SUMMARY:

• I have over 12 years of hands - on experience as a LINUX Certified Systems Engineer
• I have 6 plus years as a team lead and project manager skills and experiences.
• I also have extensive experience working with Red hat servers for enterprise Red Hat Linux and 12 years of PERL Scripting in all environments
• I have been responsible for Managing WebSphere MQ configurations, Strong technical foundations based upon education and direct experience in research and development facilities
• On my current project I Managed Infrastructure and application Deployments
• He has also worked on infrastructure (INTEL; UNIX; STORAGE; DATA NETWORKING; DATA CENTER FACILITIES; WORKSTATION/LAPTOPS) problems/projects
• I am responsible for building and integration of cloud infrastructure with providers:( AWS, VMWare and OpenStack)
• I have assisted in the administration of both small and a larger system of infrastructure components
• I am responsible for the management of 1200 Linux server infrastructures (RHEL4 & RHEL5) to facilitate smooth transition of both upstream and downstream of the organization
• I have utilized the tools such as Microsoft Project, Microsoft Excel,, MSOffice for managing various projects.
• LINUX Certified Systems Engineer with extensive experience developing and testing software/hardware with new and emerging technologies involving data services
• Engineered, Administered and ARCHITECT, Red hat servers for enterprise Red Hat Linux
• 12 years of PERL Scripting in all environments. Responsible for Managing WebSphere MQ configurations, Strong technical foundations based upon education and direct experience in research and development facilities. Strong fundamentals of enterprise backup/restore process using Avamar or Legato or NetBackup
• Experience and in-depth knowledge in the following areas, Solaris 9 Operating environment, HP-UX, performance monitoring/tuning, SAN, NAS, and Networking (LAN/WAN)
• Extensive experience in administration of Sun servers such as IBM Blades and Linux(RedHat and SuSE) operating systems environment with some enterprise software design and development

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CA

Technical Project manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the key Architectural design of Prototype concepts which included latency, scalability, efficiency and failover
• Designed, implemented, managed, and support a rapidly-growing mission-critical IT DATA CENTER environment including Linux, Solaris, and VMWare systems
• Set up and configure new web and application server instances and operating environments including network and database configurations such as Apache, Webserver & WebLogic, JBOSS, products.
• Provide leadership for Cloud while supporting Amazon AWS Build and manage the first set of SaaS and PaaS implementations
• Responsible for the Designing of reliable and scalable system architectures at high scale including full instrumentation and monitoring strategy
• Provide expert-level Linux support for both end-user desktop and server environments across the business
• Worked closely with the engineering, development, software, launch, and mission teams, both local and remote, to ensure high customer satisfaction
• Responsible for building and integration of cloud infrastructure with providers:( AWS, VMWare and OpenStack)
• Managing Infrastructure and application Deployments
• Facilitated and ensured projects requirements are met by reviewing and implementation of designs within budgets/timelines
• Responsible for the implementation of project management for 10-16 projects is needed
• Provided high level direction to resources, monitor development efforts, assemble key project deliverables, report project status, and raise awareness on issues requiring escalation
• Develop proposals and present recommendations to senior leadership/ownership in regards to projects that may include network, software, hardware, security and overall IT needs
• Facilitated communication, collaborations and problem solving support across cross functional teams/departments and provide information efficiently to all management levels on outstanding issues, project activities, and progress
• Responsible for the introduction of Agile SCRUM Development concepts in various projects
• Expertise in LANs, WANs, network segments, Internet, and intranet systems
• Maintain integrity of the network, server deployment, and security
• Understanding Network connectivity throughout a company's LAN/WAN/WLAN infrastructure is on par with technical requirements
• Document network address assignment
• Assign configuration of authentication and authorization of directory services
• Demonstrates excellent judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining technical solutions in monstrated logs concepts
• Identify methodologies and processes to improve efficiencies, system availability, and performance
• Demonstrated ability to use established project management methodologies/tools to develop and execute technical project plans including - work plans, schedules, milestones, critical paths, project scope, technical architectures
• Responsible for project deliverable, monitoring, communicating statuses & issues
• Plans, monitors, and tracks delivery of quality control and takes corrective action as appropriate
• Reviews, assesses and communicates quality assurance plan to team members, sponsors, and vendors.
• Resolve network and system security issues using computer host analysis, forensics, and reverse engineering
• Responsible for conducted risk assessments, performing vulnerability scans, troubleshooting and responding to alerts and assisting with the development of policies and standards.
• Responsible for configuration management software such as Chef, Puppet
• Responsible for monitoring and communicating project status to IT management, sponsors, and vendors, as appropriate

