Systems Administrator Support
Resume:
Frank Pittel
Westmont, Illinois 60559
Objective A senior systems administration position with emphasis on UNIX.
EXPERIENCE
Platforms:
Sun, PC and SGI
Operating Systems
Solaris 10, 11 SunOS 4.1x, Linux, SystemV, Irix 6.x, 5.x
Lanuages
C/C++, Perl, UNIX shell
Networking:
Ethernet, Fiber Channel
Work Experience
10/2014 – 5/2016
Underwriters Labratories Nortbrook, Il
Unix/Linux Engineering
Installed RHEL onto physical servers an vmware vms. Created templates to make creation of vms faster and more consistent. Was part of a team of administrators that managed and maintained approximately 500 servers that were a mix of physical and vms running RedHat Enterprise Linux 6&7, SUSE Linux 11 and Solaris 10&11. Created and managed Solaris zones. Used Veritas Foundation Suite to manage san disk space and resize filesystems. Created process to copy financial data between UL and banking institutions using ssh and gpg. Laid out, built and maintained hadoop clusters using cloudera. Worked closely with DBAs and application developers.
5/2014 – 8/2014
Chicago Board of Options Exchange Chicago, Il
Unix/Linux Engineering
Wrote, updated and maintained shell scripts and perl scripts to monitor and manage trading environment for the Chicago Board of Option Exchange. Monitored backup of servers using Netbackup and Aptare. Installed Netbackup client software as needed on new server builds. Investigated cause of all backup failures and resolved them. Assisted operations group with issues beyond their ability to resolve.
2/2012 – 2/2014
Xerox Oakbrook, Il
Unix/Linux Engineering
Worked to support the McDonalds account by installing and implementing account centralize account management and access control using the BoKS software from Foxt. This required synchronizing UIDs across servers. Worked very closely with the system administration teams, application owners, internal and external auditors to accomplish this. Wrote processes to allow internal Xerox teams to reset passwords, create accounts and provided the needed training to accomplish this. Worked as part of a security team and worked on requests and incidents as part of the team. Provided 24x7 oncall support and was point of contact for issues involving BoKS. Wrote scripts to automate the import of accounts from servers into BoKS.
6/2006 – 2/2012
Savvis Elk Grove Village, Il
Unix/Linux Systems Administrator
Member of Unix administration teams for a number of client accounts maintaining Solaris and Linux servers. This work included OS installations, patching, performance tuning and other configuration. This work included building VMs with Vmware for linux builds and creating zones under Solaris. Mounted a large variety of Sun/Oracle servers into racks, made connections for networking, console and SAN. Provided 24x7 oncall support for accounts supported. Worked with backup team of a large government account using EMC Networker and assisted configuration of backup servers. This included installing backup software onto new servers and setting up backups. Performed restores as needed. Wrote SOP (standard operating procedure) documents on how to perform routine and semi-routine tasks. Used Veritas Foundation Suite to manage disk space on Solaris servers.
11/2004 – 4/2006
Orbitz Chicago, Il
Unix/Linux Systems Administrator
Member of operations support team monitoring large Redhat Linux site using tools such as NetCool, Topaz, and other internally developed monitoring applications. When an outage occurs coordinate efforts between different groups to get issue resolved. Performed day to day maintenance on servers. Developed perl and shell scripts to aid in monitoring and day to day operations.
2000 – 6/2004
Goldman Sachs (First Options of Chicago & Hull) Chicago, Il
Unix/Linux Systems Administrator
Member of unix support team responsible for providing infrastructure engineering and support for 25 Ultra5 – 3800, (First Options) and 500 Ultra5 – 4500 (Hull Trading) Sun Enterprise servers running Solaris 2.8 and 2.6. Maintained HA environment using Veritas Cluster Server and foundation suite.
Added new servers to HA clusters, created and removed resource groups and updated resources attributes as needed.
Configured servers in DMZ to function as mail relays, ftp and html proxy, and external DNS servers. Provided backups using Legato networker. Used EMC Symmetrix to provide mass centralized storage. Allocated disk to servers as needed. Developed project plans for system upgrades and changes. Monitored server performance and found root cause of any performance slowdowns and resolved cause. Installed third party and in-house software on production servers. Rolled out new development environment. Setup NIS and NFS services for network. Designed and maintained Tibco infrastructure for development, QA and Production networks. Provided 3rd tier production support. Worked with software developers to provide development resources as needed. This Included information on internal operation of HA cluster and OS to help them develop more efficient software. Worked with group maintaining over 500 Sun severs. Developed project plans and created time lines for those projects. Worked to ensure resources were made available as needed and coordinated efforts of groups needed for successful execution of project plan. This included internal groups and external vendors.
Provided 24x7 on call support and performed majority
of system upgrades and installations on weekends. Worked closely with hardware and software vendors.
Worked closely with software developers to resolve production issues.
Worked closely with DBAs to provide a stable platform for Sybase to run on.
1999 - 2000
IBM Global Services at Lucent Technology Naperville, IL.
Unix Systems Administrator
Member of central infrastructure group providing Unix infrastructure for Lucent Technologies and computer services for IBM support staff. Types of services provided include: DNS, Email, Print services, and file servers.
Maintained100 Sun servers and workstations running 2.6, 2.51 and 2.3.
Developed Perl scripts to monitor resource usage and performance of servers.
Maintained 70 servers and greater then 100 workstation.
Allocated disk space via Veritas Volume manager.
Created Perl and shell scripts which included use of awk and sed to automate system administration tasks.
Mentored junior support staff and system users.
Performed y2k OS, hardware, and software remediation of servers and workstations.
Worked closely with DBAs to provide a stable platform for Oracle and Sybase to run on.
1996 - 1999
Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group Arlington Heights, IL
Unix Systems Administrator
Senior member of global resolution center, responsible for system and network support of 10,000 users in a heterogeneous UNIX and NT environment. Responsibilities and accomplishments included:
Configuration and daily maintenance of SunOS, Solaris, and SGI servers.
Daily maintenance of Motorola servers running AIX
NIS, NFS and DNS server administration.
Performance monitoring of 1,000 servers and workstations.
Administration of high availability RAID storage devices including AUSPEX Network Appliance and MTI.
Configuration and administration of NCD X terminals.
Maintained 500 SGI workstations.
Accomplished above with the UNIX shell scripting, awk, sed and Perl for daily administration tasks.
Worked with software developers to provide a productive environment for them to work.
1993 - 1996
AutoResearch Labs Inc., Harvey IL.
Electrical Consultant
Designed and installed Controls systems and instrumentation to control and monitor test engines. Responsibilities included modifying existing systems to meet present needs, programming PLC and cycle control computer, maintaining existing electrical equipment.
EDUCATION:
Depaul Univ., Chicago IL.
January 1989 to June 1990
Major: Computer Science
GPA 3.67
Classes taken: C programming, Intro. to data processing, File processing
DeVry Inc., Chicago IL.
BSEET, June 1984 to June 1987
Major: Electronics Engineering
HOBBIES, ETC.
Large format photography, Sailing\Maintain home mail and web servers on servers running Redhat linux.
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