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summary of qualificATIONS

·               Active high risk public trust.

·               A technical professional with over 10+ years of cross-platform experience in Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux/Fedora) and Unix systems engineering (OS, patches, packages, TCP/IP networking, NFS, NIS, DNS, DHCP, performance analysis, volume management, RAID and mirroring) building hardware – servers / desktops from ground up with installation of OS and patches on 24x7 basis.

·               Extensive experience in virtualization solutions such as VMware vSphere 5, Xen, RHEV, IBM LPARs/VIO servers and supporting them in large production environments.

·               Experience with scripting languages (Bash, Korn) generating automated scripts.

·               Extensive Systems Analysis and Development of Applications through complete lifecycle of projects. Experience writing System Requirement Specifications, Standard Operating Procedures.

·               Superior troubleshooting and technical support abilities with migrations, network connectivity, and security of enterprise wide systems.

·               Multi-tasking with project management skills and strong end-user / customer focus.

 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

 Cloud Infrastructure: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

 Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Fedora, SUSe Linux, AIX

 Virtualization: VMware vSphere 5, Xen, KVM, LPARS, VIO server

 Scripting Languages: Bash, Korn, Perl

 Storage Area Networks (SAN) – 3Par, EVA, IBM DS storage, EMC DMX/CX/AX series

 Web Servers: IBM HTTP Server (IHS), Apache HTTP Server

 Application Servers: Websphere, Weblogic, JBoss, Tomcat

 Hardware: IBM blades, IBM HS 2X, RS/6000, pSeries, Dell, HMC, POWER5, HP, EMC, Intel

 Backup/Storage: NetBackup, Tivoli Storage Manager, IBM Ultrium Tape Library, Fast T200

 Security: NMAP, Nessus, Snort, Cain & Abel, Netwire, Subversion, Tripwire

 Networking: TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, SSH, FTP, SCP, NAT, VLAN, Cisco IOS, SAN Switches

 Software/Databases:  Oracle, MySQL, InterSystems Cache, IBM DB2

 

CERTIFICATES and TRAININGS

Architecting on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cert Course: License# 000000

CompTIA Security+ ce  License# NL3T2YB2VPQQCKVN

RH300: RHCE Rapid Track Course (RHEL 5)

U.S. Department of Defense PKI certifications

U.S. Department of Commerce: Certificate of Appreciation (Gold Seal approval)

 

SECURITY CLEARANCES

U.S. Commerce Department – Public Trust (high risk)

 

 

EDUCATION

Temple University, Fox School of Business and Management, Philadelphia PA

Bachelor of Business Administration – Management Information Systems

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, DC           11/14 – present

Sr. Red Hat Linux Engineer / Consultant

·               Manage, configure and support Red Hat Satellite Server 5.7 (RHSS) across SEC infrastructure.

·               Design and configure internal AWS VPC environment that spans across multiple availability zones (AZ) in the AWS US East region.

·               Build custom RPMs from source which get signed with custom GPG key pairs and loaded into Red Hat Satellite Server for custom deployment.

·               Build and design multiple AWS EC2 instances (RHEL) backed by provisioned iop EBS storage.

·               Configure AWS S3 buckets where sensitive midas data gets stored and then downloaded to MicroPCs. Older data gets offloaded to AWS Glacier.

·               Maintain and configure baseline kickstart configurations for automated bare metal server builds running RHEL7.

·               Build and configure GIT repositories and Jenkins server on RHEL 6/7 to support continuous integration across development environment(s).

General Services Administration, Washington, DC10/13 – 08/14

Sr. Linux/AWS Engineer

·               Linux Cloud engineer responsible for the architecting, support and management of the cloud infrastructure for the National Computerized Maintenance Management System under GSA.

·               Design, build and support Red Hat v6 (RHEL) EC2 instances running on EBS storage volumes under the Public and VPC cloud environments which utilize multiple availability zones in multiple regions.

·               Implemented custom VPC that utilized multiple availability zones across US East and US West regions with auto-scaled environments to combat fault tolerance.

·               Created S3 buckets for developers serving static web content.

·               Utilize Puppet configuration management server and nodes to push global wide configurations across multiple infrastructure servers.

·               Created identity and access management (IAM) roles, users, and groups to restrict user access to specific AWS resources.

·               Configure many AWS components including: VPC, Security Groups, Route Tables, IAM, ELB, S3, Auto-Scaling, AWS CLI API, Route 53 etc.

·               Administered apache web server clusters "httpd" for content redirection, rewrite conditional rules and full management of web resources.

 

 

NASA, Washington, DC     09/13 – 10/13

Sr. Linux/AWS Engineer

·              Implemented custom VPC that utilized multiple availability zones across US East and US West regions with auto-scaled environments to combat fault tolerance.

·               Utilize Puppet configuration management server and nodes to push global wide configurations across multiple infrastructure servers.

