Manager System

Michael A. Watts

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Waldorf, Md. 20603 (301) 461-3421C

Summary of Experience: IT professional with over 20 years of experience.

Skilled in performing a wide variety of functions, including: Unix

administration and engineering, system implementation; hardware/software

installation, storage administration and troubleshooting within

heterogeneous environments.

Education:

Currently pursuing degree in Information Systems Management, University of

Maryland College Park, est. completion date Dec 2015.

Current Job Description:

March 2013 - Present Watts Systems Consulting Incorporated

Job Title: Sr. Systems Administrator at Naval Logistics Data Center -

Responsible for applying Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIGS)

procedures to systems running SUSE Linux hosted on Teradata systems.

Performed daily system administration tasks to include backup and recovery

using NetVault and Tivoli Storage Manager, performance tuning,

troubleshooting, creating scripts and monitoring Solaris 10, AIX and SUSE

Linux systems. Responsible for patching, managing users, roles, groups and

access permissions on VMWare ESXi infrastructure.

Job Title: Sr. Systems Administrator at SEC - Configured and installed

Oracle Sun Cluster 3.3 high availability platform. Installed and

configured ZFS 7320 appliance and provisioned storage to satisfy user

request. Provisioning Solaris 10 O/S using JET to deploy operating system

image and patches to systems. Administered Solaris 10 environment. Worked

with team members on migrating new Primary and Disaster Recovery Data

Centers for SEC. Created virtualized Solaris 10 environments utilizing ZFS

filesystems.

Employment History:

October 2006 - March 2013 SAIC (Navy ERP Contractor)

Job Title: Sr. Systems Administrator - Responsible for installing,

configuring and maintaining Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000, Sun Fire 25k, 6900,

and other Sun Fire systems in both Solaris 9, 10 SPARC and x86

environments. Configured virtualized environments consisting of Red Hat

Enterprise Linux virtual machines hosted on VMWare platform and Solaris 10

zones. Installed and configured various disk management applications such

as Solstice Volume Manager, Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 and ZFS. Maintained

enterprise wide system backup for Unix environment using Veritas NetBackup

DataCenter Server 7.5.0.4. Designed, configured and maintained a high

availability platform using Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 software running on

Unix servers supporting Navy ERP applications. Responsible for

establishing administration, and security policies, standards and

procedures in support of the Navy ERP project. Provide leadership and

instruction to team members in the areas of systems installation,

configuration, monitoring and the restoration of system services.

Responsible for the installation and management of BSM, Tripwire and

EventTracker agents on Solaris systems. Engaged in performance analysis to

resolve system related events on both Solaris 9, 10 and Red Hat Enterprise

Linux environments.

May2006 - October 2006 Watts Systems Incorporated (Fannie Mae Contractor)

Job Title: Systems Architect - Responsible for gathering application

requirements and translating them into system requirements. In charge of

developing system architectural diagrams for all system life cycles.

Served as the liaison between the business units and integration teams

ensuring fluidity in system implementation. Conducted performance

analysis resulting in requisition of more robust, reliable and scalable

systems.

August 2004 - May 2006 Rgii Technologies

Job Title: Sr. Systems Administrator - Provide UNIX Systems Administration

support to NAVAIR. Responsible for administration and maintenance of

Solaris systems and various software products including Veritas Volume

Manager, NetBackup DataCenter, Solaris DiskSuite, Network time Protocol,

and DNS/BIND. Lead/execute tasks for testing and implementation of

installation, upgrades and migrations including installation and upgrade of

the operating system and software applications, account management, device

configuration, performance tuning, setting up users ID's, disaster

recovery, log monitoring and overall systems monitoring. Conduct

configuration management, in addition to developing and documenting

standard operating procedures for Solaris, Middleware and Tivoli

environments. Responsible for maintaining and administering the middleware

environment consisting of MQSeries and WebMethods software. In charge of

administration and management of the Tivoli monitoring and scheduling

infrastructure.

February 2002 - August 2004. National Association of Securities of Dealers

(NASD)

Job Title: Sr. Systems Administrator - Responsible for the systems design

and implementation of the Alternate Display Facility stock exchange system

consisting of Unix (Solaris) and EMC storage. Responsible for configuring

and maintaining Sun Fire 6800 and V880 servers in addition to setting up

EMC Symmetrix 3830 and 8530 storage units. Installed and configured various

disk management applications such as Solstice DiskSuite 4.2.1, Veritas

Volume Manger 3.2, PowerPath 3.0.1 and ECC 4.3.1. Designed and implemented

enterprise wide system backup for Unix environment using Veritas NetBackup

Business Server 3.4 and 4.5. Designed and implemented a high availability

platform using Veritas Cluster 2.0 software running Unix servers supporting

financial applications. Responsible for establishing administration, and

security policies, standards and procedures in support of the Alternate

Display Facility project. Provide leadership and instruction to team

members in the areas of systems installation, configuration, monitoring and

the restoration of system services.

May 2000 - December 2001 VeriSign, Inc. Dulles, VA.

