Objective:

A senior level position in IT system management/engineering that lets me utilize my system engineering, project management, and team lead skills.

Contact Information

[ Full address on request ]
Houston, TX

Summary:

·  Certified Linux veteran with more than 15 year experience on the design, implementation and support of various Linux platforms. Extensive experience with Solaris, Mac OSX and Windows. Familiar with Vmware, Xen and KVM. Hands on experience on virtualization/cloud projects using VMware and Citrix XenServer.

·  Advanced knowledge and extensive experience with networking and security, including load balancers, switches, routers, firewalls, IPS/IDS, etc. I have experiences with various backup/restore technologies such as Veritas Netbackup 4, 5, 6, 7. I know well about storage technologies including SAN, NAS, iSCSI, FC, FcoE and have direct working experience with EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, Dell, HP, IBM storage products. I have lots of co-location and data center facility experience, including server installations, racking, cabling, cooling, power management, networking etc.

·  Use Perl and BASH on a regular basis for system engineering tasks. Familiar with PHP, Java and C programming. I know very well about Java and Java middleware technologies such as J2EE and WebObjects. I am familiar with JVM performance tuning techniques.

·  Experiences in leading and building teams. I work well alone or in a group, I am familiar with project management principles and have led various IT projects in my career. I learn new concepts and technologies quickly and am receptive to new ideas. I am adaptable to different work environments, always ready to take challenge, and well used to handling highly stressful situation.

 

Professional Experience:

Schlumberger Geosolutions, Houston, TX                                                   Jan 2014 – now

Senior System Engineer

·  HPC compute (Linux, xCat, Groundwork)

·  HPC storage (StorNext, EMC, NetApp)

·  Cloud storage (Xen, VMware, HDS/BlueArc, EMC Isilon)

 

AIG Global Services, Fort Worth, TX                                                                 Oct 2012 – Dec 2013

Senior Linux System Engineer

·  Main responsibilities

o       Linux SME

o       Linux platform architect and engineering

o       Linux server build team lead

o       Linux DR team lead

o       Level 4 Unix operation support

o       Unix/Linux automation (BladeLogic)

·  Projects

o       SuSE and Redhat Linux on VMware vSphere Certification for AIGGS NGDC

o       SuSE and Rehdat Linux on Dell/EMC Certification for AIGGS NGDC

o       SuSE Linux on IBM s390/zVM Certification for AIGGS NGDC

o       AIG South America GIU migration

o       AIGGS site wide DR exercise 2013

o       AIGGS SuSE10 to SuSE11 zLinux/s390x upgrade

 

FuelQuest, Houston, TX                                                                                             Mar 2009 – Mar 2012

Information Systems Team Lead

·  Responsible for production and corporate IT facilities and operations

·  Designed and implemented the production private cloud on Citrix XenServer, Dell blades and EMC CX4

·  Led the private cloud migration from Citrix XenServer 5.5 to Vmware vSphere5 project

·  Implemented Oracle 11g RAC on RHEL 5, Dell blades, Brocade and EMC CX4

·  Designed and implemented company-wide backup/restore system using Netbackup and BackupExec

·  Led the design and implementation of company-wide Disaster Recover solution and process

·  Involved in the FuelQuest AWS cloud application deployment pilot project

·  Led the Houston data center move, consolidation and upgrade in 2009

·  Led the Austin data center setup and migration in 2010

·  Handled the Houston headquarter office move in 2011

·  Participated equipment purchasing and service contract negotiations

·  Participated in the company wide SAS70 IT auditing in 2010 and 2011

·  On call 24/7/365

 

WhiteFence, Houston, TX                                                                                               Jul 2008 - Mar 2009

Information Systems Team Lead

·  Responsible for comapny IT systems and operations. Leader of System&DBA team.

·  Day to day management of the System Administrator and DBA team

·  Responsible for company-wide systems and network security

·  Handled equipment purchasing and service contract negotiations

·  Participated in the company wide SAS70 IT auditing in 2008

·  Handled one data center move in 2009

·  Led the production data center upgrade (focus on scale-up and expanding) in 2008

·  Reported directly to CTO

·  On call 24/7/365 

 

WhiteFence, Houston, TX                                                                                               Jun 2003 - Jul 2008

Senior Systems Administrator

·  Responsible for production IT systems and operations.

·  Leader of the systems administrator team.

