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Charles Wyble - Résumé
Contact Information:
Charles Wyble
El Monte, CA
Mobile Phone: 818.280.7059
Email: charles@knownelement.com
URL: http://www.knownelement.com/
Professional Objective:
Im looking to reduce costs and improve efficiency in an IT service
delivery organization, by rapidly sourcing and fielding whatever is
necessary to get the job done on time and within budget.
Skills Summary:
Linux systems engineer with extensive knowledge/experience on both
Debian and RedHat based Linux distributions in a wide variety of
applications. Very comfortable with shell scripting, package
management, user account administration, configuration management,
etc. A frequent speaker/writer on a wide variety of IT and open
source matters, as well as a frequent contributer to open source
projects.
:
*Core IT infrastructure *: Daily administration tasks in support of
Mailman, Postfix, Bind, PXE boot (Debian Fully Automated Install
(FAI) and Red Hat Kickstart on both Xen guests and physical
hardware.
*Linux Server Applications *: Debian and Ubuntu / Red Hat Enterprise
Linux (3/4/5) shell scripting/automation (bash/sed/awk) assisting
tier3 support with software debugging (PHP/Python/Perl/Java) Apache
1.30/2.0/2.2 Postfix and Courier Samba/ProfFTPD
IpTables/Snort/Nessus/Nmap/OpenVAS.
*Networking (switches, load balancers and security)*: F5/BigIP
Global Traffic Manager and Local Traffic Manager Cisco
LocalDirector, 2600/1800 series routers, 3745/2900 switches Linux
Virtual Server (LVS) IPTables, Snort, ClamAV OpenVPN.
* Monitoring*: Nagios, HP OpenView, HP SiteScope and Whats Up Gold.
*Storage*: Hewlett Packard SAN (20 terabytes total storage
supporting VmWare workloads) EMC Clarion cx400 and cx700 (200
terabytes total storage supporting Oracle/MySQL/SQL server
workloads) Promise and Equallogic iSCSI Network Attached Storage
(100 terabytes total storage supporting near line storage and
development workloads) NFS on Linux supporting distributed web work
loads.
*Other*: Basic systems administration of HP-UX 11i Basic systems
administration of Solaris 8/9/10/opensolaris Panther CDN ATT Edge
Cache Akamai VmWare Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 XEN KVM/Qemu/Virtual
Server/OpenVZ/VmWare Server.
Employment History:
Linux System Engineer
Targetcast Networks (via acquisition of RippleTV)
October 2008-January 2010
Provided system engineering expertise for customer facing
advertising platform (AdSpot) and internal fleet management tool
(CPanel). Utilized Nginx, Mongrel, Thin, Rails, Merb, Rack, MySQL
(with replication), memcached and slack to support 2000+ systems.
Linux, Windows, network and security consulting
Multiple entities including Cast And Crew Entertainment Services Inc, Evite.com and Siderean Software
September 2007-October 2008
Provided Linux and Cisco systems engineering expertise for
Evite.com, across 2 geographically dispersed data centers supporting
10 million visitors and 2 million e-mails per day. Utilized
Apache/Tomcat on Gentoo and Ubuntu.
Provided Linux systems engineering expertise for Cast And Crew
Entertainment Services. Utilized Centos to host several green screen
and J2EE web based applications for payroll processing.
Provided Linux systems engineering expertise for Siderean Software.
Utilized Fedora and Centos on dedicated hardware and ec2 to host
numerous web properties including sites for Oracle Software.
Linux/Windows System Engineer
The Walt Disney Company - Parks and Resorts Online - Walt Disney Internet Group
August 2006-September 2007
Provided system engineering and PCI compliance expertise for
Disneyland.com, Disneyworld.com, DisneyCruiseLines.com and 23
related properties generating 2 billion dollars a year. Business
logic was handled by Jboss instances on RHEL3/4 and frontend
application serving was done via Windows 2003 and Tomcat/IIS.
Projects:
* *Automated numerous routine system administration tasks* Created
numerous batch and VbScript programs to handle all aspects of
Windows administration from the command line.
