B Brian J. Kelley, CISSP

61 Erian.joe.kelley@gmail.com; 508-869-9088;

ast Temple Street Boylston, MA 01505

Professional Summary

s Brian Kelley is a Sr. Unix and Linux systems engineer with 15 years of experience encompassing

mystem building, administration, security analysis and architecture, performance tuning, backup

• Enterprise Backup Administrator at Toyota

Motor Sales, USA, Torrance, CA

• Enterprise Unix, Linux and Backup

Administrator at MIT Lincoln Laboratories

• CISSP certification

• Lean new and complex information quickly

and thoroughly

ethodologies, SAN and storage design, databases, virtual machines and technical end-user support.

• Advanced shell and Perl script design applied to

interesting, real administrative challenges

• ZFS, VERITAS, RH Linux file system and logical

volume manager design and tuning

• Sun Solaris 10 Certified Administrator

• EMC Legato Networker design, deployment,

administration

• Clear technical writing and documentation

Technical Skills

SAN : Symantec Command Central Storage, EMC Control Center 5.x, EMC Power Path,

S VERITAS DMP, HP PVlinks, EMC Replication manager, EMC SRDF/Time finder, EMC

Nolutions Enabler, SMI-S providers,,Symmetrix DMX, 88xx, EMC Celerra NAS,

Programming and scripting:

S UNIX and WINDOWS

ystem Administration:

Perl, awk, sed, SQL, Bourne, Korn, C-shell, C, C++

T Solaris 7,8,9,10,11, HPUX 11i, AIX 4.3,5L, RHEL 5.x, DNS and Bind, DHCP, NFS, NIS,

andCP/IP, LDAP, send mail, yum, rpm, RPC, ftp, Solstice disk suite, Sun Cluster 3 design

deployment,,zfs filesystem, system tuning, ipc, semaphore, kernel, Solaris zone

t virtualization, vmware ESX and virtual center server, jumpstart, disk quotas, apache &

momcat webserver configuration, network configuration, VERITAS Cluster, Volume

anagement

anager and file system management, performance analysis, sar, top, Nagios IT

m infrastructure monitoring, open ssh configuration and maintenance, iptables firewall

d Windows 7/2008- Services control, ACL control, Active directory, adding disks (including

t ynamic) TCPIP Network administration, adding users and groups, IIS admin and

lroubleshooting, JAVA console admin, WMI control, DCOM, SNMP tools, performance

og system resource setup and interpretation, event viewer interpretation, DOS scripts,

ghosting new disk image, loading OS, NFS (shares)

RDBMS: Oracle 8.0.x- 9i. Trained at Oracle as DBA, Sybase, SQL Anywhere, RMAN backup to

tape & disk, MS SQL 2005, SQL scripting, stored procedures

Backup Management: VERITAS Netbackup 5.x-7.0, Legato Networker 7.2-7.5.3, CommVault,TSM, EMC

EDM , STK ACSLS,

etwork Appliance Ontap, EMC Clariion Navisphere suite and CLI, Brocade switches ,

McData switches, EMC Connectrix switches, , HP AppIQ

Brian J Kelley, CISSP

Current Experience

M 2nd Bachelor of Science Biology student at Worcester State University

• Studied Genetics, Organic Chemistry, General Chemistry, Biology, Microbiology, Physics, Statistics,

B Anatomy and Physiology, Biochemistry, Biology Seminar, Human Biology, Immunology, Molecular

ay 2010 -

• Dean’s list Spring 2013 and Spring 2014

J Founded startup consulting business Natural Selection IT Consulting LLC.

iology

• Assisted UMass student with their UNIX shell scripting class assignments. Wrote the 4 assignments for

him with extensive documentation

uly 2011 –

• Performed a Sugar CRM database migration from Windows Server 2012 to CentOS linux for Mercator

Financial Group of Maynard MA

• Perform various UNIX, CENTOS, Red-hat, MYSQL engagements for clients, involving documentation,

architecture, configuring, deployment and troubleshooting

• Designed an anti-cloud, internet-addressable(vpn) enterprise backup system running Amanda/Bacula

on CentOS. Sold the configuration and consulting services to businesses in the local Worcester, MA

area. The customers saw substantial gains in areas of security, scalability, reliability and performance.

Professional Experience

UNIX System Administrator, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, November 2010- June 2011

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• Administered and developed new architecture on an enterprise EMC Networker backup infrastructure

• Conducted the data gathering, analysis and conclusive documentation that were key pieces in a

entral IT infrastructure at a Federally Funded Research and Development Center.

