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Storage Systems | High Performance Computing | System Administration
Linux and Storage Administrator supporting high-performance computing (HPC) environments and large-scale tape
storage systems. Experience with a government research teams HPSS infrastructure and maintenance of critical systems. As well as other
customer environments.
Skills
Operating Systems
Data Center Operations
High Speed Networks
Storage Area Networks
Virtualization
Source Control
SElinux
Firewalld
Hierarchical Storage Systems
Tape Libraries
Ansible
Bash
Infiniband
Fibre
xCAT
Bright Clusters
Education
Bachelor of Science – Information Technology
Associate of Applied Sciences – Information Systems
Professional Experience
Linux System Administrator
2022 – Present
- Collaborate with the primary storage administrator to maintain a 350+ Petabyte hierarchical storage system, addressing user issues, and ensuring system reliability through proactive hardware and software maintenance and upgrades.
- Work alongside a senior colleague to patch and upgrade the Linux-based IT environment and HPC cluster of a small aerospace company, fulfilling requests and enhancing system performance. Recently focusing heavily on security to prep for DoD work.
- Previously worked on integration of new systems into customer locations for Dell, managing the setup from bare metal to fully configured clusters using Bright Cluster Management software. Diverse software stack and hardware platforms.
- Previously deployed and benchmarked High Performance Compute systems for a Fortune 100 aerospace company utilizing a sophisticated software stack (RHEL 7 & 8, xCaT, Lustre, Slurm) on HPE Apollo 2000s & Clusterstor E1000s, deploying an image that was previously created by a senior member of our staff.
- Previously provided crucial support to a team of HPC administrators in maintaining an HPC system ranked in the top 500 globally in performance as of 11/22, with responsibilities encompassing on-site hardware repairs and stress testing.
Junior Technologist
2020 – 2022
- Provided vital technical aid during 2020 period activity period; an average of 12 million American citizens gained access to healthcare during this period.
- Authored role-based documents detailing relevant succession planning information; assisted 750+ trading partners/405+ contacts w/ technical issue resolution, and supported system managing up to 30k weekly transactions
- Produced data analysis upon client request (Center for Medicaid & Medicare Services), confirmed HIPAA compliance, performed troubleshooting, and facilitated translation/transmission of data to insurance providers
- Conducted onboarding of new insurance providers, updated configurations as requested, maintained complex relationship system, and provided data analysis for internal QA and Dev units