Systems Administrator Access Manager

Adrian M. Gonzalez

Linux Systems Engineer

BACKGROUND

For the past 15 years I have been in the IT field with the focus being on Unix. I’ve have experience with hardware support, rack & stack, security, backup administration, cluster configurations, Unix/Linux (Solaris, AIX, RHEx) systems administration and Unix project delivery. I excel as a member of a team or as a lead on a project.

Having been a contractor, I’ve found it necessary to grasp new technologies quickly and I can hit the ground running with minimal advisement from others. I manage pressure well and make it a point to build solid relationships with those around me based on trust and integrity. I have room to grow and welcome new opportunities that challenge me. I am very flexible and adapt very well to new surroundings.

I currently live in Austin, Texas. I thank you for your consideration and hope to speak to you about your opportunity.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Veterans Affairs • Austin, TX • February 2016 – Present

A part of the Unix Engineering team (contractor)

●Project delivery

●VM builds using Kickstart on VMWare RHEL7 VM’s

●Problem resolution

●Patching

●Request fulfillment

Oracle • Austin, TX • November 2015 – February 2016

●Supported datacenter activates

●Build Xen Rhel6 VM’s

●Assisted in hardware inventory

●Updated hardware database

The Northern Trust Bank • Chicago, IL • June 2014 to November 2015

●Same role as previous contract with NTRS

United Airlines • Chicago, IL • October 2013 to June 2014

A part of the Unix Engineering team (contractor)

●Migrated older lifecycle servers to newer HP-UX servers

●Supported their in-house secure data transfer program

●Worked with various companies to setup secure file transfers via SSH and PGP encryption

●Updated existing HP ServiceGuard packages

●Some SharePoint administration for the team

The Northern Trust Bank • Chicago, IL • July 2011 to October 2013

Platform Solutions Design working exclusively on Unix projects (contractor).

•Define, maintain, implement, support, and troubleshoot software and hardware relating to corporate Linux servers and systems, focused on RHE Linux and Solaris.

•Design the project architecture with Visio

•Assist in developing technical requirements for the interoperability of systems.

•Help define and support the corporate storage environment for file servers and database storage (SAN / NAS, fileservers).

•Support multiple Business units by solving problems, modifying scripts, maintaining and supporting operational resources.

•Interact with internal customers as well as IT personnel to assist in statistics analyses, systems administration, and problem resolution.

•Provide configuration management, application implementation, server upgrades, software and operating system patches, data backup and restores.

•Ensure that LDAP and local security issues are addressed including unauthorized access and protection of sensitive data.

•Maintain central sudo file for the Unix environment.

•Develop and maintain documents on architecture and configuration.

•Provide system performance and tuning as well as root cause determination.

•Ensure procedures are followed to maintain compliancy.

•24x7 support for projects as required.

JPMChase • Chicago, IL • July 2010 to June 2011

I provided service to JPMC on their Treasury Production Support Team. It is a Solaris shop using, LDOM’s, zones, stand-alone and VMWare OSI’s (FTE).

•Symantec Storage Foundation with HA

•VxVM, ZFS

•Solaris, AIX

•VCS

•Netbackup

•Direct LOB support

•VMWare

•Solaris DiskSuite

Allstate Insurance • Northbrook, IL • June 2008 to July 2010

Allstate Infrastructure Security Services - November 2009 – July 2010 (contractor)

Primary tasks are implementing and maintaining security on UNIX platforms. Activities associated with this position include a combination of but are not limited to:

•Systems Administration duties such as installations, configuration setup, ID maintenance activities, and troubleshooting log issues.

•Troubleshoot and document critical issues

•Look into a resolve standing security issues.

•Installation of Tivoli Access Manager for Operating Systems. This includes product setup and troubleshooting.

•Installation and administration of Sun Native Security. This includes configuration setup and troubleshooting.

Allstate Service Operations - Unix June 2008 - November 2009

Providing support for Solaris SPARC and x86 systems. The team has a 24X7 support structure that is an effort between on-shore and off-shore personal. The support involves accepting incident tickets and online service requests. I also create changes for work that requires planned activity (contractor).

•Symantec Storage Foundation with HA

•VxVM, ZFS

•Solaris

•VCS

•Rack & Stack

•Hardware support w/Sun

Cardinal Health • Waukegan, IL • June 2006 to June 2008

Unix Project Delivery (FTE)

Taking requests from the internal business customers and providing assessments which comprise of understanding hardware and software requirements, recommending the appropriate strategies that best suit their needs, gathering pricing estimates, presenting them to the customer for approval, planning as well as implementation. Once all aspects has been approved, I then work with the PM and procurement to acquire the hardware and or software to begin work. From there, I would work with the storage team, networking team, application owners, DBA's and Basis team to take the necessary steps to move forward. Once the initial build phase has finished, we install clustering software and configure the clusters, and test for fail-over. Once the final build phase has been successfully tested, backups are audited, and monitoring is in place, we then turn the systems over to our run team. However to some extent, I still support the project even after completion. The following are some of the pieces that involve the various projects I work with (FTE).

•Symantec Storage Foundation with HA

•LVM, VxVM

•AIX, Solaris, HP-UX

•VCS, Service Guard

•IBM Logical Partitioning on PSeries

•Netbackup

•Cron, NFS, syslog, patching, etc.

ATS/Motorola • Deer Park, IL • August 2002 to June 2006

Systems Administrator (FTE)

•Support in HP-UX, Solaris, RH Linux and Windows Server Environments. This includes patching, configurations, hardware support, builds, backups, log checking, OS support, etc.

•Administrate all security changes regarding users, groups, and other objects via Active Directory and NIS. I manage all the Object Units, server shares and UNIX groups for our location.

•Veritas Netbackup in UNIX and Windows environment. This involves maintaining all aspects of the backup operations: Troubleshooting any backup issues, working with vendors on solutions, doing reports on the nightly results, etc.

EDUCATION

ITT Tech • Mount Prospect, IL 2003-2005

Computer Network Systems-Associates Degree

Computer Learning Center • Schaumburg, IL 2000-2001

Telecommunications and Network Technology-Certificate

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