Martin Graham

Hope Mills, NC

910-***-****

acer0t@r.postjobfree.com

A POSITION IN UNIX / ORACLE ADMINISTRATION

Highly motivated IT professional with extensive experience in both hardware and software systems in an Engineering and IT environment. Expertise in Oracle back end database administration, UNIX server and client system administration, programming, web server administration, product data management and project management. Creative problem solver who uses strong leadership and communication skills to assist both non-technical and technical staff.

Disciplines: IT, Engineering, Technical Management, Validation and PDM.

Operating Systems: SUN 5.10, 11, TX, HPUX, AIX, LINUX, IRIX, Red Hat 4&5, SuSE 11.

Platforms: T5220, 6900, v880, Blade 2500, SGI, Origin 1500, O2, Dell M910, Dell M710, G2-7.

Applications: Networker 7.4.5, 7.5; Netbackup 5, 6; Sunray Server 4, 5; Veritas Cluster Server 60; Oracle 10, 11, 12; MySql 4, 5, 6, Chef, Puppet, Postgres 8.0, 9.0, Weblogic 10.3, Siebel CRM, ASM, Trusted Extensions, OAM, OID, OCAC, Grid Control Oracle Enterprise Manager, VirtualBox, Vmware, Xen, KVM.

Scripting: UNIX Korn, Bash Scripts, Awk, Sed, Perl, XTML, SQL, PL/SQL, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, Python.

Certifications: Comp Tia Security +, Systems Programming.

Blue Canopy, Fayetteville, NC: (Nov 2011 – Present)

Senior Lead Unix Systems Administrator

UNIX Administration with Trusted Extensions (TX) on Solaris 10 with ZFS file systems and zones for a cross-domain solution for DOD. Maintain the operations and maintenance for the systems by patching and hardening of the OS, upgrading applications to include Oracle App Suites, databases and operating systems. Create bash and sql scripts to automate daily checks and tasks.

Provide virtualization and administration for the devops group by building automation tools for applications to support development and testing, scaling and monitoring of web performance to enhance stability, availability and reliability. Learning and developing skills with Ruby, Python, Chef, Puppet and other new technologies.

Maintain enterprise backups of audit-slurps, database backups, logfiles and home directories utilizing Netbackup 6 on a L700 tape robot from the cross-domain environment. Perform backups on all domain enclaves using mt commands to single tape drives for the audits. Conduct backups of snapshots and perform disk to disk to tape backups of essential critical files and directories all the while making sure that the tape backup system is functioning properly. In addition, to vaulting all backup media for off site storage.

Monitor grid, database and os systems with Oracle Enterprise Monitor. Verify that all oem, oam and oid agents are healthy. Run queries with Oracle BI to create reports as requested. Prune all alert and trace / alert log files as well as message and applications logs. Archive application logs and event logs for information assurance. Monitor and update weekly Uvscans for the solaris operating systems.

Troubleshoot all anomalies and provide mitigation and / or modifications to hardware, software and networks. Maintain and upgrade when required all Big IP F5's. Create documentation, processes, configuration management back-out plans, disaster recovery

Provide Technical leadership, mentoring and direction for the Team realizing highly trained and motivated technical leaders for the future of the program and individual careers. As a key player on the configuration board, determined the outcome, fixes, modifications and provide feedback while expediting resolutions.

BOEING/Edge, College Park, MD: (Jan 2011 – Nov 2011)

Senior Systems Engineer

Maintained 12 stacks of RH-HP servers to include active passive fail-overs. Each stack contained 25 quad core CPUs for processing vital IC (Intelligence Community) search engines on provided data input streams. Performed setups, reconfigurations and kickstarts on the fly with backup virtual systems. Setup of various environments and configurations to maintain customer requirements.

Working with first and second tier personnel to resolve any and all issues to include software, hardware, networks, firewalls, libraries, versions, procedures and processes. Work was performed in a “JIRA” ticket system and a “CampFire” UNIX System Admin Blog.

Member of the Architecture Committee to implement high availability, improved processing and rapid evolution of systems engineering to realize truly high capacity and reliable compute nodes. Facilitate steam-lined configuration management and release management.

Aerospace Corp/Techlink, Chantilly, VA: (July 2010 – Jan 2011)

Senior Administrator

Built from the ground up a 25 rack data center for SCI, Secret and Unclassified computing, to include the security, KG’s, network, firewall, server, monitoring and virtual environments. Created DAR’s (design analysis reviews) to justify the equipment, ordered, received, installed and configured the systems all the while maintaining configuration of software and hardware. Obtained visio templates for the racks, both front and back, to create site interconnect diagrams and support CM.

Authored all the documentation, procedures and disaster recovery required to operate the site. Setup and maintained the backup systems and managed the personnel for site maintenance contracts. Worked with security to obtain SCIF certification and demonstrate validation and verification for customer buy-off.

Perform Solaris system administration for several program areas to include OS upgrades, jumpstart, package and patch management for servers and workstations. Support the linux/SGI cluster nodes as needed and monitored systems with Ganglia. Recommended, installed and configured big brother to provide advanced warning and systems monitoring.

Developed scripts to automate administration. Authored many procedures and documented every aspect of the various program environments. Suggested improvements to the specialized environments and standardization of daily operating processes.

