UNIX Linux Architect Confidential

Professional Summary

• 16 years of UNIX and Linux architecture and administration. Experience providing level 3 support to large/worldwide computing environments, virtualized infrastructures, data centers, and engineering environments. I have a history of improving customer environments using automation, and have strong analytical and problem solving skills. I have enterprise systems integration, storage, HA, SAN, NAS and DR expertise. I am articulate, well read, and a quick study.
• Some of the companies I have been under contract with, or performed professional services for are
• I create and use best practice methods and can add strategic and/or monetary value to a companies' current and future IT infrastructure, products, services, and long term operations.

Technical

Skills

• Operating Systems: Solaris, HP - UX, RHEL, SELINUX, SUSE, custom/embedded Linux, AIX.
• Virtualization: VMWare, KVM, QEMU/KVM, PowerCLI, Virtualbox, Solaris Zones/Containers, Xen.
• Cloud: OpenStack Essex, Eucalyptus, Amazon EC2/AWS,
• Enterprise Storage: EMC, Network Appliance, ZFS, Hitachi, LVM. VxVM.
• Firewalls: WireShark, Iptables, IDS Snort, Checkpoint FW/VPN.
• Open Source Clustering: OpenMosix, Open MPI, Scyld Beowolf, and LAMP.
• Enterprise Compute Platforms: HP Superdome, HP rpxxxx, Sun E10k, Sun E15k, SGI, IBM.
• Languages Administrative/other: bash, python, Perl, PHP, HTML, Dtrace
• IT Infrastructure Components: Apache, Samba, DHCP, TCP/IP, NFS, NIS, DNS, Sendmail.
• Enterprise Monitoring: Nagios, Netcool, Splunk, CA Unicenter, Big Brother Quest . HP Openview.
• Database Technologies: Oracle, mySQL, noSQL, Oracle Enterprise Manager,.
• OS install/provisioning: Puppet, Chef, Kickstart, Autoyast, Jumpstart, Ignite-UX, Cfengine.
• OS Ver. Control/Repo. Maint: Subversion, GIT, Perforce, LaunchPad, Dropbox, various sync utils
• Enterprise Backup/Vaulting: Veritas Netbackup, Legato Networker, NetVault, tar, dd.
• Architecture and Analytical Skills: UX infrastructure architecture and virtualized solutions engineering. SOA design, integration, best practices. HLD Linux based secure/embedded solutions. Overall compute infrastructure analysis. Evaluating technology trends and related IT demographic analysis emphasis on new product viability . Creating / normalizing secure reference architectures. Reverse engineered several virtualization tuning apps in three steps zed use of dis-assemblers

Professional

Experience

UNIX Linux Architect / Virtualization Technologies / Solutions Engineering

• Secure, purpose/application specific UNIX and Linux system builds and architecture. HP-UX, OpenSolaris 10, and Linux RHEL 5.x, SUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu, SELinux modules installation, configuration and support. Business case ROI analysis, implementation design and support of Cisco UCS hardware. First phase analysis and design of VM image deployment on Amazon EC2 Eucalyptus Public Cloud . Install, support, customize, integrate, manage, troubleshoot, performance tune and automate wherever possible virtual machines, virtualized infrastructures, and private clouds with commercial and open source tools, tool-kits, and virtualization suites. Current virtualization portfolio includes KVM/Qemu,OpenStack.VMWare ESX, ESXi, OSE, Solaris Zones and Containers. installation Use GIT, Perforce, Dropbox, LanchPad, for repo maintenance/security. Use best practice guidelines and open source auditing tools to validate/audit security solutions. Python scripting to orchestrate OpenStack Cloud implementations. Puppet to customize OS installation, configuration. Support, customize, secure, tune and write custom monitors for Nagios/Splunk. Creativity, Bash and Python scripting to automate the automation .
• Retained Technical Advisor, Virtualization, SOA, and emerging technologies, Spectrum Systems.
• Overall site/compute infrastructure assessments, including performance analysis, optimization of SAN/NAS EMC/Hitachi/Netapp and capacity planning, with a focus on determining which virtualization technologies would most benefit a new or existing customers current needs and/or long term goals. Migration planning and automation using COTS, open-source SW and mashups.

