Engineer Manager

Mark Baker

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*** ********* ****** . *******, ** 18940

OBJECTIVE

A SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION POSITION IN AN

ORGANIZATION SEEKING A SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

WITH ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE OF WINDOWS, LINUX, AND

UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION.

EXPERIENCE

8/2014-PRESENT BANK OF AMERICA HOPEWELL, NJ

Senior Cassandra Engineer / NoSQL Architect

NoSQL Engineer within the eCommerce Infrastructure Design

& Build team. Supports all LOB's within Consumer Banking.

Acted as a key SME for general NoSQL technologies, with a

focus on products such as Cassandra, Solr, Hadoop, and

MongoDB.

Senior engineer, architect who handled many roles

throughout a product or project lifecycle and not simply a

Database Administrator.

Provided hands-on support for Proof-of-Concept efforts and

advise partner teams on product evaluations. This

includes specifying hardware for performance optimization

and advising on tuning parameters throughout the

hardware/software stack.

Primary point of contact between the NoSQL team and

outside vendors.

8/2013-7/2014 Independence Blue Cross

Philadelphia, PA

Senior Linux systems Engineer / Big Data Architect

(9 Month Contract w/ Renewals)

Designed & Deployed Hadoop environment to meet

requirements set forth by informatics department.

Administered IBM Big Insights (Pure Data Hadoop) cluster.

Including Big R, Hive, H Catalog, Oozie, Sqoop, AQL, Info

Streams, Mahout, GPFS, & Watson Explorer.

Worked closely with data scientists to create Sqoop and

Oozie workflows in order to import and export data into

Hive and other big data tools.

Created clustered OCR tool to read in electronic medical

records and convert them to plain text for analytics use.

Wrote Python Map Reduce jobs to perform text analytics.

Served as primary point of contact between the Hadoop

environment & data scientists, network team, monitoring

team, backup team, & outside vendors.

2/2011-8/2013 Merrill Lynch / Bank of America. Hopewell,

NJ

Lead Linux systems Engineer / Lead Linux Automation

Engineer

(6 Month Contract w/ Renewals)

Automated and packaged the installation of a wide variety

of enterprise-grade software using the RPM framework. The

rpms were pushed out to thousands of Linux servers across

the enterprise.

Scripted the deployment of the tibco, oracle coherence,

Splunk client, Tivilo license manager and other enterprise

applications using shell and Perl.

Created tools to automate the creation and management of

the RPMs in the yum repository.

Supported the developers of enterprise level applications

through the software development life cycle from dev to

production.

Primary lead on bringing new products into the

infrastructure. This task included usage analysis,

hardware specifications, ordering hardware, specifying the

storage layout, operating system configuration, network

configuration, and backup retention policies.

Managed the enterprise wide Yum repository. This included

creating gpg signing keys for each level of the

development life cycle. Creating software groups and

adding new branches for each sdlc level.

Documented enterprise wide linux standards.

Trained other team members and groups on the RPM creation

process, shell scripting best practices, and the sdlc

process.

Presented upgrades and additions to the infrastructure

through team and group meetings.

Guided development teams on log4j and syslog logging

procedures and best practices. This led to less disk

usage and more current and relevant logs to use for

debugging purposes.

3/2010-2/2011 FIS Global. Malvern, PA

Linux Engineer

(1 Year Contract)

Provide level 3 engineering support for the Apache &

Tomcat middleware infrastructure.

Wrote various PERL and SH scripts & built and installed

custom RPM's for the Red Hat Linux architecture.

2/2010-4/2010 VWR Scientific. West Chester, PA

Linux Engineer

(2 Month Contract)

Reviewed analyzed and resolved 120+ vulnerabilities

identified through a vulnerability scan. Worked closely

with the Linux and network infrastructure group to create

a project plan to resolve each vulnerability. Performed

the necessary tasks to ensure the following

PCI/vulnerability scans would no longer show any

vulnerabilities on the production network.

11/2008-11/2009 Merck & Co. Whitehouse, NJ

Linux Engineer (Member of Enterprise Web Services Group)

(1 year contract)

Provided level 3 engineering support for the Apache &

Tomcat middleware infrastructure.

