Linux Administrator Resume
Austin, TX
SUMMARY:
Dynamically skilled Linux administrator with over 7 years experience providing support, administration, maintenance and backup expertise to world - renowned organizations. Proven analytic and problem-solving skills; able to assess needs, define requirements and develop value-add solutions. Diverse expertise in a wide-range of technology: server-administration, troubleshooting, configuring specialized applications, information assurance, network and server security, and programming. Willing to travel; willing to relocate.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Hardware: Sun Blade Servers Dell Poweredge Cisco Tape Libraries SUN/HP EMC SAN HP3000
Platforms: Suse 9.3 Professional RHEL 4 Solaris Windows 2003 CentOS Redhat Enterprise Linux Windows 2000 Server Windows 2008 /2003 Linux Redhat 9.0 VMware Citrix
Software: MS Word/Excel Oracle VIM Syngo DICOM libjpeg CommVault MSSQL MySQL Legato Windows / Linux Clustering Filemaker Webmin Tripwire Mailscanner Exim Samba CRON
Programming: PERL PHP BASH Oracle FileMaker CGI
Networking: LAN/ VLAN CISCP IPSEC TCP/IP IPTables Tripwire Subnet
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Austin, TX
Linux Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Configure and troubleshoot EXIM/Postfix mail servers
- Troubleshoot and resolve DNS issues
- Configure and troubleshoot various functions of cPanel/Plesk control panel’s
- Troubleshoot and Resolve common web-site failures (500, 403, Rewrite Rules)
- Educated customers on various aspects ranging from configuring a WordPress blog to increasing a servers performance by tweaking Apache, PHP, mySQL, and Tomcat.
- Install/Configure Various Webscripts (RED5, FMS, OpenMeeting).
- Mitigate large inbound attacks such as DDoS, SYN Floods, and SloLoris
Confidential, Mayfield Heights, OH
Contract Operations Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Configured, monitor, and maintain corporate backup infrastructure.
- Identifies and resolves environment based failures.
- Worked with global team on migrating to a tape-less backup environment.
- Improved environment stability by collaborating daily issues with vendor.
Confidential, San Antonio, TX
Backup Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Configures, monitors and maintains all backup clients in a 24 x 7 environment with a 99.9% uptime for this dedicated server and managed hosting provider; installs and configures backup situations.
- Identifies and resolves backup failures; troubleshoots customer issues; trains and mentors junior employees.
- Ensures Database and Table integrity; creates and modifies variables for use with CommVault Backup Software.
- Collaborates with engineers to streamline processes and procedures to deliver FANATICAL support.
- Worked with the support team in setting up and configuring a RHEL cluster for CommVault backup solutions.
- Worked inline with the support teams in setting up and mounting NFS file shares from SAN/NAS devices for backups.
Confidential, Cleveland, OH
Contract Linux Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Delivered exceptional customer service and detailed server and Oracle database specifications to systems engineers and developers to ensure continuous operation for hospitals.
- Updated and re-created databases for gateway servers; migrated software functions utilizing WINE and CYGWIN.
Confidential, Cleveland, OH
Linux Administrator / Network Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Delivered exceptional customer service and 99.8% network uptime: monitored and administered Linux Servers; migrated servers from Windows 2000 Server to Red Hat Linux
- Configured and supported Windows 2003/2000 Servers, Windows XP Client and 9.x Operating system.
- Managed backup and security; enabled Windows file-sharing with SAMBA server and intranet database.
- Cooperated with System Engineers to provide 24 x 7 stability; notified of critical errors including bad memory, bad connection to SAN devices; identified optimal times for maintenance
- Troubleshooting and resolution of problems under Linux and Windows operating systems: IP address conflict, remote desktop connection, cron job seizing, MySQL database corruption and spyware removal.
- Performed scripting utilizing CGI / PERL and PHP; used remote service including VNC, Windows Terminal Services and command line interfaces.
Confidential, North Olmsted, OH
Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Network administration and implementation projects for Linux-based and Windows operating systems.
- Programmed custom web-based applications including PDF conversion software to online FTP clients using CGI/PERL, HTML, PHP and C++.