SUMMARY

• me can help to architect, scope, and specify technical solutions using my senior - level working knowledge of hosting architectures and cloud computing concepts.
• Wif over 15 years of Linux server administration experience, me can cross silos to other technology platforms such as virtualization and storage while maintaining excellent working relationships.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Confidential PowerEdge
• Cisco UCS
• EMC vBlock
• Amazon EC2/Rackspace
• Linux (CentOS, Red Hat, OpenStack, Debian)
• Cisco IOS/JunOS, BigIP F5,
• DDoS Mitigation, SAN Copy, VPN/SSL, NFS/CIFS, iSCSI/FCoE and SRDF, SDN
• ONTAP/NetApp
• Site Recovery Manager
• RecoverPoint
• EMC VMAX / Clariion
• Confidential PowerVault, Equal Logic & Compellent
• OpenFiler
• VMWare ESX/ESXi 4.1/5.5
• vCloud Suite (Director, SRM, Ops) KVM, RHEV 3
• PowerShell/PowerCLI
• Javascript/JQuery
• HTML/CSS
• ESRI GIS
• Google KML
• Git/SVN
• SugarCRM
• Puppet/Chef/Crowbar
• Hadoop
• SugarCRM
• Exim/Postfix/Sendmail
• Bind 4/9
• Cpanel/WHM/Plesk
• NginX/Apache 1.3x/2.x/ ISS 6/7
• MySQL 4x/5x/PostgreSQL/MS SQL 2000/2003
• NewRelic
• Hyperion
• Confidential OpenManage
• HP OpenView
• Whats Up, SNMP, MRTG, Cacti, Nagios
• Snort
• Cisco UCSD
• Nmap
• OpsNet
• Network Flight Recorder

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Primary Focal Architect

Responsibilities:

• Directed the design, development and deployment of servers being migrated from client’s datacenter to supplier owned datacenters.
• Worked directly wif executive-level clients as a broker to ensure budget and timelines remained on schedule by ensuring necessary architecture and resources were available and negotiating Service Level Agreements wif external vendors.
• Designed and helped to implement and support complex systems such as: disaster recovery, automation, high-availability database configurations and backup/recovery strategies.

Confidential, Portland, OR

Professional Services Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Traveled domestic and internationally to help Confidential ’ customers succeed through training, consulting, and custom development engagements.
• Assisted wif pre-sales consulting and support including sales and marketing, developing and publishing Puppet modules and promoting integration and tooling around Puppet.
• Excelled in the use extensive logic and reasoning as an individual and as part of a team to identify the pros and cons of viable options to professionally as alterative solutions to unique customer configurations and concerns.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior-Level Linux Engineer / Migrations

Responsibilities:

• Documented and defined system and infrastructure standards.
• Instituted git code-repository system using gitorious
• Assisted wif planning deployment of Puppet for configuration management and automation.
• Worked wif other SME’s such as SQL DBA’s and application owners to tune and tweak system services for optimal performance.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior-Level Linux Engineer / Migrations

Responsibilities:

• Helped to complete migration of physical and virtual servers to new virtual platforms and operating systems using vBlock and Cisco UCS blades.
• Worked wif application owners and developers to understand complex details about how their applications worked to ensure minimal downtime during migrations.
• Performed, documented, and automated the audit of lower-tier server environments, and helped to ensure consistency of configuration files going forward using Puppet based on many factors.
• Helped to automate deployment and testing processes using platforms such as Jenkins/Maven

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

VMWare Architect / Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted wif completion of the largest data center migration in North America wif a successful migration of over 3,000 virtual machines to new datacenter in Greensboro, NC.
• Assisted wif architecting and implementing DR strategies using Site Recovery Manager.
• Helped wif the upgrade of physical ESX hosts, conversion, and migration of VM’s according to best practices while adhering to stringent compliance and audit standards.
• Created custom PowerShell/Wintel (Linux) scripts to perform repetitive tasks such as the adding/removal of data stores to ensure optimum health in vCOps.

Confidential, Oklahoma City, OK

Senior Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Consistently led rankings of the Enterprise Solutions Organization in OKC.
• Spearheaded launch of CloudEdge servers and provided Fortune 500 companies wif early-adoption and deployment of supporting Hadoop/OpenStack clusters using crowbar.
• Remotely setup and configured new VMWare/Linux installations utilizing SAN and local storage from different vendors.
• Troubleshot client software and hardware of many different platforms to identify problems tan replaced or repaired according to documented procedures

Confidential, Houston, TX

Linux/Windows System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Monitor server and network utilization and performance in real time through various software such as; Nagios/MOM in a team of administrators to ensure quality of service.
• Support internal level 1 technicians and representatives while consecutively working in a team to resolve complex, mixed OS environment application issues for customers.
• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of Linux/Windows services such as Apache, MySQL, Exim; and IIS, MS SQL, FTP.
• Perform simultaneous server imaging, rollouts, and back up procedures daily in a high paced, rapidly changing environment.

Confidential, Lawton, OK

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Complete, seamless migration of 400+ users in three locations from separate Linux-based MTA’s to a single, redundant Exchange 2003 wif Linux Gateway's for Anti-Virus and Spam Filtering in 45 days.
• Integrated corporate website wif load balanced Windows and Linux web servers after migrating from older technologies.
• Remotely administered virtual environment consisting of Red Hat, CentOS Linux and Microsoft Windows 2003 servers through policy-based VPN tunnels in four different locations.
• Created company policies and procedures governing corporate security, email and Internet usage, access control, and incident response.

Confidential, Lawton, OK

Jr. Network/Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained 10 Linux Servers which provided security and services for other Windows machines on the network such as: DNS, NAT, Anti-Virus/Spam, and Firewall via iptables.
• Managed backups for Windows, Linux, PACS, and File Servers to EMC Clarion SAN device.
• Provisioned, audited, and administered; server logs, backups, and Active Directory objects including remote forests.
• Researched and procured BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Assisted wif migration from Juniper based core and wireless network to 100% Cisco based.