SUMMARY:

• Have 15 years experience working as a UNIX Systems Engineer, with 4 years working in medical industry Kaiser and Exelixis . Possess extensive experience in Configuration Management Software Puppet and Bladelogic have strong database knowledge Oracle, DB2, and mySQL experience with Big Data HDFS and Cassandra have strong storage management knowledge SAN EMC and NAS NetApp and, extensive experience in software maintenance/delivery, and operations. Possess strong scripting skills Perl and Bash and, system and network security, DNS, NIS, NFS, AD, and LDAP severs. Technical skills and experience are presented below:
• Expert knowledge with 10 years experience of Linux systems Red Hat, Suse, OES, and OS-X.
• Expert Unix knowledge, 15 years experience with Solaris certification , HP-UX, and AIX
• Strong virtualization knowledge, experience with Centrix, KVM, and VMware, ESX 3.5 through ESXi 5.1.
• 10 years experience in support of Windows systems, both standalone and virtual environments.
• Possess strong scripting skills including powershell, bash, sh, ksh, csh, and awk.
• Programming experience with Perl, JAVA completed JAVA extension course Ruby, Python, and SQL
• Experience and management of Unix deployment tools including kickstart, jumpstart, NIM, and IgniteUX.
• Experience with Puppet and BladeLogic Configuration Management, and Jenkins and MCollective continuous Integration software.
• Extensive experience with monitoring tools, including Nagios, Ganglia, Cacti, and Splunk.
• Strong DB knowledge DB2, possess Oracle, MySQL, MSSQL, Pick, and Informix experience.
• Big Data experience and training, Hadoop Map-reduce, worked with HDFS, knowledge of Cassandra.
• Strong knowledge of Volume Management Systems, LVM and ZFS .
• Strong Storage knowledge/experience, training and certification NAS NetApp , and SAN EMC .
• Strong knowledge of NFS, Automount, and Samba.
• Possess extensive Web Technology experience with Apache, IIS, Tomcat, Weblogic, and Jboss.
• Experience with Version Control Utilities, including RCS, CVS, and SVN.
• Experience with Veritas Netbackup, and Legato Networker.
• Proficient with using Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Visio in documentation.
• Possess networking knowledge experience with, load balancers F5 and Netscaler , routers, bridges and firewalls.
• Extensive experience with networking and network security, including LDAP, AD, NIS, Syslog, and SMTP.
• Strong knowledge of cryptographic implementations SFTP, SCP, SSH, and SSL.
• Experience in managing support incidents with hardware and software vendors.
• Have excellent interpersonal, analytic, and communication both written and verbal skills.
• LANGUAGES: BASH, KORN, PERL, C-Shell, BASIC, SQLPLUS, C, Java, PHP, Ruby, and HTML.
• SOFTWARE: Apache, Weblogic, Visio, DNS, Sendmail, NFS, LVM, Sun Volume Manager Solstice , Automount, Sun Cluster 3.x, Veritas Volume Manager, BMC Patrol, Openview, Big Brother, Swatch, BEA Tuxedo, LDAP, NIS, CVS, RCS, SVN, Kickstart, Jumpstart, Citrix, Samba, SSH, FTP, SFTP, NAGIOS, Remedy, and ClearCase.
• DATABASES: Oracle, Microsoft SQL, and MySQL.
• OPERATING SYSTEMS: Linux, AIX, Windows, HP-UX, and Solaris.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Systems Administrator StartUp/No Salary

Deploy and maintain Tribal Brands web-site. Funding never was received, the startup and its key person were integrated into Tribal Technologies.

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Systems Administrator Contract

Deploy Nagios monitoring system, support deployment of Chef Configurtion Managemnt/Automation, supported PCS compliance effort.

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Systems Administrator Contract

For the Gap Store Systems Engineering Group, principle task was to support certification and deployment of new servers and cash registers running SLES , which addressed security, continuous integration, and day-to-day operations of production, QA, and development infrastructure.

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Systems Administratorr Contract

Support deployment of BladeLogic , Configurtion Managemnt/Automation, provide infrastructure operations support which include, security, deployment, continuous integration, and day-to-day operations of development infrastructure.

Confidential

Systems Engineer Contract

Provide Systems Engineering support of Linux and Unix systems in transitioning of IT operations to T-Systems provided technical support in deployment of Puppet Configuration Management system with Jenkins Continuous Integration provided devops support environment which utilized Puppet, SVN, and JIRA. Completed Run Book Automation project using Oracle 11g running on Red Hat Linux 5.7 deployed for evaluation, HADOOP on Red Hat Linux system and, deployed an ESXi 5.1 clustered infrastructure to be used for POC projects.

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Systems Engineer Contract

Supporting e-mail operations at Apple which includes 4 QA Laboratory deployments and Production Operations. The Apple Devops environment utilized, Puppet, SVN, JIRA Confluence, Verdad, and cobbler, more effectively than other organizations that I have been involved with. The QA Laboratories comprise of VM Linux Red Hat servers, Solaris servers running on SPARC, and i86 platforms zones . In addition to day-to day support of LAB operations, I have deployed Nagios and SPLUNK on OEL 6.0, which are similar to RHEL 6.0 deployed Nagios monitoring tools in the Lab environment. Nagios is already deployed in their Production environments and, I have been tasked to deploy Nagios and SPLUNK In addition, deployed Puppet on Linux platforms in their four QA Laboratories. Received Netscaler training and, possess Netscaler VIP management, configuration, and monitoring experience.

