OBJECTIVE:
To be a valued team member in a Sr. Systems Administration/Infrastructure Engineering/Environment Manager position. Results-oriented environment “fixer”; Broad experience; Private cloud engineering specialist.
SKILLS:
Linux/UNIX: 24+years Enterprise full life-cycle Enterprise ownership, CentOS / RedHat RHEL 3->8, BASH/bourne scripting, IT Project Mgmt., LAMP stack integration, Security, Standardization, Documentation, Backups
Windows: 10+years total, Exchange Email, O365 Migration, Active Directory, Monitoring, Server 2003-2016
Automation: BASH/bourne scripting, kickstart, clonezilla, PING, ovftool/OVA/OVF, MSP private cloud
Hypervisiors: VMware ESXi v5.X->6.7, vCenter, ovftool OVA templating, Vmware+NFS, Vmware+iSCSI, KVM and CentOS Openstack integration.
Firewall: VPN (IPSEC, OpenVPN / SSL), PCI/PA-DSS security, Multi-tier DMZ design, Fortinet, Checkpoint, Sophos, Pfsense, NAT, DMZ, WAF
Networking: VPN, VLAN, NAT, TCP/IP, UDP, TFTP, DHCP, DNS, DHCP, VNC, RDP, IDS (Snort),NMAP, OpenWRT, WirelessAP, tcpdump, wireshark
Hardware: DELL, HP, IBM, Supermicro, Blades
Monitoring: OpsView/Nagios, BASH Scripting, Big Brother, Zabbix, Logic Monitor, Datadog
Performance: O/S minimization (DMZ), Virtualization, DB kernel tuning (Oracle), JVM/J2EE (BEA weblogic), Std. Unix tools.
Backup: Veeam, CommVault, rsync, rsnapshot, boxbackup, Legato, clonezilla, ovftool, PING
Storage: RAID, SAN, NAS, EMC, Hitachi, Nimble, Nexenta, iXsystems, FreeNAS iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, SAMBA/SMB, NTFS
Cloud: Custom private cloud hosting solutions, AWS Support, Zimbra Collaboration, NextCloud
Compliance/Security: PCI, SOC2, HIPPA environment support experience.
EXPERIENCE:
MSP Contract – Denver, CO 10/2019-Present; Sr. Infrastructure Engineer: Comprehensive small business focused MSP/ISP infrastructure/VMware/Services support and legacy upgrading. VMware clustering, client DMZ/Firewall build out and support. Security Analysis. Daily operations: Supermicro/Dell hardware, iXsystems, FreeNAS filers/NFS, VMware/vCenter/Replication, Veeam backups, monitoring with Nagios/Zabbix/PRTG, pFsense firewall design, OpenVPN, Zimbra deployment, Next Cloud Deployment, WordPress hosting standard VM images, Linux: CentOS6x-8x, Ubuntu 14x-18x internal IT support, Netgear 10Gb+VLAN. Developed new, updated standard regional datacenter design and testing with cost-optimized, enterprise class, open source upgrades to 10+ year old legacy MSP environment. Raspberry Pi temperature sensor monitoring with Nagios and Zabbix. Decommissioned many unused systems. Successful SOC2 certification.
Nordstrom Credit Services – Denver, CO 4/2018-10/2019; Sr. Operations Engineer: Comprehensive direct Operational Excellence support for multiple development teams. Compliance auditing, systems monitoring, O/S patching support, security best practice, systems and application integration, networking. AWS and on-premises systems.
ENKI Corporation – Denver, CO 11/2016-3/2018; Sr. UNIX/Linux Engineer: Comprehensive Linux-based Private Cloud Engineering. OVA templated PCI/HIPPA Linux images and DMZ design. RHEL/CentOS 6.x/7.x, Linux-based security/firewall operations: Sophos UTM firewall, WAF, SSL + IPSec VPN, Veeam Backup and Replication, Vmware vCenter 6.X, Active Directory, Multi-factor authentication, HIPPA and PCI audit participation, Nexenta Storage, Nimble Storage, Dell blade farm, Logic Monitor SAAS monitoring. KVM, CentOS Openstack integration experience.
National Theater Company – Overland Park, KS 8/2016-11/2016; Sr. UNIX/Linux Engineer Oracle RAC, Monitoring, Scripting, Linux
Cloud Engineering Consulting – CPURESCUE.NET and others – 4/2016-Present; Sr. UNIX/Linux Engineer: WordPress marketing, Godaddy hosting, Cpanel… etc.
Keypath Education (formerly Plattform Advertising Inc., an Education Industry Advertising Leader) 4/2014- 4/2016 Sr. UNIX/Linux Engineer: International, Comprehensive Services, Multi-site Virtualization, Windows & Linux server environment. CommVault Enterprise Backup deployment, Exchange 2013 upgrade/Migration to O365. Veeam implementation. Windows system Engineering, Linux LAMP Hosting Environment Design/Upgrade. Tier 2/3 escalation point.
