Sr. UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer Resume Brookfield WI - Hire IT People

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a technical position to solve business problems with extensive experience using technology by applying consistent methodologies, standardizations, and industry best practices with a high aptitude for analytical and logistical problem solving.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer

Confidential, Brookfield WI

Responsibilities:

Handled day - to-day technical requests, while managing long term projects, utilizing standardized change management and other ITIL processes; to both internal and external customers.
Worked with remotely located clients to resolve server issues. Researched, architected, documented, and executed system migration plan to move a large commercial financial data warehousing product from UNIX to Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.
Researched, architected, documented, and executed a revised and improved plan to migrate the same data warehousing product again, to Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.
Experience compiling software from source code, if required. Expertise with configuring and utilizing security and auditing open source software tools.
Researched, architected, developed, and documented an automated software system process that meets PCI-DSS compliance entitled a “digital encryption envelope”, using only open source software tools.
Experience analyzing system core dumps, and resolving complex system issues.

C Software Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Implemented functional program module using C Tree abstractions and PL*SQL embedded transactional data query language.
Resolved various bug fixes.

UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator

Confidential, Wauwatosa WI

Responsibilities:

Team lead when management was absent and handled all production warehouse inventory management. Successfully managed 1500+ PCs on day-to-day issues.
Worked with vendors to get hardware replaced and redeployed to meet SLAs. Successfully innovated to automate processes and save people time on more than one occasion.
Successfully problem solved Redhat Linux, Solaris 8 server issues.
Researched and executed a user case study, architected and developed, using Visual Basic.NET and MS SQL; a complete distribution center enterprise auditing system and composed all related support documentation and consulting/training with middle management.
This auditing system saved the company an undisclosed amount of money and was used by all distribution centers through out the country for over a year after I left the company.
The way in which it saved the company money was by negating the distribution center floor workers in their ability to state that they handled more merchandise than they actually did, in order to receive higher compensation; due to the logistics of piece work.