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Raleigh, NC, US

Raleigh, NC, US

• Assisted Multiple large Customers with ways to maximize Red Hat products and services.
• Led Customer meetings to go over upcoming customer activities involving their Red Hat systems such as patch efforts, disaster recovery tests and testing of new releases and features.
• Interfaced with Red Hat support groups on behalf of customers to ensure timely resolution of customer problems, concerns and feedback on features.
• Informed customers of upcoming Red Hat events, classes and webinars that may benefit them based on each customer’s product mix.
• Informed Red Hat support of upcoming customer activities that might require additional personnel availability.

Trevose, PA, US

Engineered CentOS 7.x Images. Set up repository mirror to allow for new OS.Wrote scripts to export data from Influxdb for archival in Azure.Wrote scripts to install Linux servers in MS Azure for Disaster Recovery.Engineered CentOS 6.x Images deployed by default which allows a standard golden image to be deployed across all servers.Wrote Powercli scripts to.

Bridgewater, NJ, US

Design of the Oracle and Redhat Linux patching strategy and repository design for the company.Spacewalk POC.Designed new Repository scheme.Led Patching efforts for 1st Quarter during which I discovered an incompatibility with the UEK kernel and Vmtools and the solution for it.Weblogic 12 installation using Synchronoss chef jobs. Installation of chef.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Team member on contract for steady state level 3 support of heavily virtualized Linux workloads.
• Assist companies’ VMware SME with all facets of VMware.
• Patching ESXi and VCA (Vcenter appliance).
• Deployment of Linux virtual servers.
• All facets of Linux support Rhel 5 to 6.5
• Configuration of ESXi Hosts, addition of storage to SDRS etc.

Norristown, PA, US

Skill sets used for this position are:VMware infrastructure and ESXPowerCLI scriptingPowershell scriptingActive Directory Windows 2003-2008Part of a team working on a migration of a Data-center from Boston, MA to a hosted CGI Data-center in Phoenix, AZ. The target systems were 98% VMware Virtual Machines. We will use a combination of SRDF, Platespin.

Tampa, FL, US

Supported DataCenter Migration and Standup.Powercli scripting with VMWare 5.1.Designed and rolled out out Centrify DC as a centralized ID management system integrating Linux with Active Directory.Designed and deployed GPO's for Linux integration to Active Directory.Engineered ongoing migration from Redhat virtualization to VMware ESX 5i.Setup VMware.

Support of key customers running Redhat Linux servers.RHEL 4 RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 server support both virtual and physical systems.Design of Linux and active directory integration using Quest Authentication Services.Support of internal customers deploying applications on RHEL.Tuning Linux virtual machines on VMware ESX.Script writing to automate changes and.

Administered AIX UNIX servers.Responsible for sizing of AIX UNIX Servers.Responsible for tuning of AIX servers.Installed, Configured, and Maintained AIX.Installed SYBASE on AIX.Highly experienced with Korn & Bourne shells, some C shell.Highly experienced with NFS, DNS, NDS, TCP/IP and file systems.Highly experienced with AIX UNIX configuration files..

Participated in joint IBM/MOBIL AIX/VM feasibility study and benchmark as Mobil's VM systems and UNIX representative.Responsible for installation & maintenance of VM/XA, VMHPO and associated products.Acquired and installed VSAFE/XA, VSEG/XA, VSPOOL/XA and VSEG/HPO reducing VM outages and simplifying DCSS and Spool management.Wrote numerous utilities in.

Bloomfield, CT, US

Responsible for installation and maintenance of VM systems. Performed considerable user and operations support. Maintained all system modifications.Installed VM/XA and VMHPO release 5.

Responsible for VM systems and products.Responsible for design & testing of mainframe disaster recovery 1985-87.Installed VM/XA and VMHPO.Responsible for system performance and tuning.Awarded Technical Achievement award for the conversion to VM/XA with MVS/XA guests.Performed extensive user support on a daily basis.Wrote numerous utilities to support user.