Skills Summary

I can help to architect, scope, and specify technical solutions using my senior-level working knowledge of hosting architectures and cloud computing concepts. With over 15 years of Linux server administration experience, I can cross silos to other technology platforms such as virtualization and storage while maintaining excellent working relationships.

Confidential

Primary Focal Architect

• Directed the design, development and deployment of servers being migrated from client's datacenter to supplier owned datacenters.
• Worked directly with executive-level clients as a broker to ensure budget and timelines remained on schedule by ensuring necessary architecture and resources were available and negotiating Service Level Agreements with external vendors.
• Designed and helped to implement and support complex systems such as: disaster recovery, automation, high-availability database configurations and backup/recovery strategies.

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Professional Services Engineer

• Traveled domestic and internationally to help Puppet Labs' customers succeed through training, consulting, and custom development engagements.
• Assisted with pre-sales consulting and support including sales and marketing, developing and publishing Puppet modules and promoting integration and tooling around Puppet.
• Excelled in the use extensive logic and reasoning as an individual and as part of a team to identify the pros and cons of viable options to professionally as alterative solutions to unique customer configurations and concerns.

Confidential

Senior-Level Linux Engineer / Migrations

• Documented and defined system and infrastructure standards.
• Instituted git code-repository system using gitorious
• Assisted with planning deployment of Puppet for configuration management and automation.
• Worked with other SME's such as SQL DBA's and application owners to tune and tweak system services for optimal performance.

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Senior-Level Linux Engineer / Migrations

• Helped to complete migration of physical and virtual servers to new virtual platforms and operating systems using vBlock and Cisco UCS blades.
• Worked with application owners and developers to understand complex details about how their applications worked to ensure minimal downtime during migrations.
• Performed, documented, and automated the audit of lower-tier server environments, and helped to ensure consistency of configuration files going forward using Puppet based on many factors.
• Helped to automate deployment and testing processes using platforms such as Jenkins/Maven

Confidential

VMWare Architect / Linux Engineer

• Assisted with completion of the largest data center migration in North America with a successful migration of over 3,000 virtual machines to new datacenter in Greensboro, NC.
• Assisted with architecting and implementing DR strategies using Site Recovery Manager.
• Helped with the upgrade of physical ESX hosts, conversion, and migration of VM's according to best practices while adhering to stringent compliance and audit standards.
• Created custom PowerShell/Wintel Linux scripts to perform repetitive tasks such as the adding/removal of data stores to ensure optimum health in vCOps.

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Senior Solutions Architect

• Consistently led rankings of the Enterprise Solutions Organization in OKC.
• Spearheaded launch of CloudEdge servers and provided Fortune 500 companies with early-adoption and deployment of supporting Hadoop/OpenStack clusters using crowbar.
• Remotely setup and configured new VMWare/Linux installations utilizing SAN and local storage from different vendors.
• Troubleshot client software and hardware of many different platforms to identify problems then replaced or repaired according to documented procedures

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Linux/Windows System Administrator

• I relocated to provide Linux administration assistance and customer support via helpdesk and telephone for a very large web hosting company with 30,000 customers serviced by over 500 Linux and Windows Servers.
• Monitor server and network utilization and performance in real time through various software such as Nagios/MOM in a team of administrators to ensure quality of service.
• Support internal level 1 technicians and representatives while consecutively working in a team to resolve complex, mixed OS environment application issues for customers.
• Installation, configuration, and maintenance of Linux/Windows services such as Apache, MySQL, Exim and IIS, MS SQL, FTP.
• Perform simultaneous server imaging, rollouts, and back up procedures daily in a high paced, rapidly changing environment.

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Administrator

• Recruited to reconstruct and administer Linux/Windows servers, improve bandwidth usage, create performance metrics analyze complex network and server issues with remote Administrators, troubleshoot simple day-to-day end user problems of over 400 employees in local and remote offices.
• Complete, seamless migration of 400 users in three locations from separate Linux-based MTA's to a single, redundant Exchange 2003 with Linux Gateway's for Anti-Virus and Spam Filtering in 45 days.
• Integrated corporate website with load balanced Windows and Linux web servers after migrating from older technologies.
• Remotely administered virtual environment consisting of Red Hat, CentOS Linux and Microsoft Windows 2003 servers through policy-based VPN tunnels in four different locations.
• Created company policies and procedures governing corporate security, email and Internet usage, access control, and incident response.

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Jr. Network/Linux System Administrator

• I worked in team of five System Administrators and five System Analysts to perform daily tasks required for supporting an enterprise Hospital Network with over 1500 users, 150 servers, and 10 remote Clinics.
• Maintained 10 Linux Servers which provided security and services for other Windows machines on the network such as: DNS, NAT, Anti-Virus/Spam, and Firewall via iptables.
• Managed backups for Windows, Linux, PACS, and File Servers to EMC Clarion SAN device.
• Provisioned, audited, and administered server logs, backups, and Active Directory objects including remote forests.
• Researched and procured BlackBerry Enterprise Server. Assisted with migration from Juniper based core and wireless network to 100 Cisco based