I am a dedicated IT professional who is knowledgeable within the realm of cloud computing and systems administration, from hypervisors to managed shared storage platforms. A driven and dedicated self-learner with a wide range of experience with numerous platforms. I continue to study and expand my sphere of knowledge to provide expert advice and service.
Technical Skills
- Operating Systems – GNU/Linux systems, BSD Unix systems, Windows systems
- I have utilized GNU/Linux and UNIX systems within work environments for more than five years in total and over three years in a web hosting services environment. Some of these hosted environments were heterogeneous is nature, a mix of GNU/Linux and Windows systems. I also have an extensive personal history of working with GNU/Linux, BSD Unix, and Windows systems while assuaging my own hobbyist curiosities.
- Languages and Scripting Environments – Bash shell 3 and 4, Python 2.6, 2.7, Powershell 3.0, WMIC, WSH.
- Software – MS Office Suite, BMC Remedy, Intuit Track-IT, ServiceNow, Atlassian JIRA, Atlassian Confluence, Sophos Antivirus- Linux, CommVault Simpana – Linux, BridgeHead ISB/IDR – Windows, Dell OpenManage Server Administrator – Linux, HP iLO – Linux, HP ACUCLI, Lantronix SPIDER KVM-over-IP, Avaya SoftPhone, Cisco AnyConnect VPN, OpenConnect, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Ansible Tower, Hyrbis BackOffice, SAP, Redwood Cronacle, CyberArk, Okta – User Administration, AT&T, and Verizon Enterprise Network Operations portals.
- Enterprise Monitoring – Kibana, Solarwinds Web Performance Monitor, Zenoss, Dynatrace, nGenuisOne, GFI OneGaurd for systems monitoring and patching, SNMP v2/v3 configuration for centralized event monitoring and logging.
- Networking – Infoblox, TCP/IP v 4, NAT for IP Subnet Configuration, DHCP, Windows Active Directory for a domain, device, and user management. Iptables/UFW Firewalls – Linux.
- Enterprise Clustering – RHCS configuration for hosted MySQL server and CLVM HA storage, Oracle RAC Linux Host configuration, MMM MySQL problem analysis.
- Enterprise Virtualization – VMware ESX versions 4, 5, 5.5, 6. Configuration and Cloning of hosted guest instances. Linux LXC, Docker. VMware Vsphere, VMware Horizon View, VMware Workstation. SAN hosted LUN expansions. Provisioning of additional resources for guest VMs (Additional vDisk space, vMemory resources, Additional virtual networking adapters, etc.)
- Enterprise Storage – Dell MD3000 MD3200i DAS and associated QLogic Fibre Channel HBA, EMC Symmetrix LUN presentation to Linux hosts, and configuration of Brocade Fibre Channel HBA.HP StoreOnce, HP 3Par, EMC VNX 5400/5600.
