SUMMARY:

Over 25 years of industry experience. Technical experience includes Networking (LAN, Novell & IBM Token Ring, WAN T1 - T3, Frame, CDPD), hands-on project manager and operation manager roles. Lead Unix Engineer, supporting homogeneous environments in data centers supporting different infrastructure and various Cloud services. Key strengths are in various types of Unix OS's and Servers Hardware (HP-UX, Solaris, Linux) also SAN/NAS devices EMC ECC, DMX and Clarion and HP EVA and XP SAN solutions, Network Management (Cisco, Baynetworks, Nortel, 3com, Lucent, Cabletron switches and routers). My scope of work include systems installation and automation, integration of different types of applications and OS'es such as Apache, Weblogic, iPlanet and Oracle products and writing scripts. Strong in the area of HP Network Node Manager and ITO/ IT Operation or HP Openview products.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Unix/Linux Engineer/Red Hat Openshift consultant

Responsibilities:

• Support Red Hat Satellite server 6.2 and Puppet Client automated installs on HP Blade Center and UCS hardware in a mostly Linux and Windows environment.
• Support Red Hat cluster supporting SAS application, LVM, NFS, multipath, CIFS, SFTP,DNS, ssh, Fiber, ldap Bash and PYTHON for scripting, Quest for ldap services.

Confidential

Senior Unix/Linux Engineer/Operation

Responsibilities:

• Administer Openshift Enterprise v2 and v3 for cloud operational services
• Design, installation, configuration and administration of Linux 5,6 and 7 servers and support of Openshift Enterprise and non-Openshift support.
• The operation and support of Openshift Enterprise and Docker Cloud services.
• Managed Red Hat Satellite server, implementation of patch management and system configuration.
• Configuring NFS v3,4, ssh, DNS, Fiber and NFS attached storage, postfix and sendmail.

Confidential

Senior Unix/Linux Administer

Responsibilities:

• Installation and support of physical and virtual Linux Servers using IBM hardware and IMM for remote installation and management.
• Managed Red Hat Satellite server, implementation of patch management and incorporating CIRATS, implementation of syslog-ng for HIPPA compliance, implement ion of SRM, IEM tools for monitoring. AIX in a large environment that included various hardware. Confidential

Senior Unix/Linux Administer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation and support of physical and virtual Linux Servers using IBM hardware and IMM for remote installation and management.
• Managed Red Hat Linux, SUSE Enterprise Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX in a large environment that included various hardware, from Intel to sparc and SAN devices, Network resolution and different systems application and web application that include Java and web application servers.
• Used automating tools to build and deploy VM for development and testing.
• TEM/IEM for Unix and Linux systems monitoring

Sr. Linux/Unix Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Primary Linux Administration, secondary Solaris Administrator and Netbackup Administrator.
• Managed Linux and VMware and Red Hat Satellite Server & Provisioning Module for Visualization and Bare Metal automated Linux server provisioning for servers deployment in our Linux, Solaris environment writing Shell, Python using ssh, NFS, DNS, Auditd, zfs, mutipath, kvm, lvm. LDAP, Stateless VM, supporting e-commerce

Confidential

SME Senior Linux/Unix Administer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, managed Red Hat, CentOS operating systems as well as patching managed system configuration and trouble shoot networking issues.
• Configured SSH, NFS, cygwin, putty, ntp, multipath, Veritas Volume Manager and cluster server, Tomcat Application Server, MYSQL and Loganalyzer, Vmware vClound Director for automated provisioning using Xen and KVM and Stateless VM's, supporting e-commerce.

Confidential

Linux/UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Configured, managed Red Hat Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX in a large environment that included various hardware, from Intel to sparc and SAN devices, Network resolution and different systems application and web application that include Java and web application servers.
• Used automating tools to build and deploy stateful and stateless VM for development and testing.
• Ssh,lvm,nfs,dns,mulltipath,mysql, oracle RAC, Apache, supporting e-commerce.

Linux SME

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Linux Administrator, MySQL Administrator administering Linux in a XEN, KVM environment using convirture for centralized management of VM Servers, iscsi for SAN communication on HP iscsi SAN solution, MySQL Administrator and Apache with day-to-day administration.
• Also evaluated AWS for DR services, supporting e-commerce.

Confidential

Lead Linux Administer

Responsibilities:

• I communicated with customer to gather requirements for project support in a research and data-center environment.
• Scope of work would include installation, configuration and implementation work done in the data-center.
• This work would include installation of Linux, Solaris or Windows on HP DL series Servers x86, HP Blade-center x86 hardware and VMWare for production support with application server such as Glassfish, Tomcat and Apache Web Server for application development.
• This also includes server backup using Netbackup 7 for backing up all servers for recovery.
• Support of Oracle DBA's and research and development groups for The Confidential.
• I administer MYSQL Server and other application and server application server configurations as well.

