Unix Solaris Systems Administrator

VINICIO GERMAN Mobile 917-***-****

**** ***** ******** ***. *** 7, New York, N.Y 10033 Home 212-***-****

OBJECTIVE: A position as a Systems Administrator in a Unix SUN Solaris environment

where I can utilize my experience and further develop my potential.

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE

CREDIT SUISSE

UNIX SOLARIS SYSTEMS ADMINSTRATOR July 08 – Jan 09

Responsible for providing support to the Investment Banking Divisions of Equity

and Fixed Income as well as Credit Suisse corporate environment.

Worked along with Project Managers, Relational Managers and other Unix Systems

Administrators on the building, configurations and roll out of a Virtual Environment

through the creation of Solaris Local Zones and Linux VMware clients.

Coordinated and executed the removal of Unix/Linux servers from Credit Suisse New York Data Center to other offsite locations as part of a Data Center Power Management project.

User support. Veritas Volume Manager, Solaris local zones, Virtual Infrastructure Clients, VMWare ESX, NIS, NFS, automount, etc.

Hardware platforms supported: Sun Fire V120, Sun Fire V210, Sun Fire 480R, Netra t1,

Sun Enterprise 420R, Enterprise E4500/E5500, Sun Ultra-80, Sun Fire 880, V490

Sun Fire V440, and V1280, Sparc Enterprise T5220 and Sun Sparc Enterprise M5000.

HP Proliant c-Class Server Blades Bl460c and Bl465c. IBM Blades HS20 and HS21.

NOMURA SECURITIES INTERNATIONAL, Inc.

UNIX SOLARIS SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR Aug. 99 - Sept. 07

Work with the Business Unit Development and Trade Teams to design necessary

Architecture to meet the demands of the business.

Coordinated with all other technology groups to architect best methods and systems to be put

in place as required by business unit. (Network, Market Data, PC Infrastructure, DBA’s)

Architect and Administer Unix Systems both Sun Solaris and RedHat Linux.

Latest primary responsibility was for Fixed Income trading, prior to rotation also supported

Risk and Equities.

- Worked with developers and traders to meet any and all needs of the trading floor.

- Ongoing responsibility was to back up our Legato tape backup Admin, which included

supporting Legato and interacting with the Hardware (STK-9700, SUN/STK8500).

- Develop and implement Unix Standards for Corporate Technology.

-Maintain hardwares both Sun and Intel.

- Maintain systems softwares and patches installations.

-Automate and monitor various system tasks and jobs.

-Implemented Big Brother on a corporate level to monitor all Unix systems.

-Monitor Daily tasks, Troubleshoot problems and performance tuning.

-Develop and maintain server documentation and infrastructure diagrams.

-Configure and administer Veritas Tools: Volume Manager and VCS.

-Use various system tools for monitoring and debugging such as: OS tools, Bladelogic,

BMC Patrol, Legato networker ( client side).

-Led a team of 5 SA’s during 9/11 to build and configure Sun hardware for all business

areas.

-NFS and NIS , sendmail, scripting, automount, RAID, samba, jumpstart.

-Work with storage group to optimize storage needs depending on system requirement.

-On-Call responsibility based on a 24x7 support for emergency.

-Maintain and active/usable DR environment for primary business support

-Desing, Implement, Maintain & test DR infrastructure on a regular basis. Usage of

Rsync, san replication, etc.

-Solaris migration from a 2.5.1 to 2.6 and later 2.8 environment.

-Handling of other miscellaneous administrative functions such as hardware swaps

and part tracking with numerous vendors, etc.

-Miscellaneous Hardwares: SunFire V100, v-120, v-210, v-240, v-440, v-880, v-890,

280R, t1000, e-220R, e-420R, e-450, e-6000. A1000, D1000, DELL 2000, 6000 series

Servers, HP C-class and P-class blade servers, etc.

Latest projects:

- Migrated Sun/Linux hosts from an HDS9960 to an EMC DX3, responsible for

all hosts based work (migrated to new HBA) and coordinated with business and SAN

team for migration.

- Migrated user logins to the new corporate standard. This required much coordination

between developers, traders and Etrust Administrators.

TIME WARNER CABLE

UNIX / SOLARIS SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR May 97 - Jul 99

Day -to-day Administration and Support of the following SUN platforms:

E5000, 1000E, E450, E250, Ultra Enterprise1, UltraEnterprise2, Ultra1, Ultra2 and Ultra5.

SparcStation20, SparcStation4 and SparClassics. SparcStorage Array RSM2000

Running raid manager6, Mass Storage Array A5000 , SSA112 and SSA110 running

Veritas Volumes Manager.

Installations, Configurations and Support of the following SUN Solaris operating systems:

Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.51 and Solaris 2.6. Patches upgrades and administration of over

500 workstations running Solaris and other third party applications.

