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New York, Ny, Us

• Developed a CI Pipeline that securely updates, tracks and requires approvers to update the gpg encrypted gzip tar file with an Apache configuration file with controlled access edited by the development team.• Automated Oracle Linux Server updates through deployment of Oracle Linux Automation Servers (Tower)in three separate geo locations launching portable Ansible scripts I developed from a Bitbucket repository to update servers, Active Directory joins and automatically restore tampered Apache config files from encrypted gzip tar files

Pleasanton, California, Us

- Increased productivity for level 3 Linux administrators by creating automated BASH scripts to automate most used root administration tasks for non root bash accounts used by level 2 engineers.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Sourced failure in Python provisioning scripts to policy validations, timeouts and connect failures to core provisioning servers.• Isolated Ansible provisioning failure of Tomcat 8 and JBOSS on HPI V2 Private Cloud VM provisioning by tracing Operations Orchestration flow to error code that identified failure as a policy wait state error.• Critical support provided during HPI V2 Private Cloud Portal editing the Apache webserver index.html splash page to display projected downtime for essential HPSA upgrades.• Validated CVE compliance on approximately 150 0servers by writing a BASH to test for versioning compliance using test conditions employing SED editor.• Automated the scp transfer of vRop performance reports in HPI cloud Windows server to Linux VM instance then over to AWS Workplace to reduce time spent to transfer.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Validated CVE compliance on approximately 150 servers by writing BASH scripts to test for versioning compliance using test conditions employing SED editor.• Assisted in on-going root cause analysis of packet loss on port 443 using Wireshark, and tcpdump on Linux servers, to analyze the frequency and conditions of the packet drops.

-Reduced recovery time on Linux server by 20 percent.-Improved yum repository update performance through best practices to achieve a reduction of 12 minutes.-Improved availability for customer of radio servers over Internet and eliminated dropped packets in the stream.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

· Restored a critical linux run cooling monitor controller used to monitor cooling of major customers’ computer racks throughout the data center by breaking into its root user account to change the ifcfg-eth0 network configuration file to read write to setup a static IP address.· Reduced rack space use by over 50 percent through consolidation of 5 Linux systems onto one PC using virtualizing software for greater efficiency of lab space eliminating the work of 5 individual 1U high rack servers running Red Hat Linux Server Enterprise 6.x/7.x, Community Enterprise Linux 6.5-7.0, Fedora 17-22 and Ubuntu 1404. · Successfully recovered damaged a critical gnome terminal console in Linux environment instance that had failed during an update process that left it with exclusively with multi-user command shell only access.· Recovered a Linux operating system instance by recovering a full filesystem from 95% disk utilization to 40% disk utilization by extending the existing logical volumes size through the vgextend in a new physical volume to avoid a destructive reinstall of the Linux OS.

· Increased access speed to Apache website behind a NAT translated firewall by 20 % through best practices management of wan connection.· Reduced unauthorized access to 0 by securing an vsftpd server from behind an a firewall that resulted in a 38% increase in download speed of a test iso file.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Linux Administrator/ Lab Manager @ HP· Reduced time to setup server test beds by a factor of 5 times configured to the requirements of the engineers by server model, operating system vendor (Solaris 10.x RHEL 5.x/6.x, SuLES 11.x, CentOS 5.x Windows 2008 64/32 Enterprise/Datacenter/Core, 2003,) · Saved $500.00 in replacement costs by repairing HP DL320 G5 server with a broken power switch through Wireshark packet sniffer to obtain it's MAC initiate power up through Wake on Lan feature.· Lowered downtime for an HP vendor from 2 days to 2 hours by setting up a vnc remote console configuration on an HP DL360 G7 providing access to a Red Hat Linux Enterprise 5.6 server conducting a Root Cause Analysis investigation avoiding site visits. Test Engineer on HP Onboard Administrator Project (2010)· Verified reliability of the Onboard Administrator firmware features based on personally created test plan fabrication with a variety of configurations in the blade racks on the Onboard Administrator firmware in the areas of sanity testing, stress testing, new features, integration with HP Virtual Connect module and HP iLO management.· Discovered and reported 20 test failures out of 100 in issue tracking database with complete information based on model, firmware revisions, log files and inventory of hardware installed in blade enclosure for Onboard Administrator development team to fix.Test Engineer on Community Linux Project (2009)· Led the Python test planning team to establish test plan protocols for HP SNMP Python scripts.· Headed a test team that confirmed HP SNMP agent functionality in an experimental project implemented from a test plan under Community Enterprise Operating System (CentOS 5.x, Asianux, Debian).Test Engineer on SIOS (2005 – 2009)(Solaris, Red Hat, CentOS) · Initiated an investigation into after Solaris 10 stress tests revealed a critical failure in firmware on an HP DL380 G6 server pre-release when other teams missed this critical issue.

Database Administration, Oracle Database Administration

Bachelor'S Degree, Radio And Television

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