Patrick B. Email & Phone Number

Oakland, California, Us

Working for large healthcare provider that needs Active Directory Linux connection services (One Identity) IAM/UAM Installed and updated 5000+ RedHat Linux OS 7,8,9 also trouble shooting also Authentication Service Software (Powerbroker). These servers needed to be updated with OS level support with these 2 main 3rd party software security applications. Handled all change control related to this for production and non-production servers and used ServiceNow tracking for issues that occurred to be resolved from changes.

Carlsbad, Ca, Us

I Upgraded the Secure and not Secure Government labs in Carlsbad to the latest Desktop, Laptop and Server Technologies to make them DOD Compliant for auditing purposes. I am imaging Lab desktop systems to the latest Windows 10 / Windows 2019 & Ubuntu 20.04 to keep in compliance standards via. Using PXE boot and using MS Endpoint and Dell updates. Inventorying and contacting all Lab Administrators for compliance, scheduling and swap out of systems also using internal Squirrel, JIRA Helpdesk and other systems for ticketing and tracking of systems.

• I Operated 3 commercial Data Center locations for the company in San Diego CA, for both Production Servers and Development Servers on an Ubuntu 20.04.03 LTS platform mixed in with MS Windows Virtualization with Hyper-V, Oracle VirtualBox and VMware ESXI servers. Used Dell and Super Micro Computer Hardware. Was some Rack and Stack, Day to Day helpdesk operations to support and an offshore 30+ person development team with day and night issues and to keep servers running 7/24. Built up a NEW Data Center for a private Production Network for the company kept our Customers Evo Health and Citywide in New York running with our Medical imaging products without 0 failures.• Supported 1000+ US and International users for LSF farms in Las Vegas, Singapore, Italy and other countries on VMware vSphere systems running on Exceed TurboX (ETX) with CentOS and Redhat Systems running as backend servers for users running Load Shares for generation of CAD drawings of Integrated Circuit Designs. Used NIS for Linux AD equivalent and used Windows AD also for users username, groups and password storage in several different domains. Upgraded 100+ servers from CentOS 6 to 7 using FOG (PXE) and using Dell M1000E PowerEdge Blade Enclosures for nodes for the CentOS and Redhat servers. I administered other vSphere 6.X servers running various production environments and engineering services.• I fully supported IT of the San Diego office of Virapur a BioScience center in San Diego. Responsible for Tier 1 – Tier 3 support for office starting with Desktop / Laptop Imaging and trouble remediation using the Solarwinds WebHelpDesk utility and responding to tickets and emergencies as they would come along for Windows Server issues or 3rd party software problems. I also used Active Directory for Windows and Server Administration along with Basic Group Policies. Kept Bio lab PC’s and lab equipment up to day on firmware and OS related patches. I handled day to day user administration office & labs

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

I’m Responsible for moving a Datacenter from Phoenix, AZ to New Datacenter in Wisconsin. Primary duties are decommissioning old 2008 windows servers and creating 300+ new ones in Windows 10 Enterprise, Windows 2012, 2016 & 2019 to migrate Operating Systems and Install ACBS Financial Software, Oracle 12 & Newer versions, configuring ODBC Drivers, Oracle Software and LANSA software. I am Using VMware vCenter for the new systems. Use a ticketing system for tickets and project tracking.

Duties included maintaining 30+ VMware Guests that were primary servers for the company on VMware 6.5. Ran Windows & RedHat Linux for hosting OS. Used Active Directory also AD Audit Plus to manage domain level duties, Maintained 2 full sized racks of equipment in a local server room consisting of Dell 620 & 720’s and APC UPS Power Systems use for the Infrastructure also took care of the Brocade POE switches as well as desktop computers & printers. Programmed the Shoretel phone switch and maintained it also. Desktop support and user interaction were also part of the daily job to maintain as well as using a Zendesk Helpdesk for tickets and issues. I Administered 3 remote offices also.

