Work Experience
Product Manager, Leveraged UNIX/Linux Delivery
Dell Services
Plano, TX
August 2013-January 2015
- Developed a System Administration platform to unify tools
- Identified need for more meaningful metrics when discussing complexity of customer environments
- Developed several prototypes for metrics
- Identified areas for improvement in contract language
- Identified areas for improvement in on-boarding of new customers
Senior Systems Administrator
Dell Services
Plano, TX
September 2009-August 2013
- Developed custom Perl modules for large GPFS installation
- Developed, documented, and trained staff on GPFS backup procedures
- Successful Disaster Recovery (test) - 2013
- Developed, documented, and trained staff on patching procedures
- Developed, documented, and trained staff on version control system use (git)
Senior Systems Administrator
Perot Systems
Plano, TX
December 2007-September 2009
- Setup mrepo for distribution of linux RPMs
- Developed and deployed several custom RPMs to ease administration
- Successful Disaster Recovery (test) - 2008
- Deployed 2 RHEL5 clusters using GFS storage on EMC devices
Senior Systems Administrator
Rent-A-Center
Plano, TX
August 2007-December 2007
- Deployed wiki for documentation of processes and procedures.
- Provided technical expertise during migration of RSSS application from SCO to Linux.
- Worked with a variety of application teams to support deployment/upgrades of software.
Systems Support Engineer
InnerWireless
Richardson, TX
April 2007-August 2007
- Deployed wiki for documentation of processes and procedures.
- Retooled Nagios installation to use database backend.
- Deployed multiple tools to present system utilization statistics in easy-to-understand graph format.
- Wrote system utilization utility in Perl for Linux systems monitoring.
- Helped narrow focus of Linux appliances.
Systems Administration Specialist
Perotsystems
Plano, TX
January 2000-April 2007
- Developed numerous tools and utilities to ease administration tasks of the SA team.
- Developed interactive website which provides numerous workflow and reporting capabilities to ease documentation tasks.
- Deployed instant messaging server to allow SA team to communicate real-time.
- Experienced with HTML and XML (Schema and validation).
- Familiar with database design and normalization.
- Experienced with LVM on HP-UX and Linux.
- Developed script to query and store copious system information used in reporting.
- Wrote and integrated a dynamic Kickstart solution with Yum repositories.
- Experienced with process management, including tracing processes to identify problems.
- Adherent of strong security practices, while maintaining system utility.
Systems Analyst
Covenant Healthcare
Lubbock, TX
April 1999-January 2000
- Supported Medical Manager v8 and v9 (including MPI).
- Supported over 600 users on three AIX 4.3 machines.
- Gained extensive printer and user administration experience.