Shaun Keenan (925) 408-9425 - Not looking for positions (as of 3/31/2012) skeenan@shaunkeenan.net

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OBJECTIVE
Not looking for positions at this point in time.
Sr. UNIX System Administrator or Architect in a medium or large e-commerce environment

SUMMARY
UNIX System Administrator with over 14 years experience working with computers. Able to adapt and learn whatever is needed to accomplish complex goals in a constantly changing environment. History of success utilizing a large breadth expertise to quickly deliver solutions to complex problems.
10 years UNIX administration (9 years Linux, 4 years Solaris, 2 years BSD)

SKILLS
Expertise: UNIX-Based E-Commerce Web Site Architecture, Production Operations, Security, Change Control
Operating Systems:

Expert knowledge: Linux (RHEL3/4/5, CentOS, SLES9/10, Ubuntu), Solaris 9

Extensive experience: Solaris 8, Mac OS X

Some experience with: Solaris 10, AIX, FreeBSD
Systems Hardware: IBM BladeCenter, Dell PE19XX Blades, Dell PE Rack Servers, Sun V120-V1200, Sun 6800
SAN: EMC Clariion, EMC Symmetrix, Brocade FC Switches
Network Hardware: Cisco 6509, Cisco switches, Cisco CSM, Foundry BigIron, F5 BigIP
Mail: Postfix, Qmail w/ vpopmail, Courier IMAP, Sendmail
Web/App servers: Apache HTTPd 1.3/2.x, Apache Tomcat 5.x, WebSphere 5.x, WebLogic(minimal exp.), IBM IHS
Network Apps, Protocols: BIND9, Samba, Sun Directory Server, NFS, IPTables, DNS, CVS, FTP, TFTP, DHCP, PXE, TCP/IP, SSH
Applications: VERITAS Cluster Server, VERITAS SF for Oracle RAC
Programming/scripting languages: bash, awk, sed, perl, JSP/Java, PHP, Ruby, HTML, ColdFusion, C, C++
Filesystems: GFS, NFS, Linux LVM, VxVM, Sun MD
Databases: Oracle 8i,9i,10g, MySQL; Extensive SQL

EXPERIENCE
Gap (IPsoft, Inc. contract), San Francisco, CA 02/08-Present
Lead Sr. Linux System/Application Administrator

• Support production sites for gap.com, oldnavy.com, bananarepublic.com, piperlime.com
• Systems and SAN administration of 300+ servers and 100+TB san storage
• WebSphere 5.1 J2EE app server administration, including JVM tuning
• CRB approver for all production changes; represent changes submitted by IPsoft engineers
• Diagnose and resolve production site issues
• Automate store closure (maintenance page) procedures
• Script log analysis, app data gathering for production support
• Implement new monitoring
• On-call 24x7/365 as L3 support for IPsoft NOC
• Work on-site with Gap, Inc. Direct site operations team
• Built network for on-site team's connectivity to both IPsoft and Gap networks

Valley Oak Systems, San Ramon, CA 03/07-02/08
Sr. Linux System Administrator

• Maintain 40 Linux servers including 14 Dell PE1955 blades, 10 pizza boxes and 20+ Linux VM's
  
• Maintain a 4-system ESX VMWare cluster with >40 Linux and Windows servers
  
• Maintain an EMC CX300 with ~12TB raw storage
  
• Part of a 3-person 24x7x365 pager rotation
  
• Maintianed the entire ASP environment, hosting a java app w/ oracle backend for 60+ customers
  
• Completely automated new ASP customer deployments, reducing a 120 minute procedure to <5 minutes
  
• Automated many time-consuming manual processes in perl and bash, freeing up time for more project work
  
• Designed and implemented a complete Change Control system using SalesForce AppExchange
• Maintained 3 Redhat GFS clusters and 3 2-node Oracle RAC clusters
  
• Built an automated RedHat Kickstart + TFTP environment
  
• Performed routine tasks on a Catalyst 6509 with a CSM (Load balancer)
  
• Built a windows/unix monitoring system based on open-source software
  
• Helped re-architect entire corp. and production network topology from a flat network to 40 VLANs, increasing stability and throughput
  
• Built a production gateway server to act as the entry point into production for tightened security
  
• Helped build out DR site for production ASP
  

Hotwire, San Francisco, CA 11/05-03/07
UNIX System Administrator

• Maintain 100+ Solaris 8/9 systems in production (app, web, dns, mail, ldap, db, etc)
  
