Philip J. Salem

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IT Network/Systems Administrator and Data Center Engineer IT professional with 12+ years of information technology experience in network and systems engineering/administration and data center management. Expert and highly familiar with a wide variety of technologies relating to network infrastructure, Linux/Windows operating systems, security design and implementation. Possess an AAS in Computer Science, BS in Information Technology, and a MS in Computer Information Systems.

Technical Skills

• Operating Systems: Linux including Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora, and AIX, Microsoft Windows including Server 2000, 2003, 2008, XP, Vista, Windows 7.

• Networking: Cisco, SonicWall, Wireshark/TCP packet analysis, DNS, DHCP, Email servers, network infrastructure design and implementation, cloud technology, wireless, routers, switches, and firewalls, web server including IIS and Apache, virtualization.

• Security: Firewall design/implementation, SSL certificate configuration and management, secure VPN technologies, end point security, antivirus, secure log management, IPS/IDS.

• Other Technologies: SAN/NAS data storage technologies, Linux shell scripting, Puppet, multiplatform integration, Linux clustering including High Availability and Grid Computing.

Professional Experience

Global Tel Link, Plano Texas 10/2012 – Present

Linux Systems Engineer / Network Administrator / Data Center Engineer Position Overview

Management of all Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers used for providing VoIP telephony services for governmental institutions at the city, county, state, and federal level. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux infrastructure is the backbone to the companies’ services they provide in the telecommunications industry. My position required me to work independent and alone. Primary duties and time spent working onsite or virtually managing our Dallas data center and all Linux based systems in our Houston data center. Provided support for all network layer 2 equipment such as the management of Cisco switches, VLAN’s on all Cisco switches and the physical layer of the network infrastructure. Designed and implemented a Red Hat Linux HA cluster for redundancy of the proprietary VoIP software utilized by our customers. Assist and maintain storage equipment such as NetApp and Oracle’s Axiom Storage systems through the network or direct connection via fiber optics. Implemented and maintained information security controls to ensure proper business continuity for the data center. Regularly performed audits to ensure that all systems implemented are protected and continuously monitored according to security guidelines and ensured that this policy remains applied to all servers in our PCI and DMZ zones.

Key Responsibilities

• Acted as liaison between IT engineering teams and business teams when determining infrastructure needs for new services.

• Maintained information security for data center and implemented risk management controls, security classification, access controls, and processes to maintain business continuity.

• Primary contact for all troubleshooting issues at our data center that consists of over 100 Red Hat Linux servers.

• Utilized Microsoft Visio to document current infrastructure and future infrastructure to help in the decision process between engineering and business departments on new and ongoing projects.

• Build and maintain all Red Hat Apache web servers including creation and correct deployment of SSL certificates.

• Work closely with the network engineers to ensure installation of all network equipment and configuration worked as designed.

• Implemented technical documentation system for departments to create documentation for business and technical processes for current and future projects for internal purposes.

• Work with multiple IT and business departments to help them understand current infrastructure and resources available to help plan projects and determine the future needs for new business projects.

• Manage and maintain HP and IBM blade servers.

• Maintain Red Hat HA cluster for the VoIP servers.

• Manage and maintain multiple networks/VLAN’s and ensure that the appropriate server is configured and placed in the correct VLAN based on the network zone the system is being built for

• Work closely with developers and database administrators to deploy the correct type of server needed for their projects along with the correct packages.

• Created and maintained a Linux based imaging server using Kickstart technology to provision/re-provision servers with a fast turn around. Rogers State University, Claremore OK 01/2011 – Present Online Adjunct University Professor – Part Time

Position Overview

Teach university core IT courses for online students that are majoring in the area of Information and Systems Technology.

Key Responsibilities

• Teach sophomore to senior level undergraduate courses in the Information Sciences field.

• Teach or taught the following courses: Network Operating Systems I, Network Operating Systems II, Information Assurance and Security Management, and Network Routing.

• I am responsible for creating the course work each semester for the students from the textbooks selected for the course. I would design the online coursework using video lectures, power point presentations, assigned reading assignments, assigned homework assignments, assigned weekly quizzes, and assigned mid-term and final exams.

