Senior Linux / Systems Administrator

• Support internal and external networks and systems. Platform / system support for N-tiered environments. Perform primary engineering, administration, analysis and design in large complex corporate environs.
• Linux support since 2002, Solaris / Oracle / Veritas since 1997. Engineer, administrate, design and analyze.
• As FTE Analyst on UNIX / Linux Engineering Team at Symantec / Veritas, migrated web / app tiers to Red Hat / Intel, then to VMware. Transferred backup solution to Linux, as well as many Oracle databases. Consolidated VRTS / SYMC data centers. Beta tested VRTS products. Worked with transition team at HSBC / Capital One moving 450 servers from HSBC to Capital One in support of HSBC's divestiture of its retail credit card operation. Server, IP / DNS / VLAN, NAS and SAN migrations.

Senior Linux / Solaris Sys Admin Engineer

Areas of Knowledge: IT Analysis / Engineering / Administration / Design spanning multiple industries: Finance, Manufacturing, Software, Retail and Telcom.

Competencies: Customer relations, team player, mentoring / documentation, Linux / UNIX system administration / planning / engineering, SAN / NAS client administration, server network administration, application / database support. Study and optimize infrastructure, improving service uptime and performance while lowering overhead through solution design and root cause analysis.

Technical:

Operating Systems Red Hat 3 6, SLES 10, OEL 5-6, Solaris 2.6 10, AIX 4 - 7, HP-UX 11, DYNIX, IRIX, SCO, Tru64

Applications Storage Foundation / VCS, Oracle / Oracle RAC, DB2, NetBackup, CommVault, Apache, Weblogic, WebSphere, PeopleSoft, SAP, MQseries, NDM / ConnectDirect, FileNet, Documentum, Control M.

Hardware INTEL IBM, Dell, HP, blades and standalone

SUN T series, M series, SunFire to 25000

IBM P5/6/7

HP Superdome, V-Class

Professional Training:

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

ESG UNIX / Linux Group -- Consultant

Consultant Senior SA tasked with integrating 450 Linux / Solaris / AIX servers, recently acquired / moved from HSBC. Validate functionality: HA failovers, DR exercises. Array Veritas based SAN migration, Re-IP servers to Capital One's primary DNS domain. Logical migration of physical servers to LDOM's / Zones on T5-4's in Richmond, VA. Ongoing production support. Hardware Intel, IBM P series, SPARC, M series and T5.

Confidential

ESG UNIX / Linux Group -- Consultant

Consultant Senior SA tasked with assisting large project in supporting divestiture of HSBC's Retail Credit Card Services to Capital One. Over four hundred fifty servers were relocated as infrastructures and locales were segregated.

Confidential

Linux / UNIX Design Build Team -- Consultant

• Systems Engineering Process Documentation: Under corporate Quality Management System, validated and documented new UNIX / Linux infrastructure and processes / workflows. Delivered Sun / Intel servers, Solaris local zones, and VMs. Delivered solutions using Veritas. Delivered PeopleSoft and SAP upgrade solutions. Expanded existing LDAP infrastructure, as well as Global Solaris physicals for the Zone Farm.
• Server SAN: Client HBA installation, LUN requisition and acquisition, for volume management. Supported multi-pathing for a variety of SAN and HBA technologies.
• Virtualization: Configured / managed virtualized hosts using VM software on ESX and Solaris 10 containers, including full root, sparse root branded.
• Trouble-shooting Expertise: Resolved Linux and Sun issues reported by both monitoring tools and project teams. Collaborated with adhoc teams to drive problems to resolution.
• Primary Projects:
• SAP North American Upgrade SAP from HP-UX to Solaris / Linux.
• Net Backup Upgrade Added Solaris physicals / containers.
• PeopleSoft Upgrade Added Solaris physicals / containers.
• LDAP Upgrade Added thirteen Solaris containers.
• Zone Farm Upgrade Added several M5000's to Zone Farm as zone hosts.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Systems Administration Process Documentation: Managed 5000 Solaris / Linux physical and virtual servers. Performed system maintenance, adjustments and upgrades. Deployed and administrated VCS. Technical Lead HA / DR Project for Investor Reporting for both US Treasury and Fannie Mae.
• UNIX / Linux Server SAN Administration: Configured HBA's, Requisitioned LUNs and brought them into OS for volume management. Supported multi-pathing software for a variety of SAN and HBA technologies.
• Virtualization Administration: Configured and managed virtualized hosts using Xen software on Linux and Solaris 10 containers, full root, sparse root branded.
• Trouble-shooting Expertise: Resolved Linux and Sun issues reported by monitoring tools and clients forming adhoc teams to drive the problem to resolution.
• Implementation Planning and Execution: Wrote and executed detailed implementation plans for shift engineers to upgrade various aspects of Linux and Solaris platforms. Plans included security patches, SAN configurations, hardware replacement, and software installations. Conducted peer reviews for implementation plans created by other System Administrators to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Primary Projects:
• Added VCS HA to US Treasury Infrastructure, Oracle database servers.
• Added Disaster Recovery to US Treasury servers crossing data centers.
• Built Treasury servers on Solaris Linux physicals, Solaris Containers and Xens.
• Retired dozens of EMC EOL arrays using Veritas to migrate to replacement arrays.
• Added Treasury dedicated NetBackup Master / Media Servers on Sun T5240's.

