OBJECTIVE:

• To obtain a challenging and rewarding position in the field of Information Systems in Hands on Management with Unix and or Linux.

SUMMARY:

• 2 year of Amazon Cloud Computing (Virtual Servers). Load Balance, Storage, Elastic IP, S3 Storage, EBS, Bundling and Scripting.
• 7 - 16 years of UNIX Administration (Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Redhat, Ubuntu and CentOS)
• 9 years of Veritas Products (Volume Manager, File system, Cluster Shadow Image, HA).
• 10 years of SAN Storage Products (Hitachi, EMC, Netapp, Overland, Quantum, Avamar, PowerFile).
• 12 years of Server and Storage Architect (SAN, NAS, Virtual Servers)
• 9 years of Web Administration (Apache, Tomcat, PHP, Java, HTML, Jboss, Websphere, XML
• 9 years of DataBase Administration (Oracle, Mysql)
• 9 years of Network Administration (Cisco, Brocade switches and Load Balancing)
• 7-17 years of OS Administration (Solaris, AIX, Solaris, Redhat, CentOS, HPUX,Ubuntu and Window Servers)
• 5 years of Supporting Backup/Storage Solutions in a Pre and Post Sales.
• Directed up 6 people and directed projects.
• Managed and Internal Infrastructure from Server hardware software, applications and network.
• Kernal Tuning/Performance Tuning.
• Responsible for all Desktop support and Security.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: HP Enterprise Servers, Ultra Enterprise Sun Servers, Dell Servers, Hitachi Storage 9960 and 9500, Network Appliance or Netapp, Overland Storage, Quantum Libraries, EMC Storage, F5 Load Balance, Hitachi Storage, Exabyte Jukeboxes, Powerfile jukeboxes, Avamar Technologies, Brocade, Cisco MDS 9150 Switches, Fibre channel HBAs and Adonnis DNS Appliance. Google Ent Appliance.

Operating Systems: Solaris 6-10x. SunOS, AIX, HPUX, Redhat, CentOS, Ubuntu,, Ontap 7.0, Windows Servers.

Software/Applications: Solaris, HPUX, Linux Redhat, AIX, Oracle, Mysql, SQL. Veritas Volume Management, Veritas Foundation Suite, Veritas Filesystem and Veritas NetBackup. Hpux MC Cluster, Legato Networker, Legato Archive Extender., Apache, Tomcat, Java, Websphere, XML, Jboss, PHP, FTP, DNS, Sendmail, Exim TCPIP, Nagios, Cognos, CVS, Perforce, Mantis, Lamp Stack, VMWare, VM, Ldap, DHCP, VIP, Load Balance, Clustering, HA., Google Administration. Amazon Web Services, EC2, S3, Load Balancing, Elastic Computing.

Hobbies and Interests: Outdoor activities (Biking, Skiing and any outdoor activities)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide senior system administration duties in mixed environment of over 60 servers.
• Coordinate with other departments and develop plans for new implementations, upgrades, and acquisitions of other companies’ IT assets.
• Guide the work of system administrators and assist with server/network issues when needed..
• JD Edwards Enterprise One 8.12 CNC/System Administration
• Installation, upgrades, software updates and patches, security, performance tuning, package build and deployment. Monitor JDE services running in Solaris environment.
• Linux/Solaris Systems Administration
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 on Dell servers
• Apache, PHP, MySQL administration and tuning
• Sun Solaris 10 on SPARC platform
• Enterprise application servers, web servers, database
• Database Administration
• Oracle 10g Release 2 on Solaris 10
• MySQL 5 on RHEL
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 on Windows 2003
• Network Appliance Storage Administration in a SAN environment
• Disaster Recovery

Confidential

Sr. Linux Admin/Network

Responsibilities:

• Managed Amazon Cloud Computing Servers (60) as well as Managing 3 employees.
• Managed Development, Staging and Production Servers (Ubuntu)
• Architected Lamp Infrastructure with includes Mysql, PHP, CGI, ApacheHaProxy, Zend Framework, Drupal and SugarCRM.
• Release Management to include SVN, scripting and procedures
• Monitoring Servers and Network with Opensource
• Managed Desktop Support and Networking to include Firewall, Switches and Routers.
• Managed Email Corporate Email Servers and DNS.
• Migrated 4 Datacenters Infrastructure to the Cloud Servers and Services.
• Freelance Contractor - Worked Independently on many small projects for companies..

Confidential (Glendale, CA)

Sr. Unix Admin

Responsibilities:

• This position was responsible for providing support for the Digital Media Center technical development environment for Confidential .
• Supported development Unix (AIX, Solaris) and Windows Servers (IBM Websphere, clustering, load balancing, monitoring and troubleshooting.)
• Configured IBM-LPAR’s for Development and administering it..
• Configured VMware and supported it in Development.for (Web, Application and DB Servers)
• Configured Oracle and MySql and supporting Dev SitesConfigured Unix LAMP Stack and supporting DEV.
• Configured Sendmail including developing re-write rules.
• Documentum/EMC installs and upgrades.