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Sr. Systems Administrator / Solutions Architecture

Red Hat RHEL5, Solaris and BSD Administration. Solutions engineering. Created and worked on projects to apply permanent fixes to provisioning infrastructure root cause analysis . Troubleshot and fixed an open-source DNS/IP provisioning tool. Worked to identify recurring Remedy tickets and apply permanent fixes to them. Implemented a mediawiki server and several extensions GBAC Group Based Access Control security. Customized LDAP access on mediawiki and other servers. Used VMware to stage various production-like environments. These environments were then used to validate engineering solutions. Splunk, Netcool, monitoring cleanup false alarms and documentation. Troubleshot agents, created custom monitors with programmable sub-agent. Root cause analysis and fix of a 4.5 year ISP provisioning infrastructure issue caused 3-5 Remedy Tickets per week .

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Sr. Systems Administrator

Solaris 10 Administration. Solaris 10 Containers and Zones administration. Created and modified Zones as needed Native, Branded . Solaris 10 Administration on whole root Zones. The front end of this infrastructure is known as Quicken/Turbo-Tax online/cloud and various services. Veritas Cluster Services, EMC SRDF administration, LVM administration. Utilized VCS/Veritas StorageVCS/Vertitas Storage Foundation planning, maintenance, and administration. Foundation to control and maintain Solaris 10 Zones/Containers in HA and production environments. Worked on various projects as needed to support the Intuit TurboTax infrastructure. Planning and provisioning New Sun Enterprise systems as needed. Worked on the server consolidation team. Worked with Oracle DBAs to ensure 7/24/365 applications continuity. Worked on special projects. Participated in new/forward looking architectural design meetings and weekly IT meetings.

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Sr. Linux Architect

Linux Global presence architecture SUSE . Worked on setting up the Linux practice and global Linux implementation specifications. Worked on various SAS projects with the Architect team. Installed, customized, and maintained AutoYAST and Kickstart to build OS images for enterprise use. Wrote SOX/ISO/Corporate Standards OS and HW installation documentation. Worked on Invitrogen Enterprise Linux Road map Document. Used VMware to host and provision Linux on HP Blade Servers. Worked with DBAs to tune and troubleshoot Oracle 11RAC on Linux. Wrote best practice guidelines and forward looking infrastructure recommendations. Wrote enterprise wide host security/hardening guidelines.

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UNIX Linux Architect / InfoSec Consulting / Solutions Engineering

• McGraw-Hill - Lead Unix Solaris Administrator for McGraw-Hill. Primary responsibility provide comprehensive support for McGrah-Hill's electronic publishing software platform. The Monarch Platform was and still is, McGraw-Hill's flagship electronic publishing system, and consisted of Cisco Router front end with session affinity implemented. SPARC based Solaris, multi-instance Web Logic Server, Oracle DB, Tux, EMC storage and McGraw-Hill's proprietary electronic publishing software. Troubleshot E2E Level III issues and root cause analysis of all Monarch and Monarch related infrastructure, including but not limited to System Build Automation from Jumpstart through Monarch SW installation and is it up testing, Web Logic instance management, Java code analysis and fix, troubleshot enterprise authentication and session affinity issues Cisco, IP Tables, NetBackup converted Kerberos to PAM . Also troubleshot a Monarch Java coding issue that had gone unsolved by the Dev Lead/Dev team for more than 2 weeks.
• Helwett Packard/Analysts International Worked with HP world wide to support and solve SW entitlement server tickets and issues. Security and UNIX/Linux solutions and architecture. HP-UX, Solaris 10/9/8, Red Hat, SUSE. HP rpxxxx Superdome, E15K administration and support. Hitachi/EMC/Veritas Storage Foundation SAN administration. Concept and Lead Designer on an embedded Linux security appliance and MSP service. Windows to Unix / Linux migrations. Security assessments. Biometric security device installation and sales. Installed, supported and customized Nagios to support customer Biometric security devices used EDAS interfaces and snmp traps to trigger appropriate events and monitor environmental conditions. Worked with a PCI DSS implementation team to ensure a successful audit. Configured and customized Nagios for Tech and Magic office network and computer systems. Specialized and secure Linux distro selection, installation, customization, tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Retained Sun Professional Services Contractor Retained Senior Level Solaris consultant and level III 7x24 HW and SW support of an E15k and accompanying corporate enterprise infrastructure. Contracted to act as a single point of contact for RLG in Mountain View on behalf of Sun 800 and on site support. NIS to LDAP site conversion for the Computational Services Bioinformatics Facility, Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine at Stanford University. Knowledge Worked on NIS, NIS to LDAP transition tools, DTRACE scripts, Solaris security.