AMS-TAOS, Plano Texas 09/2008 – 08/2012

IT Systems Engineer

Position Overview

Managed Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers for the research and development engineering department in the semiconductor industry. These Red Hat Enterprise Systems are part of the Sun Grid Engine (Oracle Computing Grid) for high performance computing power. I am the subject matter expert for all related Linux and grid computing systems for the engineers. I was responsible for managing and ensuring that each system was tuned to provided optimal performance when the engineers submitted their jobs for their synthesis tests and other tests required for testing the designed semiconductors before sending the optic-sensors to the fab. My responsibility was to build and deploy identical systems and join them to the distributed computing environment and maintain the overall functionality of the Linux grid system, which includes scheduling, correct allocation of resources, tuning each available resource, and the availability of the computing grid. The first task when starting with the company was working closely with the VP of Engineering and other key engineers to gather new requirements, design, test, and deployed a new distributed computing environment for the grid engine due to significant growth and higher demands that were required by the engineers. I was the subject matter expert for any technology that involved engineers network, computing environment, customizing and compiling required Linux kernels, virtualization, and the deployment and maintenance of all Red Hat Linux systems. Project leader in designing a secondary physical network for the engineers in the research and development department. This allowed for faster network services and segregation of network services from the main company network to make efficient use of all Linux systems. Key Responsibilities

• Implemented a new backup and business continuity plan to maintain an up to date backup onsite and a backup set offsite for business continuity, disaster recovery, and data retention.

• Worked between the engineering teams and business teams on projects to collect information and ensure the information services are available. Help develop timeline schedule and scheduled recurring meetings for each phase of the project and maintain the targeted date for deployments.

• Utilized Microsoft Visio to document the infrastructure that was needed for projects and also the business processes that utilized any infrastructure entity.

• Manage and maintain internal networks and site-to-site VPNs.

• Maintain and manage all user accounts, security and group policies in Active Directory and Linux accounts using NIS/NFS, and LDAP.

• Implemented a design that allowed the integration of Active Directory, LDAP, and NIS, which was being replaced by LDAP as the Mac clients were being deployed.

• Design, test, and integrate multiple network operating systems, which include a variety of Microsoft Windows systems, a variety of Linux systems, and Mac OS X Servers and Clients.

• Maintain all network switches, firewalls, and routers, DMZ, and FTP servers company wide.

• Maintained virtual server systems for various services using Xen, KVM and VMware Server virtualization software so that Linux systems that were modified could be rolled back without having the task of reinstalling a system from scratch.

APMEX, Edmond OK 08/2007-9/2008

Network Analyst

Position Overview

American Precious Metals Exchange is a company that had a daily sales close to $1 million in selling precious metals and investing. Because of rapid growth, worked closely with software developers, IT Director and other department managers to analyze, design, and rebuild the infrastructure as all services were brought in house and outsourcing was eliminated. My main role during the project was to analyze the infrastructures baseline and redesign by implementing additional new servers. The redesign included creating a hot-site for redundancy and duplicating the office infrastructure. Worked closely with the ISP and a disaster recovery site to ensure that services for customers and employees were available 24x7x365 and for business continuity in the event of a disaster for employees to work offsite.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and monitor all servers and networks.

• Maintain all Microsoft and Linux servers and Microsoft SQL server databases.

• Redesigned and implemented a complete new infrastructure.

• Designed and maintained all onsite and offsite backups of all company data.

• Developed and put into action using Microsoft SQL server and a transparent LAN to have a continuous mirror image of all databases offsite.

• Developed new IT security policy as all services were brought in-house.

• Configured and maintained Cisco ASA firewalls, switches, and VPN.

• Built and maintained a new Active Directory and Exchange 2007 Email server infrastructure.

North Care Counseling Center, OKC, OK 03/2003-08/2007 Systems Administrator

Position Overview

Worked as a systems administrator and help desk support for a non-profit health care agency. Maintained their servers, medical imaging system for patient records and provided support for 13 remote sites across the state of Oklahoma. Key Responsibilities

• Provide support for all employees. This included all 13 sites across Oklahoma.

• Maintain, all workstations, servers, and networks within our infrastructure.

• Gained experience in the configuration and maintaining Cisco routers, switches, and PIX firewalls.

• Maintained Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 and upgrade to Exchange Server 2003.

• Upgraded all servers from Microsoft Windows NT and Server 2000 to Microsoft Server 2003.

• Managed AIX UNIX servers that maintained all images that made up a patients medical record and management of the medical management software.

• Trained and ensured compliance in HIPAA regulations for all computer and network systems.

Education and Training

College Education

Texas Southern University-Cyber-Security Professional Program Graduated: 03/2016 Boston University-Masters in CIS/Network Security Graduated: 08/2010 Rogers State University-BS in Information Technology Graduated: 12/2006 Rogers State University-AAS in Computer Science Graduated: 08/2003 Industry Certifications

A+

Net+

Security+

MCDBA

MCSA

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