Digital Smiths
5001 Hospitality Court Suite #100
Morrisville, NC 27560
(919) 460-4747
Release Engineer - January 8, 2010 - Present
Smart Online, Durham, NC
4505 Emperor Blvd Suite 320
Durham, NC 27703
(919) 765-5000
Senior System & Network Administrator February 16, 2007 - January 5, 2010
- Oversee the operation for all six data centers ensuring proper security are in place as well as maintain 24/7 services on all the mission critical servers.
- Maintained mixture of servers environment including 12 Solaris servers, 80 Linux servers, and 40 Windows servers.
- Participate in planning, analysis and implementation of information-technology solutions in direct support of business objectives.
- Perform cost benefits analysis and risk assessment on all recommended strategies regarding all tools and applications to be used in the organization.
- Analyze, design, implement and configure any new server on both the Linux and Windows platform.
- Designed a high availability production environment for the Onebiz platform using cloud computing.
- Installed and configured Redmine to be used as a project management tools for the company.
- Implemented Microsoft Sharepoint for collaboration within the company.
- Installed and configured GlusterFS for distributed and replicated storage.
- Implemented heartbeat for clustering critical servers.
- Installed Cacti for monitoring and analyzing system performance during the load testing.
- Standardized on the built and deployed the OneBiz syndication using bash scripting.
- Built Liferay Portal from source and standardized the developing processes.
- Installed and configured Eventum, Bugzilla and Mantis for bug tracking tools evaluation.
- Configured and maintained the Fortigate firewall rules with an appropriate security and functionality.
- Configured Nginx as a load balancer for the web site.
- Configured Terracotta which uses Network-Attach Memory to cluster the Onebiz application.
- Implemented Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) on the OneBiz environment using Snort.
- Developed a monitoring system using Nagios to monitor all of the websites, the servers and various services.
- Implemented automatic restart of the services (apache2, tomcat, etc) using Nagios.
- Setup subversion repository mirror offsite as part of disaster recovery.
- Installed and configured OpenLDAP + Kerberos Server for single-sign on.
- Installed Trac to be used with Agilo for Scrum.
- Configured apt-cacher server for caching Ubuntu repository inside the LAN network.
- Implemented cluster of virtual machines using Xen Hypervisor.
- Migrated the E-mail systems from Domino Servers to Mailtrust (a third party business email hosting & Webmail services).
- Analyzed, designed and implemented the development network infrastructure using dedicated servers with virtual servers.
- Configured the backup for the OneBiz environment using Bacula and rsync.
- Configured all the servers (Linux, Solaris and Windows) to be compliant with the Daylight saving time change in 2007.
- Create various bash scripts for setting up, configuring and maintaining the Linux servers.
- Installed and configured an SMTP server using Postfix to be used as a relay mail server.
- Managed two System administrators and provided each individual with technical guidance.
- Composed Sarbane-Oxley documentations for the company IT department.
- Standardized the process for setting up a new hire and terminating an employee.
- Installed and configured On-Time application.
System Administrator January 15, 2005 – February 15, 2007
- Responsible for configuration, installation and administration various network devices and servers.
- Fulfilled administrative responsibilities including users support, desktop/laptops support, and server support.
- Setup an internal firewall using firewall builder on an OS Linux Gentoo.
- Maintained all the Linux and Solaris servers backup via Amanda.
- Maintained all the Windows servers using Veritas Backup.
- Configured Awstats for various syndication partner sites.
- Installed and configured additional Domino servers for clustering.
- Maintain the Lotus Notes Domino server as well as the Lotus Notes client.
- Configured and maintained DNS servers for the internal network as well as the public DNS for the corporation.
- Configured and maintained DHCP servers.
- Documented the configuration for various tools and applications used by the company via wiki.
- Setup and internal NTP server.
- Setup a Gentoo repository server.
- Installed and Configured SSH for employees to securely access the Linux and Solaris servers.
- Configured OpenVPN for the employees to access the corporate network.
- Installed and Configured FTP servers for both the external and internal usage.
- Maintain the Lotus Notes Domino server as well as the Lotus Notes client.
- Configured IIS for websites and for FTP access.
- Maintained Merek Mail server for the DSO application.
- Configured OCS Inventory for all hardwares and softwares inventory.
IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC
Zeus Hardware Engineer June 2004 – January 2005
- Assembled, trouble-shoot and debugged Zeus/Maia/Hermes system during development in addition to supporting numerous firmware and test groups.
- Modified and updated processor, PCI and Super I/O circuit boards.
PGEA – Ruthless Hardware Developer August 2002 – December 2003
- Generated and processed ASR test cases (with and without IBM Director) for Integrated Function Test via Atlas Prime.
- Implemented VHDL code for decoding port80 write data from LPC to I2C bus.
- Performed signal quality on the L4 cache signals.
- Supported test groups (EMET & ServerGuide) in maintaining Ruthless in operational status.
Alcatel USA, Raleigh, NC
LiteSpan Hardware Engineer January 2000 – July 2001
- Designed a test card for accessing various functions of the Line Interface Cards.
- Composed a technical specification document for the test card.
- Implemented, tested and verified a 3-to-1 protection scheme to be programmed in an FPGA chipset using Verilog HDL.
- Designed a genetic micro-controller daughterboard (MPC850) to be used as a central controller for numerous LiteSpan Line Interface products.
- Generated a technical specification document for both the 3-to-1 protection scheme and the genetic micro-controller daughterboard.
Nortel, Research Triangle Park, NC
Service Operation Technology April 1998 – July 1998
- Worked under Virtual Machine environment.
- Converted postscript files to html and vice versa, using REXX programming language script.
Peripheral Application Developer January 1998 – Apri 1998
- Debugged PRS coding, Nortel proprietary programming language.
- Extensive researched on ATM and xDSL technology for developing future Nortel products.
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Major GPA: 3.405/4.000
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Alumni 2001