Wrote various PERL and SH scripts & built and installed

custom RPM's for the Red Hat Linux architecture.

Worked with software developers to install and configure

third party software on the Merck intranet.

Upgraded the BIND/DNS infrastructure used in the DMZ

network area.

3/2006-9/2008 Hx Technologies, Inc. Philadelphia, PA

Manager, Network Services

Administered the Philadelphia Health Information Exchange.

The PHIE enables radiologists to access patient and

imaging data at all participating facilities from one

interface.

Performed advanced system administration duties including

installation, maintenance, monitoring, tuning, and

penetration testing of Redhat Linux, openBSD and Microsoft

based servers.

Created and maintained Xen virtualization architecture

used to run virtual machines for Linux hosting

infrastructure.

Administered Microsoft Windows based office network which

included samba based shares and & open source exchange

mail server.

Implemented 3 tier hosting infrastructure including Apache

web servers, Tomcat application servers, & Oracle database

servers.

Installed and maintained Qlogic based SAN infrastructure.

Installed & maintained iSCSI storage network.

Installed and configured EMC based disk to disk and tape

backup system.

Designed & maintained Gigabit hosting network. Including

f5 load balancers, Cisco firewalls, & Netgear switches.

Installed end user & point to point VPN connections.

Wrote various PERL and SH scripts & built and installed

custom RPM's from scratch for the Red Hat Linux

architecture.

1/2004-1/2005 Merck & Co. Whitehouse, NJ

Linux Engineer (Member of Enterprise Web Infrastructure

Group) (1 year contract)

Administered over 300 clustered Suse Linux based Apache

Tomcat Servers.

Supported Merck's global infrastructure through help desk

cases and telephone support calls. Maintained a 100%

customer satisfaction rating and closed 98% of the cases

within the SLA.

Worked with software developers to install and configure

third party software on the Merck intranet.

Setup and maintained the Interwoven Open Deploy software

to allow users to easily deploy their content to the web

servers.

Wrote various PERL and SH scripts to automate tasks and

monitor critical services.

3/1998-10/2004 Cyberfuse Technologies, LLC Morrisville, PA

Senior Systems Administrator & Director of Technology.

Managed graphics arts, webmaster, programming, and systems

administration departments.

Designed and administered corporate network and web

hosting infrastructure consisting of 50+ Solaris 8 & Linux

servers, 20+ workstations, and 10+ windows servers.

Managed the relocation of the data center to a new

location while ensuring 99% uptime and reducing operating

costs by 50%.

Performed advanced system administration duties including

installation, maintenance, monitoring, tuning, operation,

and security of both Solaris and Microsoft based web

servers.

Created Sendmail server cluster responsible for the

delivery of 2+ million marketing emails a day.

Used f5 Big-IP Products to load balance Apache and Zeus

web servers.

Designed and implemented clustering and load balancing

solutions for mission critical applications using F5

Big-IP and Veritas technology.

Secured and implemented tape back-up system to insure data

integrity for all servers and workstations.

Performed 24x7 support calls on a regular basis.

Education

Gettysburg College, Gettysburg Pennsylvania

Computer Science Major

Certifications &

Skills

Certifications: A+, Sun Solaris 7, INet+,

Network+, MCP

Operating Systems: RHEL, FreeBSD, openBSD,

Solaris, SUSE, & Microsoft Windows Server.

Languages: PHP, PERL, HTML, Python, AQL & Shell

scripting.

Web Servers: Apache, IIS, & Zeus.

Application Servers: Tomcat & Websphere.

Big Data: Hadoop, Hive, Sqoop, Oozie, R,

Mahout, IBM Big Insights, IBM Watson Explorer,

IBM Info Streams & IBM Big R

Storage Technologies: SAN, iSCSI, NFS, GPFS &

RAID.

Backup Systems: EMC Retrospect, AMANDA, & Net

Backup.

Security: IPTables, Nessus, Snort, Tripwire.

CheckPoint, Cisco, & Watchgard firewalls.

Mail Servers: Sendmail, qmail, Postfix, Scalix,

MS Exchange, & Open-Xchange.

Monitoring: Nagios, Big Brother, CACTI, MRTG, &

Tivoli..

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