OBJECTIVE:

A position where more than 20 years experience as a Senior Unix Systems Administrator Solaris, LINUX, HP-UX, and AIX will contribute and allow me to learn new skills to help my employer achieve their business objectives.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Building/configuration of kickstart/jumpstart/ignite/nim servers to facilitate building client machines

• Hardening of NIX servers and clients against outside attacks ssh, tcpwrappers, IPtables, authorized keys RSA/DSA , removal of R-commands/telnet

• Kernel performance optimization Solaris/LINUX for Oracle server needs

• Build/configure/maintain Checkpoint firewalls IPSO, patching, rulesets

• Building/configuration/maintenance of RedHat EL 3/4/5 servers, as well as SUN 52xx, M4000, M6000, RX3600 RP3440.

• Use Solaris Disk Suites to mirror system drives in jumpstart build

• Logical Volume Manager

• Administration of DNS Master and slave servers for 100 clients bind 8 9

• Built and configured Amanda to utilized autoloaders for backing up NIX and PC clients on network s using combination of ntbackup and samba

• Built/configured/maintained NAS 1TB , using 10 tape autoloader to facilitate backups using Amanda

• Administration of AFS servers, for maintenance of user dataspace and accounts.

• Administration of Kerberos for user authentication and tying into Active Directory for PC accounts one account login

• Make hardware/software purchase recommendations to Dept. heads as needed 3 yr. hardware life-cycle for budget planning

• Build/configure/maintain NFS, AFS, DNS, Sendmail, NIS server/client , Apache

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Hardware: SUN 280R, T5220, RX3600, RP3440, STK 2540/6140, M4000, M6000, P710/20/30

• Software: LINUX RHEL 5 6 , SuSe 11, Fedora, Centos, OpenBSD, Solaris 2.5.1 thru 11 , HP-UX 8 thru 11.31, IRIX, AIX 5/6/7 , VIO server, HMC, TRUServer Ultrix

• Shells/Tools: Bourne, Csh, Tcsh, Korn, BASH, Perl, awk, sed

EXPERIENCE

Confidential

• Build Solaris jumpstart server and create Solaris 10/9/8 clients
• Build AIX NIM server and create AIX 5.2/5.3/6.1 clients
• Build HPUX ignite server and create HPUX 11.11/11.23/11.31 clients
• Configure ILOMs/ALOMs to allow for remote console access
• Make hardware refresh recommendations for all platforms
• Install/configure HMC for AIX clients. Needed to remove serial console access to allow for HMC control

Confidential

• After hours and weekend support contract
• Remote support for production and DR site HP-PARISC systems running 11.23
• User account management

Confidential

• Installed/configured M6000 4 SPARC, 3 X86 blades
• Configure SUN/HPUX/AIX systems for DHCP
• Install/configure HMC's Hardware Management Consoles to allow for Management of AIX systems in SC/DCOE/RTP labs
• Configure SUN ILOMs, HPUX ALOMs for remote access Installed/configured
• Design/install/configure jumpstart for Solaris, created flar golden images for Solaris of system disk. to allow for Bare Metal Restore BMR . Deployed this solution in RTP/DCOE/SC labs
• Design/install/configure Ignite for HPUX, created golden images for HPUX system BMR of system disk. Deployed this solution in RTP/DCOE/SC labs
• Install/configure VIO server and LPARs on IBM P series hardware in SC/DCOE/RTP labs
• Design/install/configure NIM for AIX, created mksysb golden images for AIX 5.3,6.1,7.1 system BMR of system disk. Deployed this solution in RTP/DCOE/SC labs
• Design/install/configure kickstart RHEL systems in SC/DCOE/RTP labs. Customize port install scripts to allow for total hands-off install. Used NFS installation methodology, no PXE server needed.
• The process jumpstart/ignite/nim/kickstart processes saved several hours per system of manual installation and configuration, allowing for cookie-cutter installs with no manual intervention
• Install ESXi 5.0, configure host for Management, Vmotion and vnic interfaces

Confidential

• Maintain existing production LINUX RH environment in support of Boeing Commercial Aircraft division across the US
• Work with Remedy BARS to insure proper response to customer tickets
• Install OVO in RHEL environment
• Resolve netbackup client issues

Confidential

• Lead Sys. Admin. for Disaster Recovery and Banner projects
• Built kickstart server for installation and use RHN for patch management
• Travel to 17 University affiliates to upgrade Puredisk from 6.5 to 6.6
• Configure SUN 2540/6140 arrays using CAM software, implement multi-pathing for arrays
• Troubleshoot VxVM kernel issues SuSE 10
• Provide backup NIX Sys. Admin for support for 17 University affiliates as requested patching, software installation, etc
• Configure netbackup master servers, create SLPs and DR backup policies
• Configure/maintain Puredisk environment DR
• Maintain DELL blade center 24 blades

Confidential

• Rebuilt SUN M4000 global/ 4 zones after hard drive failure
• Reallocate LUNs from SAN after rebuild for M4000
• Install/configure CUPs printing system on server on globals, client on zones
• Build 2nd M4000 with 2 inherited zones
• Configure ILOMs for remoter administration/access to console
• Configure Windows Services for UNIX to allow SUNs to mount Windows server shares
• Create FLAR image backups of M4000 for DR purposes
• Kernel tuning HP-UX servers, maintain existing production environement
• Allocate storage from XP 48 array to HPs as needed
• CIFS maintenance

Confidential

• Rebuilt kickstart and jumpstart infrastructures
• Expand swap and filesystem LVM's
• Opsware scripting rosh to update/maintain clients
• Install opsware, ITM, netbackup nsr and vmclient agents
• Configure VMWare clients
• Purchase recommendations for SUN M3K and M5K hardware

Confidential

• Build and configure jumpstart server for environment
• Creating/maintaining user accounts.
• Tuning the kernel as required by applications
• Use hardware raid on SUN T5220's to mirror system drives
• Install/configure ILOM's for SUN boxes to use ssh for connectivity
• Work with Oracle DBA's to resolve printing issues
• Use HP Openview Service Center to resolve 3rd level tickets
• Help resolve sendmail issues