PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Systems administration: UNIX based systems since 1988. Global system admin for 300 developers in 8 offices and four countries for Southwest Airlines. Some occasional Windows admin as required, but, mostly UNIX/LINUX.
• Admin: Unix based systems since 1988. Linux since 1996. Including Confidential Sys 4, Confidential sys 5, Solaris, Sun OX, HP UX, AIX, Fedora, RHEL / OHEL, Centos, Open SuSE, SuSE Enterprise Server, Ubuntu (Southwest), Gentoo, BSD, Slackware.
• Extensive telecomm experience: Did the did MTSO turnups (base station managment in Cybase) in Dallas, Fort Worth (Sprint), and Charlotte (Bell South). Worked at Verizon three times: network planning, gold level pc support, and SODA support. Worked at Confidential twice: call center in Phoenix, and SIIPS project for Wachovia. I am an experienced Asterisk programmer and understand SIP, and know tools like tcpdump, snoop, wireshark, iptraf. I built DMARC (on my own) that monitors all the data nodes of Confidential Mobility's 4GLTE network.
• Cloud: I worked on oneseason.com for ESPN, using EC2. I occasionally use VMWare at places like Javelin Marketing. I understand how the stuff works down to the core.
• Scripting: I've been programming since 1974, using many languages. I use bash, PHP, PERL, ruby, expect, and TCL for scripting. I'm very experienced with PERL, and PHP, and I'm a senior level programmer as well as admin.
• Object programming: VB, VBA, Javascript, some Python, JAVA, php, some object based PERL
• Customer monitoring: cacti, nagios, my own scripts, MRTG, RRD Tool, Veritas.
• Back office: 30+ years of IT experience.
• Infrastructure: 30+ years of IT experience. Small business to large enterprise. Was the global system admin for 300 developers, 8 offices, 4 countries, at Southwest.com. Was the backup systems architect for Southwest.com. Was the backup build and release manager for Southwest.com
• Mentorship: I'm a natural mentor. I've mentored many young folks to much higher places. My most recent makes 140K at the age of 24.
• Agile: 300 developers, 8 offices, 4 countries, 5 mangers, 2 directors, 1 senior director, CIO, CEO - Southwest Airlines. 18 jenkins servers in St. Louis. Continuous integration, paired programming, zero defects.
• Software design: 30+ years. 15 years in my own business, across varied platforms. 10+ years working for various folks in support, development, or admin roles. I've got a solid understanding of SQL, having used it since 1982.
• Virtualization: XEN on LINUX, AMI / EC2 for oneseason.com. VMWARE occasionally.
• Test environments: Hudson, Jenkins, unit tests, using saucelabs.net for session recording, and Sellenium for driving sessions. Dabbled in Junit, Nunit.
• Database: Relational databases since 1982. Non-relational databases like BSD, and NoSQL on occassion, Hadoop, Pentaho, Hbase for BI. MySQL replicated (billions of call and STB records), MySQL cluster, PostGres with
• Seasoned web, and infrastructure pro, with over 3 decades of IT experience.
• Extensive experience developing eCommerce applications. Accomplished web developer, but, wishing for more of a dev ops role, or business tier developer role, or a project management role.
• Extensive experience walking into the unknowns of dot.com and open source. The “go to guy.”
• Thorough understanding of SDLC. Thorough understanding of web infrastructure from bare metal to CSS.
• Extensive experience in large scale
• Owner of Confidential . Web and marketing projects from small to very large. UNIX systems admin since 1988. LINUX systems admin since 1996.
• All development / support have been done being mindful of customer service and with ISO9000 / Agile / Scrum principles in mind, version control (typically subversion SVN, or GIT, previously CVS and CMVC) and documentation (typically .doc, sometimes wikis, and occasionally, UML).
• Strong command of English and an executive level presenter. 30 years+ in IT, as well as 11 years in commercial broadcasting. (No, I’m not 70. I just started at an early age.)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software: Microsoft Office, Open Office from 1998. Lotus Notes. Some Sharepoint. Advanced UNIX/Lin ux (LINUX) systems administration (CentOS/RHEL/OEL, SuSE Enterprise/ openSUSE, BSD, Debian, SUN OS / Solaris, Confidential ), UNIX, LINUX, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Homesite, GIMP, Corel Draw, Corel Paint, LAMPPP (LINUX, Apache, PERL/PHP/Python), Procedural and object-oriented paradigms, PHP GD, PEAR, ImageMagick, FFMPEG, sox, CURL, E-commerce: OSCommerce / Magento, our custom shopping interfaces.

