Systems Administrator

  • Primary corporate VMWare, Linux, and SAN administrator
    • Architected, deployed, maintained, and administrated VMWare Cloud Director for over 300 development, testing, quality assurance, and endurance systems for Aclara products
    • Administrated over 300 physical servers and 800 virtual systems globally
    • Globally coordinated migration processes for several company acquisitions with IT teams
      • Designed and maintained solutions to bridge networking configuration limitations during transitions
    • Product support
      • Provide software and hardware configuration and installation support for Windows, Linux, and UNIX servers running development environments and runtime technology stack (operating system, database and application server)
      • Develop and implement plans for current and future infrastructure requirements including system hardware and software, as well as software required to support the development and deployment teams
      • Management and specification of appropriate configurations for Development, Test, Integration, Quality Assurance, Beta, and Production
      • Provide software and hardware configuration and installation support for Windows, Linux, and UNIX servers running development environments and runtime technology stack (operating system, database and application server)
      • Develop and implement plans for current and future infrastructure requirements including system hardware and software, as well as software required to support the development and deployment teams
      • Management and specification of appropriate configurations for Development, Test, Integration, Quality Assurance, Beta, and Production
      • Support and maintenance of developmental support software including IDEs, data modeling and the IBM/Rational tool set
      • Provide support, assistance, and testing for the functional, performance, and maintenance test teams
      • Migrated SVN, ClearCase to TFS
      • Supported multiple product transitions from AIX to Linux, then Windows
      • AIX
        • W/LPAR Planning, setup, and VIO configuration
        • HMC and WebSM management
        • AIX Installation, upgrade, and deployment
        • Installation, configuration, and management of IBM DS 4300 and DS 4700 Storage Arrays
        • Disk Group creation, Volume Group creation, LUN configuration and assignment
      • HP-UX
        • HP-UX v11i installation setup configuration, and administration
        • iLO Management console experience
        • Kernel Tuning using kcweb and SAM
      • Linux
        • Deployment, configuration, and maintenance Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS
        • Deployment, configuration, and maintenance of EMC Storage Array CX300
        • Oracle installation / setup and administration
        • Oracle ASM installation and setup
      • WebLogic
        • Installation, setup, configuration, and monitor WebLogic J2EE Application Servers
        • Infrastructure deployment and management of J2EE Application containers
        • Build and deployment of J2EE applications for a large enterprise engineering application
        • Patch deployments
      • Oracle
        • Installation, setup, configuration, database creation, and management
        • SQL query building
        • Patch deployments
      • Virtualization
        • Transition from W/LPar to XEN to VMWare
        • Virtualized 100+ physical systems into virtual