David Bartlett has over 20 years of experience as a System Administrator, Project Manager, and Team Lead for Cisco Systems. He has expertise in managing Linux, Solaris, and Windows environments along with virtualization technologies like VMware and OpenStack. Some of his key responsibilities included designing, implementing, and maintaining Cisco cloud computing environments; managing high availability compute clusters; automating environments using configuration management tools; and leading projects to reduce costs. He has held several security clearances and managed environments with classified data.

1. System Administrator
David Bartlett
dlb9812@gmail.com
919-446-1181
Education
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS)
University of Akron, 1993
Honors, Awards and Certification
RedHat CertifiedEngineer
Special Training
Project ManagementSkillsTraining (CiscoE-Courseware)
VMware: VMWare 4.1 and 5.0
Cisco UCS:Install,Configure,Manage UCSBlade Servers
Veritas: VCS(VeritasClusterServer),Veritas Storage FoundationforSolaris,VolumeManager, Veritas
Filesystem, Netbackup
SUN:SystemsAdmin,Shell scripting,NetworkAdmin,FaultAnalysis,Clustering,Complex problemsolving
Openstack: Release versionsJuno,Liberty
Software patching/configuration: CFEngine,Puppet,Spacewalk, SALT,Ansible,Chef, home-grownscripts
Security: CiscoSecurityNinja,differentsecurityclassificationsandrequirements,opensource packages,
Splunk,Nagios
Virtualizationtechnologies: Virtualbox,KVM,Xen,SolarisZones,OpenStack,Docker,SunLDOMS
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE
Cisco Systems,Inc. April 1995 – May 2015
RTP, NC27709
UnixSystem Administrator/ProjectManager/Architect/Team Lead
 Design,manage,implementandmaintainCisco (CloudComputing) EnvironmentwithCiscoBandC
seriessystemswithCiscoMDSSAN switchesandEMC storage alongside VMware Software.
 Manage,implementandmaintain Linux,Solarisstandalonecomputingenvironments.
 Setupandmanaged large lab (~1000 end pointcomputersand~20 servers) designedtoproduce white
papers on selling,installing,andconfiguringCiscoproductsinreal worldscenarios
 SupportHA (HighAvailability) computeenvironmentwithSUN ClustercomputingandVeritasVCS
environments.
 Supportcompute environmentsfor Solaris,RedHatEnterprise Linux,andWindows
 SupportedlabwithSecretclassificationandITARenvironments
 Implementandwrite automationbashandPerl scriptsforlarge-scale computingenvironment.

2.  SetupKickstartLinux serversandSolarisJumpstartservers
 Implementsoftware:VeritasFoundationSuite,VeritasClusterFilesystem(VCS),VeritasVolume
Replicators(VVR),Netbackup,Storage Foundation, EMCAvamar (diskdeduplication)
 Lead,Collaborate andmanage the projectstoreduce cost and expenses
 ProjectManager,Engineer,andAdminstratorforsecure email solutionforGlobal GovernmentSolutions
Group
 ParticipatedindatacentermovesinChelmsford,Sydney,Brussels,RTP,andSJ
 Ledupgrade of desktopsforTAC worldwide
 Manage and implementDatacenteroperationsincludingplanningfornew installs,system
decommission,networking,SAN connections,andpower/coolingrequirementsunderastrict andtight
deadline with ChangeRequests.
 Manage and maintainPIX/ASAfirewall(ACLs) toreduce source code loss.
 Manage Apache (HTTP) environmentforproductionusingTeamsite forrevisioncontrol.
 Collaborate withotherteamsonproblemsolvingissues.
 Resolve DataCentermission-critical applicationsundertightdeadlines.
 Communicate issueswithtechsandmanagementstatusandresolution.
 Managed anddesign,implementandmaintainanautomatedbackupstrategyutilizingVeritas
Netbackup.
 Workedwithclientstoupgrade UCS bladesandchassis,andstorage inDCs.
 Negotiatedwithvendorsonlicensing,purchasesonlicensingforsoftware.
 SupportadvancedSolaris(Unix) userssupportonapplication,toolsandissues.
 Team player:Assist,Trainotherco-workers.
 Perform24x7 on-call page duty.
 Heldsecretclearance (supportedlabthatwasclassifiedasSecret) andsupportedanenvironmentthat
had ITARdata.
 Memberof a teamthat definedGlobal DatacenterGovernance.
 Workedwithclientstomove theirdevelopment,productsupport,andtestingintoTier1DCs
worldwide.
 PerformedPOCusingVintellatoenable Unix machinestouse ADas namingservice.
 CreatedwebapplicationtotrackIOSbugs
 Handledescalationsforthe teams.
 Wrote many scriptsoverthe years
 Scriptto merge automountmapsformotherteams intoourautomountmaps
 Scriptto manage usersusingNIS
 Scriptto manage usersusingLDAP
 Scriptto manage mailinglists(insecure environment)
 Scriptto backup local userdata on machines,upgrade the OS,andthenrestore userdata
witha single command
 Scriptto backup data (before Netbackupwasused)
 Scriptsto manage LDAP data
 Scriptsto manage NISdata
 PatchedBugzillatobe usedwithinoursecure space