SUMMARY:

20+ years of experience, visionary and innovative technologist seeking challenging position in the IT industry to make the most of my technical background, customer focus, creativity, passion, industry experience, and leadership skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Sr. System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architect and deploy 10 pair (Active/Active or HA) Paloalto Network solutions in a multi - tenant cloud/virtualized server environment on AWS and on-Promise
• Host hundreds of websites using Palo Alto ALB Sandwich in AWS
• Setup VPC, Transit Gateway, Security and Network Policy, EC2, RDS, ELB, S3, CloudWatch, Elastic Beanstalk
• Help customers build scalable, resilient, and high-performance applications and services on AWS
• Develop/capture/document architectural best practices for building systems on AWS
• Lead expertise during design, deployment, and troubleshooting across the breadth of the Moodys Networks/Linux/Microsoft/Vmware.
• Determine operational weaknesses within the existing network infrastructure and present execution plans to overcoming those concerns in a timely fashion while still making the most cost-efficient use of resources.
• Manage and monitor the infrastructure including; Servers, network devices, backbone, and remote office connections.
• Evaluate and identify opportunities to improve the security or performance of existing environments.
• Interact with other teams to provide escalation support during outages and customer issues even if the problem might not be directly related to the network infrastructure.
• Interact directly with technical and non-technical customers/vendors to resolve incidents and manage project tasks.
• Documents IT activities such as downtime, problems, and systems configurations.
• Maintain a positive and professional attitude while participating in after hour/weekend network maintenance and on-call responsibilities.

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Principal Architecture and Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Evaluation/design/deployment of additional technologies and automation for managed services on AWS and on-Premise
• Administration of AWS, Linux, Windows and VMware which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting both physical and virtual mission critical server issues.
• Creating, cloning Virtual Machines, templates and migrating and upgrade servers ESX hosts.
• Managing large and significant cross-functional programs and projects
• Worked and performed Cloud and Data-center operations including rack mounting, cabling.
• Tech and non-tech refresh of servers which includes new hardware, OS upgrade, application installation, testing.
• Gathering requirements from customers and business partners and design, implement and provide solutions in building the environment.
• Experienced in Troubleshooting critical hardware and software issues and other day-to-day user trouble tickets.
• Managing systems routine backup, scheduling jobs like disabling and enabling Jenkins jobs, enabling system logging, network logging of servers for maintenance, performance tuning, testing.
• Collaborates with senior customer decision makers to define and implement clinical/business and IT Strategies

Confidential, Omaha, NE

Solutions Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform successful planning, configuration, implementation and on-going support of vendor-supplied software and operating system solutions.
• Engage on presale activities with members of the sales team including technical briefings and demonstrations of new technologies.
• Research new software products’ emerging in specialty field and advises Confidential management team on benefits / opportunities related to new products.
• Performs project management and account management duties, as they are identified and assigned.
• Demonstrate in-depth understanding on complex projects to include clustering, systems management or virtualization technologies.
• Provide skills transfer to clients and other engineering team members.

Confidential, S. Sioux City, NE

System Administrator and Linux Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Newly accounted Linux Team Lead role for the corporate level test and production machines, meeting production schedules, resource and project management, and problem resolution.
• Installation and configuration of Linux, Windows 2003, service packs, other parts of Office and everything else; Daily Linux, Windows (00, 03) Domain/Active Directory administration (user accounts and groups); Resource administration and implementation of domain security; Performance tuning; Disk space management; Backup strategy planning and implementation; Server crash/fault recovery;
• Install, Configure and Managing Servers including VMware, Linux, Windows (00,03) Active Directory Services, DNS, IIS, FTP, proxy(ISA), Novell Identity Manager, iChain, Apache, WebSense, WebTrande, WebSense, Policies and System Administration.
• Responsible for ensuring the Linux operations team and Windows operations teams work together in the smooth running of the all systems. Identifying problems and rectifying them, organizing training, network security, statistics monitoring.
• Implemented a comprehensive statistical monitoring system for web traffic, bandwidth utilization, server response time, server load, server uptime, file system utilization, and other data
• Demonstrate high quality, results-driven, prompt and professional customer service and support to instill confidence in technical advice and directions.
• Recognized as a quick thinker, creative and effective technical troubleshooter, tester, and problem solver

