- Certified Mirantis OpenStack Administrator - Professional Level - # 200-977-933 - RedHat Certified Technician - Microsoft MCSE, MCP+I for NT4.0 - Very experienced with AWS EC2 and VPC, RedHat Linux, CentOS, Fedora, SCO Unix, ESX, ESXi, Solaris, and OnTap. - Experience with MS Windows server 2008, 2008R2, NT4, MSDOS - Experienced software and hardware engineering skills with Galera, MySQL, SeveralNines, MongoDB, Hadoop, and Cloudera Manager - Very experienced with HP ProLiant and C7000 Blade Centers, Dell, Network Appliance, and Solaris hardware. - Experience with production monitoring: PRTG, Nagios, Munin, Zabbix, BigBrother, Docker, VirtualBox - Highly proficient with BASH shell scripting - Exposure to OpenStack, Chef, Akamai, EdgeCast, Level3, CDN, UltraDNS, OpenDNS, Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, WebLogic, Rackspace, Ruby

Sr. Linux Engineer @ Part of the Technical Operations Linux Team for Red 5 Studios with primary responsibilities for monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining a global infrastructure that runs the MMO/FPS game FireFall From July 2013 to Present (2 years 4 months) Irvine, CASr. DevOps Engineer @ Migrated the existing database architecture from a vanilla MySQL environment to a HA Galera MySQL cluster. Implemented a HA environment into production through load balancers and HAProxy. Implemented a Change Request policy and managed the changes from development, into staging and finally into the production environment. Built out a Nagios monitoring solution to watch all areas of Production and Development with alerting. Managed the production environment running on AWS EC2/VPC Wrote technical documentation for the in-house team and for customers to use the NetAuthority product. Automated rigorous manual tasks through Bash shell scripting components. From December 2012 to May 2013 (6 months) Senior Linux Engineer @ Primary responsibilities included building out, managing, scaling, and monitoring the production Hadoop cluster. Other major roles performed were managing the MongoDB cluster, development server architectures, and R&D'ing new technologies. Other areas of responsibility were helping out with CDN, and Microsoft Clusters running in an ESX environment attached to a SAN. Built out a monitoring solution for the Linux servers utilizing Nagios, Zabbix, and Munin. Also helped configure PRTG for Windows based servers and databases. Wrote technical documentation for all areas of responsibility. Automated repetitious tasks with Bash shell scripts. From January 2011 to December 2012 (2 years) Irvine, Ca.Linux Staff Engineer for MySpace.com's Unix Team @ I was a member of MySpace's Linux team of dedicated and high energy people that strived to maintain 100% uptime for all of MySpace.Com's storage environments that housed and served all music, videos, images and more for all MySpace.com users consisting of thousands of Linux servers. The job was very demanding and delved out high degrees of responsibilities. From October 2007 to January 2011 (3 years 4 months) Beverly Hills, Ca.Senior Unix/Linux Systems Engineer @ Administered numerous customer facing and high traffic services and machines for Earthlink. Provided all levels of Tier support and worked closely with Product and Project managers to ensure maximum performance and up time. Conceptualized and worked with upper management to create, developer, and deploy a competitive hard core online gaming experience for Earthlink and Non-Earthlink users. From June 2000 to September 2007 (7 years 4 months) Pasadena, Ca.SCO Unix Advanced Certified Engineer @ Peformed On and Off site troubleshooting and system building for SCO Xenix and Unix computer systems. Provided technical support, capacity planning, system backup and restorations after hardware failures. From May 1995 to May 2000 (5 years 1 month) Irvine, CA.Unix System Administrator @ Maintained in-house SCO Unix servers and performed all computer related support functions for several of Global's satellite offices. From August 1989 to March 1995 (5 years 8 months) Anaheim, CA.

RedHat Certified Technician, RHCT @ RedHat Official Training From 2004 to 2005 MCSE/MCP+I, Computer Science @ New Horizons From 1999 to 2000 Chris Young is skilled in: Nagios, Red Hat Linux, High Availability, Solaris, Linux, Bash, Unix, CentOS, Servers, Apache, VMware ESX, MySQL, Amazon Web Services..., Shell Scripting, RedHat, Windows Server, OpenStack, DNS, Virtualization, Perl, Puppet, Load Balancing, Hardware, System Administration, MongoDB, VMware, Ubuntu, Tomcat, NetApp Filers, Hadoop, LDAP, Nginx, NFS, SCO Unix, Exim, Bind, Application Servers, Web Application Security, Network Monitoring Tools, Amazon EC2, Hadoop / Cloudera, Sendmail, Ruby, MySQL Cluster, Integrity, SCO, Ownership, AWS Infrasture, MySQL Galera Clustering, Following Up