Processors: authorize.net, PayPal.

MVC Architecture: Zend Framework, PERL Catalyst Framework, CakePHP, some SPRING.

Web Markup / Browser code: XHTML, HTML, WML, WAP, Mobile XHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript (AJAX, JSON, JQuery, dojo, moo tools, DHTML), CSS, versions 1-3

Languages: PHP 4 and 5, PERL 4, 5, 6, Python 2.7, 3.1, Shell (bash, KSH, CSH)Classic ASP, VB / VBA, Classic ASP, JAVA SE AND JAVA EE.

Database Management: MySQL Server, advanced database administrator, PostgreSQL Server, Light INFORMIX, MUMPS, ORACLE, SQL SERVER.

Advanced exposure in: ASP (classic and .NET), C#, C, C++, Java, TCL, Expect.

Misc. / Telco / Admin skills: Sockets (PERL and PHP), Amazon EC2 Cloud, Rackspace Cloud, VMWARE, VOIP (Asterisk) / SIP, Jabber, DNS (PDNS, DJBDNS, BIND), RPC-XML servers, SAX parsers, SOAP, RT, Mail (sendmail, qmail, postfix), Automated SMS via SMS gateways. (Auto responders in PERL), NAGIOS, Cacti, Wireshark, IPTABLES, RSYNC, UVNC, RDC, X, SSH, Windows Server to 2012, Crystal Reports, tech writing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Top tier Dev Ops for Confidential 's 50+ global development organizations, and nearly 1800 developers, our product support and product management teams, as well as our sales organizations. SunOS, LINUX, UNIX, AWS, VMWARE, bash, PERL, PHP, PYTHON, cmdlets, JAVA,RUBY, hard core networking, SDLC design and implementation, CI (JENKINS), maven, docker, git, Artifactory, Fisheye, MySQL, Oracle, Vagrant, Virtual Box;you name it, all headed to make sure global networks (like your mobile phone) have the right business intelligence at the right time.

Confidential - Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• I'm the #2 UNIX/LINUX admin principal for Confidential, across Confidential 's global IT infrastructure, based in Irving, TX, for Confidential 's global Innovation Team . LINUX (RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE), UNIX (BSD, Sun OS), project planning, management, deployment. Monitoring of critical infrastructure; its deployment. Disaster planning and recovery. Systems security design, and enforcement. Design, supervision, control, and configuration management of mission critical information systems. Responsible for the critical computing infrastructure of Confidential on the UNIX-ish side, and Cloud side.
• Develop and implement dev ops procedures / process for dev group; working for 5-9s uptime. PCI, SOX, ISO 9000/9001, Six Sigma compliance. AWS, OpsWorks, Ruby, PERL, Python, shell, Redshift, Openstack, Docker, Chef, Git, SVN, Vagrant, and a long list of bleeding edge things leading to "The Internet of Things" for global marketing leader Confidential which is one of a few marketing companies / development companies, that implements Six Sigma. We provide high tech solutions allowing our clients to reach their target demos in real time, highly available, globally scalable, bleeding edge, creative, software, and services. Confidential: The Customer Experience Agency. http://vimeo.com/97309904

Confidential - Arlington, TX

Responsibilities:

• I'm the UNIX/LINUX admin principal lead UNIX (HP-UX, AIX, SUN OS / Solaris), project planning, management, deployment. Monitoring of critical infrastructure; its deployment. Disaster planning and recovery. Systems security design, and enforcement. Design, supervision, control, and configuration management of mission critical information systems. Responsible for the critical computing infrastructure of Vought Aircraft Division on the UNIX-ish side, working for 5-9s uptime. ITAR, EAR, PCI, SOX, ISO 9000/9001, DOD compliance.

