ALAN BUSCEMI
SENIOR UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
Fort Worth, TX ****.*******@*****.*** 732-***-**** LinkedIn
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Accomplished Senior Unix Systems Administrator with over 18 years of experience managing large-scale, enterprise UNIX server infrastructure in a mission critical, data center environment on 24/7 on-call shifts. Skilled at building and patching Oracle Solaris and RHEL servers, data center operations and virtualization. Experience leading cross-functional teams to facilitate complex server administration based on client specifications and best practices. Expert customer service professional recognized for exceptional performance in completing client projects ahead of schedule to 100% client satisfaction.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Recognized by senior management for performing production cluster patching ahead of schedule at AIG
Saved AIG $1M by reducing the number of servers on a vendor contract renewal
Led a cross-functional team to install client software and perform monitoring on Solaris servers at AIG
Recognized by senior management for upgrading Blade Logic client software ahead of schedule at AIG
KEY TECHNOLOGIES
Oracle Solaris (8-11) SUN cluster SVM Oracle Automated Service Request Veritas Volume Manager VMWare
Veritas Operations Manager (VOM) Veritas Cluster Server BMC Blade Logic RHEL 6 SuSE Linux AIX ZFS LVM Service Now Sun SPARCServer v880, 480, 220 Sun 6800 SUN 15K SPARCServer 1000E Oracle T5/M4000/M5000
SUN ULTRA ENTERPRISE 3500/6000 Sun SPARC Center 2000 Sun Workstations SUN 480/220/T5240 RHEL 7
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Bachelor of Science: Computer Science New York Institute of Technology
INFORMIX Systems Administration for Windows NT INFORMIX
Administering MS Windows NT 4.0 New Horizons
UNIX Tools and Utilities The Learning Tree
Open VMS System and Node Management I Digital Corporation
RHEL 7 System Administration II RedHat
RedHat High Availability Clustering Training RedHat
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
AIG GLOBAL SERVICES
UNIX Administrator Lead (Employee) 02/2012-07/2018
Established Linux virtual consoles with VMware to reboot production servers after patching
Installed packages and expanded file systems using LVM on Redhat servers
Restarted services on Redhat servers and installed client software
Connected to virtual instances with VMware to install VMware tools
Participated in change control meetings and joined the conference bridge for outage situations
Installed Oracle ASR, refreshed Solaris server hardware, maintained CMDB for all UNIX servers, supported storage migrations and installed applications on UNIX servers, including Legato for backups
Patched, created and modified cluster resources, and remediated ITSRC server security alerts for compliance
Automated Blade Logic client rollout and created packages to run security remediation on UNIX servers
Managed incoming calls, (including Severity 1) in a large-scale, enterprise data center on a 24/7 on-call rotation
AIG GLOBAL SERVICES
UNIX Operations (Consultant – Info. People Corp.) 03/2006-02/2012
Performed server-side SAN allocations, SUN Cluster support, configured servers and upgraded Sun Cluster software, HBA drivers and SUN OS
Managed Veritas Cluster Server and Veritas Volume Manager including: resizing Veritas file systems/volumes, creating new volumes and file systems with Veritas Volume Manager, migrating data through Veritas Volume manager, offline/online Veritas resource groups and switching resource groups to other cluster nodes
Installed packages and the Autosys client on LINUX SuSE and created scripts for daily use
Engaged customers in a variety of mediums including: email, phone, live chat and screen sharing sessions
Managed incoming calls, (including Severity 1) in a large-scale, enterprise data center on a 24/7 on-call rotation
AMERADA HESS CORPORATION
Insite Command Center Associate (Consultant – Technisource) 05/2005-03/2006
Created file systems on Solaris servers, allocated SAN storage and installed OS patches
Added hardware to Linux/UNIX systems, including HBA’s and NIC cards and configured appropriate firmware
Troubleshot server outages to determine root cause and provide an appropriate solution
Entered data into the Retek Retail Merchandising System, transferred files to remote sites using Radmin, edited/modified XML files and ran scripts in UNIX
Installed, configured and upgraded Linux servers and system software
COMPUTER CONCEPTS
Network Consultant (Consultant – Robert Half International) 08/2004-12/2004
Upgraded a Novell network from 10baseT to 100baseT
Installed network cabling, configured client network components and ensured connectivity at the Old Bridge School System in Old Bridge, New Jersey
Installed, configured and upgraded enterprise system software and Storage Area Networks (SANs)
Managed system backups, security, integrity and disaster recovery
Conducted capacity planning to ensure availability of sufficient resources to meet business requirements
Developed technology standards and established performance guidelines to support daily operations of server and storage infrastructure
IBM GLOBAL SERVICES/LUCENT
UNIX Systems Administrator (Consultant – H.L. YOH) 06/2000-08/2004
Backed up and restored filesystems using Solaris ufsdump and ufsrestore
Utilized Veritas NetBackup for media and device management and backups/restores over the LAN
Managed active users, installed patches upon customers approval and troubleshot system/network problems
Added hard disks and partitioned them to customer specifications
Performed kernel modifications in etc/system file for Oracle based systems
Installed Solaris 2.6-2.8, created filesystems and configured networking components (i.e. DNS, TCP/IP & NFS)
Created cron/backup scripts and modified existing scripts on 30 SUN servers
Utilized Veritas Volume Manager to create volumes with mirroring feature, resize filesystems, and remove volumes and filesystems
Operated HP OpenView node manager, added servers to database, monitored servers and performed upgrades to nodes across the WAN
Monitored server filesystems using HP IT/O and provided 24x7 support