 

 

USA Today/Gannett Headquarters, McLean, VA     03/13 – 09/13

Special Project - Principal Cloud/Red Hat Consultant

Assignment: Architect a Production Private Cloud on Amazon Web Services Platform

·              Lead AWS Cloud/Red Hat Consultant with responsibility of architecting and securing a public key (PKI) Red Hat Linux environment in the AWS cloud platform.

·               Designed, implemented and supported a 2 region Amazon AWS virtual private cloud cluster (VPC) for Gannett Digital/USA Today.

·               Cloud Regions utilized consisted of the US East (NoVA) and EU West (Ireland). All 4 availability zones were utilized in the US East Region and 2 availability zones were used in the EU West region for redundancy purposes.

·               Implemented infrastructure utilized asymmetric key encryption (PKI) and ran on Red Hat Linux (RHEL) versions 5 & 6 environments with AWS IAM roles setup for roles and administration.

·               Disk storage consisted of EBS backed volumes that were then backed up to S3 regional buckets then migrated to Amazon Glacier for cheaper and longer retention periods.

·               Customized shell scripts and kickstart automated script files that were then used with automating tools such as Puppet, Cobbler, Satellite Server and Elastic Beanstalk to automate processes and build virtual EC2/VPC machines.

·               Completed the Architecting on AWS certification course and will certify by end of month.

 

DoD, DISA via Tangible Software, McLean, VA     11/12 – 03/13

Principal Red Hat Systems Engineer

·               Assist in supporting, developing and deploying a public key infrastructure for secure internet communication for the Department of Defense (DoD).

·               Design/implement complex local and wide-area networks consisting of Red Hat Enterprise Linux machines.

·               Solve complex integration issues in regards to RHEL 5 and 6 interconnected systems.

·               Configuration of static routes, packet filtering, and network address translation.

·               Solid shell scripting in Bash and Perl programming to automate multiple operations in a classified PKI environment.

 

NOAA Headquarters, Silver Spring, MD                 01/12 – 9/12

Government Contract – Sr. Linux Engineer / Virtualization Consultant

·               Responsible for the health and security of all NOAA Linux servers under the FOST/NMFS department of technology.

·               Main objective is to design, build and migrate legacy government servers and applications to the new IBM blade server infrastructure.

·               Migrated end-of-life legacy NOAA systems to newly configured RHEL 5.8 servers running on IBM blades (HS20, HS22v).

·               Re-architect the entire FOST/NMFS department systems with latest security in an effort to comply with the FIPS 140-2 security protocol.

·               P2V migrations of legacy standalone servers to newly implemented virtualized clients.

·               Provided tier 3 24/7 technical support for all FOST/NMFS servers in a mixed environment which included Red Hat, CentOS and VMware virtual clients.

·               Setup and designed a samba share server to address remote accessibility to file systems across FOST/NMFS Linux environments.

·               Assist with the design and support of a mixed virtual infrastructure environment which includes VMware ESXi 4, Xen and Linux KVM.

·               Built and configured a centrally managed administration server for server updates, kernel upgrades and automated installs over the network.

·               Audited all FOST/NMFS infrastructure servers by utilizing and customizing the Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmark audit to comply with agency security regulations.

·               Designed and wrote bash and korn shell scripts to help automate the process of migrating millions of sensitive research records throughout the NOAA/FOST network.

·               Versed in a plethora of security tools including NMAP, NESSUS and ArcSight to assist in mitigating security vulnerabilities on a daily basis.

·               Script iptables firewall rules for newly implemented applications that need network accessibility.

·               Designed nagios security services monitoring system which monitors all services on the FOST/NMFS network.

·               Manages daily systems engineering duties such as performance tuning, patching, analyze server resources, script new cron jobs etc.

 

 

 

 

 

U.S. Census Bureau/Hewlett-Packard, Bowie, MD             06/10 – 12/11

Government Contract – Sr. Linux Systems Engineer

·               Responsible for all production server side day to day Linux systems administration support and engineering for all Census Bureau servers across the country.

·               Honored by the Census Bureau with gold stamp seal of appreciation for lead support role of the high profile SAN consolidation and migration project.

·               Appointed lead systems engineer for SAN consolidation and migration project.

·               Responsible for migrating petabytes of sensitive government SAN storage from legacy HP EVA storage to 3PAR and IBM SVC storage.

·               Manages mission-critical server environments across the Census Bureau that include virtualized Linux environments, standalone Linux server environments, and legacy Unix environments.

·               SAN storage back ends utilizing 3PAR storage, IBM DS storage, and EMC DMX storage arrays with petabytes of storage capabilities.

·               Provide support for the blade server hardware and various software tools used within the Census Bureau to continue to migrate legacy servers to RHEL Linux and blade servers

·               Adminsters and supports large Red Hat clusters consisting of 3 node to 10 node clusters.

·               Migrated legacy production Solaris version 9/10 servers to RHEL version 5.x servers running on IBM HS22v hardware.

·               Migrated application and database from Solaris both standalone and cluster platform servers to Red Hat Linux clusters.

