Scott Robbins

New York, NY

scottro11@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE

Creative, bi-lingual self-starter, with strong customer service background, seeks IT position where I can further develop and grow, preferably in a primarily Unix, BSD, or Linux environment in NYC area. A chance to use Japanese language skills is a plus. Experienced in both Linux/FreeBSD administration and desktop support of Windows and OSX.

EXPERIENCE

New York Internet, New York City, NY 2013 -Present

Systems Administrator

Datacenter

• Troubleshooting client network connections

• Administration of FreeBSD based firewalls

• Handling client remote hands requests

• Working with qmail and postfix email servers

• Working with client web servers on a variety of platforms

• Some Vmware Cloud

• KVM (On CentOS) servers

• Creating scripts for monitoring purposes

• Some experience with RS1 (Idera) software

• Monit installations on FreeBSD and Linux servers

• FreeBSD Jails

• Zabbix

• Updating company documentation

• Mentoring and training new employees

• Updating and maintaining authentication servers

• Updating and maintaining FreeBSD and Linux server

Competitrack, Long Island City NY 2007 -2013

Linux Administrator

Mid-sized ad tracking company

• Researched implementation of OpenLDAP and Sun Directory Server for centralizing authentication

• Responsible for approximately 30 Linux servers (CentOS, OEL, Ubuntu)

• Researched and implemented Nagios and Cacti for network monitoring

• Implemented external FTP server (Pure-FTPD)

• Assisted in maintenance of local network (HP and Cisco switches)

• Some bash and shell scripting for task automation.

• Set up and maintenance of RT3 ticket system

• Set up of various Apache servers

• Implemented and supervised mail migration from QuickMail to CommuniGate Pro

• Updated company documentation, using Drupal

• Implemented internal mail server using postfix

• Support for over 100 Windows (2000, XP, Windows 7), Mac OS X, and Ubuntu desktops

• Support of Mac OS X servers

• Support of Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 Server

• Support of Celerra backup software

• VMware P2V migration of Linux and Windows servers, Vcenter and Vsphere 5.1 including

• ESX and ESXi from 3.5 through 5.1

• Vcenter and Vsphere installation and administration

• Postini administration

• EMC Celerra administration

• Light experience with NetApp

• Some experience with AIX administration

• Setup backup cron jobs

• User Administration (Linux and Active Directory)

• Setup Oracle Linux Enterprise Servers for Oracle production and Oracle development sites

• Kernel upgrades on production systems

Starlo Fashions, New York City, NY 2000 -2007

Network/Systems Administrator

Mid-sized fashion company

• Desktop support of 150 user LAN including hardware

• MS NT Domain administration

• Instituted change from static to DHCP addressing

• Reconfigured network infrastructure to integrate new subnets into existing topology

• Integrated NT domain into Unix network in branch offices

• Configuration of Mac application server and clients

• Integrated Mac OS X into the network environment

• Managed user, group, and email accounts on AIX, Linux, NT and FreeBSD servers

• Initiated move of several services and directories from aging NT4.0 servers to FreeBSD

• Shell scripts to automate image processing

• Devised several open source solutions for various needs, saving thousands in licensing fees

• Gradually changed atmosphere between users and IT department from confrontation to cooperation

• Helped users integrate their Blackberries with our network.

• Helped configure Nortel VPN switch, as well as working with users in connecting through the VPN.

• Aided in relocating several subnets, including planning of routes and location of routers.

CERTIFICATIONS

MCSE NT4.0, Windows 2000, (Early Achiever Award), MCP+I, CCNA (These were obtained in 2000)

PERSONAL PROJECTS

Contributed patches for several FreeBSD ports as well as patches to documentation. Several articles on CentOS wiki. Moderator on CentOS forum.

Web site at http://www.srobb.net is well known for newcomer friendly documentation.

LANGUAGES
Moderately fluent in spoken Japanese, with some reading and writing capability. Able to write the two phonetic alphabets and approximately 500-600 ideographic characters (kanji), capable of reading perhaps 100 more. Completely conversant with all levels of speech from Keigo (polite speech) to regional slang.