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50,000 employees with 6000+ monitored assets, 300,000+ items, 600,000+ triggers in Zabbix monitoring environment. 1305 new values per second. 400+ host groups, and 700+ custom monitoring policies. Monitoring network appliances, web sites, Apple, Microsoft, Linux, Unix and Solaris systems. Member of Federated Services group for windows environment enhancement and administration. Knowledge sharing and training for other Zabbix administrators. Zabbix to Servicenow! ticketing integration. Zabbix development for file systems, mac OS, Windows event logs, EDI/transport, customer facing applications like Mediabank Gold and Silver, monitoring of SaaS, IaaS, and automation. Complete performance overview of monitored assets and network topology diagrams. Specific Servicenow! group mapping based on triggers. E-mail notifications for triggered events. Complete web check and web scenarios for critical customer facing hosted sites. Jasper Reports Server, iReport, and Studio development using MySQL and Java languages. Creation of SLA, performance, inventory, and other essential IT department tools (Used for asset management and troubleshooting.) Managed and maintained custom reporting system modeled on Django, google graphs, htmltopdf, and python scripts with an apache web UI called Zuptime using Zabbix MySQL data.Secondary responsibilities include Active directory, DNS, DHCP, and Google mail administration. Citrix 6 applications DevOps, patching, and on-call support. Large role in 3-way company split and moving relevant services to other teams. Project management and organization skill set for seeing projects to their completion. Document and train existing Federated Services staff to utilize Zabbix and report tools specific to their funtions within the FS team. Key role in domain controller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2016 Window Server.

Austin, Texas

- 130+ Virtual Machines- 4-5 Automation servers- 2 Repositories- 7 SCRUM teams . - Department of Defense branch support role for Air Defense Systems IntegratorSpecific role with Ultra Electronics ATS. Release patches and upgrades to all branches of the US military, civilian and international accounts. Supported 7 SCRUM development teams for on-going development, patching, sandbox, test environments, Quality assurance, physical software packages and R&D. Support repository database Subversion 1.6 and 1.8. Implemented repository security, file and folder access, tagging, branching, and trunk creation. Apache with Subversion access, hosting, conflicts, and system support. ViewVC repository high level management and support. Support Jenkins automation API and backend. Administered current, existing, and new builds. Maintained user access, change control, agent installations, and configuration. Supported Jenkis scripting on slave OS and API level for standardized automation. Subversion, Android, and Java integration and high level monitoring.GFE, and software deliveries. Involved with process flow from repository to software packages on DVD for ADSI.

Build and/or administered HP-UX, AIX, Linux and Windows operating systems on customized, factory built HP or VM hardware based servers.(Examples: HP-UX 11i xx, AIX V7.x, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora CORE, Fedora (vv), Ubuntu, Kubuntu, FreeBSD, Slackware, SUSE, Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 SR2, 2012)Created monitoring infrastructure using Zabbix, Nagios, and BigBrother. Configured and distributed both customized and standardized templates for Zabbix, Nagios and BigBrother as per profile to monitor multiple subsystem health via service/daemon for Windows and Linux. Utilized SMTP announcements for Cisco routers, and e-mail notifications for TippingPoint IPS/firewalls. Used monitoring systems to also keep track of other business essential server sub-systems globally. Manually engineered Linux (LAMP) installations on various platforms. Managed and created websites resulting from LAMP installations. Created and hosted IIS websites from Microsoft based server environments. Developed and maintained web based EDI monitoring and developed both low and high level user interface for transportation services, and EDI status health. Trained and updated knowledge for the monitored infrastructure and generated SAP data throughput reports for all related meeting material.Supported, maintained, and developed scripts for: MySQL back-end, various web front end, SAP application calls, IBM Sterling Connect:Direct, CLEO Dial Up 32-GW, IBM Sterling Gentran , Linux/UX data conversions to Windows, HP JetDirect, PrintPOST, AIX native for global printing, internal SSH, S/FTP, Global VPN transports, SAP virtual printing on HP-UX/AIX, full EDI platform for Eirtrade, complete EDI solution for 100+ trading partners, monitor system health, complete file system maintenance. (Automate with: Crontab, Zabbix, schedtasks, VL Trader and Lexicom. Code with: HTML, PHP, java, Powershell, WSH, batch, Bash, Python, Ruby, Perl, C, C# and .NET)

Irvine

Experience working in team oriented environment on a local and global scale. With 7 years of project management and support experience with various aspects of infrastructure, global applications development services projects from start to finish. Projects involving 130+ business critical data trading extranets, 55 remote locations, over 200 servers located locally and/or within datacenters globally. Fully managed and supported entire aspects of a project lifecycle. (Kick-off, design, project approval, overview, budget, change control, implementation, reflection, maintenance, and project closure.)EDI Cut-over and Migrations: Projects involving Electronic Data InterchangeMigration to Cleo Lexicom, EDI modems to TCP/IP, Evare global banking implementation, scripting language conversion, three EDI server cut-overs, and migrating 100+ Lexicom trading partners to VL Trader.WAN Implementation: Projects involving global wide area network with 55 remote offices with many diverse carriers, providers and implement security solutions. Global VPN enhancement, Virtela circuit upgrades, TippingPoint network security installation (200E, 50U, and X506), BlueCoat proxy upgrade, Verizon circuit enhancements, global VoIP QoS/CoS procurement, MPLS/BGP and router conversion, and WAN firewall migration and maintenance.Unix and Linux Upgrades and Procurement: Host and support role both planned and unplanned team projects.SAP ECC conversion, HP-UX to AIX platform, SAP Dazel printing to native AIX, BigBrother, Zabbix, and Nagios for system monitoring, Unix/Linux patching/upgrading, and annual Unix/Windows account auditing.Data Center Migration and DR Test: Migrate from Toronto Canada to St. Louis Missouri and perform annual DR test by break/fix situational experiencesCoordinated logistics, network infrastructure, systems management, and maintained SAP database continuity via secondary DR site, lead team DR, complete network swing over and test all backup circuits globally.

Experience with setup, configure and troubleshooting Skechers retail stores using APROPOS on Redhat Linux 7.1 platform. Experience with setup and configurations for temporary and permanent assignment laptops using Microsoft operating systems. Company wide new hire and termination processing and their access level to all Sun and Microsoft based systems. ImageCAST server administration for all company workstations, servers and laptop systems. Administer Postfix E-mail server, GARPAC database system on Sun OS 5.8. Troubleshoot all retail locatons DSL, Cable modem, and ISDN broadband communications on VPN.Troubleshoot and provisioning with Netopia R9120 and 4686XL VPN routers. Working knowledge of Netopia 3100 ISDN and 4652 SDSL/IDSL routers. Experience with CISCO PIX site-to-site, client-to-site group and solo VPN implementation.

Certification, Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications, 4

Activities and Societies: Network SecurityCertification from Tippingpoint 3com for Network Intrustion Prevention System

Bs, Information Security

Received two degrees.

Associates, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Information System Security GroupStudy courses related to Network System Security, and Linux/Unix administration.