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WORK EXPERIENCE
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April 2008 - Present
Senior Systems Analyst
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Goldman Sachs
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Jersey City, NJ, USA
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- Systems architect for numerous groups within the company's trading division; worked with clients to produce scalable, failsafe and secure systems
- Extensive use of Solaris 8 & 10 as well as Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 & 4
- Deployed numerous enterprise storage solutions - EMC, Hitachi, NetApp
- Third-tier support: responsible for incident management for all mission-critical trading division systems
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October 2005 - April 2008
System Engineering Specialist
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Research In Motion
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Waterloo, ON
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- System administrator in a small team in charge of the global BlackBerry mail relay system
- Designed and deployed monitoring solutions for the global BlackBerry network
- Incident response in time-critical situations
- Wrote numerous launch plans detailing high-impact system updates
- Gained experience administering and troubleshooting Windows Server 2003 deployments
- Continued use of Solaris & RedHat Enterprise Linux
- Design and coding of utilities to assist in system maintenance, process automation and incident impact analysis using mostly Python and Bash
- Performed ongoing security vulnerability assessments and carried out the planning and implementation of vulnerability remediation
- Performed telecommunication carrier launches on the Blackberry Network
- Performed post-incident root cause analysis
- Installation & administration of Smarts InCharge servers, Concord AdvantageView Server & SystemEdge clients as well as a great deal of custom software
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November 2000 - October 2005
System Administrator
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University of Calgary
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Calgary, AB, Canada
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- Lead Linux administrator: evaluated which Linux distribution to use, Planned and executed Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployment to 40 servers & 300 workstations.
- Daily upkeep of mission-critical services, like DNS, Mail, File Servers, Web & Application Servers, Firewalls, and DHCP Servers.
- Implementing a lab for the safe creation and studying of malware - http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-1010538.html - security was paramount, and there has not been an incident in the two years it has been offered.
- Extensive use of Cfengine and Yum for management of our systems. Implemented version control integrated with Cfengine for centralized control of every host configuration.
- Thorough knowledge of hardware & hardware fault troubleshooting
- Design of a PHP front-end/Python Backend/SQL Database to administer hosts on private networks, updating DHCP servers and iptables firewalls.
- Maintainer of University of Calgary Open Source Mirror (http://mirror.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/).
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