Experience Summary:

• I have been a Senior UNIX Systems and Network Administrator for more than ten years, both as consultant and full time employee. I have worked for different companies using many UNIX technology platforms e.g., Solaris, Free BSD, and Linux . My experience includes support of complex Sun and Linux clusters with HA technologies. I have planned, architected and implement disaster recovery environments. I believe in using the right technologies to solve company challenges.
• I've recently worked as a SAN architect using, IBM, LSI Engenio and EMC Clarion storage technologies providing design, implementation and support efforts to small and mid / large computing environments. This also included implementing and supporting direct attached storage solutions as lower costs and lower maintenance efforts. I've also used many defacto standard monitoring tools snmp server/agent based to architect and support production environment 7x24.
• I'm very motivated and can work independently on projects varying in complexity. I also work effectively as a team member, taking direction and producing results above expectations. I'm known for getting projects done and being effecting in producing measurable results to an organization.
• I can work equally well with technologies normally associated with network administration as well as systems administration. This includes the ability to support and debug networks from the administration level DNS, SMTP, etc. down to the hardware and protocol level TCP-IP, use of protocol analyzers, etc. . I'm also familiar and used Cisco, checkpoint 3Com, HP, Netscaler and F5 networking equipment.
• I also have implemented and use OpenSource host and network monitoring tools such as Nagios, Cacti, BigBrother, NMS, Ganglia, Zenoss and managed large public facing sites using Cfengine.
• Because of my experience in many different environments and industries, I understand the importance of procedures and documentation. While I am able to solve problems quickly when firefighting is needed, I also emphasize design, implementation, and documentation of procedures that increase reliability and simplify maintenance over the long term.
• I have excellent communications skills and enjoy solving problems. I believe I bring more than technical solutions to a company, but process and people skills as well. I look forward to meeting with you in person

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Engineered and Built Data Analitycs Environment Ground Up:

• Cloudera Hadoop Management
• Hunk / Splunk Support and Implementation
• Flume Hadoop Component Deployment
• ZoomData Hadoop Component Deployment
• AWS RedShift Data Warehousing Deployment and Management
• Nagios / Cacti Environment Monitoring Deployment and Management Intagrated with PagerDuty Alerting Service.
• AWS Security SOX Compliance Configuration and Management
• AWS Cloud Services: Deployed and managed S3, EC2, VPC, Confidential
• PagerDuty Integration into Monitoring Environments
• Data Science Engineering Team Support ad well as Support and Guidance for Central IT Departments

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Work with and Supported Phoenix 2.0 clients

CLIENTS / WORK DETAILS:

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• Large Scale Production Web Portal providing global content including images, video and chat.
• Upgraded Production Infrastructure CentOS, File systems and applications
• Fixed Kickstart Broken Infrastructure and Post Installation scripts.
• Provided and supported configuration management using CfEngine and Puppet.
• Network Support for Netscaler Network Load Balancers.
• Application Support / Supporting and upgrading Perl Perl Modules
• Hands-on Data Center Management Team Lead for SysAdmin Team

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• Configured and Deployed Zabbix Monitoring Environment / Wrote many triggers and items integrated with PagerDuty Alerting Service.
• Production / Application Support for EchoSign Document Electronic Signature Environments
• EchoSign Migration to DR Site and Production Migration to Virtualization Vmware and Vsphere Production Platform Support.
• 7x24 On-call Production Environment Support
• DevOps Zabbix Deployment to Production, design, write, implement and deploy items and triggers
• Vendor Management / RackSpace Co-Location Service Provider
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• AWS and Rightscale Cloud Portal Management
• Web Based Application Support / Apache Tomcat
• LAN / VPN / WAN Support
• Remote Device / System Integration and Support
• IT Director Title Role As a Contractor

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Position: Lead Mission Support Engineer

• Mission Critical Support for Small Space Craft Missions in a Multi- Mission Operations Center assigned as Lead MSE on the Kepler Space Telescope Project.
• Support all aspects of Computing, Network and Database needs for the Scientific Programmers, Science Office Analysts and Various NASA Centers including STSCI, MAST, LASP that comprise the Ground Segment Operations for the Kepler Project.
• Responsibilities include but not limited to: Systems and Network Security, FISMA Compliance, Database Administration, End User Support both Unix and Microsoft OS Based. As a Mission Support Engineer for NASA there is to the job description in supporting a flight mission COTS Technologies Used:
• Linux FC RHEL Server Workstation Support
• Oracle Database Support
• 3PAR SAN Storage Support and Architecture
• Cisco Network Support
• Juniper Firewalls Support
• Microsoft: Vista, XP, 7, Sharepoint
• CISCO IPCS - VOIP System

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Contract Senior Systems / Network Administrator.

