OBJECTIVE

• To work in a challenging position in South Florida as a technical lead where I can use my technical, analytical and communication skills to manage projects, lead a team, provide technical expertise, support and solve problems in a system and application environment. Opened for opportunities located in South Florida or virtually based.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms: UNIX, Linux (RedHat Enterprise, CentOS, Oracle Enterprise Linux), Windows

Hardware: DELL PowerEdge Series., HP Proliant Series, DELL/IBM Chassis.

Virtualization: VMware ESX, Oracle VM, KVM, RHEV.

Servers: Maintaining Global Oracle ERP Servers, Web/LAMP (Apache - MySQL-PHP)/CMS Servers, Satellite Servers (RHN, Spacewalk), FTP, DNS, Load Balancers, LDAP, Active Directory, and Email Relays/Anti-Spam.

Backup & Monitoring: Backup/Recovery (EVault, TSM, Zerto, FDR/Upstream, Avamar, Oracle RMAN), monitoring with AppManager NetIQ, Nagios, SCOM, DELL Open Manage, HP SIM and other customized scripts.

Automated Installations: Cobbler, xCAT, HP Rapid Deployment Pack, Sif/Kickstart file reaching repository server.

Storage: Experienced attaching SAN disks using device-mapper-multipath from Hitachi and HP EVA arrays and with Veritas Storage Foundation.

Database: Oracle, MariaDB, MySQL, MS SQL and MS Access.

Web/Mobile Languages: HTML, ASP, XML, PHP, JavaScript, HDML/WML (WAP), CSS.

Software/Tools: MS Office Professional, MS Project, MS Visio, Adobe Photoshop, MS SharePoint, Service Centers (Applix, BMC Remedy), Email Clients, Instant Messengers, WebEx. SSH/Telnet, Remote Access, scripting (Shell, Perl, Batch).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Providing daily administration, support and proactive maintenance of Confidential and applications hosted on premises and on the cloud.
• Ensuring systems/hardware monitoring and backup processes are in place using backup tools and customized scripts.
• Maintaining up - to-date technical procedures and process documentations.
• Research new technologies and methods to improve university services and processes.
• Recent trainings: Advanced Architecting on AWS, QWIKLABS.
• Ensuring 24x7 operations, administration, support and proactive maintenance of various services running on Linux such as: FIU Online, PantherSoft ERP, Moodle, Departmental Web Servers, MySQL Databases, LAMP Servers, Satellite servers and VMware.
• Creating and managing physical servers and virtual servers running on VMware.
• Coordinating multiple activities such as cabling requests, SAN disks configuration, firewall rules, NFS, LDAP, Active Directory, DNS configuration and load balancing.
• Ensuring environments are being monitored and backed up: images taken when required using backup tools, Nagios, customized scripts and third-party tool to replicate to a DR location (i.e. Zerto).
• Maintaining up-to-date technical documentation.
• Installation and configuration of the environment locally on VMware and on the cloud in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Configuring policies to automate the provisioning of servers located on premises or to migrate on the cloud using Orchestration or AWS tools.
• Designing and configuration of AWS environment (i.e. Access Management (IAM), Networking (VPC), EC2, RDS and S3 services).
• Preparing standard Linux/Windows templates as standard options for end-users.
• Providing daily administration, support, proactive maintenance and monitoring of the servers running onsite and on the cloud.
• Meeting in a regular basis with team members and vendors to discuss related activities, and issues.
• Testing and reviewing latest technologies to provide new services such as AWS services, OpenStack, Docker, IBM Cloud Orchestration, UCS Director or ownCloud.
• Provisioning of required hardware, software and licenses.
• Designing, provisioning and deploying the new visualization infrastructure.
• Installation and configuration of the cluster management services using Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit (xCAT), IBM LSF/Slurm schedulers and required software for the HPC cluster.
• Automating provisioning of 64-bit Linux based systems as management nodes, user nodes and compute nodes using xCAT mounted in a parallel file system (GPFS).
• Providing daily administration, support, proactive maintenance and monitoring of the HPC cluster and Virtual Computing Lab (VCL).
• Installing required software requested by researchers.
• Meeting in a regular basis with team members, faculty and vendors to discuss related activities, changes and new requirements.

Senior Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managing projects, maintaining and troubleshooting hosted critical production systems and applications for Confidential inter-organizational agencies.
• Technical Lead within a technical team located onsite and offsite. Coordinating tasks and conducting regular meetings to review, prioritize and discuss activities related to various projects.
• Understanding projects’ requirements, ensuring deployed servers are in line with the Service Level Agreements (SLA) or with new Business Changes.
• Hosting more than one thousand production systems running on Linux, UNIX and Windows platforms (i.e. Global Oracle/PeopleSoft ERP Applications, dedicated Web/ FTP, SharePoint and other Application servers). Identifying problems, providing expertise and solutions.
• Meeting regularly with customers, ERP Database Administrators, Network Engineers or other team members to identify systems/application requirements or to discuss major production issues in a change control environment.
• Deploying servers running on physical/blade servers (i.e. DELL/HP hardware) and virtual servers (i.e. VMware ESX, Oracle VM).
• Ensuring systems/hardware monitoring and backup is in place using specialized tools and customized scripts.
• Maintaining up-to-date technical procedures, process documentation and chargeback systems.
• Acting as Officer in Charge of the Systems Management Unit when the Head of the unit is absent.
• Provisioning of required hardware and licenses for the required infrastructure.
• Acting as technical lead. Preparing standard installation and post-installation guide and templates for automated installations in 32/64-bit OEL/RHEL Linux/Windows based systems for the required infrastructure.
• Creating and managing physical servers and virtual servers running on VMware and OVM.
• Coordinating multiple activities such as memory upgrades, disks upgrades, cabling requests, SAN disks configuration, firewall rules, NFS, LDAP, Active Directory, DNS configuration and load balancing.
• Coordinating system administration tasks, daily proactive maintenance, backup and monitoring of the hosted infrastructure (Development, Production, and DR environments).
• Assigning and follow up on day-to-day trouble tickets assigned through BMC Remedy system.
• Provisioning of required hardware for the LAMP/IIS/FTP dedicated infrastructure.
• Meeting on a regular basis with the customers to discuss system requirements.
• Acting as technical lead in installing, compiling required packages, configuring systems and maintaining services for the required infrastructure.
• Creating and managing physical servers and virtual servers running on VMware and OVM.
• Coordinating multiple activities such as firewall rules, NFS, Active Directory, DNS configuration, LDAP, load balancing and SSL certificates.
• Coordinating system administration tasks, daily proactive maintenance, backup and monitoring of the hosted infrastructure.
• Assigning and follow up on day-to-day trouble tickets assigned through BMC Remedy system.