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System Administrator Data

Location:
Georgetown, MA
Posted:
June 01, 2016

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Kevin Eisener

** ******** **.

Georgetown MA ****3

978-***-****

*****.*******@*******.***

SUMMARY

Experienced Senior Unix/Linux System Administrator and team leader. Efficient self-directed worker able to collaborate closely with colleagues and customers both local or remote. Linux, Solaris, ZFS, Perl, Shell, Netbackup, Legato, NFS, Ganglia, Networking, LSF, Nagios TECHNICAL/COMPUTER SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Unix, Linux and Windows

Hardware: Oracle/Sun ZFS storage appliances, Oracle/Sun Intel and SPARC servers

Scripting languages: Perl and Shell

Detailed knowledge of NIS, NFS, automounter, backups, HA clusters, ZFS, DNS and LDAP EXPERIENCE:

ORACLE CORP. - Compute Resources Burlington, MA 2008- 2015 Senior Unix/Linux System Administrator

Managed a highly automated large scale global Unix/Linux data-center with hundreds of servers and petabytes of data used in CPU and System Modeling, Synthesis, and Verification.

Project Leader: Planned, coordinated,and monitored hardware and software upgrades for local and remote data-centers. Coordinated upgrades with end-users, minimizing impact and downtime.

Team Lead - Led a team of SAs that monitored and corrected any user problems, created new accounts, backed up file servers, fixed hardware problems, for 24/7 multi site operation.

Site Lead – Responsible to set priorities, managed assets and dealt with facilities issues of the local compute farm.

Mentored junior team members, training them on standard procedures and best practices to maintain high-quality of service to end-users.

Developed technical operational procedures; Used TWiki and browser based tools to document procedures so all SAs would perform similar tasks the same way at all sites.

Coordinated with both local and remote customers as well as external and internal suppliers, delivering a robust, reliable, and cost-effective service.

Participated as member of an on-call team for 24/7 coverage on the global data-centers. SUN MICROSYSTEMS INC. - multiple groups Burlington, MA 1995-2008 Senior System Administrator

Managed large compute farms used by Linux kernel and ASIC development groups.

Reconfigured and expanded the backup capabilities of the data center, thereby cutting cost while improving reliability.

Used Nagios to monitor servers and network.

Managed network for a large development lab used for performance testing and debugging of prototype hardware with multiple VLANs.

Consultant for new data-center design including room layout, air conditioning and power distribution, avoiding potential problems after the introduction of next-generation systems. This resulted in a data center with reduced costs and hot-spots as well as a longer expectancy.

Wrote CGI script for a web based reservation system for users to reserve time on limited prototype hardware.

Wrote Perl script to do health monitoring of compute farm and important lab infrastructure with paging/email notification, reducing down time on systems needed 24/7.

Founding member and Co-chairman of the Sun Burlington Lab Council which set standards for new labs, encouraged sharing of knowledge and resources and reduced costs. Lockheed Martin Nashua NH 1992-1995

Security Custodian and System Administrator

Managed a diverse network of SUN workstations and servers, PCs, Macs, Xterminials, RAID, optical jukeboxes and a separate classified network.

Assumed responsibilities as the liaison for the government audits of the classified network.

Assisted in initial corporate testing of ATM networking. Education:

Northeastern University – Boston, MA

Bachelor Degree – Computer Engineering Technology 1987 Cum Laude

Unix System Administration and Security – Certificate 1990 Additional Education:

Intermediate and Advanced Solaris 10 System Administration SUN 2006

Technical Leadership SUN 2005

Program Management Fundamentals SUN 2004

ClearCase Fundamentals – Unix Rational U 2000

Sun Enterprise Cluster HA Administration SUN 1999

Perl – Advanced Perl Techniques SUN 1999

Basic Perl Programming SUN 1997

Sun System Principles and Performance Tuning SUN 1997



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