Linux/Unix Systems Administrator or Linux/Unix Systems Engineer

PETER VICINIO

New Jersey

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LINUX & UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR / SYSTEMS ENGINEER

A seasoned technical professional with over twenty years of progressive experience in applying technical solutions. A broad range of experience in the design, implementation, and the administration of UNIX/LINUX servers. A very well rounded systems professional with excellent problem solving abilities, excellent trouble shooting skills as well as great interpersonal and communication skills.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux RHEL-4,5,6,7, CentOS, Sun Solaris, Guardian

Software: VMware, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, Remedy, Splunk, Cacti, Symphony, Jira, Nexus, Bladelogic, Legato Networker, Vintela, PowerBroker, EMC SAN

Hardware: HP Blades, Dell PowerEdge, HP Proliant, Sun MicroSystems, HP NonStop Servers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bank of America - Merrill Lynch

Linux Systems Administrator III 6/2014 - 6/2016

Supported a large environment consisting of thousands of virtual and physical Red Hat Linux and Solaris servers. Also supported numerous Solaris and Red Hat clusters.

Analyze and resolve operating system, server hardware, and application issues.

Perform server maintenance, configurations, and system administration of server hardware and operating systems.

Develop, improve, and document standards, guidelines and procedures.

Analyze and troubleshoot operating system, hardware, software, and problems.

Support, administer, and configure large Veritas installations.

Perform system administration tasks and multipath configurations associated with large scale SAN migrations.

Provide 7x24 on-call production support.

Dow Jones & Company Inc. – Print/Market Data & Factiva Division

Unix Senior Systems Administrator 2003 - 2014

Supported a wide range of environments including the Dow Jones Industrial Averages, Dow Jones Global Indexes, The Wall Street Journal Print, Market Data Ticker Plant, Dow Jones Corporate, and Factiva business news and information platforms.

Performed regular application software installs and updates.

Supported Factiva based on a FAST and Mark Logic search platform consisting of over 2000 servers with more than 36,000 news sources from almost 200 countries in 28 languages, including more than 600 real time newswires.

Implemented and/or supported Veritas Clustered and Replicated solutions on Red Hat Linux and Sun Solaris platforms for a Digital Ad Management platform, Graphical Ad Management platform, The Wall Street Journal, Barrons, and ATEX Avertising systems.

Performed system administration tasks for a very large network of production mission critical servers which included performance tuning, operating system installs and upgrades, file management, user account management, security, backups, restores.

Participated in project planning meetings to analyze requirements and design for large scale Linux and Unix server solutions.

Deployed large scale production Linux, Unix, and Veritas server platforms.

Developed system management procedures for Operations staff to perform for routine and emergency tasks such as server switchovers, reboots, and server maintenance procedures.

Troubleshoot production server hardware, operating system, and application problems and failures.

Dow Jones & Company Inc. – News Wires Division

Senior Analyst 1997 - 2003

Dow Jones Newswires delivers more than 19,000 daily time sensitive business news items, commentary and is built on a global reporting network of 2,100 journalists, including content from The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and SmartMoney

Participated in the planning and implementation of a large scale migration of time sensitive Dow Jones’ Newswires Information Distribution System from a Tandem NonStop Server platform to a distributed Sun Solaris platform.

Configured and deployed the development, quality assurance, and production Sun Solaris servers to replace the Tandem NonStop server platform.

Tandem Computers Inc. (Now HP Integrity NonStop)

Senior Support Engineer 1992 - 1997

Provided on site billable Professional Services for major Tandem Computer's customers such as Dow Jones & Co., AT&T, Valley National Bank, and New Jersey Transit, among many others.

These billable services included large scale system migrations, operating system installations and upgrades, system administration training, server performance and tuning expertise, and on site system administration.

Participated in customer planning meetings to analyze and suggest solutions.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND EDUCATION

Red Hat-7 Rapid Track Course RH199-RHEL7

VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.1]

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5]

HP Blade System Administration

Red Hat Enterprise Systems Monitoring and Performance Tuning

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Network Services and Security

Red Hat Linux System Administration

Sun Systems Fault Analysis Workshop

Veritas Volume Manager

Shell Programming for System Administrators

Solaris Network Administration

Solaris System Administration

Unix / Solaris Essentials

Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices

DeVry University – Deans List

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