Engineer Manager
Resume:
Bret Bolton
Irving, TX *****
****@*****.***
QUALIFICATIONS
At over 20 years as a UNIX and Linux engineer, I have had the opportunity to work with an amazing amount of technologies and products. From telecommunications, network management, and portals to complete data center management.
EMPLOYMENT
03/2020-Current – Vizient
Sr. Linux Engineer
●Systems Architect
●Build and maintain Linux servers for ‘Hosting’ segment of company (via RedHat Satellite)
●Maintained monitoring system (Nagios)
●After Hours support
●VMWare
05/2019-3/2020 – Capgemini USA
Linux SME / Migration Architect
●Evaluating client infrastructure and recommending best practices
●Designed migration plans for DC2DC migrations, and DC to Cloud (AWS)
●AIX server migrations including build out of new HMC
●Subject Matter Expert – Linux
01/2018-05/2019 – Caris Life Sciences – Irving, TX
Sr. Linux Engineer
●Lead engineer for Linux architecture for Caris
●Subject Matter Expert – Linux
●Systems Architect
●Build and maintain all Linux servers for all segments of company (RHEL 6X-7)
●Design and implemented plan to migrate Linux servers from RHEL 6 to 7 (aprox 150 servers)
●Implemented Nutanix for virtual environment
●Designed and build system configuration system (Spacewalk/Chef)
●Implemented Ansible for patching automation.
●Designed and built server monitoring system (Nagios)
●After Hours support
●Maintain Servers and Data Centers in 2 cities (Phoenix/Dallas)
●Storage Manager (EMC)
02/2011-01/2018 – Hudson Advisors – Dallas, TX
Sr. Unix / Linux Engineer
●Built and managed Unix (Solaris 9,10,11) and Linux (RHEL 6-7) environment for Hudson’s DBA team (including Oracle, Apache, Java, JBOSS Weblogic and others).
●Built and managed Linux (RHEL 6-7) environment for Hudson’s internal applications (DNS, Splunk, Nagios, etc)
●Managed and supported SAN environment (EMC, and 3Par)
●Managed communications between developers and management
●Designed and implemented plan to move Oracle servers from Solaris to Linux
●Instrumental in upping Hudson’s virtual server footprint (VMWare) to over 90%
●After Hours support
●In 2012 began taking over data security for Hudson’s infrastructure team.
●Planned and built a patching plan for Solaris servers and Linux servers, utilizing existing market tools.
●Lead on a global operation to reduce servers in other countries, and rollout of global services from Dallas data center.
●Implemented and maintain RedHat Satellite 6 (Puppet) server for provisioning and configuration of server environment.
●Lead team of junior engineers (when applicable)
07/2009-2/2011 – Verizon – Irving, TX
Linux Engineer / Weblogic Engineer
●Built and maintained Linux (RHEL 5) servers for Verizon.com
●Built and managed Weblogic servers for Verizon.com
●Managed communications between developers and management
●Trained staff on Linux and Weblogic
●After Hours support
03/2007-12/2008 – Avaya – Coppell, TX
UNIX Engineer / Data Center Management
●Designed and managed Avaya’s Dallas Datacenter (2000 sq ft)
●Liaison to building management.
●Planned, coordinated, and executed a 200 server datacenter relocation
●Designed, built and maintained the backup system for a mixed OS data center
●Planned, coordinated, and executed a complete data center shutdown
●Planned, managed and initialized the upgrade plan for Avaya’s proprietary SNMP gateways
●Designed and implemented failover plan for disaster recovery
●Solaris Administration (8, 9, 10)
●Managed Linux (Ubuntu) workstations for field techs
●Linux Administration (RHEL 4, 5)
●Windows Administration (2000, 2003)
●Installed and built Sun, Linux and Windows servers for Avaya’s “On Demand” product
●Perl and shell scripting (ksh, bash)
●Sun hardware up to V880
●Implemented and maintained Netbackup
●Built and managed lab utilizing Clear Case and other tools
●IBM hardware covering X-series servers
●IBM Disk Array (4800)
●Maintained 300 Linux servers (SNMP Gateways)
●After hours support
09/2006 – 12-2006 – J P Morgan Chase – Houston, TX
UNIX Administrator / Weblogic Administrator
●Managed Unix (Solaris) servers for JPMC’s investment bank
●Managed Weblogic for JPMC’s investment bank
●Implemented wiki for JPMC’s investment bank UNIX documentation
●Completed migration of Weblogic to a clustered environment
●After hours support
12/2002 – 09/2006 – Verizon Online – Grapevine, TX
UNIX Engineer – Weblogic Administrator
●Senior Unix Administrator
●Planned coordinated and executed a 500 server data center relocation
●Weblogic administrator
●Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster and Veritas NetBackup
●Principal contact for vendors
●Implementation and tuning of Solaris servers for Oracle
●Implementation and maintenance of Linux (RHEL) servers
●Evaluate new hardware and software
●Purchasing of new hardware and software
●Implement and maintain Linux and Solaris systems for Verizon Online’s portal
●Designed and implemented failover plan for Verizon Online’s portal
●Sun hardware ranging from Sparc class to V880
●Implementation and maintenance of NetApps
●Instrumental in obtaining ISO9001 certification for my team
●Unix log analysis and port-mortem
●After hours support
05/2002 – 12/2002 – SBC – Plano, TX
UNIX Administrator - Network Management
●Unix administration for tools group
●Administration of servers used by NOC
●Build of servers used by NOC
●Solaris and AIX administration
03/2000 – 03/2002– Pagenet – Plano, TX
Systems Engineer III
●Network management systems
●Unix Administration
●Sun Hardware up to E6500
●Veritas Volume Manager, Backup and Cluster
●Managed web servers (iPlanet and Apache) for groups within company
●Managed email to paging gateways (Motorola and AIX)
●Implementation of Netcool Suite (Micromuse) including Netcool and Real Time Fault Management (on Solaris)
●After hours support
03/1998 – 03/2000 – Nortel Networks – Richardson, TX
UNIX Engineer / CDMA Engineer
●Implementation of Motorola FS series (AIX) and Sun (Solaris) systems for telco use
●AIX administration
●Upgrades and maintenance of Nortel CDMA equipment
●CDMA hardware trouble shooting and replacement
●Installation and upgrades of the Nortel / Qualcomm BSC and associated devices
01/1997 – 03/1998 – First International Systems – Dallas, TX
IT Manager
●Built and managed complete environment for software development team
●Converted Web presence form IIS/Windows to Apache/Unix
●Built and maintained SGI farm for graphics dept
●Windows and Unix administration
05/1994 – 01/1997 – Computek IS – Dallas, TX
Technical Support Specialist
●Tech Support for high end customers
●Media liaison for internet provider
EDUCATION
1989-1992 – Mountain View Junior College – Dallas, TX
English / Journalism
1985-1989 – Evangel Temple High School – Grand Prairie, TX
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