TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Ansible, Apache, Bacula, Bind, Check mk, Cisco IOS, Cobbler, ISC DHCP, Duplicity, Google Apps, Kickstart, KVM, libvirt, MoinMoin, Munin, MySQL, MySQL replication, Nagios, Nginx, Node JS, NTPd, OpenLDAP, PHP - FPM, Postfix, postgresql, Puppet, Qmail, racadm, RPM, rsync, Sendmail, ssh/scp/sftp, Symfony, Supervisord, VMWare, Wordpress, WSGI, Xen
• TCP/IP, iptables, packet filter, tcpdump, Cisco IOS, arp, bridging, ethernet, NAT
• Administer unix of any flavor you can think of
• Administer TCP/IP networks
• Automation with salt, puppet, ansible, cobbler, foreman
• Coding in Python, Perl, Bash, PHP, Java, C, C++
• Provide DNS, DHCP, NTP, web, FTP, SSH, MySQL & Postgres, OpenLDAP services
• Support Wordpress, Drupal, Symfony, Node JS, go, Django, custom web frameworks and CMS
• Manage Web Servers
• Manage Accounts for thousands of users
• Manage firewalls, (host based, NAT and bridging firewalls)
• Virtualization with Xen, KVM, Libvirt
• Cloud Services with OpenStack, AWS & Google including development using web APIs
• Package build, distribution, repository administration & automation
• Troubleshoot TCP/IP & Ethernet with tcpdump/wireshark
• System Monitoring with Nagios, CheckMK, Munin & custom scripts
• System/Solution Architechture/Planning/Design
• Security
• Documentation
• Fun to work with
• Can speak Computer and Human (with slight computer accent)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

ITS Tech 5 (senior unix admin)

Confidential

• Managed all unix/linux servers, hardware & VM via KVM. Servers are RHEL & CentOS. All user facing systems are redundant pairs.
• Administered Apache with complex mod rewrite and sophisticated user security
• Managed normal network service (DNS, DHCP & NTP)
• Automated tasks using Salt & bash scripts
• Administered MySQL servers with replication
• Set up system for automated backups to AWS S3
• Managed user web accounts for 10,000+ users
• Maintained server security
• Added Active Directory as authentication source via SSSD
• Set up Shibboleth SAML services running on Jetty with multiple Service Providers
• Automated Account Generation for G Suites & Samanage using python and RESTfull APIs
• Automation using Ansible & Salt
• Transitioned authoritative DNS to AWS Route 53 with dynamic failover for campus outages
• Worked on web tool for ITS using Python, Django, SAML & Active Directory via LDAP
• Provided guidance, planning, documentation and system changes to facilitate easier transition to non-unix environment.

Systems Administrator / DevOps

Confidential

• Build, maintain & automate dev & QA environments on OpenStack using puppet & foreman
• Support symfony, supervisord, nodejs, go
• Support environments using AWS (EC2, S3, etc.. ) & Google Bigquery
• Primary puppet administrator
• Created custom system to automatically build, package and distribute RPMs on developer tag checkin
• Perform maintenance on and deploy code to dev, qa, stage & prod environments
• General network maintenance (dns, dhcp, ntp etc…)

Network Admini strator

Confidential

• Managed DNS, NTP & DHCP servers
• Managed Apache web servers
• SSL configuration & certificate management mod rewrite privilege separation with CGIWrap for CGI & PHP support web team with Wordpress, custom PHP, troubleshooting, security reviews, etc… created Wordpress plugin to allow authentication based on district IMAP server
• PHP-FPM, WSGI, FastCGI reverse proxy
• Provided web accounts for faculty, staff & students
• Wrote PAM module in C to authenticate staff using district IMAP server
• Automated student account creation/maintainance for over 10,000 users per quarter web, netware & OSX accounts dealt with multiple, changes to authoritative data source introduced automation worked with other IT groups developed solutions to many complex problems (name changes, SSN changes, opt-out, cultural sensitivities, same human multiple enrolments, etc.)
• Managed Google Apps for seattlecentral.edu and used provisioning API to automate account generation
• Taught Intro to Unix class with very high ratings from students
• Created Web App in Perl with Catalyst framework to allow: helpdesk to create faculty web accounts all users to check quota usage student lab techs to check account and enrollment status of students
• Created custom shell for web users that limited them to: checking quota creating backups making mysql dumps for backup normal SCP and SFTP transactions
• Managed server backups with duplicity & bacula
• Created redundant servers synced with rsync and MySQL replication
• Set up MoinMoin wikis for notes and documentation
• Wrote documentation with Docbook XML & markdown
• Created custom authentication plugin based on district IMAP server
• Managed Switch using serial access to Cisco IOS
• Set up DRAC remote access for my server hardware
• Debugging/Troubleshooting with tcpdump/wireshark
• Monitored systems with Nagios wrote custom plugins created super simple SNMP-like protocol using YAML created simple test-harness protocol for monitoring web server features
• Created tiny PPC linux PXE boot image to wipe and re-image macintosh computers with image transferred over multicast
• Set up OpenLDAP server for OSX users
• Virtualized servers with VMWare, Xen and KVM
• Automated new server installs with Cobbler and Kickstart
• Server automation with ansible my patch for the mysql replication module was merged into ansible source my unarchive module and action plugin were included in ansible
• Created RPMs for custom Perl libraries and a Yum repository to host them
• Built student email server with Qmail
• Built outbound email gateway with postfix that restricted delivery based on TO: header
• Wrote lots of scripts and programs to help with administrative tasks
• Multi-threaded
• Multi-process
• Object Oriented
• Perl, Python, C, Bash, PHP
• Beginning work on web team dev environment using Vagrant
• Built Redundant Bridging Firewall with OpenBSD
• Installed Servers and configure hardware (RAID,Network, etc..)

Software Tester/Unix Admin

Confidential, Seattle WA

• Tested for bugs in Confidential server and server administration tool
• Wrote test plans for web-based server administration tool
• Worked with Linux, Solaris, SCO, AIX, WinNT, Win95, Mac
• Promoted to unix administration group in first 3 months of 6 month contract
• Administered Linux (Redhat, Debian, Slackware) and Solaris (5.6, 5.7)

Desktop Publisher

Confidential, Seattle WA

• Performed hundreds of meticulous searches and corrections to client documents per week
• Used MS Word and MS Visual Source Safe
• Adapted to changing goals, duties and deadlines