Objective

To contribute to the overall success, and become an integral asset of/to a progressive, service - oriented I.T. organization.

Work Experience:

Linux System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities: As a member of a team of 6 Administrators, involved in 24/7 global rotation for troubleshooting and root cause analysis of both HW and SW system issues for over 10K physical Linux RHEL, SuSE, Solaris servers, coordinated through the use of the SAP ticketing system. Utilized KVM's for console access as well as direct VGA console access for system troublehooting and resolution. Supported a user base of approximately 5K engineers. Coordinated Nagios monitoring issues. Utilized kickstart scripts in the PXE OS installation process. Interacted with external departments storage, NW, and DBA,s on all system projects/requirements, decommissions, and daily issues. Weekly status meetings.

Sr. IT Engineer

Confidential

RESPONSIBILITIES: Within a team of 9 Administrators, managed and supported approximately 250 physical servers, 1000's of virtual machines, their databases and applications. On a daily basis, responded to ServiceNow ticketing system requests from a user base of over 2600 engineers including application and OS support. Managed and controlled job batch queues via LSF. Reimaging of physical and virtual machines via PXE boot process. Involved with NetApp storage management as well as generation of Virtual machines via VMWare. SuSE Linux 10 11, RHEL 5 6, Ubuntu utilized within the environment. Involved in tri-weekly status triage meetings.

Unix System Administrator

Confidential

RESPONSIBILITIES: Support of approx. 40 SuSE Linux HP Proliant systems, both local and remote. Update of all systems in regards to Service Packs from SP1 to SP4. Upgrade of NetBackup client on all systems. Day to day Administration of all systems including troubleshooting and configuration. Coordinated with SAP admins for DB requirements as needed.

SR. Unix System Administrator

Confidential

RESPONSIBILITIES: Sole, daily and project, Unix HW and SW, support for a team of 10 engineers in a Lab environment. Test environment consisting of HP SuperDomes, DL380 proliant servers, rx6600's, C7000 blade enclosures, and P2000 storage arrays. Installed, configured and administered HP-UX 11.31, Red Hat Linux 5.5 and 6.1 Operating systems. Data migration upgrade off legacy mass storage to HP P2000 arrays. All system racking and cabling, both networking and system. Installed and configured C7000 blade enclosure in preparation for Vertica implementation. Coordinated with Vertica Engineer on this project for Vertica specific configuration requirements. Backup utility HP Data Protector configuration and maintenance. Administered configuration of Apache and Samba applications. Firmware updates as required. System configuration documentation.

Unix System Administrator II

Confidential

RESPONSIBILITIES: Maintenance and administration of production, development, and test environments configured on SUN Fire V240/V440/T2K hardware running Solaris versions 8/9/10 in a biotech GMP regulated organization. Migrated legacy systems to Solaris 10 virtual zones . Storage management maintained on NetApp FC3020 via FCP. Coordinated/collaborated with additional System Administrator in a project based environment. Additionally responsible for quarterly scheduled OS patching, installation, configuration, and maintenance of Opensource freeware monitoring applications, Nagios and Cacti performance graphing tool . Managed Jumpstart installations/configurations to populate new images. Performed User and Service account access and manageability via NIS, and the use of sudoers file. Utilized NFS and CIFS for remote mounting of file systems. Familiar with SMF facility for service management. Maintained system documentation as required per GMP protocol. Utilized Remedy and TrackWise change control ticketing systems. Responsible for quarterly OS patching procedure for DEV, TEST, PROD, and UAT environments. 24x7 on call availability required.

Sr. Unix System Administrator

Confidential

RESPONSIBILITIES: Solely responsible for administration of primary and Disaster Recovery site consisting of 10 HP9000 systems ranging from L-Class to N-Class machines running HP-UX 11.0. Maintained/configured XP48 and XP512 Disk Storage with Remote Console software, as well as LUN Security. Utilized LVM Command Line and Advanced JFS products heavily to maintain filesystem security and integrity. High-Availability configured/maintained through use of MCServiceGuard OPS RAC edition bundle. Configured and maintained a 3 -NODE Production Cluster/ 2 -NODE QA/DEV Cluster. Supported 4-man DBA team on all Production and QA instances running Oracle RAC, troubleshooting issues, and projects. Installation/configuration/upgrade experience with HP Open View applications. Extensive Data Protector backup utility and LTO hardware experience, ITO and Network Node manager as well. Responsible for all OS, application, and revision level patching utilizing SD-UX commands. Utilization of GlancePlus pak and Perfview applications for troubleshooting. Shell and PERL scripting utilized for daily task automation.

