Summary

Confidential is a highly skilled Unix Systems Engineer and Administrator with extensive experience in designing, planning, building, maintaining and securing large commercial and government computing environments. She is a motivated self-starter that can work both independently and as part of a team. An excellent troubleshooter with strong written and verbal communication skills.

EXPERIENCE

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Linux Engineer. Recommend system solutions to meet project requirements and mission. Provide advanced Linux engineering and administration support to a federal government client's large and growing 700 server installation. Provision, configure, secure, and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL , Satellite, ID Management IPA , GFS Cluster, Hadoop, Apache Web, DNS, LDAP, and Kerberos servers. Use Satellite and Puppet to deploy and manage server configurations in both bare-metal and Virtual VMware environments. Write and maintain shell and perl scripts to automate tasks. Troubleshoot and resolve OS and hardware issues. Implement and maintain security configuration. Document system policies and processes. Train and mentor junior staff.

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System Administrator Staff. Built and managed a High Performance Computing HPC environment on SGI Altix hardware running Red Hat Linux RHEL with Multi-Level-Security MLS Selinux for a federal government client. Managed Sun Oracle environment running Solaris 10 with Trusted Extensions, ZFS, LDOM zones and Solaris 8 Trusted . Performed security hardening and testing. Analyzed and documented the enterprise backup environment. Recommended and proposed improvements to system architecture. Wrote security hardening and backup scripts. Mentored and trained junior system administrators and operations staff.

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Unix Systems Administrator/Information System Security Officer ISSO . Customs and Border Protection, Operations and Maintenance project. Provided technical expertise to ensure security of a very large Unix environment including Red Hat Linux and Solaris. Maintained FISMA compliance to meet or exceed DHS and CBP security requirements. Wrote and implemented security hardening of Linux and Solaris servers. Wrote security hardening scripts.

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Senior Systems Engineer . Led the systems team on the Army ISM project which won the SRA Project Team Excellence award. Built, secured, managed, and documented a J2EE Web Application with Oracle DB backend. Configured and managed F5 BigIP load balancers. Designed, built, and documented automated build process on Solaris Jumpstart for fast and secure build of V890 880, V240 120, T2000 Sun servers. Maintained and upgraded all compute and network hardware. Designed and documented all procedures to configure and secure hardware and software. Implemented Configuration and Change Management procedures for all OS and system level changes to ensure CMMI compliance. Authored the System Architecture Design document. Worked with government personnel to analyze system security. Led DITSCAP DIACAP security accreditation process and wrote security hardening scripts. Built Syslog-ng server to meet central logging requirements. Configured volumes and replication on 3PAR Fiber Channel SAN. Used Solaris Disk Suite, Veritas VM, VxFS, VCS and DMP multipathing to create active passive clusters. Analyzed hardware and data storage requirements and presented hardware upgrade proposals to government client. Successfully planned, scheduled, and implemented hardware upgrades. Configured IBM Websphere, MQ Series, and PM4Data services. Mentored junior system administrators.

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Senior Unix Systems Administrator. Provided Unix system administration services in a 24/7 production environment. Supported Sun Solaris, Veritas, and EMC storage array.

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Unix Systems Administrator. Contract assignment at Time Life Customer Service. Completed server builds and security projects using Sun Solaris, Veritas, EMC. Provided consultation and analysis on Unix security, analyzed performance, unix and EMC storage configuration. Provided Unix training to staff.

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Unix/Web Systems Administrator. Contract assignment at Capital One Financial. Completed projects to deploy production 24/7 ECommerce NETSCAPE web servers, WebLogic application servers, and ORACLE 8 database servers on SUN E4500, E450, E250, HP Kclass systems, D1000, A1000, EMC disk subsystems. Secured and tuned Solaris 2.6,2.7,2.8, HP/UX 11 to improve performance. Installed, configured, and supported VERITAS volume manager, HP LVM for RAID mirroring, DNS/bind, SMTP, Apache, Weblogic.

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Unix Systems Administrator. Contract assignment at American Chemical Society. Provided Solaris admin support for database migration to Sun E4500/D1000 system for client in Washington DC. Installed, configured hardware and software. Resolved Apache Web Server and Backup/Tape Library issues. Trained and mentored junior systems administrator staff.

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Computer Systems Engineer/Unix System Administrator. Worked for the UVA Electrical Engineering Department. Provided comprehensive Unix and Microsoft systems administration services to a large University Engineering department. Resolved issues with hardware and software on SUN Ultra, HP, Intel platforms, SUN A1000 disk arrays with Raid Manager 6. Planned and implemented FTP, Jumpstart, NFS, NIS, Samba, SMTP, IMAP, WebMail, PHP, MySQL, Apache-SSL-Webservers, OS migration, security, Y2K project. Maintained a large heterogeneous network. Installed and maintained engineering design software. Advised management about security, performance, and planning issues.

Programmer/Analyst Unix System Administrator, Supported both UVA Economics and UVA Mathematics Departments single-handedly. Installed and maintained SUNs, IBM RS/6000s, NetWare file servers, Xterminals, PCs in an ethernet TCP/IP network. Managed system backups. Advised management about security, performance and planning issues.

Computer Systems Senior Engineer. Administrative Computing Services ITC . Primarily responsible for the installation and maintenance of the local and remote data-communication hardware IBM3270 and software VTAM/NCP on a large IBM 3090/MVS mainframe.

Programmer/Analyst. Administrative Computing Services ITC . Installed and maintained local and remote SNA network on a large production IBM mainframe

Computer Operator. UVA Hospital Computing Services. Monitored system and online communications. Ran batch processing and online systems. Assisted online users.

CLEARANCES

TS/SCI w/ CI Poly DHS/CBP Full BI Level 2 Inactive

DOD Top Secret SBA Position of Public Trust Inactive

TRAINING

• Cloudera CDH4 Administration
• VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage 4.1
• Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1
• Red Hat Enterprise Security: Network Services
• Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management
• Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning
• Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management
• Red Hat Enterprise SELinux Policy Administration
• Red Hat Certified Engineer Rapid Track RH300
• F5 Local Traffic Manager BIGIP
• DISA SCCVI eEye Retina and REM
• Intrusion Detection Systems
• Public Key Infrastructure
• Solaris Performance and Tuning