Confidential

Lead Linux Architect/Unix Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Solaris Sparc, Red Hat Linux 4, 5, OEL (Oracle Enterprise Linux) VMWare 3.5, 4, VMotion, Red Hat Satellite Installation and Configuration, Kickstart to automate build process, LVM and Linux Multipath configuration depending on requirements from ether internal or external customers, HP C class Bladescenters and HP Proliant Servers, OCFS2 cluster filesystems and LVM cluster filesystems, EXT3, XFS, RAW filesystems.
• Also the use of HDLM multipath tool for connect as a external resource for multipath connection in our SAN environment DNS,SFTP,LDAP,NFS, NTP,Korn Shell. System plan Configuration, Performance tuning, Brake fixes, Supporting developers on implementation of opensource application Servers such as Glasfish, Tomcat Apache Webserver and supporting Java VM's supporting Oracle DBA’s on Oracle RAC and Oracle application suite deployments resources configuration system tuning, supporting online transaction.

Confidential

Senior Linux Architect/Unix Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Red Hat Linux, VMWare, VMotion, Red Hat Satellite Installation and Configuration, Kickstart to automate build process, HP-UX, ignite, LVM, npar, vpar, MC Service Guard, AIX 5.2, 5.3, Solaris Sparc 9, 10 system builds and configuration depending on requirements from ether internal or external customers. DNS,SFTP,NIS,LDAP,NFS,Korn Shell, Linux Multipath and Global Filesystem.
• System plan Configuration, Performance tuning, Brake fixes, Supporting developers on implementation of opensource application supporting Oracle DBA’s on application deployments resources configuration system tuning.
• Supporting the implementation of SAN Storage via EMC and 3PAR and Backup clients via Legato, omniback and client configuration for system storage and backup, supporting e-commerce.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• HP-UX 11 and 11i, N-Class, rp7400 to rp8400 class servers rx3400 to rx5600 Servers/AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 e-servers/Solaris Sparc 8 s to 440s/SUSE 10.2 Enterprise Server and Red Hat 5 Servers on IBM, DELL and HP Blades Centers and Servers and Vmware Environment..
• System Builds, System plan Configuration, Performance tuning, Brake fixes, Supporting developers on implementation of opensource application supporting Oracle DBA’s on application deployments resources configuration system tuning.
• Supporting the implementation of SAN Storage via EMC/Powerpath and Backup clients via Legato and client configuration for system storage and backup.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior UNIX Administrator, UNIX Engineering Group

Responsibilities:

• AIX/Linux/ Solaris Sparc Administrator 8, 9 and 10/Unix Engineering Group Add/change/move user account and security administration, Writing Korn shell scripts to automate tasks Veritas Volume Manager and Solaris Volume Manager for the administration of storage and file system management .
• DNS, SHARES and LDAP services. AIX 5.3, Red Hat 4 Linux system administration which includes LVM for file system management, JBOSS and Apache web and application servers and installation of HBA and kernel drivers for powerpath management on IBM P-Series Server

Confidential, Atlanta Georgia

Senior Remote UNIX/Linux Administrator/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administer AIX, 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3, HP-UX and Red Hat Linux server installation configuration and support of all UNIX systems including but not limited to LVM, jfs, jfs2, DNS, SENDMAIL, KORN shell scripting and the integration of new hardware.
• Also implement Linux using Dell, HP blades and standalone servers, DELL 2850, 6650, 6850, HP 380, 385, 580, 585 systems.
• Support of SAN, using various devices from network, Fiber connection for storage thru put. Support of MC-Service Guard Cluster on both HP-UX systems and Linux Servers.
• Managed and support Patrol client for server management and proactive support.
• Support Oracle team in the installation of Oracle and ASM in a LVM and SAN environment.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administer Solaris Sparc, HP - UX and Red Hat Linux installation configuration and support of all UNIX systems including but not limited to DNS, SENDMAIL, KORN shell scripting and the integration of Novell s e-Directory and LDAP services. Also implement VMWare using IBM blades and standalone systems. OS s systems include Solaris on Intel, Red Hat and Suse Linux.
• Support of SAN, using various devices from network, ISCSI and Fiber connection for storage thru put.
• Support of Veritas Cluster, Veritas File system and Netbackup systems.
• Managed and support Nagios Network management tool for Monitoring and support.

