Resume of Senior System Administrator

Title
Senior System Administrator

Primary Skills
Unix Admin, Scripting, TCP/IP, Windows, Perl

Location
US-CA-Malibu

Posted
Nov-23-07

OBJECTIVE
To fully utilize my experience and skills as a Senior System Administrator in problem solving and information services.

SUMMARY
Senior System Administrator, with 18 years of experience in UNIX and TCP/IP. Excellent problem solving, troubleshooting, and creative resolution skills. More than 13 years experience working on both independent and team projects. More than 6 years managing multi-OS networks including UNIX, Windows NT, and Macintosh.

STRENGTHS
Sun Certified Solaris 8 Systems Administrator. Sun Certified Solaris 8 Network Administrator. Sun Certified Backup and Recovery Engineer. Sun Certified Data Management Engineer. Sun Certified Storage Area Network Architect. Excellent understanding of NFS, NIS, DNS, e-mail, and web services. Experience integrating various platforms and operating systems. Proficiency in multiple 'flavors' of Unix operating systems including Solaris, Linux, SunOS, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX, MACOS-X, BSDI. Proficiency in writing shell scripts and automation of business processes using Perl, Bourne shell, TCL/TK, expect, or awk. Excellent ability to write, debug and modify C programs as well as Perl, Common Lisp, Pascal, and Fortran.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Unix System Administrator - 2007 to 2007
ComSys. Inc, Canoga Park, California
Installed Fedora Core 6 (Linux) with Nagios, MRTG and SNMP to monitor system performance and uptime of critical infrastructure Windows, Solaris, Redhat servers, Cisco switches and routers. Repaired Redhat server hardware. Acted to troubleshoot. reverse engineer and migrate Hylafax office FAX server software. Installed, configured, monitored. repaired baremetal backups using Unitrends Backup software and hardware. Installed and configured new storage solutions to help ease critical storage shortfalls. Implemented a secure offsite-storage solution that mirrors the backup device using Samba/NFS, Ssh, and Rsync. Wrote Bash scripts to automate backup of NAS devices that could not run Unitrends backup agents. Automated startup/shutdown of Win2K service to allow automated backups of PBX system.

Unix System Administrator - 2006 to 2007
Northrup Grumman, Woodland Hills, California
Primary responsibilities: Unix, Veritas, SUN Server Hardware, EMC and SUN Storage, Performed high level planning, design and architecture work, in addition to operational and technical support tasks. Worked with EMC Symetrix and SUN Storage Arrays, Brocade SAN switch configuration and troubleshooting,Veritas Netbackup, Symark PowerPassword, PowerBroker security applications. Also, performed Java Virtual Machine, BEA Weblogic, Autosys, and Matrix One application administration. Supported users and servers in data center and at remote locations. Made immediate technical decisions that had an impact on the business. Performed simple project management tasks such as project planning and project team lead duties as part of larger project efforts. Experienced with Unix Server Administration SUN Server Hardware, EMC and SUN Storage, Brocade fiber channel switches, StorageTek tape libraries, and a Spectra Logic tape library. Wrote and debugged scripts in Bash/Korn Shell to start/stop system services, for Solaris 8, 9, and 10, for applications such as Oracle 9i and 10gAS, BEA Weblogic, and Apache. Improved server security by upgrading SSH from vendor supplied versions to Tectia commercial version, and by writing scripts to remove old users based on automated usage reports. Improved security by analyzing needed services and turning off unused services and installing host based firewall software. Used Sun Jumpstart to install several database servers. Managed dynamic DNS databases for application servers in a DMZ environment. Managed, upgraded, secured Samba services running on Solaris servers. Used nmap to scan servers for security issues, worked to patch or close them off the vulnerabilities. Worked with several DBA's to help resolve performance issues and do Oracle 10g installs on new machines. Monitored and managed server processes for DBA's, restarting down services, debugging and troubleshooting them in real time, as needed. Performed database backups and restores as needed. Reset 100's of user accounts whose passwords had timed out, created scores of new accounts for developers, DBA's, and other administrators. Used Perigrin ticketing system to handle and route tickets appropriately as needed. Managed Unix file system permissions to allow DBA's to work in groups using Samba shares. Performed server room cable management. Worked with local Sun FE to replace many broken Sun components, including disks, CPU's, fiber channel cables.

