Ron Echeverri
1460 Luning Dr
San José, CA  95118-2324
<rone@ennui.org>

Objective:

Qualifications:

• I've used UNIX since 1990, and have administered UNIX systems since 1996
• Experience in building, moving, and automating various 24x7 minimum-downtime environments
• Quick, hands-on learner

Buzzwords:

Technical Work Experience:

June 2011 to present
Systems Engineer

October 2009 to May 2011
Senior Systems Administrator

• Administration of every production environment (CentOS 3, 4, 5; AIX 5.3), including deployment of new production code
• Improvement of deployment, administration, and support procedures, including scripting and documentation

October 2008 to June 2009
Senior Systems Administrator

• Complete administration of the File Transfer Fabric environment, including automation (kickstart, RPM, Bourne shell scripts) and documentation
• One of the principals in data center move and infrastructure upgrade project (doubling the amount of production servers, redesigning namespace, defining new VLAN roles and separation)
• Monitoring setup and administration (GroundWork)
• Postmaster and hostmaster duties (postfix and BIND)
• Cisco switch administration (Cisco 3750)

February 2008 to September 2008
Lead Systems Administrator

• Project lead for new QA environment (CentOS 5.1 on IBM hardware)
• General cleanup and streamlining of systems infrastructure
• Part of the colocation cage migration project
• Training of junior sysadmin
• Delineation, implementation, and documentation of procedures

June 2006 to October 2007
Senior Systems Administrator

• Major participant in building a new data center for version 3.0 of the Visible Path application platform.
• Traveled to Bangalore office to set up network and system devices
• Hardware and OS deployment and maintenance for 30 hosts running Solaris 10 (SPARC and x86_64) and 20 hosts running SuSE Linux 9 and 10
• Administered Foundry BigIron RX-8 core switches; Juniper SSG 550, NetScreen-25, and NetScreen-50 firewalls; F5 BigIP 1500 and 1000 load balancers, WANJet traffic accelerator; Digi CM console servers
• Administered Caucho Resin Professional as the container for the platform application
• Oracle database administration via SQL*Plus
• Administered Perforce and JIRA servers
• Set up MediaWiki for documentation of operations procedures, and created a significant amount of documents within the wiki
• System monitoring using Sitescope
• Bourne shell scripting for task automation

January 2000 to February 2006
Senior Systems Administrator

• Participated in hot cutover in public-facing Web farm, online store, and financial systems between colocation facilities.
• Hardware and OS deployment and maintenance for 150 Sun hosts, running Solaris 2.6, 8, 9, and 10, and 200 HP hosts, running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and Windows 2000 and 2003
• Administered F5 BIG-IP load balancer
• Set up Veritas Cluster installation
• Automated deployment of new servers via Jumpstart (Solaris) and Kickstart (Red Hat Linux)
• Installation and maintenance of third-party software packages (GNU tools, INN, Apache, jakarta-tomcat, MySQL, JDK)
• LDAP integration of Microsoft Active Directory on Linux and Solaris hosts via Centrify DirectControl
• Postmaster duties (sendmail 8.x), 2000-2003
• Hostmaster duties (BIND 8.x, 9.x), 2000-2004
• Automation via Bourne shell scripts
• Responsible for documentation of processes and training of junior sysadmins

Education:

• University of Southern California, Computer Science, 09/1990 - 05/1993
• Various Solaris Systems Administration classes for Solaris 8, 9, and 10
• Classes for Veritas Foundation Suite (VxVM and VxFS)
• USENIX LISA 1997, 1998, 2010
• Fluent in Spanish (speaking, reading & writing)