COMPUTER SKILLS

• Red Hat Linux, Centos, HPUX LVM, VERITAS Volume Manager, Shell Scripting, Windows, Nagios, Service Guard
• Hardware: HP Proliant Dl580/ 380/360, BL465 Blade Servers, HP9000s, Rx3600, Rp7410, 2400, Superdome, EMC Symmetrix DMX and Clarion , Dell R710

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Linux Administrator

• Managed services supporting dozens of clients running Redhat 5/6/7 , SuSe, Ubuntu Linux
• Create/modify AWS instances
• Create/install/update and order ssl certs
• Patching clients servers vulnerabilities
• Deploy staging web files into production
• Modify apache web configurations
• Run sql queries
• Add/modify DNS records
• Create/extend lvm and non lvm partitions
• Create raid groups
• Create/modify and respond to monitoring alerts
• Adding users
• Adhere to clients change management and PCI controls

Confidential Lead Linux Consultant/Administrator

• Project with other companies DTCC/IBM to help setup a new startup Clarient Global
• Configure, support Redhat Linux physical/virtual server environment
• Created Linux golden image servers
• Modified Linux servers to integrate with Kerberos for integration with Active Directory
• Created/Setup LVM and NFS mounts
• Grant remote access ssh and sudo to Linux via AD groups
• Setup/Configure Linux mail relay servers
• Installed client's versions of Vormetric, Tripwire and audit rules for Qradar
• Kernel parameter modifications/tuning
• Linux patching
• Respond to ticket requests/incident queue
• Worked with apps personnel on the Alfresco/Bpms/Eap/Oracle environments
• Share 24/7 on-call support

Confidential Senior Systems Administrator

• Setup/Install/Support/Maintenance multiple clients in Linux/HP-UX environments
• Configure/suppor/kickstart Redhat/Centos Linux 4/5/6 Physical/Virtual server environment
• Configured and implemented Redhat/Centos Clusters
• Created san luns for GFS and LVM file systems
• Created and configured VMware 5.5 virtual clients
• Configure Oracle Asm and MPIO multipath storage devices
• Kernel parameter modifications
• Linux patching
• Respond to ticket requests queue
• Add and reset users to NIS and LDAP
• Add entries to external DNS
• Share 24/7 on-call support

Confidential Senior Linux Administrator

• Configure support kick start Redhat Linux 4/5/6 Physical/Virtual server environment
• Configured and implemented Redhat Clusters
• Created san luns for GFS and LVM file systems
• Created and configured VMware 5 virtual clients
• Configure Oracle Asm and MPIO multipath storage devices
• Kernel parameter changes/modifications
• Linux patching
• Scripting bash, shell
• Responded to open ticket requests queue
• Provided 24/7 on-call support

Confidential Senior System Engineer

• Part of IT team that maintains 30 plus websites
• Utilized Kick Start RHEL 5/6.x, Centos 5/6.x OS
• Part of the initial install/configuration of Puppet
• Maintained LVM/GFS file systems
• Linux patching, repos
• VMWARE ESX 5
• Nagios, Open NMS and Cacti management
• Installed/configured Apache, Tomcat
• Scripted bash, shell
• Installed configure Couch base, Varnish
• Initial setup of MYSQL databases
• Knowledge of TCP dump, wire shark for network troubleshooting and analysis
• Implemented development, QA and staging environments for controlled production deployment
• Assisted in maintaining company's Sun guard hosting facilities
• Used packet Sniffer such as Tcpdump and wireshark

Confidential Linux Administrator Contract

• Linux Administrator in a production/QA development environment running Redhat Linux 4-6versions on hardware platforms consisting of HP, DELL and IBM
• Used Kick Start new servers and desktops via RHN satellite and cobbler
• RPM/YUM installs packages/patches via yum repos
• Created and expanded LVM and GFS file systems
• Network bonding
• Updated HBA firmware
• Installed/upgraded third party software
• Troubleshoot hardware/software and handled/responded to RFC request for services
• Locked down servers according to SOX compliance and wrote shell scripts for monitoring and wrote operating procedures for operations to implement

Confidential UNIX/Linux Administrator Contract - Contract Completed

• Installation/maintenance and support of UNIIX/Linux servers in an environment made up of HP servers, HP blades, HP Super Dome and HP PA-Risc running HP-UX, Red Hat, Centos
• Configured Service Guard and Red Hat/Centos clusters
• Installed and configured HPVM virtual guests' instances, vpars and npars
• Configured and monitored VERITAS and LVM file systems
• Setup GFS file systems/configure multi pathing on RH5/Centos 5
• Installed Linux Operating System using kick start via satellite servers and setup ilo
• Configured Service Guard clusters and RAC 10G cluster on HP-UX
• Installed RPM packages on Linux and swinstall patches/bundles on HP-UX
• Ignited HP-UX servers and setup software depots and images
• Setup and configured network bonding VERITAS, LVM, DNS, NFS, APA
• Used packet Sniffer such as Tcpdump and Wireshark to troubleshooting network issues
• Kernel tuning and capacity efficiency
• On call and support 24/7 on production

