• Experience configuring, installing, securing & administrating:
  • Linux:
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 - 7, Fedora, Gentoo, SuSE Enterprise Linux 9/10/11, Ubuntu, Debian on x86, x86-64, z390 Mainframe
    • Netbackup 6.0 through 7.5 (Master Server, Media Server, Client)
    • Red Hat Cluster Suite and Global File System / GFS2
    • Novell Zenworks 7.0 / 7.2
    • Red Hat oVirt Virtualization (Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization)
    • OpenStack Virtualization (Red Hat RDO OpenStack)
    • VMWare ESX Server
    • Veritas Storage Foundation 4/5/6 : Veritas File System (VXFS), Clustered File System, Veritas Cluster Server, Volume Replicator
    • Department of Defense System and Network Security (STIG)
    • Firewalls : Iptables & Netfilter design and implementation
    • SCSI/Fibre Experience – Network and Storage/Tape (SAN)
    • Apache 1.x & 2.x
    • DNS Bind 8.x & 9.x
    • Samba 2.x & 3.x
    • Patching, Security, and Tuning
  • Solaris:
    • Solaris 8 through 10 on SPARC and x86 Platforms
    • Solaris 10 Zones (containers), LDOM’s (T-Series), Domains (M-Series)
    • DNS Bind 8.x & 9.x
    • Veritas Storage Foundation 4/5/6 : File System (VXFS), Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), Clustered File System, Volume Replicator
    • Sun Volume Manager (SVM)
    • ZFS management
    • Sun Cluster 3.0 / 3.1 / 3.2 / 3.3
    • Netbackup 6.0 through 7.5 (Master Server, Media Server, Client)
    • SCSI/Fibre Experience – Network and Storage/Tape (SAN)
    • LDAP / Sun Identity Management / Sun MLS
    • Role Based Access Management (RBAC)
    • Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center

• Oracle RMAN backup and recovery via Netbackup 6.0 / 6.5
  • Solaris 8/10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5, SuSE Enterprise Linux 9/10
  • Worked with Oracle DBA to setup Oracle RMAN
  • Stand alone oracle Servers
  • Oracle RAC Cluster Environment
  • Large Oracle 10g Databases – Over 2 TB in size
  • Managed backup and recovery of over 60 Oracle 10g databases

• Novell Zenworks 7.0 / 7.2 Linux Package Management
  • Part of a team that setup, configured and deployed a Zenworks Linux Package Management system to over 1,500 SuSE Linux Workstations for the United Kingdom Police Force
  • Used Novell Zenworks to manage the RPM package repository on each Linux workstation and Linux Server

• Experience with SDLT Tapes, Drives, and Jukeboxes in locally attached SCSI and Fibre SAN configurations
  • Quantum SuperLoader SDTL600
  • Quantum M1500 SDLT320
  • Quantum PX502, PX506, PX510 SDLT600

• Experience securing Solaris & Linux servers to the Department Of Defense's rigid standards (STIG, SRR: iase.disa.mil) and deploying Unix servers to US Military Installations

• Installed, configured & managed Netbackup 6.0 through 7.5
  • Solaris 8/10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5, SuSE Enterprise Linux 9/10
  • Netbackup 6.5.1 Master Server on Solaris 10
    • Netbackup Catalog replicated to DRS site
      • Veritas Volume Replicator of Netbackup Catalog
      • Catalog on External RAID Storage, Sun 9990
        • Connected via fibre SAN
    • Master Server Failover
      • Failover controlled via Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)
      • Catalog replication via Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR)
    • Managed Disaster Recovery Planning
    • Tape utilization forecasting
    • Shared Storage Tape configurations over Fibre SAN
    • Tape rotation and offsite scheduling
  • Originally deployed Netbackup 6.0, upgraded through Netbackup 7

• Sun xVM Ops Center / Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center
  • Deployed Sun xVM Ops Center to development environment

Managing physical standalone, Control Domains and LDOMS.