Confidential

Linux Engineer

• Supported 300 Red Hat / Centos servers and VMs.
• Designed deployed LDAP server to replace NIS functionality on Red Hat.
• Locked down servers, establish security and standard operating procedures.
• Created storage map and plans to migrate from NFS servers to NAS.
• Delivered CommVault backup solution for over 5 TB of data.

Confidential

Oracle with Veritas RAC Consultant

• Confidential Installed, configured and documented Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC 5 on HP-UX 11i v3.1. Deployed three RAC clusters working with DBA, Network and Storage Teams.

Confidential

Principal IT Infrastructure Analyst / Principal Systems Admin

• Participated in design and solutions engineering
• Worked with architecture, network engineering and solutions engineering to design solutions incorporating best practices for high availability, disaster recovery, and total cost of ownership, resulting in robust, resilient and cost effective solutions.
• Consolidated common infrastructure enabling Veritas merger.
• Executed UNIX to Linux migrations and data migrations.
• Procured new server infrastructure.
• Validated and configured Ethernet, fibre channel, and NAS connectivity.
• Engineered Oracle 10g RAC using Storage Foundation for RAC on Red Hat.
• Engineered enterprise NetBackup solutions on Red Hat.
• Engineered secure repository for analysis of global firewall logs.
• Configured and deployed Solaris containers.
• Supported project team members: manager, DBA, developer, application and web admin.
• Configure HA or RAC clusters with VCS.
• Security: Harden security validate.
• Performed load testing, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
• Created platform run books for operations.
• Provide 24X7 support to the project team: break/fix, modifications, tuning.
• Own escalations with vendors of platform hardware and software.
• Provided 3rd level operations support.
• Tested new configurations as proof of concept, beta tested Veritas products.

Confidential

Sr SysAdmin

• Supported Oracle and DB2UDB back ends, Oracle Applications, MQseries, custom middleware, HP-UX 11.0 and Solaris 9, hand in hand with DBA's, developers and application support.
• Supported storage using LVM and Online JFS on top of SAN using EMC and HP XP 256 arrays, EMC SRDF and Time Finder, and VXFS file system snapshots for hot backups.
• Monitored and tuned performance, and planned capacity changes.
• Managed escalations with vendors.
• Wrote Korn shell scripts / cron jobs to automate administration, and implement new HPOV monitors to facilitate data transfer and database uploads.
• Installed, compiled and used GNU tools.
• Implemented / reinvented core bloc website running Apache, MySQL, Perl, and PHP on Red Hat in support of auto industry aftermarket Ford, Mazda .
• Compiled / configured Apache / MySQL / PHP together on Red Hat.
• Wrote shell / SQL scripts to upload weekly data transfers into MySQL.
• Wrote scripts using MySQL dump to perform hot backups.
• Manage RPMs.
• Provided mission critical support for logistics and warehouse management in support of transmission remanufacturing and other automobile industry after-market channels.
• Planned for DR.
• Completed Six Sigma Greenbelt project, analyzing and reducing service downtime.
• Managed escalations with vendors.

Confidential

Sr SysAdmin

Secondary HP contract added to Dearborn support group. Replicated multi-tiered architecture delivering full-featured web mail services to global clients. Data centers in California, Colorado, UK, and Japan. Forty million corporate email users.

