Greg Skafte Email & Phone Number

Edmonton, Canada Area

Edmonton, Canada Area

Currently Supporting RHEL, Centos, SLES, Solaris X86, KVM, Openstack, VMWare, Vmware integrated Openstack, and Hyper-V environments on a variety of Dell, HP, and IBM/Lenovo x86_64 Servers, IBM H Chassis, Lenovo Flex Chassis.Support of 100GigE Infrastructure on BNT (IBM/Lenovo), Juniper, Dell, HP (Procurve, A-Series), Cisco Switches (Nexus, Catalyst.) MLX-10/40G, Big Switch Cumulus Linux, FortiSwitch.Support of a Large Multi-domain and Multi-forest Active Directory environments.Support of Fibre Channel Infrastructure Brocade, Cisco MDS.Support of Solaris 10 on x86_64 and Sparc. Solaris 11 on Sparc. AIX and PowerVM on IBM Power Series systems. Netapp NFS and iSCSI support 7Modes, and CDot.Solidfire iSCSI Storage infrastructure.F5 BigIP Load-balancer support. Juniper, Paloalto, Fortinet, pFSense, Endian, Checkpoint Firewall Support.Loopless network implementation using VSS, IRF, and VCP.OpenStack Newton using Redhat Openstack Director 10 and 13.Redhat Enterprise Virtualization Manager (Rhevm).Virtualization using KVM, Pacemaker, and Corosync, on shared storage infrastructure.Support of Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure, including database replication, subscriptions, and log shipping. Support of Oracle, Mysql/MariaDB, Postgresql, Hadoop, and Mongo Cassandra databases. Support, Deployment, and Maintainance of VMWare and Hyper-V Environments. Writing Powershell and GOVC scripts for automation of VMWare configuration and Maintenance. Debugging and Maintenance of various Perl, Python, and Shell scripts for automation of tasks or daily support duties.

Edmonton, Canada Area

Redeployment of IP Networking infrastructure to fully utilize Spanning Tree capabilities of previous infrastructure. (Cisco IOS, Cisco CatOS)Deployment of new Dell MD3000i iSCSI SAN. (Windows 2k8r2 , ESXi 3.5.x, ESXi 4.X)Deployment of Hyper-V and ESXi, and migration of physical servers to virtualized servers.Migration of Windows 2003 Server to Windows 2008R2 Servers.Deployment of service and performance monitoring infrastructure, using nagios and cacti. (Nagios & SNMP)Restructured AD in preparation of SSO technologies.Review and development of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans.Design and deployment of high availability cloud infrastructure on rackspace and cloudfiles. (Ubuntu, Windows, Cloud Balancer, Cloud Files)Created a multi-site IPSEC VPN. (Fortigate)Operations of Application as Service for various in-house products and services. (Java, Ruby, Python, C#, PHP, Node.js; Apache, NginX, Tomcat, IIS; Rails, Twisted, Spring; Mysql, Postgres, Mongo, Sql Server; HA-Proxy; Hadoop)

Daily maintenance, audit of performance and security of pre-NHL web services. (Apache, FreeBSD, IPFW, Mysql)Game night photography for edmontonoilers.com and visiting team websites. (CanonEOS)Audit and review of code deployed on web server. (PHP, SQL)

Rebuilt and re-engineered redundant data centers. ( eBGP, iBGP, OSPF)Migration of servers from NT4 to Windows 2003.Replaced VPN technology with Citrix Metaframe for remote users.Designed and deployed a multi-homed multi-tiered server infrastructure including monitoring and auditing. (FreeBSD, Apache, PHP, Postgres, Snort, Quagga (iBGP, OSPF), IPFW)Secured infrastructure to meet or exceed customer requirements to maintain market research and customer satisfaction data.Assisted in the migration of telecommunications infrastructure to support VOIP and SIP facilities. (Avaya, Cisco, Custom in-house software)Assisted in the setup and maintenance of client business continuity infrastructure.Prototyped and maintained an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) System. (Dialogic, VOS, Windows 2k3)Assisted in the development of Geotel Proxy to facilitate blind transfer of callers for client satisfaction surveys. (Unixware, + VOS Windows 2k3).Maintenance and security of various UNIX based systems including FreeBSD, Redhat Linux, and Unixware.

Edmonton, Canada Area

Daily operations of an Internet Service Provider network (ISP). Conversion to a Multi-homed (eBGP,iBGP) fully dynamically routed network including multi-area OSPF and RIP-V2. Migration of servers from BSD/OS to FreeBSD. Maintenance of customized systems for client firewalls. Migration from analog to digital (V.92) modem pools (Cisco AS5300, ASCEND Max). Sales support of Sun Skip and Altavista Tunnel VPN products. Sales and client support of Sun One and Altavista Firewall Products. Deployment and security of multi-city ADSL (DMT Based) service. Deployment and maintainance of ADSL (CAP Based) service. Deployment and maintenance of HDSL and SDSL services. Debugging and patching of open source software for web servers and routing appliances. System, network, and security consulting for clients as contracted. (DGUX, OSF/1, HP-UX, Solaris)Creating of custom reporting and billing software (Perl, Paradox, Delphi)

Edmonton, Canada Area

Provided shell based Internet Access (HP-UX).Provide SLIP/PPP access (Livingston Port Master.)Connected Remote PPP and SLIP, Points of Presence.( HP Procurve routers, Livingston Port Masters)Maintained Connections to ARNet ( Gandalf Routers, Cisco Routers)Wrote and maintained an Invoicing system (Paradox Windows, Perl)

Electrical Engineering

General Science