• Maintain 90+ Solaris8/9 systems in PreProd, Staging, QA, and Dev environments
  
• Part of a 3-person 24x7x365 pager rotation
  
• Maintain jumpstart system build environment
  
• Maintain enterprise LDAP systems for UNIX authentication
  
• Architect/Maintain network attached encryption appliance environment
  
• Routine tasks on Foundry load balancers
  
• Maintain monitoring environment (RedHat NocPulse)
  
• Started building Linux KickStart environment for RHEL4 POC
  
• Automation of various tasks through Perl, bash, sed, awk, crontabs
  
• Documentation of new and existing un-documented processes
  
• Simple tasks on Cisco switches/routers (CatOS & IOS)
  
• Helped build out a new data center for Staging and production data warehouse, totaling over 40 cabs of equipment
  

Symantec (VERITAS), Mountain View, CA 03/05-11/05
Software QA Engineer

• Performed QA testing for VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC (SFRAC)
  
• Helped developers track down causes of bugs in SFRAC
  
• Designed an install system to fully automate RedHat and SuSE server installs, eliminating hours of work for QA engineers
  
• Developed PERL-based test cases and testing framework.
  
• Helped fix complicated hardware and OS problems
  
• Managed disk provisioning for SAN (Hitachi/Brocade)
  
• Built a web server to host applications for the Engineering department
  
• Built demo servers for our booths at OracleWorld
  
• Recruited candidates
  
• Trained and mentored new hires
  

CSU East Bay, Hayward, CA 02/01-03/05
UNIX System Administrator/Web Developer/DBA - Consultant

UNIX Administration:
• Installed and maintained 25 Solaris/Linux/Windows servers
  
• Wrote shell scripts in bash/php to automate various tasks, reducing manual workload
  
• Physical installation and cabling servers in datacenter
  
• Purchased, installed, maintained online courseware system (Blackboard), an apache/tomcat/oracle-based application
  
• Built/maintained many Apache web servers, including the main web site
  
• Set up MRTG w/ SNMP to monitor Sun/Linux servers
  
• Built a Linux distribution from scratch for use in secure production servers
  
• Deployed Sun Ray thin clients in a lab and across business desktops
  
• Built Sun Ray servers, configured, developed custom template-based user creation scripts
  
• Performed system and application performance tuning tasks on large production servers running web applications
  
  Database Administration
• Installed, tuned, maintained Oracle and MySQL databases on campus
  
• Developed complex SQL queries with a web front end to gather statistics from commercial OLTP applications, including PeopleSoft and Blackboard
  
• Installed and configured Oracle HS to connect to DB2 through DB2Connect EE using ODBC
  
  Management
• Recruited, interviewed, and hired candidates for an IT position
  
• Handled purchases of Sun and Linux systems
  
• Managed Java application development for Blackboard project
  
• Managed technical aspects of SunRay project
  
• Helped architect EMC SAN
  

Omega Networks, Walnut Creek, CA 2003
Owner/President/System Administrator

• Created a UNIX shell and web hosting company, did accounting, taxes, etc
  
• Built secure Linux server to host DNS, web pages, and UNIX shells
  
• Developed main web site in PHP and MySQL, including an online ordering system
  
• Built a qmail/vhost email system w/ IMAP/SSL to handle large volumes of mail on multiple domains
  

Toomay Technologies, Concord, CA 1999-2000
Software Developer

• Worked as a C/C++/VisualBasic software engineer designing products for medical and law enforcement agencies.
  
• Developed TCP/IP client-server applications, along with a variety of other types of software for Windows
  
• Maintained the internal LAN and external communications.
  

Internet Frontier, Walnut Creek, CA 1999
Technical Support/Linux Administrator

• Provided technical support to the ISP's customers
  
• Basic Linux admin tasks such as backups, new system installs, troubleshooting
  
• Learned TCP/IP networking with Linux
  
• Sendmail, Apache administration
  
• Fixed email problems as necessary
  

VIZ-Soft Development, Concord, CA 1997-1998
Programmer/Windows System Administrator

• Designed and maintained network for the company using Windows NT
  
• Built all company computers
  
• Helped in troubleshooting problems over the phone and internally
  
• Subcontracted to other companies as a system support specialist
  
• Designed advanced gateway communications programs
  
• Also helped the Contra Costa Software Business Incubator through VIZ-Soft
  
• Designed network for the entire floor to help all of the companies collaborate using Windows NT Server
  
• Designed, installed the company's E-Mail system (SoftArc FirstClass)
  
• Set up individual computers for companies to connect to the server
  
• Helped companies/education institutions troubleshoot technical problems
  

EDUCATION
CSU East Bay, Hayward, CA
Completed 2008 - Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science.

REFERENCES
Available upon request