Ian Wilson

Last updated June 10th 2011
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IAN M. WILSON

Morehead, Kentucky 40351

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OBJECTIVE 
To secure a position as a valuable member of your System Administrations, Infrastructure, or Supporting Engineering group that will utilize my skills, work ethic, achievements, and knowledge to its fullest.

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SKILLS 
  • Red Hat Certified Architect, RHEL5
  • Red Hat Certified Engineer, RHEL6
  • Novell Linux Certified Engineer, SLES 11
  • Emergency Medical Technician
  • Very experienced with Configuration management Engines (puppet, chef, cfengine)
  • Experienced with building and provisioning EC2/Eucalyptus Machine Images for public and private consumption using automated tools and manually
  • Experienced in writing application support code (python, perl, php, and bash) and application packaging (rpm/deb/ebuild)
  • Experienced in troubleshooting and maintaining a J2EE stack and providing java based bug fixes whenever needed.

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WORK EXPERIENCE 

August 2006 - April, 2011

San Francisco, CA

Support Engineer/Utiltiy Engineer, VA Software/CollabNet (SourceForge Enterprise Edition/TeamForge)
  • Started in Support group, providing world class support and Linux (RHEL4/5) Administration to internal and external customers.
  • Transitioned to Engineering in 2008, provided engineering support and one-off solutions for federal and other VIP customers when needed.
  • Critical resource for building cfengine profiles for internal and external use.

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September 2010 - May, 2011

Tipp City, Ohio

(Contract) Linux Architect , AO Smith Electrical Products Company
  • Maintained and Administered Linux farm of 200+ servers (physical and virtual).
  • Built a ERP Code testing framework for Progress Database and QAD's MFG/PRO system, and provided a EC2 based DevOps promotion framework for Developers.
  • Brought all systems into central configuration management engine (puppet), building templates to ease administration of systems.

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May 2010 - June 2010

Columbus, Ohio

(Contract) Linux Architect, Online Center for Library Computing
  • Designed, built, and implemented a system to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems that integrated seamlessly with Novell's Zenworks Management system
  • Completed Project in two weeks, four weeks ahead of schedule.

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May 2008 - October 2008

Toledo, Ohio

(Contract) Linux/Storage Architect, TNS NFO, NA
  • Provided administration and architecture decisions on SAN devices, Linux Administration, and Network guidance during upgrade of mysurvey.com to new version of Oracle Forms and Reports/Database.
  • Designed, built, and implemented home-made monitoring, analytical, and hostmaster system for systems.

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2001 - 2005

Hawthorne, New York

(Contract) Field Engineer, Marketing Services, IBM North America
  • Wrote Linux kernel drivers for custom hardware for well-known retail hardware store.
  • Provided Support for IBM's Point of Sales systems to field customers.
  • Helped design, build, and implement scalable point of sales solutions for Fortune 5 customer.

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EDUCATION 

Morehead State University, Morehead, KY, August 2010 - Present

MBA in Business Administration (Goverment and Non-Profit Administration), 3.8 Grade Point Average

 

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