Technical Consultant, Eddy Mayi

Summary

Eddy Mayi is a U.S. citizen and holds public trust clearance. He is also a Red Hat Enterprise Linux7 Certified System Administrator, an AWS certified Solutions Architect as well as a UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator with over five (5) years’ experience in the general administration of UNIX/Linux enterprise servers. Eddy has technical expertise in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7, CentOS, Debian, and Apache Web server. Eddy is knowledgeable on applications deployment and virtualization on VMWare ESXi. Eddy is very proficient in UNIX/Linux networking, backup and recovery, system patching and provisioning. Eddy also has significant experience in user administration, access controls and Linux and Solaris patch management and is proficient at server hardware and networking troubleshooting and maintenance.

 

Education

Bachelor of Science, Psychology (elective in Information Technology), 1998, University of Yaounde 1

Certifications:

•         Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHEL7)

•         Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect-Associate

•         VMware Certified Data Center Virtualization Associate

•         CompTIA Linux + Certification

 

Summary of Computing Skills

Languages:Linux, VMWare, Hyper V

Hardware:Linux Server hardware fixes, Troubleshooting, repairs, configuration and management

OS:Linux (RHEL 5,6, and 7, CentOS, Solaris 10, Ubuntu)

Software:Oracle, Microsoft Office Suite, Helpdesk Applications, Linux Servers Administration

 

Professional Experience

August 2015 – PresentAquilent Inc.

AWS Cloud Administrator

GSA/Data.gov

•         Installed, deployed, and upgraded AWS Cloud-based servers and services in accordance with Federal standards and project guidelines

•         Supported GSA/Data.gov AWS Cloud Migration Activities

•         Built and Configured Linux Servers in AWS Cloud Environment

•         Created and hardened an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) utilizing Center for Internet Security (CIS) benchmarks to be used by GSA on the Data.gov project.

•         Updated the AMI with the latest patches

•         Utilized AWS to set up Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) for Management, Production and Testing environments with customer operational requirements and parameters (e.g., internet gateway, subnets, elastic ip, and Security Groups).

•         Utilized other AWS Cloud Computing platforms and its many dimensions of scalability including but not limited to: VPC, EC2, ELB,IAM, SQS, S3, auto scaling architectures, using EBS under high I/O requirements, custom monitoring metrics/analysis/alarms via Cloud Watch, the AWS CLI,  to meet client’s needs and project requirements. 

•         Repair and recover from system or application failures.

•         Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures.

•         Investigate and troubleshoot issues per request from various constituencies.

•         Performed all linux operating system, disk management and patch managenet configurations, on linux instances in AWS.

 

July 2014 – August 2015National Institutes of Health

UNIX Systems Administrator

World renowned health research facility enterprise level UNIX/Linux environment comprising of a mixture of over 300 servers running Oracle Solaris 10, HP-UX 11.31 and RHEL 6. Daily tasks involve activities in all aspects of system administration including: Performing user account management. Managing and monitoring server resources (memory, disk space, CPU) using EM7. Performing software package and system patch installation. Performing system installations and replacing defective hardware.

•         Completed numerous installations and configuration of multiple SPARC servers

•         Management of file systems on ZFS pools and LVM2, eg creating and adding space

•         Established server network connectivity on appropriate VLAN and to SAN network

•         Completed numerous server patching activities using Live Upgrade and firmware updates

 

December 2011 – July 2014Vital Networks & Database Systems, Inc.

LINUX Systems Administrator

Small company that provides IT solutions to various companies and Government entities. Performed systems analysis, logs file reviews, tracking code bugs and resolves software issues of related to networking connectivity, printer, servers, and applications to meet business needs. Performed troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose system problems.

•         Built and configured Virtual Linux Servers using VMware ESXi and RHEL KVM

•         Performance monitoring and capacity planning on UNIX and Linux Servers

•         Hardening systems using SE Linux and other security measures

•         Created and configured LVM partitions

 

March 2009 – November 2011Acentia, LLC

Systems Administrator

Performed system builds and upgraded system software and hardware components as required to meet business needs. Addressed diverse issues primarily revolving around Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack. Performed routine system backups, restores, storage space adds and hardware upgrades. Monitored network and servers with Nagios.

•         Configuration of local repository to support package and applications management

•         Configured CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required, set up ZFS quota and NFS shares

•         Daily system administration and management of servers, applications and file systems

 

May 2008 – February 2009CES Security

IT Systems Administrator

Continuously monitoring diverse Web and applications servers to meet uptime requirements; resolving or escalating issues when necessary. Coordinated the installation of client department specific applications and systems. Conducting software and hardware evaluations and diagnosing and troubleshooting various hardware issues.

•         Planned ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimizations

•         Utilized standard tools to record change and problem activities for tracking purposes

•         Monitored, and maintained email applications or virus protection software

Awards

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Publications

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Clearance

•           Public Trust