David J. Otis
Maricopa, AZ *5139
SUMMARY
Strong Linux and Automation Skills, Oracle VM, VMWare, RedHat, Oracle Linux, CentOS. Strong Trouble Shooting Skills. Strong Communication Skills, Love to work hard and see goals accomplished. Love to figure out how things can be made easier and more efficiently accomplished.
EXPERIENCE
Sr. Linux Engineer, Apollo Group: Phoenix, AZ 2008-Present Developed linux images both physical and virtual, for 4000+ servers. Automated the deployment of virtual and physical servers, RedHat, Oracle Linux, CentOS and Ubuntu by converting old bash script finishing to Chef recipes for deployment and maintenance. Implemented RedHatSatellite 6 HA/DR solution. Automated the deployment of Oracle RAC12C on VMWare and Oracle VM. Implemented Oracle VM, Oracle VM Manger to start migration of VMWare infrastructure to OVM. Deploying VM’s from templates or Assemblies. Migrating from VMWare by converting to OVF and importing to OVM. This saves huge amounts of money over the cost of VMWare. Sr. Quality Assurance Engineer, Essex Corp: Savage, MD 2003-2008 Quality Assurance Engineer. Designed assembled and tested RedHat Cluster using SunFire Z40’s, RedHat Cluster, GFS, and Winchester FlexSAN FS100, Qlogic HBA’s and iscsi. Using Bugzilla, TestRunner and Subversion, tracked and tested product full cycle. Developed test plans and test files. Performed system testing and created scripts to pass STIG requirements. Held TS-SBI Clearance.
Principal Engineer, VONE Corp: Germantown, MD 1996-2003 Managed a team of direct report Engineers in the Design, Testing and Production of VONE SmartGuard an IPtables based firewall with SmartGate VPN, and IPsec site to site tunneling capability. Obtained ICSA Firewall and VPN Certification for the same. US Navy Submarine Service 12 years
EDUCATION
Project Management, Villanova, Villanova, Pennsylvania Electronics Lakeland Community College, Lakeland, Ohio PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Linux, RedHat, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Oracle RAC, Oracle VM, Cloud Automation, Scripting, Bash, Chef, Puppet, VMWare, VOC, OVM, HP Hardware, Cisco Hardware, ILO, RedHat Satellite