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Systems Administrator for over 13 years with a focus on Standardization and Security. Looking for opportunities to help companies leverage their technology infrastructure to become efficient and secure. Constantly utilize open source software and standardization methodologies to accomplish my goals and prefer working with them. Especially interested in the challenge of building a company's infrastructure from the ground up.
Unique Abilities
Extremely fast learner and worker who excels at troubleshooting, system analysis, security, Unix and Network administration. Takes pride in his work.
Able to perform well under pressure. Always keeps superiors and subordinates informed using excellent written and oral communication skills.
Programming Languages - Primarily bourne shell scripting, some SQL.
Work Experience
04/09 - Present
Entertainment Publications
Troy, MI
Sr. Linux Administrator
Member of sysadmin team tasked to handle over 225 servers spanned across 3 datacenter facilities nationally
Responsible for production on-call duties, including 24/7 support, critical system administration, troubleshooting and resolution during peak traffic season
Responsible for all-encompassing updates, configuration, new deployments, system performance tuning, security, backups
Responsible for application installation, configuration, and tuning including but not limited to Jboss, Apache, NFS, ldap, Nagios, Netbackup, named, and the security of each application
Helped developers test their code via Jmeter,
Mentored as many coworkers as possible
07/03 - 01/09
ND Industries
Troy, MI
Sr. Network Administrator
Independent Contractor 07/03 - 01/05
Headed a large natural disaster recovery effort where more than 60% of the equipment was a total loss. Zero data loss. Less than 4 hours of network unavailability
Responsible for system and array backups utilizing a Dell ML6020 running Yosemite Backup for Linux
Designed a very low cost SAN 10TB+ solution using the Coraid AoE storage units utilizing mdadm and lvm2
Responsible for installation and maintenance of various server applications including MySQL, Apache, Tomcat, qmail, Courier-IMAP, MySQL, and Sybase
Responsible for installation, maintenance and security aspects of 50+ Linux and FreeBSD infrastructure machines
Deployed two VPNs to China and Taiwan facilities utilizing OpenVPN
Maintained and troubleshot frame-relay networks 10 remote T1 nodes across the country
Maintained and troubleshot network traffic analysis as well as security threats using open source network technologies (Snort, Acid, etc)
Maintained network traffic throughput and performance using eigrp routing, and MPLS tags
Helped plan and implement a 155Mbit/s SONET campus network for higher network availability and data centralization utilizing Cisco 3800 series with ATM (MPLS and Internet pvc) and E3 interfaces (campus)
Mentored several coworkers
07/02 - 01/05
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, MI
Unix and DB Systems Analyst
01/02 - 07/02
Advanced Data Systems
Redford, MI
Unix/Network Administrator
04/01 - 09/01
ClickAction
Palo Alto, CA
Unix Systems Administrator
10/00 - 04/01
Excite@Home
Redwood City, CA
Linux Systems Administrator
01/00 - 10/00
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn, MI
Unix Systems Administrator
06/96 - 12/98
Cardina Internet Group
Lapeer, MI
Systems Administrator
Education
Sun Microsystems Education Dearborn, Michigan, March 2000
