Sam Rowe

Contact Information

[Full address upon request]
Athens, Ga 30606

Objective

A challenging position as a senior UNIX Systems
Administrator that will make use of my experience and allow
me to maintain an up-to-date skill set.

Summary

I have extensive experience maintaining multiple ERP
stacks in a heterogeneous UNIX environment including GNU
Linux (Debian, RHEL4/5), HP-UX, and Solaris. I designed
and implemented hardware deployments of hundreds of systems
spanning two data-centers. I have experience with SAN attached
storage.

I use shell scripting, PHP as well as some Ruby and Perl
for some systems administration tasks. I am well versed in UNIX
and network security assessment and implementation. I believe
that documentation is an essential system administration
task. I’m excellent at troubleshooting and have a very good understanding of OS Internals.

Most of my professional systems administration experience
comes from my position at the Board of Regents of the
University System of Georgia. During my employment there, the
organization grew from having less than 20 machines running
one ERP to over 500 machines deployed to run six ERP stacks
with widely different customers, uptime requirements and
resource needs.

Technical Experience

My resume contains no padding. If an item appears below,
I am very comfortable running it in production. Obvious things
like mail/DNS/awk/sed/etc are absent because I consider them
to be a given.

Operating Systems

  • Debian GNU Linux
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux (4,5)
  • HP-UX (11.00,11i)
  • Solaris (2.6-10)

Software

  • Apache (1,2)
  • MySQL (4,5)
  • Puppet
  • Nagios
  • MediaWiki
  • Bugzilla

Toolkit

  • Puppet
  • LVM/SVM
  • Bourne and Bourne Again shells
  • PHP (4,5)
  • Subversion
  • OpenSSH
  • GNU Screen
  • vi/VIM

Articles/Papers and Software

Relevant Employment

Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia Office of Information and Instructional Technology

Systems Support Services
2000-Present
Systems Specialist I, II, III, IV
Virtual Library, Customer and Information Services
1999-2000
Customer Support Specialist I, II, III

The Office of Information and Instructional
Technology (OIIT) provides leadership to the University System
of Georgia (USG) for technologies that support instruction,
research, and service in higher education. OIIT delivers
comprehensive, mission-critical technology resources,
services, insights, and solutions to USG students, faculty,
and staff; the USG Board of Regents; the University System
Office; the Georgia Public Library System (GPLS); and Georgia
residents.

Systems Support Services (SSS) is the UNIX
group in OIIT. Along with our sister-group Network Support
Services, SSS are the infrastructure layer to the Enterprise
Application Services group that runs a variety of Oracle-based
applications including SCT Banner and Oracle Peoplesoft. SSS
also provides UNIX and application support to the 34 USG
institutions.

Accomplishments

  • Provided infrastructure support for Blackboard Vista, Oracle Peoplesoft, SCT Banner as well as some USG custom Oracle applications.
  • Designed hardware deployments for implementation and major-revision upgrades of large software systems.
  • Implemented and maintained Nagios monitoring system with 10,000+ monitored services using many custom plug-ins.
  • Implemented and maintained Compaq StorageWorks SAN.
  • Migrated Compaq StorageWorks SAN to EMC Symmetrix SAN.
  • Implemented and maintained Puppet administration engine.
  • Implemented and maintained MediaWiki-based documentation that became the group standard.
  • Led a group of three in building and managing nearly 500 machines.
  • Co-Authored YaketyStats performance analysis/monitoring application used by all OIIT UNIX systems.
  • Re-implemented GPLS mail system for 12,000 library patrons/employees.
  • Provided phone and email based support to the 34 USG institutions.

References

Available on request.

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