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WORK EXPERIENCE
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Virage Logic Corporation, Clinton, NJ
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December 1999 - Present
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Senior Systems Administrator - Technical Lead
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- Sarbanes-Oxley process compliance, documentation, and remediation with auditors.
- Manage and mentor junior admins and interns.
- VMWare ESX, Workstation, Server, and Player. Used VMWare Infrastructure 3 with VMotion on Dell platforms with hardware iSCSI on NetApp filers.
- Network and system monitoring with Cricket SNMP, MRTG, and Spong
- IT hardware and software quarterly budgeting locally and some input into overall corporate budget. Helped define cost-cutting measures and argue for critical needs.
- Remote access services through clustered Juniper Netscreen SA-2000 SSL VPN authenticating through Safeword PremierAccess RADIUS for Safeword Silver 2000 keychain tokens, making use of Active Directory groups and corporate desktop identification. Limited remote access to those using personal equipment to eliminated time-consuming support of personal PC systems. IMAP and SMTP SSL proxy for secure access from various email clients including Palm Treo phones.
- Netscreen firewalls monitored with Netscreen Security Manager.
- Radware Linkproof to aggregate ISP links for redundancy.
- Squid proxy used to provide caching for sites.
- Unix and PC - Solaris 5 through 10, RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4, CentOS 3 through 5, Network Appliance Filers using NFS, CIFS and iSCSI, as well as Win 2003/XP Active Directory.
- Wireless network planning and implementation to provide our laptop users with maximum mobility and flexibility when traveling between sites. Compatible with VPNs.
- Fileserver backup management on LTO-3 libraries with Syncsort Backup Express, offsite storage rotation and tape retention for backups. Gigabit Ethernet backbone for iSCSI, faster backups, easy storage management, high availability, and high performance access between filers and EDA compute server farm. Linux-based tertiary archive after projects closed for later reference.
- Automated Linux compute server install and localization using Kickstart and PXE boot. Red Hat Network used for patch management.
- Load balanced Red Hat Linux and Sun Solaris compute server environment. Wrote wrappers to allow EDA batch software to operate in this environment, coordinated with licensing by Macrovision Flexlm daemons.
- Microsoft WSUS to deploy MS Windows patches, Numara Deploy for automated software package installation, 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 used smptd.
- 3Com NBX-100 Ethernet telephone system. Investigated VoIP and SIP interoperability with existing system to save on overseas and inter-site calls.
- Internal helpdesk used to provide email-based support through Numara Footprints integrated with Centennial Discovery. Worked with field sales and engineers often to provide immediate support during critical points in quarter. After-hours support via pager and phone.
- Corporate software developer environment established using GNU compilers.
- DNS/NIS/AD infrastructure standards defined for use between sites. Internal and external DNS services, and corporate domain name registration also under my responsibility.
- Continually educate myself and research upcoming technologies through trade shows, webinars, online and published articles for solutions that can benefit my employer. Includes time management and project management skills.
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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 through 7, and Windows NT 3.51/4.0. 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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