I was responsible for managing 12+ clients for this MSP. Most used Windows 7 & 10 for desktops and Windows 2008 R2 thru Windows 2016 for servers and domain controllers as well I Maintained Red Hat 7.x & Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS servers. My responsibilities were keeping everything running via tickets and either RDP sessions or onsite visits to fix issues. I worked with Dell, HP DL 380 and Super Micro rack mounted in client server room and also Desktop systems. I was in charge of Desktops, Servers, DHCP, DNS, Antivirus, Domain Controllers, Active Directory, VM’s, Network Printers and Scanners as well as all 3rd party software, SAGE, MS Office 365 etc. We used Buffalo Raid Storage at most sites. I managed VMware vCenter & vSphere, (some Hyper-V). There were over 200 user’s total. I Administered Office 365 as we were a Partner Affiliate for our customers and administered SAGE 300 CRE and SAGE 100 contractor and all software and OS upgrades as required.

Vélizy-Villacoublay, Fr

I was responsible for deploying new RHEL 7.X & Windows 10 Enterprise, 2012 R2 & 2016 VM’s. Handling day to day storage, networking, and OS related issues. D.S. was using a Helpdesk Ticketing system for task assignments. Primarily I was Patching, Security Software, Installing TrendMicro & Microsoft and SCCM Client 5.X & debugging for maintaining current OS updates, Microsoft AD & security updates. I also wrote new documentation for an I.T. Self-Learning portal.

San Diego, California, Us

Created VMware VM’s on a VSphere 6.5 system guests on Windows 2012 R2, 2016, RHEL 7, Oracle 7 Linux OS and CentOS for use in a small Data Center of 1000 existing VM server farm in a vSphere environment for production. I maintained a 100+ Dell R630 physical server environment and also following HIPAA security compliance standards. I assisted in new project rollouts for Hospital Applications critical to operations and participated in weekly change control meetings for central production Data Center. Cross trained with current staff for weekend and on-call support of all systems. All IT staff used a ticketing system that was in place and utilized for all tasks, issues, projects, updates and patching control.

San Diego, California, Us

Working in Data Center with 3000+ Teradata Server Database systems using SUSE / SLES 10 & 11 Linux & Solaris OS also handling Software problems, OS patching & upgrades. Fixing Intel & Dell Server Hardware problems and/or RAID & Storage related, using Seagate Dot Hill DA’s, Intel, & LSI Mega Raid and Dell storage systems. I was in charge of installing Linux OS & Teradata software for new deployment of new servers also handling any day to day issues through Service-Now tickets for TD Engineers in order to have systems run properly to meet on time production release schedules. Networking Team used Fortinet, Cisco and Juniper Hardware. We used Active Directory for the Linux SSO login administration.

Responsible for a lab of 3+ Intel Based Servers on Red Hat 7.2, OS patching, release updating and bug tracking. Applications included MariaDB, git-lab, Apache Web. Keeping computers maintaining FINRA security compliances. Installed Cisco ASA-5505 firewall a Cisco Switch, Wireless Netgear AP Router, GPO & Active Directory administration, Microsoft Office 365 E3 Administrator and did full desktop support in the office, installed Windows 10 desktops & laptops.

Managed an On Site server room with 5 racks of equipment including 20 - HP DL380 servers, also Dell and Cisco computer servers. Maintained a Cisco Catalyst 5500 (Cisco CLI) with 128 ports a NetApp server for local storage. Handled all desktop support and VMware servers total 100+ guest virtual systems we had onsite for dev & prod. Ran a Cisco Unity phone with DID’s, Tape Backup system with Iron Mountain Offsite and managed a 3 engineers with an MSP company for primary support services. 60+ Desktop IMac’s, Mac OSX Laptops, IPad & IPhone, HP Laptops Windows 7 Pro, 100+ Servers RedHat Linux 6.x and Windows 2008 & 2012 Enterprise Servers. Following HIPAA security compliance standards