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Lead Unix Security Project Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for administration of CFEngine and Splunk .Responsible for Installing and configuration Splunk indexer and Splunk forwarder on new server(s)
• Responsible for creating Dashboards for running weekly reports to monitor DNS, changes in Performed hot fixes/upgrade, Running and/or scheduling new Jobs
• Monitored license usage Investigate new usage pattern
• Configure new data inputs/sources Generate reports on usage Health
• Responsible for Checking indexers and forwarders review
• Setup, configuration & maintenance, LAMP(Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) as well as webservers on Apache & Nginx web servers
• Virtualization, Virtual box, with most guest hosting via VmWare ESX/VSphere(Lab Manager & VIC), VMware ESXi, XEN and Citrix XEN server
• Designed network architecture and technologies such GPRS, CDMA2000.
• Package and configuration management using rpm, yum, dpkg in our Lab environment.
• Performed and configures J2EE Application Performance analysis and tuning
• Perform vulnerabilities assessments to identify architectural and specific vulnerabilities in Linux and Unix platforms and products
• Performed Backup procedures and testing
• Created job definitions utilizing the AutoSys Graphical User Interface (GUI). Responsible for using the AutoSys Job Information Language (JIL) through a command-line interface
• Responsible for Troubleshooting CFEngine and Splunk server and forwarder problems and issues
• Performed critical patches testing and upgrade utilizing configuration management tools such as, puppet and CFEngine
• Assist internal users of Splunk in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboards

Confidential, Mountain View CA

Lead IT Infrastructure Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provided CFEngine, Kickstart, vSphere, Perl, RHEL, Redmine, Git, NFS, Rpath support and Puppet
• Assisted in the administration of both small and a larger system of infrastructure components. Acted as a front-line interface to IT and non-IT users, accepting trouble tickets, resolve simple tickets, dispatching more complex tickets to the appropriate IT Specialists. Responsible for system inventories and building documentation. Participated as member of a project team and deliver infrastructure components according to requirements and timelines
• Acted as a major point of contact for Production, Development and Engineering customers. Provided updates and status to management and stakeholders on various incidents and application services
• Performed System / Network Administration activities on UNIX systems, Windows
• Support various web services including Apache, Tomcat, weblogic, and JBOSS
• Responsible for installation and managed web certificates (SSL, Client Auth)
• Utilized tools like Splunk, Keynote, and Nagios for troubleshooting and reporting. Responsible for the security administration of all the system, development and tools configuration/management activities
• Monitored network with tools, such as Wireshark, Ixia, TCP dump.
• Performed systems administration activities such as provisioning and troubleshooting on the following OS platforms: CentOS, Redhat Linux, and Solaris
• Responsible for the network Administration of Load Balancing using Firewalls, Switches Load balancers
• Worked with the Engineering and software team by utilized CfEngine for Automated Redhat Linux Platform task and Patch Distribution

Confidential, Mason, Ohio

Senior Lead LINUX Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all Linux administration activities. Responsible for assuring system availability and performance of all Linux systems. Provide second level support for customer problems and requests. Installed, updated and maintain applications, middleware, system management tools, operating systems and network in the Linux environment. Provide and maintain documentation such as Systems Operations Guides or Work Instructions describing local procedures, service level agreements, Responsible for installing utilities, compilers, 3rd party software, etc and configuring Linux from install media. Responsible for installing SAN Storage, Disk Management, and disk mirroring. Responsible for providing system architecture guidance to the lower level of subordinates and Unix Administrators. Responsible for the Implementation of tasks associated with project plans and architecture designs
• Performed the designing and implementing LDAP from the ground up
• Maintained AD domain services and implemented update managements in Windows Server
• Responsible for level three support which involves troubleshooting of difficult or complex performance or functional issues. Responsible for porting from Windows OS to RHEL OS inference engine and application by generating reports. With C/C++, Java, STL, Makefile, Oracle
• Performed SAN storage, Linux, UNIX, disk management

