SUMMARY:

• Provide top tier support to Confidential, Federal Government and private companies
• Total Experience ten years working in both private and government sector of USA
• Sole Systems Administrator for Company grossing over fifty - million a year at age twenty

SKILLS SUMMARY:

UNIX System Administration

RHEL, Ubuntu - 9 years - Primary Skill

Expertise in Virtualization - VMware, Oracle - 8 years

Windows server administration - 7 years

BASH programming/scripting - 7 years

Continuous integration - 4 years

Powershell, C++, Ruby programming - 2 years

MySQL, Postgres Administration - 3 years

Active Directory 2003, 2008 suite - 6 years

Expertise in Exchange - 6 years

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

OVS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support team of two-hundred engineers
• Increased engineering efficiency by solving automating testing, deployments and standardization of engineer work environments
• Implement Jenkins and Git continuous integration
• Integrated with LDAP, allows engineers to test and deploy seamlessly
• Migrated to Amazon Web Services
• Migrated entire customer facing environments from datacenters to AWS
• Automated proprietary deployments through a GUI interface
• Designed a GUI interface in Jenkins for Engineers to reliably build and test proprietary code, as opposed to command line
• Puppet administration
• Wrote puppet recipes for management of new systems and refactored existing puppet recipes
• Designed a Vagrant solution with Virtualbox to provision production-like, puppet managed and Jenkins integrated servers to engineer workstations
• Engineer work environment standardization
• Coordinated with Engineers and I.T. to gather requirements and implement Windows-based environment which contained everything the engineers need to complete their work
• Intermediary between Engineering and I.T.
• Worked with I.T. as an engineer translating specific requirements into actions

Confidential, San Diego, CA

IT Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hundreds of engineers, thousands of end-users and partners
• Ninety percent Linux, ten percent Windows
• Ubuntu, RHEL focus, integration with Active Directory and support of private Active Directory domains
• Administer Git and Gerrit for CR&D department
• Hosted git/gerrit servers as well as github enterprise
• Provide kernel customizations for cutting-edge development
• Created custom Linux environments for running specific simulations
• Leverage custom automation/control for unique lab teams
• Puppet, scripting and Confidential specific configuration management like Puppet
• Extensive BASH scripting
• Mainly to increase speed of task resolution but also user environment customizations, program integration
• Moderate python, perl and powershell scripting
• No formal training, writing simple scripts and editing existing code
• Extensive VMware ESXi 4.1 and 5
• Mastered setup and managed all aspects of VMware. High availability clusters, fiber connections, SAN management
• Aid in debugging chipset, wireless and software issues
• Resolving server issues can require learning engineering software to prove resolution
• LSF grid compute management and diskless compute clusters
• Maintaining LSF cluster and diskless clusters for engineers to submit cpu intensive jobs
• Provide training to junior admins
• Trained several junior admins in system administration tasks, customer service and communication

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported the General Services Administration and internal IT in a team of seven
• Administered Jboss on RHEL with Lotus Notes authentication, created and tested disaster recovery plan, created mirror lab environments
• Eighty percent Linux, twenty percent Windows
• Administered RHEL physical and virtual machines with custom kernel modifications and puppet centralized managementSupported internal IT team with Active Directory automated deployments and windows centralized management RHEL/CentOS focus
• Supported and configured Fedora based systems, compiling all code for security reasons
• Support for escalated Windows/Active Directory issues and upgrades
• Troubleshooted escalated internal IT issues with group policy, domains and trusts and upgrade to exchange CCR
• VMware managed infrastructure
• Utilized expert understand of VMware and network to create exact automated clones of production hindered only by hard disk write times on NetApp SAN
• Puppet automated/controlled server management and issue resolution
• Deployed puppet to automate repetitive tasks and control configuration files for lab environments to protect developers
• Nagios, Alertsite, Cacti SiteScope server monitoring
• Leveraged several monitoring systems to ensure stability and monitor usage to properly plan for future growth
• Loadstorm stability testing
• Tested load on production and test server to both discover maximum load and identify areas of improvement
• Worked closely with developers to debug issues with Jboss coreSQL and Domino Database
• Administered, moved databases, configured databases, modified database contents alongside developers Confluence portal
• Documented in depth processes on Confluence portal
• Juniper/Dell network infrastructure
• Administered Juniper networking equipment alongside internal IT team and worked on all Dell server infrastructure
• Lotus Domino user repository and messaging (migrated to Active Directory)
• Troubleshooted user issues and database inconsistencies in legacy software, Lotus Domino 6
• Other supported programs include: Liferay, OpenSSO, Hudson and Subversion
• Worked alongside developers to configure Liferay and OpenSSO authentication, Hudson deployment and Subversion code management
• Provide training to junior admins
• Trained four junior admins and admins in best practices and troubleshooting processes with all work
• Traveled around the world to over forty countries

Confidential, Reston, VA

Sole Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked alongside a single helpdesk technician to support a company of one-hundred twenty employees grossing over fifty million a year
• Windows Active Directory
• Maintained complete Windows Active Directory infrastructure and upgraded to Windows server 2008
• Windows server 2003, 2008, 7, Vista, XP, 2000 operating systems
• Supported and upgraded complex windows server infrastructure and resolved escalated helpdesk tickets
• Implementation and integration of VMware ESX environment
• Virtualized server infrastructure onto ESX 4.1, deployed Dell Equallogic SAN Ubuntu Linux servers
• Introduced company to advantages of running server infrastructure on Linux with Ubuntu, migrated internet services onto Ubuntu and ran security software on Ubuntu Sharepoint Portal
• Assisted Sharepoint administrator in Portal management and upgrades
• Network security and Firewall management
• Managed cisco switches and juniper firewall, implemented VPN with co-location Exchange migration
• Upgraded Exchange to 2007 from 2003, migrated exchange to virtual server
• IT Help Desk management
• Managed help desk staff, trained staff and implemented ticketing system
• Operate within CMMI rules and regulations

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Network Administrator/Sole Tech Support

Responsibilities:

• Set up dedicated gaming servers
• Manage a small network of thirty computers
• Set up File server and Automatic Ghosting
• Create/Modify Customer accounts
• Aid in store management
• Networking essentials
• Installation/management of Microsoft Windows servers
• Installation/management of Active Directory