Core Cashless Inc. (Comprehensive Revenue Management, Point of Sale/Cashless system vendor) 2/2012-5/2013; Sr. UNIX/Linux Engineer: 200+ sites, 500+nodes managed with custom Nagios monitoring and practical fail-over design PA-DSS/PCI Audit certified System and Network security Design Internal and Customer Site network design and implementation Linux Administration: Internal and External Customer Support
Security Scanning/Firewall/VPN/Router/DMZ Administration RedHat RHEL4,5,6 (CentOS) support. System design, deployment, administration, security, ESXi 5.x vSphere/Hypervisor virtualization, Network design, implementation, support; Customer site project deployment, OVA template standardization
Point of Sale Client-server Application (Linux/Open Source/Open Systems) support
OrthoKansas P.A. (Lawrence, KS Orthopaedic Care) 10/2011-2/2012; Systems Administrator:
Windows Desktop, VMWare Server, Medical Systems Office environment
Daily support of: Windows XP through Windows 7 Desktops, Active Directory Migration, X-ray document management system, VMware ESX Windows hosts
Sprint Nextel, Inc. – 5/2001 to 02/2009; Sr. UNIX/Linux Engineer:
100’s of nodes in Midrange Unix Support in Regional Data Center environments
Enterprise Operations/Distributed Technology Operations/Linux Team: Responsibilities included complete technology life cycle support of Red Hat Linux within Sprint Nextel Regional Data Centers. Activity surrounded preparing new Linux O/S and Hardware standards, hardware or Vmware host installation, O/S build-out, application integration, project collaboration, and production server support.
SprintPCS.com agile development support:
Responsibilities included the design, implementation, security monitoring and daily support of Unix systems and development environments for SprintPCS.com developers for PCS Vision web site and 3G services. Architecture included: Solaris 8, Linux (Red Hat 7.x) O/S, Sun Enterprise 6500’s down to Ultra10’s, RLX Technologies’ blades servers, BEA’s Weblogic application server, iPlanet, Apache, CVS, Samba, Big Brother systems monitoring, shell scripting. Development through Production support of Linux based RLX Blade severs running SonicMQ JMS services.
PVI, Inc. Midwest multi-vendor, Sun Microsystems VAR (Peripheral Vision Infosystems) – 4/99 to 1/01; (PVI, Inc. went out of business) IT Operations Manager:
Responsibilities included the complete ownership of the I/T infrastructure support team, all computer and communication infrastructure, PBX, data center operations, hosting business, project rollouts, infrastructure design, deployment, and systems management for 6 site $80 million sales, training, development and consulting organization.
Honeywell/Allied Signal EAS/BG&A. – 9/96 to 4/99 UNIX Team Lead:
Responsible for administering 200 Unix nodes (75% Solaris/SunOS, 25% HPUX), account maintenance, tape library backups, name service configuration (DNS, NIS+), environment continuity, infrastructure planning, disaster recovery, security, application licensing/installation, SMB Web Gateway maintenance, Netscape Server administration, asset service contract maintenance & tracking.
Client Services Team Leader 3/96 to 9/96:
Help-desk manager, 1800 PC network support responsibility, hardware management, managed cross-site issues/consolidation of out of state facility, client administration/standardization. Sole Client Support for Allied Signal Southlake facility. Lead Win95 and NT4.0 client configuration; roll out, support and administration. Played central role in engineering client support/upgrades and conversion.
Client Services Support 4/95 to 3/96:
Permanent sole I/S support for AlliedSignal’s Lawrence production facility: I/S representative-liaison to Allied Signal Olathe facility, MACPAC (ERP) client Implementation/Support, Bar-code system implementation / support. Microsoft NT network / client implementation / support, Microsoft E-mail administration, network/server admin. Full responsibility for over 200 nodes.
Desktop Services Support – Allied Signal (TAD Technical Services) 2/95 to 4/95:
Contractor for Allied Signal General Aviation.
Desktop Service Support – Sprint (Account Temps) 11/94 to 2/95:
Contractor for Sprint Telemedia I/S Department
CERTIFICATION:
Red Hat Certified Engineer: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 4 Cert. #804005314317008
http://www.redhat.com/training/certification/verify/?rhce_cert_display:certno=804005314317008&rhce_cert_display:verify_cb=Verify (Extensive RHEL 4,5,6,7,8 migration/implementation/virtualization experience, Debian/Ubuntu)
EDUCATION:
The University of New York (Excelsior College Extension 1993) , Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies, (3.9 GPA). Emphasis in sciences and computer applications. (Also attended KU & St. Mary College in KS)
Shawnee Mission South, High School, (4.0 GPA 1986); Awarded Summerfield Academic Scholarship from KU.