Drew Bentley

Current

• Sr. Systems Administrator at KITS Inc.

Past

• Sr. Systems Administrator at Unwired Nation
• Systems Administrator at Datran Media Corp.
• Systems Administrator (Contractor) at Unwired Nation

• Systems Administrator at Renew Data Corp.
• Systems Administrator at Digital Motorworks Inc.
• IT/Helpdesk at Raytheon (Contractor)

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Drew Bentley’s Summary

Current Position Involves:

Install, manage and deploy new servers with application support (RedHat Enterprise, IBM Websphere, Java, ESB, J2EE, SSL, HTTP, SOA)
Database (Oracle) Administration on production and development environments. Audit and archive logs, security standards.
Monitor/manage all production servers along with other daily assigned tasks to end user requests in a multi-platform environment.

Drew Bentley’s Specialties:

Unix/Linux (Red Hat, Slackware, CentOS, Solaris, AIX, BSD)
Storage Management (Direct Attached, RAID, SAN, NAS, Tape)
Backup and Disaster Recovery (Netbackup, Bacula, Amanda)
Virtualization (VMware, Xen)
Networking Fundamentals (NFS, NIS, Samba, DNS, MTA)
Database Administration (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL)
Telephony (Asterisk, Nuance)
Automation/Scripting (Bash, Python, Package Management, CFEngine)
Security (iptables, psad)
Hardware (IBM, Dell, StorageTek, NetApp, Sun)

Drew Bentley’s Experience

• Sr. Systems Administrator

  KITS Inc.

  (Defense & Space industry)

  April 2008 — Present (6 months)

  U.S. Army, Department of Defense and Homeland Security Contractor.

• Sr. Systems Administrator

  Unwired Nation

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2007 — April 2008 (8 months)

• Systems Administrator

  Datran Media Corp.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 5 months)

  Install, manage and deploy new servers with application support in a 95% Linux environment. MySQL/MSSQL database administration; maintenance and upgrade, etc.
  Backup Administration.
  Designing and working with vendors to architect/build a new backup infrastructure to replace existing setup to backup Database and Production servers with Disaster Recovery.
  Monitor/manage all production servers along with other daily assigned tasks to end user requests in a multi-platform environment.

• Systems Administrator (Contractor)

  Unwired Nation

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)

  Contract Systems Administrator. Setup and tested new system deployments in a Linux environment using VMware Server and Xen virtualization.
  Setup and configured a backup plan using Bacula for the Finance department for disaster recovery.
  Setup RT ticket tracking system for the IT and Ops department to handle projects and incoming tickets.
  Configured and prepared IBM xSeries servers, RSA remote adapter configurations.
  Other duties assigned when necessary.

• Systems Administrator

  Renew Data Corp.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 2 months)

  Perform backups, apply operating system updates and configuration changes, installing and configuring new hardware/software.
  Adding/deleting/modifying user account information, resetting passwords, etc. Answering technical queries
  Responsibile for security on systems.
  Documenting the configuration of systems and daily duties.
  Troubleshooting any reported problems and system performance tuning.

• Systems Administrator

  Digital Motorworks Inc.

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; ADP; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2002 — April 2005 (2 years 7 months)

• IT/Helpdesk

  Raytheon (Contractor)

  (Defense & Space industry)

  May 2000 — September 2001 (1 year 5 months)