Earl Richard Adams III
**** *. ****** **** ***. 1224
Austin, Texas 78729
*******.********@*****.***
OBJECTIVE
To achieve meaningful employment with a company as a System Administrator/Unix Administrator, which will allow me to address and solve your company’s technical needs, by applying my experience within the areas of system administration and accomplishing deadlines.
OVERVIEW OF QUALIFICATIONS
11 years of Server Administration
Accomplished and Goal-Orientated
Excellent troubleshooting and technical support abilities
Experienced in Workstation Rollouts and Operating System Imaging
Excels in developing and motivating highly focused teams
Productivity Improvement
Operational Leadership
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Cobb Tuning Products, Austin, Texas March 2011 ~ March 2012
IT Manager / Information Systems Engineer
• Cisco ASA (Firewall, VPN)
• Cisco 3560 48 Switch
• VMware 5 setup and configure
• Zen VM Cloud
• MPLS network with VPN tunnels
• PBX Phone network (VPBX & SIP phone system)
• Windows 2008 Small Business Server Edition
• Ubuntu 8.04 – 11.10 Server and Desktop
• Mac OSX 10.4 – 10.7
• FreeBSD 8.2
• OracleSolaris 10
• Gmail domain services / Apps (Managed)
• Nagios Core 3 monitoring
• Load Balancing / VM’s
• Manage Desktop Technician and DBA’s time and task
• Laying out of network and office services
• Configuring matrix reports for new services / vendors
Server Beach, San Antonio, Texas April 2010 ~ March 2011
Linux / Windows Systems Administrator II
• Performs software and network upgrades for clients servers and services.
o Windows 2003 & 2008 Enterprise, Web Edition and Standard Edition
o RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, Gentoo, Suse and Ubuntu
o Debian, FreeBSD
o UltraVNC, RealVNC, RDP, SSH and Telnet
o Apache13, Apache22 and Tomcat
o Postfix & Sendmail
o MySQL and PostSQL
o Joomla and Drupal
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining system security and configurations of the servers and services.
o Iptables / firewall services
o IPcop / Spam Assassian / TCP/IP security monitoring
• Assist clients with maintaining the integrity of their servers and services.
• Analyzes information to determine, recommend, and plan layout for existing and future servers for the clients.
• Assist with maintaining and supporting around 15,000 servers.
• Take and support phone calls with server issues.
• Assisting clients per phone call and or ticketed based system.
CRA Hosting, Wimberley, Texas January 2003 ~ March 2010
Systems Administrator / Network Admin.
• Managed and led a team of 4 employees.
• Configured and maintained approximately 50 + servers and around 100 Desktop Workstations.
o Windows XP - Vista Business – 7 Ultimate
o Windows 2003 & 2008 Enterprise
o CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, FreeBSD
• Maintained network configurations with databases. Clients hosted servers along with clusters and Load Balancers.
o Cisco Routers
o Cisco Catalyst Switch (2900, 5500 and 5005 Series)
o Belkin Switch Unit
o TCP/IP, TCP/IP
o WAP Configuratio
• A majority of the servers were Dell PowerEdge and Cisco Switches.
Attendee Management Inc., Wimberley, Texas March 2004 ~ May 2010
System Administrator / Network Admin.
• Configured and installed the Wireless Access Points (WAP) throughout the company facility.
• Configured and maintained Dell PowerEdge Series servers, Cisco 2900, 5005 and 5500 switches Cisco Series Routers.
• Configured all online registration servers using (FreeBSD, Ubuntu and Windows servers with Joomla and PHP. Also configured site streaming and modifications.
TimeLine Internet, Wimberley, Texas April 2001 ~ March 2003 Systems Monitor / IT Technician
• Assisted System Engineer with configure and maintaining ISP’s servers.
• Managed (2) two phone support technicians and trained them to run basic FreeBSD commands.
• Configured and managed point to point wireless dishes.
• Setting and configuring ATM’s on the Cisco Switches.
• Managing all Cisco switches running CatOS. (Cisco 5005 & 5500 switches)
TECHNOLOGY
NETWORKING / INFORMATION ASSURANCE (IA):
• Cisco Routers
• Cisco Catalyst Switch (2950, 3560, 5500 and 5005 Series)
• Cisco ASA’s
• Switching Technologies (Layer 2)
• Ethernet, FastEthernet, GigEthernet, DSL
• Managed Switches
• Belkin Switch Unit
• UltraVNC, RealVNC, RDP, SSH and Telnet
• DHCP
• TCP/IP
• WAP Configuration
OPERATING SYSTEMS:
• Windows XP - Vista Business – 7 Ultimate
• Windows 2003 & 2008 Enterprise
• Linux – RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, Gentoo, Suse and Ubuntu
• Unix – FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Debian and Solaris
• Cisco – CatOS and CatIOS
SOFTWARE:
• Terminal
• PuTTY Telnet Client
• Rsync over SSH
• Apache13, Apache22 and Tomcat
• Symantec Ghost Solution
• MS Office 2000 / 2003 / 2010
• Iptables / firewall services
• Symantec Antivirus
• Postfix & Sendmail
• MySQL and PostSQL
• Cpanel, Plesk and Webmin
• PHP & Perl scripting
• Joomla and Drupal
• Civi-CRM
• Bash scripting and Perl
• LAMP install and configuration
EDUCATION
Arlington Heights High School ~ Fort Worth, Texas
Texas Christian University ~ Fort Worth, Texas
Tarrant County College ~ Fort Worth, Texas
New Horizons ~ Austin, Texas