• Created and implemented a substantial amount of Perl scripting to enhance EMC Networker

environment in the following areas: the daily administration routines and backup job reporting

nput. My work comprised a large part of the internal piece.

c Integral member of a core team responsible for all functions associated with the daily operations of the

greater backup system assessment. The assessment was a formal management-driven project

i planned over several phases/months and involved both internal personnel and outside hired consultant

• Worked closely with programmers and DBAs to ensure proper implementation of program and system

pl specifications. Administered the Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems that provided the

sk replacement, logical volume management

• Administered EMC Celerra with EMC Celerra manager and Netapp NAS appliances with Filer view

• Managed a project for a critically visible and substantive lab-wide IT security hardening directive.

s atform for their applications. This included file system management, user account management,

ditorage provisioning, performance tuning, restores, security hardening, firewall and networking issues,

c Delivered on time with 100% success rate. This decree came straight from the Director’s Office. My

3 datomponent comprised inventorying of all physical and virtual Unix/Linux servers and appliances across

a centers, composing UNIX scripting tools to facilitate data gathering and conducting logistical

C planning with inter-departmental teams. This was a key part of the Lab rolling out Network Access

• Managed centralized DNS on internal Infoblox appliances and external-facing Solaris zone servers.

• Successfully conceived and managed a project to roll out the very first centrally managed enterprise

backup (EMC Networker) of an external, world-facing Lincoln Laboratory host.

ontrol to enforce physical LAN security. At go live date, there were no substantive outages anywhere

across the laboratory related to the network hardening activity

• PKI infrastructure administration including generating new digital certificates and installing them on lab

webservers

• Managed listserv legacy UNIX-based mailing list solution and created and maintained mailing lists for

various laboratory-wide engineering and administrative groups

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Brian J Kelley, CISSP

• Performed root cause analysis and provide recommendations to improve efficiencies and resolve

problems within Unix/Linux systems.

• Managed deployment, scripting and tuning of Nagios open source data center monitoring solution

• Deployment and management of VMware virtual machines

Principal Consultant, Symantec Corporation, November 2008 – April 2010

• Worked directly for the Air Force and their primary contractors, General Dynamics and Jacobs.

of Empowered customer with their successful day-to-day design, deployment, operation and maintenance

• Set up and tested complex demos of major Symantec Software products in preparation for high level

meetings in front of enlisted directing officers, civilian managers, and technical contractors

F Symantec backup, backup reporting and storage reporting software deployed throughout the Air

orce

• Helped several Federal customers with their design, maintenance, installation, and administration of

W deployed NetBackup/Command Central Storage running on Sun Solaris, HPUX, Red Hat Linux and

• Successfully troubleshot Backup Exec 12.0 issues in clustered VMware ESX cluster test environment

• Build relationships with key Air Force Program Management Office Civilian personnel, General

Dynamics Project Managers, Enlisted Air Force Officers.

indows 7/2008 server platforms

• Assisted FBI with their Sun Solaris and Netbackup administration.

• Traveled as a VERITAS Netbackup Professional Services consultant, performing various engagements

with Symantec's Federal and DOD customers in all aspects of Netbackup

• Responsible for initial architecture and deployment of VERITAS Backup Reporter at DISA, Defense

Information Systems Agency

• Assisted Army customer in Germany with their Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux administration

namically adapted to their large, two-site COOP environment

• Wrote a custom backup labeling script in Perl for Windows VTL environment while onsite with Army

dy customer in Germany. This empowered them with reliable and accurate reporting from the VTL. It also

Principal Software Support Engineer, SUN Microsystems, April 2005- November 2008

• Provide 4th level software support on VERITAS Netbackup and EMC Legato enterprise backup

applications

• Build key relationships with major Sun customers in the federal, public and education sectors

• Trained at Symantec and EMC in both products

• Worked closely and consistently with various Sun personnel as a team to ensure customer-focused

quality service was delivered

ethodology without having to seek RFE from Symantec-VERITAS.

• Performed frequent Sun Solaris administration tasks

Sr. Software Support Engineer, AppIQ, Inc, November 2004 - April 2005

• Provide 3rd level software support on industry leading, CIM based, SNIA compliant, heterogeneous

s Storage Resource Management solution running on Windows 2000/2003 or Solaris management

• Set-up Windows APPIQ servers for customer demos using ghost imaging, Oracle install, application

scripts

erver platforms.

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• Wrote custom VERITAS bpdbjobs script to allow customer to report the order in which new streams'

m jobs executed on 6.5.2 policies. This allowed the customer to maintain their emergency DR

Brian J Kelley, CISSP

• Assist customers with troubleshooting Windows HBA-API issues with Emulex and QLOGIC drivers.

