System Administrator Maintenance

James “Jim” Ellis

Canyon Country, CA ***** 661-***-**** (Mobile) 661-***-**** (Home) ********@*****.*** LinkedIn

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

Results-driven professional with a wealth of experience building and operating cutting edge technology solutions and managing the implementation and support of systems critical to business operations. Recognized as a strong and resourceful leader able to effectively manage and deliver on a multitude of technology initiatives. Key proficiencies include:

Server Administration Prepress & Digital Publications Enterprise Architecture Agile Methodologies

Integration Software Documentation Project Management SDLC UNIX Scripting Databases

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Advantage Tech, Overland, KS June 2016 to Present

Under contract to HPE

Unix System Administrator

Provided support for the configuration, installation, maintenance and ongoing support for over 300 Solaris 10/11 and Linux systems, applications and technologies..

Investor’s Business Daily, Los Angeles, CA 1986 to 2016

Senior System Administrator / Production Manager / Senior Newspaper Technician

Provided support for the configuration, installation, maintenance and ongoing support of various servers, systems, applications and technologies. Provided technical expertise across nine sites for up to 85 desktop users.

Analyzed hardware and software; performed testing and troubleshooting to resolve issues and ensure system/network availability and performance.

I was responsible for purchasing, installation and maintenance for Editorial, Advertising and Production servers including Linux, Windows and Solaris servers with an emphasis on the Solaris HA cluster running the editorial publishing system. I wrote scripts in Ksh, bash, csh, VBScript and perl to facilitate integration and administration. I was also responsible for purchasing, installation and maintenance for 65-85 editorial client workstations nationally.

Project managed the design and implementation of the network systems.

Designed and implemented the prepress workflow with an emphasis on Adobe PDF.

Supported the R&D for Editorial and Production applications including seven electronic editions.

EDUCATION, TRAINING, & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Some college, Electronics major Arapahoe Community College, Littleton, CO

QuarkXPress Santa Monica College

Fundamental Solaris 7, System Administration I & II for Solaris 7 Sun Microsystems

UNIX, 3810 Recorder, 3750 Scanner maintenance and administration Information International

Hastech HS46 Maintenance and Administration Hastech

TECHNICAL PROFILE

UNIX, Windows, CANDE (Unisys), Mac O/S, Mirosoft Office, SQL, VBScript, HTML, XML, jQuery, WordPress

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