OBJECTIVE:

I would like to leverage my IT knowledge with hands on job where I can solve problems, maintain IT systems, evaluate procedures and implement automation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX Solaris, Linux, HPUX. Windows, Network Appliance filers

Applications: LDAP, iPlanet and Netscape servers (web, messaging, directory, calendar), Apache, NetBackup, SSH, DNS, NIS, NFS, SMTP, IMAP, POP3.

• Microsoft NT 4.0 Server (Product Specialist)
• Netware (Authorized Certified Netware Engineer)
• TCP/IP Networking (System Management level)
• Perl, Shells, CGI
• VMware Server ESX and ESXi servers, infrastructure client, converter, VMware player

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Campbell, CA

Consultant System/Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring maintaining and improving company’s network and servers (Linux and Windows). End - user desktop support
• EDA tools installations, managing license servers.
• Sonicwall firewall configuration. VPN tunnel and VPN client.
• Automation of daily reports with scripts, disk space, web site traffic, backup status.
• Installation of intra web site with wiki.
• Maintaining daily backups. Syncing data to company’s remote office using rsync.

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

IT Specialist & Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on a document archiving project. Installed LAMP server. Installed and configured Eprints digital repository software over SSL. Modified perl modules to meet customer’s need.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintenance of the global software infrastructure, streamlining of processes and procedures, providing engineering needs, day to day support.
• Installation Redhat, Suse Linux and Solaris to servers and desktops. Installation of DHCP, maintenance of pxe server, adding new installs as they become available.
• Installation VMware server. Adding virtual machines to be able to support different Linux flavors and versions. Installation of special tools for test department on the ESX server to minimize the deployment time. Maintaining license keys for various tools using Flexlm. Installing EDA tools. Helping engineers with their IT problems and needs.
• Upgrading 150 Linux Desktops from Redhat V 3.5 to V 4.7
• Converting old Sun sparc hardware (Solaris 8 and 9) to virtual machines. Created flash archives of the master systems and installed them to Solaris 10

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and maintenance of Linux and Windows servers.
• Deploying end-user desktop systems, complying with company’s policy. Desktop support and maintenance
• Daily maintenance of file and print servers, Active Directory, backups, VPN, firewall, Samba, license manager, CVS, DHCP, DNS, NIS applications.
• Moving data center, labs and user environment to the new office.

Confidential, Mountain View, CA

Server Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Deployment, installation, maintenance and support for the servers in the data center.
• Troubleshooting, resolving hardware or software problems, escalating to the vendor.
• Hands on experience on hardware installations. Administration of the systems included upgrading or patching the OS (Linux, Solaris, HPUX and Windows).
• Installation and configuration of hardware components, network, SCSI, HBA cards, hard drives, memory modules into the servers.
• Participation in the project of converting the entire data center from public IP's to private IP's with no customer impact.
• Operations of all Intranet servers in a 24/7 data center environment (web, messaging, directory, name, file services, network connectivity, backup). Modification of Perl scripts to get html reports to help us monitor backups.

Confidential, Newark, CA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Technical support to Helpdesk, maintenance and monitor Confidential Unix Servers at the stores. Configuration of Confidential UNIX Systems
• Testing the process on Confidential 3404 to simulate migration from Unix 2.03 to Y2K compliant Unix 3.02, in a store like environment prior to rollout. Testing attached retail equipment.
• Verification of CE manual by performing each step in the manual. Performing disaster recovery process to verify technical documentation.
• Real-time technical support to the Confidential Customer Engineer on the date of installation.
• Support documentation for technical issues for troubleshooting and operations.

Confidential

System Support Engineer and System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• UNIX, NT and Netware installations and support and maintenance of Confidential Unix Systems. Performance tuning of customers’’ servers for performance improvement. Remote customer technical support.
• Installation of the company wide (150 users and 7 servers) LAN, both hardware and software installations and configuration.
• Implementation of IT infrastructure in the company including remote office LAN.
• WAN installation to Confidential international backbone via Germany with a 64Kbits private line. Designed and implemented Confidential 's network in Turkey.
• Provided PC and mainframe support to users, installed of applications, user trainings.
• Customization of applications per users needs, programming some modules, writing shell scripts to ease management of communication.
• Migration of the network environment to Windows NT platform from LAN Manager. Installation of Remote Access solution for very first time for the company.
• Manager of intra-company communication, Turkey's administrator and postmaster.