Christopher Purcell Email & Phone Number

Melville, NY

• Responsible for application deployment, capacity planning, system design, planning and implementation, hardware, operating system support, patching, system security and system compliance, network and application level.
• Provided system administration support for the Global MSST Unix Server support team which consisted of a mix of 20,000+ Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Solaris, and AIX servers
• Linux Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all groups across North America & Europe
• Wrote code in perl & python to automate tasks, perform security audits, and roll out changes across the server farm en masse
• Provided operating system support on Red Hat Enteprise Linux 3-8x and Solaris 8/10 servers
• Worked with the application teams to support and maintain their custom software

Islandia, NY

• Primarily worked with the following operating systems on a daily basis: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2x/3x/4x, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8x/9x, Sun Solaris 5-10, and IBM AIX 5L
• Supported the following hardware: IBM pSeries servers, Dell PowerEdge servers, Sun SPARC servers, and Sun Intel/AMD servers
• Worked as a team with others on company-wide projects and rollouts
• Resolved Unix-related user issues and requests across a wide range of Unix platforms
• Performed unattended installations of all Unix operating systems: RHEL/SLES/Solaris/AIX
• Installed and configured LPARs for the IBM pSeries servers running AIX 5.3

Hauppague, NY

• Set up a two-node active-passive cluster running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3.0 using the Red Hat Cluster Suite software for the companies ERP implementation
• Performed an Active Directory migration from an NT4 domain that included five domain controllers across three sites.
• Wrote automation in perl that handled onboarding all aspects of creating new users on the Linux servers and Active Directory as well as customizing their profiles based on their location
• Set up a Citrix NFuse server running on Red Hat Linux to connect to our Citrix MetaFrame XP servers running the Citrix SSL Relay service.
• Installed and administered a daily backup routine and disaster recovery strategy that utilized Computer Associates ARCserve 2000 and Veritas Backup Exec 9.x.
• Performed an Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 migration.

Largo, FL

• Accepted a promotion from Toymax Inc. (as a Network Administrator, 8/2000 – 12/2000), who was the parent company of Monogram at the time
• In charge of the IT department, which includes all voice & data communications
• Built a network from scratch that consisted of Windows 2000, NetWare 5.1, and Red Hat Linux 7x servers
• Installed and administered a daily backup routine and disaster recovery strategy that utilized Veritas’s Backup Exec 8.x
• Managed a team in the installation and upgrading of Windows NT to 2000 and NetWare 3.12 to 5.1 servers at the company’s parent office.
• Designed both our NY and FL offices NDS trees and file system structures to prepare for a future merge

Plainview, NY

- Supported Microsoft Windows NT4 and Novell NetWare servers- Microsoft Exchange Server- Provided onsite technical support (ie, help desk) for 100+ users