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UNIX System Administrator Sample Resume

Seeking a position where more than five years of experience as a UNIX System
Administrator will contribute. Ten years' experience managing people and projects.

HIGHLIGHTS
* Diverse experience in HP, Sun and Digital Alpha UNIX. Other skills in Oracle
database administration and networking (DNS, NFS, NIS, Netscape Enterprise
Servers and Sendmail), and scripting.
* Reconfigured disk storage to enable redundancy and improve IO performance by
50% for ABC Inc.
* Saved thousands in installation fees by upgrading hardware on HP 9000 for ABC
Inc. Included installing new CPUs, memory, SCSI controllers and disk arrays.
* Created disaster recovery plan for ABC. Chose vendor, negotiated contract,
created procedures and successfully tested recovery.
* Other experience managing data centers; understand importance of customer relations.
Supervisor comments: "Diane is a producer. She gets things done and is willing
to go the extra mile."

TECHNICAL SKILLS
* Hardware: DEC Alpha 8200, 2100, 1000, and 200, Unisys 3000/600, Unisys
2200/400, HP 9000/800, HP 9000/700, Sun Solaris and Sparc, StorageWorks Disk
Subsystem, EMC, Zitel Solid State Disks, Amperiph Cache Disk, Novell Network,
DNS, NFS and RAID Configuration.
* Software: Windows NT/95, Digital UNIX, HP-UX 10.10 and 10.20, Solaris 2.5.1,
Oracle 7.2, SQL, SQL/PLUS, OS1100, RDBMS, Veritas, Legato Networker,
Alexandria, PerfView, Measureware, Glance, SYMON, View Point, Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, Project, Visio, MAPPER, COBOL and Timeline.

EXPERIENCE
Senior UNIX System Administrator: ABC, Inc., Anystate, USA (1997-present).
Handle administration and support of six HP 9000 servers, along with 25 Sun Sparc
workstations and six Sun Ultra 2000/3000/4000/5000 servers.
* Maintain DNS and Sendmail; install and upgrade hardware and software.
Reconfigure systems to maximize performance.
* Maintain patches, tools and performance. Install and configure Netscape
Enterprise servers, and evaluate new software and hardware. Work with developers and clients.

Project Manager/Data Center Manager (Contractor): ABC Container Corp., Anystate, USA (1996-1997).
* Created disaster recovery procedure. Project completed on time and under budget.
* Achieved N+1 redundancy. Upgraded all HP 9000 and 3000 hardware for full
redundancy and no unscheduled downtime. Mirrored logical volumes and
incorporated hardware RAID. Project completed on time and on budget.
* Handled data storage. Revised back-up schedules and off-site storage; replaced
Alexandria software with Legato Networker to back up large Oracle databases.

Senior UNIX System Administrator: ABC Ltd., Anystate, USA (1991-1996).
Administered six DEC Alpha Servers and one Unisys U6000/300. Also Security
Administrator for three-tiered firewall (Digital Firewall for UNIX package).
* Included installation, upgrades and configuring storage devices. Allocated file space
using Advanced Files Systems and UNIX file systems.
* Managed tuning and performance, back-up, recovery, off-site storage and job
scheduling. Reconfigured mass storage and relocated database files for 33%
improvement in I/O performance.
* As Oracle Database Administrator (1995-1996), handled back-up
administration of 14 databases. Included nightly imports and exports,
hot back-ups and archiving. Built new databases, added tablespace
and tuned existing databases.
* As Manager, Production Support (1995-1996), maintained all UNIX systems, 10
servers and one Unisys 2200/400 mainframe.
* As Project Manager (1993-1996), directed EDI project on time and within budget.
Also completed imaging system project to store customer invoices on optical disk,
improving customer service and lowering costs.
* As COBOL Programmer/Operations Supervisor (1991-1994), worked in A/R,
directing all billing-related programs. Managed three operators.

Programmer (Manufacturing Information Systems): ABC, Anystate, USA (1989-1991).
Working in COBOL, programmed order entry system using relational database.

Supervisor (Central Systems Analysis): ABC Corp., Anystate, USA (1985-1989).
Supervised five staff and additional contractors. Directed support of Regression and
Function Test groups during development of 2200/200 and 2200/400 computers.
* As Tester (1980-1989), developed, ran and documented regression tests for OS/3 and
OS/1100 operating systems.

Prior experience as Computer Operator (three years).

EDUCATION
* MS: Oracle Database Administration, Univ. of ABC (1996).
* Certificate: Project Management, Univ. of ABC (1994).
* Digital Courses in UNIX Administration, Performance Tuning and Shell
Programming (1996).
* Degree: Computer Programming, ABC Institute (1977).

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
* Member: ABC Group.
Chair: ABC Work and Family Diversity Committee.

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