Professional Summary:
• Information Technology Professional with wide range of experience
• Architected offsite DR datacenter for NFL - lone Systems resource sent to DR
facility to manage and coordinate installation and implementation.
• Planned & implemented datacenter relocation for Earthtech to new site
• Extensive experience supporting a 24/7 high availability environment
• Ability to adapt to various business environments including Financial, Aerospace,
Engineering, Entertainment, Publishing and DOTCOM
Technical Skills:
Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux (RHEL 6.0), CENTOS-Linux 5.7, SunOS/Solaris 2.8-2.10, Netapp Ontap 8.0, Windows 2003 server, HPUX 10.2
Storage(NAS/SAN): Netapp (2000/3000 series), EMC (Clarion/DMX/VNX), SUN (5320, 6140, Netra, T3), Hitachi 9990V, StorageTek SL500 tape library
Virtualization: VMware (Vcenter 4, ESX 4.1)
Configuration: Puppet, Jenkins, Foreman
Webapps supported: Apache 2.2, Tomcat 6.0, PHP
Scripting: Shell (bash, korn, bourne), Perl
Revision Control: SVN, git
CDN: Akamai, Limelight
Load balancer: F5 BIG-IP 10.2.3, Netscaler
LDAP: Likewise
Databases supported: Oracle10G (DB), MYSQL
Clustering: Veritas Cluster 4.1
Monitoring: Nagios 3.2, Cacti, Ipsoft, Zabbix
Applications utilized: Squid 3.0, Mule 3.0,Atlassian(Confluence/Crowd/Fisheye/JIRA), Veritas NetBackup 7.1, Veritas Volume Manager 4.1, Solaris Volume Manager, ZFS, Jumpstart, Autosys 4.5, Solaris zones
Business Applications supported: Oracle10G (DB), MYSQL, Documentum (CMS), Teamsite/Mediabin 7.1 (CMS)
Server Hardware: Cisco UCS Blade server, SUN Blade server, SUN midrange servers (4200/4600/V490/4450), DELL R610/R810, HP 700 series/C110
Environment: Client/Server, TCP/IP
Senior Systems Engineer @ • Over 1200 Unix hosts (1000 virtual/220 physical)
• 90% Linux (RHEL 6.0/CENTOS), 10% Solaris (2.10) environment
on SUN/DELL/Cisco (UCS) platforms
• VMware for virtualization (including OVF, Vmotion, VCACS)
• Assisted in VMware Tools upgrade
• Use of Veritas Cluster for host clustering
• Puppet/Jenkins/Foreman for content distribution/configuration (created shell script to automate
Puppet file deploys)
• Use of LAMP & Tomcat for websites
• Assisted in migrating MYSQL databases
• Assisted in PHP upgrades
• Project lead to migrate storage for 95 hosts in order to decommission Netapp 3070
• Use of IPsoft and Zabbix for enterprise-wide monitoring
• Responsible for support of Digital assets
• Use of SVN & GIT for revision control
• Use of Likewise for LDAP
• Pariticipated in physical-to-virtual migration of hosts to reach 90% virtual enterprise-wide
Environment From May 2012 to Present (3 years 6 months) Senior Unix Systems Administrator @ Administered and maintained 50 Linux (RHEL 6.0/CENTOS) and 140+ Solaris 10 servers servers, on SUN/DELL platforms.
Began virtualization of enterprise-wide environment using VMware with DELL servers
Provided 24/7 Unix enterprise infrastructure support
Supported major high-traffic international sports website
Assisted in architecting DR datacenter. Lone NFL resource sent to DR facility to manage
and coordinate installation and implementation. Use of VMware on DELL for DR server virtualization.
