OBJECTIVE:
A position where more than 20 years experience as a Senior Unix Systems Administrator (Solaris, LINUX, HP-UX, and AIX) will contribute and allow me to learn new skills to help my employer achieve their business objectives.

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Building/configuration of kickstart/jumpstart/ignite servers to facilitate building client machines
• Hardening of *NIX servers and clients against outside attacks (ssh, tcpwrappers, IPtables, authorized keys (RSA/DSA), removal of R-commands/telnet)
• Kernel performance optimization (Solaris/LINUX) for Oracle server needs
• Build/configure/maintain Checkpoint firewalls (IPSO, patching, rulesets)
• Building/configuration/maintenance of RedHat EL (3/4/5) servers, as well as SUN 52xx, M4000, V440, V490, and HP9000, RX8620 and RX4640 Itanium.
• Use Solaris Disk Suites to mirror system drives in jumpstart build
• Logical Volume Manager
• Administration of DNS Master and slave servers for 100+ clients (bind 8 & 9)
• Built and configured Amanda to utilized autoloaders for backing up *NIX and PC clients on network(s) (using combination of ntbackup and samba)
• Built/configured/maintained NAS (1TB), using 10 tape autoloader to facilitate backups using Amanda
• Administration of AFS servers, for maintenance of user dataspace and accounts.
• Administration of Kerberos for user authentication and tying into Active Directory for PC accounts (one account login)
• Make hardware/software purchase recommendations to Dept. heads as needed (3 yr. hardware life-cycle for budget planning)
• Build/configure/maintain NFS, AFS, DNS, Sendmail, NIS (server/client), Apache

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Hardware: SUN 280R, T5220, V880, V490, V215, STK 2540/6140, M4000, HP9000/700 and Itanium (RX8620, RX4640), Dell laptop, desktop and server class (PE4600), Mac G4, Overland Express 10 & 20 tape (DLT) autoloaders
• Software: LINUX RH ES/AS/WS (3,4 & 5), SuSe 10, Fedora (all cores), OpenBSD, Solaris 2.5.1 thru 10), HP-UX 8 thru 11.11x, IRIX, AIX, TRUServer (Ultrix), Windows (2000, XP), MAC OS/X 10
• Shells/Tools: Bourne, Csh, Tcsh, Korn, BASH, Perl, awk, sed

EXPERIENCE

Sr. Systems Administrator: (September 2011 - Present)

Confidential,Configure SUN ILOMs, HPUX ALOMs for remote access

• Configure SUN/HPUX/AIX systems for DHCP
• Install AIX 5.3, 6.0 and 7.1 on P7xx hardware
• Install/configure HMC/VIO/LPARs
• Install/configure UCS disk raid with RHEL 5.7/5.3 via kickstart server
• Recommend hardware purchases for jumpstart/ignite and NIM servers and clients
• Configure DDRs for PXE booting/install

Sr. Systems Administrator - Leader: (February 2011 - August 2011)

Confidential

• Maintain existing production LINUX RH environment in support of Boeing
• Work with Remedy (BARS) to insure proper response to customer tickets
• Install OVO in RHEL environment
• Resolve netbackup client issues

Sr. Systems Administrator: (October 2009 - February 2011) - Confidential

• Lead Sys. Admin. for Disaster Recovery and Banner projects
• Built kickstart server for installation and use existing satellite server for patch management
• Travel to 17 University affiliates to upgrade Puredisk from 6.5 to 6.6
• Configure SUN 2540/6140 arrays using CAM software, implement multi-pathing for arrays
• Troubleshoot VxVM kernel issues (SuSE 10)
• Provide backup *NIX Sys. Admin for support for 17 University affiliates as requested (patching, software installation, etc)
• Configure netbackup master servers, create SLPs and DR backup policies
• Configure/maintain Puredisk environment (DR)
• Maintain DELL blade center (24 blades)
• Configure ILOMs for X4150/4170 hardware

