Shane Eckert

Past

IT Manager at Newfield Wireless
Enterprise Technical Support Engineer at VMware
System Administrator at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Education

Las Positas College

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Shane Eckert’s Summary

I am an IT Professional with over 8 years of Linux experience. I am proficient with Red Hat and Debian Linux. I have extensive experience with HTML, Cold Fusion, PHP and MySQL. I have worked in a classified environment and held a “Q” clearance as well as worked with FISMA and SOX compliance related certifications. I am currently the IT Manager at a solid and exciting company based in Berkeley California.

I am also a VCP consultant.

Shane Eckert’s Specialties:

CCNA. A+, VCP Certifications. VMWare ESX, Vmware Virtual Center, RHEL, RHN Satellite, Up2date, YUM Repositories, Kickstart, Aptitude, : Linux enterprise servers, Apache, MySQL, Fedora core, Suse 9/10, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Centos.

Shane Eckert’s Experience

IT Manager

Newfield Wireless

(Privately Held; Wireless industry)

November 2008 — May 2009 (7 months)

As the IT manager I am in charge of our infrastructure as well as the servers and services at our customers sites. Our customers include MetroPCS, Verizon, and AT&T. I manage and build Debian Linux servers as well as support a wide array of desktops and laptops running Windows XP and Vista. Our infrastructure consists of OpenLDAP, OpenVPN, MaraDNS, DHCP3, Debian 4.5 and OSX Server. On a day-to-day basis I handle trouble calls, seek out and develop relationships with vendors, build and price out solutions such as VoIP, Storage and RAID configurations. I am also responsible for all web development in PHP, MySQL as well as Wiki Development.
Enterprise Technical Support Engineer

VMware

(Public Company; VMW; Computer Software industry)

November 2007 — April 2008 (6 months)

Setup and operated complex TCP/IP network inside ESX kernel and implemented ISCSI, NAS, SANS, and other such solutions for customers.

Daily used ESX, ESX Server, and all the other Vmware products to duplicate data centers, administrate VM's, and configure fail over solutions.

Answered phones and used web based RDP programs to troubleshoot and fix customer issues. Issues ranged from networking, OS, and Storage to Kernel level bugs and engineer specified work around.

Documented all cases into KB articles.
System Administrator

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

(Government Agency; Research industry)

February 2002 — November 2007 (5 years 10 months)

As a Linux Systems Administrator I administrated ~300 Linux desktops running Red Hat Linux 3, 4, and 5 as well as a Fedora Core. I trouble shot network issues as well as solve complex software and hardware problems. I have an understanding of Linux Security, compiling and building RPM's, as well as the configuration of desktops and servers both X86 and x86_64. I also took care of several key servers on both the classified and unclassified networks. I worked in a mixed environment of diskless and diskfull desktops. I was involved in several projects including a major project creating a complex web application front end. I also administrated and operated the A/V tools for the Access Grid.