San Diego, Ca, Us

Worked in a team of 12 supporting 4000+ Engineers in various groups for VMware machines, RedHat 6, SLES/SLED 10 & 11, Ubuntu 10.04 & 12.04, Solaris 10 & 11 Remote display (NX, OVDC, Vnc, Xvnc and Citrix), Diagnosed LSF (Load Sharing Facility) system. and related OS system issues. Assisted on issues related to VNC, Citrix Metaframe, OVDC & No Machine NX 3.5., NFS, AFS, LDAP & SAMBA,. I worked in our Global Call Center for telephone and email support for Engineers in India, Singapore, China, Ireland and Russia etc. and also local US support.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Managed 20+ CentOS / RedHat 5 & 6 Linux 10 Windows 2008 Servers in HIPAA security compliance Cloud Environment. Day to day operations of managing 3rd party apps., Mirth Software, assisted in VPN setup, Stunnel configurations & Certificate installations. Setup of company domain controller, worked on all the desktop support & Microsoft Office 365 setup and maintenance. Interacted with Cloud Service provider as needed maintained root and administrator controls for daily maintenance and access etc. Always kept patients health information encrypted and secure.

Austin, Tx, Us

Assisted HID in migrating their VSX Clients from 4.0/1 to 5.1 on VMware. Over 80 virtual Linux hosts on local and remote VMware servers, Used VSphere Client 4.1-5.1. Spun up new RedHat 5/6 VM’s. Registered and patched systems. Rhn register & RedHat Customer Portal and maintained inventory of all servers, Systems and Entitlements. Day to day OS issues, printing (CUPS), file system issues etc., also handled minor Oracle problems. Monitored servers via OmniView, Solarwinds and Ping.

Belmont, Ca, Us

Shared responsibility for 200 Redhat 5/6 virtual servers on VMware / VSX 4.0. Additions and deletions of CentOS & RedHat Linux guests on VMware. Handled any and all day to day tasks from any department relating to Linux issues, patching, upgrading or 3rd party applications whether virtual machines or physical. Worked in both the USA office and the Mandaluyong City office in Manila, Philippines.

Worked with 150+ Redhat 5 Linux servers on a Vsphere 4.0 cluster server. Did monthly patching of Linux systems. Installed and configured new servers on VMware. Handled day to day administration of all Linux servers & Apache. Also assisted with Windows Active Directory Administration, Webservers also F5 load balancer’s as part of a small Linux team, disk space, new partitions, user login issues, CPU, any and all crisis’s etc. Maintaining daily FERPA security compliance. • Project to address 50k vulnerabilities that had been identified @ Bridgepoint in Linux Windows 2008 Operating systems. 3 months given to get program started and to initiate deployment and remediation of known issues. Successful deployment of program for continued remediation on a monthly basis. Identify and install 150-500 RedHat 5 Linux Servers with a Antivirus solution that was both low overhead and cost effective. Tested solutions settled on ESET Linux Antivirus solution.

Us

2nd in command of 12 Linux boxes running RedHat ES3 & ES5 Linux some are web facing on the internet. Main applications are Jboss, Apache, Oracle & Teradata. Administering 10+ Sun Solaris 10 boxes running different 3rd party applications nonpublic facing that are used for internal development. Also, in charge of a 2 - 20TB Shark Array’s used for project storage.

Responsible for a lab of 10 Sun machines running Solaris 10 - 10/09 Release, Oracle 10G, Apache Web & Adobe ColdFusion as well as 8 Production machines running similar software. Duties, installing 3rd party applications and maintaining user database as well as handling any issues that were involved in the OS or applications.

San Diego, Ca, Us

Working with government employees and contractors on a system for monitoring and recording of UHF band and satellite monitoring. Worked on the RDT&E SPAWAR network as a System Administrator Systems include setting up and maintaining group of 20+ people with Desktop Windows XP and Vista machines. This was a small group and project but with high demands and a needed uptime of 100% which I helped to achieve. • Setup a private lab on the RDT&E subnet with10 HP ProLiant Fileservers using SUSE 10, 11, SLES & CentOS, with 15+ PC’s with Windows XP Professional SP3 and Windows Vista SP2. Setup several Cisco 3560G Switches and maintained a gateway to the internet. Setup and maintained Storage included Overland Storage Ultamus 4800 - 48TB RAID’s and Ultamus 1200 - 12TB RAID Systems. Also, managed one NexSan RAID system 48TB.

