GEORGE K REIMER


Abington, PA 19001


George.Kurt.Reimer@gmail.com


SKILLSET

Linux/Unix Systems Administration

Administer Networks of Linux, Solaris, other Unix and Windows workstations and servers. Coordinate OS installations, upgrades, and bugfix/security patch management. Modify, configure, install and maintain Internet infrastructure services including email, webservers, usenet, FTP, DNS, SSH/Telnet, IRC, Nagios, Splunk, and Math/Stat packages including Mathematica, SAS,GCG/Seqweb, and 'R'. Diagnose/tune/correct configuration, performance, network/SAN/communications, and hardware issues. Support end-users and other IT depts. Manage, educate and mentor SysAdmin department members. Track and manage development and installation/rollout projects. Provide technical and end-user documentation, develop procurement resources.

Symantec NetBackup Administration

Install/Administer/Expand multi-server Symantec Netbackup environments, manage version upgrades 5.1->6.5->6.5.6. Integrate/configure SAN-connected virtual and physical tape libraries. Implement multiplexed, multistream and encrypted backups. Use commandline & GUI tools, develop customized reporting and maintenance scripts, manage license compliance, develop comprehensive DR strategies.

Software Development

Develop software systems in assembly (pdp-11, Rockwell PPS-8, Intel x86), C , Perl, Unix Shell, PHP, Awk, and Fortran. Applications include Banking, Point-Of-Sale, Brokerage, and Internet. Platforms include Sun Microsystems, Linux/Intel, MS Windows, MsDOS, other specialized operating systems. Develop Administrative scripts in Bourne/Korn/Bash Shells, Perl, Awk/Sed, Windows PowerShell and specialized utilities.


EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

The Phone Works - Collingdale PA 11/9/2015 - Current

Unix/Linux Systems Administrator

Administer Linux (Centos) Systems supporting a time-and-attendance system for home healthcare workers. Maintain/Expand Nagios monitoring, Asterisk PBX, PostgreSQL Database, ConnectWise Control, PHP, Perl & Python development environments, and SSH/SFTP systems. Maintain legacy PHP applications, code in Perl, PHP, Bourne/Bash shell, and Python as required. Troubleshoot/maintain/upgrade PC hardware. Provide 2nd-level customer/tech support as required.


FIS Global – Malvern PA 10/7/2011 – 11/9/2015

Design/Code/Document a multibank exceptional transaction auditing/reporting system in Shell and Perl for FIS Profile banks, extracting data from plaintext or encryted GT.M (Mumps) journal files. Develop HTML/CGI maintenance web interface. Support Apache/Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, and FIS Banking Applications on RHEL/Linux on Intel Platforms. Compile/Install Apache+PHP+ModPerl on AIX. Provide 2nd-Level tech support for banking application web UI in Apache/Tomcat and Websphere environments. Install and configure Splunk, assist in Data Import/Report/Analysis, RegExp design/development. Administer, support and maintain Orsyp and Zena distributed scheduling software across multiple Profile bank installations. Contract position.


Christiana Healthcare Services - New Castle, DE 8/1/2011 - 10/1/2011

Administer, maintain, troubleshoot 6.5.5 and 7.0.1 Symantec Netbackup Systems in a Windows Server 2003/2008 environment. Shutdown/Restart operating environments, Install/Configure new clients, resolve access/authentication issues, develop maintenance scripts in Windows Powershell. Contract position.


Fox Chase Cancer Center - Philadelphia, PA 2005 - 2011

Unix System Administrator

Perform full range of Linux/Unix Systems Administration Duties for Fox Chase Cancer Center, notably:

OS installation, upgrade, bugfix/security patch management for Centos/RHEL/Suse Linux and Solaris.

Troubleshoot configuration, performance, monitoring and logging issues, basic kernel tuning.

Diagnose/Repair hardware issues, install/replace memory, drives, peripherals, boards as required.

Configure/Build/Maintain OpenSource & Commercial bionformatic/statistics and infrastructure packages.

Develop & implement server/network hardening standards for RHEL/Centos/Fedora Linux and Solaris.

Modify/add F5 firewall/loadbalancer configuration as required for server add/removal.

Maintain/Troubleshoot Big Brother and Nagios monitoring systems, migrate Big Brother to Nagios.

Primary administrator for Symantec NetBackup Enterprise Server system

Manage growth from 100 to 450+ client systems, 5TB to 62TB weekly backup volume.

Integrate Diligent virtual tape library, expand Netbackup system to remote data center.

Implement Multiplexed backups and client-side encrypted backups., reduce failed backups by 85%.

Upgrades V5.1 → V6.5.6, design/script customized reports, manage license compliance with Symantec.


Voicenet - Ivyland, PA 1994 - 2003

Manager Systems Administration

Lead six member Systems Administration department in managing about 70 Solaris, Rehdat Linux, OpenBSD and Win NT/2000 servers for Voicenet, an internet service provider.

Install/maintain/upgrade commercial & opensource internet infrastructure including email (sendmail and qmail), web (apache and IIS), auth (NIS and NIS ), dialup auth (radius), Usenet (INN, cyclone, typhoon, diablo) unix shell, DNS (bind), FTP (wuftpd and proftpd), UUCP, and MSSQL/MySQL db servers.

Install, maintain and modify the above and other open-source software packages (such as pine, tin, mutt, openSSL, openSSH, others) in C, Perl, Awk, Shell. Modify source as required.

Schedule rotating OS and application version upgrades and patch applications. Keep abreast of security issues through open forums such as CERT and bugtraq and vendor sources.

Serve as 2nd/3rd level resource for tech support, customer service, and billing departments, including direct customer contact as required.

Design/configure systems and enhancements including spam/virus filtering and virtual webserver farms.

With vendor debug/enhance Radiator RADIUS Daemon.

Within department manage personnel including annual review, hiring, termination, education and mentoring on professional growth.


Omnivoice / Omni-Telecom - Ivyland, PA 1991 - 1994

Programmer/Analyst

Document, modify and enhance a full-featured Voicemail system, in the C and Basic languages, running on Motorola 680xx hardware under the OS-9 operating system. Design and code, in C and X86 assembler, interfaces between the NCSA Telnet and FTP clients and the PCBoard BBS system, running under MSDOS. Develop Async drivers for an x25/Serial interface card connecting PCBoard callers through proprietary ATT X25 networks. Provide tech support for Voicemail and BBS customers, develop utility and MIS software as required.


AW Computer Systems - Mt. Laurel, NJ 1989 - 1991

Programmer/Analyst

Using C in an SCO Xenix programming environment, design, develop and modify application components of a single-board computer installed in PC or PS2 (ISA or MCA) systems running SCO Xenix and/or the IBM 4680 Point-Of-Sale (POS) Operating Systems. This Intel 80186-based board drives multiple Electronic Cash Registers from various vendors. Help compose and clarify customer functional specifications and use them to identify and implement work units. Design and run systems and regression tests. Create and modify unix development and support software.

EDUCATION

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute BS Mathematics


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