I am a Systems Administratior with a SQA background. I enjoy working in the IT/Network Operations field and I have extensive experience working at startups in particular.

Top Secret Sys Admin @ I work at Broadcom for an awesome team and my boss is no BS! He is a badass! :-) From July 2015 to Present (6 months) Linux System Administrator @ • Provided personalized and professional IT services for home office and small business clients. • Responsible for all emergency and routine software & hardware diagnostics, repairs, upgrades, and new installations. • Lead support specialist for all distributions of Linux and all UNIX variant operating systems. • Support specialist for all Windows operating systems and Windows server platforms. • Delivered networking services including design, installation, security, monitoring, optimization and diagnostics. • Coordinated web design and web administration services including new site design and routine content management. • Provided remote administration to clients via remote desktop applications and SSH over VPN connections. From March 2009 to July 2015 (6 years 5 months) Sr. Systems Administrator @ • Setup and managed global IT infrastructure spanning and linking US, Russia, Saudi Arabia and India to bring together 4 diverse teams of 250 microprocessor designers and Linux kernel software engineers working 24/7 365 collaboratively using Windows Remote Desktop. • Created and maintained a large system of grid computing clusters and tied together globally shared file systems to facilitate simulations, place and route and other cpu-time intensive EDA tool jobs. • Implemented a Jira bug tracking system and partitioned it departmentally to create a singular and customized bug tracking and ticketing system. • Managed a team of systems administrators and coordinated the needs of team leaders with bi-weekly status meetings over Skype to keep all IT departments in all 3 locations on the same page. I then communicated with executive management to make sure IT was facilitating the organization’s rapid growth. • Deployed and supported CentOS, RHEL, Debian, Ubuntu, SLES, and OpenSUSE workstations and servers. • Sustained the growth of 100 employees in less than a year by deploying laptops, desktops, and file servers via imaging, PXE install and image maintenance procedures. • Deployed and managed Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory for the Windows Laptops and desktops and CentOS OpenLDAP for the Linux based infrastructure – deployed and managed Microsoft Exchange 2010 for email communication and main authentication backend for authenticating users to services in all 4 offices. From May 2010 to July 2013 (3 years 3 months) Software Quality Assurance Engineer @ • Installed, configured, misused, abused, and tested hardware, Linux OS and software components of PowerFile's product suite. • Created and maintained a large QA lab with a diverse set of server and client platforms all working together to simulate enormous Active Directory and Unix/Linux based enterprise environments. • Worked closely with Software and Hardware Development teams and Product/Project Management to prioritize bugs, assist in the timely resolution of bugs, and verify bug fixes. • Coordinated, developed and executed test cases and test suites. Contributed to test plan creation, and management updates. • Reviewed and edited technical documentation (user manuals, release notes, readmes) to ensure accuracy, completeness, consistency, and adherence to standards for quality, graphical representation, coverage, format and style. • Verified test results through interpretation of data and output from the server and parsed debug logs using scripts and regular expressions. • Identified and reported bugs and managed bug reports and their priorities and statuses using our bug tracking tool (Bugzilla). • Approached testing with a business and customer-centric viewpoint to effectively prioritize and escalate issues. • Responsible for the integration of Samba in PowerFile's product line. I coordinated with the Samba team/SERNET to resolve issues with the Samba suite of software by finding bugs, providing packet captures and finding the best way to configure Samba in an Active Directory environment. • Worked closely with support engineers to resolve Samba related issues in the field. • Wrote documentation and internal whitepapers that gave step by step methods and best practices to configure samba and the A8 in any type of enterprise class Active Directory environment for support engineers. From February 2007 to April 2010 (3 years 3 months) QA Engineer @ • Coordinated the design and developed the specs and operating parameters for OC Provision, (Now "LinMin BareMetal") which is a Linux based PXE Installation server that provides rapid and automated network deployment of all popular distributions of Linux and all Windows based operating systems. • Responsible for investigating, discovering and documenting the underpinnings of the Windows OS network installation process. This information I gathered was used to create the Windows PXE installation feature. I interfaced with product management and software developers to demonstrate concepts, and insure correct design and implementation of the features. • Provided training and pre-sales product demonstration assistance to support and sales teams. • Created the first documentation, discovered, and developed best practices which were then used to create the final product documentation. • Wrote test cases, scripts to automate testing, bug reports, technical support guides, and research papers. • Built VMWare test labs for QA engineers and software engineers with techniques that optimized development processes. From October 2005 to February 2007 (1 year 5 months) Computer / Network Consultant @ • Provided personalized and professional IT services for home office and small business clients. • Responsible for all emergency and routine software & hardware diagnostics, repairs, upgrades, and new installations. • Lead support specialist for all Windows operating systems and Windows server platforms. • Lead support specialist for all distributions of Linux and all UNIX variant operating systems. • Delivered networking services including design, installation, security, monitoring, optimization and diagnostics. • Coordinated web design and web administration services including new site design and routine content management. • Provided remote administration to clients via remote desktop applications and SSH over VPN connections. From March 2003 to October 2005 (2 years 8 months)

Clayton Hill is skilled in: VMware, Technical Writing, Mac OS X, Linux, System Administration, Networking, Windows, Testing, Operating Systems, Unix, Linux System Administration, Cisco Technologies, OS X, Network Management Applications, Hardware