Sr. Systems Administrator: (January 2010 - Present) - Confidential

• Rebuilt SUN M4000 (global/ 4zones) after hard drive failure
• Reallocate LUNs from SAN after rebuild for M4000
• Install/configure CUPs printing system on (server on globals, client on zones)
• Build 2nd M4000 with 2 inherited zones
• Configure ILOMs for remoter administration/access to console
• Configure Windows Services for UNIX to allow SUNs to mount Windows server shares
• Create FLAR image backups of M4000 for DR purposes
• Kernel tuning HP-UX servers, maintain existing production environement
• Allocate storage from XP 48 array to HPs as needed
• CIFS maintenance

UNIX Engineer: (December 2008 - July 2009) - Confidential,

• Rebuilt kickstart and jumpstart infrastructures
• Expand swap and filesystem LVM's
• Opsware scripting (rosh) to update/maintain clients
• Install opsware, ITM, netbackup (nsr) and vmclient agents
• Configure VMWare clients
• Purchase recommendations for SUN M3K and M5K hardware

Sr. UNIX Contractor: (July 2008 - November 2008) - Confidential

• Build and configure jumpstart server for environment
• Creating/maintaining user accounts.
• Tuning the kernel as required by applications
• Use hardware raid on SUN T5220's to mirror system drives
• Install/configure ILOM's for SUN boxes to use ssh for connectivity
• Work with Oracle DBA's to resolve printing issues
• Use HO Openview Service Center to resolve 3rd level tickets
• Help resolve sendmail isues

Sr. UNIX Contractor: (March 2008-June 2008) -Confidential
Build and configure jumpstart and ignite server(s) for environment

• Creating/maintaining user accounts.
• Tuning the kernel as required by applications
• Use hardware raid on SUN T5220's to mirror system drives
• Install/configure ILOM's for SUN boxes to use ssh for connectivity
• Configure LOM's for HPUX hardware

Sr. UNIX Contractor: (November 2007 - March 2008)- Confidential
Created "Golden Image" for HP-UX11.23, after applying STIGS and running SRR checks. Utilized ignite for build clients with "application and database" build formats.

• Creating/maintaining user accounts.
• Tuning the kernel as required by applications (Oracle, Weblogic)
• Securing/hardening of the HP-UX Operating Systems.
• Building Ignite server and creating custom clients in the HP-UX environment.
• Troubleshooting miscellaneous problems with HP-UX.
• Build "Gold Images" for application/database servers.
• Use Veritas to "grow" logical volumes as needed by applications.

Sr. UNIX Contractor: (Aug. 2007 -October 2007) Confidential

• Build jumpstart server for Solaris 9/10 client imaging
• Use Solaris Disk Suites in jumpstart build to mirror system disk as part of DRP.
• Make infrastructure/architecture recommendation to site Enterprise System Architect
• Implement system security on servers, test and development boxes as recommended in STIGS.

Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator: Confidential, (Jan. 2007 -July 2007)

• Maintain ignite/jumpstart servers/clients in testlab. Update both ignite and FLAR images with patches as well installation/management perl scripts used by client sites to built machines.
• Developed method of splitting/rejoining FLAR images to support FTP (2gb limit) transfers to sites
• Disable R-commands/telnet and replace with ssh/sshd for security. Also built private/public RSA keys to allow Trusted host to access clients as root without requiring passwords on secure networks.

Sr. Unix Systems Administrator: Confidential, (April 1996 - Dec 2006)

• FTE of University and member of group that provided fee-for-services to units within the University. UNIX Systems Administrator at over 20+ sites on campus.
• Built and maintained Checkpoint Firewall and IPSO upgrades at 2 separate sites on NOKIA IP130 (TIDI and CASSINI projects)
• Install (using kickstart, jumpstart and ignite) clients (500+) at various units
• Administration of AFS, Kerberos, NFS, NIS, DNS as well as 20+ infrastructure servers at units as well as LS & AIT group
• Creating User accounts and tuning the kernel for the application securing/hardening of the HP-UX Operating Systems.
• Building Ignite server and creating custom clients in the HP-UX environment.
• Troubleshooting miscellaneous problems with HP-UX.
• Install/configure/maintain Matlab, Mathematica, Ncar, FLEXLM License manager packages for units as needed
• Many O/S upgrades at units for LINUX, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX and AIX
• Hardening of UNIX servers/clients using ssh and tcpwrappers

Education:
BA/DP