Senior Systems Administrator with 15+ years of diverse experience in academic, corporate, finance, non-profit, and federal government environments.
Excellent team player, mentor, and team lead; documents, shares information,
and enhances processes. Clear communication style, resulting in the
development of innovative business solutions that exceed client expectations.
Outstanding knowledge of hardware and software products; demonstrated
ability to manage contributions from team members. Dedicated to maintaining
cutting-edge technical skills.
Consistently recognized by managers, clients, and colleagues for ability
to effectively manage all details of critical projects with a commitment
to service, while working within tight deadlines and budgets.
SOFTWARE/HARDWARE:
UNIX: Over 16 years of Solaris system administration. Experience installing and administering many packages: NIS, DNS, gnu utilities, Legato Networker (Solstice Backup, Sun StorEdge EBS), Solstice Online Disk Suite (4.x, Sol9 & 10 VM), Veritas Volume Manager (2.1, 2.3, 2.5). General administration tasks, such as NIS user and group administration, host and network setup, desktop and server installations, backups, disk space monitoring and management. Administered Linux, OS X, SGI, HP, DEC. Financial industry experience, 2nd level trading floor support. Government sub-contract work (no DoD clearance).
Extensive hardware troubleshooting skills for Sun hardware: Sparc and Ultra desktops, Ultra Enterprise servers (420R, 3K-6.5K), and SunFire servers (V210/240/440/490) and Coolthread Niagara-based servers (T2000); Sparc Storage Arrays, Sparc StorEdge A5000-5200, and more recently 3510 FC. Network setup, identifying and minor troubleshooting of routing problems.
Certs: SCSA, SCNA, and SCSecA (Solaris 10); RHCSA (RHEL 5); Network+
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Administrative Office of the US Courts, Washington, D.C. August 2008 - current
ICMA Retirement Corporation, Washington, D.C. December 2006 - July 2008
ENS (MPK16), Menlo Park, CA (Mar 1998 - Oct 1998)
Teradyne, San Jose, California Jan 1998 - Feb 1998
Weathernews, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (Jul 1997 - Aug 1997)
Sun Microsystems:ENS (MIL04) (Mar 1997 - Jun 1997)
Sun Microsystems: Microelectronics (SUN02) (Sept 1996 - Feb 1997)
Prior Work:
EDUCATION:
ACTIVITIES:
Sr. Internet Engineer
Support for Internet facing application infrastructure. Solaris 10 environment.
Support of development, test, and production environments; including webservers,
web application servers, content management servers, and back-end database
servers. 30 servers, fail-over DR site. Migrated from BEA WLS 8 to 10.
Hardware: Sun V210, V240, V440, V490; StorEdge 3510, Cisco MDS switches.
Packages: Expressroom Web Content Management, BEA WebLogic Server 8/10, ODS,
CA Autosys, internal process management solutions. Oracle 10g RAC.
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
Dedicated UNIX support of hosted government application infrastructure. Primary
Sun StorEdge EBS backup infrastructure engineer. Support of development, test, and production
environments: 120 servers, fail-over sites. Environment engineering and tuning, escalation with vendors.
Hardware: Sun StorEdge L700, L100; 280R, V440, V480, 6800; A1000, D1000.
Packages: Sun StorEdge EBS (Networker), ODS, Veritas VM, internal monitoring solutions.
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator (consultant)
Support of PeopleSoft (HR) development and production environments. Both OS and application platform
upgrades. System tuning, troubleshooting with vendors. Sun E10K environment. Clarify CRM server setup.
Hardware: Sun E10K, 280R, 6500; A1000. Cisco CSS 11500, 11800, SonicWall SSL.
Packages: ODS, Legato, Bind, Oracle, Weblogic, Veritas Foundation Suite, Veritas Cluster (VCS),
Clarify eOffice 10.1.
Equities UNIX Sr. Systems Engineer (consultant)
Equities Unix support for critical application servers and trading floor Tier 2. Team lead, supported
infrastructure (critical servers) and developers (Equities Technology):
OMA (Orbix) servers, EWarrant and Moon Trade systems (late night trading),
Tokyo Stock Exchange connectivity and Market Data system support. SunOS and
Solaris servers, EMC storage, and legacy BoxHill RAID storage hardware.
