Manager Technical Support

GIDEON A. ASANJI

***** ****** ***** **** ***** Jack, MO 63033 Cell: 202-***-**** ac1nvs@r.postjobfree.com

LINUX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Over 9 years of experience as Linux Systems Administrator Red hat 5/6; CentOS 5/6 and Windows; knowledge in computer hardware and I/O devices. Strong experience in installation, upgrading, patches, configure and optimize IT infrastructure to consistently achieve high availability and performance; managing server infrastructure and data-center operations across multiple platforms. Skilled problem identifier and troubleshooter comfortable managing systems, projects and teams in a range of IT environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

SOFTWARES

OPERATING SYSTEM

HARDWARE

NETWORK

Microsoft Office 200*-****-****

Red Hat 5, 6 & 7

HP DL380 Server

TCP/IP

V-sphere 4.0 5.1 5.5

Centos 5, 6 & 7

Dell Power Edge Server 2650,RAID

DNS, Nagios, Shell Scripting

Apache Tomcat 6.0

Printers

DHCP, Samba

Apache Web Server 2.0

Windows 98 XP VISTA 7 8

Scanners

FTP HTTP HTTPS

4 years of Middleware Applications

Weblogic, WebSphere, Webfocus

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF STL, MO - USA

Senior Linux Administrator 03/30/16 - present

Understand application requirements of the clients and provide specifications to software developers

Install, test and troubleshoot regular and custom made applications and train clients on different functions of the application

Monitoring system performance to support capacity planning

Provide update patches for operating systems and update system configuration to improve efficiency.

Coordinate with the warehousing department and place orders for hardware.

Maintaining awareness of and participate in planning and execution of upgrades and patches for operating systems and COTS software

Installation of Linux operating systems and related COTS products

Having good hands on experience in creating and resizing the partition using LVM's.

Installing configuring and maintaining the KVM switches, Citrix, VMware, Cisco d-link routers, port servers and PDU's also upgrading the Linux OS using sync.

Having expertise in Red Hat, HPC clustering, Red Hat Kick start, Jumpstart, EMC storage devices and VERITAS Netback up version 6, server Disaster Recovery and data Recovery.

Excellent working knowledge on major Operating Systems like Windows, Red Hat 5,6 $ 7 and CentOS 5,6 & 7.

Oversaw the configuration and security hardening of all production systems

Nagios monitoring using custom monitors, maintaining and adjusting existing monitors and responding to generated requests.

Hardware installation, cabling and configuration

Working with front-line support to ensure services run 24/7 including multi-site failover and other on-call duties.

Senior Linux Administrator 02/2015 - 03/2016

State farm/Nttdata Corporations – Phoenix, Arizona

Having good hands on experience in creating and resizing the partition using LVM's

Installing configuring and maintaining the KVM switches, Citrix, VMware, Cisco d-link routers, port servers and PDU's also upgrading the Linux OS using sync.

Having expertise in Red Hat, HPC clustering, Red Hat Kick start, Jumpstart, EMC storage devices and VERITAS Netback up version 6, server Disaster Recovery and data Recovery.

Excellent working knowledge on major Operating Systems like Windows, Red Hat 5,6 $ 7 and CentOS 5,6 & 7

Setting up the NFS, NTFS, SNMP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, QFS, ZFS, Samba, Apache, Web Server, Squid, Proxy server, Tomcat, LDAP, LAMP, Send Mail, Postfix, DHCP, PXE Boot, Netboot, U boot, Nbboot and File transfer protocols like(TFTP, FTP, Direct connect etc) for the target boards to pick the boot image from the server.

Have worked with the Yum for RHEL and Yast2 for SUSE (SLES 9 and 10 versions) for upgrading the Linux.

Good knowledge in customizing and compiling the Linux kernel according to the requirements also good in networking concepts and various communication protocols.

Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as in a team.

Setting up the Web logic, oracle, DB2 connect, Web Sphere, Tomcat, Apache, Linux and Kerberos server.

Excellent debugging skills and troubleshooting network related issues both on Ethernet and fiber.

Having good experience in Red Hat, EMC storage devices, Disaster Recovery like commVault 7.0, data recovery, Hitachi storage devices and VERITAS Netback up version 6.

Create the documentation for installation (installation Guide) in PDF format for the customer to understand how to install and also the known issues and unknown issues from the developer points of view what the content of the media and so on.

Worked on different security networking like VPN, IKE, IPSEC, Firewall and SSL Certificates.

Two years working with Oracle Access Manager(OAM)

Just started working with clear case two months ago (IBM Rational ClearCase)

Linux System Administrator

ECO IT SYSTEM – Lanham, MD – 10/ 2011- 02/2015

Installed, configured and managed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and Centos 5, 6 on Dell Power Edge R210.

Installed and managed packages and patches on Red Hat using RPM and YUM.

Installed and configured DNS, NFS, DHCP and Samba services running on Red Hat Linux.

Auditing server access and security using password aging and Linux security extensions.

Created and administered permission and privileges on user and group accounts.

Assisted project teams with technical issues both in the planning and development phases.

Monitored network using Nagios.

Managed Red Hat drives using Linux Volume Manager.

Wrote baseline documentation on all server build and configurations.

Used bash and Perl scripting for several program applications. Troubleshoot and resolved network connectivity issues which include; TCP/IP, DHCP and DNS.

Administered server consolidation program using VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center.

Documented procedures and processes.

Managing servers with puppet for automation

Junior Linux System Administrator

CEVA Logistics United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Global Supply– 03 /2010-10 /2011

Built YUM repositories on servers.

Installed and configured Red Hat on Dell E2960.

Created and managed user group accounts and account permissions.

Implemented password aging.

Monitored system performance using top, ps, netstat, vmstat and cpuinfo to check CPU utilization, network traffic and memory usage.

Installed and configured samba and NFS.

Monitored system logins.

Implemented RAID 0, 1 and 5 & 10 for creation of logical volumes using VERITAS Volume Manager.

Help Desk Associate

CEVA Logistics United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Global Supply– September 2008 to March 2010

Troubleshoot and resolved basic end-user hardware, operating system and software related problems.

Assisted with software and hardware installations.

Kept a log of technical support calls to the I.T department.

Escalated technical support issues that could not be handled at the help desk to the appropriate technicians.

Maintained effective working relationship with clients and co-workers. EDUCATION

Bs in Chemistry (United Arab Emirates University-2006)

A+ certified- 2007

Red Hat Training (5 and 6) and currently working on Red Hat 7

REFERENCES

Available upon request

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