·               Extensive support of multiple mission-critical virtual environments that include VMware vSphere v4 and Xen technologies.

·               Assign and configure oracle ASM storage disks on RHEL 5.x Oracle RAC clusters.

 

 

 

GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, PA       03/10 – 06/10

Contract – Sr. Unix Systems Administrator

·               Assisted engineering team in building the GSK IT infrastructure for the east coast of the US and builds in Germany and UK.

·               Infrastructure consisted of IBM pseries hardware with AIX 5L and virtualization that included LPARs and VIO servers with HMC console.

·               Designed and installed RHEL version 5.x on low level servers that ran on IBM LS20 hardware.

·               Installed, configured and support AIX 5.x using NIM mksysb install methods.

 

Barclays Bank, Wilmington, DE                                                                          01/09 – 02/10

Contract - Sr. Unix Systems Security Administrator

·               Administered AIX and Linux (RHEL5) server platforms across all Barclays US/UK credit card division environments.

·               Migrated and decommissioned the majority of all Solaris 5.9/5.10 servers across legacy environment.

·               Supported and managed roughly over 850 internal users and thousands across US/UK.

·               Performed IBM P5 and P6 frame microcode updates and HMC updates.

·               Migrated NetApp NAS to Celera NAS NFS file systems on AIX/LINUX/Solaris servers.

·               Support large NIS environment consisting of AIX/LINUX/Solaris NIS Master, Slaves and Clients.

·               Configured storage disks from VIO servers to AIX client LPARs.

·               Configured ILO-2, DRAC5 remote management utilities on HP and DELL.

 

 

A.C. Moore Network Command Center, Berlin, NJ                                           05/08 – 01/09

Contract - Sr. Red Hat Linux Systems Engineer/Sr. EMC SAN Administrator

·               Responsible for all Red Hat Linux and IBM AIX systems enterprise wide for all store branches and main warehouse.

·               Cisco MDS VSAN switch administrator responsible for 2 fabrics which contains a total of 4 separate Cisco switches.

·               Setup Tivoli TSM v5.5 as the primary backup solution to Symmetrix hyper devices and then migrated to a TS3200 tape library.

·               Responsible for zoning all hosts and backend storage area networks using Cisco MDS switches.

·               Evaluated, purchased, configured from scratch and administrated EMC Clariion CX500 SAN with over 9 TB storage over a 2 GB/s switched fiber network.

 

RAM Technologies, Inc. Fort Washington, PA                                                   11/07 – 05/08

Contract - Sr. AIX Systems Administrator/Middleware Specialist

·               Senior AIX and Linux administrator in charge of installation, configuration and support for models ranging from RS/6000 p620 to p570.

·               Manages all AIX and Linux operating systems running on pSeries servers and Intel based servers.

·               Implemented Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup/archive solution which utilized two primary disk storage pools and a tape library copy storage pool for disaster recovery.

·               Performs shell scripting as needed to support integration and automation.

·               Customizes AIX and Linux LPAR partitions to support server consolidation and virtualization.

 

MEDecision Inc. Chesterbrook, PA          05/06 – 11/07             

Sr. Hosted Systems Specialist

·               Administered and supported AIX, Solaris, Linux and Windows servers enterprise wide.

·               Managed all phases of UNIX systems rollout from ordering to implementation.

·               Maintained Apache and IBM HTTP Servers (IHS) that load balanced requests to middle tier application servers.

·               Responsible for administering all EMC Clariion disk array’s enterprise wide.

·               Provided 24x7 on call support for all internal and hosted customer servers which are located at the SunGard Availability Services hosting site.

·               Built out customer environments from ground up through planning, designing and implementation.

 

Synapsis Technology Inc, Spring House, PA              05/05 – 05/06

Linux Administrator/Software Implementation Consultant

·               Responsible for post sales implementation, support, and deployment of J2EE software onto Linux, Solaris and Windows enterprise servers.

·               Provided administration and support to Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Solaris 5.9 systems on a 24x7 basis.

·               Developed backup and recovery procedures including off-site backups, administration and installation of Veritas Netbackup servers, and tuning and maintenance of tape devices and libraries.

·               Administered server side applications that ran on WebSphere and JBoss middleware.

Temple University Hospital Information Systems, Philadelphia, PA 12/04 – 05/05             

Systems Administrator

·               Administered and managed all departmental UNIX and Windows Systems.

·               Provided system-level support to Oracle DBA’s and on occasion responsible for the installation and configuration of Oracle clients.

·               Deployed production-side applications and provided OS level administration and support to Windows 2003 servers and AIX 5L servers.

 

Element Web Solutions Inc, Philadelphia, PA              02/03 – 12/04             

Systems Engineer Consultant

·               Member of a 6 team Junior System Administration group which provided tier 2 support to Linux and AIX operating systems.

·               Provided basic OS layer patches and updates to AIX 5L and Linux servers.

·               Responsible for basic system administration of the internal Windows Server 2000 systems.

 

 

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