Had to leave this wonderful IT position due to health issues. Was not there long enough to qualify for FMLA. Currently working as a freelancer and am now healthy enough to return to work at least part time.

Serve as Unix System Administrator responsible for maintaining up to 30 web, application, file and database servers running various versions of Red Hat Linux, Solaris and HP-UX in a production engineering environment.Support Engineering design applications and tools such as Synchronicity and Mentor Graphics.Collaborate with other System Administrators on the team to design and implement the computing infrastructure within an enterprise Data Center.Ensure system integrity by evaluating, proposing, and implementing software and hardware solutions.Recommend and implement system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of servers and workstations.Troubleshoot complex problems with applications and operating systems.Design and implement new applications or scripts for process improvement.Design, manage and implement new projects for improving overall performance of the computing infrastructure. Secure and protect customer data by implementing and managing a Backup and Recovery process with Symantec NetBackup.Work with the user community to troubleshoot server performance and application issues. Assist users with access to applications and file shares.

Served as Linux/Unix system administrator/programmer analyst with the Operations unit of a digital data center at UCSD. Created and maintained programs and scripts for system administration automation and web server support. Provided complex technical support for administrative, instructional, research and digital storage projects.Provided development and support of computer servers and systems, including servers in support of backups and disk imaging, web, application, database and file servers. Conducted hardware and software analysis and contributed to applications and systems administration and monitoring software development and support. Developed, modified, tested and supported web and application servers, web programs and web page content. Developed and maintained access control and authentication systems. Integrated Linux and Windows hardware and software systems and applications into existing environments. Install, maintain, and troubleshoot computing hardware at all device levels. Contribute to the development of secure computer and network standards, practices and policies. Primary platforms supported include: workstations and servers running Red Hat Linux ES, AS and various other Linux and UNIX and Windows variants. Supported integration of Linux and Active Directory and their network connection environments including TCP/IP, IPX/SPX Novell, Samba, WebDAV, rsync, ldap, dhcp, wins and MS Networking protocols. Designed, configured, and maintained a network monitoring system using Nagios and the Apache web server.

An international communications design and manufacturing company.; Worked with the Customer Support team of IT Engineers that administers and maintains computer systems for the IC Engineering group. – Worked closely with peers in Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT) Engineering Systems team to ensure that the IC Engineering compute farm is reliable and integrated smoothly with QCT computing environmentProvided primary phone support for QCT Unix system and application users.Provided support for LSF users and assisted with LSF configuration and maintenance.Installed software for the IC Engineering group in AFS volumes.Provided support for Sunray users.Assisted in designing a method to make system configurations consistent across the entire QCT computing environment using an internal variant of cfengine.

An international semiconductor designer and producer; Installed, configured, updated, and maintained UNIX servers running Solaris, SunOS, and HP-UX in the Test and Production environments. These servers controlled the operations of multi-million dollar probing equipment used to test semiconductor wafers and were required to have a 24/7 availability.Created and installed UNIX shell and PERL scripts to automate routine maintenance tasks and enhance the overall performance and reliability of the systems.Designed, configured, and maintained a remote monitoring system on a Linux server running Red Hat 7.2. Used shell scripts and other tools to notify an administrator via email of trouble before a crisis occurred, thereby maximizing the efficiency and reliability of the Test Floor systems.Maintained High Availability file servers running VERITAS File System and Volume manager to provide efficient and reliable access to data on a 24/7 basis.

Managed a Test Lab of PC workstations running Windows NT 4.0. so that software developers could test their code in a controlled environment.Created custom packages of security and GNU tools for UNIX servers and workstations to standardize and maximize efficiency of installation and configuration.Configured, upgraded and maintained a Test Data Center containing Sun E5000 servers running Solaris 2.5.1 to provide an optimal test environment for software and engineering developers.