I have over 20 years of experience in administering a variety of systems with emphasis on Linux and Solaris. I enjoy building UNIX based infrastructures, mentoring junior system administrators and always trying to stay on top of technology. I have many years of experience both working in the trenches and managing small groups. I'm always looking for opportunities to do more managing rather than engineering too.
Working knowledge and specialties:
Storage: AFS, NetApp, NFS, RAID
Hardware: HP, IBM, Sun
Virtualization: Openstack, VMWare, Xen
Operating systems: RedHat, Solaris, Ubuntu
Load balancing: Alteon, F5
Software: Apache, BigBrother, Blackboard, CFEngine, Graphite, FTP, Helix, Nagios, Puppet, RRDTool, Sendmail, shell programming, Subversion, RRDTool, SNMP, SSH, SSL, TSM, Urchin
Senior System Administrator @ Part of the System Administration team responsible for the maintenance and architecture of the Linux infrastructure. Much of our work is project oriented consisting of operational and business goals. From July 2012 to Present (3 years 3 months) Greater Seattle AreaSystem Engineer @ Member of UNIX Engineering managing the UNIX infrastructure. Involves building systems, assisting customers with configurations and PCI compliance along with building documentation and configuration management. From August 2010 to July 2012 (2 years) Greater Seattle AreaSenior System Administrator @ Built web infrastructure from scratch utilizing redundant Sun and Linux servers delivering 379,000 sessions, 10.5 million hits and 224GB of data per day. Infrastructure consists of NetApp cluster (NAS), load balancing, SSL acceleration, Apache, Java and PHP. Primary web configuration provides hundreds of virtual hosts and thousands of aliases and redirects. Developed custom system for 24x7 monitoring and notification using opensource software (Nagios, SNMP) and custom tools (shell scripts, RRDTool). Manage three analysts as part of team. From December 1999 to July 2010 (10 years 8 months) Consultant @ Consulted a variety of clients requiring ksh scripting, WinNT administration, Sun Enterprise equipment staging, configuring hardware diagnostic routines and custom scripting tasks. Provided advanced system administration for Win95, WinNT, Sun, HP-UX and RedHat Linux. From January 1998 to December 1999 (2 years) Computing Consultant III @ Evaluated new software technologies. Projects included enterprise backups system (ADSM) for heterogeneous operating systems and AFS, heterogeneous network print spooling system, central console system for multiple UNIX hosts and many small projects. From June 1995 to January 1998 (2 years 8 months) UNIX LAN Administrator @ Provided operating system, application, and hardware support for business and design systems utilizing RS/6000's, SunSPARC 10, 20, 1000/E, 2000/E and Storage Arrays. Performed troubleshooting and planning support for interface between UNIX systems and MS DOS/Windows environment. Coordinated and maintained 500 node fiber optic LAN installation throughout manufacturing plant. From April 1994 to June 1995 (1 year 3 months)
B.S.B.A., Computer Information Systems @ Western Carolina University From 1988 to 1993 Joe Morris is skilled in: Red Hat Linux, Solaris, Sendmail, RAID, SSH, NetApp Filers, Kickstart, Alteon, Load Balancing, LDAP, Linux, Blackboard, DNS, Puppet, Apache, Kerberos, SMTP, FTP, ITIL, Disk Arrays, AFS, NFS, Cfengine, Xen, F5 BigIP, SNMP, Lighttpd, Ubuntu, Confluence, TWiki, Change Management, RT, SVN
Websites:
http://snowboardjoe.livejournal.com,
http://its.unc.edu