[1]Word version [2]Text version [3]PDF version Neil H. Watson Greater Toronto Area, [4]http://watson-wilson.ca, [5]http://www.linkedin.com/in/neilhwatson * Senior (SAGE Level IV) UNIX/Linux system administrator. * 15+ years of IT experience. * Consultant, architect and leader. Skills 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. Experience UNIX/Linux Consultant Self Employed July 2005 - Present * High availability consulting with Heartbeat 2, Red Hat and Sun Cluster suite. * Design and deploy Cfengine service. * Design and deploy backup services. * Troubleshoot Continuent MySQL cluster. * Upgrade, install and repair server chassis. 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. Education Loyalist College Belleville, ON * Electronic Engineering Technician 1994 * Mechanical Engineering Technologist 1993 Online Papers * "Enterprise system administration using configuration management" [6]http://watson-wilson.ca/blog/ent-sysadmin.html * "Cfengine Cookbook" [7]http://watson-wilson.ca/blog/cfcookbook.html * "Clustering with Redhat" [8]http://watson-wilson.ca/blog/db2-cluster.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This document was translated from L^AT[E]X by [9]H^EV^EA. References Visible links 1. http://watson-wilson.ca/resumes/resume_neil_h_watson.doc 2. http://watson-wilson.ca/resumes/resume_neil_h_watson.txt 3. http://watson-wilson.ca/resumes/resume_neil_h_watson.pdf 4. http://watson-wilson.ca/ 5. http://www.linkedin.com/in/neilhwatson 6. http://watson-wilson.ca/blog/ent-sysadmin.html 7. http://watson-wilson.ca/blog/cfcookbook.html 8. http://watson-wilson.ca/blog/db2-cluster.html 9. http://hevea.inria.fr/index.html