LEAD UNIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR Resume

SUMMARY:

Resourceful, highly motivated IT specialist with over fourteen years of hands - on experience in multiple levels of systems support.
Experienced with system administration on several operating systems including RedHat Linux, CentOS, AIX, Solaris 10 and HP-UX.
Proactive and competent in OS upgrades/updates, security patching, and PCI compliance.
Comfortable and accustomed to working independently or with others and has the ability to cohesively work with multiple departments.
RedHat Linux Virtualization Solaris Zones
Disaster recovery of Unix Systems RHEL 3, 4, 5, & 6
Linux Physical & Virtual Builds RedHat clustering, and virtulization (KVM & XEN)
Sun Solaris 10 PCI Compliance
Veritas Volume Manager VSphere, VMWare, ESXi (Managing of VM s)
Legato Networker Redhat Linux Classes (RHL133, RHL253)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

LEAD UNIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Confidential, Reston VA

Responsibilities:

Performed system analysis of a server environment to determine its vulnerabilities, along with short term and long term recommendations.
Worked to streamline processes to become more efficient in day to day tasks
Explored open source solutions for server inventory
Became proficient with Solaris 10, along with Veritas Volume manager, ZFS, and Zones.
Obtained a Minimum background clearance - Public Trust
Worked closely with VSphere, creating CentOS VM’s
Participated in the RFP process for new hardware acquisitions
Determined capacity needs for new hardware purchases, and for Solaris physical sever to VM migrations
Designed and implemented Solaris 10 Physical to CentOS VM migration
Participated in a full Disaster Recovery Test
Worked with application teams to pass both security scans and auditing
Coordinated and Executed move of Unix systems to a new datacenter
Performed Government STIG on Unix systems.
Installed and configured new Solaris systems
Configured new NetApp Storage array, and migrated data from the old array.

UNIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Assisted in performing server configuration and relocation for a 2nd Datacenter in 2008
Proficient in day to day tasks such as Security patching, alarm troubleshooting and problem management.
Worked closely with engineering teams to ensure that all credit card servers met PCI requirements
Actively worked to create documentation on current procedures, and company standards
Continued on Linux systems, and AIX while learning to manage projects and meet critical deadlines.
Worked intimately with Linux migrations (AIX to Linux)
Worked with Capacity planning to determine resource allocation for server migrations.
Developed a strong skill set for RHEL virtualization, and clustering.
Proficient in using BMC remedy. Both managing tasks, and change requests.