Linux, virtual machine environment, KVM, Xen, built Open Ticket Response System server, planned cloud infrastructure, audited server room, blade server infrastructure.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• IT Systems administration, Linux, Windows, user account management, Red Hat, Fedora, RHEL, Centos, RPM pkging, server building & troubleshooting, lab construction, upgrades & moves, built trouble ticket system, built mail archiver, VMWare, Virtualbox, Openstack, OpenSNMP, InMon network & host monitoring system, virtual servers, built file server, built backup system, built single sign in via Likewise (Open LADAP & AD integration), built power & temperature monitoring system with graphing & alarm paging system, built conference room scheduler, built asset tracking database, built user phone lookup tool with mysql, exposure to puppet, cabling, rack & stack, server consolidation, scripting, planning corporate move including labs & data centres.
• Systems administration with UNIX, LINUX, Windows, Solaris, RedHat, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, LDAP, Active Directory, 3PAR SAN, Network & network monitoring with SolarWinds, evaluated trouble ticketing systems, system moves, project planning.
• Project moving Tivoli server for client of Tivoli Systems. Platforms included IBM Power5IBM Power6, X86, AIX, LINUX, IBM Fast-T SAN, IBM TS-3310,IBM LPARs, IBM HMC manager.
• Project with water & power utility, involving IBM Power6 platform, IBM LPARs, IBM HMC manager, HP HSV SAN, McData switch. Tivoli TSM upgrade, AIX & LINUX install on logical volumes, Oracle installs, SAP installs & upgrades.
• Project to adapt LDAP to emulate NIS "Netgroup" capability & wrote documentation. Built Solaris jumpstart server.

Environment: Unix, Linux, Solaris, AIX, NFS, LDAP active directory, Windows2003/XP/Vista, Solaris containers & zones.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Contract including upgrading console access system, scripting, documentation, LDAP, NAS, RAIDtroubleshooting, customer facing website, 24x7x365 prod environment, co-location facilities, multiple data centres & engineering lab IPMI ILO, Avocent, Cyclades, KVM, console access & terminal serverscabling VoIP, racking, Unix, Linux, Solaris, Windows2003/XP/Vista, MAC Os-X, RedHat, CentosBSD, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Debian, Apache, Jboss, Tomcat, LDAP, active directory, email serverZimbra, VmWare ESX, load balancers, Perlbal, colo cage & engineering lab upgrades & maintenanceNagios, Cactii, Open NMS, managing vendor field service helpdesk support, facilities issuesdocumentation, system backups.
• Systems administration, installs, upgrades, jumpstart, kickstart, NIS, DNS, NFS, helpdesk, LINUXUNIX, Solaris, Windows2003/XP/Vista, RAID, NFS, LDAP, active directory, console servers AvocentCyclades, KVM, Cabling, network troubleshooting, Network Appliance filers, Storage Tek, NagiosApache, Jboss, automated alerts, 24x7x365 production environment, system backups, co-location facility, multiple data centres & engineering/QA labs, managing vendor field service, data centre audittech support hotline rotation, documentation.
• Reconfiguration & troubleshooting of Linux, Windows2003/XP, VMWare machines for corporate moves, RedHat, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, CentOs, Fedora, DNS, NIS, ESX, KVM, gateways & routingNFS, LDAP, active directory.

Confidential

Field Tech Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• supporting network attached clustered file storage systems for customers. BSD, LINUX, Windows2003/XP, Mac Os-X, networking, Sendmail, infiniband, Cisco IOS, installation & planning, troubleshooting, break-fix, remote console servers, Avocent, Cyclades, KVM, ILO, IPMIRAID, network & performance monitoring, NFS, LDAP, Apache, Samba,active directory, rackingcabling, server moves, failure analysis & reporting, field repair, spares logistics, installation planning, colocation facilities, 24x7 support, telephone email & webex customer support, storageIsilon filers, Big5. Support for several customers involved working with digital digital media customer facing production websites, documentation.
• Six week project, supplementing IT for startup. Linux, Centos, Slax, BSD, Windows2000/2003/XPMac Os-X, Voice Over IP, Open LDAP, NFS, Apache, Wiki, Tomcat, SAMBA, scripting (shell, PERL)Postgres, Zimbra, Open Exchange, active directory, Open NMS, NFS, LDAP, Solved VoIP & printing issues, hardware troubleshooting, helped evaluate replacement email system, wrote scripts for hardware
• QA & system automation, built Linux & BSD ISO images for install & live CDs, RAID, system administration, user adds & deletions, mailing lists, workstation builds, documentation, system backups, helpdesk.
• Server infrastructure support for newspaper, SUN, HP, IBM, Dell, UNIX, LINUX, Solaris, HPUX, AIXMac Os-X, Tru 64, Windows2000/2003/XP, Sendmail, VeritasVolume Mgr, Veritas Cluster Veritas Net
• Backup, filesystem replication between facilities, storage, TSM, system backups, Oracle, SANHitachi, BladeCenter, Solaris containers & zoning, LDAP, active directory, server consolidation, ILOAvocent, Cyclades, KVM, console servers, server consolidation, system & net configuration project management scripting (shell, Perl, TCL,SQL), aux hot backup site, NFS, 24x7 production critical deadlines, Web server, Apache, Tomcat, Jboss, MySQL, Proxy Server, Wiki, Cache Server, SquidLDAP, load balancing Hitachi SAN, Tape library, Foundry & Cisco switch, data replication, NagiosBig Brother, SunFire, V100, E220, V240, E250, V480, V880, E5500, E6800, D1000, A1000, T3 arrayBig5, RAID, documentation, helpdesk.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Systems administration, UNIX, LINUX, Windows2000/XP, NFS, AIX, LDAP, active directoryOracle install upgrade & admin, system backups, Tivoli backup, Apache, Tomcat, Jboss, WeblogicWebsphere, Tivoli, maintaining training & production systems, training facility support, AIX upgradeTivoli endpoint troubleshooting, system & network configs, network troubleshooting, VoIP, user server support, software & hardware installations, upgrades, scripting (shell, Perl, SQL), VoIP, user server support, software & hardware installations & upgrades, disaster recovery, IBM logical vol mgrRAID, Lotus Notes, network & hardware troubleshooting, Samba, IBM DCE, proxy server, RAIDAvocent, Cyclades, KVM, Sendmail, helpdesk, remote site support, documentation.