Brett Edman
3006 Acorn Ct .  Philomath, OR 97370  .  Home (541) 929-2064  .  brett.edman@gmail.com

Experienced Linux/Windows/VMWare Systems Administration

Ø  Highly skilled at installing and maintaining a variety of operating systems on physical and virtual servers

Ø  Experienced in deploying, tuning & monitoring and management systems for global web environments

Ø  Storage management skills including iSCSI and fiber channel hardware

Systems Administration Success

Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis, OR
Systems Engineer, 2006 – Present: Serve as Database Engineer for large format printing press business.  Previously designed and implemented back-end server infrastructure for HP Video Collaboration business.  Servers were in 30 countries all connected through the HP Video Exchange Network (HVEN).  Central servers ran Microsoft SQL Server 2005 in a mirrored and clustered array.  I built and tuned RedHat Linux servers running the proprietary code that orchestrated the video conferences.  A multi-site Microsoft Active directory of my implementation was integrated with several tools and products in the business including LDAP, OpenSSL and f5 load balancers. Used HP OpenView to continually monitor and notify of server problems.  I collaborated with R&D to build them VMWare ESX Based host servers with iSCSI storage.  I often rolled new versions of Web-Apps to the servers like Tomcat and Jboss.  I was working as a contractor for all but the last year of this project when HP hired me as a regular employee.

Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis, OR
Web-Ops Engineer (contractor), 2002 – 2006:  Configured and monitored HP servers and Cisco routers and switches supporting the HP Instant Share business.  The business handled the upload of digital photos from customer’s HP cameras for storage and print order.  Here I also built and maintained a Microsoft Active Directory that was integrated into HP OpenView and CiscoWorks.  I configured Cisco CSS load balancers to front Windows servers running IIS and Apache web servers.  I used both Microsoft SQL and Oracle back end databases that used an HP XP disk storage array managed by Legato Storage Manager.  Oracle, in this case ran on HPUX 11i servers.

There Inc., Menlo Park, CA
Senior Systems Administrator, 2001-2002: Assisted with the implementation and growth of a startup online entertainment service.  Company grew from 40 employees to 80 in the year I was there.  I configured or built and configured at least on computer for each of those new hires.  I ran, configured and punched-down the PBX system and interfaced with Qwest and other ISP’s for voice and data circuits.  I installed and configured the first cluster of servers used for the service’s beta test to the public.

Corvallis School District, Corvallis, OR
Network Engineer/Email Administrator, 1995-2001: Installed Cisco networking gear into each of the 27 facilities supported by the 509J district. Migrated the district students and employees from cc:Mail to Microsoft Exchange while using Novell networking.  Built their first web-proxy server and implemented DHCP managed by Windows NT and later Active Directory.

Education

Present – Continuing to pursue AA transfer degree from Linn-Benton Community college.  Currently enrolled with 3.2 GPA
1995 – Certificates: Basic and Advanced Cisco Router configuration, Protocol Interface, Portland, Oregon
1996 – Certificate: Windows NT 4.0 Administration
1999 – Achieved: Certified NetWare Administrator for IntraNetware v4.11 (CNA) Corvallis, Oregon
2002 – Certificate: HP OpenView Operations for Windows 7.0