Chantilly, Virginia, Us

Worked with the Navy and Marine Corp Internet (N.M.C.I.) contract to upgrade 300+ Sun / UNIX servers from Solaris 8 & 9 to Solaris 10. Utilizing jumpstart, CD &DVD upgrades, flash archive and web install to accomplish this task. We have a team of 3 people in a 6 month period to install this in several different government server farm locations worldwide.

I was in charge of all systems relating to the advertising systems and the daily paper getting outputted in a timely manner. Worked in a team of 4 as the lead for administering 20+ Solaris Unix Servers, 7 Windows 2000 + 2003 servers and several MAC OS X 10.3.9 – 10.4 servers and workstations. I was On Call 7/24 Data-center Support.• Migrated several Sun servers from Solaris 8 & 9 to 10. Kept servers on automatic updates as needed for 3rd party applications as well as Operating Systems. Provided training to staff of with updates on localized scripts and updates and training for new and existing applications and operating systems. Designed and implemented scripts and knowledge to create gateways so that non compatible systems could work with each other and not cause havoc on each other and wrote documentation for the group on all additions, changes and revisions to systems in our domain for systems administration.

Arlington, Va, Us

I managed 3 direct reports and installed new UNIX and XP workstations as requested for new users and maintaining accurate user accounts as well as accurate computer inventory. Also did all desktop support for the office of 70+ people, printers, desktops, laptops etc.• Created a computer room out of existing equipment consisting of 20+ Dell Windows managed servers, 12 SGI IRIX Servers, 10 RedHat Linux ES-4 Servers and an Avaya telephone switch. Ordered, rack-mounted all servers. Assisted in a building move, planned locations of new equipment, relay racks, phone switch, Inergen system and UPS power system as well as relocation of current server room servers and equipment for the new site.

Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, In

I was assisting the main systems administrator in installing and maintaining Redhat 9 Enterprise servers and Oracle 10G server and client installations and also maintaining Windows 2000 servers for user accounts and 3rd party applications. Keeping current the 3rd party software applications and hardware platforms.

Worked for many companies doing various retail and technical work during the slow down that occurred due to 9/11/2001.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Worked as a Lab Manager for the Veritas, Oracle and Sun (VOS) Initiative. I Installed OS, hardware and 3rd party software on 50+ Sun 220R, 420R, 6500 series and latest Serengeti machine for the purpose of integrating VOS (Veritas, Oracle & Sun) software to create new sell-able product line(s).

I replaced the lead administrator in a senior role administering HPUX and Solaris workstations for the research and development team also handled day-to-day requests for upgrades to systems and installation of new systems hardware.

Austin, Tx, Us

Software Company had 20 UNIX servers mostly HP, E-series, K220, and Sun SS20 that were being used as build servers for the company’s software products Avanti, Data-flow and Impresa as well as for users and programmers to log into to test. I assisted in Legato Networker backups and handled day-to-day tasks from help desk. • Installed and upgraded several HP 9000 E and K class machines to HPUX 11.0 from 10.20.• Installed and maintained Tadpole 3GX laptops. • I relocated server room, all machines to new location of company.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Installing & configuring Sun E10k super filer servers for testing in a lab environment with 200+ users. Responsible for 20+ E10k machines in a production/test lab. I was installing hardware, Sun & 3rd party software and latest OS and patches to keep the lab at the latest and most up to date software configurations. Working with support team members to coordinate scheduling machine time for users and maintaining schedules for periodic maintenance of machines. Assisting corporate support personnel in day-to-day desktop support tasks that they needed help with or related to lab support. This was a 3-month contract that was extended to 6 months.

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