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Current

System Administrator at Lexmark

Past

System Administrator at TEKsystems
System Administrator at University of Kentucky

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Summary

System Administrator with substantial experience in Sun Solaris, FreeBSD. Broad experience with Apache Tomcat and Apache HTTP Server. Skilled in architecting complex multi-tier applications. Leading teams that monitor and manage complex infrastructures in a 24x7 environment. Skilled at troubleshooting software, hardware, and design problems.

Network Administrator with significant experience in LAN design, monitoring, and performance tuning.

Database Administrator with experience in MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. Skilled in PostgreSQL performance and scale tuning.

Experience

System Administrator

Lexmark

(Public Company; LXK; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2001 — Present (8 years 11 months)

• Provide compute and network service to Research & Development business areas
• Lead a team of system and network administrators across three countries
• Analyze customer requirements and deliver solutions
• Sit on enterprise wide Architecture Review Board
• Responsible for monitoring and operating applications 24x7
• Support 500 Unix and Windows systems
• Support 500T storage
• Support 130 network devices
• Automate network device configuration management and auditing
• Automate Unix configuration management and auditing
• Create Nagios system to monitor 1500 systems and 12,000 services in three countries
• Assist in creating a R&D facility in India
• Operate customer facing web based application including dev, qa, and prod environments
• Received two “Make it Happen” awards and one monetary award
• Attend USENIX LISA (Large Installation System Administration
Conference) annually
• Selected as official blogger for LISA'09 http://blogs.usenix.org/
System Administrator

TEKsystems

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1998 — May 2001 (3 years 4 months)

• Support 20 Unix systems
• Document, monitor and backup existing systems.
• Assist in the design of a new data center
• Move servers into new data center
• Ensure all systems were Y2K capable
System Administrator

University of Kentucky

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

January 1996 — February 1998 (2 years 2 months)

Systems Analyst/Programmer.

• User support, Novell network administration, FreeBSD UNIX administration
• Make suggestions on hardware and software purchasing
• Maintain College of Pharmacy Web site, maintain Drug Management Review Advisory Board Web site
• Provide PC connections to TCP/IP-IPX/SPX-AppleTalk network
• Automate College of Pharmacy inventory
• Hardware/software troubleshooting
• Attended "Toubleshooting the Macintosh"