Thomas P. Esquina
Woodbridge, VA 703-***-**** (office)
******.*******@*****.***
Qualifications Summary:
. Responsible for administering large IT Service Management contract
providing operations and maintenance of a mixed platform Enterprise:
Oracle(Sun) Solaris
. Provides enterprise-wide technical leadership for operations and
maintenance of current systems in the short term and evolving
functionality to new technology in the mid term.
. Responsible for administration, maintenance and management of capacity
resources for computers at the operating system and infrastructure
level. Monitors performance and system usage for critical enterprise
assets, patching and resolve vulnerabilities from scan
. Builds, configures, troubleshoots and integrates new and existing
servers to provide service enhancements, application deployments, and
infrastructure upgrades
Education: M.S Information Systems Management, The George Washington
University
B.S. Earth Science, Michigan State University
Certifications:
Sun Solaris Enterprise Computing & Network Administrator Certified
CompTia Security + Certified
Clearance 2012: Top Secret/SCI - DoD /DHS POLY/CI - DoJ
05/2012 - Present Salient Federal Solutions Customer:FBI
Senior Solaris Systems Engineer responsible for system maintenance,
upgrades, security LDAP accounts administration. Communicate with all
levels of staff and customer. Capacity planning and configuration
management, Integration of all applications, Weblogic / Tomcat. Install
and configure Veritas Cluster Foundation to support Oracle 11g RAC on 2
node m400 cluster. Create technical documentation. Some Linux support.
Install networker on clients
- Solaris 10 Systems administration and x86
- Oracle(Sun) m4000, T4,T5220, T5120, X4200
05/2008 - 05/20012 ICF Intl. Customer:DSS
Senior Solaris Systems Engineer responsible for system maintenance,
upgrades, security and user accounts administration. Capacity planning and
configuration management, Integration of all applications, Install Sun
Cluster to support Oracle RAC. Lead for test center and create technical
documentation. Created jumpstart server ts. Install Netbackup v6.5
server. Create SRR using Solaris STIG. Work with IA to create RBAC for
system scans.
- Solaris 8/9/10 Systems administration and X86
- Sun Blade 6000, 6340, m4000, T5220, T1000, StorEdge 2540
- SunFire15K, E4900, v490, v440, v240 x4200
- Netbackup 6.5
05/2007- 05/2008 Intelligent Decisions Customer:DHS
Senior Solaris Systems Engineer responsible for system maintenance,
upgrades, security and user accounts administration. Setup Automounts,
installing packages Perl, C, java. Supporting Oracle installation, kernel
tuning, Storage Administrator support network storage solutions with SAN
architecture. Capacity planning, create storage groups, zone servers based
on application requirements. Create technical documentation
- Solaris 10 Systems administration Sun 490, v440, v240
- EMC Clarion CX3-20 /Brocade 12-4800
- Symantec / Veritas Foundation Suite
06/2006- 05/2007 Base Technology, Springfield, VA Customer:DHA
Senior Solaris Systems Engineer responsible for distributed operating
systems/ storage engineer administration of SAN infrastructure. Define
requirements of architecture, engineering, and support for both storage and
UNIX technology. Supported both a UNIX and storage (SAN, NAS) support role,
and have highly developed troubleshooting and analytical skills Create
technical documentation
- Solaris 9, 8 Systems administration
- Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 2500, 800, 450
- Hitachi Data Systems ( Storage Navigator)
- Symantec / Veritas Foundation Suite
- Brocade 12-4800
- Clearance Secret DHS 2006
08/1999 - 06/2006 Washingtonpost.com, Arlington, VA
Senior Solaris Systems Engineer responsible for creating standards for the
Solaris Enterprise servers Install and configure servers to support
integration of SunOne and Oracle applications for production (24x7) news
and commerce environment. Configure Jumpstart server all backup and
recovery systems for Solaris Kernel tuning, security, performance,
monitoring and capacity planning, support WebLogic applications and
projects include lifecycle management, technical assessments,
implementation engineering, project planning, standards development/
validation, technical documentation, and troubleshooting and problem
resolution Responsible for all backups
- Solaris 9,8,7,2.6
- Veritas Foundation Suite
- Linux 3.5
- Legato Networker v 7.1, v6
- Sun Volume Manager (DiskSuite)
- SAN EMC Clarion CX600 /CX400 Navisphere / Brocade
- E4500, E4000, E450, v880, v440, v240 ( 150+ servers)
04/1998 - 08/1999 Picture Network International, Arlington, VA
Senior Unix Systems administrator responsible for 20 plus Solaris servers
in a business to business web environment. Install and configure servers
for media asset management software in production environment. Supported
Life Cycle management of software releases. backups, capacity planning.
- Solaris 2.5.1 / 6 AIX 6.2
- Veritas Volume Manager / File System Disksuite 4.0, NIS/DNS
Automounter
- E450, E250, Ultra 2
06/1993 - 03/1998 LCC, International, Mclean, VA
Senior Unix Systems administrator/Lead
- Integrated Engineering software tools on Solaris
- Solaris 2.5.1/ 6 NIS/DNS
- 300 plus systems E3000, Ultra 1, 2,5 E450, Sparc 20
- ESRI products ( Arc Info)
- Sun VAR Enterprise/Workgroup Computing Certified
U.S. Navy / Naval Reserve (Honorable Dischage)
Engineering/Navigation Officer / Instructor, U.S. Naval Academy
Systems Analyst, Navy Command Center Chief of Naval Operations Pentagon