Manager System
Resume:
Dennis Grady
Annapolis, MD 21401
SUMMARY
• Experienced Senior Red Hat Linux, and technical consultant with over 18 years in
major high tech environments.
• Administration, design, installation, maintenance, capacity planning and
implementation of complex multi-system installations.
• Development of onsite processes, procedures and protocols for system environments.
• Diagnostics skills in the 90% level.
• Architect of mission-critical, 24 X 7 failsafe systems.
• Strong customer interaction skills and a proven ability to translate needs into solutions.
• An established reputation as a hands-on systems manager who does what is
necessary to deliver on time and on budget.
TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS
• Linux Red Hat ES, A S 4 and 5, Fedora Core
• Tru64 UNIX V3.0-5.x
• OpenVMS V5.2-8x
• Logical Storage Manager (LSM)
• Raid disk configurations
• EXT 3 File Systems
• Blade technology
• Vsphere application
• HP Operations and Orchestration application
• Novell I Manager application
• Logical Volume Management (LVM)
• EMC Legato NetWorker
• TCP/IP, FTP, NFS
• Training Specialist for Unix.
• Windows XP
• Excellent customer relations skills
Dept of Commerce, Bowie Operations Center, Bowie Maryland. Sept 2011 –
Present
Sr. LINUX Systems Administrator technical consultant in the areas of RedHat Linux systems
engineering, server deployment, configuration, and management. Provide dedicated,
premium RedHat Linux systems support. operations will include 24x7 on-call systems
support. Interface and work closely with system vendors such as Red Hat, IBM, Egenera, as
well as the end user community to define problems, solutions and make proactive
recommendations. Respond to and close out Remedy tickets for Systems being supported.
Systems support includes but is not limited to:
- Ensuring proactive management and quality assurance
- Plan and implement system changes and adjustments in a way that maximizes system
availability
- Processing and resolving customer support service requests
- Working closely with the customers, Business Unit personnel and support staff to quickly
resolve issues
- Evaluating and reporting system performance
- Performing system/hardware configuration tasks
- Performing documentation tasks
- Assistance in developing test plans, gathering performance data during testing and analysis
of results to assist in developing a production architecture for the application.
- Provide support for the blade server hardware and various software tools to continue to
migrate servers to Linux and blade servers.
Dept of Commerce, Economic Development Administration, Washington, D.C. June,
2006 – Sept, 2011
Senior Systems Administrator.
• Sole Administrator of multiple Red Hat Linux Application and Enterprise Server
platforms.
• Performing capacity planning, installations, configurations and performance
monitoring of these servers.
• Reviewed system logs daily insuring the consistency and integrity of file systems.
• Creating complex Legato Networker 7.4.3 backup configuration, Works closely with
DBAs with the installation and configuration of Oracle 10g, 11g and Oracle Grid
Control software.
• Created system administration process protocols and procedures as well as
the documentation in references to the Unix server environments.
• Performing software evaluations and being a focal point for interaction with vendors
such as HP and all secondary sellers for hardware and software installs and upgrades.
• Created application migration plans from legacy to new systems, working
closely with DBAs and programmers.
• Performed regular testing of EMC backup files by recovering physical backups on the
spare server.
Naval Research Lab, Washington, D.C. August 2005 to June
2006
Senior Systems Admin
• Administered multiple Tru64 and Linux Application and Enterprise Server
platforms.
• Performed capacity planning, installation, configuration and performance monitoring of
these systems.
• Also responsible for the integrity and monitoring of a complex Legato (currently EMC)
backup configuration.
• Work closely with DBAs with the installation and configuration of Oracle 10g and
RAC database software.
RGII Technologies, Dept of Commerce June 2004 to
August 2005
Sr. Technical Consultant/Primary UNIX administrator
• Performed setup and configuration of ES47s server hardware and software from the
install of OS and patches to deploying into production. Designed and implemented
environments for Oracle Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) software
on Tru64 and Linux OS.
• Designed and deployed server backup plans, wrote and implemented multiple backup
scripts for each server.
• Capacity planning and performance monitoring for all Unix servers which also
included Alpha ES47s, 4000s and Sun ES3500 series servers.
• Responsible for system administration process and procedures as well as
the documentation in references to the Unix servers.
• Main contact for interaction with vendors and all secondary sellers for hardware
and software installs and upgrades.
• Develop application migration plans for legacy systems to new systems, working
closely with DBAs and programmers.