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Systems Engineer Contract

Deployed Advanced Analytics Laboratory Environment AALE , comprising of 27 HP DL-460 G5 Blades 6 Blades used as Oracle DB servers and 21 used as ESX hosts attached to 80TB SAN storage Symmetrix VMAX , and 2TB SSD Netapp SE603-VME64 . AALE is used for deployment of systems for development projects. Deployed over 250 virtual machines, 150 Windows and 100 Red Hat Linux systems. The Databses supported on AALE include Oracle on Linux, Oracle Express on Linux, MySQL, and Microsoft SQL. In addition to using AALe for commercial and internal software, deployed HADOOP for evaluation and planning of BigData projects.

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Sr. Unix Systems Administrator Contract

• Major accomplishments at PEMCO Technologies include the following:
• Set-up a Red Hat Linux Unix RHEL 5.4 and Solaris infrastructure to be used for training, development, product evaluation, and testing of Linux and Unix application software. Used Nagios monitoring software, kickstart and jumpstart were implemented and used for initial deployment and, Puppet was installed and configured for configuration management.
• Provide Linux/Unix support in ongoing operations, which included installation of Tomcat and Apache web sites to support acquired applications TOMCAT based applications Awards, PRISM, and Planet .
• Supported Linux operations in installation, configuration of Oracle Databases and Oracle DB related products,

Confidential

Sr. Unix Systems Administrator

• As the Sr. Unix System Administrator worked with Linux and Solaris platforms provided support of Oracle Databases provided support in deployment and management of VMWARE infrastructure supported deployment of Centos based Boewulf system Penguin . Was responsible for all facets of IT operations including providing operations support, automation of processes/tasks deployment of Kickstart, Jumpstart, and OpenPuppet systems deployment of servers, O/S updates, and maintenance of computer hardware and software maintenance of applications S/W allocating IP addresses using both DHCP and fixed IP addressing and, management of NFS, and NIS servers. Major accomplishments are presented below:
• Implemented RAC and KVM on systems using Dell hardware running Red Hat and SUSE Linux.
• Deployed OpenPuppet for as the Configuration Management systems, which was replaced by Bladelogic.
• Implemented BladeLogic Data Center Configuration and Operation Manager.
• Developed NSH script to generate SOX reports using BladeLogic.
• Supported deployment of Veritas Netbackup 6.0 upgraded to 6.5 in 2008 system, installed client software.
• Formulated a cron job for Celerra datamover to merge NIS and AD passwd and group files.
• Implemented a Jumpstart server for deployment of Solaris and Kickstart server for Linux.
• Deployed virtual FTP and web servers using Vmware ESX Server2.5.3 and 3.5 .
• Deployed a multi-computer Boewulf cluster system which used PBS/Torque used for Job Scheduling.
• Experience with NetApp and EMC storage systems.

Confidential

Systems/Network Consultant - Contractor

• Provide IT support to organizations using primarily Unix/Linux based systems, encompassing installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of systems including networks, and storage systems. The following is a list of clients supported as a contractor, prior to Exelixis, and tasks performed tasks performed:
• Confidential: Provide Systems Administration support for the QA, and Development Systems comprising of Sun and Linux SUSE platforms. Responsibilities included perform backup operations, manage Sun One Directory Servers 3 , provide engineering and QA personnel with technical support related to IT, and troubleshoot problems arising in day-to-day operations. Firstdata moved the S.F. operations to Denver, Sep/06.
• Confidential: Worked on several web based projects. Currently scheduled to complete on April 22, a project to develop a web based Property Managemet PM System to serve PM clients more effectively. The applications server used is Tomcat-Jakarta, and Eclipse is the development platform. All the software Fedora, PostgresSQL, Eclipse, Tomcat, etc. utilized on this project is public domain.
• Confidential Provide support in development and test lab operations. Tasks include staging systems Linux and Solaris , configuring test and development environments, and moving the lab operations to a more automated environment.

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• Confidential Provide Systems Engineering support in setting up IT operations addressing backup and storage, monitoring, Software Configuration Control, Bug Tracking, and secure web. Listed below are some of the major tasks:
• Provide Tier 1 systems administrator support using Openview for Sun, HP, and AIX systems.
• o Supported delivery of software using an apache based web server depot.com for s/w distribution.
• o Deployed 3 HP 8420 systems running HP-UX 11 operating system as a compute farm using Platform LSF.
• o Installed Sun V-210 Foxfire to be used as the backup server, connected to ADIC Scalar LVD, using Veritas..
• Confidential: Provide support for production operations running Sun Solaris and HP platforms using OpenView as principal monitoring tool.
• Confidential Installed/configured EDA S/W on 12 HP NS1000 running RedHat 7.2 and 6 HP J6500 running HP-UX 11.00 as a cluster farm.
• Confidential: Prepared QA systems for testing identify problem trends and areas for improvement and, ensure highest level of service availability.

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Systems Administrator

• As the System Administrator, was responsible for all facets of IT operations including networking, and maintenance of computer hardware and software maintenance and support of 0/S's Windows, HP-UX, AIX, SunO/S, and Linux , and applications S/W deployment of TCP/IP networking, allocating IP addresses using both DHCP and fixed IP addressing and, management of NFS, DNS and NIS servers. Major accomplishments include:
• Supported migration of the SGS's MRP/ERP system to Unix.
• Managed the migration older non-GUI MRP system to Web-Based ERP.
• Supported the move of SGS IT operations to the East Coast. The SJ IT equipment were retained as DR.
• of the DR site to be located in San Jose.