Linux Systems Administrator
Resume:
James Andrew Harrison
Danbury, CT, 06810
203-***-**** - cell
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Nationality: British
Residency Status: Full Green Card Holder
Education
• Kingston University, London 1994 to 1998 BCS: Computer Information System Design
• RH033 Redhat Essential Series (all 4 parts) online
• IBM Training course XC950 –“Websphere Application Server V6.1 Administration on Linux”, 2008
• IBM Training course XC512 –“WebSphere Application Server V6.1 Problem Determination, 2009
Employment
Rail Europe White Plains, NY
Integration Systems Administrator, March 2008 to Present
Responsibilities included:
• Implement and maintain WebSphere Application Server.
• Implement and maintain Fatwire content management system for web departments.
• Upgrade existing BI system using Cognos 7.4.
• Programming environments support included:
o Maintain a list of environments (Production, Integration, QA UAT),
o Deploy Rail Europe’s Software to environments,
o Use Silk Performer to allow QA to stress test software.
• Small projects project management.
• Linux system administration.
• Use Solaris 10 and “Cool Threads” server technology to build five virtual servers.
• Work with development team to implement new software and hardware solutions.
• Write simple Java and C/C++ programs.
• Unix system administration duties.
• 2nd tier on call after hours.
Allegient Systems, Inc. Wilton, CT
Senior Systems Administrator, February 2006 to March 2008
Responsibilities included:
• Monitor the ASP environment 24 x 7.
• Maintain main offices in Wilton.
• Maintain co-location data center for production systems.
• Web application deployment and development.
• Perform machine installations, upgrades, patches and fixes and fix infrastructure problems.
• Perform backups and restores with NetBackup.
• Write shell scripts to perform many administration tasks. Received a Quality Award for one I wrote.
• Document procedures and system server set up.
• Deploy Redhat Enterprise Linux, Solaris 8/9 and Windows 2000, 2003 and XP systems.
• PXE boot deployment server.
• Deploy and administer a Barracuda 300 spam filter.
• Windows 2003 domain and Microsoft Exchange mail server administration.
• Linux / Unix DNS, Sendmail (inc. mail routing), NFS, DHCP.
• VPN appliance set up.
• End user and desktop support.
June 2005-January 2006
Moved from California to Connecticut
Silvaco International Sunnyvale, CA
Redhat Linux Systems Administrator, October 2001 to May 2005
Responsibilities included:
• Performing all aspects (installing, upgrading, patching and fixing) of Linux system administration
• Redhat Linux Systems to maintain / responsible for:
• Over 50 Linux porting systems in the company (differing versions),
• A cluster of 16 machines using Sun Grid Engine 6,
• A MySQL application server and prototype LDAP server,
• An Install server for Redhat Linux machine installs,
• Office Network Intrusion System,
• Boston office application server,
• Dual boot seven Sales Laptops with Linux and MS Windows XP.
• Maintaining five Apple Macintosh systems
• MS Windows and Sun Solaris (server and workstation) administration support.
• Setting up network installs procedures and system (Kickstart, PXE, DHCP and NFS).
• Make the Linux machines interoperate with the PC network
• Creating Perl and Korn / C Shell scripts to automate administrative tasks (scustom).
• Performing daily backups.
• Working on network infrastructure.
• Work with third-party companies for equipment purchase and maintenance.
• NIS, DNS, SAMBA server administration.
Silvaco Data Systems Europe Limited England
Office Technical Support Administrator, January 2001 to October 2001
Responsibilities included:
• Day to day backups.
• Training technical and non-technical staff.
• Technical systems administration training.
Skills
• Configuring and installing communications technology such as ISDN, leased line routers and Ethernet cabling systems.
• Redhat Linux 5.2 to Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 (AS,ES, WS - 64 and 32 bit), Solaris 2.5 to 10, Windows NT, 98 to XP, OS/2 Warp 3 & 4, MACos 10.2.
• Websphere Application Server 6.1, Fatwire CMS, Cognos BI, BEA Weblogic, Veritas NetBackup 5.1, Sun Cluster 3.0 (simple use), MRTG, Nagios, MON, DNS, Sendmail, Open LDAP, Apache 2.2 Http server, Apache Tomcat, snort, MPICH, OpenPBS, Sun Grid Engine 6, Perwill EDI, MS SQL Server 6.5,Checkpoint VPN Firewall-1, Perl, MYSQL, MS SQL, HTML, Javascript, CGI, CDE, KORN shell environment and scripting, MS Office - Word, Excel and Access, very simple Java devolvement, C/C++ development, - MS-DOS environment, Netscape, Pegasus Mail, MS Outlook, Visual Basic.
References
Available upon request
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