Confidential - The Colony, TX

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Confidential projects. Big data for folks like Mainstreet Data Systems (AWS Cloud, Redshift/Postrgresql, Hadoop, Cassandra, nano.js, MySql), and their clients, telco stuff for folks like Neighborhood Internet (Asterisk, MySQL, Redshift, AWS), LINUX/UNIX admin for various clients for White Glove Tech in Austin. Fixing issues for various folks.

Confidential - Richardson, TX

Responsibilities:

• LINUX / UNIX / Senior System admin deployment. architected, management, and metrics analyst that developed and architected Cisco’s DMARC system that monitors and alarms on Confidential ’s 4G LTE network. (Task completed)
• Senior systems admin, consultant, and go to guy for Confidential s Advanced Services that manages and deploys one of the largest cellular networks in The World. I worked on solutions that improved performance, customer satisfaction, lowered costs, leveraged existing and new infrastructure, and maintain EXTREME reliability for a transparent, seamless, and reliable experience to the end customer, while providing senior management of all our partners with management information via metrics from a multitude of devices / vertical apps and monitoring. I used my seasoned LINUX/UNIX, telecommunications, dot com, programming, database, and executive level presentation skills to promote a winning relationship for customers and partners. Scripting (expect, PERL, PHP, tecl).

Confidential - Cross Lanes, WV

Senior LINUX/UNIX Admin / MySQL DBA / 5'9s consultant

Responsibilities:

• Southwest Airlines Global Enterprise Systems Admin for the development team worldwide.
• UNIX/Linux, UB11.04, CentOS, Puppet( global systems management), Jenkins, radiator, Python, PERL, some JAVA, along with Tomcat, and JMX standups, as well as SOA architecture.
• Duties including everything from settling folks in to diagnosing complicated systems problems.
• Developed process that saved SWA $10,000s annually and expedited service levels.
• During five months there, was advanced twice. Once to global development systems admin, and once to the Release Environment Release Team.
• Completed projects early and under budget, with minimum workflow interruption.
• Served 4 roles (supporting from developers daily)

Confidential

Owner

Responsibilities:

• PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5, PERL 5, RUBY, PYTHON, VBA, C++, object-oriented and procedural programming.
• DHTML, CSS1-3, JavaScript, AJAX.
• Advanced Linux systems administration. Heavy weight. LINUX since 1996.
• Apache Server administration / NGINX.
• MVC architectures using both frameworks and custom programming.
• Project management.
• Database design / EER / technical writing.
• Graphic design, page layouts.
• CSS1-3/XHTML 1.0 Strict / HTML 2 to 5
• PHP, PERL, RUBY, EXPECT, PYTHON application programming.
• MySQL database administration and design. SQL since 1982. Large scale MySQL since 1999.
• Site visitor metrics gathering and reports through Google analytics and custom implementations.
• VOIP (translations and sockets) e.g. “click to dial”.
• Oneseason.com. Postgres database backend in Amazon EC2 Cloud.
• Matchmaker.com - deployment of monitoring systems.
• Numerous Asterisk and web hosting deployments. mayrwilsonrugs.com - initial design.
• PHP pages, PERL server monitoring / admin, Ultra Monkey, and PFSENSE, MCACHE, LUSTRE file systems. MRTG/ RRD TOOL, SPLUNK.
• PERL housekeeping.
• Infrastructure deployment, planning, monitoring, implementation and operation for PNL Internet.
• Numerous commercial sites.
• Infrastructure deployment and administration.
• Custom firewalls.
• IPtables scripts / bash scripts / network.
• AIX support, tech writer, system administrator, MTSO base station management with IBM. Worked with IBM on two different projects.
• Network planning, SODA support, gold level PC support. Worked with Verizon / GTE on three different projects.

Confidential

Developer - Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Over 3 million lines of code for food delivery services SOAS, including georanging (US CENSUS, and USPS TIGER), geoiop (Maxmind), and multi-languages, Zend framework with PERL, and Python backend.