Senior System Administrator
Rochester, New York Area
Senior System Administrator
Rochester, New York Area
UNIX and Linux administration, Solaris, Red Hat, AIX, Perl, PHP, shell scripting, sendmail, LDAP, Apache, problem solving, customer support.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; EAS; Utilities industry)
January 2007 — Present (3 years )
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2003 — December 2006 (3 years 3 months)
Provide UNIX system and programming support to faculty, staff and students in the various colleges and departments of the University. Email, web and file server administration on Solaris and Red Hat Linux. Support for high-performance computing environments. Primary team member in design and implementation of the University's LDAP, identity management and single sign-on initiatives. Web development experience in Perl and PHP.
Promoted to senior administrator 9 months after hire. Certified in Solaris OS, Solaris Networking, Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer, GIAC Secure Internet Presence (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) and GIAC Web Application Security.
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
August 1999 — October 2003 (4 years 3 months)
Provided end-user support for campus UNIX (Solaris, IRIX) systems providing email and academic computing services to students, faculty and staff. Administered user email accounts and mailing lists.
MS , Information Technology , 2002 — 2009
Concentrations in Web Development and Networking.
BA , American Sign Language, Brain and Cognitive Science , September 1995 — July 1999
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
SANS GIAC Secure Internet Presence certification
SANS GIAC Web Application Security certificate
Solaris 9 Certified System Administrator
Solaris 10 Certified Network Administrator