J. Kyle Tucker 42 Coach Lane Hampton Falls, NH 03844 Objective: Implement smart, cost-effective and resilient technical solutions in a UNIX-based environment. Hardware: Sun 3/4/Ultras/Enterprise/SunFire/Blade 6000, IBM Blade Center H, HP 9000/S700&S800, Auspex NS7000, Sun 7000 NAS, NetApp F760/F840/FAS3020, Extreme/Foundry/Cisco switches/routers, Burroughs 4700, UNISYS 1100, Bull DPS6/DPX2, Sequent S81, NCD X-terminals, Cayman Gatorbox, MACs, PCs, NetBlazer, Modems. Software: Solaris 2.5-10, SunOS 4.1.x, Red Hat 7-RHEL 5, CentOS 4/5, Fedora Core 4-10, Ubuntu, AIX 5.1-6.1, VIOS 1.5, HP-UX 9.x/10.x ,VWware ESX3.5/ Virtual Center 2.5, Bourne/Korn shell, Perl, HTML, C, sendmail/Postfix, Email MUAs, TCP/IP, NIS, LDAP (FDS,OpenLDAP), NFS, DNS/BIND, NNTP, INN, FTP (WU/ProFTPD), Netscape/Apache, Samba 2/3, Big Brother/Nagios, CA Spectrum, SNMP (Net-SNMP), UUCP, Firewalls (ipchains,iptables,ipf,Nortel,TIS Gauntlet, Cisco ASA), Oracle DBA, X11/Motif, Windows, MacOS (9/10), Legato, OmniBack, NetBackup, CommVault Galaxy, Solaris DiskSuite/Volume Manager, Linux/HP LVM. Experience: 8/07 - Present - UNIX/Network Administrator - Bottomline Technologies * Design and implementation of virtualization initiative for development and production environments to include Solaris zones/logical domains, AIX LPARs and VMware ESX/vSphere servers. * Centralize administration, standardization and authentication of UNIX environments currently distributed throughout various agencies in the company. * Drive new processes and solutions to include systems and services monitoring with CA Spectrum and Nagios, enterprise backup solutions using CommVault, documentation efforts via Wiki and SharePoint. 8/06 - Present - Contractor Part-time, Netcerto, Inc. * Implemented Nagios system monitoring and MRTG bandwidth measurements and alerts. * Performed requirements analysis, design and implementation of Fedora Directory Server (LDAP). Part-time, KYOS Systems, Inc. * Working with lead developer designing and implementing complete Linux- based infrastructure for new startup, to include: Firewall, network, core server/services (LDAP, Samba, Bacula), LAMP, OpenVPN. 8/06 - 5/07 - Contractor, full-time, Harte Hanks Inc. * Performed system consolidation and migration as well as patching and general cleanup of neglected systems as part as heading up the PCI compliance project for both Solaris and Linux servers. * Improving internal infrastructure with the implementation of Jumpstart, syslog-ng and Nagios 2.4 services and improvements in iPlanet LDAP servers to include implementation of server replication. 9/05 - 8/06 - Sr. Systems Engineer - Message Secure Corporation * Responsible for improving internal and customer systems and policies to ensure proper compliance with FFIEC regulations for company's customers within the banking industry. * Work with IT, development and support staff to establish business impact analysis (BIA) and disaster recovery procedures (DR). * Research, test and implement improved Solaris-based applications to include systems monitoring (Nagios), configuration management (cfEngine) and host-based integrity software (Osiris). * Improve internal infrastructure to include DNS, email and other general core services. 3/00 - 8/05 - Manager of IT - Biobase Corporation, formerly Incyte Corporation * Administered Sun and Linux systems in an Internet-based Bioinformatics environment. * Served as Oracle DBA on 8.0 and 8.1 (8i) databases. * Performed webmaster duties for Netscape Suitespot and Apache/mod_ssl implementations. * Managed all network and security systems to include VLANs, routing and Linux and Nortel firewalls and VPN tunnels to other offices and remote client access via VPN/SecurID tokens. * Implemented Mac/Wintel support services using Samba and Netatalk. * Implemented Network Appliance filer and corporate-wide Veritas Netbackup system. * Installed and rolled out i-Planet Directory server for LDAP directory services for email, dynamic web content, etc. * Managed all desktop support people and projects for Windows and Macintosh platforms. * Rolled out Request Tracker "RT" ticketing system to assist problem tracking and Big Brother to monitor systems and services. 1/99 - 3/00 - UNIX Systems Administrator - PAREXEL International * Performed standard systems administration on HP 9000 K and D series servers running Oracle Financials. * Implemented backup solution using OmniBackII software. * Setup and installed SMTP gateway on Solaris using sendmail routing all corporate email in US and Europe. 3/98 - 12/98 - Contractor - Portsmouth Naval Shipyard * Administered several Sun Enterprise 6000 servers running Solaris 2.5.1 and large-scale Oracle DBs. * Automated and streamlined operational tasks and procedures. * Made dynamically created system information available on local Apache server. * Researched enterprise scale backup solutions 9/96 - 3/98 - UNIX Systems Administrator - EBSCO Publishing * Performed all facets of UNIX admin on Solaris 2.5.1, HP-UX 10.20 and Auspex NFS servers. * Setup and maintained Internet services to include firewalls running TIS Gauntlet, and FTP, SMTP and NNTP servers. * Served as webmaster using Netscape Enterprise 2.x and Apache 1.2.x servers. * Wrote HMTL docs and CGI scripts in Perl. * Provided planning of all UNIX systems and guidance to junior level staff members. 5/91 - 9/96 - Manager, UNIX Systems, Progress Software * Responsible for setup of new systems for product porting and development. * Performed system administrator duties on multiple workstations within the development network served by Auspex file server. * Served as Email Administrator for the entire company implementing solutions on UNIX, DOS/Windows and Mac workstations. * Configured complete email network including gateways and remote users. * Set up DNS and Internet connection. MTA (sendmail) & MUA installation, configuration and user experience with Z-Mail, Elm, Pine, MS Mail, PCElm, metamail (MIME) and deliver. * Wrote tools extensively with Bourne shell script and Perl. 7/87 - 5/91 - Systems Analyst - Bull H.N. Inc. * Systems administration on Bull proprietary DPS6 systems and a SUN server with 7 diskless clients and an HP 9000 cluster. * Served as Oracle DBA on both Bull platforms. * Developed media library control systems under Oracle using SQL*Forms and report generating systems using SQL*Plus. 4/80 - 6/87 - Computer Systems Operator - U.S. Air Force. * Served in several roles including operation of Burroughs and UNISYS mainframe systems running all base-wide computerized systems, sole operator of Bull DPS6 minicomputer deployed to remote field operations to track personnel at those sites. Education: * Information Systems Operators Course - 240 hrs - U.S.A.F * B.S.C.S - Franklin Pierce College - Nashua, N.H. 5/90 * Novell 3.11 System Administration - Boston 6/92 * Auspex System Administration - Santa Clara 6/96 * SANS Securing Unix Systems - Boston 7/02 * Implementing Windows 2000 Professional & Server (2152) - Portsmouth, N.H. 11/03 * Managing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Environment (2126) - Portsmouth, N.H. 11/03 * VMware Infrastructure 3: Install and Configure - Burlington, MA 5/09