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Andy Alexander - Network Administrator

123 Leet St. Detroit MI 48120

Objective

  • 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.

Skills

  • Networking - Cisco, Foundry, TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6
  • Software Administration - Jboss, Apache, MySQL, E-Mail (Sendmail, qmail, postfix), PostgreSQL, Request Tracker, samba, JIRA, Mediawiki, etc
  • Hardware Administration - x86, x86_64, Sun, Coraid Storage, NetApp
  • Protocols - SNMP, NTP, SSL, HTTP, SMTP, PXE, DHCP, NFS, AutoFS, DNS/BIND
  • Operating Systems - Linux (especially CentOS, RedHat/Fedora), Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, IRIX
  • Security - Real-time: Wireshark, Nmap, lsof, tcpdump, honeyd. Preventative: Nessus, Metasploit (evaluation), SSH, logwatch. Pre-incident forensics: Backtrack Linux, Snort IPS, AIDE. Post-incident forensics: Statically linked binaries, Snort IDS, chkrootkit, also http://live.sysinternals.com (Windows).
  • 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
  • Solaris Administration 1
  • Solaris Administration 2