Qualifications Profile

Technically sophisticated, dedicated, and accomplished IT professional with more than 26 years of experience in system administration and engineering. Possess stellar reputation in installing, configuring, upgrading, and re-imaging production servers from Dell, HP, Sun, and IBM to continuously reduce costs, optimize efficiency, and improve productivity. Exhibit superior talents in leading and coordinating technical teams toward timely completion of projects. Accustomed to working with end users to determine requirements, address their needs, and resolve technical issues. Display a keen eye for detail and capability to multitask in a competitive and fast-paced environment.

Core Competencies

Employment History

• Assume responsibility for patching RHEL 6.4 / 7.0 Infrastructure via RH Satellite Server. Setting up Virtual Machines, Networks and Hardware as required via VMWare, Openstack as well as physical hosts.
• Set up RHEL 7 hosts on Dell R720xd rack servers with 25 TB RAID5.
• Copied 40TB of data on a short deadline from drives provided.
• Worked with Openstack Havana and Foreman to set up Cloud Networks and Hosts.

• Assume full management responsibility for the deployment of new technologies and design, installation, configuration, and maintenance. Perform system integration testing of PC/server operating systems, related utilities, and hardware. Actively alleviate and troubleshoot server problems as reported by users. Conduct extensive research and propose innovative recommendations on software and hardware products. Provide new hardware specifications to users based on application needs and anticipated growth. Utilize the following in performing the job RHEVM RedHat Virtualization Manager 2.2, RHEVH RedHat Enterprise Virtualization HyperVisor , Weblogic, HP Quality Center, JIRA and Subversion.
• Worked with Financial Institutions to set up connections for Sterling Connect:Enterprise and Connect:Direct with Secure
• Built out Autonomy virtual environments for Autonomy testing efforts including creating new VMs, storage, networking, and base server configurations
• Built Database Server for ETL processing to handle big data using large storage devices LUN for testing and test data migration
• Building VM proxy server for load balancing and server connectivity as part of a RUP Portal initiative
• Patched Linux OS on VM Servers as part of a security compliance effort including both Application and Database Servers
• Coordinated hardware replacement on VM hosting server to address hardware instability issues and also coordinated motherboard replacement due to failure

• Oversaw the installation of Cygwin as a server on Windows jump hosts. Demonstrated proficiency in utilizing HP OA Onboard Administrator console to set up physical hosts related to the DR project. Worked closely with owners in troubleshooting Firewall rules for NTP, SMTP, NFS, and Oracle RAC.
• Devised a disaster recovery site by virtualizing several Red Hat 5.7 Enterprise machines using VMware
• Architected 3 HP Blades for an Oracle RAC implementation, including VLAN tagging, bonding, and split Interfaces
• Drove all efforts to implement NFS and NTP for RHEL 5.7 servers

• Ensured compliance with Directive 8500.1 and 8500.2 guidelines as well as other DoD guidelines. Utilized UNIX Service Readiness Review Scripts and IASE Secure Technical Implementation Guidelines in evaluating the UNIX and Linux platforms. Handled the configuration of DNS and Apache servers. Employed Baseline tools against UNIX / Linux servers authored HBSS test plans for Linux / UNIX platforms and tested HBSS on Linux / UNIX platforms. Tasked to upload results to VMS and retained VMS IAVAs for each baseline.
• Managed the evaluation of IA Baseline and carried out functional testing for Tenable Security Center ACAS
• Implemented DISA Gold Disk and tested Retina by scanning UNIX / Linux platforms
• Credited for setting up a laboratory that consist of Solaris 9 SPARC , Solaris 10 SPARC , RHEL 5.0, Mac OSX Snow Leopard , Ubuntu 10.4, HPUX, and AIX
• Developed and ensured complete execution of Security Technical Implementation Guidelines

• Administered development, prototype, and production servers. Primarily held responsible for confirming the completion of work on client preview or live servers. Maintained uninterrupted web server and database service to ensure customer total satisfaction.
• Optimized efficiency of all production Windows, UNIX / Linux, and QA servers in accordance with the owner specifications and/or established service level agreements
• Served as a significant contributor in implementing enterprise computing organized all efforts necessary to deliver product to the members and interfaced with clients to achieve their objectives.
• Earned distinction for maintaining 99.95 uptime for Windows and UNIX based web servers
• Designed new and updated existing documentation for various procedures related to maintenance/repair of servers

• Provided strategic direction in installing and upgrading hardware and operating systems. Gained comprehensive knowledge of multiple hardware and software platforms to include Dell, Sun, HP, Compaq, Linux, Solaris, HPUX, and Windows. Oversaw multiple RAID configurations and several types of remote connections such as ILO, DRAC, RIB, and OOB. Displayed unsurpassed expertise in utilizing databases to monitor hardware assets. Maintained frequent interaction with customers on upgrades or installations to ensure uninterrupted service. Regularly interfaced with customers and project engineers to ensure timely completion of all projects handled.
• Simultaneously managed 35 projects of different scope with both short- and long-term deadlines
• Successfully re-deployed 120 Dell 2850 servers in less than 10 hours that were re-purposed, re-imaged, attached to a new network, and moved into new locations in collaboration with 7 team members
• Realized 5M projected savings in the re-installation of a mailbox system consisting of 20 Dell 2850s and 40 Dell PowerVaults with SCSI connectors, including altering network IP addresses configuring DRAC for each updating the inventory database
• Commended for improving asset inventory accuracy from 97 to 99 from Spring to Fall inventory
• Relocated an additional 2,000 assets into the technical center on top of the normal workload of machines that were scheduled to be installed as part of every day projects