Ernie Oporto

Current

UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator at Eisai Medical Research Inc

Past

Senior Systems Administrator at Virage Logic Corporation
Systems Administrator at Mentor Graphics
Systems Administrator at Xerox

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Education

Pennsylvania State University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Ernie Oporto’s Summary

My personal goal is continuing self improvement and education. I am a systems administrator who loves new technologies and working with the best of systems and services. I established myself as a solid systems administrator at Mentor Graphics in the 90s and have continued adding to my skill set with the broad number of services supported by our small global IT team at Virage Logic, focusing in the datacenter. At Eisai, I am expanding to systems that I previously had no experience with, gaining value for myself and my employer.

I am also currently the author of the open-source MonkeyChow web based RSS reader. Using Apache, MySQL, and PHP, this goal of this system is to provide subscribers with fast access to the information they need, from social networks to news bulletins. I am a strong supporter of using RSS as a transport for announcements over the currently overburdened email system.

Ernie Oporto’s Specialties:

Application, services, networking, hardware, and software interoperability. PHP development. Interface with vendors. SOX and CRF11 documentation compliance.

Ernie Oporto’s Experience

UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator

Eisai Medical Research Inc

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Biotechnology industry)

August 2007 — Present (1 year 5 months)

* UNIX/Linux administrator with duties covering care for a large growing datacenter hosting legacy HP DL380 and DL385 systems, and VMWare ESX server farm on IBM BladeCenters booting from an EMC CX3-40 SAN managed through VMWare Virtual Center for development, test and production environments, hosting Windows and Linux operating systems
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 managed through Red Hat Network via RHN Proxy
* NetBackup 6.0MP4 setup backing up 28TB per week in a production environment involving multiple media servers and libraries including BMRs
* disaster recovery of physical systems using Netbackup BMRs for dissimilar restore into ESX VMs, replication using Double-Take and Riverbed Steelhead appliances
* application load analysis with HP Mercury LoadRunner
* all services involve pharmaceutical GxP guided processes requiring documentation and approval of the environment as well as execution and logging of SOPs and SWPs.
Senior Systems Administrator

Virage Logic Corporation

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; VIRL; Semiconductors industry)

December 1999 — August 2007 (7 years 9 months)

Senior systems administrator in charge of my site and leading the team of administrators at our various US and international sites on a non-management role.

* Managed various Network Appliance servers in a GbE NAS environment backing up to a Quantom LTO3 library via Syncsort Backup Express in support of a 150CPU RHEL3 compute server farm composed of 2U systems.
* Responsible for DNS, NFS, NIS, Dfs, Juniper Netscreen firewalls and Juniper SA-2000 remote access services for various sites worldwide.
* Managed my local domain controllers and OUs for corporate Windows domain.
* Software installation and troubleshooting for various EDA tools on Linux and Solaris.
* Established software group's development environment.
* Responsible for maintenance of our 3Com NBX phone system.
* Provided desktop servces and end-user support to site as well as offsite sales offices.
Systems Administrator

Mentor Graphics

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MENT; Computer Software industry)

1994 — 1999 (5 years)

I started as a junior systems administrator and worked my way up to being the lead admin with responsibility for all IT functions at my site.

* Managed a Network Appliance file server in a NAS environment backing up to a Sony AIT tape library with Netbackup in support of a small compute server farm.
* Responsible for local DNS, NFS, NIS, Dfs. Managed Windows NT domain controllers for our site.
* Software installation and troubleshooting for various EDA tools.
* Provided desktop servces and end-user support to site.
Systems Administrator

Xerox

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XRX; Consumer Services industry)

June 1994 — August 1994 (3 months)

In my first job as a systems administrator, I worked through Manpower for Xerox in Philadelphia, PA. My sole role was to take care of their new Docutech print queue system through a SunOS system. There was not a lot to do, so I wrote a print queue management program in C in the spare time. My role quickly expanded to fixing Powerpoint slides that did not print to match their on-screen appearance due to a bug involving overcrowding of objects on the page, which helped for an SAP conference that happened to be in town. This experience with MSOffice quickly devolved into Excel data entry for the lazy sales guys so I decided to start looking for something else.

Ernie Oporto’s Education

Pennsylvania State University

BS, Electrical Engineering, 1987 — 1992

I concentrated on VLSI CAD design during my electrical engineering studies at Penn State University. After declaring my major, the school split computer engineering into a separate program. After graduation in Dec 1992 I decided to pursue computer engineering as a graduate student through May 1994. Being a new father at the time, it made sense to put my formal education on hold and move on to starting my career.

Activities and Societies:

Member of the Pi Sigma chapter of the Zeta Psi fraternity from 1988 through 1990.