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UNIX Architect / SAN Architect /

• UNIX Center Of Expertise, SWIFT U.S., root privilages to all UNIX / Linux assets. SWIFTNet's compute, storage, and transaction processing infrastructure comprises the majority of the worlds' bank to bank financial telecommunications Tx 1.3 trillion USD every 8 seconds .
• Level III troubleshooting and solutions engineering Worked on unresolved SWIFTNet transaction errors which involved complex interaction between HP-UX 11i, Solaris 8/9/10, J2EE, Oracle, BEA Weblogic, BEA Tuxedo, SWIFTnet proprietary code, and network infrastructure Level 3 problem resolution .
• UNIX systems configuration, OS components utilization and hardware implementation designs for SWIFTs' development data center in Northern VA. Developed UNIX HW and SW inventory script solution to support SOX / ISO 9000 efforts. Co-authored Best Practices of Computer Configuration at SWIFT . Designed and implemented an initial vPARs baseline. Managed Unix team lead the 2003, 04, 05 UNIX systems deployment for SWIFTs' Enterprise Benchmark efforts analysis and tuning of overall enterprise transaction throughput . SAN management and best practice methods including design, implementation, capacity planning and POCs.

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Senior High Availability Architect / Service Architecture Design Team

UNIX HP-UX 11.x administration, kernel, disk SAN, and applications performance tuning, automation using ksh and Perl scripts, HP Ignite system builds and ServiceGuard Cluster builds in support of HP Total-e-Servers. Wrote ksh scripts to modify and automate ServiceGuard builds, as well as launch, control, and manage Bluestone Midelware SW suite. LVM administration, maintenance and build specifications. Support and maintenance of multi-instance Oracle. Team member world-wide Oracle db replication . Designed and implemented M/C ServiceGuard Clusters for an HP worldwide customer base. Provided strategic planning and consulting to the Sun/Solaris service architecture design team with a focus on internetworking Sun/Solaris based systems and applications into a managed HPUX/SAN environment. Responsible for Solaris system build specifications, hardware and software component specifications, systems installation and documentation.

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Lead Systems Administrator

UNIX systems administrator team lead Solaris for the XO Communications COMET project. COMET is XO's mission critical internal and external, and B2B integrated telecom billing system. Level 3 maintenance and support of BEA WebLogic Servers and Oracle 8i servers running Solaris 7/8 on Sun Enterprise Level systems. Responsible for the weekly and bi-weekly master COMET system builds. Used ksh to automate system builds as well as distribute uptime and build reports. Worked closely and on a daily basis with the software design team to ensure a successful RAD application development outcome. Provided strategic HA High Availability provisioning and consulting. Created master backup schedule and participated in disaster recovery planning. Enhanced UNIX systems and network infrastructure security with SSH and IPF. Customized SSH key server build scripts ksh to automate SSH server keygen. Utilized NetIQ diagnostic software to performance tune and troubleshoot applications and network infrastructure.

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Lead UNIX Administrator / J2EE middleware administrator

Level 3 support, maintenance and performance tuning of the iLeverage product suite J2EE B2B middleware running under Solaris 7 and 8. Wrote and modified scripts in Perl and ksh to automate application builds. Worked in a very close-knit applications design and development environment. Designed and Implemented enterprise backups and disaster recovery procedures. Did first phase design, implementation and integration plan for iLeverage milddleware/Suntone integration Certification ASP see-. Installed, configured and tuned Bea WebLogic and iPlanet servers. Evaluated LB products F5, Foundry, Cisco. UNIX / Windows inter-networking.

