Larry Ploetz Email & Phone Number

As a Linux Systems Administrator with more that 20 years experience I am a strong team member with creative approaches to problem solving and providing solutions to people with varying needs and knowledge, with strong communication skills that I use to educate, mentor, brain-storm, integrate requirements and to provide useful presentations and disseminate technical information with minimal technical jargon and maximal knowledge transfer. I derive a great deal of satisfaction getting the mystique and difficulty in computing reduced and getting people actively involved in using computers as their tools. I excel at bringing together needs, requirements, software and hardware solutions.Specialties: Linux, AIX, Solaris, VMWare, x86, x86_64, PPC, Alpha, Sparc, s/390, SAN, NAS, DAS, DNAS, DASD, TCP/IP, KVM, LXC, firewall, load balancing, Bacula, EBS, Networker, ADSM, TSM, Linux, Mac and Windows desktops, Git, Puppet, performance tuning, redundancy, robust scalable systems, Apache, Tomcat, FOSS, GNU Manifesto

Listed skills include Unix, Solaris, Tcp/Ip, Linux, and 34 others.

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  Operations Engineer

  Pinger

  Apr 2016 - Present - San Jose

  AWS, Kubernetes, nomad, consul, docker, podman, splunk, CentOS 6, 7 & 8, VMs, bash, Linux utilities, Dell server hardware, Puppet, git, subversion