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PRINCIPAL SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
Accomplishments
  • 2000-08-17 Oracle8 Database and Architecture 2000-10-13 ES-310 Sun StoreEdge Volume Manager Administration 2000-10-16 Sun Storage 1 2000-10-11 Sun Cluster 2.x 2001-05-07 Leadership Skills for Technical Professionals 2001-09-10 Solaris Internals for Employees 2001-10-01 Kernel Core Dump Analysis - SPARC 2001-10-24 ClearCase Basics for Unix 2001-10-25 ClearCase Administration for Unix 2002-05-30 Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 8.
  • 2004-10-22 A Departmental Recognition for Exceptional Effort.
  • 2008-02-15 Configuring and Administering ZFS File Systems.
Professional Summary
Responsible Network Technician with comprehensive experience scheduling conversions and cutover. Extensive experience monitoring, tracking, and evaluating global IT infrastructure incidents. Network Administrator with extensive experience with Oracle High Availability environments, implementation and management. Systems architect with expertise in requirement gathering and analysis, architectural, component and interface design and development for web-based applications in multiple domains. Professional, detail-oriented Network Administrator motivated to drive projects from start to finish as part of a dynamic team.
Skills
  • Customer satisfaction.
  • Data analysis.
  • Refining procedures for greater efficiency.
  • Documentation - Writing and updating procedures and generating reports.
  • Asset tracking.
  • System maintenance.
  • Troubleshooting software and hardware configurations.
  • Scripting - bash, ksh, Perl, Python, HTML, xml.
  • Server Virtualization - OpenStack, OVM, LDOM, VMWare. .
  • Unix - BSD, Solaris, RH Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux.
  • Monitoring tools - Nagios, BMC Patrol, Ganglia, SunMC, OVM.
  • Storage and Filesystems - UFS, NFS, ZFS.
  • Windows NT, Windows 8.1, Windows 10
  • LDAP, NIS, ActiveX
  • Outlook, Excell, Word, Access
  • Excellent problem-solving abilities
  • System upgrades
  • Network maintenance
  • Network upgrades
  • Refined system debugging skills
Work History
Principal System Administrator, 01/2010 to 01/2017
 Oracle – San Diego, CA
  • Systems and infrastructure support for software developers.
  • Oversaw the deployment and maintenance of a fleet of servers for software development and legacy support in Austin, Bangalore, Beijing, Broomfield, Burlington, Dublin, Prague, Reading, San Diego, and Santa Clara.
  • Having the software build environment close to the developers and engineers improved the speed in which enhancements and bug fixes were added into Solaris OS and delivered to customers.
  • Consulted with internal customers regarding software development needs and designed suitable environments.
  • Responsible for the shipping and installation of servers and storage.
  • Configured and validated servers and storage appliances to meet customer requirements.
  • Responded to internal customer tickets.
  • Participated in on-call rotation.
Senior Unix System Administrator, 01/1999 to 01/2010
 Sun Microsystems – San Diego, CA
  • Desktop and related infrastructure support.
  • Maintained Solaris based home directory and email servers running.
  • Maintained tape backups using NetWorker.
  • Handled backup tape rotation and delivery to off-site storage.
  • Replaced employee desktops with new servers.
  • Maintained office server and network lab.
  • Responded to internal customer tickets.
  • Systems, infrastructure, and lab support for hardware engineers and software developers.
  • Setup and maintained systems for hardware engineering teams.
  • Server part replacements and repairs.
  • Setup and maintained NFS mounted storage spaces and required backups to tape using Netbackup.
  • Responded to internal customer tickets.
  • Participated in on-call rotation.
Unix System Administrator, 01/1996 to 01/1999
 Lucent Technologies – Denver, CO
  • Tier 1 and Tier 2 Unix support for their service call center technicians.
  • Participated in on-call rotation.
  • Lead a nine person help desk.
  • Maintained internal website content.
  • Participated in new desktop rollout.
  • Worked on Sun and AT&T system hardware for part replacements and troubleshooting.
  • Covered swing and night shifts.
  • Responded to internal customer tickets.
Account Manager, 01/1995 to 01/1996
 Datalynx – Denver, CO
  • Accounting for collective mutual fund trades.
  • Calculated account adjustments and uploaded data into the mainframe.
  • Developed spreadsheet layout and macros using Lotus123 to make processing the data more efficient.
  • This sped up the process of calculating corrections and uploading them into the mainframe.
  • The same method was also adopted by the brokers making the trades.
  • Technical support for customer initiated trades using proprietary software.
  • Troubleshooting client issues.
  • Member of advisory committee for new GUI interface design.
Education
Bachelor of Science: Business Administration International Business, 1995
 University of Colorado - Denver
Associate Degree: General Studies, 1993
 Community College of Denver -
General Studies Dean's Honor List
Certifications
  • Self-motivated and articulate Unix Systems Administrator with a documented record of success in the monitoring and maintenance of Unix/Linux systems in 24x7 highly-available production environments. Known for excellence in identifying issues and utilizing automation and administrative tools to drive performance. Seeking an opportunity to drive server efficiency and minimize downtime for a forward-thinking company.
  • Results-oriented Unix Administrator with [number] years of experience identifying technical issues and developing lasting solutions to drive data integrity and server availability. Offer excellent communication skills and the proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally with IT and project teams to execute wide-scale system upgrades.
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Resume Overview

Companies Worked For:

  • Oracle
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Lucent Technologies
  • Datalynx

School Attended

  • University of Colorado
  • Community College of Denver

Job Titles Held:

  • Principal System Administrator
  • Senior Unix System Administrator
  • Unix System Administrator
  • Account Manager

Degrees

  • Bachelor of Science : Business Administration International Business , 1995
    Associate Degree : General Studies , 1993

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