Senior Linux Administrator

Scott Randall

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Objective:

Dynamic and experienced Senior Linux Administrator with over two decades of expertise in dev/ops, sales engineering, and operational cybersecurity. Proven success in leading technical sales strategies, managing core business systems, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Excels in fast-paced environments, offering robust problem-solving skills, exceptional relationship management, and a passion for bridging the gap between technology and business needs. Seeking to leverage my background in technology to drive success in an engineering role.

Areas of Expertise:

Twenty years Senior Linux Administration

Relationship Management

Problem Solving & Competitive Analysis

Persuasive Communication & Negotiation

Regulatory and Technical Compliance

Professional Experience:

IT Sales and Consulting

Aztexsystems, Riverside, CA 2005–Present 40 hours per week

Work with small, local, businesses to assist in designing big business solutions.

Assisted clients in transforming their brick and mortar business into a web based, often hybrid, business model. This was essential during the lock down that caused so much hardship for businesses of all sizes.

Outsourced IT support that has allowed the cost savings needed to grow. This in turn allows for permanent in house IT staff.

Dev-Ops / Engineer

Panasonic Avionics Corporation, Lake Forest, CA 2011–2018 40 hours per week + on call rotation.

Senior Linux Administrator within the NOC/SOC team.

Achieved four successful regulatory compliance audits as operational lead for the PCI environment. Responsible for all PCI security initiatives, including POC security measure testing.

Responsible for establishing the Djibouti, Africa teleport, significantly boosting revenue sources in the Middle East markets.

Spearheaded the transition to a virtualized network operations center, optimizing budgetary expenditures by 37%.

Dev-Ops Administrator

Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA 2010–2011 40 hours per week.

Senior Linux administrative duties, including high availability cluster support.

Led the analysis and virtualization of legacy hardware infrastructure, enhancing system efficiency and reliability.

Network Administrator

Price Communications, Corona, CA 2007–2010 40 hours per week + routinely required overtime.

Senior Linux administrator and lead for a holding of more than 400 individual bare metal servers, with various virtualized projects. Responsible for product launches primarily Perl and Mason template framework.

Designed and supported a top-performing, highly available, content delivery network; ensuring seamless migration of production networks with zero outages. Top performing client (2.4 Gbps/95th%) of the OC2 data center in Irvine, CA. Outperforming Yahoo publishing.

Migrated core from legacy Foundry Networks, to Cisco hardware. Responsible for, but not limited to monitoring, analytic, security, complex DNS configurations, version control.

Responsible for construction, structured cabling, and hardware/software purchasing for collocation sites.

Active member of the anti-fraud team.

Sales Engineer

Acorn Technology Services, Riverside, CA 2003–2006 40 hours per week.

Built and led a team of 12 IT professionals, enhancing client relationships and improving product offerings through effective technical knowledge transfer.

Supported SaaS offerings as a Linux & FreeBSD systems administrator.

Education:

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, California State University San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA 2006

Technical Skills:

Platforms: Linux (RHEL, CentOS), VMware, Microsoft Server

Tools/Technologies: LAMP Stack, Cisco, Juniper, F5, PaloAlto, Python, Bash, Perl

Certifications: Cisco CCNA & CCDA (not current)

References:

Available upon request.

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