A motivated innovative growth - oriented IT Consultant with extensive knowledge in the Information Technology sector. Strategically and tactfully resolves and troubleshoots problems. A high-impact multidimensional IT professional respected by his peers/superiors with a verifiable record.

CORE STRENGTHS

Information system issues risks development implementation

Business process analysis and improvement

Vision strategy and assessing market opportunities

Product development and enhancement

Teaching leading and empowering team members

Business and technical acumen

Relationship development skills building strategic alliances

Web design and E-commerce technology

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Operating Systems

Windows Server Workstations IBM AIX IBM AS/400 Sun Solaris Apple OS X HP-UX RedHat openSUSE FreeBSD Debian

Windows Servers

Microsoft SharePoint Server Microsoft Dynamics Microsoft Terminal Server IIS 5/6/7 Microsoft Exchange Server 5/5.5/2003/2008 IBM WebSphere IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.5/6.2 Symantec BackupExec Symantec Netbackup RIM Blackbery Enterprise Server Parallels Plesk Server 7/8/9 Coldfusion Server 8/9 MailEnable Itera Echo Splunk

Linux/Unix Servers

Apache HTTPD Apache Tomcat Ruby on Rails PHP Perl Sendmail Qmail Postfix IPF IPFW IPTables Parallels Plesk 7/8/9 Horde Squirrel Mail RPM SpamAssasin SNMPD DrWeb Samba OpenLDAP NAMED DNS Puppet Varnish Memcache IPVSAdm Mon Heartbeat

Virtualization

VMWare Workstation VMWare Fusion VMWare Server VMWare ESX VMWare Infrastructure VMWare Virtual Center Citrix XenDesktop Citrix XenApp Citrix XenServer Citrix WinFrame/MetaFrame

Databases

Microsoft SQL IBM DB2 MySQL PostgreSQL

System Management / Monitoring

Nagios Cacti Kaseya Big Brother Solarwinds Orion Ossec Hids Alienvault Microsoft MOM Webmin Splunk

Programming familiarities

Windows Batch Perl PHP Ruby Coldfusion Java TCL HTML SQL Linux/Unix shell scripting Bash SH

OS X Servers

Puppet Macport XCode Pegasus

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Linux Administrator

Administrative Assignments

• Currently administrator of 800 web site server environment with multiple data center locations providing sources and leads to multiple Internet publishers.

Dell EqualLogic PS6000e SAN our storage location for the VMWare ESX 4.1 clusters Dell PowerEdge 6800 2950 and R710 running VMWare ESX 4.1 VMWare ESX 4.1 hosting 55 CentOS 5.7 6.3 servers HP ProCurve 2910s providing network communications CentOS 5.7 6.3 servers provide the following services

Memcache Nginx and Varnish front end web services to Apache HTTPD

Multiple Postfix services providing mailing list and corporate mail

Cluster OpenLDAP providing authentication for internal mail Samba server shares and two internal CMS web sites for customer and staff data.

Redundant MySQL master-to-master servers providing 400GB of data including 4 slave servers replicating remote datacenters.

• Perl PHP Puppet Ruby Java and Bash/SH scripting

Creating lead reports and mailing reports with averages and mathematical results for our sales department. Written in Perl wrote a program that ll reply with a notification email update MySQL with the sender and receiver Email. The program can be modified within a web interface to send a custom marketing message. 5 000 emails an hour are sent on average with this program. Puppet Ruby based policies and scripts for adding sites to Nagios Munin and configure them for hosting Apache Samba and DNS. Policies also for adding domains web sites and Nagios nodes were written in Puppet Ruby with Bash/Sh scripts Recently implemented Nuxeo Digital Asset Management interface for our Graphics Department. Running on Apaache Tomcat and I created multiple Java contributions by downloading the source code from Nuxeo then using Maven to compile JARs so the interface would function the way the Graphics Department manager requested.

• In our headquarters office I manage two others system administrators we provide office support to 30 employees locally and remotely.

We provide support to the Executives Accounting Marketing Developers and Web design Recently implemented new network and server environment

Mac OSX mini and Mac Pro connected Pegasus R4 with 4TB for Marketing/Web Design s data and graphics

Dell PowerEdge 2850 and 2950 for development and Samba/OpenLdap authentication storage environment.

Cisco Catalyst 3550/3560s providing our local network communications

Barracuda Networks Backup Server 490 for user data backup

Matrix IBS in Columbia South Carolina

Consulting Assignments Senior System Engineer

• Managed a team of 6 people including Help Desk Network Administrators and System Engineers.
• Manage 2003 Active Directory and Citrix XenApp/XenDesk/Xenserver enviroments
• Designed new Web Hosting environment to integrate the existing domains

Single point of management using Parallels Plesk 8.x More effective user management Severe reduction in the requirements of licensing to Microsoft due to multiple duplications of domain accounts across the many servers. Migrated the web content configured them to work on the new environment and Email accounts.

• Designed and implemented a SAN Environment to consolidate data and implement more robust data stores.
• Designed and implemented a Virtual Environment utilizing Citrix Infrastructure and XenServer

Utilized the SAN as the proper data store for the virtual environment. Migrated Windows and Linux servers to the XenServer/SAN Environment. Migrated all key infrastructure to the XenServer/SAN Environment.

