Experience

Affirmed Networks

• United States
• Wireless Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member Of Technical Staff

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  As senior system administrator, manage a diverse array of physical & virtualized Linux hosts; support a large development team which writes next-gen software for telecom carriers worldwide. Ensure hardware care & feeding, software/OS installations, monitoring, alerting, and Linux-AD integration. Introduce NetApp storage & deploy VMware infrastructure to support vCenter, vMotion, & vSwitch. Begin OpenStack integration. As senior system administrator, manage a diverse array of physical & virtualized Linux hosts; support a large development team which writes next-gen software for telecom carriers worldwide. Ensure hardware care & feeding, software/OS installations, monitoring, alerting, and Linux-AD integration. Introduce NetApp storage & deploy VMware infrastructure to support vCenter, vMotion, & vSwitch. Begin OpenStack integration.



American Tower

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior System Administrator

  • Aug 2013 - Dec 2013

  Senior Unix/Linux sysadmin for the largest owner of cellphone towers in the world. Duties included maintaining *nix environment which monitored operations at each tower site. Technologies included Redhat (RHEL), CentOS, Solaris, and VMWare & ESX. Senior Unix/Linux sysadmin for the largest owner of cellphone towers in the world. Duties included maintaining *nix environment which monitored operations at each tower site. Technologies included Redhat (RHEL), CentOS, Solaris, and VMWare & ESX.



Dell EMC

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior System Administrator

  • Jan 2008 - Jan 2013

  As part of a ~20 member team, I managed ~7,000 Unix/Linux/Windows servers consisting of Intel, PowerPC, and SPARC hardware. Our main task was to support the internal developers who wrote the source code upon which EMC’s technologies work. This included storage such as Symmetrix, CLARiiON, VPlex, etc. We routinely installed the below OS’ as needed, in a wide variety of configurations: All major versions of Linux, mainly: RedHat & CentOS, versions 3 thru 6, SUSE & OpenSuse, versions up to 12.1 Debian & Ubuntu, versions 2 thru 6 All major Unix versions, mainly: Solaris, versions 8 thru 11 AIX, versions up to 6.0 Show less



Computerworld

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior System Administrator

  • Jan 2004 - Jan 2008

  Sole system administrator in charge of running computerworld.com’s website. Accomplishments: I transitioned computerworld.com’s website from an old platform which routinely had long downtimes to a high end, high availability modern Solaris/Linux environment. I primarily worked with the developers & programmers who wrote the code to make computerworld.com work. Regular tasks were installing Apache, MySQL, Postgres, memcachd, monitoring & resolving network traffic when we were “Slashdotted”, and ensuring the overall platform worked. Show less



Ask.com

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior System Administrator

  • Jan 2000 - Jan 2004

  As part of a staff of 7, we implemented and ran a linux/unix infrastructure of about 15000-20000 servers. We increased uptime to from 91% to 99+%. Introduced a change management structure via Bugzilla. Much in-house Bash & Perl hacking. I also constructed a very large scale distributed Nagios monitoring infrastructure. As part of a staff of 7, we implemented and ran a linux/unix infrastructure of about 15000-20000 servers. We increased uptime to from 91% to 99+%. Introduced a change management structure via Bugzilla. Much in-house Bash & Perl hacking. I also constructed a very large scale distributed Nagios monitoring infrastructure.



Autobytel

• Senior System Administrator

  • Nov 2000 - Dec 2003

  When you go to Ford.com (or any other car website) and click on the “configure my car” button, it was that ensured that “that” worked. When you go to Ford.com (or any other car website) and click on the “configure my car” button, it was that ensured that “that” worked.



U.S. Coast Guard

• Armed Forces
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Officer Lieutenant Commander

  • Jul 1987 - Aug 2000

  Officer in the Coast Guard with much senior IT experience. Specific software experience Perl & Bash scripting. RackMonkey. Nagios. Bugzilla. EMC Connectrix, DNS, NIS, NFS, Autofs. SELinux, NTP, NAT, IPv6, Veritas backup, CPanel, SNMP, SMTP, Exim, IPTables. EMC Powerpath. Bugzilla. Specific hardware experience Emulex & Qlogic HBA's, EMC, Brocade, & Cisco fiber switches, EMC DCX series fiber switches, Sun iLOM, Dell DRAC. Cisco UCS servers. Netgear and Linksys management technologies. Barracuda, F5, & Checkpoint firewalls. Show less