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer - Implemented a distributed storage

infrastructure to support development and production environments utilizing

Network Appliance 740 filers. Designed and implement high availability

system using HACMP/ES running on p680 AIX systems connected to EMC 3830

Symmetrix storage units. Implemented architectural standards for Unix

(AIX, Solaris, and Red Hat Linux) platforms. Recommended the appropriate

computer platform(s) required to support distributed client server, and web-

based business processes and information flows. Provided integrated system

planning and recommend new or different technologies, which enhanced

systems and supported overall corporate and business goals. Translated

system requirements into detailed design documents. Provided second tier

support for production, quality assurance and development environments.

January 2000 - May 2000. Bell Atlantic, Inc., Silver Spring, MD.

Job Title: Senior Systems Administrator - Responsible for providing third

tier production support ensuring system reliability and availability.

Technical lead responsible for maintaining and creating Intranet procedures

and standards for team members to utilize in maintaining systems integrity.

Conduct extensive research in determining root cause of various problems

leading to systems availability.

May 1999 - December 1999. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Washington

D.C.

Job Title: Senior Systems Administrator - Implemented security standards,

installed third party software and provided various Solaris systems

administration functions.

June 1995 - May 1999. Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae),

Washington, D.C.

Job Title: Senior Systems Administrator - Technical lead responsible for

installing and maintaining Veritas 2.1 High - Availability solutions for

mission critical servers running on Ultra Enterprise 5000's. Provided

system administration and technical leadership in a large client/server

environment, consisting of 200 SPARC servers and 1000 Sun Workstations.

Responsible for maintaining client support, which incorporated and utilized

various troubleshooting skills to resolve problems on Solaris and HP-UX

platforms such as NIS+, NFS, ODS, Volume manager 2.5, and High -

Availability issues. Installed and configured various Sun Systems, which

included Sparc 690's, SPARCserver 1000's, 2000's, and various workstations,

voyagers, consisting of Solaris 2.x, SunOS 4.x, and point to point

software.

February 1995 - June 1995. I-NET, INC., Internal Revenue Service,

Washington, D.C.

Job Title: Senior Systems Administrator - Assisted in the configuration

and design of SPARCenter 2000 and Clarion disk array, supporting Oracle

7.1.3 and PNMS, utilizing a 10BASET network to support up to 250 concurrent

users, in a production environment. Configured NIS+ environment, which

supported multiple domains in order to assist in the management of IRS

INOMS project. Conducted online backups using Openvision Netbackup and

automated backup scripts to backup Oracle, and PNMS databases and Unix

files. Provided guidance and training for several junior systems

administrators.

March 1994 - February 1995. I-Net, INC., Internal Revenue Service,

Washington, D.C.

Job Title: Systems Administrator - Configured Sun Sparc LX's, 5's, and

10's with Solaris 2.3, client version of PNMS, Oracle forms 4.0, and Oracle

reports 2.0. Added and deleted users accounts on the SPARCenter 1000, and

2000. Configured multiple printers to support network and standalone print

capabilities in a heterogeneous environment.

February 1990 - February 1994. United States Air Force, Bolling AFB.

Washington, D.C.

Job Title: Inventory Management Specialist - Configured Sperry/60

computers in a heterogeneous environment to support the logistical database

at Bolling, AFB. Supply squadron. Implemented procedures to improve timely

processing of documents, which increased productivity and reduced workload

time by thirty percent.

Hardware Experience

Sun Fire 25k Servers 6 years IBM p680 1

year

Sun Fire 6800/6900 Server's 6 years IBM M80 1

year

Sun Ultra Enterprise Servers 5 years IBM H70 1

year

Sun SPARCenter Servers 5 years IBM 3850 3

years

Sun SPARCstations 5 years ZFS 7320 Appliance

>1 year

Sun Blade 6000 Server >1years Network Appliance Filers (740)

1 year

EMC Symmetrix (3830/8530) 1 year Sun Ultra Enterprise MX000

Servers 5 years

Operating System Experience

Sun OS 4.x - 1 year, Solaris 2.x - 13 years, Solaris 10 - 6 years, HP 10.20

- 1 year, AIX 4.3.3 - 1 year, RHEL 5.5 - 2 years, SUSE Enterprise Linux - 1

year

Software Product Experience

MQSeries 5.x - 1 year, Oracle 8- 1 year, Oracle 10g - 2 year, Sybase 10 - 3

years, Sybase 11 - 1 year

Professional Development/Technical Training

IBM, AIX for Solaris Administration, July 2000

IBM, AIX Version 4 System Administration III: Performance Mgmt, July 2000

Veritas Cluster Server 3.5 for Solaris (Suite), March 2003

Learning Tree International, Introduction to Internetworking: Switches and

Routers, October 2003

WebSphere MQ System Administration I for Distributed Platforms, February

2005

Sun Microsystems, Sun Fire 15k/25k High End Server Administration, March

2007

Solaris 10 Features for Experienced Administrators, April 2007

Veritas Storage Foundation 4.1 for Oracle 10g RAC November 2007

Ultimate Knowledge Training: Comptia Security +, March 2008

Sun SPARC Enterprise MX000 Server Administration, September 2008

Solaris 10 Operating System Internals, May 2010

Sun Virtualization: Solaris 10 Containers Administration, June 2010

Security Clearance: Top Secret SSBI

Certifications: CompTIA Security +, Mar 2008

SCSA 10, Mar 2011

ITV3F ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT

Service Management, Jul 2012

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