Matt Oglesby's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Linux systems administration, MySQL administration and optimization, Puppet, Python, shell scripting and most recently Node.JSSenior Systems Engineer @ From January 2015 to Present (1 year) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Linux Systems Administrator @ Linux server implementations, Python development, Puppet administration, MySQL, Nagios, Jenkins, Git, Dell OpenManage. CentOS, RedHat, big data processing via Hadoop From January 2014 to December 2014 (1 year) Kansas City, Missouri AreaCloud Sites Operations Linux Systems Administrator II @ Linux Systems Administrator for the Cloud Sites Operations team. I provide fanatical solutions in an energetic, cutting-edge environment for the Rackspace Cloud. High-performance MySQL, load balancing, Linux security, web analytics From February 2012 to January 2014 (2 years) San Antonio, Texas AreaCloud Sites Operations Linux Systems Administrator I @ Linux Systems Administrator for the Cloud Sites Operations team. I provide fanatical solutions in an energetic, cutting-edge environment for the Rackspace Cloud. High-performance MySQL, load balancing, Linux security, web analytics From December 2010 to February 2012 (1 year 3 months) San Antonio, Texas AreaSystems Administrator @ With a specialty in Linux systems administration, I am a Windows and Linux systems administrator in an environment of approximately 1000 servers. VMware vCenter is used heavily among 7 HP EVA SAN's. My duties involved network troubleshooting, Apache troubleshooting, systems administrative duties on windows and Linux systems, server implementations and hardware break/fix mostly on HP servers, From October 2009 to December 2010 (1 year 3 months) Lead Hosting Administrator, Network Engineer, Wireless ISP Admin @ CTC is a web hosting company providing Linux-based and Windows-based web and email hosting services. Additionally, CTC is a Wireless Internet Service Provider (WISP) providing focused-beam Internet access point-to-point to numerous sites throughout the Kansas City area. Duties: Every aspect of web hosting, DNS and email support without exception. Was the 'final tier of support' in all matters related to web hosting Web server administration of IIS and Apache DNS administration and compliance adherence to RFC's for maximum compatibility with ISP mail filters Database administration of MSSQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu Server Edition, FreeBSD and Windows 2k/2k3 server implementation and administration Accomplishments: Successfully implemented Postfix as a server dedicated to securely running web forms for clients Established new security protocols and security auditing to prevent and mitigate external attacks Implemented firewall upgrades and VPN administration using Cisco VPN concentrators Migrated a 200 client hosting environment from an IBM AIX4 mainframe to a new SuSE Linux environment when CTC purchased another hosting company Successfully sold a plan for VMware ESX server cluster to a client, including the research, white paper and sales presentation. Responsible for bringing in 7 new clients and retained several clients who were ready to change hosting to another provider Provisioned 5 production VMware systems and 9 physical servers Was relied upon several times to successfully recover servers from disaster scenarios Built a Linux Nagios and Cacti network monitoring appliance and a security monitoring appliance using SNORT Implemented a NeverFail * clustered hosting environment Deployed and administrated an EMC Retrospect backup environment Provided full contracted on-site IT support for several clients From April 2007 to October 2009 (2 years 7 months) Network Operations Center Support Staff @ Jack-of-all-trades NOC administration, I performed all tasks expected of an enterprise co-location datacenter. This datacenter hosts collocation customers, resellers, financial institutions, managed and unmanaged, change control and secure clients. Administrated the datacenter for approximately 32 hours of my week with no coworkers or supervision. Server hardware specialist, I performed around 90% of all hardware tasks in the datacenter. Lots of work with servers using RAID-1 and RAID-5, mostly Dell and Supermicro. Website monitoring for dozens of clients, implemented Nagios and Cacti in four enterprise-scale rollouts Point of escalation for data backup issues with EMC retrospect Performed compliance-level systems updates on specific and unique managed clustered windows 2003 and Linux server environments Website backups and change rolls to staging and production Spamassassin corporate mail filter administration TCP/IP troubleshooting and DNS administration LiveStats, Nagios, and Cacti daily administration and updates Virtual machine deployment MSSQL 2000/2005 queries, backups and restores Nagios remote and local administration Peersync, PHPMyAdmin, MySQL deployment and environmental troubleshooting Customer-specific outsourced software technical support UPS, electrical monitoring, security rounds Tape backup transport to secondary secure facility From May 2006 to March 2007 (11 months) District PC Service Technician / Site Network Admin @ Repaired all computers that customers rented for the Kansas City region of the Rentway corporation. I was the only PC technician supporting about 40 stores. I fixed approximately 14 systems per day, fulfilled warranty orders and made part orders for customers and administrated the local network. Major accomplishments: Upgraded the network's antiquated dialup/satellite hybrid network to managed broadband while maintaining a route to the corporate network via satellite by converting a PC into a dual-homed server. Found ways to recover factory installations of systems that had previously throughout the company been accepted as impossible or impractical. Other service center technicians in other parts of the country would call me for advice and instruction. From February 2005 to May 2006 (1 year 4 months) Field Technician @ I had contracted with agencies doing short-term work in PC deployment, service calls requiring Dell certified techs, and major office upgrades. November-December: Unisys - Field technician performing Dell repairs on PC's for various institutions, most notably From March 2004 to December 2004 (10 months) Field Technician @ Responsibilities included troubleshooting, maintaining, installing and repairing a very wide range of PC's, back office systems, cash registers and ATM machines for the largest Point-Of-Sale maintenance corporation in the world. My clients included Applebee's, Bank of America, Dell; Gateway, Price Chopper, Hen House, Aldi, and numerous other fortune 100 and 500 corporations. There is very little in the field of computer hardware or networking that I didn't do while performing my duties. Soldering, calibrating potentiometers for MICR check processors, tracing shorts and on-the-spot rebuilds were a day to day occurrence. Routers, cable testing, switching and limited server work was not daily, but often. More specifically, I dealt with NCR point of sale systems and ATM machines, IBM cash registers, Indiana cash drawers and Lexmark printers. I was and still am a certified Dell and Gateway technician. A+ certification was mandatory as a qualification for hiring. I was entrusted with handling large sums of cash money with no supervision while repairing ATM machines, and also entrusted with keys and security clearance to enter the banks at night. From August 2003 to March 2004 (8 months) Computer Science @ William Jewell College From 1998 to 2001 Blue Springs South High School From 1994 to 1998 Matt Oglesby is skilled in: DNS, Linux, Servers, Apache, MySQL, VMware, System Administration, Bash, Data Center, Postfix, Firewalls, Cloud Computing, RHCE, Security+, VMware ESX