Senior Linux Administrator
Resume:
Leo Stephen Kennedy
Senior Linux Administrator
White Haven, Pennsylvania 18661
*********@*****.***
About Me:
An enthusiastic and dedicated I.T. professional who takes solving your business
needs as a personal challenge to deliver viable and cost-effective solutions in
record time.
While opening up new avenues of technological capability within your I.T.
environment, I can ultimately produce stable platforms and maintain operational
effectiveness with a clearly superior ROI by deploying enterprise grade
solutions utilizing the GNU/Linux OS and other robust FOSS. Additionally, I
will exercise this discipline within non-heterogenous environments by coupling
this technology to work in tandem and harmony within the Windows environment.
With today's corporate I.T. budgets shrinking and PMO's Gant chart times just
withering away, I will always be up for the task of making things happen and
bringing your I.T. visions for the future to fruition.
Operating Systems and Software:
Linux: Windows: AIX: Misc Distros:
RHEL 5.x, 6.x, 7.x Server 2003 AIX 4.3 SystemRescue CD
SLES 9.x - 13.x Server 2008 AIX 5.3 gParted
CentOS 5.x, 6,x, 7.x Server 2012 AIX 7.x Clonezilla
Oracle OEL 6.x, 7.x Solaris 8, 9
Arch Linux (rr)
Software and Services:
Apache, Nginx, WebSphere, IIS, Nagios, ClonZilla, NetBackup, LAMP/LEMP, MySQL,
PureFTPd, vsFTPd, Cron, IBM TWS/IWS, AS2/EDI. Oracle RDBMS, Oracle BI,
Lotus Notes, IronPort Proxy and Anti-Spam, CheckPoint Firewall, Axway EDI
Networking:
TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NIS, NTP, LDAP, SCP, SFTP, SSH, Proxy, IPTables, TN3270,
NFS, X Windows, RSH, Telnet
Virtualization:
VMware ESXi 5.x - 6.x, AIX VIO Server, Oracle VM, QEMU, Docker
Systems and Performance Monitoring:
Nagios, [*]Top, TCPDump, WireShark, NMON, WMI, NMAP, NC/NCat
sysstat stat, strace trace, glances, lsof
Languages & Scripting:
C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Shell, Bash, Korn/Ksh93/pdksh, expect, HTML
Work Experience:
Senior Linux Administrator, Crayola LLC
Jan 1994 - August 2017
Easton, PA
Managed all aspects of Crayola's server platforms including AIX, Linux and
Windows operating systems. In addition to these major silos of
responsibility I am either managed or moved on to the following technology
platforms:
Citrix, Cisco IronPort anti-spam and proxy, Checkpoint Firewall on Solaris,
maintained DNS services as well as DHCP addressing throughout the
organization. Another sometimes large part of my day is spent administering
several servers in a hosted environment that are the internet-based web
services providers for crayola.com.
One of my more tedious and infrastructure related expertises is the
monitoring and metrics gathering services. Some time ago I implemented an
x86_64 ARCH Linux-based Nagios deployment for the company. This has and will
continue to be a work in progress as these kinds of things normally are. I
must say that this is one of my passions as it makes allowances for my keen
ability to program and script in a greyhat-style. I really can make things
shine here as creating Perl/PHP/Bash/C++ apps to gather difficult to obtain
metrics is a specialty of mine. Oh, managing AD is a part of the day alongside
some NFS/FTP/IIS/SSH/etc... services. I managed a server farm that numbered in
the 200-250 range on VMWare 5/6 as well. i created a LAMP environment which
housed our server infrastructure database and app used by the team.
Along with the above items I brought TWS/IWS onto a RHEL 7 Linux platform which
housed many automated scheduled jobs. Worked alongside our EDI Team to outfit
their AS2 platform atop a RHEL 7 stack as well as being aside the Oracke BI Team
in their efforts to run OBIEE atop RHEL 7 as well.
Systems Administrator and Consultant, Private Consulting
Jan 1991 - Dec 1992
Greater Philadelphia Area
Systems Engineer, DuPont Merck Pharmaceuticals
Jan 1987 - Dec 1990
Wilmington, Delaware
(Barley Run, Experimental Station, Chambers Works, etc)
Managed various technology platforms within the many disparate functional areas
of the corporate and scientific locales. I administered mainly VAX and
MacIntosh-based systems throughout the organization as well as several Unix
systems including SCO and Altos. Paying particular attention to the many areas
of scientific discipline, i maintained several critical software packages and
systems designed around molecular modelling. Interfaced daily with a number of
physicists requiring custom programming and scripting routines which accounted
for a part of my day spent creating/editing these routines.
In addition, I gained skills centered around SPSS, a statistical analysis
package, and other niche products and provided support on the same.
HM2 Hospital Corpsman, U.S. Navy
Apr 1982 - May 1986
Naval Hospital Philadelphia, PA / 2nd Medical Logistics 2/FSSG Camp Lejeune, NC
I became an E.M.T. and Paramedic while serving in the Navy in addition to my
other specialties within the medical environment. Eventually, as one is to begin
rotating "out" of the service in this field, you become less apt to continue
patient care aspects of the career. This began my work in the IT field
maintaining requisite Medical and Dental allowance lists within the IBM 360
world and card punch. The use and administration of Zenith computers containing
8 inch floppy disks was in my realm alongside such packages as Wordstar and
Visicalc and eventually Lotus 1-2-3. These terminal-based packages ran atop the
CP/M-85 operating systems. Use of Condor FMS I/O was also part of my day.
Education and Training:
Coastal Carolina College
Jacksonville, NC
1985 - 1987
Cleavland Institute of Electronics
Cleaveland OH
1988 - 1990
Linux Professional Institute
LPIC 2006-2016
Cisco IronPort
Configuration and Administration
May 2005
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