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Unix Administration Team Lead / Network Engineer

Solaris/AIX/NT site wide interoperability, site wide Unix systems security, network security, and maintenance of all mission critical servers. Implemented site-wide EDAS telemetry to automate maintenance, exhibit failure metrics, and limited automatic exhibit reset/recovery. Administration of httpd, Apache, Netscape Enterprise Server, mail, DNS/DHCP, and proxy services. Designed and implemented site wide backups and disaster recovery plan. Extensive use of Perl/CGI, ksh, and bsh to automate system builds and network management. Modified Perl scripts to automate dns management. Installed and configured a webMethods server for the web development team. Installed, configured, and modified Solaris Jumpstart server for system builds. Implemented site wide database normalization Oracle 8/8i and managed enterprise Oracle implementation with Oracle Enterprise Manager. Responsible for site wide Solaris applications and systems performance tuning. Installed and configured CA Unicenter.

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Senior Level UNIX Administrator

HP-UX and Solaris systems administration in a highly distributed, heterogeneous, UNIX environment. Worked closely with hardware and software design engineers from various departments. Maintained and optimized a library of the latest system tools for software developers, such as Perl, c, etcetera. VxVM Veritas Volume Manager Administration and performance optimization. Responsible for company wide HP-UX system builds and automation using Ignite/UX. Customized Ignite UX to conform HP-UX builds to Cisco's compute infrastructure requirements. Tuned HP-UX kernel golden images per model series for best performance for campus wide distribution. Troubleshot MCAD/ECAD system and user problems. Troubleshot enterprise wide systems and user problems. Participated in enterprise backup and disaster recovery implementation.

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Senior Level UNIX Administrator / Unix Administration Team Lead

Projects summary 7x24 level 3 support of TAPS Satellite Telemetry Tracking Software UNIX systems and during mission critical satellite launches. Mentoring Space Systems Loral IT support staff on Sun/Solaris and HP-UX systems troubleshooting, performance tuning and configuration. Worked on the development of a web-based satellite telemetry interface Perl, ksh, html with the primary software designer of the TAPS satellite tracking system. Responsible for creating and maintaining backups of mission critical data and software releases. Wrote ksh scripts to automate TAPS installation for off site and overseas deployment. Supported senior developers as needed.

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Sr. Level UNIX Administrator

Responsible for 7/24 continuous operation of HP 9000 series, Sun, NT, and SCO UNIX systems that support an international customer base Disney . Designed and implemented an automated enterprise backup strategy which included responsibility for Archiving 5 years of customer data. Worked closely with the IREG software development team on systems coding and architectural design used ksh, Pro C, Perl . HP-Ignite to automate HP-UX system builds. Maintained golden images for enterprise wide distribution. Automated UNIX systems services monitoring and reporting. Unix security, Oracle, kernel, disk and applications Server performance tuning.

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Lead Systems Administrator

Lead Unix Systems Administrator HP-UX, Solaris, and IRIX in a campus and international environment. Provided primary systems and applications support for FE Finite Element engineering and hardware design group. Supported all facets of the UNIX and X11 environment, including TCP/IP, NFS, X11, DNS, NIS. Implemented campus wide Legato Networker backups w/robotic tape library and disaster recovery plan. Systems security, UNIX systems performance tuning on a mixed topology network. Wrote network and system monitoring scripts in ksh. Modified Big Brother bsh scripts to monitor computers, network devices and Oracle instances. Implemented Oracle scripts and instances, raw partition backups, and file system backups. Wrote PDL Parallel Data Language Proprietary routines to process large Oracle db file sets.

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Systems Analyst / Telecom Project Manager

UNIX Systems Administrator and Telecommunications Project Manager for CERT Council of Energy Resource Tribes A Native American 501.C3 . Level 3 site responsibility for telecom, LAN, WAN and production servers. UNIX Systems Administration and Network Administration. Wrote an application to track Tribal Member and organizational information. Wrote scripts, csh, ksh to do scheduled software rebuilds and provide users with selectable environment characteristics. Designed and implemented enterprise backups/disaster recovery plan.