Resume 1

Seeking position as a Unix system administrator utilizing 9 years experience with multiple platforms including NT however specializing in Sun Solaris. Self motivated, dedicated and up to any task that I am given.

EXPERIENCE:

• Perform all duties related to Solaris system administration NIS+, DNS. NFS, user account maintenance, backup & recovery, Auto-mounting, Licence Management, Printer configuration
• Coordinate computer resources and support for multi service exercises of 500+ users and managers
• Administer applications allowing cross utilization between NT4.0 and Solaris operating systems Significant Accomplishments
• While deployed to Saudi Arabia performed Joint Chiefs of Staff directed upgrade to application software. Previous system administrators were unable to make upgrade work
• Performed theater wide upgrade to 8 systems at 5 different locations from home base eliminating need to deploy system administrators to each site.
• Accomplished technical refresh on local Solaris server suite upgrading machines from older Sparc architecture to state of the art Ultra Enterprise servers.
• Awarded Joint Service Achievement Medal for 3 months work in Saudi Arabia

• Command and Control System Engineering Technician
• Monitored overall status and health of 3M Global Command and Control System supporting Department of Defense Joint Chiefs of Staff and over 350 regional customers.
• Analyzed Sun software/hardware using scripts and commercial software providing metrics and recommendations for performance tuning to senior leadership.
• Installed and configured hardware/software, maintained user accounts and wrote scripts to perform system backups.

• Engineered procedures to remotely install Sun operating system and application software on over 60 machines located all over Europe from a central location.
• Handpicked for deployment to Incirlik AB Turkey to reinstall and reconfigure network of Sun workstations, which were continually failing.
• Led 5-person team in effort to build an Enterprise 4000 Oracle database server. Completed the project in 3 weeks when previous team lead had failed after a month.
• Attended leadership training graduating with honors Distinguished Graduate in the top 5 of the class
• Awarded Joint Service Commendation Medal for 3 months work in Incirlik Turkey
• Awarded Air Force Commendation Medal

• Maintained a 5M Sun/DEC/HP heterogeneous environment supporting the entire software lifecycle for a 2.7B military command and control system. Responsible for the maintenance and procurement of both hardware and software.
• Procured, installed and tested commercial software and operating system releases and updates.
• Performed other basics system administration tasks already outline above. Significant Accomplishments
• Designed, procured materials and implemented a network consisting of an FDDI token ring backbone and several Ethernet segments using Sun workstations with dual network interface cards as routers.
• Wrote scripts to backup servers to a previously unused 12 tape DAT stacker. Scripts performed flawlessly using error detection and notification if problems arose.
• Due to software limitations in NIS, developed a set of scripts using rdist to disseminate the password and shadow files for over 60 Unix workstations. Used file locking techniques to ensure data integrity throughout the network.
• Awarded Air Force Commendation Medal

• Systems Programmer Technical School -1992 United States Air Force Training Command
• Advanced UNIX -1992 United States Air Force Training Command
• Sun System Administration 4.1.2 -1993 Metters Industries Sun Certified Trainer
• Sun Installation and Maintenance -1993 Metters Industries Sun Certified Trainer
• Sun Advanced Installation and Maintenance -1993 Metters Industries Sun Certified Trainer
• Sun Advanced System Administration -1993 Metters Industries Sun Certified Trainer
• SunOS 4.1.x to Solaris 2.x Differences -1993 Metters Industries Sun Certified Trainer
• C language Programming -1995 United States Air Force Training Command
• Advanced C language Programming -1995 United States Air Force Training Command
• Oracle User -1996 United States Air Force Training Command
• Oracle DBA -1996 United States Air Force Training Command
• Configuration and Maintenance of CISCO Routers -1996 United States Air Force
• Train the Trainer -1997 United States Air Force
• Management School -1998 United States Air Force
• Unix Security Administrator -1998 United States Air Force Training Command

CLEARANCE:
Top Secret SCI, NATO Secret