• Provided production stabilization and problems solving efforts in a large-scale customer facing web environment as well as 7x24 On- call support and Monitoring Tools Support, expansion and improvements. Migrating both Nagios and Cacti Instances from different production environments to meet project needs.
• Project work efforts working with development engineers to solve technical issues and implementations issues, maintaining HA in production. This involved planning, change management and close teamwork with engineering teams.

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Position: Senior Systems, Network, Facilities, Data Center Manager.

• Support a startup companies engineering team in all phases of product development. Support the entire infrastructure including Data Center Co-Location customer facing production environment, Local Office Engineering systems, All Network Architecture, Environment Including production systems monitoring and alerting. SAN Storage and server hardware support, project planning and mangement. Including purchasing and ground up server / network / facilities build out and configuration.
• Particular Focus in Monitoring the production HA Environment using Open Source Tools such as Nagios, Cacti Zennos. I upgraded and overhauled the entire monitoring system implementing on-call rotation features if the latest version of Nagios 3.X. Implemented both Cacti and Zennos to graph production servers and network equipment.
• Typical Small startup company responsibilities.

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Position: SR. Unix System Engineer/Architect

• Responsible for reliable, correct operation of production services with 24x7 uptime. Implemented automation tools for the maintenance of all systems. Large heterogeneous environment of Solaris, Windows and Linux servers. SAN Administration / Systems Architecture. Oracle Database Support and Cfengine distributed architecture and support tools scripts as we as SNMP based monitoring such as cacti.
• Supported and expanded a large Nagios Monitoring Environment in a web facing customer production environment. I made enhancements to monitor the Oracle and SAN Storage Production Environment as well as perform Nagios server upgrades.

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Position: Sr Systems Administrator/Media Group

• Worked supporting media group providing database support, networking, firewall, security solutions. Implemented Open Source VIOP technology solutions as well supported key development concept efforts.
• Nagios Implementation and Conversion. Technical decisions where made to convert from a SNMP model to using the NRPE Agent.

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Position: Sr. Systems Administrator Lead Architect

• Participated in the process of making server environment builds more efficient in responding to requests from various functional groups. Performed kickstart implementations of both disk based and diskless RedHat Linux Enterprise Servers. Troubleshot various issues involving DHCP configurations, NFS servers and file systems. Participated in documenting the operation readiness criteria in support of new application launch. Supported 7x24 production support efforts. Worked as project manager and contributor in the decommission of the east cost data center saving the company 6,000 per month on a disaster recovery site that did not scale. Relocated the DR site and all equipment to the SF location and architected a local DR solution that made sense.
• Stabilized and expanded the Production Monitoring Environment using Nagios 2.x, implementing the NRPE agent on all flavors of Unix and MS Windows platforms as well. Established the on-call rotation and scripted automation of alert rotation.

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Position: Sr. Systems Administrator

Rebuilding and implementing Linux, Solaris, Sun/Java identity management, integrating active directory considering FDA compliance. Provided FDA systems FDA validation support on all Supported enterprise systems. Implemented Networked Storage Systems Netapp FAS270, providing integration of both the SAN NAS environments with HA redundancy.

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Position: Sr. Technologist / Sr. Systems Administrator

Architected and implemented a Disaster Recovery plan and co-location environment. The goal was to provide a recovery plan and environment to meet SOX compliance for SAP applications. Provided both hot site and warm site recovery options to client, documented and tested.

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Position: Sr. Systems Network Administrator

Reference Lab build project to test and further develop network security scanner products. Built 40 Intel, SUN and Cisco based platforms, most virtualized to accommodate multiple releases, patch levels and configurations. VMware Server ESX Technologies.

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Position: Sr. Systems Administrator Lead Architect Project Personal Choice

Project Management, systems design implementation for project personal choice. Applied technical skills and project management to tier 1, 2 3 environments to integrate, architect and support a unified environment that provided developers a seamless environment to work in, focusing on applications, not systems issues.

