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WORK EXPERIENCE
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Eisai Inc., Woodcliff Lake, NJ
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August 2007 - Present
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UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator
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- Documentation of change controls, SOPs, and SOWs in a GxP/FDA 21 CFR-Part11 environment for compliance for systems handling clinical data.
- Provided management of VMware ESX 3.0.2, 3.5 and 4.0 servers and guests using vCenter 2.0, 2.5 and 4.0 for development, test, and production environments. VCB snapshots via Netbackup for backups to maintain VM uptime.
- VMware vSphere 4.1 Install and Configure training. Implemented VMware vCenter clusters on IBM Bladecenter and EMC Clariion platforms. Management of VDI desktops for internal and external customers.
- EMC Clariion CX4-30 and Centera support on SAN to provide redundant and reliable storage services. Netapp filer management.
- Supported IBM Bladecenter LS20, LS21, and LS41 blades. Boot from Brocade SAN for VM farm and provided storage to production systems. Monitoring through IBM Director to provide preemptive support managed via remote console for remote maintenance.
- Supported various generations of DL145, DL360, DL380, DL385, DL580, DL585, ML570 HP systems with both direct attached and SAN enabled MSA30 arrays (MSA1500), monitored through HP Insight Manager. Used ILO remote consoles for management.
- NetBackup 6.0MP4 through 6.5.5 for backups and restores on SL5000, MSL6060, MSL4048, and L8 LTO-2 and LTO-3 libraries to provide a platform for data recovery and bare metal restore capability. Daily review of overnight backups, weekly tape management, and scheduled offsite tape shipments. Proficient with command line and GUI.
- Disaster Recovery implementation and testing of physical production Windows and Linux systems replicated to VMs using DoubleTake for Windows and Linux through Riverbed 5520 appliances to provide a hot backup site for business continuity.
- Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 for use with Oracle 9i and 10g. Managed OS patches and patch auditing using RHN Proxy.
- Support of Sun E220R, E280R, v120, v240, v440, v480 systems running Solaris 8, 9, 10 for SAS users working with clinical data and EDA engineers.
- Worked with Veritas Storage Foundation Basic on Solaris and Linux.
- HP LoadRunner 8.0 to 9.5 script generation for application performance qualification and load testing from geographically dispersed areas. Load tested services through Citrix and HTTP interfaces for performance testing. Attended training June 2008.
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Virage Logic Corporation, Clinton, NJ
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December 1999 - August 2007
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Senior Systems Administrator - Technical Lead
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- Sarbanes-Oxley process compliance, documentation, and remediation with auditors to meet regulatory requirements.
- Manage and mentor admins. Maintain runbooks, standard work practices and operating procedures.
- Networked various development island sites in India, UK and US offices into a single central site using a hub and spoke firewall and VPN design, building a global corporate network, providing employees and partners with remote access and shared services.
- Design and implementation of datacenter and site builds, moves, and expansions in global offices, including employee desktop deployments.
- Involvement in projects throughout Virage Logic's growth from 50 employees to 400 across 9 global sites, including company mergers and acquisitions
- Supported VMware ESX 3.0 on Dell platforms with iSCSI to NetApp filers to consolidate systems. Promoted VMware Workstation, Server, and Player for internal use for sales demonstrations and development. Jumpstart training.
- Network and system monitoring with Cricket SNMP, MRTG, Nagios, Big Brother, rrdtool, and Spong.
- IT quarterly site budgets, and input into global budget. Helped define cost-cutting measures and critical needs.
- VPN access to clustered Juniper Netscreen SA-2000 SSL authenticating to Safeword PremierAccess RADIUS with Safeword Silver 2000 keychain tokens, using Active Directory groups. IMAP and SMTP SSL proxy for secure access from various email clients including Palm Treo. Firewall monitoring and configuration via Netscreen Security Manager.
- Windows NT to 2003, Win XP, Active Directory, Solaris 5 to 10, RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, CentOS 3 to 5, NetApp Filers using NFS, CIFS and iSCSI.
- Planned global WiFi network to give our customers maximum mobile flexibility across sites.
- NDMP backups to Quantum M1500 LTO-3 libraries with Syncsort Backup Express. Offsite backup tape rotation and retention. Gigabit Ethernet backbone for iSCSI, faster backups, easy storage management, high availability, and high performance access to EDA compute server farm data. Linux archive servers for continued access to old projects.
- PXE boot and kickstart Linux server install and provisioning for fast automated server deployment of HP Dl145s. Red Hat Network for patch management.
- Load balanced compute server environment via Runtime Design Automation NC. Wrote wrappers to allow EDA batch software for this environment, coordinating with licensing by Macrovision Flexlm daemons.
- Microsoft WSUS to apply Windows patches, Numara Deploy for automated package deployment, Executive Software Diskeeper Admin/Pro/Server for improving system disk performance, Centennial Discovery for asset management, and Symantec Anti-Virus Corporate Edition for centralized virus and spyware desktop security.
- Netscape IMAP server with LDAP Directory Services, Ironport C10 antivirus - antispam gateway. Backup mail exchangers using Obtuse Systems smtpd.
- 3Com NBX-100 Ethernet telephone system. Investigated VoIP and SIP interoperability with existing system to save on overseas and inter-site calls.
- Internal helpdesk using email-based Numara Footprints. Worked with field sales and engineers for immediate support during critical points in quarter. After-hours support via pager and phone.
- Provided Virage Logic software group with initial software developer environment, consisting of open-source tool chain compiled from source into a distributable kit for Solaris and Linux.
- DNS/NIS/AD infrastructure standards defined for use between sites. Internal and external DNS services, and corporate domain name registration also under my responsibility.
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Mentor Graphics Corporation, Warren, NJ
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September 1994 - December 1999
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Systems Administrator
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- UNIX and PC server operations: Migrated Auspex servers to Network Appliance 760 Filers to benefit from faster access and easier manageability, SunOS 4.1.3/4.1.4, Solaris 2.3 to 7, and Windows NT 3.51 to 4.0. Backups via AMANDA for UNIX, SaMBa/AMANDA for Windows NT, and VERITAS NDMP Netbackup for Filers. Moved Mac users to centralized Windows NT network during corporate migration involving mail and file conversions.
- Manage mail services from Netscape, Eudora, Outlook and NFS clients to Sendmail, Exchange, POP, and IMAP. Support users of all experience levels, setup and maintenance of remote management systems, license management, printing, site software installation, and heterogenous operating system interoperability.
- Collaborated via weekly corporate team leaders multi-point videoconferences on various corporate projects. Responsible for training new hires in my group.
- Communications services including initial testing of VPN over cable-modem/ADSL for telecommuting, Cabletron internal VLANs, PPP servers, ISDN concentrator/routers, and telecommuting X-terminal clients. Used Cisco routers as firewalls to segregate networks.
- Designed and built local Apache intranet web server, and managed via FrontPage98 as member of the corporate web team. Experience with the popular Apache web server since version 1.2.4 as well as the earlier CERN web server c 1994.
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