OBJECTIVE:

Seeking a position utilizing and building upon my more than 24 years of UNIX and Linux Systems Administration skills either as a direct administrator or in a support center role.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

UNIX Systems Administrator

Confidential

• Systems Administration of all DS Services' UNIX and Linux systems. Also served as primary SAN/Storage Administrator and primary administrator for backup solution for UNIX/Linux and Windows. Served as primary external facing DNS administrator. UNIX/Linux systems included multiple HP-UX servers as well as RedHat Linux, FreeBSD and legacy SCO Unix.
• Originally most applications and databases were on HP-UX but during my tenure we've migrated most things to RedHat Enterprise Linux RHEL starting with RHEL 2.1 going through RHEL3, RHEL4, RHEL5, RHEL6 and RHEL7 mostly RHEL5, RHEL6 RHEL7 now .
• Systems migrated include Oracle Data Warehouse, Oracle ERP and Financials. Worked also on migrating web services from Microsoft IIS to Apache on HP-UX and later to RHEL including Jboss. I have installed Oracle RAC on RHEL3 and RHEL5 and Oracle RAC/GRID on RHEL6. Built and administered RHEL Sendmail servers for separate domain, Additionally administered server with Jboss based Netbench Application, Firewall later replaced with a PIX , RHEL with BIND DNS servers and various other purposes. FreeBSD system used Nagios systems monitoring subsequently migrated to RHEL. Netbackup was originally on HP-UX master but later migrated to RHEL6 with multiple media servers including HP-UX and RHEL. Additional HP-UX systems used for Essbase and Kaba Payroll with Oracle Database. Storage composed originally of EMC Symmetrix 8830, DMX3 and Clariion CX500, CX700 and CX3-20 in SAN environment using EMC Connectrix but later migrated to Hitachi VSP using Cisco SAN switches. The HP-UX servers used Veritas Volume Manager VxVM and Veritas Filesystems VxFS . Worked with JetAdmin HPNP , CUPs and CEPs printing. Did regular database refreshes of test and training environments from associated Production environments. Maintained and added to Nagios monitoring for all systems including UNIX, Linux and Windows servers, and sundry equipment such as Air Handlers, UPSes, NTP time clocks etc Also did minor administration of legacy AS400 systems for a couple of years.

Confidential

Senior Unix Systems Administrator at Cisco Systems

• Contract via TekSystems
• Systems Administration of Cisco's Global Manufacturing, Data Warehouse and ERP
• environments. This included around 80 HP servers, 80 Sun servers and 30 Linux servers as well
• as several IBM Sequent Numa servers. Duties ranged from day to day administration to project
• work. Primary support done for HP-UX servers and project work building adding Linux servers.
• For these systems Solaris and Dynix is being phased out in favor of HP-UX for database and
• Linux for applications although most of the application servers are Currently still on HP-UX,
• Solaris or Dynix. Most systems are running Oracle 9I RAC in clusters or Oracle 10.7 or 11I
• Financials. Storage is mainly EMC Symmetrix/DMX in SAN configuration. The HP-UX servers
• use MC/Service Guard for Clustering. The Solaris servers use VeritasCluster Server. Other
• applications supported included DollarUniverse, Connect4 Printing, andBiscom Faxcom. Due to a
• high number of development, staging and other boundary systems spent significant time
• performing data refreshes from Production to these other systems. Worked on meeting
• Sarbanes-Oxley requirments for financial systems.

Confidential

Contract via Sai People Solutions

• Systems Administration of GlaxoSmithKline's MERPS Manufacturing Enterprise Resource Planning ERP Solution landscapes.
• These were comprised of Sun Cluster Sun E10000s with multiple domains, a Sun 4500 and some Sun 420R servers, running Solaris 2.6 8, Oracle databases, SAP R/3 and MQ Series and utilized Sun Storage A5200s, D1000s as well as a Sun L700 DLT tape library. Additional software utilized was Tivoli Workload Manager Maestro , BMC Patrol, UniQPrint Macro4 ColubusD , Jetform, Jetadmin and Veritas Netbackup. These were FDA regulated Validated Systems used for global manufacturing sites including locations in Confidential

Confidential

Senior UNIX Systems Administrator

• Started as Operating Systems Programmer II and was promoted to Operating Systems Programmer III and finally to Operating Systems Programming Consultant.
• This was system administration rather than programming despite titles. Administered multiple high end and/or High Availability UNIX HP-UX and Solaris servers along with associated systems such as EMC disk arrays and STK and Qualstar robotic tape libraries in SAN configurations. Served as group Subject Matter Expert for Foundation and Orbix middleware products. Supported other UNIX based software application installations including Remedy, Maestro, Patrol, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Netbackup, Sun Cluster and HP ANSI C. Also supported DBAs on Sybase and Oracle DBMS products. Did direct administration of Informix used for Foundation Design. Served as department Change Area Coordinator through much of my tenure. Performance tuning using Glance/Measureware, sar and other utilities.
• Key projects worked included Perl port of scripts integral to operation of Foundation Middleware on which the main application was built, installation of operating system and applications at startup in. HP-UX version upgrades, and company's port of database operations from Sybase on HP-UX to Oracle on Solaris.