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Position: Sr. SA / Migration Manager

• Provided systems and database level customer support in an outsourcing environment at Oracle Corporation for Oracle customers. This was a large server farm with approximately 300 Sun multiprocessor servers and Network Appliance data arrays. Supported Oracle customers who depend on Oracle to provide high availability HA hardware and software solutions. This work included all hardware and OS troubleshooting, user support, software patching, and upgrades. It also included database refreshes, troubleshooting, performance and security analysis.
• I also provided support to migrate Oracle customers from the Oracle Sun server farm in the Bay Area to a Dell Linux server farm located at a new site in Austin. We completed this migration according to an aggressive time schedule with zero downtime to the customers. We used replication and remote administration technologies across dedicated network connections between the Bay Area and Austin.

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Position: Sr. Unix Admin / Technology and Applications Development Support

Provided infrastructure design and setup. Implemented a platform and application migration from IBM AIX on RS/6000 to RH Linux 2.1 Enterprise edition using Compaq Proliant servers. Supported efforts in multi-platform development environment which included Microsoft NT4 W2K, Solaris 6, 7 8, RedHat Linux 7.2 2.1. Installed and configured Rational Clearcase and the IBM WebSphere Internet Platform and Java Virtual Machine JVM . Supported and mentored team members and provided support efforts to pre-production product release. This was a distributed multi-lab / multi-building environment.

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Position: Sr. Unix / Network Administrator

Supported a design engineering environment using Cadence tools and revision control systems running on Linux, Solaris and HP-UX platforms. Provided enhanced security using open source tools with significant cost savings. Worked with integrated Unix and Microsoft platforms sharing data and resources.

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Position: Sr. Consultant, RF Radio and Electronics Consulting Services

Provided clients with RF radio modifications, installation and consulting services. Designed and installed RF and Satellite home Earth stations. This was a personal consulting company based on personal interest and studies .

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Position: Network Engineer / Sr. Unix Administrator System Network Security Consultant

Developed network design solutions that provide fraud detection technology to cell phone carriers. Provided UNIX systems support for over 100 Sun Micro Solaris customer database servers, Cisco Router/Switch configuration and support of customer networks, local IT infrastructure. Provided network and systems security auditing and defense recommendations. Provided training and tech support to junior IT staff members, QA and development support teams. Also performed Microsoft server and desktop support.

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Position: Unix System Administration and Network Engineering

Provided consulting services to the Engineering and IT infrastructure teams. Supported Sun Microsystems Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux servers and workstations, LDAP authentication servers, Cisco Routers and Cisco Remote Access environments. Provided UNIX support and server consolidation efforts, systems engineering and network support.

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Position: Consultant Providing Unix Systems Administration Support and Network Engineering

• Provided Unix consulting focused on SUN Solaris server upgrades server cleanup and consolidation new server builds and configuration. Patched UNIX operating systems and decommissioned legacy UNIX systems. Stabilized existing mission critical file servers and improved operations procedures to maintain the core infrastructure.
• Provided network consulting focused on design and purchase recommendations using Cisco network equipment from Cisco and VAR's to replace legacy network hardware. Improved LAN performance and security, and planned bandwidth for future network and computing needs.
• Supported the LAN services groups and desktop support groups. Mentored and trained junior UNIX systems administrators to provide ongoing infrastructure support of both network equipment and UNIX servers / workstations.
• Worked with FDA CFR11.21 compliant systems and validation considerations.

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Position: Consultant Providing Unix System Administration and Network Support

Supported JAVA and web content developers, co-location production server support teams. Upgraded and patched development and production servers. Developed shell scripting to support developer coding efforts, host and network security. Provided LAN support and troubleshooting. Supported the Microsoft desktop / server support team. Tested and implemented HTTP load balancing hardware in both production and development environments.

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Position: Unix System Administration and Network Support

• Provided direction and support in the creation of the web development shop for Sephora.Com, a LVMH Group Louis Vuitton subsidiary. Supported developers for both JAVA and content development. Provided production support for UNIX development hosts, server backups, production content and code uploads to the co-location facility. Improved LAN security and network performance.
• Provided initial development site setup including server rack construction, server hardware setup, high voltage power and air conditioning. Performed physical network connections and configuration. Provided server operating system builds and patching. Directly supported the on site Oracle DBA's. Provided host and network security and LAN traffic load balancing.