Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Creative, senior level network and systems consultant with extensive experience in designing and implementing technical solutions for organizations of all sizes including mid-size to Fortune 500 companies and government organizations. Excellent reputation for delivering projects on time and within budget. Specialties: * Extensive experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHCE certified) * Extensive experience with VMWare ESX/vSphere (incuding working with ESX under a complex environment utilizing VMotion, storage VMotion, DRS, HA, and Fault Tolerance) * Extensive experience with Nagios to perform highly customized and custom scripted monitoring of services. * Extensive experience setting up application-level proxies (ISA, Squid) and reverse proxies (Apache, ISA, Squid) * Experience with Apache, IIS
* Successfully hardened firewalls, routers, switches, and systems (both Linux and Windows-based servers) to satisfy PCI 1.2 requirements for multiple publicly traded companies. * Have successfully implemented and commissioned a highly available and redundant Red Hat Enterprise Linux cluster housing a backend Oracle database system for a mission-critical CRM Application (Siebel) for a busy call centre. * Successfulyl created highly customized Linux environments and customized Linux distribution packaging/installation to simplify and streamline complex deployments. * Performed numerous system migrations away from SCO OpenServer environments to Red Hat Linux environments. * Provided Linux training to IT/IS Professionals for both user-level Linux administration and for Linux System Administration. * Worked as a senior technical project lead to consolidate WAN infrastructures for medium to large organizations to reduce WAN complexity and overall management and operational costs. * Carried out production TCP/IP network redesigns and implementations to overcome network capacity problems for multi-site organizations and to allow for future growth. * Consolidated multiple underutilized physical systems (both Linux-based and Windows-based) under VMWare ESX and vSphere. * Worked as a Senior technical project lead to help consolidate disparate e-mail systems for a large organization which have merged from various different companies to a corporate-wide Exchange systems. * Provided senior level network support (Tier 3) for organizations that have complex network topologies (muitiple sites separated by various WAN connections along with utilizing dynamic routing protocols). * Performed numerous and successful bare-metal recoveries of failed Linux Systems, Windows Server systems, SCO servers, Solaris systems, and Virtual Machines under VMWare ESX/vSphere