·  Production Linux environment support

·  Oracle 8i SE setup, maintenance and upgrades

·  Oracle 10g RAC setup, maintenance and upgrades

·  Network-wide Veritas Netbackup setup, maintenance and upgrades

·  PXE based automated Linux server installation setup and maintenance

·  Syslog, Logcheck and Log4J based logging system setup

·  Nagios, MRTG and OEM based monitoring system setup

·  Dell based multi-tier and fully redundant production network design, setup and upgrades

·  Handled one data center move and expanding in 2003

·  Implemented one data center expanding in 2005

·  On call 24/7/365

 

WhiteFence, Houston, TX                                                                                               Jun 2000 - Jul 2003

Java Developer and UNIX Systems Administrator

·  Proposed, designed and implemented the company-wide platform migration from Sun Solaris to Linux.

·  Responsible for production Unix system implementation and support.

·  Developed production WhiteFence web portal, mainly in Java, with some Perl and C.

·  Developed and maintained the code release, test and deployment structure

·  Quickly prototyped WhiteFence phone order web portal with Perl:CGI in one week

·  Implemented WhiteFence application logging framework based on Log4J.

·  Implemented WhiteFence core messaging and data processing framework based on JMS.

·  Setup and administration of SonicMQ message broker.

·  Implemented WhiteFence map service based on Java WebObjects, MapQuest API and MapInfo API.

·  Implemented image processing framework and portal using ImageMagick and JMagick,

·  Maintained open source JMagick module on Solaris, Linux and Mac OSX between 2000 and 2006

·  Maintained open source Apache WebObjects Adaptor on Solaris, Linux and Mac OSX from 2000 to 2008

·  CVS and SVN based code release management

 

 

Technical Skills:

·  Operating Systems: Linux (Mainly Redhat and Debian), MacOS X (and Darwin), Solaris 7, 8, 9 and 10, Windows NT/2000/2003/2008/2012/XP/7/8

·  Networking: Good understanding of TCP/IP, Advanced knowledge of Web, FTP and Mail technologies, Hands on experience with switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, Network design, maintenance, upgrades, troubleshooting, Familiar with SNMP and Network Management

·  Security: Advanced knowledge of Unix security, Securing internet services, LAN/WAN security, VPN/ IPSec, Firewalls (WatchGuard, NetScreen, PIX, ASA, IPChain/NetFilter), IDS/IPS, Encryption (PGP, GnuPG, SSL), Network/Host Security Auditing, Security Policy Design, Implementation

·  Software Applications and Tools: Apache Web Servers (1.3.x/2.0/2.2), DNS (BIND 9, Windows DNS), NFS, Samba (SMB/CIFS), Sendmail, Postfix, MS Exchange 2000/2003/2010, RPM, APT, Kickstart, MRTG, Cacti, Nagios, TeamQuest, AppMgr, GCC, GNU Autoconf, Cfgine, Chef, EMC Navisphere, Unisphere, SnapView, Replication Manager, PowerPath, OpenLDAP, Active Directory, Trend Mirco, ClamAV, RCS, CVS, SVN, Git, Tomcat, JBoss, Fuse, Pentaho, ActiveMQ, SonicMQ, Amanda, BackupPC, Verita BackupExec, Veritas Netbackup, BMC BladeLogic

·  Database: MySQL 4.x, 5.0, Oracle 8i, 10g and 11g, Limited experience with MS SQL Server

·  Virtualization/Cloud: VMware Server, vSphere, vCenter, ESX, ESXi, DRS, Citrix XenServer, Linux Xen, Linux KVM, Windows Hyper-V, Amazon EC2

·  Programming/Scripting: Perl5, Unix Shell, PHP, Java, J2EE, WebObjects

·  Hardware: All forms of x86 hardware (Dell, IBM, HP, Penguin Computing), Some Sun SPARC hardware, Dell and Cisco routers, switches and firewalls, Jupiter Netscreen firewall, Barracuda Networks anti-spam firewall and LB devices, CAI Networks load balance products, EcoNet Sentinel IPS devices, Dell PowerVault iSCSI Storage, EMC AX3, AX5, CX4 and Recover Point 2.x Products, HP and IBM entry level NAS and SAN products, NetApp FAS, F810 filer and SNAP devices, ADIC, Dell and IBM tape drives and libraries

 

Education:

·  University of Houston, Computer Science, 2000

·  Peking University, Biochemistry, 1997, China

 

Training and Certifications:

·  Redhat Certified Engineer (RHCE)

·  Sun Certified Programmer for the JAVA2 Platform

·  Dell/EMC AX3 and AX5 Storage Training

·  EMC CX4 and Recover Point Training

·  VMware vSphere Installation, Configuration and Management Training

·  BMC BladeLogic Server Automation Part1 and Part2 Training

·  Quantum StorNext File System Administration