Edward Price
Mobile Phone: 410-***-****
Email: ************@*****.***
OBJECTIVES
A motivated System admin/engineer seeking a challenging and innovative position in a heterogeneous Unix/Linux System & AWS Cloud platform in which I will be responsible for the Installation, Configuration, Maintenance, Administrating System Users and access to cloud resources.
PERSONAL STRENGTH
Effective combination of systems administration and communication skills
Ability to work in a team environment, emphasizing team goals over personal goals.
Strong ability to absorb technical information quickly.
Strong focus on good results.
TECHNICAL STRENGTH
Amazon Web Services – EC2, AMIs, IAMs, ELB, VPC, and Cloud Watch.
Installing operating systems and configuration on Linux and Windows Servers.
Locking System/hardening
Installing and configuring open source tools and applications.
Setting up Virtual systems.
Introducing systems to the LAN.
Configuring system Backup and Restore.
Development and production support
Linux/ Windows –based OS & Virtual Environment.
OPERATING SYSTEMS/SOFTWARE
Cloud: AWS - EC2, AMIs, IAMs, Security Groups, ELB, VPC, and Auto-scaling.
PLATFORM: Linux (RHEL) Enterprise, CentOS 6.5/7, UBUNTU, Windows 7 professionals and Window 2008 server administrator
VIRTUAL: VMWare and KVM
MONITORING: Nagios, Cloud Watch
PROTOCOLS: dhcp,, HTTP,ssh,https.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Lolubyte IT Consultants.
Linux System Engineer
2011-Pesent
•Team member of Linux / UNIX System Administration.
•Create users, administer user, create groups, assigned users to group accounts, setting permissions Web servers, file servers, firewalls, and with ability to diagnose basic Apache Issues.
•Build and install virtual machine on AWS ec2.
•System and Application troubleshooting and other related issues.
•Manage system process in areas like boot process, startup and system shutdown.
•Install, configure, maintain and administer Linux / UNIX operating systems.
•Disk management with LVM
•Plan, execute packages and updates installations necessary for optimal system performance.
•Work with Linux family (Red Hat Enterprise Server, Cent OS, and Ubuntu 14.04).
•Configure and troubleshoot server network.
•Install and configure and manage instance on KVM and Vmware
Catholic Resource Services, Financial Analyst, Baltimore, MD, contract-2010- 2011
Contracted for 90 days to review and finalize the forecasting for a projected budget of 9.8 million and over 65 different accounts worldwide. Used MS Excel and JD Powell financial tool softwares. Created, disseminated and presented budget projection reports to senior leadership and key staff members.
American Red Cross Baltimore, MD 2007-20010
Supervisor-Hospital Services Lab
Researched and analyzed program requirements over see policies and operational issues. Reviewed best practices and synthesized wide range of operational data. Reports and white papers from internal and external sources to make recommendations to superior. Improve operations. Implemented cost controls in programs within delegated authority. Managed blood bank inventory to ensure customer supply. Provided guidance, coaching, counseling and training to promote employee/team success.
EDUCATION
Intercontinental University
MBA Health Care systems
Sojourner Douglas College
BA