BAE Systems, San Diego, CA: (March 2010 – May 2010)

Senior Lead UNIX Systems Administrator

Managed Red Hat Release 4 and 5 servers and clients with Xen and VM images on Dell Blades for both unclassified and classified systems. Created kick start servers and migrated Xen images over to VM. Applied Security patches per RPM's and demonstrated the virtues of virtualization to both Windows and UNIX desktop personnel.

Setup and maintained Security Hardening, Auditing and Virus Scan for all UNIX systems with McaFee Command Line applications. Provided the Architecture, implementation, scripting and documentation for both unclassified and classified systems. Reported to Program and DOD security with cases and issues presented by the respective organizations.

Maintained all Netbackup 6.0 and Networker 7.4 backup systems to include maintenance of robots in both classified and unclassified systems. Recommended Fiber Channel drives to replace scsi systems with giga bit interfaces on a separate network to relieve the load on the user networks. Recommended disk to disk to tape backups.

McCallie / SAIC, San Diego, CA: (Oct 2009 – March 2010)

Senior Unix Administrator / Oracle DBA

Completed server transition from v880 to T5220 servers with attached NAS. Moved all home directories to the new NAS and decommissioned the older V880's. Installed Red Hat virtualization to demonstrate the capability.

Upgraded Networker 7.2 to 7.4 and then to 7.5 to support backups. Wrote design analysis reviews to upgrade the architecture, achieved customer approval and implemented the new solutions for backups. Ordered essential hardware and created new storage nodes with no loss of indexes and related volumes databases.

Boeing, Seal Beach, CA:

(SSBI/SCI Top Secret Clearance): UNIX Administrator

(Jan 2005 - Aug 2009) (CI Polygraph Dec 2008)

Maintained, upgraded and improved the Veritas Netbackup 4.5, 5.0, 6.0 server and client software, set up vaulting, updated and created policies for all backups and insured that they successfully concluded. Restored and archived data when needed and maintained all Storage Tek L700 robotic libraries.

Performed UNIX Administration on SUN, AIX and Linux Clusters providing engineering support for applications that reside on the files systems. Applied OS patches, upgrades, network connectivity while troubleshooting and resolving any and all issues that occurred to include ssh, security and sudo management.

Oracle administration for versions 8, 9 and 10 on UNIX and Windows systems. Performed backups, table space monitoring, user and security validation, scripting, schema modifications, recovery and data importing on all databases. Utilized OEM, db control and scripting to monitor the health, replication and usage. Provided scripts and help to programmers with SQL and PL/SQL and maintained their environments separate from production databases.

Security compliance for evolving practices to include UNIX and Oracle systems and applications. Implementation of Oracle Vaulting, UNIX hardening, network intrusion monitoring and utilizing audit data to monitor all aspects of IT systems. Creating additions and modifications for Access Control Lists for NFSv4 and ssh for security platform which enhances reporting reliability by preventing illegitimate modification of data, or unauthorized access to information.

Network administration on firewalls, switches and routers as needed for the program. Setting up sniffers and gathering data. Managed the ISS software to monitor the networks. Maintained firewalls and Created rules to ensure security.

Managed jumpstart servers in all Vlans to facilitate rapid recovery in the event of disaster. Upgraded all license servers with versions of FlexLM and renewed licenses in a timely manner.

Web administrator and programmer for maintaining government equipment and licensing for both software and hardware. Installed and configured Apache2 and MySQL 5 with Solaris 10 on Sun V880s with PHP modules and libraries. Designed and administered the content as well as developing the code to interface with the databases. Created several tools to automate backups and provide configuration management to include management of packages and patches.

Ciber / Boeing, Edwards AFB, CA:

(Secret Clearance): UNIX Administrator (May 2004 - January 2005)

Administration of Sun, AIX, and HP UNIX computer systems to include hardware configuration, software installation, reconfiguration of the kernel, networking, backup/restore, establishing user ids, password resets and keep all running in a satisfactory manner. Familiarity with Web Focus.

Created, Loaded and configured databases on servers just after OS installation with the following versions of Oracle: 7, 8i and 9i. Using IBM-AIX and HP-UX Logical Volume Managers contained in SMIT and SAM respectively, created logical volumes and journal file systems on disk arrays for database tablespace manipulation.

Initiated disaster recovery by performing cold, hot, partial and full backups with RMAN, ADSM, Network Appliance, Tivoli, Oracle export utility, Oracle Enterprise Manager, OS cron jobs and scripts to review completion and cataloging of export files, audit files, control files, trace files, listener log files, tablespace datafiles, redologs and archived redologs to bring about tablespace re-creation, table recovery, snapshot and or full instance recovery by duplicating and or NFS file restoration with third party network restore facilities.

Maintain customer account for Oracle by utilizing Meta-Link automated Oracle web support, creating TARs, and following up with problem resolution and/or restoration of databases and application software in a timely fashion.

EDUCATION

Systems Programming Certificate, Computer Learning Center, Anaheim, CA 1994

BS Industrial Technology, West Coast University, Orange, CA 1989

AA Electronics, Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, CA 1979

Systems Programming Certificate, Computer Learning Center, Anaheim, CA 1994

Security+, Comp Tia, Herndon, VA 2010

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