Senior IT Resource focusing on Systems Administration and Technical Systems Architecture
British Columbia, Canada
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- Senior IT Technologist (Ongoing Contract) at ProQuest Information and Learning
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- Senior IT Technologist (Contract) at Backstage Technologies Inc.
- Senior System Administrator/System Architect at Abebooks Inc.
- Senior System Administrator at Netera Alliance Inc.
- Systems Administrator Consultant (Contract) at Alberta Financial Services Corporation
- Senior System Administrator at Suite Systems / Boardwalk
- Principal Consultant at Perceptive IT Solutions
- Level 2 Technical Support Representative at Shaw Communications
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Adam Serediuk’s Summary
Senior IT resource providing scalable solutions for demanding environments. Over 10 years of direct experience in highly available mission critical environments. I work quickly to isolate problems and deliver solutions while able to see and respond to the big picture. Able to assess infrastructure and make recommendations for immediate improvement and deliver concise long term technology direction.
Adam Serediuk’s Specialties:
Open source solutions, virtualization, consolidation, configuration management, security, adaptable technologies, high availability, mission critical systems, technology direction, infrastructure assessment
Adam Serediuk’s Experience
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Senior IT Technologist (Ongoing Contract)
ProQuest Information and Learning
(Public Company; PQE; Publishing industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
Senior technical resource for large scale strategic projects of search infrastructure (over 1 billion records) for the Summon unified search service. Lead technical resource for system management and design of a project to scale to over 300+ system’s. Focusing on infrastructure management with configuration management tools (Puppet, func.) Design and deployment of entire infrastructure from the ground up including all hardware, networking, systems and data center design. Providing on going support and guidance for technology solutions. Management of 100TB+ storage systems with billions of files.
Technologies: Linux, Java, Python, Ruby, MySQL, JMS, Distributed Caching, Clustering, Lucene/Solr, Data Replication, Nagios, Cacti, Puppet, Func, Configuration Management, Cisco Firewalls and Switches, HP Servers and Sun storage, NetApp storage -
Senior IT Technologist (Contract)
Backstage Technologies Inc.
(Entertainment industry)
May 2008 — October 2008 (6 months)
Contract to the CEO on technology matters. Led architecture from a stuck position with no scalability to a fully open-ended and open source scalability model. Redesigned and deployed the online gaming platforms to support over one million active users. Quickly resolved the performance and scalability challenges of their applications and rebuilt all core infrastructure with a focus on time to delivery and cost. Using 100% open source technologies and “cloud” computing services to quickly deploy and provision resources.
Technologies: OpenSolaris, Apache, Tomcat, Java, PHP, Python, MySQL, Distributed Caching, Clustering, Load Balancers, Data Replication, Nagios, Cacti -
Senior System Administrator/System Architect
Abebooks Inc.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2005 — May 2008 (2 years 11 months)
As the Senior System Administrator & Systems Architect at AbeBooks I was the technical operations team lead and Senior IT Technologist for the company. Responsible for the continued availability of our ecommerce website I was also responsible for developing technical architecture decisions and leading the operations team. Utilizing best of breed technologies with Java, Oracle RAC, JMS, Distributed Caching, Clustering, Tomcat, Open Source, Virtualization, Linux and Solaris we are able to provide 99.99% availability of our platform. As the lead of a team of five I trained and supported my team while ensuring all objectives and availability requirements were met. Utilizing my extensive IT experience and adaptable knowledge I was able to bring the company to 99.99% availability from 98% - all during my first six months with AbeBooks. We operated two data centers across two provinces totaling over 180 servers running Linux and 105 virtual machines. AbeBooks was bound by PCI DSS compliance.
Technologies: Linux, Solaris, VMware, Virtualization, Apache, Tomcat, Java, Oracle RAC, JMS, Distributed Caching, Clustering, Sonic MQ, Endeca IAP, Tangosol Coherence, SAN, NAS, NetApp, VTL, NetBackup, Nagios, Cacti -
Senior System Administrator
Netera Alliance Inc.
