Unix Systems Administrator/ Solutions Engineer

Adam Rodney

H: 347-***-****

W: 212-***-****

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Atlanta, GA 30314

Qualifications Summary:

Experienced Project Leader across vast technologies with 15 years of experience in Design/Implementation, UNIX/Linux, Monitoring, DevOps, and Client support.

Very efficient with client interfacing projects, solutions engineering, and implementation design.

Advanced Application and Infrastructure Monitoring, in-house tool creation, process automation, and Enterprise Monitoring administration.

Very strong communication skills with history of providing on-site and remote support to a wide range of clients, and segmented staff.

Technical Skills:

Operating Systems: Red-Hat Linux 4x, 5x, 6x, IBM AIX 5x, 6x, Solaris 8, 9, 10, Microsoft Windows XP, 2008, 2012

Unix Tools: IBM Logical Volume Manager (LVM), IBM HMC, KVM, VMware vSphere Client 5.5, NIM, Apache, X-Servers, Samba, IBM Inventory Scout, Reflection X, Sudo, Work Load Manager, NMON, Smitty, TOP, SMC, Admintool, Yum, Power Broker

Infrastructure Tools: Microsoft Operations Manager, SCOM, NimSoft, HP SiteScope, HP uCMDB, HP DDM, HP BSM, HP BPM, HP Load Runner/VuGen, HP OMW, HP Performance Manager

Languages: Advanced Shell Scripting, Sed, Awk

Hardware: pSeries 570, 550, 520, 510, 670, 650, 630, 615 Software Support: Oracle, JBOSS, Weblogic, Netbackup, Apache, Tomcat, Splunk Time Warner (2006 – Present)

Solutions Engineer & Unix Administrator

Time Warner Enterprise Infrastructure Services Solutions Engineer supporting Enterprise solutions across Time Warner Divisions (Warner Brothers, HBO, Turner)

UNIX administration of virtual and physical Linux, AIX, and Solaris environments. Responsibilities include design, patching, troubleshooting issues, disaster recovery, upgrade, and monitoring of entire Unix environment across multiple data centers. Develop new enterprise standards across multiple Time Warner Divisions.

Administer Private Cloud Unix environment via VMware vSphere Client and IBM HMC to configure virtual adapters, virtual resources, LPARs, reset/restart guests, and troubleshoot virtual guests.

Support Private Cloud in primary and secondary Data Centers to present charge back SaaS model to App/Dev Team and charge back IaaS to Infrastructure teams.

Reduce physical server footprint and resource consumption while migrating physical environment to virtual Private Cloud.

Maintain Infrastructure and Application health via advanced Monitoring and administration.

Design, install, and administer many different vendor and in-house tools. Monitor all infrastructure network devices, Windows servers, UNIX servers, appliances, storage devices, components, and critical tools across multiple data centers and remote offices.

Plan and execute disaster recovery testing utilizing technologies such as VMware SRM, GTM, and in-house scripted solutions from primary data center to secondary data center.

Lead infrastructure efforts to migrate HBO applications to newly acquired datacenters while working with application owners and hired external assistants Cognizant, TCS, and Cape Gemini.

Creation of in-house tools via Scripting such as Windows AD to UNIX environment password sync mechanism to replace a decommissioned CA IDM. Also creation of many in-house UNIX utilities utilized by Operations and Offshore teams to automate tasks.

Develop Off-shore talent to supplement UNIX team with extensive knowledge transfer, documentation, tool creation, and problem escalation point.

Troubleshoot and resolve Level 3 issues impacting infrastructure and applications.

Application and UNIX representative to evaluate system wide changes as a member of weekly Change Control Committee.

New York Board Of Trade (1999 - 2006)

Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator

24/7 AIX systems administration and hardware support responsible for approximately 400 severs located at our primary and disaster recovery site.

Work with team to activate entire DR environment post 9-11 to become new primary site and data center.

Provide application developers, database administrators, middleware administrators, QA team, and end-user support UNIX support for installs, configurations, and upgrades.

Daily monitoring and creation of system tools for OS health and system scheduled tasks.

TSM server and client installation and administration, adding and monitoring scratch tapes, performing backups and restores.

WebSphere Application Server 5.1 server support and system analysis/trending.

WebSphere MQ 6 administration and primary contact point for setup and troubleshooting with outside users and Clearing Members.

Initial hardware implementation, OS installation, logical partitioning, OS upgrades, and OS migrations.

Full system level evaluation and hardware microcode upgrades.

Oracle 9i, 10g, DB2, Sybase, IBM LDAP, and IBM WebSphere MQ 6 installations and OS environment configuration.

Place support calls to IBM and RedHat for hardware/software trouble shooting. Education & Certifications:

Cloud & Datacenter Monitoring with System Center Operations Manager (2015) Red Hat Summit (Apr 2014)

HBO Project Management Course 3 (2012)

Multiple HP certifications defined in Technical Skills SS, BAC, BSM, DDM, uCMDB (2006 -2013) IBM AIX VIO (2012)

Power Broker Installation & Administration (2011)

IBM AIX Administration (July 2006)

NYU UNIX Administration Certification (2005)

NYU Unix Administration/Shell Scripting (2004)

Morris Brown College Computer Sci/Programming Major, Psychology Minor Major GPA: 3.0 Overall: 3.1

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