SR. UNIX/LINUX SYSTEM ADMIN Resume San Francisco - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

An accomplished system administrator with 18 years of experience managing server infrastructures and data - center operations across multiple platforms (Unix and Linux).
Can effectively plan, install, configure and optimize IT infrastructures to consistently achieve high availability and performance. Has proven ability to create and deliver solutions tied to business growth, organizational development, and systems/network optimization. Is a skilled problem identifier and troubleshooter comfortable managing systems, projects and teams in a range of IT environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SR. UNIX/LINUX SYSTEM ADMIN

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Built environments with Linux and provide support/configuration in preparation for Confidential ’s e-commerce Confidential .com site
Developed configuration changes and infrastructure changes to support new projects for the Confidential .com site
Analyzed the overall use of system resources and removing unnecessary processes increasing performance by 30%
Increased productivity to the production environment with 3rd party applications
Worked with Puppet, DokuWiki, Foglight, Endeca, Apache, TomcatEE, Jboss, MySQL, and Alfresco
Implemented procedures to increase higher security and hardening of the servers
Automate administration tasks through use of scripting
Created shell script, python scripts and cgi scripts to monitor system performance and execute them via cron to analyze system resources usage and bottle necks
Implement and support an International order processing to download and commit the orders to an Oracle database
Performed hardware refresh for the Confidential .com site every third year to keep up with the latest technology
Troubleshoot issues during normal operation and provide root cause for future mitigation of issues for the Confidential .com site
Created, managed, moved and close virtual machines using Red Had KVM

SYSTEM ADMIN/APPLICATION DEVELOPER

Confidential, San Francisco

Responsibilities:

Built environments with Linux O/S, UNIX and Windows O/S provided support/configuration in preparation for Sprint upcoming projects
Analyzed system resources and remove unnecessary processes increasing performance
Implemented procedures to setup proper security for users
Performed routine checks on the Linux servers
Created Unix shell script to monitor system performance
Configured Linux IP tables to improve the hardening of the servers
Planed and implement web application to provide reporting capabilities and store using database
Installed Windows NT and Windows 2000 on Intel base servers.

SENIOR SYSTEM ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Provided Unix/hardware support & administration on HP9000 systems and HP9000/700 workstations on a LAN environment with 37 high performance UNIX systems
Installed HP-UX patches to keep up to date the systems to remove security vulnerabilities
Reconfigured the HP hardware to increase the system performance by 1/3.
Provided hardware support 24X7 to all HP servers and HP workstations

SENIOR CUSTOMER ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Established and maintained a high degree of serviceability & minimal down time in all Confidential servers & peripherals and hardware support to Confidential customers
Installed hardware, support, maintained & configured Confidential Systems & Servers
Supervised and trained technicians in the repair bench
Conducted preventive maintenance on customer sites