(Telecommunications industry)
August 2002 — July 2005 (3 years)
At Netera I was the senior technology specialist driving technology decisions to support researchers across Alberta. The lead of a team of three we provided project management, supercomputing resources and network infrastructure. I was responsible for the continued support and development of our data centers; as the senior systems administrator I was the lead role in all server operations and guided all technical decisions. The ongoing design and support of several data centers and video conferencing facilities across Alberta’s universities’. We provided resources and tools to researchers using a wide array of network services. A peer with CAnet we were instrumental in the design and launch of WestGrid; Canada’s supercomputing infrastructure across Alberta and British Columbia.
Technologies: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mac OS X Server, Windows 2000/XP, Postfix, Qmail, Apache, Tomcat, Bind, Firewalls, Osiris -
Systems Administrator Consultant (Contract)
Alberta Financial Services Corporation
(Financial Services industry)
November 2001 — December 2001 (2 months)
At Alberta Financial Services I was responsible for the server infrastructure of AFSC. This was a one-month contract to continue smooth operations while the existing administrator was on leave and to implement network security. The infrastructure consisted of Solaris, AIX and Windows 2000 Hosts. Databases were provided with Oracle and Sybase products. My primary task was to secure their server infrastructure using best practices, firewalls and host monitoring solutions. Using Checkpoint NG and Tripwire I implemented a thorough monitoring system to ensure data was protected. Snort was used to provide intrusion detection warnings.
Technologies: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Mac OS X Server, Windows 2000/XP, Postfix, Qmail, Apache, Tomcat, Bind, Firewalls, Osiris -
Senior System Administrator
Suite Systems / Boardwalk
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2001 — November 2001 (11 months)
Suite Systems was a licensed CLEC providing Digital TV, Internet and VOIP services to its customers. I was the lead Senior UNIX Administrator of a team of three and was responsible for all aspects of the UNIX infrastructure relating to internal development, Internet services, digital TV services and VOIP. We designed, built and maintained the IT infrastructure to support our services to the highest levels of availability. Responsible for all network services and development of new technologies. Including high bandwidth client connections, multicast streaming video and ISP services. A diverse technology offering due to the wide range of customer products. Design of infrastructures to support tens of thousands of end user devices (set top boxes.) High volume SMTP, transparent firewalls, transparent distributed caching and content delivery. Management of over 100 servers on various platforms, primarily Linux and Solaris using SNMP and configuration management methodologies. Programming in C and Perl for network applications. The company shutdown and ceased operations in Nov. 2001.
Technologies: Linux, Solaris, SNMP, C, Perl, Checkpoint FW-1, High Volume SMTP, IDS/IPS and large scale DHCP -
Principal Consultant
Perceptive IT Solutions
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1998 — November 2001 (3 years 6 months)
Perceptive IT Solutions was my private consulting business during the dot com boom. My team of three provided IT system and process audits for international clients, primarily based in California. We provided UNIX system support primarily for ISP solutions and network security. Focusing on Solaris and FreeBSD we built infrastructures for high availability web servers, email, news, DNS and all other network services. Utilizing open source solutions with for the development of our client platforms. End to end project development including technical support and training to existing staff with full documentation. The scope of work done for our clients was diverse including Oil/Gas, ISP’s and ecommerce startups.
Technologies: Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Apache, Sendmail, DNS. Network Security -
Level 2 Technical Support Representative
Shaw Communications
(Public Company; SJR-B; Telecommunications industry)
May 1997 — December 2000 (3 years 8 months)
Top level support and senior escalation path for UNIX/Linux users. Pioneered and developed all technical support guidelines and documentation to support “alternative” platforms for end user internet services. Including TCP/IP and DHCP diagnostics of end user systems and mid tier network infrastructure. Email and news trouble-shooting both client and server side. Management of Motorola and Terayon cable modems. SNMP management and configurations of routers via HP OpenView. Domain name registration and DNS setup for business customers.
Technologies: Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, Windows 95/98 and NT, TCP/IP, DHCP, Email/News, Cable Modems, SNMP, HP OpenView
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Adam Serediuk’s Interests:
new technologies, enterprise applications, audiophile, acoustic guitar, brewing beer, motorcycles
Adam Serediuk’s Honors:
Surviving the "Slashdot Effect" with great success on three occasions; at three different companies.
Interviewed by the New York Times
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