Career Objective:

A senior level computer/network engineering and administration position in the Central Florida area that will continuously challenge my abilities and enable me to acquire new computer, networking, and other related skills.

Work Experience:

• 07/2001-07/20223: FutureQuest, Inc.., Orlando FL, Systems Administrator and Facilities Manager.
  Responsible for maintaining a network of Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris servers at a medium sized web hosting provider. Solely responsible for all server hardware assembly, setup, repair and maintenance. Setup and maintain a network wide monitoring system and data backup system. Also solely responsible for all aspects of the data center including security power, fire suppression, HVAC, and disaster preparation.
• 03/2000-07/2001: Maxcess, Inc.., Orlando FL, Senior UNIX Systems Administrator.
  Responsible for all aspects of all UNIX servers. Managed a network of approximately 40 Sun Solaris servers providing 24x7 reliability for CLEC operations. Servers ranged from Sun Netra T1 to UE 4500. Also responsible for data storage on EMC Symmetrix SAN and backing up all data using Veritas NetBackup.
• 09/1999-03/2000: Harris Corporation Communications Division (contractor from Tek Systems), Melbourne FL. Computer Systems Integration Engineer.
  Responsible for integrating the Harris Network Management (HNM) product into customers' existing network environments. Installation process requires interfacing with many different types of hardware using the ENM, SNMP, SGA, and SCAN protocols. Customers are primarily CLECs utilizing switches such as the Copper Mountain DSLAM and Lucent 5ESS and Pathstar.
• 01/1995-09/1999: Coleman Research Corporation (now known as L3 Technologies), Orlando FL. Computer Systems Administrator, Launch Systems Group.
  Responsible for administrating a 250 node TCP/IP network consisting of Sun Ultra Enterprise and Dell Windows NT 4 servers, PC and Macintosh computers, and Sun and SGI workstations. Addressed system configuration and maintenance, file backups, E-mail, Internet proxy service, virus scanning, data security, performance tuning, user support, and documentation. Supported phone and voice mail services.

Skills:

• Hardware: Servers, Remote Power Management, Remote Console Management (serial and IPMI), Hardware Monitoring, RAID, Ethernet, VLAN, Wi-Fi, WAN, SAN, NAS, SCSI, Multi-Media, UPS, Generator, and Tape Libraries.
• Operating Systems: Gentoo Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD/TrueOS, Ubuntu Linux (server and desktop), Solaris/OpenSolaris, RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Arch Linux, Slackware Linux, and some Microsoft Windows.
• Networking: TCP/IP, DNS (djbdns, Unbound, and BIND), Firewalling (pf and iptables), OpenSSH, Web servers (Apache and Nginx), OpenVPN, Cloud Hosting (OwnCloud/NextCloud) Web Proxy Servers (Squid, Apache, and Stunnel), Routing, DHCP, iPXE Network Booting, Qmail, Dovecot, Asterisk VOIP, NFS, iSCSI, and Samba.
• Databases: MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite, XML, and some Oracle.
• Programming Languages: Perl, Bourne/BASH Shell, CGI, HTML, AWK, C-Shell, C, Pascal, and some Python.
• Backup Software: Various rsync based systems including in-house, Clonezilla (and the underlying partimage), tar, dump/restore, cpio and Veritas NetBackup.
• Virtualization/Containers: Qemu/KVM, Virtualbox, libvirt, and Docker.
• Other Important Software and Technology: Nagios, Linux Software RAID, Linux LVM2, ZFS (on OpenSolaris and FreeBSD), High Availability (Clustering, and Load Balancing), Network Sniffers, TripWire, Disk Encryption (LUKS and VeraCrypt), and physical security for data centers.

Certifications/Technical Education:

• 02/2001: Brainbench.com UNIX Administration (general) Master Level Certification.
• 02/2001: Brainbench.com Linux Administration (general) Master Level Certification.
• 11/2000: EMC Corp. Advanced ECC for UNIX.
• 05/2000: Veritas Veritas Cluster Server for UNIX.
• 03/2000: Sun Microsystems Certified Solaris 7 Systems Administrator.
• 09/1999: Harris Corp. Certified Harris Network Management (HNM) Administrator.
• 09/1999: Harris Corp. Certified SGA Administrator.
• 10/1997: Rand Technologies Certified Pro/Engineer Administrator.

Educational Background:

• 1994-1996: University of Central Florida, Orlando FL.
  Majored in Computer Engineering (on hold).
• 1990-1994: Apopka High School, Apopka FL. Diploma with honors.
  Courses included 4 years MCJROTC, BASIC Programming, Advanced Placement Pascal Programming, and Basic Electronics.