Management Engineer

Jerome L. Jordan

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Ellenwood, Georgia 30294

404-***-**** [C] * *************@*****.***

Overview

A well-rounded, hands on technical professional with over 15 years experience who is seeking a stable environment where I may continue Unix administration and engineering, concurrently keeping abreast of other supporting technologies.

Core Competencies

RedHat (Corp 7-9, Enterprise 4-6) 10 Years

CentOS 5 3 Years

Solaris 8-10 2 Years

Fedora Releases 4 - 14 10 Years

Unix Scripting (Bourne-Bash, Perl, PHP) 8 Years

Oracle 8-11 (NON-DBA) 4 Years

Vmware ESX 3.x 5 Years

RAID Capable Server Buildout 15 Years

SUN / HP Hardware Management 2 / 11 Years

NAS/SAN Management (Hitachi & Clarion) 5 Years

Backup/Disaster Recovery Management 11 Years

Networking with TCPIP, DNS, Hardware/Software Firewalls 12 Years

Supplemental: Software Experience

RedHat \ CentOS Kickstart, Samba, NFS + Apache + Tomcat + Bourne-Bash, Perl, PHP, XML, SOAP, Java T-shooting and scripting + RootKit Detection + mySQL 4\5 + Postgres + LDAP + WYSE Rapport 3.x Server + LAN/WAN + TCP/IP + DNS + VPN + DSL + ISDN + VLAN + Router / Hub / VPN Device Configuration and Deployment (CISCO 1600/3600 Routers, SonicWall 330/3060 Enterprise VPN Appliance (including ViewPoint Network Management Tool), 3COM SuperStackII, Cisco Foundrys (light), F5 (light) NetGear, Linksys / Wireless Client, Router, Access Points + Nagios, Groundworks, Reveal + Norton Antivirus CE Server Administration, Ghost + Microsoft Office 97 - 2007, Visio, Project + Novell GroupWise + Handheld Devices (BlackBerry, Palm, Compaq Ipaq) + NetMeeting + Nortel PBX administration + MAS90 + Peachtree Accounting + pcAnywhere + Timbuktu Pro + DameWare + BellManage + Witness 6.x + NovaNet 8.5 SP3E Backup + Veritas NetBackup

Supplemental: Hardware Experience

Compaq 1850, DL380 + HP’s LP1000, LT6000, LH3, LH4, HP Blade Servers + IBM 3x series + Dell 1750, 1850, 2350, 2950 + IBM Blade Servers + SUN Fire X Series + MicronPC Servers

History

WorldPay (formerly RBS WorldPay)

July 2010 – Present

Unix Engineer

(Contract Consultant)

Full support of 250+ Linux Servers running on HP Blade Server Chassis Enclosures and stand alone servers

Worked as part of the team to establish procedures, create documentation, and assist in data center management efforts

Linux LDAP Server installation, configuration, and User management

Establishing package management through RH Yum Server and Kickstart server builds.

Heavy exposure to NetIQ Manager performing deployments and monitoring or server side agents

Hitachi HDLM and native Linux Multipath for SAN provisioning, currently gaining EMC PowerPath

Minimal NetBackup Administration

Manage technical operation issues through multiple ticketing systems in order to support customers (internal user-base)

Bash and perl scripting

Support, implementation and or product testing of VMware ESX, VirtualBox, Nagios, Oracle 10G/11G and MySQL where applicable

Participate in on-call rotation

Atlanta Public Schools

August 2009 – July 2010

Unix Engineer

(Contract Consultant)

Full support of 50+ IBM Blade with near 200 HP Server class machines running CentOS5

Management of over 1000 Linux Thin Clients

Release package management through RH Yum Server and Kickstart server builds.

Full End-User support including break fix and new application implementation and support, and user profile management.

Remote management of all systems, including Linux Thin Clients (LTSP) except where hands on investigation or troubleshooting is required.

Heavy Bash scripting

New installation and upgrades of existing schools

Support, implementation and or product testing of Vmware ESX, VirtualBox, Nagios, and MySQL

General Electric

December 2008 - March 2009

Unix Administrator

(Contract Consultant)

Full support of HP Server Automation System product “Opsware” in a International Corporate environment consisting of 10,000+ servers. Responsible for Unix (Solaris, RedHat, AIX) based server operating systems including:

Linux Multi-Master Installation and testing of both Core and Satellite servers in a corporate lab environment.

Support of all HP SAS components and connectivity (spin, waybot, satellite and core agent gateways, occ.server, twist, spoke, agentcache, httpsproxy, hub, smb).

Extensive use of HP SAS Global Shell to access servers and files within, specifically for Unix-based servers, to deploy and install agents, and security monitoring.

Extensive use of OCC Web Client to administer Users and Groups, in addition to adding non-managed servers to HP SAS.

Familiar with the HP Network Automation System (NAS) to assist in mapping server connectivity throughout the corporate environment

System Administration of multiple server OS’s (Unix based)

Website Pros (formerly Web.Com, formerly Interland, Inc.)

July 2005 - October 2008

Unix Administrator

(Permanent)

Multi-Server RedHat 4\5 Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris OS administration (including Bash, Perl, PHP, code testing and implementation, server builds) in a web hosting and corporate environment

Messaging server administration (Sendmail, Qmail, IMail, Netmail)

Extensive application of networking (i.e., TCP/IP, WINS, DNS, Load Balancing, WAN/LAN)

MySQL 4\5 Server Administration

Linux LAMP configuration (Apache, PHP, mySQL)

Exposure to XML, JAVA, SOAP, PYTHON; Average scripting in BASH, PERL, PHP

Disaster Recovery \ System Redundancy \ Backup system Administration with NetBackup

Monitoring systems through both proprietary and known applications such as Reveal, Nagios, Groundworks, Hitachi Resource Manager, EMC Clarion Navisphere

Setup VMware ESX 3.x Servers and configure Linux Virtual Operating Systems

Education

Attended Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA

Degree Study: Computer Science 1990 - 1992

References

Direct references are available upon request

Letters of Recommendation

LinkedIn Recommendation

Featured in Atlanta Journal Constitution’s ‘Tech Jobs’ article - “Expert Delivers Special Services” [Maria Mallory - Author] January 23, 2002

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