A Assist with SRM UI discovery, reporting and provisioning issues. Management of underlying Oracle 9.2

• Assisted customers with creation of logical volumes and devices and zoning/assignment of Hitachi

9980 disk array SAN luns to AIX 4.3, 5.1, 5.2 servers

PPIQ database on Windows and Solaris.

• Participate in key OEM partner strategic relationship development by attending meetings, assisting with

training, providing reports

• Managed customer escalations by pulling together internal personnel resources

O Enterprise Solaris UNIX & Backup Administrator, Toyota Motor Sales, August 2002 -

• Solely responsible for Toyota Motor Sales enterprise backup infrastructure. Responsible for all aspects

of maintaining industry-leading, quality service to internal Toyota Business Unit customers.

ctober 2003

• Managed tape operations personnel, a team of 8 people.

• Worked closely with Customer Project Managers to review, plan, implement and maintain SLAs

(Service Level Agreements) for various Toyota Business Unit customers.

• Architected, implemented and administered SAN disk backup solutions for major Toyota Business

projects

• Assisted in planning, designing, allocation, administration, capacity planning and performance tuning of

SAN storage for Toyota’s Production, Test, QA and development servers (UNIX & Windows)

• Assisted in planning of storage array data migrations

• At Toyota Motor Sales Headquarters National Data Center, scaled 3 EMC EDM Solaris backup servers

• Wrote Kornshell UNIX scripts employing awk arrays to control backup coverage reporting, backup job

s execution and dynamically inventory client servers’ Oracle environment as seen from EDM backup

c to 45-50 Terabytes weekly backup storage while saving an estimated $65K per annum in new media

osts and $250K in new EDM systems’ hardware and service agreement costs

• Designed and implemented data migration to move a copy of production SQL 7 Web application

database from remote DMZ LAN to internal LAN test SQL Windows server. Used Symmetrix BCV

ervers.

• Pro-actively evaluated options for implementing industry best practices through attending vendor

ba meetings, reviewing new solutions, considering and consulting with storage group on storage, SAN and

ckup options.

Software Support Engineer II EMC Data Manager Product, EMC Corporation, 2000 to 2002

• Provide senior level technical support to internal, national and international EMC customers within

customer service headquarters call center.

• Provide leadership and direction for Associate Software and Software I specialists engaging in complex

customer issues.

• Author, submit and track engineering bug reports to address first seen, unworkable problems. Work

t directly with engineers to resolve issues Research other’s reports in database as significant method of

• Technical management and team leading; on call consulting specialist; Traveling Technical specialist

for EMC EDM product.

roubleshooting.

Software Support Engineer I EMC Data Manager product, EMC Corporation, 1999 to 2000

• Resolve complex or unusual software issues pertaining to an enterprise network and SCSI/Fibre path

• Troubleshot Windows backup issues with Lotus, Exchange, SQL , Oracle and file systems

• Travel to 3 cities in Brasil to implement EMC EDM Symmetrix Connect and Symmetrix Path backup

solutions at customer sites

Associate Support Engineer, EMC Corporation, 1998 to 1999

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backup solution, EDM, operating within the realm of customer’s multi-vendor UNIX, NT/WIN2K client

environments. Perform UNIX and TCP/IP administration on underlying SUN Ultra Enterprise server

hosting the backup software.

Brian J Kelley, CISSP

• Resolve complex or unusual software issues pertaining to an enterprise network and SCSI/Fibre path

backup solution, EDM, operating within the realm of customer’s multi-vendor UNIX, NT/WIN2K client

environments. Perform UNIX and TCP/IP administration on underlying SUN Ultra Enterprise server

hosting the backup software.

• Liaise directly with 3rd level support engineers and engineering to drive solution and learn best practice

troubleshooting and implementation process in a mentor-apprentice relationship

Education

Worcester Polytechnic Institute Westborough, MA, 1998

• UNIX/C/C++ Graduate Certificate, magna cum laude

Bachelor of Music Degree (B.M), University of Massachusetts-Lowell, 1990

• Music performance emphasis in Sound Recording Technology, magna cum laude

Worcester State University 2010-current

Additional Training

• Worcester State University, 2010 - One year college Physics

• CISSP

• SUN Solaris 10 OS Certified

• SUN Solaris 10 Systems Administration I & II

• SUN Solaris 7 Systems Administration I & II; SUN Solaris 7 TCP/IP Network Administration

• Symantec 6.5 Administration for UNIX

• EMC Legato 7.4 Administration for UNIX, LINUX and Windows

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• Enterprise Oracle 8i DBA Part 1A: Architecture and Administration

• Enterprise Oracle 8i DBA Part 1B: Backup and Recovery workshop

• Enterprise Oracle 8i DBA Part 1C: Database performance analysis and tuning

Introduction to Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL

Security Clearance

Top Secret, SSBI

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