Confidential, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Senior Unix Engineer & HP Openview Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implemented HP Openview (OV) product suite in the area of UNIX Server Administration. One of five team members working in different area s of implementation.
• Openview Operations (OVO)
• Openview Performance Agents (OVPA) aka Measureware
• Openview Internet Services (OVIS)
• Openview Performance Manager (OVPM)
• Openview Reporter
• Maintenance and administration of OV server and agents
• HP - UX, Solaris, Linux and AIX systems monitoring/management Template management
• OV and system patch management
• Project resource duties would include advising on processes and proceduresDesigning solutions to meet project needs in UNIX system environment also implemented the solutions.
• Documentation of processes and procedures
• Attend and knowledge sharing sessions for the team

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Senior Unix Engineer/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• HA, MC Service Guard, Ignite server, software depots, rp4440, Installation configuration, Administration and troubleshooting.
• Also administered EMC Clariion CX-300 SAN and supported the implementation of Oracle, PeopleSoft and JD Edwards

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Senior Unix/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• MC Service Guard, Ignite server, software depots, rp7400, rp,rx8400, Superdome’, Installation configuration, Administration and troubleshooting.
• Also Administer and supported migration from RED HAT to SUSE LINUX

Confidential, Memphis, Tennessee

Senior Unix/Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Suse 9, 10 & Red Hat Linux 3, 4 & HP-UX 11.23 IA64
• Administration and implementation of HP-UX 11.23, rx-Class servers 2600, 4640, 7640, npar and MC Service Guard, NetBackup Installation and administration of SUSE 9 Enterprise server, Open Enterprise server, Red Hat 3.0,4.0ES servers supporting Oracle RAC
• I implemented Measureware, and performance manager to gather metrics from production systems. Also support the Hitachi 9000 for disk layout for systems.

Confidential, Franklin, Kentucky

Senior Unix/Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration and implementation of HP-UX 11i RP5400, N-Class servers and Data Protector or omnibackII.
• Installation and administration of Red Hat 2.1/3.0/ES/AS servers supporting Oracle RAC.
• Also support EMC Clariion disk Arrays for SAN support.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

HP SR. Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migration of V-Class server to HP Superdome and HP Intel base 360 and 580 servers running Red Hat server
• Administration, configuration and the installation of Red Hat 2.1 and 3.0/ES and AS server.
• Administration and configuration of Superdomes npar, vpar MC Service Guard and supporting the Oracle application team.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Lead UNIX Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of hardware and software components in a large data center environment.
• Provide real time problem resolution to clients. Interact with applications support personnel, technical support personnel, project managers, and clients.
• Perform configuration management responsibilities.
• Develop and maintain system configuration.
• Maintain system access tables and resolve access problems.
• Perform network updates and rearrangements.
• Trouble shooting and resolving system problems.
• Monitor system performance.
• Proficient in specific system technologies.
• Manage system and infrastructure security features to protect confidential information while allowing appropriate access.
• Write system administration documentation as appropriate.
• Provide support to system testers for system test execution.
• Monitor code migration procedures to ensure proper migration.

Confidential, Detroit, Michigan

Linux/Unix Server Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of various hardware and software components in three data centers in a metropolitan area configuration such hardware as (HP RP8400 Vpar, Npar, iCOD V-Class, N, L, RP5400, RP7410, RP8400 to D-Class servers, Sun V880, Sun Enterprise 4000, 450, Netra 250, 220, 105, Red Hat and SuSe Linux on HP/Compaq and Dell hardware ) HP/Compaq StorageWorks SAN Solution, EMC SAN Solution, HP XP SAN Solution, SCSI Hard drives, Tape Drives, Tape Libraries, CD Jukeboxes Cabinets, HP ENVIZEX Terminal and Auto-arrays.
• Installation and configuration of HP Ignite Server and Sun JumpStart application server for automated deployment and system configuration.
• Netbackup for Enterprise Backup.
• Measureware installation, configuration.
• Installation and implementation of MC/Service Guard for high availability. Also configured and installed as customer required software such as Maestro, IBM MQSeries for HP-UX, and NNM 7, IT Operation/Vantagepoint/OVO.
• Wrote System scripts to automate system task were it was needed. Worked closely with Oracle and DB2 DBA’s and configured Oracle and MySQL were needed for system development, Developed K-Shell, Perl, Java interfaces to MySQL for the Unix Server Support Group websites.
• Supported Weblogic Application Server, Samba Server, Netscape Web ServerSupported installed and configured server side Java.
• Supported various groups for best performance recommendation in a HP Logical Volume Manager file system environment.
• Managed Veritas volume manager for Sun Solaris and HP-UX, SUSE, Red Hat and AIX environment.
• SAP installation and configuration and support of the SAP process implementation team.
• BEA Tuxedo 6.4 installation and configuration and support of the Tuxedo implementation team.