Sr Unix/Linux Administrator

Murat Arslan

**** *** **** *** ***** Atlanta, GA

*******@*****.*** - 404-***-****

Objective:

To obtain a Senior Unix/Linux Administrator or Software Engineer position.

Summary:

• 13 years of System Administrator experience in multiplatform Unix/Linux environments with hands-on expertise in networking, scripting and systems integration.

• 10 years of Web and System programming using Perl, PHP, C/C++, Java, and shell scripting.

• Providing proficient system management, security and IDS tasks, system monitoring.

• Advanced knowledge of Internet protocols and services, TCP/IP, firewall, NAT, socket programming.

• Dynamic website development using PHP, Perl, C/CGI, Java, Python, VBScript/ASP, HTML/XHTML, XML, XSL/XSLT, Javascript, CSS Level 2, DOM.

• Database management and embedded programming: MySQL, Microsoft SQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle.

Employment Background:

• Jun 2007 – Jan 2009 / HOV Services / Atlanta, GA, USA

Sr. Linux Systems Engineer

- Administration and management of the 150+ Red Hat ES, Fedora and Ubuntu Linux and AIX servers, EMC storage and PowerPath.

- Administration of the Internet/Intranet services on the servers such as Apache, Tomcat, NFS, OpenLDAP, samba, fax and file servers. Wrote several shell scripts and programs to ease management.

- Responsible for the Atlanta data center, server installation, maintenance, update/patches, and migrations. Monitoring and analyzing the servers to improve stability, reliability and security.

- Management of disk-to-disk and disk-to-tape backups (with Symantec Backup Exec) of the servers.

- Project manager in migrating a Canadian bank’s servers from Montreal to Toronto and administration of their Red Hat Enterprise servers and Oracle database.

- Implementation and development of internal form management software using Perl, PHP and MySQL.

- Developed inventory management software using PHP and MySQL.

• Dec 2005 – Jun 2007 / MIS Technologies / Buena Park, CA, USA

Unix Systems Administrator & Software Engineer

- Designed a custom Linux box based on Red Hat for our clients, powered by several features such as firewall, mail server (qmail and sendmail) with virtual domains and users, anti-spam and anti-virus, Apache Web server, samba, squid proxy server, ftp server, content filtering and VPN.

- Administration of 100+ Red Hat and CentOS servers, and management of system updates.

- Ported a fully working e-commerce project written in ASP/Microsoft SQL to PHP/Perl using MySQL db server.

- Implementation and development of several e-commerce softwares using C, Java, Perl, PHP, XML and MySQL db server with PayFlow Pro of Verisign, Paymentech, ClearCommerce and Transfirst payment processing services. Lead developer of the project http://www.myonlinebill.com

- Development of Fortran 66/77 programs on HP 3000 MPE/iX to create backend for MyOnlineBill.

- Lead developer of the real estate project http://www.sublease.com, written in ASP using Microsoft SQL Server.

• Mar 2005 – Nov 2005 / MIS Technologies / Buena Park, CA, USA

Software Engineer (remote)

- Administration and management of the Red Hat and CentOS Linux servers.

- Administration of the Internet services running on the Linux servers; Apache Web server, qmail. Sendmail, postfix, firewall, NAT, anti-spam, anti-virus, file servers.

- Development of a accounting software and a web interface using Perl, PHP and MySQL.

- Development of a real estate project using ASP and Microsoft SQL: http://www.sublease.com

- Migration of an ASP/MSSQL-2000 online payment system to PHP/MySQL.

• Jun 2002 – Mar 2005 / Atiktuk Ltd / Istanbul, Turkey

Software Engineer & Unix Systems Administrator

- Administration of Red Hat Linux, Solaris and HP-UX servers, system upgrades.

- Administration of the Internet services; Apache Web server, bind DNS, qmail, sendmail, samba, NFS.

- Installation of various systems and networks including Linux, Solaris, Windows NT, Cisco routers and transparent proxy configurations.

- Development of an automated virtual host installation and management system using PHP, MySQL, ASP and MSSQL-2000; and an accounting system using ASP and MSSQL-2000.

- Development of several softwares for client requested projects using C/C++, ASP, PHP, Java and Perl with MSSQL-2000, Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL db servers.

• Apr 2000 – Jun 2002 / Bilkent University Computer Center / Ankara, Turkey

Unix Systems Administrator & Programmer

- Administration of the Unix systems including Linux and Solaris serving to the university staff and students. Management of the system updates and patches.

- Administration of the Internet services; bind DNS, Apache Web Server, qmail and sendmail mail servers, POP/IMAP, NIS+ and NFS.

- Development of an orientation project for students and contribution to the BAIS, student management system.

- Oracle and MySQL embedded web programming in PHP, Perl and C to implement web interfaces.

- Management of the computer laboratories located in the Computer Center building and dormitory networks.

- Implementation and development of a Linux kernel module for collecting statistical data out of inbound/outbound packets from Bilkent’s B class network.

- Development of a PPP dial-in system and a web interface displaying graphical usage statistics, using PHP and GD imaging library.

• Mar 1996 – Apr 2000 / Marketweb Ltd / Ankara, Turkey

Unix Systems Administrator & Programmer

- Administration of Linux, SunOS and SCO-UNIX servers, Cisco and Ascend routers, xDSL and PPP-dial-in services.

- Administration of Internet services such as Radius (AAA), Apache Web server, sendmail, POP/IMAP.

- Development of MySQL embedded Radius server and an accounting system to record and report customer dial-in connections and payments, using Perl and MySQL.

- Development of a virtual web page hosting software using Apache Web server, PHP and MySQL.

Education:

• BS in Computer Information Systems / City University of New York, USA

• BS in Mathematics (not graduated) Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Conferences and Seminars:

• Inet-TR 1998, METU, Ankara / Turkey. Gave seminars about PPP protocol on Linux and X Windows.

• Inet-TR 1999, Ankara University / Turkey. Gave seminars about PHP and Linux kernel.

• Coordinator of the Inet-TR 1999 Internet Conference Linux Training Seminars.

• Coordinator of the Linux Users Society Training Seminars between 1999-2001.

Affiliations:

• Co-founder of the Turkish Linux Users Society (LKD).

• Member of the Informatics Association of Turkey (IAT) since 1996.

Other Projects:

• Mar 1999: Legal security probe on IsNet, one of the largests ISPs in Turkey.

• Apr 1999: Developed a free web based e-mail service using Perl and PostgreSQL.

• Sep 1999: Developed a Turkish search engine interface and a dmoz-style web categorization using PHP, Perl and PostgreSQL.

• Jan 2000: Written a multi-threaded free download accelerator for POSIX systems.

• Aug 2000: Developed BasiliX, a free webmail software, using PHP and MySQL. BasiliX was awarded the Turkish Free Software of the year 2002 by the Linux Organization Turkey.

• Nov 2004 – present: Developing the award winner website “eksi sozluk” (sourtimes), a collaborative hypertext dictionary, wikipedia-like website, on a Windows 2003 server running ASP/ASP.net and MS-SQL 2000 database server. It was founded on February 1999 and as of January 2009 it has more than 187 thousand registered users. Eksi Sozluk gets 6.5 million unique visitors and 240 million hits monthly and it is ranked 1152 at Alexa.

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