Samuel Davidson Boakye

Hanover, MD *****

Phone: 917-***-****)

Email: ac2f4x@r.postjobfree.com

Objectives:

Looking to achieve a meaningful employment with a company as a Systems Administrator, which will allow me to address and solve the company’s technical needs, by applying my expertise within the areas of System administration and ability to complete deadline-driven projects.

Technical Profeciency and Expertise:

Operating Systems: Redhat 5/6/7, CentOs, Ubuntu, Windows

Hardware: Dell Servers, Cisco Routers, Switches

Software: Linux Red hat, Centos, Ubuntu MS Office, VMware ESXi, VMware Vsphere/Vcenter

Servers/Services: NFS, SSH, Telnet, Apache, DNS,NTP, TCP/IP, Active Directory

Editors : VI Editor, Nano, Emacs

Summary of Qualification:

I have over 5 years of IT industry experience with Unix/Linux System Administration and Supporting of various services and applications in different environments, I have specialized in working with command line in UNIX/Linux systems and an expert in this area. I have a Master skill in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and have also worked with other linux distributions like Ubuntu and Centos.

Below are some of my strongholds;

Installation of the Operating system, creating firewall rules, installing various services and applications and providing networking services.

Adding users and assigning various permissions to files, creating of scripts and scheduling of jobs for efficiency of my environment

Creating a virtual environment to host servers, this includes installing VmWare and adding clients and also setting up remote access

Installation and configuration of Local Repository to assist with software installation and updates

Able to perceive and find solution to challenging problems

A high level of energy, commitment and the ability to combine keen strategic sense with enthusiasm

A great team player with good inter-personal skills and able to relate to all manner of persons

Willingness to adapt and manage change

Able to perceive and find solution to challenging problems

A high level of energy, commitment and the ability to combine keen strategic sense with enthusiasm

A great team player with good inter-personal skills and able to relate to all manner of persons

Professional Experience:

Advanced Surgery Center Of Bethesda August 2013-Present

System Administrator

Build both physical and virtual Linux servers in all three environments namely system test, staging and production

Configuration of remote access for external clients

Creating users and giving permissions to users and files in different departments in the organization

Creating and editing of scripts to automate various tasks.

Installation, Configuration and maintenance of VMware and also configuring Virtual Machines on the VMware hosts

Use tools such as top, iostat, vmstat, ps etc for performance analysis, tuning for the betterment of the various applications and services.

Configuring network on various physical and virtual servers

Installing and configuring various services in our LAMP environment. This included Apache,

and Tomcat.

Management of automation tools like Puppet, chef and ansible and setting up of both master and clients in all environments.

Working closely with vendors, Operations and Maintenance teams to support Standard Operations Procedures

Installation of software patches

Creating various partitions including swap and LVM and also administering RAID on specified servers to maximize productivity

24/7 on call rotation

Setting up firewall rules to ensure both security and efficiency of systems and applications

Hardening of servers to prevent attacks and hacking and also generating SSH authenticating keys to secure the environment

Info Span Inc October 2011 – August 2013

Linux Administrator

Installing, upgrading and configuring RedHat Linux 4 and 5 using Kickstart and Interactive Installation.

Creating of users and assigning various services

Changing of file permissions and groups in various departments

Assigning various jobs to team members using remedy ticketing system

Configures DNS, NFS, FTP, remote access, and security management.

Creates Linux Virtual Machines using VMware Virtual Center.

Installs Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration, performance tuning on Unix/Linux systems.

Installs, configures and supports Apache on Linux production servers.

Manages Patches configuration, version control, service pack and reviews connectivity issues regarding security problem.

Manages systems routine backup, scheduling jobs and enabling cron jobs.

Educational Background:

Bsc, University of Cape Coast

STATUS: United States Citizen

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