PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 20 years of experience in information technology.
• Military - Veteran NCO Staff Sargent of the United States Air Force
• Experience with Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Suse Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, HPUX, AIX, Oracle databases, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Cluster, Linux Cluster, Veritas Cluster, Netbackup, BackupExec, EMC Networker, Cisco networking, Hitachi VSP, Compellent Storage, SOX reporting, System auditing.
• Excellent problem solving, troubleshooting and communication skills.

WORK HISTORY:

Senior Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Deploying RHEL 7.3 in AWS cloud using EC2 with Cloud Formation
• Linux and UNIX system management
• Resolution of high impact incidents
• Driving larger operational projects - SHA2 Root CA upgrade
• Working with Application Support teams
• Change management (ITIL) - Change approval for UNIX team
• Mentoring and developing the level 1 and level 2 team
• Writing and reviewing detailed technical documentation - Confidential SSL certificate upgrade
• Identify and Drive Process Improvement

Principal Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Team lead for onshore offshore support model.
• Responsible for support of clients global hosting (Unix/Linux) and storage (SAN).

Sr. Oracle Solaris Specialist (Lead Unix Linux Administrator)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built private Oracle cloud using Solaris 11, OVM (LDOM), Oracle Virtual Machine Manager; the private cloud manages both x86 and SPARC systems allowing rapid deployment of prebuilt Linux and Solaris templates.
• Use RMAN to backup and recover Oracle databases, as well as create clones and refresh environments
• Created Oracle Data Guard environment on Red Hat Linux to move two databases from San Antonio to Houston
• Install Oracle Grid Infrastructure for Oracle database deployment using ASM
• Install Oracle Database 11g software homes and create database using Oracle dbca tool
• Deploy Oracle Enterprise Management 12c, OEM, agents for enterprise monitoring.
• Deployed Oracle Solaris 11 LDOMs(OVM) on Oracle T5-2 and M4-10 with Hitachi SAN storage for Oracle databases
• Deployed Oracle databases on Oracle Super Cluster with Exadata storage cells using Solaris 11 zones
• Designed Veritas Cluster for multiple instances of Oracle financial applications and Oracle databases in a three node environment.
• Managed Hitachi SAN using Command Suite and Device Manager
• Managed Brocade switch zoning for Hitachi SAN using native Brocade interface and Data Center Fabric Manager
• Utilized Solaris Zone virtualization to isolate Oracle financial instances.
• Eliminated Oracle licensing cost increases by using CPU resource allocations.
• Reduced Veritas licensing cost by converting non-VCS systems to use Solaris Volume Manager for root mirrors, and switching data file systems from VXFS to ZFS.
• Improved Oracle backup times to EMC Networker by switching save sets to process concurrently.
• Implemented Solaris Single Sign On by integrating Solaris Confidential and Kerberos authentication with Windows 2008 DCs and Active Directory.

Senior Unix Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented native Confidential solutions for Solaris 10 and AIX 5.3.
• Primary system administrator for +40 Solaris 8/9/10 systems in a large telecommunications enterprise server farm.
• Designed, implemented, and maintained active/passive Veritas Cluster solutions for three Network Performance Oracle 10g/9i databases.
• Installed and configured Veritas Volume Manager and SVM to create fault tolerant file systems using both local and SAN attached disks.
• Compiled, installed, and configured multiple open source utilities including: SSH, Sudo, Sendmail, Perl, Perl modules and other open source utilities.
• Responsible for UNIX Security; maintained a high level of security on systems by locking down the inetd.conf and keeping patches updated.
• Monitored and configured network interfaces and configuration files; both static and DHCP

Senior Unix Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed Confidential solution for Confidential, and Solaris clients using OpenLDAP, SleepyCat BerkeleyDB, Cyrus SASL, OpenSSL, and PADL’s pam and nss modules.
• Transitioned 300 clients on hybrid Confidential and Solaris network from local authentication to a centralized Confidential authentication.
• Provided senior level operating system support to database and application administrators in development and production environments.

Senior Unix Systems Administrator/Systems Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided operating system administration, and application software support of Sun Solaris systems in a 24 hour mission environment. Carried pager to ensure after hours support.
• Responsible for identifying security issues and implementing the necessary solution.
• Primarily responsible for reviewing and configuring system and audit logs.
• Maintained online software backup solution, to permit restoration capability of 24 hour critical systems.
• Built classroom LAN to provide system administration training to team members.
• Engineered password-changing GUI with over 1500 lines of Java code, enabling help desk personnel to change user passwords without knowing the root password.
• Administration of multiple Confidential domains for 200 users, 60 clients, and 4 servers.

Unix Systems Administrator/Systems Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and administrated a Confidential + domain for 150 users, 30 workstations and 3 servers.
• Installation and administration of Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, and Windows NT.
• Developed a network backup and recovery plan using Rsync and Secure Shell software.
• Installation and administration of Secure Shell.
• Created and maintained Jumpstart, DNS, and Sendmail servers.
• Redesigned personnel scheduler software consisting of over 1000 lines of Delphi code.
• Configured and maintained A1000 Raid unit with Sun StorEdge software.