James P. Schwonek

ad4k5b@r.postjobfree.com

Tampa, Florida

Summary of Qualifications:

Graduate of MIT (The Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Physics along with over 20 years of UNIX (including over 15 years Linux) experience in the installation, decommissioning, deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, and system administration of many heterogeneous UNIX, Linux, and VMware platforms for both hardware and software.

Experience in RHEL 6 through 8 both on premise and in Cloud including VMware and Xen Virtualization. EC2 RHEL and Windows including Network, Application, and Classic Load Balancing. Expert knowledge of Relational and NoSQL Databases including Aurora, MongoDB, and PostgresSQL.

Experience in Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, APM, and other Monitoring Tools.

Expert in several Backup modalities including NetBackup, NetWorker, and Tivoli including several tape and disk storage systems. Able to use EMC DataVault, DataDomain.

Table Library Enclosures from single to dozens of slots and drives. Programmatically navigate Tape Libraries to move, load, and unload tapes.

Able to leverage technical experience to coordinate production data systems monitoring and change management. Has evaluated new technology. Able to troubleshoot complex server, network, and storage systems to determine root problem cause and apply the appropriate system fixes. Has worked both production and non- production large data center environments and Cloud environments.

Certifications in Solaris, HP-UX, and AWS

Education:

University of Phoenix

Master of Science in Computer Information Systems (MSCIS), 8/2004 – 1/2006 Cleveland State University Graduate School

Non-degree courses in C Programming and Differential Equations, 1995 – 1997. Case Western Reserve University Undergraduate and Graduate School Non-degree undergraduate courses in organic chemistry and biology, 1991 – 1992. Non-degree graduate course in physical biochemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Bachelor of Science, Physics, 6/1990

Experience:

CE Broker

SRE Engineer 9/2022 – 6/2023

• Managed and monitored all installed systems in Datacenter and Cloud infrastructure

• Installed, configured, and tested operating systems, application software, JavaScript and Node.JS, Splunk Dynatrace, APM, and system management tools

• Automated tasks with Terraform and Ansible to improve reliability, repeatability, and scalability

• Worked with all aspects of AWS Cloud Infrastructure including all three load balancing modalities, CloudFront, EC2, S3, RDS, EKS, and CloudFormation

• Followed security best practices including capacity provisioning and redundancy strategies

JP Morgan Chase & Co

(Site Reliability Engineer) 5/2020 – 9/2022

• Responsible for VSI Application Build Code for AO and Developers.

• Co-responsible for weekly production releases and Splunk, Cassadra, and grafana monitoring.

• Documented infrastructure and backup environments including reporting on a daily and monthly basis using Iron Mountain offsite tape rotation.

• Responsible for Ansible builds in three applications.

• Primary certificate renewal processor. Developed in-house improvements to RSAM CertMan.

• Assisted Team with change control evolution from ITSM to ServiceNow.

(Backup and Linux Engineer) 1/2017 - 4/2020

• Responsible for NetBackup Administration (Oracle, MSSQL, HP-UX, and Linux Clients) in a VMware and physical server environment.

• Responsible for EMC Data Domain Backup Storage Environment

• Responsible for adherence to Corporate Security and Compliance Policy

Verifone

Data Center Linux and Storage Administrator 1/2012 – 12/2016

• Responsible for UNIX Administration (Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux) in a VMware and physical server environment.

• Responsible for Storage Administration with EMC DMX/Clariion, NetApp NFS and CIFS, and HP-UX 3PAR Storage Arrays.

• Responsible for Backups, Restores and associated activities during Disaster Recovery using HP Data Protector.

• Writes and Debugs code for backup processing and generalized reporting in PERL and Shell.

• Several modalities of Observibility and Monitoring including SPLUNk, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Citigroup

UNIX Administrator Contractor 5/2011 – 12/2011

• Administered Linux and Solaris Servers on a variety of hardware including Mainframe s390 and VMware.

• Coded in PERL, BASH, and KORN for reporting in system environment. Attempted consolidation of daily system email reports.

• Increasing experience in Backup and SAN design.

• Veteran of Disaster Recovery tests and actual disasters restoring multiple production environments in record times

• Handled ongoing projects and ad-hoc ticketing requests.

• Built Red Hat Linux on s390 and VMware 1.

Previous Senior Level Positions as Storage Engineer, UNIX Consultant, UNIX System Programmer, and Adjunct Linux Instructor between 2000 and 2011 including Dell EMC CyberVault, Documented, and NAS protocols. Decades of experience in Linux and Windows System Administration.

Previous Entry Level Jobs as HP-UX and DEC UNIX Administrator between 1993 and 2000. Worked as a Biophysicist (Published) and Radiation Physicist after MIT. Interests:

My long-term volunteering goals involve assisting Students and Veterans. I have mentored university students using my MIT Physics and Mathematics background. I have experience as an adult student in earning my MSCIS and as a teacher of adult students having taught Linux, Security, and Windows courses. I have an interest in assisting returning Veterans to learn marketable skills to facilitate transition into today's IT Industry.

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