Confidential UNIX/Linux Administrator

• Supported UNIX/Linux servers in an environment made up of HP Proliant servers, HP Proliant blades, HP Super Dome and running HP-UX, Red Hat, Centos
• Installed Implemented JBoss 4.2.3 GA, Apache, Tomcat and Samba on Linux Server
• Part of 2 person team managing an EMC Symmetrix and Clariion SAN of approx 200TB
• Created meta devices, luns and mapped/masked Luns for Linux hosts using ECC Navi sphere
• Setup HA RedHat and Centos 5 clusters
• Setup Oracle 10G RAC cluster on HP-UX
• Setup GFS file systems/configured multi pathing clients on RH5/Centos 5
• Installed Linux Operating System using kick start via satellite servers and setup ilo
• Configured Service Guard clusters and RAC 10G cluster on HP-UX
• Created/modified HP vpars, npars and hpvm guests/instances
• Installed RPM packages on Linux and swinstall patches/bundles on HP-UX
• Setup and configured network bonding and binding. Ignited HP-UX servers
• Configured/administered VERITAS, LVM, RAID, DNS, NFS, SUDO, SSH
• Security using TCP wrappers and iptables rule sets
• Kernel tuning and capacity efficiency
• Provided On call and support 24/7 on production

Confidential UNIX/Linux Administrator Contract-Contract Completed

• Installation/maintenance/ support of Linux servers in an environment made up of HP blades, HP580/380 Proliant running Redhat Linux 2.1, 3,4 and 5
• Configured and monitored VERITAS and LVM file systems
• Setup HA RedHat clusters
• Setup LVM/GFS file systems
• Installed Linux Operating System using kick start via satellite servers and setup ilo
• Configured RAC 10G cluster on RedHat
• Installed RPM packages on Linux
• Setup and configured network bonding and binding
• Configured and administered VERITAS, LVM, RAID, DNS, NFS, SUDO, SSH
• Kernel tuning and capacity efficiency, allocate space and configure servers
• Documented all the process and update any changes done
• Provided On call and support 24/7 on production

Confidential Systems Administrator

• Managed and maintained servers running HP-UX 11.00/11i, Red Hat Linux ES3/ES4, MPE
• Ignited, Kickstart, HP-UX, Linux severs. Setup FTP, HTTP and SAMBA servers
• Setup Symmetrix BCV device groups for mirroring Oracle database backups
• Installed and setup Service Guard cluster
• Configured and administered LVM, RAID, NFS, NIS, DNS, SUDO, SSH
• Mirror volume groups using Mirror-UX and Veritas Volume Manager
• Setup and maintained hardware/virtual partition N/VPARS on 9000 servers
• Wrote and troubleshot Korn/Bash/s cripts sys admin level
• Setup security using SOX guidelines
• Tightened security using tcp wrappers and iptable rule sets
• Monitored systems performance and tuning
• Provided technical availability 24 hours per day, seven days per week
• Worked with developers DBA to install and configure ORACLE software

Confidential UNIX Systems Administrator Contract

• Responsible for managing and maintaining UNIX servers
• Monitored MC Service Guard
• Ignited servers and workstations
• Installed patches and setup new depots
• Setup mirroring volume groups using Mirror-UX
• Configured and administered LVM, NFS, NIS and DNS
• Wrote and troubleshot Korn/Bourne shell scripts
• Worked with performance tuning and capacity efficiency
• Monitored systems performance and tuning
• Worked with developers DBA to install and configure ORACLE software

Confidential Supervisor Tech Services

• UNIX systems administration on HP9000, running HP UX 10.20 and 11.00
• Interfaced extensively with development and technical support team to ensure that production systems were running efficiently and without interruption
• Conducted installation and system support/diagnostics of HP-UX operating system
• Performed system administration tasks on HP3000 MPE/IX operating system
• Configured and administered LVM, NFS, NIS and DNS
• Performance tuning and capacity efficiency, and allocated space and configured servers
• Established and controlled third party software installs and upgrades
• Researched new hardware and software technologies and provided recommendations
• Optimized batch jobs and standardized/automated nightly operations schedules
• Provided technical availability 24 hours per day, seven days per week