Migrated enterprise-wide storage from SUN 6140 to Netapp 3240
Assisted in design and implementation of Development server environment
Use of offsite web-caching with Akamai CDN
Maintained site-wide DNS with UltraDNS
Provided support for DEV/QA teams
Monthly web-code deployments. Provided scripted automation for which decreased deployment
Time from 1 hour to 15 mins
Utilized F5's for load balancing, VIP configuration and traffic monitoring
Provided infrastructure support of CMS (content management) applications, Documentum and
Teamsite
Use of Mule for external content ingestion
Use of Squid for internal caching and outbound proxy to vendors
Use of Atlassian Confluence & Crowd for documentation
Use of Atlassian Fisheye (SVN) for code version control
Use of SUN LDAP for user authentication
Maintained & monitored backups using Netbackup with a Storagetek SL500 tape library
Provided in-house Gameday support on Sundays during NFL season. Support included maintaining
group chats, monitoring traffic using F5 and Akamai portals, system/app monitoring using
Nagios and coordinating efforts with DEV teams From July 2007 to April 2012 (4 years 10 months) Senior Unix Systems Administrator @ Administered and maintained 300+ SUN Solaris 9 & 10 servers
Provide 24/7 Unix enterprise infrastructure support
Configured SUN servers for use with EMC SAN (Clarion & DMX)
Create and maintain Unix scripts for task automation, monitoring and performance analysis
Use of Veritas Cluster 4.1 & Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1MP3
Volume management using Solaris Volume Manager and Veritas 4.1 Volume Manager
Provide Veritas NetBackup 6.5 support
Maintain and provide NCFTP support
Extensive use of Solaris Jumpstart to build and configure servers
Deploy O/S patch updates to Sun Solaris
Responsible for maintaining CA Unicenter Autosys Job Scheduler
SUN Hardware upgrades, repair and troubleshooting
Provide Apache support
Security assessment and hardening of Sun OS
Remediate Unix to SOX compliant standards
Experience with data center relocations From February 2005 to July 2007 (2 years 6 months) Senior Unix Systems Administrator @ 10 servers, 100% SUN (SunFire V280 & V880, 6500, 5500, 420R) w/Solaris 6 & 8
Coordinated/implemented a Datacenter move to new building
Volume management using DiskSuite(4.1 & 4.2.1) & Veritas 3.4 Volume Manager
Installed & configured SAN storage array (HP StorageWorks 1000)
System monitoring using Big Brother
Use of Veritas Netbackup 4.5 for backups to SUN L40 Tape Library
Firmware upgrades & installation of storage devices (T3's, D1000's)
Support of Oracle 8i & Oracle Applications 11.0.3
SUN patch updates
Support of REVEAL applicaton on DELL 2500 (W2K) servers
Support of HYPERION on six DELL 2650 (W2K) servers
Tested 2.6 to 2.9 upgrade, including Netbackup & Veritas VM patches
Use of Powerpoint, Word, Excel & MS Project for documentation From May 2003 to February 2005 (1 year 10 months) Senior Unix Systems Administrator @ 200 servers, 85% SUN (Ultra 60, 220R, 420R, V280, Netra-T1) w/Solaris 6,
4% HP (K570) w/HPUX 10.1, 1% IBM (660) w/AIX 4.3, 10%NetApp (740, 840)
w/On-Tap 6.0.1; Department lead for NIS, system monitoring & networking
DNS & Sendmail secondary support
Supported Web services area using Netapp 740 & 840's, Netra T1's and Cisco 2948
switches
Use of Veritas VM & Solaris DiskSuite for volume management
Created DR processes for DNS, NIS & Web Services
Installed & configured APACHE(SSL) & Iplanet web servers
Use of Sun A5000's, Netapp & Winchester Flashdisk for storage
Installed and configured COPS, Tripwire, SSH & sudo for security
Installed & configured procmail & majordomo for enhanced mail support
Maintained software licensing using flexlm & SamSuite
Use of Autosys for job scheduling
Networking duties included architecting isolated private network (using Cisco 6500
switches with 2 GIG trunking), upgrading all servers to 100FDX or Gigabit (fiber) connectivity
Installed and customized Big Brother for campus-wide system monitoring
Use of Powerpoint, Word, Excel & MS Project for documentation
SUN patch updates From August 2000 to May 2003 (2 years 10 months) Senior UNIX System Administrator @ 50 servers, 100% SUN (Sparc 20, Ultra 5 & 60) w/Solaris 6
Installed & maintained the following firewall services - DNS, SMTP (sendmail), Netscape Proxy,
SOCKS, Smartfilter, Gauntlet, NTP, Samba, FW-1; Installed and maintained system monitoring tools BMC Patrol and Big Brother
Installed SSH, sudo and Tripwire on all servers for system security
Installed Y2K patches and responsible for upgrade of all systems to Y2K standards
Responsible for configuring jumpstart for environment (created web-based interface)
Use of rsync & shell scripts (Perl, csh, bourne) for system hardware reporting, user
account reporting, file/directory pulls for repositories From November 1998 to August 2000 (1 year 10 months) Senior UNIX System Administrator @ Advanced UNIX System Administrator
75 servers, 1200 clients, 70% SUN (Sparc 20, Ultra 2, Netra T1) w/Solaris 5,
30% HP (715, 735, C110, J2000) w/HPUX 9.0
Use of Jumpstart, Netdist & Ignite-UX fro system builds
Use of Tivoli for map automation
Powerchute with APS UPS
Created shell (csh, bourne; scripts for system monitoring and automating jumpstart
Responsible for building and installing application servers, print servers and boot servers From April 1996 to November 1998 (2 years 8 months)
B.S, Electrical Engineering Degree @ San Jose State University David Duarte is skilled in: Shell Scripting, Solaris, Disaster Recovery, Linux, Unix, Perl, Troubleshooting, Scripting, Agile Methodologies, Data Center, VMware, MySQL, Oracle, HTML, Java, High Availability, System Administration, Netbackup, Software Documentation, SAN