Unix System Administrator

Confidential

RESPONSIBILITIES: Project based assignments included the planning/implementation of a Prod/Dev environment consisting of N-Class /L-Class systems connected to an FC60/FC10 array respectively, running HP-UX 11.0 and Oracle 7.3.3. This Involved filesystem planning/implementation with command-line LVM and SAM, Kernel parm modification, Networking config.,. Troubleshooting via Top, Glance, PerfView, and iostat utilities. PERL /shell scripting Ksh, Bourne for task automation. Daily general UNIX support to main Test/Staging environment of company website.

Unix System Administrator

Confidential

RESPONSIBILITIES: Within a team of 3 System Admins, oversaw complete administration of multiple HP 10.20/11.00 and SUN Solaris 2.7 systems running Oracle 7.3.3, and SAP. Responsible for SAP administration which included user administration, printers, batch job troubleshooting. Supported all DBA OS related projects/requests. Environment consisted of HP Corporate Enterprise Servers including N-Class, L-Class, and K-Class Servers. SUN boxes consisted of E220, E420, and T3 storage arrays. Utilized HP utilities including Ignite/UX, Glance, PerfView, Cron, top, swinstall, etc. for daily admin. tasks and troubleshooting. Also responsible for an MCServiceGuard Cluster consisting of two nodes.

Sr. Unix System Administrator

Confidential

RESPONSIBILITIES: Administered 10 HP9000 Corporate Enterprise K-Class/D-Class servers running 10.20/11.00 and Oracle 7.3.1. Provided sole Unix support for all OS DB req's. Coordinated with HP Acct. rep. to completely restructure All HP support contracts. Utilized Veritas Net Backup utility for backups/restores with DLT library. Trained JR. sys admin. Responsible for all H/W S/W recommendations/purchases. Completely Installed and configured new Enterprise N4000 Server out of the box from OS install to production release.

Sr. Unix System Administrator

Confidential

RESPONSIBILITIES: Solely provided Unix administration to multiple V-Class/N-Class Enterprise Servers running HP-UX 11.00/Informix and third party financial package. Coordinated with DBA on all OS req's and performance issues. Installed, configured, and maintained associated HP applications including OMNIBACK II ver., as well as GlancePlus, Perfview, MCServiceGuard, Ignite-U/X, swinstall, SAM, and Mirror U/X. Maintained all file system requirements through the use of command-line LVM. Experience with HP-UX Networking NIS, NFS, and DNS. Additionally, responsible for OS and network security . Familiar with Cron facility and OS level backup/recover utilities frecover/fbackup, tar, cpio, as well as scheduled backups utilizing OMNIBACK II. Maintained backup tape rotation process. Disaster Recovery planning/implementation. Responsible for all OS and application level patching. Recommended and implemented all H/W and S/W purchases.

Sr. Unix System Administrator

Confidential

RESPONSIBILITIES: Provided all administration to approx. 9 D-Class and K-ClassEnterprise Servers running HP-UX 10.20 and a variety of HP applications including installation/configuration of OMNIBACK II ver. 2.55, as well as GlancePlus, Perfview, MCServiceGuard, Ignite-U/X, and Mirror U/X. Maintained all filesystem requirements with LVM. Familiar with HP-UX Networking utilities including NIS, NFS, and DNS. Coordinated with DBA's requirements during large-scale SAP implementation. OS level backup/recover utilities frecover/fbackup, tar, dd, cpio . Responsible for all OS and application level patching.

Unix System Administrator

Confidential

RESPONSIBILITIES: Solely managed a dynamic environment containing approx. 12 systems including 2-D350's, D370, K420, T520, T600, V-class Enterprise Servers . Upgraded OS levels from HP-UX, including patching and applications. Complete setup of 2 new D350 systems from delivery, to release to production. Experience with installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of Omniback II, Glance, Perfview, MeasureWare, ITO 4.0 . Complete experience with LVM, SAM, and Mirror U/X at the OS level HP-UX 10.x /11.0. Responsible for maintaining patch levels on all systems, as well as upgrading of applications as required. Created and maintained system critical recovery information documentation Project /Capacity planning for all UNIX systems.

Skills:

Backup Utilities Data Protector NetBackup HP-UX Solaris 8/9/10 Linux RHEL/SuSE RPM pkg installation, HA concepts and implemetnation, LVM, Solaris Jumpstart Network Protocols, SAN/NAS/RAID technology/Disk Arrays, Shell Scripting ksh,bourne