• Designed and implemented a consolidated e-mail environment utilizing Microsoft Exchange 2007 including a complete fully redundant environment.

Data stores moved to the SAN for better performance.

• Designed and implemented a monitoring solution to enable the help desk and Network Administrator Team to support the enterprise.

Implemented Solarwinds Orion for Networking Implemented OSSEC for Linux Implemented Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 for Windows

• Implemented Tivoli Storage Manager 5.5 to backup our Datasecure clients which included 55 servers. Implemented a secondary Tivoli Storage Manger 6.2 to backup our Datasecure clients to our Milwaukee WI datacenter
• Implemented Backup Exec and Net Backup on a SAN for growth
• Deployed Citrix XenServer on IBM Blade environment communicating via Brocade 200E using EMC AX4-5 SAN
• Redesigned the DNS environments migrated four different DNS servers onto one easy to manage interface using WebMin
• Established two Blackberry Enterprise servers for our Exchange users which includes 110 users
• Resolved several problems relating to web hosting which includes PHP Perl Coldfusion and 3rd party applications
• Resolved several problems and corruption in the Active Directory tree to resolve problems within SharePoint enabling proper user management and group management/integration.
• Designed and implemented a SQL 2005 environment capable of providing fault tolerant failover in the event of a SQL Server outage.
• Designed SQL 2008 Production Environment and migration strategy for moving from the Production 2005 environment.
• Implemented online Help Desk system ConnectWise to facilitate the tracking of user and customer requests.
• Implemented AIX on IBM eSeries servers for customers preparatory software
• Implemented Itera with AS/400 Administrator for a secondary AS/400 server
• Daily-maintained 300 servers Windows Unix Linux based systems disk space patches anti-virus and implement any changes required on the systems.
• Designed and developed a hosting platform for Microsoft and Dell technologies.

Designed and implemented fully redundant server farms to enable the hosting of the following

Microsoft Exchange Server started with version 5 migrated to 5.5 2000 and 2003

Microsoft Active Directory

Microsoft SharePoint Server

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft Terminal Services

Microsoft Data Center Server

Microsoft SUS / WSUS

Microsoft IIS

MySQL

Parallels Plesk

Websphere

• Designed and developed a hosting platform for Linux Redhat/CentOS on Dell Technologies.

Designed and implemented fully redundant server farms to enable the hosting of the following

Ruby on Rails PHP Perl Coldfusion

Apache Tomcat and HTTPD

MySQL and Postgres SQL Server

Parallels Plesk

Websphere

Confidential

• Established an environment for Windows shares using Samba on SUSE Linux
• Integration Microsoft Active Directory with OpenLDAP for standard authentication methodology across all platforms.
• Implemented SQL MySQL and Web Apache Tomcat servers for school districts datacenters
• Implemented the new applications that the organization would sell to school districts that was proprietary
• Implemented a Document Repository and customized workflow to ensure the help desk were troubleshooting correctly for escalation
• Trained the help desk and system operation team on proper administration of the linux servers
• Escalation point for help desk on servers running at school districts
• Created overall rollout of new server implementations
• Designed and built custom web solution for the internal management of all IT. Application built on PHP 5 and MySQL 5. Functions including

User Management Help Desk Customer Portal Integration to CRM System Service Level Maintenance Asset Tracking Contract Management Change Management

Senior System Administrator for Interland in Miami Florida

• Implementation of Email FTP Apache/httpd MySQL SSH Portsentry services.
• Maintain hardware complications references as CPU Memory Hard Drive and motherboard failures on IBM xSeries and Cobalt RAQ3/4 servers
• Resolved any operating system or services on 3 000 servers Windows or Linux based over two different datacenters in Ft. Lauderdale and Miami
• Implemented cluster and load balanced solutions for all Linux environments.
• Designed fully redundant SAN environment with replication for Tivoli Storage Manager.
• Migrated all Linux Redhat and Unix FreeBSD Web Servers to PHP 5 utilizing MySQL 5 end servers.

Train development staff on the changes to PHP 5 and MySQL 5. Migrate existing applications to PHP5 and MySQL 5.

• Designed and developed a hosting platform for Linux Redhat/CentOS on IBM Technologies.

Designed and implemented fully redundant server farms to enable the hosting of the following

Ruby on Rails

Apache Tomcat/HTTPD

MySQL and Postgres SQL Server

Parallels Plesk

Webmin

System Administrator for Confidential

• Reviewed the existing Active Directory environment
• Established Web servers in our Ft. Lauderdale and Phoenix Arizona datacenters
• Designed web sites using HomeSite Frontpage Adobe Photoshop and Image Ready
• Redesigned the overall DNS structure
• Designed new FTP Apache SSL servers on Unix FreeBSD/Solaris Servers

System Administrator for Confidential

• Redesigned the Backup Exec to a SAN redundant environment
• Maintained Windows and Linux system security policies and patches
• Designed and implemented a custom monitoring solution for the MySQL and SQL Server infrastructures. This data was presented to the Operations Center via a web interface.
• Implemented online Help Desk system to facilitate the tracking of user and customer requests.