Systems Administrator Resume

Systems Engineer

I am a skilled and creative technology professional with several years experience developing and maintaining IT environments and managing IT personnel. I'm looking for a position in an exciting and collaborative workplace where I can bring my expansive skill set to bear, and grow to meet new challenges.

Professional Experience

Sr. Systems Administrator
Confidential, Waukegan, IL / Ottawa, ON July 2010-Present
Responsible for a mid-size CentOS/Xen server farm running multiple instances of a custom JBoss application at this medical transcription services provider. Also oversee the System Support/Tier 2 personnel.
Key Achievements:

Specified, purchased and installed server and SAN hardware suitable to a virtualization environment.
Migrated JBoss application servers from a Xen environment to VMWare.
Identified and installed a new knowledge base platform and trained Customer and System Support users.
Prepared a CentOS 5.5 installation for the company\'s application servers.
Initiated SVN policy and implemented SVN environment for Development.
Migrated or rebuilt various network services servers into a VMWare environment, including DNS, LDAP, NTP, Email and Apache.

Systems Engineer
Confidential, Seattle, WA 2003-2010
A member of the Operations team responsible planning, developing, and maintaining the company\'s technology infrastructure, primarily a web/ETL stack that included a public-facing real estate search application used by 250,000 unique users daily. Designed, developed and platformed intranet tools relating to the real estate business.
Key Achievements:

Managed the Pacific Northwest\'s largest real estate broker\'s public web presence and back-end tools for nine thousand agents, consistently maintaining 24/7 availability.
Migrated fifty-server data center to a co-location facility.
Transitioned from Windows/IIS web server farm to Sun/Jetty platform.
Managed traffic growth with F5 load balancing equipment and memcache session management.

Systems Administrator / Web Developer
Confidential, Seattle, WA 2001-2003
Developed real estate search and display applications for the public web and real estate professionals in a variety of languages such as Perl, PHP, Cold Fusion. Installed and managed application server components.
Key Achievements:

Implemented Fusebox Cold Fusion framework.
Installed Active Directory, DFS.

Web Application Engineer
Confidential, Seattle, WA 2000-2001
Designed, developed, and tested community-oriented web-based applications, primarily in an Apache/PHP environment. Key projects included a site personalization tool and custom forum/membership systems.

Web Developer
Confidential, Seattle, WA 1999-2000
Built and maintained various web properties for the company including the corporate site, a youth-oriented safe search site, and various LucasFilm-affiliated children\'s content sites, primarily in PHP and Perl.

Internet Editor
Confidential, Buffalo Grove, IL 1997-1999
Acting in a dual editorial and technical role I was responsible for bringing industry magazine content to the web as well as building and maintaining a content management system.

Other Professional Exp.

Freelance Writer / Reporter
Various Publications 1998-2011
I\'ve written articles for a variety of monthly periodicals in the Seattle market such as Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, Washington CEO Magazine and others as well as for nationally distributed publications including MAKE Magazine.

Managing Editor / News Editor
Seattlest, Seattle, WA 2005-2007
Assigned articles, hired reporters, and managed daily operations for this news and arts website. Wrote daily news items, features, and event reviews for placement on the site, and compiled weekly wrap-ups for publication across a national network of sites.

Education

Bachelor of Arts

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