CURRICULUM VITAE
D.O.B
34 yrs, British, Single
Full, clean driving licence
Tel.: +44 7770-451182
e-mail: jobs@i.eclipse.co.uk
Availability – Immediate
Education
Qualifications -
BTEC National Diploma in Electrical/Electronic Engineering.
3 O' Levels - Physics, Biology, English, 2 CSE’s – Mathematics, Integrated Sciences
Profile
An
experienced, motivated, professional UNIX
System Administrator. Sun Solaris proficient.
Experienced, having worked for many of
Skills
Unix Sun Solaris 2.5.1 / 2.6 / 2.7 / 2.8 (some
2.9)
Hewlett Packard HP-UX 11.0 (limited)
Linux
SuSE Linux Professioal 8.1 / 8.2
Database Good operational
skills pertaining to use of Oracle and Sybase RDBMS’s
and SQL including basic
querying.
PC Good operational Windows
NT Server, Windows 2000 Server and Windows XP skills.
Comms Network
patching of Workstations/Servers to MMAC+, terminal servers,
CISCO routers.
3-DNS/Big-IP Familiar with 3-DNS and Big-IP load balancing
solutions.
VMS Exposure
to DEC VMS.
Training
Oct ‘95 SCO
Unix Systems Administration (SVR4)
Apr ’97 Sun
Microsystems Solaris 2 System Administration
Mar ’04 Veritas Volume
Manager 4.0 (and Sun StorEDGE arrays)
Work
Experience
August 2004 – present
Sun Professional Services/Citigroup
Citigroup Centre
UNIX System Administrator –
Deployed to Citigroup
principally to facilitate the transition of the internal, web based Action
Request Ticket System - ARTS (a Remedy type call logging utility) to another
in-house product known as Virtual Tech.
Duties were primarily
to provide technical/Server support to the numerous service groups within the
world’s largest financial institution, supporting multiple environments
containing hundreds of Servers, from Development thru pre-live/acceptance
testing to Production.
Daily tasks were
varied and would include installing software/packages/patches etc., configuring
disks using Veritas Volume Manager/File System and/or Solstice Disksuite(SDS/ODS),
troubleshooting “users” problems, NIS+/local
account user admin, iPlanet
installation/configuration/upgrades, system performance monitoring, Connect Direct admin and Samba admin.
Systems ranged from
low range Sun Ultra 2’s thru mid-range V880’s
and 6800’s to the
January 2003 – July
2004
COLT (City of
Unix Shift Engineer – eBusiness
Division –
Enjoying a mixed role
which principally is the support of a large number of web hosting servers and
services provided by COLT’s eBusiness
division, to several, varied companies and organisations such as
Lastminute.com, Lloyds TSB/Accucard, The London Fire
Brigade and Oracle, with an emphasis on continuous Server availability and
responsiveness to these business critical systems.
Systems supported are
in the Mid-range level – Sun E420’s and V880’s through to the
Sun Fire 6800.
Operating systems
supported were primarily Sun Solaris 2.8 and SuSE
Linux Professional 8.1, with some HP-UX skills being aquired
more recently.
Daily tasks are to
respond to helpdesk issued Remedy “tickets” and thereafter liaise with clients
directly or indirectly to a point where client issues/problems were resolved
satisfactorily. Often having to organise and schedule downtime with external
engineers such as Sun Microsystems, according to contract
Typical tasks might
include installing Apache Web Server and/or Perl
modules. Installing system patches. Carrying out system
upgrades. Configuration and installation of new clients with an emphasis
on security (ie; use of secure protocols such as ssh).
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July 2000 – August
2002
Commerzbank
Neue Mainzer Strasse 32-36
60261 Frankfurt am
Main
UNIX System Administrator/Support Engineer -
A
systems administration and support role based in
Software supported and
configured includes Veritas Volume Manager 3.0.4, Veritas NetBackup,
I also supported and
installed Printers/Print Servers and gained some exposure to Auspex NS7700 NFS Server, Sun StorEdge
equipment (A5200), Sun Solstice (ODS/SDS)
and Symmetrix - symmconsole
software used to view and configure EMC disk arrays.
Development support role
included building and configuring of development Servers of various
configurations. Performance testing and monitoring of configured Servers using
various built-in and third party tools and utils(sar,
vmstat etc.). Compiling/building and delivering various
installations of JDK, Perl and Apache
(1.3.20) incorporating mod-perl, and various database
lookup modules.
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February 1999 –
February 2000
Clearstream
International (formerly Cedel Bank/Cedel Global Services)
67 Bd. Grande-Duchess
Charlotte
UNIX BAT (Business Acceptance Testing) Engineer
-
An interesting
role which gave me the opportunity to work in a development environment,
supporting a large team of developers in producing and refining, state of the
art clearing and real-time settlement applications for Europe’s largest
settlement Bank. Based on UNIX Servers (multi-node Sun Sparc E10000s with volume managed EMC disk arrays) on a Sun Solaris2.6 platform, incorporating an Oracle 7.3.4 dB and an IBM mainframe environment, main duties
were to progressively and exhaustively test new modules/packages, reporting and
repairing failures in the application and/or Operating System.
Work
Experience
August 1996 – February 1999
Enterprise Oil Plc
A general systems
administrator and support role involving many administrative tasks such as the
installation of bespoke and third party geoscientific
applications and tools, creation and maintenance of user accounts (NIS ), application and operating system
trouble shooting and maintenance, filesystem
management (NFS) and data backup
management - using Veritas
NetBackup & Volume Manager software in conjuntion with a StorageTek DLT tape library unit - and also 2nd/3rd
line support.
Duties also included
hardware maintenance(Sparc 5 thru E450 thru E6500),
configuration and upgrading of Sun equipment such as swapping out HDD’s, Systemboards, the
installation of Fast Ethernet/ATM cards etc.
Operating as part of a
team of support engineers dedicated principally to resolving “user” problems,
but also tasked with long term projects eg. Y2K.
Exposure to a
multitude of applications and utilities including; FlexLM licencse
management software, ZEH
plotter/printer queue management software, Landmark Openworks 4.x suite
of geoscience applications and Oracle
7.x.x.
More
recently involved in the implementation of an ATM network of several hundred clients/Servers.
Also
required to configure Silicon Graphics Indigo and Octane workstations running
IRIX 5.3 and IRIX6.4 respectively.
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April 1996 - August
1996
VISA
International
Working on a new and unique project to provide a
PC Home Banking service for a well known high street bank. Required to monitor and trouble-shoot a
network consisting of Unix Servers (Sun Sparcstations),
running Sun Solaris and an Informix database, supporting several hundred users.
Some administrative
duties such as creating backups and adding users to the network were carried
out, as well proceduralising and documenting the
entire operation in order to obtain ISO9000 accreditation.
-
Linklater &
Paines
Duties included the
installation and configuration of Sun Sparcstations
running on a WAN incorporating multiple servers and Auspex disk arrays, using Sun Solaris/Sun OS and Nextstep OS (a roll out of Sun workstaions
to a 400+ client base).
Offering 2nd level support to client
base, responding to calls logged using Remedy
software.
Installing
cabling, network hub patching and configuration. Main duties were to diagnose problems or
potential problems across network and to carry out any subsequently required
corrective action. Being frequently required to liaise with
external parties to carry out these duties effectively and efficiently.
Exposed
to Telco network equipment (hubs/routers).