Senior Unix and Database Administrator - 2004 to 2006
Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
Assist in the administration of multiplatform, mid-sized group midrange computing systems; perform a variety of systems administration tasks including: backup (perform, implement automate, monitor), restoration, installation (operating system setup and configuration, application setup and configuration, hardware connection and configuration) maintenance, monitoring, documentation, programming, security and communication with customers and team members; as database administrator, assist in administration of Microsoft SQL and Oracle relational database management systems; perform installations, configurations and upgrades of server software and related projects; maintain sound backup and recovery policies and procedures; implement/maintain database security; work with vendors to secure application related technical support and perform upgrades. Improved system security and availability by automating Solaris patch installation using Suns PatchPro and customized startup scripts adapted from examples provided by the NSA. Improved system configuration management by implementing Solaris Jumpstart and using it to create a consistent, secure application development environment that is much simpler to maintain and understand. Implemented GNU Cfengine to monitor file system integrity and ease maintenance of a centralized file system store. Implemented host based firewalls using ipfilter to greatly enhance security of data center systems.

Technical Support Engineer - 1999 to 2004
Sun Microsystems,, Broomfield, Colorado
Provided Solaris Systems Administration technical support to Sun's customers and staff, with a focus on Sun's Storage products. Over two hundred hardware and software products supported including Solstice Backup and Online Disksuite, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Netbackup, and Raid Manager. Over fifty-five hundred cases resolved. Member of Sun Storage ACES program. Function as a back-line engineer for some of the more difficult cases. Taught junior engineers how to resolve calls more efficiently. Developed and implemented a mini-Sunsolve web site with hand-selected Storage related documents, which was used by Sun Technical Support Engineers to find appropriate answers faster. Handled many Netbackup calls, which usually required detailed log file analysis. Compared customer's configurations to available knowledge bases from Sun and Veritas, to find mis-configuration problems or areas where support would be difficult or impossible. Things learned and documents collected were then published via the mini-sunsolve web site mentioned above. Developed a script that implemented an automated case routing system that routes cases to engineers based on availability, product expertise, and individual case load. This automation freed up two engineers that were performing this process manually. Received Burke Customer Survey Perfect 10 Award. Trained on most of Sun's products.

Lead System Administrator, Cooperative Institute for Environmental Sciences - 1997 to 1998
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Designed and supported an advanced network of Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, NT, Macintosh and AIX workstations and servers. Implemented security with Firewall-1 and monitored and .reported security related events. Identified and eliminated performance bottlenecks. Deployed Ethernet switches to isolate LAN traffic. Improved the backup processes and reliability by implementing AMANDA and Arc Serve to make optimal use of the network, available tape drives, and Solaris servers.

System Administrator - 1994 to 1997
Colorado Supernet (now Qwest), Denver, Colorado
Supported Solaris, Linux, SunOS, IRIX, and HP-UX systems in a 24x7 operation used for commercial uucp mail relay and USENET news. Supported over 100 commercial and educational customers around the world. Solved problems in web/email server high availability and systems and network performance tuning on Sun Solaris and Linux workstations and servers.

Systems Administrator and Programmer - 1992 to 1994
Unidata, a division of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Supported Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, Ultrix and Apple Macintosh workstations and servers. Installed, configured and maintained Internet and GNU Software. Provided software tools and technical support to over twenty local scientists and programmers, as well as remote scientists and support staff at educational facilities across the US. Responsible for setting up, populating and maintaining Gopher and WAIS as an enterprise and world-wide web

Consulting Systems Administrator - 1991 to 1992
Labyrinth Computer Services, Boulder, Colorado
Installed and maintained a network of Sun and NCD X terminals, and provided on-site and email technical support for X Windows and UNIX programmers. Trained clients to take advantage of then fledgling Internet. Installed, supported and maintained free software tools from project GNU to aid programmer productivity. Ported NCAR Graphics to the NeXT platform on contract to NCAR.

Systems Programmer, Climate and Global Dynamics Division - 1984 to 1991
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado
Provided graphics application and systems programming support to scientists and staff members. Supported a heterogeneous workstation and mainframe environment. Hardware and software included X Windows, Sunview, GNU Tools, and a network of Sun workstations, NCD X Windwos Terminals, a Cray Supercomputer, and an IBM 3090. Received NCAR Technical Achievement Award for the development of an Interactive Data Analysis Program, an integrated Browser that used NCAR Graphics plugins and Math Library routines to allow scientific visualizations of interesting climate data, with a few clicks of the mouse.

EDUCATION
Computer Science major - 1987
University of Colorado
2004 50-60 technical hands-on courses. Topics range from customer service, computer security and networking to SAN, NAS, high availability, and system and network performance tuning.

Psychology major - 1981
University of Southern Colorado

ACTIVITIES
Ham Radio, KC0LBW, Martial Arts, Stunt Motorcycle Riding, Camping, Photography.

Certifications
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