Knowledge of TCP/IP and other Network Services like NIS and NFS. Familiar with

hardware install and troubleshooting.

Proficient with most aspects of Unix Systems Administration such as adding/deleting users, backups, Unix Security, processes, printing , The Bourne, Korn and C Shells and a good understanding of the Unix File Systems and its configurations files. Backup StorageTek 9710 using Legato Networker tape backup system. End user support of over 500 people.

MARKET ARTS SOFTWARE

UNIX / WINDOWS NT SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR Dec 95 - May 97

Responsible for daily administration duties as well as systems configuration on a

Unix platform running SunOS, Solaris, AIX. System Monitoring, Account Maintenance

Software and Hardware Installation, Backups, Cabling, Network.

WinNT Workstation/Server 3.5, 3.51 and 4.0 Installation/Configuration,

TCP/IP, DNS, Security Management, modification and enhancements to network

system by migrating from WinNT 3.51 to WinNT 4.0. Troubleshooting computer

and network related problems, RAS Setup, user support and training, Internet Information

Server, Windows 95, Win for Workgroup, Win 3.x and System Documentation.

CONTROL DATA SYSTEMS, Inc.

INTEGRATION ENGINEER March 95 - Sept. 95

Responsible for installations and configurations of Mail*Hub Systems on Sunsparc10

and HP9000. Setting up E-Mail packages like cc:Mail, MSMail and SMTP to

allow transfer of E-Mail messages from one mailer to another.

Directory Synchronization using Mail*Hub, X.500 Directory Service, troubleshooting

and user support.

SECURITY APL, Inc.

UNIX/AIX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION March 94 - March 95

Responsible for maintaining integrity of RS/6000 UNIX/AIX base operation, Translate users

requirements into effective solutions and provide end user support, backup/restore.

Installation and support of various applications, Windows, OS/2, DOS, Windows for

Workgroup; working knowlegde of SUN Systems, TCP/IP, XWindows, Lan/Wan, E-Mail,

Routers, Microplexers, The Internet, Sun SparcStations.

HERMES of PARIS, Inc.

UNIX/LAN SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR Sept. 91 – Nov. 93

Responsible for the administration of Three NCR Towers running under Unix

at the Corporate Office and Eleven Mini Towers located in the U.S and the Pacific.

Supported a 33 users Novell Network. Troubleshoot/Monitor System Performance,

Installation of applications, recommended and purchased softwares and hardwares

based on existing configuration.

NORTH AMERICA TRAINING SVCS

Jr. SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR / SYSTEM SPECIALIST Dec. 85 - Sept. 91

Duties: Responsible for Installations and Administration of School Work; a Progress

Educational Package running on a Unix environment, project planning, prepare Operator’s

schedules, conducted training classes for operation of database created using Progress,

Add/Delete Users, Set Up Users Password, Daily Backup/Restore, scheduling of downsystem,

troubleshooting, Unix Commands, Unix Editor, Shell Script, Support and Operation of a

Plexus P/75 Unix mini computer, printing reports, checks and troubleshooting.

EDUCATION: A.O.S in Computer Science, 1985

Monroe College, Bronx, N.Y.

Major: Computer Programming/Operation

Minor: Data Processing G.P.A 3.6/4.0

SEMINARS: 1989 – Introduction to Unix (New York)

1991 – Novell Network Administration (New York)

1991 – Programming in Progress (Boston)

1994 - AIX/6000 TCP/IP Networking (New York)

1995 - Mail*Hub Installation (Minneapolis)

1996 - Windows NT Server Installation (New York)

1998 – Windows NT Configuration/Administration.

1998 – VeritasS Volume Manager(Boston)

2004 – Solaris System Administration (New York)

2006 – RedHat Linux System Administration (New York)

SOFTWARES: Solaris 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.51, 2.6, 2.8 and Solaris 10. Raid Manager6,

Veritas Volume Manager 2.5 and 2.6. NIS+, NFS and TCP/IP.

SCO Unix, AIX/Unix, SunOS, HP-UX, Windows NT 3.51 and 4.

Novell Lan, Progress, Basic, Cobol, Pascal, Carbon Copy, Procomm,

PcAnywhere, Norton Utilities, Excel, Lotus Symphony,Paradox,

Word Perfect, Word, Work, Xwindows, Netscape, Internet Explorer.

HARDWARE: SUN E5000, 1000E, E450, E250, Ultra 1, Ultra2 and Ultra5,

Ultra Enterprise 1, Ultra Enterprise2, SparcStaion 20 and 4.

RISC6000 Models - 590, 580, 560, 520, 320, 250, 25T

Sun SparcStation10, HP720 - HP9000, IBM System 5320

NCR 32-650, 32-450 & 6320, MAI Basic 4, Wang 2200vs, etc.

REFERENCES: Available upon request.

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