Soft Skills:

• Cross-functional Project management
• Business / systems analysis
• SDLC
• Task delegation and follow-up to completion
• Prioritization of tasks and projects
• Outsourcing and vendor management
• Process improvement and documentation
• Experience working with C-level management
• Mentoring
• Budgeting
• Proactive strategy setting
  

Technical Skills:
Operating Systems:

• AIX
• FreeBSD
• Red Hat Linux
• Ubuntu Linux
• Windows Server 2008/2003/2000
  

Hardware:

• Dell PowerEdge
• EMC CX SAN and Navisphere
• Equipment racks
• F5 BigIP load balancers
• IBM RS6000
• NetScaler load balancers
• SCSI and SSA RAID systems
• Serial connections
  

Software:

• Active Directory 2000 & 2003
• Apache 2.0 & 2.2
• ArcServe data backup
• Asterisk-Based VOIP PBX
• Blade Logic
• Cacti
• Linux Clustering
• CVS
• EDI supply chain management
• IIS 5 & 6
• JBoss
• Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM/SCOM)
• MS Exchange Server 5.5/2003
• MS ISA Server
• MS Office & Visio
• MS SQL (clustering & mirroring)
• MySQL (replication)
• Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition and for Exchange Server
• Optio Forms and Optio Fax
• Perforce P4
• Postfix SMTP Server
• Prelude ERP System
• Shavlik HFNetChk
• Spam filtering technologies
• Subversion
• Terminal Services
• Tivoli Storage Manager backup client
• Track It Helpdesk
• VM Ware
• vRanger
• Windows Services for Unix
• Wordpress
• WSFTP Server
  

Databases:

• Microsoft SQL 2000 & 2005 Clustering and Mirroring
• MySQL 5.1 Replication
• Unidata
  

Networking:

• Broadband
• CAT5 wiring
• CIFS / SMB
• Data center build out
• Data center migration
• DHCP
• DNS
• Firewalls
• Frame relay
• Gigabit over fiber
• iSCSI
• LAN / WAN
• Load balancing
• NFS
• RPC
• SNTP
• TCP/IP
• UDP
• VOIP
• VPN (PPTP & SSL)
• WiFi
  

Languages:

• BASIC
• HTML
• Unix / Linux shell scripting
• Windows batch scripting
• XML

Education and Certifications:

• Confidential,UNIVERSITYBachelor’s degree in Business Economics
• Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
• CompTIA A+ Certified PC Technician

Employment History:
10/2010 – Present : Confidential,Los Angeles, CA
IT Consultant (Freelance Projects):

• E-Commerce systems implementation
• Corporate IT infrastructure builds and troubleshooting
• VMWare Virtualization

1/2010 – 8/2010: Confidential,Glendale, CA
IT Manager:

• Project management, systems analysis, and implementations
• VOIP migration
• Server consolidation / cost reduction
• LAMP web infrastructure redesign including virtualization
• Microsoft Dynamics ERP system infrastructure redesign
• Supervised and mentored help desk employee
• Managed IT-related vendor relationships
• Member of company’s governance committee, representing I.T.
• Reduced technology-related expenses by $11,000+ per month by:
• Server consolidation
• Migrated phone system to a new VOIP trunk provider
• Managed the entire IT infrastructure including:
• Windows 2008 domain (including integration with Linux)
• RedHat and Ubuntu Linux builds and troubleshooting
• Linux cluster builds and troubleshooting using DRBD and Heartbeat
• Apache builds and troubleshooting
• IIS builds and troubleshooting
• MySQL replication builds and troubleshooting
• MS SQL clustering builds and troubleshooting
• Microsoft Dynamics AX builds and troubleshooting
• Active MQ cluster builds and troubleshooting
• MSMQ cluster builds and troubleshooting
• iSCSI setup and troubleshooting
• VMWare environment builds and troubleshooting
• SMTP, DNS, DHCP, NFS, FTP, Samba, etc. builds and troubleshooting
• Asterisk-based VOIP PBX modification and troubleshooting

12/2008 – 5/2009: Confidential,A Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Aerospace) - Pasadena, CA
Senior Systems Engineer (6 month contract):

• Subject matter expert for new web infrastructure projects
• Code deployment and basic web application testing using CVS and JPL’s SDLC process.
• Re-engineering and virtualization of legacy web applications in preparation for product end of life.
• System monitoring using Microsoft SCOM
• Management and troubleshooting of mission-critical web services
• Windows 2003 servers hosting:
• IIS 6 web servers
• Visual Basic .NET application servers
• Cold Fusion
• Flash Streaming Media Server
• Microsoft SQL 2000 & 2005 database servers
• Firewall and DNS configuration requests
• SSL including wildcard certificates
• F5 BigIP load balancer configuration
• Management and troubleshooting of SAN-attached VMWare environment
• Virtual Center database maintenance and migration
• Virtual machine and virtual machine template creation
• Planning for VMWare infrastructure upgrade to version 3.5
• vRanger virtual machine backup configuration
• Physical to virtual server migrations using VMWare Converter
• Physical reorganization of a production data center.
• Tivoli Storage Manager backup client troubleshooting.

2/2007 – 8/2008: Confidential,Calabasas, CA
Senior Infrastructure Engineer (1 year contract):

• Project management, systems analysis, and implementations
• Active Directory 2003 domain setup
• Active directory group policy
• Server naming convention
• Account management
• Domain organizational unit hierarchy
• Firewall rules
• DNS
• Terminal services
• VMWare environment design, implementation, and administration including:
• Virtual Center
• EMC CX SAN connectivity
• Virtual machine backups / snapshots
• Red Hat based ESX command line administration
• MS SQL Server 2000 implementation and administration including:
• Clustering
• Mirroring
• SAN connectivity
• Apache web server farm
• Mod_JK and Mod_AJP for JBOSS
• Mod_Rewrite
• SSL server certificates including wildcard certificates
• SSL client side certificate authentication
• JBoss web application servers
• IIS 6 web server administration including:
• ISAPI Redirector for JBOSS
• SSL server certificates including wildcard certificates
• SSL client side certificate authentication
• Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) implementation
• Red Hat Linux server for hosting Perforce P4 source control services
• SSL-encrypted Secure FTP Server implementation with Active Directory authentication
• Build out of a disaster recovery environment in secondary data center
• Code deployment and basic web application testing following Intuit’s SDLC process
• NTP time service tweaking to ensure tight 1 second tolerance between server clocks
• EMC CX SAN management using Navisphere
• TCP/IP network troubleshooting between remote data centers and firewalled network segments
• Linux shell scripting to automate complex administrative tasks
• Windows shell scripting to automate complex administrative tasks
• Windows and Linux NFS file system integration using Windows Services for Unix

Senior Unix / AIX Engineer (6 month contract):

• Cross-functional team project management to:
• Implement online banking software test environments for financial institutions
• Set up test environments for developers to test new online financial software products
• Troubleshooting of TCP/IP network issues between firewalled network segments
• Apache web server administration and troubleshooting
• JBOSS application server administration and troubleshooting including troubleshooting XML data
• Process documentation for complex undocumented online banking applications