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As senior system administrator, manage a diverse array of physical & virtualized Linux hosts; support a large development team which writes next-gen software for telecom carriers worldwide. Ensure hardware care & feeding, software/OS installations, monitoring, alerting, and Linux-AD integration. Introduce NetApp storage & deploy VMware infrastructure to support vCenter, vMotion, & vSwitch. Begin OpenStack integration.

Senior Unix/Linux sysadmin for the largest owner of cellphone towers in the world. Duties included maintaining *nix environment which monitored operations at each tower site.Technologies included Redhat (RHEL), CentOS, Solaris, and VMWare & ESX.

As part of a ~20 member team, I managed ~7,000 Unix/Linux/Windows servers consisting of Intel, PowerPC, and SPARC hardware. Our main task was to support the internal developers who wrote the source code upon which EMC’s technologies work. This included storage such as Symmetrix, CLARiiON, VPlex, etc. We routinely installed the below OS’ as needed, in a wide variety of configurations: All major versions of Linux, mainly:RedHat & CentOS, versions 3 thru 6, SUSE & OpenSuse… Show more As part of a ~20 member team, I managed ~7,000 Unix/Linux/Windows servers consisting of Intel, PowerPC, and SPARC hardware. Our main task was to support the internal developers who wrote the source code upon which EMC’s technologies work. This included storage such as Symmetrix, CLARiiON, VPlex, etc. We routinely installed the below OS’ as needed, in a wide variety of configurations: All major versions of Linux, mainly:RedHat & CentOS, versions 3 thru 6, SUSE & OpenSuse, versions up to 12.1 Debian & Ubuntu, versions 2 thru 6All major Unix versions, mainly:Solaris, versions 8 thru 11AIX, versions up to 6.0 Show less

Sole system administrator in charge of running computerworld.com’s website. Accomplishments:I transitioned computerworld.com’s website from an old platform which routinely had long downtimes to a high end, high availability modern Solaris/Linux environment.I primarily worked with the developers & programmers who wrote the code to make computerworld.com work.Regular tasks were installing Apache, MySQL, Postgres, memcachd, monitoring & resolving network traffic when… Show more Sole system administrator in charge of running computerworld.com’s website. Accomplishments:I transitioned computerworld.com’s website from an old platform which routinely had long downtimes to a high end, high availability modern Solaris/Linux environment.I primarily worked with the developers & programmers who wrote the code to make computerworld.com work.Regular tasks were installing Apache, MySQL, Postgres, memcachd, monitoring & resolving network traffic when we were “Slashdotted”, and ensuring the overall platform worked. Show less

As part of a staff of 7, we implemented and ran a linux/unix infrastructure of about 15000-20000 servers. We increased uptime to from 91% to 99+%. Introduced a change management structure via Bugzilla. Much in-house Bash & Perl hacking. I also constructed a very large scale distributed Nagios monitoring infrastructure.

When you go to Ford.com (or any other car website) and click on the “configure my car” button, it was that ensured that “that” worked.

Officer in the Coast Guard with much senior IT experience.Specific software experiencePerl & Bash scripting. RackMonkey. Nagios. Bugzilla. EMC Connectrix, DNS, NIS, NFS, Autofs. SELinux, NTP, NAT, IPv6, Veritas backup, CPanel, SNMP, SMTP, Exim, IPTables. EMC Powerpath. Bugzilla. Specific hardware experienceEmulex & Qlogic HBA's, EMC, Brocade, & Cisco fiber switches, EMC DCX series fiber switches, Sun iLOM, Dell DRAC. Cisco UCS servers. Netgear and Linksys… Show more Officer in the Coast Guard with much senior IT experience.Specific software experiencePerl & Bash scripting. RackMonkey. Nagios. Bugzilla. EMC Connectrix, DNS, NIS, NFS, Autofs. SELinux, NTP, NAT, IPv6, Veritas backup, CPanel, SNMP, SMTP, Exim, IPTables. EMC Powerpath. Bugzilla. Specific hardware experienceEmulex & Qlogic HBA's, EMC, Brocade, & Cisco fiber switches, EMC DCX series fiber switches, Sun iLOM, Dell DRAC. Cisco UCS servers. Netgear and Linksys management technologies. Barracuda, F5, & Checkpoint firewalls. Show less