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I love open-source software, I support the SysAdmin community. I believe I should tell the system what to do, and the system should do the hard work.
Experience
Systems Administrator
@Motorola
Maintain and support engineering lab environments. Work in a geographically diverse team and participate in maintaining internal and external customer facing production services. Help to drive virtualization infrastructure adoption utilizing Citrix Xenserver, and VMware products. Help manage monitoring servers (Zenoss, Nagios/NRPE). Maintain configuration management infrastructure.

Bang head on desk, have lots of fun solving interesting and challenging issues.
Dates
May. 2009 - Present
Network & Systems Administrator
@PilgrimPage Inc. / Absorbent Ink.
Perform troubleshooting of business computers and peripheral equipment. Manage Linux IT infrastructure including Gentoo, Debian 4.0, RHEL3, and RHEL4 distributions, Exim and Qmail mail servers, MySQL 4.x and 5.x, and Apache 2.0. Implementation of ACLs to improve security and privilege separation. Initiation of server consolidation and virtualization using both VMware server and the open source Xen hypervisor. Configuration of server monitoring with Zenoss to provide performance trending and system status notifications to ensure minimal downtime of criti
Dates
Feb. 2007 - May. 2009
Linux Systems Engineer
@TeamHPC
Worked within small technical team to integrate and support Linux based cluster solutions based on commodity hardware (AMD & Intel 64bit). Installed and configured servers, workstations, and high performance computing clusters. Worked with high speed interconnects including Myricoms Myrinet(10G) and PathScales InfiniPath. Enhanced automation scripts to check software configuration for correctness and report status. Installed and benchmarked customer requested compilers (PGI, PathScale, Intel, gcc). Re-created hardware burn-in environment using a Gentoo N
Dates
Nov. 2005 - Feb. 2007
IT Specialist
@Sunflower Broadband
Provided customer service and troubleshooting for small business and personal computers. Responsible for maintenance and repair of computer hardware and software for various systems. Rebuilt Gentoo based vlan trunking configuration for a large dormitory.
Dates
Sep. 2004 - Nov. 2005
Network Administrator, IT Manager | Production Manager
@Jordan Photography
Maintained network and workstation computers. Administered website built with Perl running on Apache web server. Managed Linux based mail server running Qmail. Designed and developed mobile servers to synchronize on-site and on-line sales. Reduced image processing time by rewriting image manipulation script, effectively cutting processing time. Configured routers, firewalls, domain name services, e-mail, web, and ftp services. Evaluated, purchased, configured and installed equipment. Developed internal technical documentation. Ceased outsourcing of email
Dates
Aug. 2002 - Oct. 2004
Education
National American University
Fields
Management Information Systems
Dates
2005 - 2007
Vatterott
Fields
Computer Information Technology
Dates
2003 - 2004
University of Kansas
Fields
Computer Science
Dates
2000 - 2002