Anthony Castaneda

Self employed Systems Engineer, for Unix/Linux networks, in Entertainment, IT Data Centers, and Industry.

North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

About

https://linkedin.com/in/unixoracle 20 Years, Sun SOLARIS. Sun clusters, and HA installations. 15 Years, Hewlett Packard HPUX, HP9000, HP SuperDome. 15 Years, Redhat LINUX, RHEL, Redhat Fedora. 10 Years, Other Linux distros, Ubuntu, Suse, IBM AIX 15 Years, Windows 2000, 2003, 2008. Active Directory. 15 Years, EMC SANs and NetApps NAS. HBAs, fiber nets. 10 Years, ORACLE DATABASE, DBA, OEM, 11i eBiz, SOA. 5 Years, VMWARE, installation, operation, migrations. 5 years OpenStack, Python and Java Systems Administration for Walt Disney, Technicolor, and ARCO in large datacenters. Contract systems admin for IBM, UNISYS, Elance, and others. Specialties: SUN UNIX, RH LINUX, UBUNTU and Windows Server 2003 / 2008. DISTRIBUTED CDN web centers using Akamai, EMC/Veritas replication, and Hadoop. DATABASE ORACLE, MYSQL and now Hadoop Cassandra Database administration. ENTERPRISE Applications like Oracle eBiz, Oracle SOA, Oracle OEM, IBM Websphere. CLOUD SYSTEMS (Amazon AWS/EC2) design, implementation, migration, and administration. LANGUAGES: TCL/TK, BASH SCRIPTING, JAVA, PYTHON. I LOVE PYTHON, LOL.

Experience

  • Consulting Engineer at Self-employed, Digital Data Technology
    Jan 2013 - Present · 13 yrs 6 mos

  • Senior UNIX Systems Engineer (Contractor) at IBM
    Sep 2011 - Aug 2013 · 2 yrs

    Primary steady state, and project management for Enterprise Systems, highly available systems, and computational clusters. High Performance Computing / FEA simulations for Boeing, Pfizer, and National nuclear energy labs. Automation systems, UAV drones, and unpiloted ground vehicles research. Big Data applications like Hadoop, Cassandra DB, and HDFS. Distributed Edge of Net, Content Delivery Nets, Manufacturing execution systems, and Production Automation.

  • Senior RTI Unix Virtualization Engineer at Unisys
    Jan 2008 - Sep 2011 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    Remotely configure, operate, and maintain Unix and Linux servers, for Large Corporate Networks. Oracle DB/OEM/RAC installation and ops. Migrate corporate data centers to the UNISYS proprietary cloud, and the Amazon AWS/EC2 cloud. Conducted large disaster recoveries after Hurricane Sandy. Implemented Hadoop, and OpenStack clusters in the OpenSource interest group. Operated remote monitoring, and remote configuration tools like Puppet, and CFEngine.

  • Contract System Administrator at Contract Employment
    Jul 2005 - Dec 2007 · 2 yrs 6 mos

    Contract systems administration for Large Corporations (Unisys, IBM, Northrop Grumman, Rockwell Collins), Education (UNLV, ACT), and Entertainment (Walt Disney, Technicolor, Sony) Performing UNIX systems administration and Oracle DBA work for contract agencies. I heavily support SCADA, process control, manufacturing and logistics applications. I am part of the Apache Foundation, and a participant in Apache Hadoop, and OpenBIM (Building Infrastructure Modeling). Some committments have been nearly two years long.

  • UNLV Engineering Systems Administrator at University of Nevada-Las Vegas
    Mar 2005 - Dec 2005 · 10 mos

    Engineering systems administrator at the Howard Hughes College of Engineering, UNLV. Installation, operations, and security for 300+ workstations, SCADA engineering lab computers, controllers, data acquisition points, RTUs, and robotic lab student robots.