Confidential, Fremont, NE

System Administrator and Linux Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and support mission critical servers and workstations. Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the other LINUX, UNIX Systems Administrators; and work with NT, Network, Developer and Security Administrators to provide high quality cross platform solutions.
• Install, configure and maintain critical infrastructure services using EXT3 or JFS, RAID, Security using APF, BFD, IP Masquerade, IP tables, Sys log, DNS, SSH, Samba, Printer, Apache and customize Kernel
• Work with the other System Services groups as well as Development, Production Support and Ecommerce personnel and vendors in order to achieve sufficient performance/capacity levels, resolve problem issues and make general improvements.
• Manage vendor relationships and assist in contract negotiation.
• Create and maintain effective policies, standards, strategies and procedures.
• Mentor and train other personnel.
• Evaluate new Unix Server and Disk technologies and tools to remain current with Industry trends and practices and make recommendations for their application within the enterprise.

Confidential, Burlington, VT

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, upgraded and provided 24x7 support for mission critical servers.
• Served as sole administrator for infrastructure and custom-built RS/6000 AIX servers for a Microelectronics Division chip plant. Down time could idle hundreds of line workers.
• Installed, configured AFS/DFS, ADSM/Backup, NT, WINDOWS 2000, and Custom & Function servers for BTV (Burlington), FSH (Fishkill), END (Endicott), POK (Poughkeepsie) and several Design Centers.
• Installed, configured Java, Web Sphere, DCE, Tivoli, Security (APARS), dce monitor, Apache, JAC, DB2 and e-design applications that run on servers under contract which servers for various organizations on site.
• Installed, updated and supported AIX, Linux and Windows 2000 affinity software on engineering servers.
• Audited servers for compliance with Confidential 's overarching ITCS204 server-security policy, corrected all security violations, and applied APARS
• Provide immediate hardware repair of servers under contract (when possible) and open problem with Hardware Support or Software Support and coordinate repairs with hardware and software Support and customer for their servers.
• Provide all IBMer and contractors for their AFS/DFS/ Lotus Note volume restore, change password, Add user ID, add printer, kill job, create new file system and add permission to the user or group etc.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Developed and installed new POS Red Hat (6.x, 7.x) Server to provide a variety of new services; including Thin Client, JFS, DHCP, BOOTP Server, DNS, SSH, FTP, Samba, Printer and Apache Server RAID, Security using OPEN LDAP, Bastille, Socks5, NSS LDAP, IP Masquerade, IP Chains, Error Log
• Responsibility to maintenance, patching, custom modification porting between versions and support/design on Confidential Thin Client. Also worked on custom Red Hat vendor's developer team making tools to help build custom Confidential Think Client Linux install CD's easier and faster, maintaining packages, modifying the installer and testing and debugging.
• Built custom Kernel for the exact system, which will speed the boot process and reduce the risk for system crash.
• Built Thin Client by using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) with PXE extensions and Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP). That had its own local applications and own X configures files. User can log-in and they can shutdown or reboot their Thin Client without having any problem on the server.
• Created RPM for Thin Client and Server which was easy to install.

Confidential, Fremont, NE

System Administration

Responsibilities:

• Maintained a network using more than 500 workstations and servers within different operating systems (Red Hat 6.2, UNIX (SCO 5.0.*), Windows NT.
• Developed and installed a new Server to provide a variety of new services; including Web Hosting, POP3, IMAP, SSH, FTP, Samba, DNS, Cache Server,
• Installed, upgraded and configured new workstation and server
• Wrote shell and PERL scripts to automate routine tasks daily, weekly or monthly.
• Installed, configured and maintained hardware software and network
• Provided technical support to users and resolved problems with hardware, software and network operating systems.
• Developed a software build and installation system to facilitate timely updates of open source software.