Confidential

Senior Technician

• Started as Technical Support Specialist and was promoted to Boxload/Conversion/System Administrator Specialist then to final position noted above.
• As Technical Support Specialist did remote application and operating systems support for Encore Developed application running on various UNIX platforms primarily AT T System V releases 3.1 and 3.2 and 4 on 3B2 400, 600, 1000 and 6386 systems. Other platforms worked on included NEC Astrix, SCO Xenix, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX and NCR System V release 4.
• As Box Load/Conversion/System Administrator Specialist was instrumental in facilitating company's move from AT T System V to SCO UNIX 3.2 then 3.4 later renamed Open Desktop . Set standards for system loads and pre-staged independent site loads for shipment to site including assembling the hardware, installing the UNIX operating system and installing the applications. Built and installed in house support and development servers and administered same. On support server installed and customized Brock Control Systems Software for Sales and Ticket Tracking and maintained same including underlying Informix database utilizing SQL.
• In final position retained duties of prior position and became lead Senior Technician for troubleshooting operating system and hardware related issues with customer sites. Traveled to customer sites as necessary for troubleshooting, pre-installation inspections and conversions. Also in this role worked closely with Holiday Inn for rollout to over 2000 sites including use of SCO Mass Installation Tools and testing various servers and peripherals for use in same.
• Positions prior to Encore were related to hospitality accounting, systems and management and will be detailed upon request.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

Unix/Linux Operating Systems:

• HP-UX 8, 9.05, 9.07, 10.01, 10.20 and 11.0, 11iv1, 11iv2
• Sun Solaris 2.51, 2.6, 7 2.7 and 8 2.8 and Sun OS 4.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux RHEL AS 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 7
• Fedora Core Linux 4, 5, 6 7
• Debian Linux Woody and Sarge
• FreeBSD 4.8 4.9
• Dynix 4.5
• SCO UNIX 3.2.2 and 3.2.4 Open Desktop and SCO XENIX 2.0
• AT T UNIX System V Releases 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 4
• NCR UNIX System V Release 4

Unix/Linux Hardware Platforms

• Sun Enterprise 10000 also known as E10000, E10K , Sun 420R and 4500 servers
• Sun Workstations Sparc 5, Ultra 10 and others
• Hewlett Packard 9000 E, H, I, T, K, V, N, rx1600, rp3410, rp3440, rp4440, rp7410, rp8410 Class servers
• Hewlett Packard 700 Series Workstations and J Class Workstation
• HP DL380 DL580 Intel Based for Linux
• Dell PowerEdge many different models over the years Intel based for Linux and FreeBSD
• AT T 3B2-400, 3B2-600, 3B2-1000 and AT T 6386
• NCR 3300-3400 series Intel based systems
• IBM RS-6000 320h and others
• IBM Sequent Numa

Databases:

• Oracle 7.2, 8I including Oracle Parallel Server/OPS , 9I including RAC , 10g including RAC , 11
• Sybase 10.2, 11.5, 11.7
• Informix 4.x, 5.x
• Essbase

Languages:

• Korn and Bourne ksh/sh/bash shell scripting
• Perl
• C
• DB/C

Other Unix/Linux Based Software:

• Oracle Financials 10.7, 11i, r12, CRS RAC
• SAP R/3
• Hewlett Packard Glance and Measureware Performance Monitoring tools Including Perfview
• Hewlett Packard Mirror/UX
• Hewlett Packard Ignite/UX
• Hewlett Packard Logical Volume Manager LVM
• Sun Cluster
• Veritas Netbackup
• Veritas Volume Manager also known as Sun StorEdge Volume Manager
• Veritas Filesystem HP-UX and Solaris
• Veritas Cluster HP-UX and Solaris
• Accenture Foundation for Cooperative Processing FCP 2.x through 4.1 Messaging
• Iona Orbix 3.x CORBA
• MQ Series MiddleWare
• Tivoli Workload Scheduler Formerly known as Maestro Job Scheduler
• Dollar Universe
• BMC Patrol Event and Alert Software
• Macro4 UniQPrint now known as ColumbusD
• Remedy Ticket Tracking and Help Desk Software
• Nagios Event Monitoring including NRPE plugin for Unix/Linux and nsclient for Windows servers
• BIND DNS 9.3.x
• Sendmail
• Jboss
• CUPS CEPS printing

Other Hardware:

• Hitachi VSP Disk Array
• Cisco 9500 Series SAN/fibre switches
• EMC Symmetrix Disk Arrays up through DMX3 with SRDF and BCVs Direct attach and SAN
• EMC Clariion Disk Arrays CX700, CX500, CX3-20, CX3-20c
• EMC Connectrix Fibre Switches McData OEM
• HP Surestore Fibre Bridges Brocade OEM
• Hitachi Data Systems Disk Array 7700E later OEMed as HP XP 256 and XP 512
• Sun A5200 Storage Arrays Sun D1000 Storage Arrays
• DEC Storage Works Disk Arrays
• HP Nike Model 20 and 30 Disk Arrays
• EMC Data Domain Deduplication Appliances
• Quantum DXi Deduplication Appliances
• Qunatum i6000 Scalar Tape Library
• HP Tape Library OEM of STK 9710 Direct attach and SAN
• STK 9710 DLT 7000/8000 Tape Libraries Direct attach and SAN
• Sun L700 Tape Library OEM of STK Direct attach
• Qualstar AIT2 Tape Libraries - SAN
• SAN configurations of disk arrays and tape libraries
• Crossroads SAN hubs fiber to SCSI muxes