Senior Systems Engineer

Location:

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April 12, 2017

JEREMY ALBRIGHT

Dallas, TX 75201

Email: ************@*****.***

SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

●Architecting and management of high-density virtualization (Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX) infrastructure.

●Design and implementation of geographically distributed, highly available software-based services for SaaS platforms.

●Engineering highly available, secure server, network and storage solutions.

EXPERIENCE

Linux Systems Engineer III, ACTIVE Network, LLC, September 2014 - January 2017

●Managed over 10,000 servers in a multi-platform (Windows and Linux), geo-redundant environment in 6 cities across the US and Canada

●Automated load balancer configurations and migration of products.

●Worked back-end for large production web sites and products for private and government contracts.

●Planned backup methodologies using multi-site redundancy leveraging load balancers.

Platform Engineer, Contact Solutions, LLC, June 2011 - April 2014

●Managed six data centers, with more than 650 Windows and Linux servers, in four cities across the US.

●Responsible for management of both Windows (90%) and Linux (10%) environments.

●Spearheaded hardware virtualization initiative utilizing VMWare ESX, which increased resource utilization efficiency by a factor of 10.

●Streamlined method of securing servers to Payment Card Industry standards, reducing integration time by 60% (resulting in a Spot Award).

●Pioneered methods of providing fault tolerance to flagship services, ensuring a 99.999% uptime SLA.

Network Administrator, Acclaim Telecom Services, Inc., January 2006 - June 2011

●Orchestrated construction of VOIP SaaS (Software as a Service) platform.

●Installed, configured and managed Microsoft SQL cluster environment including advanced SQL query authorship.

●Developed web based dashboard and tools to facilitate customer self service.

●Created OS upgrade paths for legacy hardware and software clients, increasing ROI.

TECHNOLOGIES AND CONCEPTS

●Development Languages - C, C#, ASP.NET, Javascript, HTML, PHP, Perl, python, bash

●Server Technologies - SQL (MSSQL, MySQL, PostgresQL), web server (IIS, Apache, Tomcat, Node.js)

●Operating Systems - Windows Server (2000-2012), Linux (Debian and Red Hat distributions)

●Hardware - High density blade hardware, iSCSI storage, IDS (Intrusion Detection System), load balancers and firewalls

CERTIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION

●Bachelor’s Degree - Work experience equivalent.

●Microsoft Certifications - MCSA, MCP, MCTS