Confidential

Sr. Manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for starting up the Unix Infrastructure for the company. Hosted new servers at Co-Lo, Staging 1, Staging2, and Production. Servers consisted of IBM blades all running Centos 5.
• Built from ground up the Unix Infrastructure, Web Servers running Apache 2, Tomcat, Java, Jboss 4.0. Database servers running MySQL. Ftp servers, CVS.
• Implemented Failover and Redundant Solutions, load balancers and master and slave MySQL databases.
• Created Clustered environment for mysql, and MS SQL, Web Jboss, (production, staging and production)
• Implemented SAN technology for Staging and Production Environments.
• Implemented VMWare and XEN utilizing Centos and Windows platforms. Created partitions for WEB, DB and Application Servers.
• Backup and Disaster Recovery Process - Sent important data to second Datacenter for Backup and Disaster Purposes.
• Kernel Tuning and Performance Tuning for Web and DB Servers
• Set up of Exim (Mail Relay)
• Released Builds for UNIX Environment
• Set Virtual Machines (Linux and Windows XP)
• SAN and NFS Mount Setup/Troubleshot
• Mentored new Systems Administrators that came on board.
• Contractor

Confidential (Los Angeles)

Sr. Unix Admin

Responsibilities:

• Linux / Unix systems configuration, maintenance, setup, troubleshooting, and support. CentOS and Redhat distributions.Apache/PHP configuration and setup of Jboss 3.0 and Tomcat.
• Mysql Database installation and configuration.
• Worked with tools: yum, nagios, squid
• Subversion code repository maintenance
• Backup maintenance
• Apache/PHP/JBoss/Tomcat configuration and maintenance.
• Server monitoring application maintenance
• Setup Search Engine (NUTCH). Installed and configured.

Confidential

Sr. Unix Admin

Responsibilities:

• Supported 60 Unix Servers consisting of Solaris and Redhat Linux.Database Oracle and Mysql support
• Suport Unix web server -Apache, Tomcat, PHP, and Zend Platform.
• Supported Production, Staging and the Development Environment; installing, troubleshooting Database and Web Servers Unix Infrastructure.
• Administered EMC Clarion for Development only.

Confidential

Sr. Unix Admin

Responsibilities:

• Utilized jumpstart and kickstart Unix servers as well as configured CFEngine scripts.
• Worked with Bugzilla as a tool for daily work related issues as well as project tracking.
• Built from ground up the Unix Infrastructure, which includes (4) HPUX servers. (4) Netapp’s, Hitachi 9500 Storage (9)TB of Disk Space,, Overland and Storage Hardware, (2) FTP Servers, (2) External DNS Servers. Cisco Fibre Switch.
• Implemented Failover and Redundant Solutions, like Shadow Image HPUX MC Service Guard/Cluster.
• Clustered Database and Web Servers (Oracle, MS Sql, Apache)
• Built out Remote sites, which include implementing Netapp, Backup Solutions and File Shares.
• Implemented External DNS for hosting WWW, MX records.
• .Configured the Cisco Fibre Switches, Hitachi 9500 Luns to share across platforms Windows and Unix Environment.
• Administered Hitachi SAN Storage and allocated Storage when needed
• Administered NAS Storage.
• Designed SAN Topology for Development, Staging and Production..

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assist Sales Reps with solutions for sales opportunities.Analyze and identify solutions from multiple manufactures and vendors
• Developed and presented solutions to potential customers.
• Developed a Solution Center/Demo Lab from ground up which include design, networking, installing cabinets, hardware, Unix Servers and Windows Servers and software.
• Professional Service: Assisted customers with specific needs, such as supporting Quantum Libraries
• Supported internal IT for this company, which includes 7 Windows 2000 servers, routers and firewalls. Supported hardware from servers to workstations and all Unix Servers and software
• Support, and installed Solution Center hardware and software, which included 8 Linux Servers, 1 Solaris and 3 Windows Servers.
• Unix Manager

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Unix Administration and Database Administration for the IT DepartmentImplemented a major upgrade, which included all replacing all Unix Servers with High Availability, Redundancy and Reliability servers.
• Installed Brocade Switches to handle new servers for storage.
• Configured and Installed additional Storage that was added to the Hitachi 9960
• Backup and Restore on all Unix Servers.
• Maintained Security for Unix Servers
• Maintained production, Development and Staging Servers from Operating Systems to hardware.
• Unix Lead/Architect - Contractor

Confidential, Rye, NY

Intfrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Remote administer for Unix SUN Enterprise Web production servers. The servers were located in CA, MO and TX. These servers that range from SUN Ultra Enterprise 6500, 4500, 450's with storage arrays. Some servers were clustered for High Availability
• Administration of 60 Unix Sun Web Production servers which include installing and coordination of utilities (Backups (ADSM) and tape backups, Perl, Performance (Protocol, Patrol & top), Creating user accounts,)
• Project that included installing new 6500's, 5500's, and 4500’s before it went into production Installed Veritas File system, Volume Manager and Veritas NetBackup and Cluster Server. Wrote scripts to work on Solaris for security. Successfully brought in existing servers from other departments and customized it for our administration such as installing patrol, backups, patches, applications, utilities.

Confidential

Programmer Analyst Information Services

Responsibilities:

• Supported Unix; SUN, HP and AIX platform, specialized in SUN and HP for production and development environments.
• Implemented DNS production for Unix AIX environment in conjunction with SBC.
• Y2K Implement new O/S for all production and development servers, which included patches for the SUN and HP platform.
• Installed and Configured Veritas Manager to work with the Storage Disk Array.

Confidential, Trumbull, CT

Unix Admin

Responsibilities:

• Provided third level support to Regional UNIX Systems Administrators
• Installation, configuration & maintenance of IBM Risc/6000 (AIX), SUN (Solaris) and NFS servers.
• Administered 60 Application Servers, 14 NFS Servers as well as 45 Boot Servers
• Maintained Network Appliance boxes which were used for Home Directories.
• Assisted with the Implementation of a new site in Ireland, which included installing NFS server, boot server and application servers.
• Implementation of DNS, and Networking Monitoring Tools
• Trained new employees on the Company's hardware environment.
• Support Unix Mail which includes sendmail and GroupWise
• Implemented and managed a monitoring tool called Patrol regionally for application and boot servers
• Became key person for monitoring Regional Servers using Patrol (networking tool)