Systems Administrator Resume King of Prussia, PA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Administrator with 18 years of success optimizing business - critical data storage, web, and related business systems through advanced configuration and close monitoring of system performance.
Skilled in data security and availability through SAN administration, as well as server administration to achieve exceptional efficiency and reliability.
Extensive experience in UNIX environments leveraged to support a diverse range of business-critical projects and initiatives, including rollouts, implementations, and migrations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux (RedHat/Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS), Solaris, HP-UX, Mac OS X

Languages: Bash Script (including SED/AWK)

Tools: Virtualization and Automation: Git, Puppet, CFEngine, Anthill Pro, Splunk, Ansible/AWS (learning), xymon, VMWare, KVM, Jenkins

Web Applications & Technologies: Apache Web Server, Tomcat, Akamai, Alfresco

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, King of Prussia, PA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

Designed multistage Jenkins workflows that allowed developers and other teams to restart their production and QA environments in a controlled manner.
Created a Puppet profile to manage configuration and installed packages on servers used by developers and testers to run scripts and tools, as well as write and push code changes.

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Systems Administrator / Middleware Engineer

Responsibilities:

Collaborated with colleagues and vendors by contributing to daily Scrums and vendor meetings to engage in proactive issue resolution and essential information sharing that fosters cooperation.
Facilitated production data migration by generating Oracle database metrics using SQL queries to identify and mitigate issues.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Systems Administrator / Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities:

Efficiently resolved performance-related application environment issues using network, log collection, and monitoring tools as a member of the on-call rotation.
Developed a coordinated backup strategy with cron scripts for Alfrescos non-volatile application data, configuration, and its MySQL database to provide reliable point-in-time restores used in disaster recovery and production data migration to QA instances for testing with live data.
Ensured the reliability and availability of production Xfinity websites by building, configuring, and maintaining Apache server configurations, including setup of SSL termination in front of Tomcat, with MySQL backend.
Collaborated with marketing teams to develop and deploy vanity domains for high-profile marketing campaigns, including updating redirects and setting up manual and automated pass-through proxies and virtual server configurations.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Mission Staff / Solaris Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Enabled the rapid rollout of Solaris hosts by configuring Solaris Jumpstart.
Led Apache installation and configuration to deliver reliable website performance.

Confidential, Newtown, PA

Senior Unix / SAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

Ensured the efficacy of storage for production, development, and QA environments by recommending technical solutions aligned with company’s needs and priorities.
Streamlined the UNIX portion of disaster recovery testing by coordinating fail-over of the production application and database services to a remote DR site.

Confidential, Berwyn, PA

SAN Administrator / Unix Systems Engineer II

Responsibilities:

Facilitated business-critical internal projects by making technical storage recommendations.
Enabled vendors to securely share files with company employees by building and configuring a secure SFTP server replete with chrooted SSH, RBAC and wrapper scripts.

Confidential, Newtown Square, PA

SAN Administrator / Unix Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Supported the planning of an in-house hosting initiative by developing recommendations for network and SAN design.
Minimized downtime and maximized availability for the implementation of an Internal Enterprise Portal as well as production backup landscapes by executing system configuration and testing.