Packages: Internal file management/distribution automation tools,
Powerbroker, Kerberos, Orbix, Tibco Rendezvous, Hawk.
Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator (consultant)
Engineering (SUN02-04), Sunnyvale, CA (Oct 1998 - Nov 1999)
Rejoined growing CRM team that maintained a 1,000+ UNIX server ranch.
Project support for engineers. Day-to-day responsibilities included
server configuration and maintenance, planning and off-hour support. Also supported
chip test floor lab environment, included Megatest (Teradyne), HP, and primarily
Schlumberger test equipment (ASAP).
Hardware: Enterprise 4000/4500 machines, StorEdge 5000, 5200.
Packages: HA, Volume Manager, Disk Suite, NIS master, ASAP environments, Solstice Backup.
Worked as a building sysadmin again. Supported SunSoft developers (200+ Sun desktops), maintenance and upgrade rollouts of a 25 UNIX server environment. Configuration and setup of servers. Supported standard and development environments (ex: SIMS).
Packages: Solstice Online Disk Suite 4.1, Sun Internet Mail Server (SIMS),
Volume Manager 2.5, Sparc StorEdge A5000, new internal scripts and support
tool rollouts.
Systems Administrator (consultant)
Member of a 3 person team for site support of 3 buildings at San Jose site; installs, restores, troubleshooting, problem tracking and resolution.
Packages: BUDTool (backups), Info-Power (problem tracking)
UNIX Systems Administrator, Projects Included:
Sun Microsystems: ENS (SUN03)(Sept 1997 - Jan 1998)
Worked as a building sysadmin as well as a resource for internal infrastructure group. Duties included normal sysadmin activities with most previously used software
packages and hardware, as well as work on technical projects, scripts,
and aiding in planning and management decisions, interviews.
Packages: Legato, NIS, scripts.
Sole Systems Administrator responsible for critical servers, network
availability, rapid response. Environment was 24/7, with UNIX systems
as critical points to business activity (worldwide weather information distribution,
primarily to ships). Helped interview candidates
for permanent position. Worked with DNS, NIS+, Volume Manger, Faximum.
Maintained approximately 200 users (Sun desktops); responded to trouble tickets,
monitored backups and NFS servers. Gained a broad knowledge of
system trouble areas and solutions. Installed network printers: Lexmark, Xerox.
Part of a small group that did Javastation installs, server configuration for
Javastations, and user account modification for a server-based desktop, usable on
multiple platforms.
Packages worked with: Solstice Backup (Legato Networker), NEWSPrint.
Worked in the CAD Resource Management (CRM) group maintaining and enhancing
the server ranch used for developing and regression testing Sun CPU chip
designs. 600+ systems, in a large server environment. Gained hardware
troubleshooting skills, sound knowledge of hardware configurations, UNIX, filesystem
problems and solutions. Packages worked with: Solstice Disk Suite,
automation scripting, automounter.
Systems Administrator
Responsible for maintaining and upgrading the College server,
adding new accounts, software support, mailing lists, backups, quotas,
security. Also installed and maintained the College Web server, and
assisted in the design of College Web pages. http://www.as.wvu.edu
Assistant Systems Administrator Jan 1995 - May 1995
Computer Lab Assistant Jan 1995 - May 1995
Computer Lab Consultant Aug 1994 - Dec 1994
Computer Consultant Jan 1992 - Dec 1993
Substitute Teacher (part time) Jan 1992 - 1995
B.S. in Computer Science. West Virginia University,
Morgantown, West Virginia. May, 1996.
International work experience, finance industry experience. Experience in academic, private, and government sectors.
Setup corporation to handle consulting activities in California (1997-2000).
Actively involved in the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) during school, with positions as the Chairman, Vice-Chairman, and Treasurer during last 3 years of school. Member of the National Student ACM Committee during 1995-96.
Coach for WVU Chapter's regional programming contest team.
Received an AFROTC scholarship in Computer Science and completed 2 years of Air Force R.O.T.C.