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Cupertino, California, Us

Development of internal tools to support infrastructure.

Setup infrastructure to support the current products of the company. Deployed Xen with Open Nebula to allow them to easily load up new instances and shuffle workloads around as needed. Setup kickstart and puppet to make the systems identical and keep configuration times down. Setup network aggregation, routing, vpns on the routers and gateway/firewalls. Assisted with some of the scripting/programming for some of the projects and tuning for the new new environment

Charlotte Nc, Millbury Ma, Us

Administrator in a mixed environment of Windows 200x, Centos, Opensolaris serverso Most of the servers are VMs running in VMwares Vsphere backed by EqualogicsISCSI or Opensolaris running Comstar.o Provision new servers as needed.o Setup snapshoting and replication to remote locations around the world.o Implement new features for VMware and Opensolaris as they come out by usinghome grown scripts and utils like snapshoting, replication, dedupe.Evaluate new technologies and methods that might benefit the operations and processes.o Stay updated on the Opensolaris project.o Research and test laptop backup software from Druvaao Setup service monitoring via Groundworkso Setup a ticketing system to allow for greater tracking of issues handled by the ITdepartment.Support for all locationso Hands on Support of 2 locations in the Charlotte area with about 40 Desktopsand 150 users.o Remote support for 2 locations during night hours for about 40 computers and100 userso Doing upgrades to the local infrastructures like cabling, server installation,printers etc.o Coordinating Contractors for projects pertaining to the Charlotte locations.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Administer a mixed environment consisting of FreeBSD, Linux, and Windows 2k and XPo Configure redundant and fault tolerant web services via rsync and replicationo Setup and maintain internal and external DNS series through bindo Initial install and maintenance on mysql services to provide replication, and coldbackupso Setup/Design of email hosting solution compliant using exim, mailscanner,spamassasin, clamav, pyzor, razor, greylisting, dovecot, roundcube to providethe most efficient and stable solutiono Setup 24/7 centralized monitoring of services and servers via nagiosPlanning and building of serverso Forecasting of Growtho Assembling hardware for Bladecenters and SAN equipmento Configuration of built systems to provide redundant and reliability of SANs,networkingo Testing load to find any possible bugs or issues before productiono Work with in house and external teams to migrate new hardware into productiono Documenting setup procedures along with install instructions if another team wasgoing to implement the new hardwareAdministrate secure communications with service providers, business partners and officepersonnelo Setup and configure Cisco Routers, Switches, and firewallso Cisco PIX vpn server and client setupo Cisco routers to block common IM services and file sharing applicationso Setup of Linkproof Radware load balancer for fault tolerance and connectionmanagemento Installations and deployment of security certificates into a gateway/tunnel setupto allow for backend process to securely communicate with business partnersSetup of Asterisk PBX server to handle VOIP services between two providersAssist in development and design of applicationso Assist with data mining of coding modules to parse new reports to be insertedinto the databaseso Automate administrative and back office tasks