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Tokyo, Japan, JP

• Performed performance tuning, upgrades, and server resource optimization
• Managed Software Configuration Management tools, Ansible and Puppet to install software; evolved environment scripts to ensure deployed resources adhere to policies
• Worked closely with development teams to drive continual improvement of cloud capabilities, help facilitate solutions, and maximize resource utilization
• Maintained and supported the following systems – Red Hat Enterprise versions 6 & 7, Satellite 6.3, BlueCat (IPam), Murex Trade Risk Management Platform, JsCape Managed File Transfer (MFT), IBM MQ, Tidal Enterprise.
• Developed tools to deploy, manage, monitor and troubleshoot servers on and off premises
• Strong communication skills – demonstrate leadership and expertise in managing projects

Jericho, NY, US

• Maintained a CentOS 6 &7 LAMP environment managing AWS, VCenter & Physical Server units Collaborated in a “DevOps” environment – worked closely with developers for QA and more
• Set up Ansible server with structured roles, wrote playbooks to deploy and provision servers
• Strong knowledge of webservers - Thorough working knowledge of SSL offloading and load balancing algorithms, with the ability to configure Apache
• Setup and maintained: LDAP, NFS, DNS, F5, Apache, SVN, MySQL Server – PhpMyAdmin environments, Akamai, Memcached, ElastiCache, and Terracotta; Composer & Supervisord, Splunk, SumoLogic, Nagios, NewRelic, Alertsite.
• Developed an Application Registry, Wiki & web Journal tools - built using php, css, & mysql
• Applied deep expertise of systems administration and networking to improve operating procedures

Bethpage, New York, US

• Performed ongoing performance tuning, upgrades and optimization on Red Hat Enterprise, CentOS and FreeBSD servers that ran on both Physical and VmWare virtuals
• Installed software, configured, implemented security patches, and provided overall support
• Utilized Kickstart and Chef to configure RHEL & CentOS servers – set up and maintained NFS, File, Apache Web server clusters; F5 load balancers, and SAN storage
• Problem solving skills; developed a Change Management web tool for production change control
• Monitored alert systems, responded to support tickets, did root cause analysis to solve problems
• Made architectural design decisions, solved technical problems and improved systems

New York, NY, US

• Managed a large WAN server environment ranging from UNIX Solaris, and Red Hat Enterprise
• Manually baselined new machines; configured the following: Apache, Vignette, DNS (BIND), TCP/IP, Sendmail, Samba, Kerberos, NFS, Memcache, Tomcat, ClamAV and Nagios
• Proficient in writing Bash, Perl, CGI, PHP, TCL scripts and HTML
• Monitored system activities by utilizing Nagios, Site Scope, BMC ProactiveNet and Watcher
• Managed Kerberos user accounts, and maintained account privileges
• Documented procedures in a knowledge base; maintained an web journal for system changes

New York, New York, US

• Installed, and performed hardware maintenance for Solaris and Linux servers
• Managed user account access privileges, individual and system login scripts on Windows NT and Win2K/03
• Did daily backups and common system problems troubleshooting
• Involved in datacenter move, moved data to destination disks using vxdump/vxrestore and ufsdump/ufsrestore
• Configured newly built system with veritas volume manager
• Maintained Red Hat Enterprise version 2 & 3 user accounts – RHEL platform deployed in 2003

Bachelor, Business Administration / Information Technology (Bba/ It)

Certificate, Linux Administration

Diploma, Network Specialist