Infrastructure Specialist III/Senior Consultant Resume

SUMMARY:

Highly motivated self - starter with over 25 years of expertise in unix systems administration, problem solving and automating complex issues in large-scale multi-os production environments.
Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to take on any task needed and to troubleshoot and institute procedures critical to effective systems management. Automation is my passion. If there's a way I can automate it.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages/Programming: Shell, PHP, HTML, Perl, SQL, CSS, Ruby, Javascript, Python

Systems/Databases: Linux (Ubuntu/Redhat), Unix (Solaris/HP-UX/AIX), Windows, Oracle, MySQL, SQL, Sybase

Software/Tools: HP Server Automation (Opsware), Virtualization (Vmware/VirtualBox/Solaris Zones), Veritas HA/VxVM, Legato, Alexandria, Annex, Asterisk, SVN, RCS, GIT, ANT, Chef

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential- Plano, TX

Infrastructure Specialist III/Senior Consultant

Responsibilities:

Updated and combined many outdated automation scripts which provided cost savings and improved productivity.
Engineered and implemented a solution to eliminate the need to manually update numerous automation scripts on a regular basis. The process now just requires edits in one global inclusion script.
Engineered and implemented a solution to allow for the postponing of content promotions during mesh upgrades.
Led the effort to migrate from our custom Solaris PatchTool to HP SA Patch Policies where I found numerous major flaws in the product. I worked directly with the HP software engineers and drove them to a final resolution.
Helped to reengineer our corporate email servers.
Engineered and converted many of our clients storage to utilize Veritas including Clarion 5700’s and SUN storage arrays.
Created and manged realtime fail over systems without the use of HA software.
Engineered and implemented many automation tools including a problem tracking and resolution system, scripts to assign and verify installation of security advisories & patches, hardware inventory script and an interactive oncall script.
Engineered and implemented jumpstart environment and created custom scripts including one to automatically install all patches and printers during installation.

Confidential, Allen, TX

Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

Created a common locale for 3rd party installs, lmgrd licensing, and shared scripts.
Architected new environment combining security, NFS, NIS, DNS, & filesystems
Taught myself Sybase to salvage and backup data assumed to be lost.

Confidential - Carrollton, TX

Technical Trainee/Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

Taught myself Unix (SunOS) and bourne shell programming. ed a promotion to Systems Administrator for creating a script to allow engineers to request drawings remotely instead of hand delivering a paper request. This created cost savings up to the amount of one full-time employee.
Wrote an add-user program, file distribution program, and other in-house scripts used to automate tasks.
Engineered & developed a custom RCS for engineer's CADD drawings in Scotland

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