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Ermanent Linux Systems Engineer

Confidential

Develops and maintains Puppet modules for Oracle Linux using Heira and Craig Dunn's Roles and Profiles methodology. Supports Isilon, EMC VMAX, Exadata, DSEE7, Brocade, HP, Samba, Violin, and FreeIPA in a 2,000 server environment. Supports developers, QA engineers and database administrators in an agile organization using Jira and Rally.

Linux Systems Engineer

Confidential

Supported Java applications and developers in a Red Hat Linux environment using VMware vCenter, Puppet, Red Hat Enterprise Virtutalization KVM , Jira, Confluence, Git, iCinga, Graphite, Mongo and MySQL. Supports Hadoop Cloudera clusters, NetApp, configures HAproxy, Keepalived, F5 BigIP, Cobbler, performs Python and shell scripting.

Linux Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsible for hardware/software troubleshooting on IBM BladeCenter and x3630 Hadoop servers. Provided support of Red Hat Linux operating system, Oracle's Xen virtualization and VMWare's ESXi virtualzation platforms to application support teams. Provided day-to-day hardware and software maintenance of Hadoop server nodes in support of Apple's Hadoop Engineering team.

Linux Application Engineer

Confidential

Responsible for migrating Linux web servers running Java applications and Oracle databases from OpenVZ environments to Rackpsace Xen virtual machines.

Senior Linux Administrator for Oracle Health Science Global Business Unit. Implemented Oracle Identity Manager and Oracle Virtualization OVM infrastructure on Sun x86 64 hardware.

Senior Linux Administrator

Confidential

Supported 200 Red Hat virtual machines in two data centers. Supported JBoss-based applications and MySQL servers. Trained and mentored junior staffers. Deployed new customer websites and software upgrades using ControlTier. Diagnosed performance issues in production could environment. Specified new server hardware requirements. Wrote shell scripts for log file rotation and archiving.

Linux and Solaris administrator

Confidential

• Supported Java applications on 200 Red Hat, CentOS and Solaris servers in a NIS NFS network. Wrote Python and bash scripts to automate processes. Monitored EMC and StorageTek SAN devices. Configured, upgraded and installed Cyclades serial console servers. Diagnosed hardware and software issues. Managed and installed VMWare ESX and ESXi hosts and guests using VSphere. Worked as part of team to move 70 servers to new data center. Established whitelisting of high volume Postfix mail servers. Used and supported Cobbler, NetBackup, Apache, Tomcat, Resin, Nagios, Sun SVM, JBoss.
• Contract: Linux administrator at ask.com, a 15,000 server Debian Linux environment in Bedford, MA and Ashland VA. Supported developers, deployed Debian Linux using FAI. Supported Linux software raid, NIS, NFS, NetApp devices. Contract: Red Hat Linux administrator at confidential
• . Responsible for upgrading/updating RHEL3 and RHEL4 production, development and QA servers to conform to the Payment Card Industry security standard.
• Linux administrator at Projectskyline.com, a php web application development group. Supporting three developers and two Red Hat web servers.

Contract to implement Xen, Winbind and SNMP

Systems configurator

Confidential

• Configured hardware and software for Solaris 9 Jumpstart installs. Installed Red Hat on x86 hardware. Built RAID5 Cutting Edge RaidStor external arrays. Linux System Administrator at confidential
• GA. Provided technical support to webmasters in a Linux and FreeBSD webhosting enterprise. Installed, upgraded and maintained Debian, Slackware, FreeBSD and RedHat servers. Maintained Apache, MySql and PHP installations. Managed qmail user accounts. Some qmail mail server maintenance.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Providing complete computing and network support services for a local health care start-up. NetBSD 1.6.1 based network with Windows XP clients.