Confidential, Battlesville, OK

Senior LINUX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the management of 1200 Linux server infrastructures (RHEL4 & RHEL5) to facilitate smooth transition of both upstream and downstream of the organization
• Configured systems according to standard systems build practices. Interface with project managers and groups while gathering requirements for implementation and post implementation project support
• Responsible for LAN administration as well as server administration. Responsible for the configuration of LPR/LPD for UNIX printing which is a queuing system used for all printing. Responsible for configuration of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SAMBA as required. Mail/web: Configured Apache, SSL.PHP3, PHP4 and MYSQL as required. Performed SMTP, IMAP setup as required. Designed and carried out the installation and integrations of Server/Hardware
• Responsible for installing and configuration of various database such as Mysql and Oracle
• Environment: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SAMBA as required. Mail/web: Configured Apache, SSL.PHP3, PHP4 and MYSQL, UNIX
• Responsible for the configuration framework such as puppet in our Software lifecycle
• Provided provisioning PXE,Kickstart, cobbler and cfEngine package management
• Responsible for troubleshooting and resolving complex AIX, Linux problems

Confidential, Durham, NC

Senior IT Systems Engineer (Contract Ended)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Linux (Red Hat) Linux 6.2 enterprise Linux 5 satellite server build, designed, installed, parched, secured, configured and maintained over 700+ GNU/Linux x86 systems, including IBM xSeries, and Blade Center, Setting up clusters, dual-booting laptops and desktops, and various other systems. (2000 servers 5 Linux engineered in the team)
• Performed and integrated software installation such as Apache httpd (with Jakarta Tor Tomcat and mod ssi) ssh LegatoNetworker, iptables, lilo and grub. Assisted windows systems Group to integrate and install the following softwares such as ssh (PuTTY and OpenSSH) in MKSToolkit) IIS, Oracle client, and Cold Fusion. Provided expert Network Protocol, DNS/DHCP& IP Management application support. Provided rotational on-call services for after- hours support. Responsible for the implementation of change management. Utilizing VI for host name updates. Utilizing Vitlqip GUI for IP and Hostname updates. Provided configuration support for Info lox appliances and Active directory support in Solaris 9, 10 and Red Hat OS environment. Provided support in the allocation, configuration of a record, Alias, CNAME and utilizing of portiQ appliance to gather data on switch port usage
• Responsible for InfoBlox DNS/DHCP/IPAM Project Design
• Responsible for the running Network Discovery and audits. Created configuration histories for each analyzed network device. Responsible for the configuration of file distribution services on infoblox appliances such as TFTP, FTP and HTTP services. Provided configuration support of standard DHCP leases options. Provided excellent customer support to the client. Setting and configuration of IPAM on the Network layer

Environment: HTTP, FTP, CNAME, TFTP, PuTTY and OpenSSH in MKSToolkit

Confidential, Pentagon City, VA

Senior UNIX Engineer

Responsibilities:

• (400 Linux servers) 11000 other UNIX servers and VM’s
• Performed standard Satellite Server build in a Red Hat Linux 5 and Red Hat Linux 6 Environment for provisioning and configuring management. Utilized provisioning tools. Configure and tune LVM volumes. Performed GFS. Proven shell scripting (ksh& bash)
• Responsible for Patch management with audit trail support for infrastructure servers installing and implementation of an extensive secure knowledge base that design, deploy and maintain virtual infrastructure solutions based on VMware. Administer, maintain and troubleshoot multiple Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) connected to VMware. Responsible for monitoring of WebSphere MQ Components. Provide support in performance monitoring, back-ups, reporting, problem identification, management and resolution. Coordinated, established and automated processes, run manuals, standards operating procedures, and documentation to ensure 24/7 system availability. Created and maintained documentation to identify storage hardware, software configuration, and management of hotspots detailing serious security incidents detected at the National Gateways. Change management of key security configuration items such as documentation. Firewall policy and IDS/IPS signature sets. Maintain, manage and monitor highly available systems, Diagnose direct causes of system impacts utilizing NetIQ for identity and Access Management. Responsible for first and second tier resolution of production issues and alerts in a time-critical environment. Maintained and provided backup procedures, using EMC Legato Networker, data Domain and EMC Avamar
• Responsible for setting and configuring MQ clusters. Work with external teams to diagnose complex problems and drive resolutions. Utilize toolset to diagnose and resolve production issues
• Resolve errors and alarms quickly and provide timely escalation. Complete tasks required to maintain service levels and availability of all site features and functions. Drive root cause investigations and follow-ups actions. Drive proactive improvements in service quality and internal efficiency. Provided 24/7 team supporting always available systems, regularly work a 12 hour shift schedule

