Neil H. Watson, UNIX Consultant

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Neil H. Watson

Operating systems:: UNIX (Solaris, SCO), Linux (Redhat, Debian, Suse, Gentoo), Windows NT/2000/2003/XP.
Virtualization:: VMware ESX, Solaris Zones.
High Availability:: Sun Cluster, Red Hat Cluster, Big IP F5, Heartbeat 2.
Hardware:: HP, IBM and SUN chassis and blades, HP EVA SANs
Coding:: Perl, Shell scripting, Sed, Awk, Subversion, Mod_perl, HTML-Mason, PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS and C.
Monitoring Products:: Cfengine, Openview, Insight Manager, SNMP, Sysstat, Big Brother, Opennms.
Network Services:: Apache, Tomcat, Jboss, Websphere, DNS/Bind, Samba, NFS.
Databases:: MySQL, DB2, Oracle.
Email Services:: Postfix, Sendmail, SpamAssassin, Exchange.
Security Products:: SSH, SELinux, Iptables, Tcpdump, Wireshark, Snort, Astaro Linux, Ipfilter, SSL.

UNIX/Linux Consultant Self Employed July 2005 - Present

System Administrator Symcor Contract, May 2009 - Present

UNIX project team and tier 2 UNIX support (Red Hat, SUSE, Solaris and AIX).
UNIX resource for internal and customer facing projects.
Modernized security policy for Red Hat servers.
Delivered clustered print services using SUSE, Heartbeat 2 and InfoPrint Process Director.
Initiated configuration management using Cfengine 3.

UNIX Systems Specialist eHealth Ontario Contract, July 2008 - October 2008

Installed and managed hundreds of Solaris 9 and 10 servers, with Zones, located in multiple data centres.
Maintained, upgraded and repaired SUN and HP Chassis.
Protected hosts against intrusion according to government and security industry best practices.
Assisted in Websphere installation and support.
Participated in architectural planning.
Collaborated with and support Oracle DBA team.
Prepared patch reports and execute patching RFCs.
Built and documented prototype (POC) environments.
Authored continuous improvement reports to save project and taxpayer resources.

System Administrator IBM, Managed Security Services Contract, October 2007 - July 2008

Managed Red Hat Linux and VMware ESX servers.
Managed email (Postfix and Sendmail), J2EE (Tomcat and Jboss), LDAP and Oracle services.
Managed encrypted e-mail services for North American telco carriers in a 24/7 environment.
Maintained, upgraded and repaired IBM chassis.
Spear headed effort to better document services and configuration.
Constantly strove to improve processes and services.
Initiated and took charge of system security auditing and compliance.
Led initiative to improve host, router and switch monitoring through the use of OpenNMS, SNMP and Nagios.
Mentored junior team members.

System Administrator Dundee Securities January 2006 - October 2007

Over 300 physical and VMware ESX virtual servers in a mixed Red Hat Linux, Windows and AS400 environment.
Lead Linux administrator.
Worked with one of the largest VMware ESX installations in Canada.
Designed and built a configuration management service for application deployments, disaster recovery and SOX audit compliance.
Took charge of monitoring network, servers and services using Openview products, Insight Manager, Cfengine and custom applications.
Managed customer and advisor facing web services with a volume of 4 million hits per day.
Maintained, upgraded and repaired HP chassis including blade centres.
Instrumental in the planning and execution of relocating the corporate data centre.
Collaborated with SAN Lead in installing, configuring and testing Qlogic HBAs attached to HP EVA SANs.
Collaborated with SAN Lead in LUN creation, presentation and replication.
Played a key role in planning disaster recovery using configuration management and the Red Hat Cluster Suite.
Initiated consulting and collaboration meetings with other departments to provide better service.
Provide applications and documentation to allow the 24/7 operations department to troubleshoot and correct problems without needing to page other employees.
Mentored junior team members.

System Administrator Voicegenie Technologies October 2000 - January 2006

Over 150 servers in a mixed Solaris, Linux (Red Hat and Debian) and Windows environment.
Lead administrator of Linux and Solaris servers.
Honoured as VoiceGenie’s most dedicated engineer at annual team building event.
Continuously did more with less to help this dot-com startup thrive during and after the dot-bomb bubble.
Provided superior services and support to allow VoiceGenie to have continuous growth for 6 consecutive quarters in the highly competitive voice technology industry.
Maintained, upgraded and repaired IBM, SUN, white box and HP chassis.
Provided 24/7 tier 2 customer service to demanding telco carrier companies world wide.
Designed and built new email and web services to help marketing continuously reach more and more potential customers.
Mentored product architects on Linux kernel building and maintenance.
Mentored university co-ops on technologies and system administration.
Introduced VoiceGenie’s first production 2.6 Linux kernel.
Introduced intrusion detection, encryption, isolated networks and other security policies and procedures.
Authored instructional documentation for both employee and customer use.
Created disaster recovery servers and policies.

System Administrator/CAD Designer F&K Manufacturing June 1994 - September 2000

Over 30 servers in a mixed SCO UNIX, Linux, Novell and Windows environment.
Designed and built the company’s first computer network.
Connected new expansion plants using line of site wireless technology.
Team leader on the implementation of Syspro’s Encore Materials Resource Planning system over a period of 10 months.
Created the company’s first CAD station to cut costs by allowing in house design.
Authored policies and procedures to help the company become ISO 9002 compliant.
Helped to maintain ISO 9002 compliance by becoming an internal auditor.
Created the company’s first EDI data exchange with automotive supply chain customers to allow faster MRP planning.
Created the company’s first Internet connection using Linux to allow electronic collaboration and data sharing with customers and vendors.
Created and maintained company’s data backup policy.

Loyalist College
Belleville, ON

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