Linux Tech Support

Confidential

Provided technical support to users of the Ximian GNOME desktop environment via email, telephone and internet text chat on the following platforms: Red Hat Linux 6.0 through 7.1, Turbo Linux 6, SuSE 6.3 through 7.2, Debian potato, Mandrake 7, 7.1 and 7.2, Yellow Dog Linux 1.2 and 2.0, and LinuxPPC 2000. Ximian GNOME is a repackaged distribution of the standard GNOME unix desktop. Applications include Nautilus, a drag and drop desktop file manager , an Outlook clone called Evolution, and Red Carpet, a network aware GUI front end for rpm and dpkg which allows automatic download and installation of software package updates. Solaris

Administrator

Confidential

• Provided Solaris5, 6 and 7 support for 100 users and 18 Solaris servers including backup and restore of archived data, OS patching, security auditor, postmaster, software installs and upgrades, hardware troubleshooting, and Apache web server administration.
• Unix Administrator at Healthnet/Satellife.org provider of free medical mailing lists, electronic forums and web access for healthcare workers in the developing world. Installed and configured Win98, WinNT, Linux and NetBSD. Acted as postmaster while supporting Sendmail, Procmail, Apache, and Majordomo in a high volume several thousand subscribed users environment.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

• Installed and supported Linux Red Hat 5.2, Windows98 WindowsNT Worstation Server on Dell Inspirons, 3500s, Latitudes and Dimension workstations in a Samba/NFS NIS network environment. Diagnosed and fixed hardware failures. Responsible for installing 3Com managed switches. Applications supported included: StarOffice 5.1, MS Outlook98, Office 2000 and Office97. Created user accounts and groups in the NT domain for new users and departments. Trained developers only familiar with Windows in the use of Red Hat Linux in an NIS/NFS environment. Created and managed telephone accounts on a Lucent Definity PBX switch. Windows Administrator Boston Medical Center. Participated in roll-out of 300 Compaq Xeon 500MHz Win95 desktop machines in a Novell 4.11/SCO Unix network environment. Closed level 2 problem tickets for Win95, WinNT and Win98 clients.
• Windows Administrator in short term contract projects involving installing and configuring WindowsNT, Windows95 and Windows98 client machines. Desktop and laptop units included Dell Latitude, Thinkpad 600 and Compaq Deskpro 6000 machines. Worked with users on migrating archived local files to and from server volumes. Troubleshooting of resultant hardware/software conflicts. Companies included EDS in Newton, The Cahners Group in Newton and Ernst Young
• in Boston. Windows Administrator for Colonial Management Associates, a division of Liberty Mutual Inc., One Financial Center, Boston MA. Serving 800 users as a Telephone Technical Support Technician in a heterogeneous environment including VAX, Solaris, and WindowsNT4 Novell 4.11 on the server side with WindowsNT4 and Windows3.1 as clients. Front line troubleshooting of LAN/WAN connectivity issues, Office95/97 issues, CCMAIL and Organizer problems, hardware failures, virus infestations, etc. in a fast-paced Enterprise network. Created and managed user accounts on both WinNT Server and Novell 4.11 Server.

Windows Administrator

Confidential

• Help Desk and Desktop technician for WindowsNT based WAN/LAN with WindowsNT as client. Extensive use of Exchange Administrator and User Manager for Domains in a Single Master Domain structure with 30 resource domains. Heavy support of Outlook97. Windows Administrator for confidential
• Medicine, Waltham MA. Supported DOS, Win3.x, Win95 and WinNT users in a 200 user Novell 4.11, 3Com Switched Ethernet 100 base LAN/WAN. Support of Office97 application suite. Installation and Configuration of Windows95 and WindowsNT client machines. Installation and configuration of Novell Client32, Novell GroupWise, Office97, Netscape Navigator, Castelle FaxPress and several mainframe applications including OmniPath and Imis.
• Tech Support at confidential an Internet Service Provider, Northampton, MA. LAN Administrator for 12 node WinNT/Win95 Environment. Resolved connectivity and printing issues on WindowsNT servers, WindowsNT workstations, Windows95 clients and one Macintosh client. Installed, configured and maintained Microsoft Access customer database. Added, removed and granted rights to dial-up clients on Unix FreeBSD server. Provided telephone technical support to dial-up PPP and ISDN clients. Sold Web Hosting Services to new customers.
• Tech Support at Uplinc Advanced Computing Solutions, Northampton MA Answered and screened phone calls from customers, vendors and staff. Helped to provide first level tech support for Win95 and WinNT customers. Responsible for hardware upgrades including hard drive, sound board, ram, video, etc. OS and application loading, network configuration of new Pentium systems. Troubleshooting of Win95 desktop systems.