SUMMARY
Over 5 years experience as Systems Administrator all with Sun Solaris. Extensive background in infrastructure and systems support. Experience in system integration, implementation and support of Sun/Unix server environments. Operations support manager, supervising 4 junior admins.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Sun Microsystems Hardware
E series 1000 3000 4000 5000 6000
E series Ultras 250 450 4500 3500 6500
Ultra series workstations I, II, 5
Sparc workstations 5, 10, 20, ipx, lx
Arrays 5000, 214

Software
Sun Solaris 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 7
Veritas Volume Manager 2.5, 2.6
Veritas First Watch
Veritas File System
Legato networker

Networking
NIS
NFS
TCP/IP
Automounting
Remote Administration

Database Software
Sybase 11.5.1
Embarcadaro DBArtisan
Oracle 8 (installation only)

Sun System Administration tasks
Install, upgrade OS
Hardware and software troubleshooting
Capacity planning
Performance tuning
Jumpstart setup, use
RAID planning, implementation
Disaster Recovery
Backup and Recovery
 
 

Work Experience


Aug 1999 - Feb 2000
Maryn Michels.    Consultant
 Worked for Sun Professional Services
Clients Include:
 
Playboy Enterprises Inc
 Dec 1999 - Feb 2000
  Unix Systems Administrator
Was the sole systems administrator responsible for Playboy Enterprises website, which included 25 servers from Ultra II’s to E4500’s, all machine were physically located at an ISP (Frontier Global Center) in San Jose CA.  Upgraded systems for Y2K. Upgraded hardware in E4500 series servers. Trouble shot system problems. Did performance tuning on webservers, both Netscape and Apache.
Trouble shot DLT tape backup problems (Legato). Created disaster recovery plan. Gave recommendations on future hardware upgrades and purchases. Installed 2.6 on E4500 servers.

  Cadence Design
   Sept 1999 - Dec 1999
    Unix Systems Administrator
Worked on a team of 5 to upgrade 3000+ Sun Sparc workstations and servers for Y2K  compliance. Various machines, from sparc 5 up to E6000. Multiple OS versions, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6,7.  Duties included patch installation, OS install, upgrade. Trouble shooting of patch problems. Hardware upgrades.

Jan 1996 - Aug 1999
Technium Inc. Consultant
Clients include:

  MCI/Worldcom
   July 1996 - July 1999
    Operations Support Manager
Duties include supervising, mentoring, and teaching 4 technicians for a 7x24 production support operation.  Hired, and gave performance reviews on each junior admin. Assigned tasks and met with other team leaders, and department supervisor. Made recommendations on hardware and software purchases and upgrades.
  Unix Systems Administrator
Maintain and support Sun Microsystems E frame servers which include:
 (4) 4000,  (4)5000,  (2)6000
 Ultra series (4)250,  (4)450,  (4)3500, (2)4500
 and (20)Ultra II’s , along with (35) workstations from sparc20 to ultra5.
Majority of these servers were physically located in Ohio, all administration was done remotely.

Duties also include disk layout/format for Sybase databases, and maintenance and performance tuning of all servers. Also responsible for Solaris installation on various development workstations.
  Sybase DBA Support
Installation and setup of Sybase Adaptive server 11.5.1. Monitoring of ADE for performance (more disk space, extra memory). Perform tasks for disaster recovery. Trouble shoot ADE problems, from a Sun server standpoint.
 

KPMG
 Jan 1996 - July 1996
  Unix System Administrator
Performed standard Unix system administration and made recommended changes, and documentation.
 

Sept 1995 - Dec 1995
Aerotek / Primeco  Unix System Administrator
Worked on a team of administrators, performing various tasks from installations to trouble shooting.


Dec 1993 - Sept 1993
National Flood Information Services GIS Technician / Unix System Administrator
Created a national database of flood related information for  mortgage research. Maintained a networked system of Sun machines for an Oracle database.

Education

 1993
 BA geography
 University of North Texas, Denton

Other
 Veteran US Air Force