System Administrator Management

Rick Garcia

Greater Los Angeles, CA

323-***-****

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OBJECTIVE: Linux Administration POSITION WITHIN A TEAM CENTRIC ORGANIZATION WITH OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

* 7+ years System Administration CentOS/RHEL 4.x 5.x & 6 Server in three different cloud architectures.

* 7+ years Application configuration, trouble shooting and maintaining Sendmail, Procmail, Spamassassin, ClamAV,

Dovecot, POP3, IMAP, Apache 1.3 & 2.x, Squid proxy, OpenSSH, ProFTPd, inetd/xinetd, MySQL, Urchin5, OpenSSL

(Apache-SSL & mod_ssl).

* 3+ years Installation, configuration and monitoring of network services such as DHCP (Server & clients), BIND/DNS,

Domain Registration, Netfilter/iptables, TCPWrappers.

Expert knowledge

* 7+ years of web server and e-Mail administration.

* Strong Bourne and Bash shell scripting and debugging.

* 6+ years Proven database administration skills in MySQL.

* 3+ Networking fundamentals including TCP/IP protocol suite with emphasis in SNMP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, SMTP &

DNS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

J2 Global Inc, Hollywood, CA 5/2012 – 11/2012

Linux System Administrator

* Administered over 350 hosts internationally.

* Managed internal and external DNS for public facing sites.

* Maintained Zabbix NMS for over 250 hosts.

* Performed daily Unix Administration tasks as assigned.

EndPlay Inc, Culver City, CA 9/2011 - 2/2012

Linux System Administrator

* Managed private coud, 40 Hypervisors and over 400 VMs.

* Installed and configured over 110 VMWare ESX 4.1 Hypervisors with Puppet configuration management..

* Administered Nagios and Cacti for over 280 hosts high traffic sites.

* Utilized Puppet configuration management system through SVN to administer over 200 servers .

NTT/Verio, Orem, UT 4/2002-9/2011

Senior Linux Support

* Trouble shoot, diagnose and solve issues with Managed Dedicated and Virtual Private FreeBSD and RedHat Linux

Servers in a 24x7 distributed world wide production environment with Data Centers in 14 countries.

* Performed MySQL administration tasks in over 200 diverse LAMP environments.

* Monitored server health of over to maintain service levels for 10 different operating systems and 12 server platforms.

* Installed, deployed, configured, and administered eCommerce sites for over 250 customers.

EDUCATION: Miami-Dade College, Miami, FL - Associates in Arts Degree, MIS

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