System Administrator Iv
CurrentSenior Linux admin supporting UC Berkeley campus wide IT needs. Focus is anything anyone on campus needs running on VMWare linux hosts.
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Raymond Spence is listed as System Administrator IV at UC Berkeley, based in Walnut Creek, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at berkeley.edu and a matched LinkedIn profile for Raymond Spence.
Raymond Spence previously worked as IT Analyst at the Berkeley Seismology Laboratory, UC Berkeley/ at Uc Berkeley and Senior IT Engineer at Transperfect. Raymond Spence holds Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History from University Of California, Berkeley.
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After 25+ years of figuring out how to support people, business and software needs on UNIX/linux I've come to realize that the days which present no new puzzles don't count. Looking forward to new puzzles..
Listed skills include Troubleshooting, Linux, Perl, Unix, and 13 others.
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Berkeley, Ca
Senior Linux admin supporting UC Berkeley campus wide IT needs. Focus is anything anyone on campus needs running on VMWare linux hosts.
Berkeley, Ca
Senior level IT support for the Berkeley Seismology Laboratory UNIX-based services. This was a split role between UCB Departmental and USGS Earthquake Early Warning project sysadmin duties. Carried out Berkeley Share of EEW responsibilities for the USGS within the BSL: ran EEW servers, services, development/user support. Also supported BSL/Earth Sciences UNIX/linux infrastructure.
San Francisco
Provides senior level sysadmin and VM support for production, staging and QA VMWare nodes on RHEL/CentOS/Windows around the world. VM node management is accomplished via Ansible, git and svn. This DevOps role juggles standard HTTPD, SQL, network services with high personality in-house commercial applications. VM storage dependencies include NetApp, Panasas and PureStorage access and attendant management needs. Standard Nagios driven monitoring/alert dynamic.
Oakland
Tasked with finding and implementing new systems monitoring solutions for the Operations Technology Group at NERSC/LBNL. Client systems include supercomputer/cluster, environmental devices, network, server and mass storage assets for DOE Office of Science scientific customers.
Uc Berkeley
Support for Mathematics, Physics, Biology Departments and individuals' academic IT needs in the College of Letters & Sciences. Application support for typical academic/research programs such as R, Mathematica, Matlab, IDL, and digging into less known tools like biopython. Services I support include apache, wiki, mail, OpenLDAP, NIS/NFS, kickstart, cfengine, CUPS/printers, mysql. I have responsibility for two Rocks/SGE clusters and am POC for security issues for the Physics Department. Also, I provide desktop support for unix/linux users mainly in the Physics Department. I am currently implementing a new cfengine system for L&S and leading the migration of L&S mail from local mail servers to the campus-wide Mail infrastructure. Day-day tasks include troubleshooting web apps like apache and Wordpress, answering security alerts, sh/perl scripting, and triaging identity needs in NIS/OpenLDAP.
Sysadmin for the NERSC (supercomputing) division at LBNL. I supported infrastructure services such as LDAP, www, OTP, IMAP/postfix, wiki, IM, syslog, cfengine, license server split between Linux (RH/CentOS) and FreeBSD platforms. Provided 24x7 support for this environment. Implemented new build process and significant HW upgrade for FreeBSD environment. Introduced cfengine management for infrastructure. Scope of position supported the Unix needs of the NERSC infrastructure.
Senior UNIX support for the Chemistry & Material Sciences and the Engineering Directorates. Supported Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD platforms for server and desktop needs. Managed services included NIS/NFS, OpenLDAP, apache, wiki, samba and commercial software such as Mathematica, Matlab, S, Tivoli backup. Implemented Nagios monitoring system and home grown host identification web application using mysql to store host information dynamically updated from a perl+arpwatch script making snmp queries across 30 subnets. This application provided near real-time host location by IP address-MAC address pairings and was searchable by full or partial MAC or IP address strings. This project incorporated mysql DB design+implementation and support, SQL queries, DB backup, snmp calls. This application ran about 1000 lines of perl code. Major parts were: to gather the network information, parse it, throw it into the DB, SQL queries from an apache front end and to build+configure the database. This application ran on FreeBSD.
Senior level support for Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD in a 24x7 dot-com environment. Senior/sole support for applications including apache, Sybase, Resin, VPN (FreeSwan) and firewall. Managed back-ups, break/fix, additional system integration for new services, eg. soap.Supported in-house Java applications, dev./QA environement. Note: eBondTrade ceased functions on 11/18/02.
Questium was a start-up division of Health Net Inc.. I came to Questium as its first UNIX sysadmin tasked with immediately getting an overdue production website up and running.I did so and wound up managing the IT Operations group which included UNIX, desktop, network, database (Oracle) and business analyst functions. I hired 7 people in the brief time I managed this group at Questium. In May 2001 Questium began winding down operations by laying off most of its IT staff (including me) in order to fold what would be left into Health Net Inc's IT dept..My experience at Questium included not only significant sysadmin work but management tasks included contract negotiations, Health Net data management, HIPAA compliance issues, moving the IT infrastructure to another location, hiring/firing, budget forecast, and representing the Operations group at the corporate level.Note: laid off 5/2001
UNIX support for 24x7 Solaris servers running apache, Weblogic Server, Oracle. Corporate support for mail, apache, perforce CCS, backup, and Dev+QA Solaris hosts. Implemented Sitescope monitoring solution, NIS domain for Dev/QA environement, backup solution for Production hosts. Note: laid off 7/2000
Wrote undergraduate thesis on the Lombard invasion and occupation of Italy ca. 568-774. I read part of Paulus Diaconus' "Historia.
Coursework toward an MS Mathematics at CSU Hayward. I've completed rough equivalent to a BS Mathematics.
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Raymond Spence is listed as System Administrator IV at UC Berkeley.
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Raymond Spence holds Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History from University Of California, Berkeley.
Raymond Spence is listed with skills including Troubleshooting, Linux, Perl, Unix, High Performance Computing, System Monitoring, Databases, and Solaris.
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