Summary Hands-on IT professional with extensive experience seeking long-term projects in information systems engineering, systems administration, server configuration, management and monitoring on the LAMP Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP stack.

Experience Linux Systems Administrator, Confidential Systems engineering and administration for Linux-based production, development and testing environments including web servers hosting public internet and internal intranet sites Designed, implemented and tested completely revamped infrastructure allowing for automated provisioning, configuration, monitoring and ongoing management of servers and workstations Utilized Puppet and Foreman dashboard to automate several system administration tasks, wrote over 40 custom Puppet modules Provided ability to stand up virtual machines on demand with KVM/QEMU for testing, demo and development purposes Delivered dedicated backup solution with rdiff-backup based on rsync Built Git repository server with gitolite Implemented DNSSEC with BIND9 and dynamic updates of DNS records by DHCP Used pre-seed and post-installation scripts on Ubuntu to automatically build development/testing servers Set up multiple Drupal websites both manually and with Aegir, and automated method for building Drupal sites Software Developer, Confidential Software development for a large, ongoing project sponsored by the federal government Employed Test-Driven/Behavior-Driven Development, Rspec, RVM and Bundler to write and maintain code Processed HTML pages and RSS feeds with Ruby, YAML, XML, XSLT Xpath Set up Red Hat development/testing cluster with VMware Used Ruby on Rails, Apache load balancers, GlusterFS and Riak key-value store NoSQL type database Utilized continuous integration practices, git and GitHub to contribute with multiple developers Performed build testing with Hudson and unit tests with Rcov, set up YARD/yardoc server for code documentation Utilized Cacti, Munin, God process monitoring framework, and Splunk for server monitoring and log analysis Employed Jira, Confluence, and Pivotal Tracker for internal collaboration, documentation and project tracking Web Developer/System Administrator, Confidential Application development for the web utilizing Agile software development methods, system administration for all company servers Implemented web development technologies including JavaScript libraries jQuery and script.aculo.us , Webalizer for website statistics, and Google Search Analytics to analyze how visitors interact with sites Employed PERL and CGI scripts for data transformations, and document processing Constructed and managed full LAMP stacks for all web servers Wrote BASH scripts when needed Applied expertise in XHTML, CSS, and RDF to build static and dynamic sites, following web accessibility and usability standards Utilized W3C Markup CSS validation service with reference to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG version 1.0 level Triple-A and WCAG 2.0 Used HiSoftware Cynthia Says Portal to test and ensure compliance with Section 508 of the ADA Systems Engineer II, Confidential Web development and system administration for mission-critical data center supporting health care environment Involved in all phases of the SDLC planning, requirements analysis, design, development, testing and deployment Used CVS for version control and Capistrano for application deployment Used lighttpd server and MySQL for web applications Implemented AJAX technologies for interactivity Programming and consulting for companies in the Indianapolis area in need of various IT services System Administrator/Web Developer/Technical Support Specialist, Confidential Global Research Network Operations Center - University Information Technology Services System Administration for over 150 Unix-based servers, software tool development for high-performance network measurement and monitoring Apache HTTP server configuration, deployment and administration Built and maintained Sun Microsystems servers running Solaris with Oracle DBMS Unix-based network administration utilizing SSH/CSSH, DNS, DHCP, netstat, ifconfig, dig and nslookup Network/server performance monitoring using Nagios and Ganglia as well as software developed in-house SNAPP Used Kickstart to deploy multiple Red Hat server images Unix system hardening with TCP wrappers, PAM, Kerberos, and syslog Created highly available systems with RAID and automatic failover Confidential Web development and testing, system administration for 11 Unix-based servers Constructed full-featured, web-based e-mail system using Horde, Postfix and IMAP Used PostgreSQL for back-end databases Performed all data backup and recovery Provided web security with SSL and log monitoring Generated security certificates became trusted Certificate Authority Confidential Application support for all offices within VPUR, web development for official IUB web pages, compiled website statistics for said pages, equipment maintenance Microsoft IIS administration Administered Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory Services ADS systems Created XSL style sheets for converting XML data to HTML Hardware/software installation, maintenance and modification Deployed workstation images and performed backups with Veritas Backup Exec Confidential Assistance with hardware and software issues for students, faculty and staff in academic computing environments, including student computing labs and dormitories Provided technical support to application users on PCs and Macs running Windows XP and Mac OSX Maintained all printers and laptops in computing labs