Cloud Systems Administrator
CurrentNetApp ONTAP 9.x, StorageGrid, VMware, Ubuntu/CentOS/SUSE, Nagios XI, Ansible, Jira, Confluence, Device42
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John M. Anglin is listed as Cloud Systems Administrator at Decisive Group Inc., based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at decisive.ca and a matched LinkedIn profile for John M. Anglin.
John M. Anglin previously worked as Cloud Systems Administrator at Britesky Technologies, Enterprise Canadian Cloud and Senior Analyst, IT Operations at Ciena. John M. Anglin holds Bed, Computer Science, English from Queen'S University.
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- Experience supporting global enterprise storage & UNIX-based environments spanning 29 years with particular focus on automation and reporting.- Excellent writing skills with diverse educational background.- Instructional & leadership experience in military and qualified Ontario secondary school teacher.- Level 1 (confidential) security clearance granted 1991, reliability clearance renewed in 2011 and Oct 2020, Level 2 (secret) clearance granted Feb 2021.
Listed skills include Unix, Perl, Enterprise Storage, Nas, and 10 others.
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Ottawa, Ontario, Ca
NetApp ONTAP 9.x, StorageGrid, VMware, Ubuntu/CentOS/SUSE, Nagios XI, Ansible, Jira, Confluence, Device42
Hanover, Maryland, Us
Member of small team supporting 2000+ UNIX/Linux R&D systems globally, but also heavily involved in storage operations.- Key role in offloading Isilon cluster and several other NAS migrations. NetApp 7-mode & cDOT, iSCSI/FC, some StorageGrid, Netbackup & Commvault- Managed/enhanced in-house inventory webserver VM with MySQL db and perl reporting agent deployed to over 4000 UNIX-based clients globally.- Managed/automated LDAP account & homedir creation processes globally.- Some python/javascript/VUE development work involving AWS EC2 instances and cloudformation stacks. Completed 3-day Architecting On AWS course Aug 2020 but not certified- RHEL/CentOS 5/6/7, OracleLinux 7/8, Fedora 14/17, Solaris 10/11, Vmware, Puppet & Ansible
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Responsibilities included operational oversight, monthly service audits, site capacity/closure planning, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and corporate wind-down. Starting May 2012, this included daily Netbackup operations for North America and tape handling in Ottawa.- Managed/enhanced in-house historical backup reporting webserver VM with Oracle db running javascript/sqlplus-embedded cgi queries and Solaris/Windows perl/VBscript reporting agents deployed at each site.- Assisted with scoping and deployment of Data Domain DD880 virtual tape library in advance of Nortel corporate HQ datacenter move in 2010. - Wrote perl enhancement to Netbackup bpduplicate, optimizing daily replication of ~9.5Tb from VTL to physical tape for offsite DR requirements.
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Storage analyst in small global team exclusively supporting Nortel’s SAN/NAS storage infrastructure.- Overhauled & standardized in-house perl scripts used globally to cycle Nortel's SAN BCV/clone/snapshot volumes for Oracle/Clearcase backups, including expanded error checking, central reporting & automated ticket generation.- After stabilizing Nortel’s aging Packeteer/BlueCoat/iShared Wide Area Filesystem (WAFS) infrastructure in 2008, I managed 2009 project to replace it with a 5-site NetApp FlexCache solution spanning 3 continents.- EMC Symmetrix/DMX/Clariion, Celerra with McData/Connectrix/Brocade SAN switches- Solaris 9/10, HP-UX 10/11/11i and RHEL4
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Member of small team responsible for shared global IT services and, until 2009, new product introduction. Specialized in standardization & automation of global computing environments.- Ottawa project manager for Nortel's 2006 migration of 60Tb NAS off 21 EMC Celerra datamovers and refresh of 30Tb SAN attached to 66 critical servers when Nortel only had ~325Tb globally. This involved planning & co-ordination of IT personnel, storage vendor engineers and application owners for multiple maintenance outages within 2 month period. This project saved Nortel over $10M and I accumulated 42 days of overtime within 45 calendar days.- Evaluated 3rdparty archiving solutions (Arkivio, Commvault, EMC DiskExtender) including proof of concept trial in 2008.- Chaired weekly engineering forum from 2007 to 2010, focussing on computing environment standards and system configurations controllable via cfengine.- Developed perl mechanism that compares network printers configured on UNIX-based systems against a list and automatically adds any missing. Without this, a global Nortel printer/photocopier replacement program in 2007 would not have been feasible.- Solaris 7/8/9/10, HP-UX 10/11/11i and RHEL 4
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UNIX systems analyst responsible for NAS storage and 3rd level IT support in role that gradually expanded to global scope.- Developed in-house perl script for agent-less collection via ssh, parsing and centralized reporting of native system state and storage information, including mapping physical disks to exported volumes involving a myriad of different file structures for Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, AIX, NetApp, EMC Celerra and Auspex systems. Its polling of over 2000 non-Windows servers saved Nortel $6M in 2002 and provided data for mechanism generating NIS automounter maps hourly at all major Nortel sites, also developed by me.- Developed in-house NFS scanning/reporting tool that summarized file level attributes per filesystem for all Nortel NAS data, facilitating optimization programs and was instrumental in all of Nortel's divestiture planning from late 2006 to 2011.- Engineering and operational oversight for CVS-controlled implementation of cfengine managing 3/4 of Nortel's non-lab UNIX-based server/workstation systems in Ottawa since 1998 and globally 2001-2011- Auspex NS600/NS7000/NS2000, Netapp 7-mode, EMC Celerra & Symmetrix, Hitachi & HP XP512 storage arrays with McData/Connectrix/Brocade SAN switches- Solaris 5/6/7/8, HP-UX 9/10, RHEL 4, some AIX 4.X, Xterminals
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Contractor with Contractors Network Corporation (CNC) in UNIX helpdesk position providing 1st and 2nd-level computing support at BNR / Northern Telecom.- Rewrote in-house perl scripts tracking historical usage/ownership/location of UNIX home directories, initially distributed among workgroup servers. Deployment expanded from Ottawa in 1996 to globally since 2000, including web-based self-migration tool. Location information accurate to within 30 minutes was sufficient for hourly generation of auto.home automounter maps at all major sites.- SunOS4, Solaris5, HP-UX 8/9
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John M. Anglin works for Decisive Group Inc..
John M. Anglin is listed as Cloud Systems Administrator at Decisive Group Inc..
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John M. Anglin has worked for Decisive Group Inc., Britesky Technologies, Enterprise Canadian Cloud, Ciena, Nortel, and Bell Northern Research.
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John M. Anglin holds Bed, Computer Science, English from Queen'S University.
John M. Anglin is listed with skills including Unix, Perl, Enterprise Storage, Nas, San, Automation, Hp Ux, and Solaris.
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