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Winter Park, United States
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Linux/Unix DevOps Cloud Engineer

AARON SUMMERS Independent Contractor April 2009 - Current • Provide remote Linux, networking, and application support for a variety of clients around the world. • Develop a custom SugarCRM, Xero Accounting, Concrete5 web store using PHP and MySQL. • Daily maintenance and security auditing of around 30 machines. • Build complex cloud based scalable solutions on Amazon EC2. • Scripting and automation of Linux based administration tasks using Perl and Bash. • Migration of web-servers from physical to cloud based solutions. • Provide end level support for certain clients. UNIX Engineer E Solutions Corporation March 2008 – April 2009 (1 year 2 months) • Responsible for supporting the operations of a Tier-1 colocation facility. Daily engineering and administration of OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux and Windows based operating environments. Identified and remedied a large number of network and host based security problems. Stabilized the bandwidth billing system for accuracy and provided assistance to the web development team. UNIX System Engineer Hilton Grand Vacations November 2006 – March 2008 (1 year 5 months) • Designed and built a custom Enterprises Data Ware House utilizing RedHat™ Enterprise Linux, IBM™ Information Server, and the Sun™ N1 toolkit. Back ported the RedHat™ clustering tools and GFS modules for RedHat™ Enterprise Linux 4. • Customized the operating environment for running the IBM™ Information Server 8 family of applications, consisting of IBM™ DB2 V 9.3, IBM WebSphere 6.0, IBM™ DataStage and IBM™ QualityStage. • Was the single onsite operations point for the HP-UX, Solaris, FreeBSD, MacOS X, and Linux machines. Designed and implemented the company’s external web presence using Solaris 10. Utilized zones, the ZFS file system, and hardware RAID on the T2000 platform. Wrote my own tools in Perl, C, and the Bourne shell. Debugged many complex operational problems. UNIX Administrator at Vortech, Inc. 2004 -2006 (2 years) • Responsible for the day to day operations of over 160 production servers. Maintained UNIX web, database and name servers based on FreeBSD 4.11 – FreeBSD 6.1 Built FreeBSD based servers for web hosting, backups, and network monitoring. Built Linux, Windows 2003, and Windows 2000 based servers for use in collocation. Provide phone and email support for web hosting and collocation customers. UNIX Administration and Technical Support at Magna Computer Corp September 2003 -May 2004 (9 months) • Built Linux and SCO OpenServer based servers. Provided support for custom software designed for the timeshare resort industry. Built programs and reports using technologies such as Apache, Perl, and XML. Extensive configuration and tuning of RedHat, Fedora, and SuSE Linux. UNIX System Administrator & Network Engineer at Independent Consultant November 2001 - July 2003 • Designed and implemented OpenBSD, Linux, and Windows 2000 Servers in a collocation environment. Extensive use of Apache, Perl, PHP, MySQL on UNIX. IIS Configuration experience, ASP, ActivePerl. Constructed web based application servers from scratch using previously mentioned operating systems as an install base. Console programming with C and ncurses. Experience with X11 API and GTK toolkit. Second Level Support at Jobwarehouse.com • May 2001 -September 2001 (5 months) • Supporting the primary website and data processing efforts. Networking and Integration at Magna Computer Corp September 1999 -June 2000 (10 months) • Develop TCP/IP based UNIX and Windows intranets. Provide technical support for SCO UNIX and Magnaware applications. Setup and maintain OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, SCO UNIX and Windows based servers and workstations. Education Winter Park High School 1992 - 1996 – Gifted Program Valencia Community College 1996 – 1998 Contractor Recommendation "Aaron is a very good systems engineer for Linux, UNIX and Windows. He has an in depth understanding of system internals. I found him to be an honorable man that stands behind his word and keep on track of the project. He has always been friendly and a good attitude even when he is upset. He would make a good supervisor in any company." — Shelton R., Sr. IT Consultant / DB2 DBA Expert, Xtivia, worked directly with Aaron at HGVC
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Skills

  • System Administration
  • System Monitoring
  • Linux
  • Unix Shell
  • Virtualization

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