Bausch Computing (Nights), Ft. Meade, MD June 2004 to August
2005
Training Specialist
• Conducted classes on basic and advanced System Administration on SUN and Tru64
Unix operating systems for students from FT. Meade (NSA)
• Course outlines, testing, and course development.
ACS-INC, Rockville, MD February 2004 to June 2004
Technical Manager/Team lead
• Lead, coordinate and plan for a eleven member team, their activity and personally
contribute to the following activities to the following ongoing activities for servers.
• Networking and Telecommunication infrastructure. Data backups, Monitoring and
tuning of infrastructure, Capacity tracking and planning. Troubleshooting and
problem resolution, Installation of hardware and software. Coordination of the
Information Services Department.
• O/S's Windows 2000, NT, HP-UnixTru64 Unix, VMS systems.
• Development of Daily System Administration training strategies and procedures
and implementation of same.
Telcordia Technologies, Piscataway, NJ June 2002 to September 2002
Technical Consultant II
• My diagnostic expertise reduced downtime by 70%.
• Administered an in-house software product that monitors, creates and transmits voice
stream messages via phone lines. Diagnosed application-related problems and
hardware and system related issues. Installed Cluster and O/S upgrades and patches.
Compaq Computer Company, Greenbelt, MD July 2001 to Sept
2001
Technical Consultant II
• Digital UNIX team lead at Defense Security Service, Ft Mead.
• Tuned two Unix clusters for optimal performance of the AdvFS file system and
Oracle 8.x database.
• Worked with Oracle Dba as a backup administrator running the Oracle OPS
configuration.
• Reconfigured Unix systems to increase computing and storage capacity.
• My expertise reduced a 483,000 clearance backlog to 200,000 clearances within the
first five months of my assignment.
• Reduced downtime by 75%.Instructed Tru64 Unix expertise to other system
administrators. Oversaw the reconfiguration of four Tru64 Clusters made up of two
sets of GS140s' with memory channel running
• Oracle OPS. Gave input and direction regarding hardware and software
acquisitions and installs.
• Consulted and implemented the best ways to provide a fail-safe environment,
consisting of failover policies for each system in the event one or more systems in
the cluster went down and the mirroring and striping of logical disks from the disk pool
so data could be guaranteed accessible at all times. This was a 24 x 7 environment.
Custom System and Services, Nashua, NH September 2000 to April 2001
Sr. Architecture and Technology Consultant
• Solved customer computing problems and configuration issues.
• Set up test beds that duplicated, as closely as possible, customer's environment and
problems so that a solution could be found.
• Worked with Compaq's latest computer, "Wildfire", and also evaluated certain
administration procedures based on their new Tru64 Cluster 5.0a and 5.1a operating
systems.
Compaq Services,(Census Bureau) Greenbelt, MD October 1998 to
September 2000
Sr. Architecture and Technology Consultant
• Performed capacity planning and configuration of 8 Unix clusters and 3
standalone systems.
• Supported configuration decisions of my immediate supervisor in a most effective
manner. Became center of expertise for 19 other system managers.
• Consulted with the system administrators on hardware configurations, system
administration and the migration to Tru64 Unix Cluster environment.
• Provided on-site training and consultation. Implemented complete system hardware
configurations or system administration strategies.
• Consulted and implemented on Tru64 Unix clustering and failsafe configurations
for a lights out computing environments and VMS Alpha clusters already in place.
• Worked with systems performance team in implementation of BMC patrol as a
reference standard.
Digital Equipment Corp (Compaq Services), Atlanta, Ga April 1997 to
October 1998
Sr. Technology Consultant assigned to several Compaq customers.
• Improved performance of DOT toll booth system by reconfiguring the systems to use
38% fewer disks to achieve the same performance.
• Resolved many high-visibility system emergencies at numerous sites on the east
coast.
• Performed administration, system upgrades, consulting, or complete system
hardware configurations for Tru64 Clustering and DEC VMS.
Education/Certifications
United States Navy 1968-1972
Naval Electronics/Radar - Basic Electricity
Electronics and Advanced Electronics Application to Radar Technology (ASEE equivalent)
Framingham State College 1974-1978
Education, Psychology
Digital Equipment Corporation:
Associate equivalent degrees in Computer Science and Computer Architecture awarded from
Digitals' Engineering Department
Digital Equipment Corporation Training:
DCL Utilities and Commands/Programming
VAX System Management/Cluster System Management
VMS Performance Maintenance
Digital UNIX Utilities and Commands and Systems Administration
TruCluster Configuration and Administration
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