Richard Milner

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Clearwater, Florida 33764

727-***-****

acta42@r.postjobfree.com

Profile

Experienced systems generalist with strong capabilities in the Linux operating system, system administration, hardware, and programming. I will support production, QA and developers on a wide variety of platforms by building out production and test environments to specifications to provide customers with best-in-class services. These supported platforms include RedHat, CentOS, SuSE Linux and AIX, and virtualization technologies from VMWare and other vendors.

Summary of qualifications

Top-notch Systems Administrator with more than 15 years in Information Technology

Outstanding productivity as an administrator and team member

Solid track record of consistently meeting and exceeding company goals and objectives

Extremely motivated and focused

Ability to multi-task and work in a changing environment

Works well under pressure and skilled in problem solving and troubleshooting

Experience

Admin Linux/Unix, Acclaris, contractor, 2015-2016, Tampa, FL

Systems Administrator for over 300 Linux virtual servers (RedHat 5 and 6)

Admin supporting the VMware environment

Storage Admin NetApp, Dell Equal Logic

Admin for 50 Dell systems running RHEL

Involved with monitoring of all Linux systems, Check_MK, Nagios

Modifying shell scripts to improve production systems, bash/ksh

Involved with Puppet, Git, R10K, SVN

Backup Exec administration

Admin Linux/Unix, Catalina, 2009-2015, St Petersburg, FL

Systems Administrator for over 700 Linux virtual servers (RedHat 5 and 6, CentOS, SuSE)

E-Commerce system lead for large webserver farm providing lightning fast response

Admin supporting the VMware environment

Admin for the AIX environment (LPARs and VIOS on PureFlex, AIX 5, 6, and 7)

Administer hundreds of physical servers (HP and IBM)

Deploy Centrify Access Manager across enterprise for UNIX/Linux Authentication

Storage Administrator on IBM XIV, NetApp NAS with Brocade SAN switches and fiber

Involved with monitoring of all infrastructure (PRTG, Xymon, Nagios, Openview)

Scripting in ksh, bash to assist with backups, monitoring, user administration

Lead server backup administrator, EMC Networker (tape and exagrid)

Lead engineer deploying HP proliant servers running Suse linux

Highly demanding work environment, very complex.

Correct systems, hardware, and software single point of failure

Lead and openly share documentation of systems and processes

Production support for multiple enterprise systems related to Catalina’s proprietary products

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Production Support, Verizon Data Services, Mar 2008 – Feb 2009, Tampa, FL

Responsible for coordinating support for applications

Application upgrades and installation

Scripting in ksh, bash

Wrote menu driven scripts to assist with software deployments

Documentation of systems and processes

Unix Admin, Healthplan Services, Feb 1999 – Mar 2008, Tampa, FL

Systems upgrades and installations, Solaris and AIX

Maintain and upgrade corporate Firewall (checkpoint)

Perform patch management, suggest server improvements

Implemented a FTP server utilizing PGP, many automated scripts involved

Implemented an anonymous Windows FTP server, utilizing automation scripting

Disaster recovery setup and testing

Monitoring systems for proper functioning

Present new tools to team members, and develop training materials

Implemented a 6 node Solaris Cluster with Veritas Cluster Filesystem

Unix Admin, Catalina, Sep 1997 – Feb 1999, St Petersburg, FL

Systems Administrator for all unix systems, including Dec and IBM

Ensured integrity of all server data through backups and scheduled system maintenance

Daily administration of multiple UNIX Servers, including upgrades and patch fixes

Developed and tested numerous UNIX shell scripts to facilitate system management

Added and removed users, user profiles, and removed obsolete files and directories

Performed quarterly review of file and directory security

Used industry standard tools for performance monitoring and problem determination

Maintain 3 TB EMC disk subsystem

Maintain 1.5 MTI disk subsystem

Planning/implementation/Install DEC TrueCluster Fault Tolerant System

Maintain/upgrade the corporate Firewall (checkpoint fw-1)

AIX / HP-UX Systems Admin, GTEDS, Mar 1995 – Sep 1997, Tampa, FL

Administered IBM and HP Servers with AIX and HP/UX

Responsible for install/upgrade HP-UX 9.0x, 10.xx on HP S700, S800, T500

Installed all applications, and created configuration scripts for install team

Developed and maintained shell scripts for the HP/UX and AIX servers

Installation/configuration of various third party products like Informix, oracle, Tivoli

Responcible for configuring local/remote network printers

Education

Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY, Bio-Medical Engineering

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