Environment: SAN, MQ Cluster, KSH, BASH

Confidential, Adelphi, MD

Senior Lead IT UNIX Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for and installing Red Hat enterprise 5 64bits as well as 32bits. Created a backup method to automate backup and setup cron jobs over ssh for root logins.
• Responsible for setting up racs and set up 20 Dell 29 50 servers to run various applications. Jboss, tomcat. Provided technical assistance to the United States Army Research Laboratory and set up subversion repository for multiple users. Created the subversion users and integrated login ssh
• Wrote shell scripts to automate the systems monitoring and login processes. Perform gap and quality analysis of Server build in Red Hat Linux 5Environment utilized NUMA on AMD and QPI on Intel. Supported the application design and programming architectural groups. Utilized SAR, iostate, vmstat in the monitoring and diagnosis of systems threshold in other to resolve and isolate performance bottleneck. Responsible for the setup and administered Linux test systems for Linux support teams globally. Responsible for GFS cluster design, clustered operating system load development, and integration experience. Responsible for troubleshooting installation, integration and maintenance. Mapping product roadmaps and lifecycle in context of business requirements and vendor direction. Responsible for systems development, design, network access and remotely administer systems architectures, server administration upgrades, capacity planning and management, system performance, configuration, software and hardware installations. Responsible for creating a file system for Linux that uses the PTP protocol to communicate with the camera. Utilized peer to peer (p2p) file sharing software to get off the net
• Performed systems monitoring with nagios. Responsible for Bash and Korn shell scripting across multiple platforms. Deployed replicated environment on three continents
• Built Oracle RAC environment in 9i and 10g on Linux and AIX
• Performed Oracle Database upgrades from 9i to 10g in AIX RAC
• Performed Oracle Database upgrades from 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.0.3 in AIX RAC environment
• Built physical standby database environment
• Built version control environment
• Responsible for the installation of managed servers in a Dell M1000-e system enclosure (chassis) with modular power supplies, cooling fans, and a chassis management controller (CMC)
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining a new VMware V13 infrastructure (ESX 3.5 &VC 2.) from the ground up, spanning two datacenters (one for DR) and replacing the old infrastructure (ESX 3.0.2 & VC 2.0.2)

Environment: VMware V13, AIX, Linux, Oracle, Bash, Korn

Confidential, Bowie, MD

Senior UNIX Administrator (7000 servers)

Responsibilities:

• Administer the Linux File System environment. Manage and Secure the Linux User Environment, Enable Remote Administration with YaST VNC
• Provide technical expertise, consultation and guidance for the development, deployment, support as well as performance tuning for Linux (SLES 9/10sp2) for the power and x86 processor chipsets. Responsible for identification, of issues before they become problems for customers, and responsible for creating a more stable and secure hosted platform. Responsible for troubleshooting OS level, web server, database server, application server, DNS, SMTP, and other software issues. Responsible in the technical aspects of problem identification, systems architecture design, hardware/software specification and design, and implementation. In addition, resolved and managed disk I/O and memory usage and evaluated and implemented hot fixes or patches. Responsible for multipath configuration both in the active/active and active/passive in Biotech SAN. Responsible for remote Administration Configure of Server for remote access. Utilized p2p currently Direct Connect software’s to share files, Images and date
• Provided PTP, Picture Transfer Protocol, which was developed to provide a standard way to access digital camera images and pictures devices. Provided basic user administration (add/delete user, change passwords, group administration. Installed SuSe Enterprise Linux 9 on the above servers using Autoyast. Performed Oracle Database upgrades from 10.2.0.2 to 10.2.3 in AIX RAC environment. Built physical standby database environment. Responsible for integrating IBM WebSphere into CICS with CICS Transaction Gateway on IBM AIX. Built version control environment for vendor binaries and script storage. Built Wiki environment for document storage

