Engineer Systems

Christopher A. Byers

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Senior Systems Engineer

Senior level production support engineer with expertise developed through many years of experience as a leading member of business critical IT teams

HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

Redhat Linux

BASH Shell Scripting

Python and Perl Scripting

Atlassian (Jira, Confluence, Crowd)

Tomcat/Apache

Agile / Scrum

Puppet

Cisco (ASA, ACE, IOS)

Oracle Database (10 - 11i)

Solaris

F5

Oracle RAC

Vmware ESXi

Veritas Volume Management / Cluster

Nagios

Cacti

CentOS Linux

ITIL

Kickstart

SAN

AWS

HP SAS/Opsware

VANGUARD Malvern, PA

Contracting Security Devoloper, Tier 3 May 2016 to Present

●Engineering of security systems such as SiteMinder and RSA AA for global web presense.

CMC, Inc Wilmington, DE

Senior Systems Engineer July 2015 to May 2016

●Systems engineering, system builds, configuration management of over 270 Redhat Linux systems, Nagios, Cisco ASA firewalls, Cisco ACE load balancers, and F5 load balancers, AWS, Puppet, Git, AWS.

VANGUARD Malvern, PA

Contracting Systems Engineer, Tier 3 April 2015 to July 2015

●Systems Engineering, system builds, configuration management of over 4000 Redhat Linux and Solaris systems. Migrating mission critical systems from legacy platforms to linux physical and virtual systems (including AWS).

COMCAST Philadelphia, PA

Systems Engineer IV 2009 to 2015

●Set up, managed and troubleshot multiple systems on Redhat Linux,CentOS Linux and Solaris.

●Standardization, assimilation and automation of over 4,000 servers nationwide in the Comcast customer facing and back-office footprint;

●Reduced the average deployment time of systems from nearly two months to two weeks on physical and virtual systems by developing and employing standardized processes and procedures as the team lead of server deployment;

●Systems Engineer III 2003 to 2009

Developed and managed an Opsware/HP SA Automation Tool, which enables standardized deployment and auditing over more than 4,000 servers (Redhat Linux, CentOS and Solaris).

●Contributed to the consolidation and standardization of SAN fabric networks for EMC Symetrix and HP EVA storage devices serving multiple services country-wide;

●Set up and managed a large development environment comprised of over 50 servers for software development teams.

BYERS CONSULTING Thorofare, NJ

Proprietor, Sr. Consultant 1996 to 2003

●Provided network solutions, strategic planning and project leadership consulting services to client companies on various UNIX systems matters including, but not limited to: proper system administration, migration, configuration, updating and troubleshooting initiatives;

●Advised several banking and pharmaceutical corporation clients, such as ABFS Financial, Intelligent Imaging (Quintiles), CitiBank, Glaxo SmithKline and MBNA America (now a subsidiary of Capital One).

EDUCATION

ROWAN UNIVERSITY Glassboro, NJ

Master of Business Administration Awarded 2004

PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY University Park, PA

Bachelor of Science, Geography, with a concentration in Geographic Information Systems Awarded 1991

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