Daniel Raymer Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

Architect, implement, and manage a globally deployed managed file transfer solution to insure safe, secure, and reliable delivery & receipt of critical business data.Conduct security audits for PCI complianceModernize legacy infrastructure to current standards

Courbevoie, Ile De France, Fr

Franklin, Tn, Us

Goodlettsville, Tn, Us

• Architect and implement data recovery solutions for disaster recovery purposes. Reduced backup and recovery times for greater than 4 times by eliminating Physical and Virtual Tape Libraries and utilizing deduplication disk based backups. Reduced disaster recovery objective from 48 hours to 24 hours with 100% data recovery.• Assist UNIX/Linux Administrators in development of application environments and establishing a standardized patch/maintenance cycle using Red Hat Satellite Server and Puppet.• Assisted Oracle database administrators in conceptualization and implementation of Oracle RAC running on Linux x86 based systems.• Mentor junior team members on system administration methodology, technologies, and techniques.

Goodlettsville, Tn, Us

• Designed and solely administered the enterprise backup solution using EMC NetWorker, Avamar, and Data Domain to protect multiple petabytes of data across multiple operating systems and applications. Application protection included MS Exchange, Sharepoint, SQL Server, Oracle databases, and miscellaneous web applications.• Responsible for all data recovery for disaster recovery purposes. Successfully reduced the company’s disaster recovery time objective from over 7 days to less than 48 hours with 100% data recovery.• Primary Senior Linux Administrator responsible for all new platform deployments. Successfully implemented the company’s first large scale Oracle Enterprise Linux deployment to include deployment documentation, configuration, patch management procedures, and administration procedures. Investigated and deployed all new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, CentOS 6, Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 & 6 environments.• Managed and administered Red Hat Satellite Server and all local yum repositories.• Assisted Oracle database administrators in conceptualization and implementation of Oracle RAC running on Linux x86 based systems.• Mentor junior team members on system administration methodology, technologies, and techniques.• Developed and implemented the company’s first comprehensive UNIX/Linux patch maintenance policy.• Provide documentation and mentoring on standardized troubleshooting methods to assist team members in conducting logical, measured troubleshooting in emergency situations.• Responsible for administration, maintenance, deployment, and troubleshooting of all Linux based virtual environments using the VMware vSphere environment.

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

• Designed, deployed, and administered VMware ESX environments utilizing multiple physical and virtual data centers. Responsible for consolidation of over 300 servers in virtual environments spanning 19 physical VMware vSphere 4 servers. Responsible for the design and implementation of upgrade paths for virtual environments.• Lead technical member designing and implementing a comprehensive DNS/DHCP environment migration to BT INS Diamond IP appliances to provide highly redundant and robust consolidated IP Management, DHCP, and DNS for the University. Hostmaster for vanderbilt.edu, multiple ARIN Class B networks and private Class A networks, and for over 100 additional domains. Responsible for the administration of over 900 zones in a multiple BIND View deployment.• Lead technical member for migrating existing Solaris/SPARC based systems to Linux on x86/x86-64 (specifically Red Hat Enterprise 4 and 5) to reduce support costs, administration workload, and to standardize on a single platform when possible.• Designed hosting services for University departments to consolidate and standardize platforms. Focus on providing highly available web and application based services to insure maximum uptime.• Assisted Oracle database administrators in conceptualization and implementation of Oracle RAC running on Linux x86 based systems.• Provide documentation and mentoring on standardized troubleshooting methods to assist team members in conducting logical, measured troubleshooting in emergency situations.• Conducted hardware lifecycle migration studies to minimize legacy hardware platforms. Focus on 3-5 year lifespan for hardware components.• Built and maintained Red Hat Network Satellite Server for use by all departments and student body of the University.• Mentor junior team members on system administration methodology, technologies, and techniques

Nashville, Tn, Us

• Deployed and administered the company’s first dynamic logical partitioning systems using IBM Power5 and AIX 5.3 based systems.• Designed, implemented, and administered the company’s secure file transfer solution to comply with government regulations using FTP over SSL and Secure FTP over SSH.• Deployed and administered over multiple Linux servers running on Intel based hardware. Server functions included Sendmail, Apache, DNS, and databases. Linux distributions used were Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1 and 3.0.• Performed administration for more than 150 IBM RS/6000 Power4 and Power5 based servers running AIX 4.3.3, 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3. Performed user, print, and file system administration.• Performed administration for more than 250 Sun Solaris based servers running Solaris 2.6 through Solaris 9. Performed user, print, and file system administration• Utilized Solstice Disk Suite to configure RAID functions on multiple disk arrays.• Supported Enterprise level backups using Veritas NetBackup.• Investigated hardware migration and capacity studies to insure that 24-36 month server and storage capacity would be implemented and maintained.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Deployed and administered 65 Sun servers running Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 8. Servers ranged from Netra v100 servers to Sun Fire 6800 servers in multiple domain configurations.• Designed, implemented, and administered the company’s first Storage Area Network (SAN) utilizing a Sun StorEdge 3960 array. Configured zoning of SAN switches and the addition of hosts and tape backup libraries.• Designed, implemented, and administered the company’s first enterprise level backup solution using Legato NetWorker. The solution incorporated multiple tape libraries and multiple operating systems while encompassing production and development servers.• Deployed and administered over 170 Linux servers running on Intel based hardware. Server functions included Sendmail, Apache, DNS, and databases.• Performed administration on IBM RS/6000 servers running AIX 4.3.3. Performed user, print, and file system administration.• Utilized Veritas Volume Manager and Solstice Disk Suite to configure RAID functions on multiple disk arrays.• Investigated hardware migration and capacity studies to insure that 24-36 month server and storage capacity would be implemented and maintained.• Installed, configure, and administered firewalls using Checkpoint FW-1, NG and Linux based ip-tables based systems.• Responsible for vendor relations, support contract negotiations, and equipment purchases for production and development environments.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

• Performed administration functions on a variety of Sun based intelligence activity support systems. Systems included the All Source Analysis System Remote Workstation (ASAS-RWS) running on Sun Sparc 20’s and Ultra 2’s running Solaris 2.5.1 to Solaris 7, Warlord Notebook running Red Hat Linux 4.2 to 6.0, Joint Deployable Dissemination and Intelligence Software System (JDISS) running on Sun Sparc 5’s with SunOS 4.x, and the Rapid Application of Air Power/Joint Targeting Toolkit (RAAP/JTT) running SunOS 4.4.• Performed initial software testing and fielding of ASAS-RWS and RAAP/JTT which would later be fielded service wide in the US Army and Air Force.• Performed junior level database administration of Sybase and Oracle 7 databases within the RAAP/JTT and ASAS-RWS.• Conducted training of software functionality to users of the RAAP/JTT and ASAS-RWS systems.• Leadership responsibilities included small team management (up to 10 members) and personal accountability of equipment valued over $6 million.