TANYI PHILIP NEMKAM

Linux/Unix System Administrator

acplts@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 240-***-****

A Linux administrator for over 4+ years with deep knowledge in system administration looking for a challenging

position. Ready for the challenge to help maintain your infrastructure. I am proactive, agile and a quick learner.

Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Installation, configuration and maintenance of Red Hat Linux servers

Perform Interactive and kickstart Installations

System Configuration and hardening (Turning off unnecessary services, Iptables, Selinux)

Disk addition, Partitioning and management of File Systems.

User account creation and management, groups and permissions.

Monitoring System Performance, Virtual memory, Managing Swap Space, Disk utilization

and CPU utilization

LVM creation and management.

Systems automation using basic Shell scripting.

Managed system processes and scheduling processes with the Cron and at utilities.

Checking system logs and messages to diagnose system errors.

Performance tuning functions on RHEL servers

Performed server updates, patching, upgrade and package installations using RPM and

YUM

Performed software troubleshooting and resolved network issues.

Familiarity with Internet Technologies including TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, FTP

Administer Apache web servers

Maintaining and troubleshooting network connectivity issues

Ability to lift hardware of up to 50Lbs onto dollies and/or trucks and move them to data

centers

Configure NTP client on servers to synchronize time zone with the NTP server

Configure NFS server and mount exported NFS resources at the client side

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Databases Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g

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Oracle (Oracle Enterprise Manager, SQL*Plus, SQL Loader, DB

Configuration Assistant) Toad, OEM Grid, RMAN, SQL*Loader,

Exp/Imp/Data Pump, Log miner, Statspack/AWR, Shareplex Top, DBCA,

Database Tools

DBUA, ADDM, Oracle Migration Workbench, ERwin, QDesigner,

Remedy,Nagios

Operating

MS Windows, UNIX (Solaris 8/9/10, AIX, HPUX), LINUX, VMware

Systems

Sun Fire 15K, Sun 6320 Storage, Sun Enterprise Servers 890/880/420/450,

Sun StorEdge 6320, Hitachi, EMC, Dell Servers, Compaq Servers

Hardware

6000/3000/1600/800, HP/UX9000, Red Hat Linux 6.2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

GMBC Technologies Silver Spring, MD September 2012 Present

Role: System Administrator

Daily administration of RHEL which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and

loading patches, troubleshooting server issues.

Package Management using YUM and RPM

Day to day administration of the Development environment and Test environment systems.

Install Patches and Upgrading of Operating systems

Performance tuning and security of Redhat and Centos Servers.

Administering the virtual test environment running on VMware.

Backup and recovering of files.

Extending a root file system under LVM control

Created new slices, mounted new file systems and unmounted file systems.

Supported all the UNIX requests for various applications.

Creating and maintaining users, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process

monitoring.

Administered large scale network comprising Redhat and Centos servers including server

installation, network configuration, securing the system, troubleshooting and hardware and

software upgrades.

Installed and configured hardware and OS (Redhat/6 and Centos 6.6) on servers.

Administered DNS, DHCP, and NFS on newly installed Linux machines.

Set up user and group IDs, network configuration, password and managed resolving

permission issues.

Installed and configured Logical Volume Manager LVM.

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Performed hard disk and storage allocation and management.

Performed system recovery in rescue mode.

Monitored & fixed OS performance related issues.

Monitored service desk tickets from queue providing assistance and customer maintenance

support.

Responded to all UNIX systems problems 24x7 as a part of an oncall rotation and

resolving them on a timely basis.

Knowledge on PKI ( Public Key Infrastructure)

HSBC Jersey City, NJ June 2010 August 2012

Role: System Administrator

Responsible for administering and supporting all Linux operation systems

Performed Daily Monitoring of System performance, capacity & managed Inventory;

adjust System configurations to accommodate required loads and functionality.

Experience in installing monthly Security patches and hot fixes on Linux platform

including with providing documentation.

Built and configured VM LINUX servers

Performing file system security on Red Hat Linux Servers

Coordinate and perform OS patching.

Maintains 70 server (physical & VM) in the data center.

Implemented system installation and configuration system, based on RedHat & SUSE

with kick start & Jumpstart builds for server configurations.

Daily troubleshooting for daily ticket from users.

Monitor Linux Server for CPU utilization, Memory Utilization and Disk Utilization for

performance monitoring.

Product development and administration of managed services, dedicated Linux servers

platforms.

Start and stop application processes

Assisting with hardware maintenance/repair activities.

Performing log administration to detect system errors

Using Linux Logical Volume Manger (LVM) to manage drives

Perform TCP/IP and Network configuration on the servers.

Administer User accounts on all Unix platforms.

Customize user environment for users.

Creating and/or maintaining file systems.

Responsible for creating and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and

process monitoring in Red Hat Linux

Install, upgrade and manages packages via RPM and YUM package management

Install Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration, performance tuning.

Provide support for both physical and virtual environment

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Respond to all Linux systems problems and resolving them on a timely basis.

Manage systems routine scheduling jobs and enabling cron jobs.

Configure MySQL master and slave replication

Reset password and unlock locked user account

Monitor CPU and hard disk temperature

Configure and perform TCP/IP trouble shooting on servers

Monitor system logs and activity on all servers

Implement password aging on Red Hat and Centos servers

Install, configure and support of Apache, VSFTP, NFS on Linux production servers.

Knowledge on LDAP

Used Vim editor to edit necessary configuration files

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS

University of Buea Cameroon : Bachelor degree in Political Science.

Oracle Certified Associates OCA

Redhat Certified System Administrator RHCSA ( Certificate Number 150012805)

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