* *Active Directory Project for WDIG* Designed and implemented a
nation wide, 3 data center, highly available Active Directory
system to handle both the PCI and non PCI servers for the Walt
Disney Internet Group.
* *Windows NT to Active Directory migration* Migrated all the
application servers off of Windows NT to Windows 2003 Active
Directory domain controllers. Also have experience with Windows
2008 (including Linux/Cisco/wireless [wpa2 enterprise]
authentication). Used both Centrify and
Samba/Winbind/LDAP/Kerberos.
Linux Systems Engineer
Intuit Inc (via acquistion of Electronic Clearing House)
October 2005-June 2006
Linux systems engineer for a 24x7 transaction processing/ecommerce/
financial services environment. Responsibilities included working
closely with the network administration and infrastructure design
teams and ensuring continuous uptime of multiple high
visibility/high impact/high value envrironments including 1TB MySQL
database, 300 TB Oracle database, 1.5 TB Oracle Data warehouse and a
4,000-store LAMP based ecommerce system (MerchantAmerica.com).
Projects:
* *Deployment of encrypted backups.*
Designed/tested/documented/deployed an enterprise wide Linux
backup system. All data stored on a central server with ISCSI
attached network storage. Uses GNUPG and tar over ssh.
Backups/Restores tested on a weekly basis.
* *Deployment of Oracle database infrastructure.* Deployed 2 Oracle
RAC clusters, each consisting of 3 Dell 6850's. They are equipped
with Qual Dual Core Xeon's and 32 Gb of RAM, running RedHat
Enterprise Linux 4.0 64bit edition. One environment is for staging
and one is for production. EMC attached. This environment is used
for Data Warehouse, Transaction Processing Software and Credit
Card Clearing applications. The hardware and software was deployed
in 3 business days.
* *File Integrity Checking system for PCI compliance.* Deployment of
file integrity checking across 100 UNIX servers using fully open
source software. Used integrit http://integrit.sf.net and some
custom shell scripts which were submitted back upstream for
inclusion.
Linux, Windows, network and security consulting for various startups and defense contractors
Multiple entities
February 2005-October 2005
Projects:
* *LAMP Deployment * Deployed a Debian Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP system
and educated the System Administration and Development staff on
configuration and use for an insurance company.
* *Corporate Linux Deployment/Migration* Provided assistance to a
medium sized engineering firm with a near 100% conversion to Linux
on the desktop and server. Utilizing SUSE Professional 6.5 for
desktops and Debian GNU/Linux for servers (Email/File
Server/DNS/DHCP).
* *Linux Deployment/Migration* Provided assistance to a small
software development firm with a near 100% conversion to Linux.
Utilized Ubuntu Linux for desktops and Debian GNU/Linux for
servers (Email/File/LDAP/DNS/DHCP).
Linux/Windows Systems Engineer
GSI Commerce (via acquisition of Newroads Inc)
July 2002-February 2005
Projects:
* *Disaster Recovery from an Informix Database failure.* Assisted in
the design/testing/and execution of a disaster recovery in real
time (on-the-fly). Wrote and documented the use of several
utilities that cut down the amount of time to recovery by 30
percent.
* *Streamlined the FTP Server Configuration process.* Streamlined
the system configuration and new account creation process for
ProFTPD on a mission critical FTP server. This allowed faster turn
around times and freed up IT resources.
* *Deployed open-source Remote Control Software.*
Deplopyed/Secured/Optimized/Maintained UltraVNC remote control
software. This allowed the Infrastructure Support team to more
rapidly respond to users support requests, and by doing so
increase compliance with Service Level Agreements and increase
end-user satisfaction.
* *Network Infrastructure Upgrade.* Upgraded the network from hubs
to Linksys managed switches to increase network performance and
usability/reliability. No network downtime occurred in the process
of the upgrade.
* *Hardware/Software Inventory Solution*: Wrote a custom
software/hardware monitoring/reporting system to ensure compliance
with software licensing and obtain an accurate overview of company
assets for inventory and disaster recovery purposes. Utilized
WMI/Visio/Microsoft Access.