Environment: CICS, AIX, biotech SAN, Autoyast, Suse, Linux

Confidential, Providence, RI

Senior UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Patch management with audit trail support for infrastructure servers installations and implementation of an extensible secure knowledge base that details specific threats, security controls and procedures. Firmware upgrade to the specifications
• Responsible for installation across platforms, configuration of software, as well as integration of solutions in an ISP environment. Handling HP and IBM servers running on SuSe, Red hat
• Provides systems and applications support and engineering for the Sun, Solaris platform
• Provided broad support of multiple technologies, which included DHCP, DNS, HTTP/S, HTML, POP, SMTP, LDAP, SNMP.TCP/IP, protocols. Internet routing and firewalls, security, News and WWW applications. Provided broad base support of Enterprise Class Mail solution and Directory Services (LDAP). Monitored installing, configuring and troubleshooting Microsoft IIS is a must. Apache, Tomcat, Web logic. Maintain software running on IBM Web Sphere Application server. Maintain systems running on a Solaris Servers with Veritas Volume Manager for UNIX. Configure Sun Raid storage using the Raid Manager utility
• Install and configure Sun Fire Servers with Solaris 10 and Veritas Foundation Suite with clustering support. Conduct administration of tape backup rotation using Legato and Storage Manager. Write automation shell scripts in Korn Shell and C++ and Perl
• Support Tivoli Storage Manager. Configure Sun-Fire domains and system controller access control lists. Install and configure Veritas Cluster Server on Sun-Fire running Solaris with Oracle 8i. Design, install, configure, maintain and support system availability if UNIX systems.
• Provide strong technical support of Solaris O/S, DNS, TCP/IP, and NFS
• Responsible for infrastructure support systems availability of UNIX systems
• Responsible for infrastructure support systems. Store Edge T3,3510,StorageTek Blade 220 and Storage 6140 disk arrays, and Fiber Channel SAN switches to include installation, initial turn-up, configuration, and on-going support, configuring and utilizing sys
• NFS & CIFS File Services security. Configuring the CIFS shares in workgroup made in both windows and Mac OS environment as it relates to EMC Clarion CX & Cx3
• Responsible for enabling and configuring Solaris CIFS services to generate the required security tokens for clients and servers authentications
• Monitoring technology to detect, identify and troubleshoot infrastructure problems.
• Maintaining operating systems (LINUX, SUN, AIX). Configuring/installing hardware/software, configuring and utilizing monitoring technologies, troubleshooting, and sustaining the operational health of the infrastructure, managing (Sun-Fire 4800 class) mid-range server hardware and software specifications, configurations, installations and related infrastructure support issues, conducting utilities to automate tasks; providing customer-centric 1st responder support. Responsible for management and hotspots detailing serious incidents detected at the National Gateways

Environment: Redhat, Suse, SUN, AIX, TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, EMC Clarion, Mac OS

Confidential, Roselyn, VA

Senior RED HAT LINUX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Ensured that production jobs are running as scheduled and monitored all servers’ activity for problems, diagnosing and solving problems according to procedures.
• Senior UNIX Linux Migration consultant on a large scale UNIX (Solaris) to Linux (SuSE) migration project involving the migration of approximately 400 enterprise applications, on about 3,000 Solaris servers, to about 12,000 SuSE Linux servers, leveraging VMware ESX, HP Server Automation (Opsware), and Oracle RAC on HP Proliant Hardware. Implemented technology decisions and oversees user admin (added, changed, deleted, backup files restored) in one or more environments. Recommended hardware and software that will optimize systems performance while maintaining levels of stewardship. Ensured mission critical UNIX servers are available and operating 24hours a day and 7days a week. Responsible for set up and administer the MQ environment such as Creating, starting and stopping a Queue Manager. Developed server operating procedures and participated in the development of disaster recovery plans. Provided specialized customer support in certain areas as appropriate. Utilized the following technologies and products used in the systems (i.e. NFS, NIS, and Volume manager) as required. Implemented HP EVA and SAN technology from an architecture standpoint as required. Implemented TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, WINS technology as required. Assisted in the maintenance of system software’s such as HP Continuous Access EVA and utilities to replicate on both local and remote virtual disks. Utilized HP Storage Works Continuous Access EVA Software as array based application that utilizes Graphical User Interface to create, manage and configure remote replication on our entire EVA products in a UNIX environment. Responsible for the unique identity implementation and configuration of systems, configuration of postfix and send mail servers. Netback up 6.0 install on an EMC SAN Environment utilization of Nevisphere to set up LUNS for system backup. Setup the IBM data power AX150 and F5 Big IP’s and configurations

Environment: AX150, EMC, SAN, UNIX, EVA, WINS, TCP/IP, DHCP

Confidential, Mclean, VA

Senior Sun Solaris/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Sun Solaris 8/9/10 as well as IBM AIX 4.3.3/5.X, Veritas foundation suites, Veritas cluster, DNS, LegatorNetworker, storage Ave Network, Storage Allocation
• Supported Enterprise class systems in clients Data center facilities. Assisted in maintaining Veritas clustered systems, Oracle database hosts and N-tier application such as Oracle Financials, Peoplesoft HRMS. Performed legato backup and recovery service. Clarify cases and troubleshoot issues that may arise in 24/7 data center operations. Participate in OS and software upgrades, providing EMC and HP storage capacity planning and reporting on operations metrics
• Environment: VERITAS, PeopleSoft, DNS, EMC, HP storage, VOIP