• Production support of existing infrastructure.
• Web proxies running FreeBSD with POP IMAP.
• Custom web mail running on 250 Red Hat servers.
• Oracle back ends and NFS file servers running on Sun E4500's with HA.
• Proxy load balancing and manual removal / addition of app servers in middle tier.
• Manual backend failover using VxVM, shared storage cluster and virtual IP's.
• cfengine for configuration management.
• kerberos, ssh and sudo for security, as well as SUNWjass and other tools.
• Resolved issues within SLA's with Critical Path Sr App Support, developers, and customers.
• Prod support and rollout of next generation infrastructure.
• Implementation and support of service nodes in four way shared storage clusters.
• Mail queue management. Qmail.
• Performance monitoring and tuning, HP ITO.
• Spam identification, removal and suppression.

Confidential

Sr SysAdmin

• Supported / deployed Red Hat web and app servers.
• Visteon one year Sun / HP with HP LSF cluster.
• Implement ITSM process control. Two weeks training from HP on ITSM.
• Created / modified SuperDome nodes.
• Storage / volume management. Designed storage layouts.
• SRDF and TimeFinder with custom scripts. DR testing.
• HA: remote support for Sun Cluster MC/ServiceGuard.
• Oracle and UniData RDBMS.
• ERP support: PeopleSoft, SAP, Oracle.
• Netscape Web and Directory servers, Weblogic.
• SNA gateways.
• MQseries, Documentum, and numerous custom and vendor apps / middleware.
• Security auditing using proprietary Ford software.
• SeOS on FCP financial, critical, private servers.
• Performance and break / fix issues in accordance with SLA's.
• Patched OS and applications.
• Implemented sudo and ssh.
• Installed ITO clients and MeasureWare / Glance.
• Shell scripts / cron jobs to automate customer solutions.
• Wrote custom ITO monitors.

Confidential

UNIX Consultant

• Production support Sun Enterprise Servers and SGI.
• Stabilized problematic E10K.
• Analyzed patch levels and built custom patch clusters for prod servers.
• Co-authored perl for backup management website.
• Wrote perl to identify duplicate labels in regionally dispersed media pools resulting in unique labels on all tapes under central management.
• Worked in backup group managing NetBackup controlled jukeboxes.

Confidential

UNIX Consultant

• Onsite with Forsythe Consulting.
• Consolidated several Sun Enterprise servers onto single E10K.
• Migrated Veritas volumes on SAN to E10K.
• Implemented DNS.

Confidential

UNIX Consultant

• Onsite for SunPS with KPMG at Ingram Micro in support of eCommerce rollout, transitioning from Windows / IIS to Solaris / SPARC.
• Deployed and configured E10K's and other Sun Enterprise Servers.
• Support developers and DBA's to meet rollout deadlines.
• Oracle, Netscape web servers, Cisco load balancers, Vignette Story Server, Netegrity SiteMinder, Gemstone Enterprise Java Beans Server, and SiteScope.
• Lock down root access and establish stable Solaris environment.
• Spec out Oracle replication and HA clustering products and strategy.
• Veritas Database Edition with VCS, and EMC Symmetrix.
• Train Ingram Micro SysAdmins in E10K administration.

Confidential

SysAdmin

• Onsite at GMSPO World Headquarters.
• Unix Tech Lead on first Sun E10K ever implemented at GM.
• Worked with Sun, Oracle, EMC and Veritas to provide production Data Warehouse for Warranty Analysis and Reporting System WARS . The system paid for itself within one year due to discovery and elimination of common modes of components / parts failures.
• UNIX Tech Lead on Build Out Diary Project, using CORBA and Oracle to track, identify and remove production dies as automobile model lines are retired.
• Migrated Vehicle Sales and Service Database to E10K.
• Supported custom Sybase Decision Support Systems running on AIX4.1.5 / RS6000's.
• Led Y2K compliance effort. Also implemented Legato backup solution.
• Site lead for conversion to GM Common Engineering Environment UNIX standards.
• Wrote shell scripts to automate support tasks and turned them over to operations.
• UNIX Tech Lead on Aperture Card project to scan 200K microfiche drawings of parts to manage them through Oracle and Documentum increasing productivity of ParTech service to GM dealers.