1. Tony Mitchell
1804 Chinaberry Dr
Oldsmar, Florida 34677
813-649-8694
tony_mitchell0@yahoo.com
Work Experience
Linux Systems Administrator
10/2015 – Present (c) Wellcare
Healthcare, Tampa, FL
➤configured and maintained three syslog-NG servers under
RHEL 6.7. Servers collected data from over 360 UDP & TCP
sources, and acted as relays forwarding filtered syslog messages
to QRadar Event Processors
➤Made all modifications to syslog-NG config file, including design
of all filters, requiring thorough understanding of syslog message
structures (facility & severity levels, PRI numbers. Constant data
collection analysis via tcpdump.
➤bash scripting to collect and parse (grep) data from tcpdump
files to count connecting devices. Automated calculations for
Events Per Second, busiest devices, which aided in load balancing
between QRadar Event Processors. Built Command line
monitoring tool for use by team members. Configured postfix mail
for daily email notifications. .
Systems Administrator
03/2014 – 10/2015 Adheris Health -
Inventiv, Tampa, FL
➤First member of Tampa Computer Operations for newly formed
company. Tasked with transition of computer operations from
selling.company, Catalina Health. Heavy amount of project work
as our 3-member team gathered info on applications, tools, and
processes and then integrated the products into the new
production environment.
➤Inherited role of System Administrator, a vacant position,
where I maintained Windows, AIX and Linux platforms,
approximately 140 servers.
➤administration for 40+ SuSe, RedHat & AIX servers; Implement
rigorous security measures for user access with appropriate
permission changes and sudoers editing. Maintain UX/LX mail
systems (sendmail & postfix). Built shell scripts to provide email
notifications for NAS volume mounts and i-node counts for Linux
servers where Solar Winds was inadequate.
➤SAN administration - add/delete/re-size volumes, configures
shares via NetApp Manager; create appropriate Windows shares
and Linux/AIX file system mounts.
➤Axway Admin duties including gathering info on departmental
needs, translating into Axway components, then implementation,

2. testing & moving to production. This includes data management in
restricted PHI network domain.
➤SolarWinds - used as main monitoring tool. mid-level admin
experience with modifying alerts, and unmanaging
decommissioned servers.
➤Autosys was major monitoring tool for 700+ jobs running on
UNIX platform.
➤Intermittent visits to Orlando Collocation site as required to
perform minor maintenance tasks
➤Nagios server build experience on Centos Linux. Full
understanding of Core configuarion files. Postfix mail alert
integraton.
Systems Support Engineer
12/1996 – 01/2014 Greenway Medical Technologies,
Tampa, FL
➤Systems analysis on external clients' servers providing trouble-
shooting, diagnosis and re-configuration to optimize application
performance.
➤20 years experience interfacing with internal and external clients
providing support for Operating Systems, servers, networks,
workstations, thin/dumb terminals, peripherals.
➤10 years experience supporting SCO UNIX, Red Hat Linux and
AIX systems; shell scripting, print spoolers, file system
maintenance, OS repair, tape and disk drive mounts, kernel tuning;
Samba; tar, cpio, Lone-Tar backups, BackupEDGE.
➤10+ years systems admin experience with Windows 2003/2008
Server environments, Domain Controllers, roaming profiles and
Active Directory; Windows XP/7 desktop support, Remote
Desktop, Terminal Services, RemoteScan, ThinPrint; support for
all peripherals (scanners, printers, fax solutions); troubleshoot all
server performance problems (perfmon, event logs; support for
Symantec BackupExec, BrightStor ArcServe.
➤8+ years Progress DB Admin, including DB restores, extent
repairs, AI file maintenance.
➤8+ years network analysis including firewall maintenance
(rule/service definitions, VPN maintenance).
➤Experience with MySQL installation on Windows & Debian
Linux; basic understanding of DB creation and data querying.
➤OpenText Fax Appliance product support specialist.
➤3 years supervisory experience with a staff of 4, and 2 years
management experience with a staff of 10; experience with all
levels of management providing technical input on proposed
protocol and procedural changes.
Director of IS

3. 08/1994 – 12/1996 Muffler Shops of St Pete (Midas),
Clearwater, FL
Maintained SCO UNIX and XENIX systems for 32 Midas shops
on East coast for Central and South Florida; ensured
functionality of modem bank for nightly data transfers;
performed remote UNIX server maintenance; on site visits for
replacement of printers, serial boards, WYSE terminals; install
cabling and cabling terminations for all new shop systems;
maintained corporate Novell server and network, and performed
all CNA tasks as required; re-designed and consolidated sales
revenue reporting system through advanced macro design in
Excel spreadsheets.
Education
9/1983 - 5/1987 University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
● Bachelor's Degree - Majors in Statistics and Philosophy.