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Professional Summary

-    Strong experience in setup, deployment and configuration of RHEL based servers in an enterprise environment.
-    Setup and Maintenance of MySQL and configuration or replication across multiple machines.
-    Configuration of IBM blade centers and x86 based IBM blades.
-    Configuration of IBM System x Servers.
-    Strong experience in scalable web environments.
-    Experience in monitoring and trending of server environments.
-    Setup and Configuration of Puppet Configuration Management

Software, Systems, and Languages

Hardware:
IBM BladeCenter & System x, Sun Intel based Servers, Alteon & IOS based switches, Dell servers, Netapp Filers

Software:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Centos Linux, Perl, Python, Java Script, Apache, Lighttpd, MySQL, Sun Grid Engine, HTML, SQL, BIND, Hobbit/Xymon Monitor, KickStart, RPM, Cobbler, Koan, NIS, Puppet, FUNC, Xen

Certifications

Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHEL5
Certification Number: 805009635238850
April 2009

RHCA Directory Services and Authentication Endorsement
November 2009

RHCA Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Endorsement
March 2010

Experience

GlaxoSmithKline
Linux Systems Engineer, Scientific Computing – Computational & Structural Chemistry Department
Durham, NC
June 2009 – Current

Managing Linux Clusters used by the Computational Chemistry and Crystallography Departments on multiple sites.  Implemented a complete central system management and monitoring system using Puppet and Xymon and implemented cluster management using Cobbler/Koan used over multiple sites.   Designed and implemented an upgrade path from RHEL4 to RHEL5 which included maintaining support for older programs not supported in RHEL5. Responsible for upgrades and in-house modifications to scientific software used by the groups.   Supporting Linux based workstations used by scientists in both departments.

McClatchy Interactive
Linux Systems Engineer – Technology Department
Raleigh, NC
November 2006 – May 2009

Part of a 4 person team that deploys and maintains McClatchy Interactive’s 350+ server farm.  Comprised mainly of IBM blades running RHEL and copper Nortel networking equipment, these systems serve all of The McClatchy companies 31 Daily and hundreds of weekly and sister sites.  Day to day maintenance of our IBM servers as well as deployment and upgrades of current production servers to RHEL5.  Heavy use of our cobbler based KickStart system utilizing Koan for fast deployment.  Use of Yum and up2date for keeping system packages up to date, as well as using our in house rpm repository for deployment of in house packages.  Modification of our CFengine based configuration management systems for easy server deployments and maintenance changes.  Heavy use and setup of Hobbit monitoring systems, as well as the creation multiple monitoring and reporting scripts for Xend, MySQL server monitoring and MySQL backup verification, and IBM blade center monitoring.

Software Developer – Development Department
May – November 2006

Helped develop and maintain McClatchy Interactive’s software suite with a focus on the systems architecture and database administration.  Work with Perl, PHP, shell scripting, and SQL (on MySQL and Postgres databases) in a Linux environment.  Worked as part of the Infrastructure group and created a MySQL maintenance script to monitor and maintain our MySQL database farms.  This included replication, backups and backup growth, and log/replication file cleanup as well as trend/status reporting to our monitoring systems.   Ported our AP wire feed parser to Perl from C++.

Support Developer – Support Department
April 2005 – May 2006

Support McClatchy Interactives’ software by working with a small support team to make sure that all mission critical operations are functional for more then 40 online papers.  Work on everything from simple HTML to server software setup.   First hand work with Real Media Ad Systems, Real Networks Streaming Servers, all of McClatchy’s software, Mailman, Lyris ListManager.

Devine and Pearson: A Strategic Communications Agency
Intern – HTML Content and Design Implementation
Quincy, MA
January – April 2003

Helped implement new Web sites, including Wentworth and Ocean Spray, designed by creative department using Dreamweaver, Homesite, and Photoshop. Updated and repaired existing client Web sites. Created “wire frames” to show navigation of client Web sites before the build.

Webhood, Inc.
Computer Technician, Network Administrator, Tech Support
Cambridge, MA
May – August 2002

Served as primary PC-based, Windows (NT, 2000, 98, XP) repair and deployment technician, working independently.  Repaired off-lease PCs donated by local businesses to Webhood then deployed them at Cambridge area youth centers. Other jobs included installing and repairing network wiring, switches and routers as well as answering questions from centers’ staffs.

Education

Wentworth Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science
Boston, MA
August 2004