Resume of
Jason Rothstein

Objective: To secure a challenging position that offers diverse experience and opportunity to enhance my professional skills.

Certifications:

• RedHat Certified Engineer, RedHat Linux 7.1, August 2001

Training:

• Tivoli Frameworks, April 2000
• MySQL by NuSphere, September 2001
• RH401 RedHat Enterprise Deployment and System Management by RedHat, October 2004
• PeopleSoft PeopleTools by Oracle, December 2005

Skills:

• Operating Systems
  • Microsoft Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003, 2008
  • RedHat Linux 3.0.3 - 9
  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5, 6
  • CentOS Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5, 6
  • Oracle Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5, 6
  • Sun Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, 9, 10
• Networking Equipment
  • Cisco 2900, 4000, 6500 Series switches (6500 including routing blade)
  • Cisco 2600, 3600, 7200 Series routers
  • Cisco 11000 Series hardware network load balancers
• Applications
  • Apache 1.x/2.x
  • BEA Web Logic 5.1, 6.1, 8.1
  • BIND DNS 8.x/9.x
  • PeopleSoft HRMS 8.x and HCM 8.x/9.x, Financials/SCM 8.x/9.x, Portal 8.x/9.x, CRM 8.x/9.x, EPM 9.x
  • Microsoft ActiveDirectory, IIS, SQL Server
  • MySQL 3.x, 4.x, 5.x
  • Oracle Application Server
  • Oracle Database 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g
  • Oracle E-Business Suite Online 11.x, 12.x
  • Sendmail
  • Asterisk PBX
• Programming / Scripting / Web Languages
  • ANSI C/C++
  • Bash / Korn Unix Shell
  • HTML/XHTML/XML
  • Perl
  • PHP 3, 4, 5

Professional Experience:

• Oracle Corporation
  Austin, TX
  Senior UNIX/Windows System Administrator
  December 2005 – Current
  
  • Member of the Linux Core Competency team. This is a team that defines the standards for how Linux is to be configured in the organization.
  • Work with a team to deploy new data centers in foreign countries on very tight time schedules, provide training and documentation to local staff, while maintaining a tight budget.
  • Assist with implementation and documentation of Sun 7420 NAS storage as a standard offering.
  • Assist with implementation and documentation of Sun 6780 SAN storage to provide high capacity and redundancy to mission critical customer servers.
  • Assist with implementation of non-standardized hardware for the data center (IBM Power 550 and Power 750 servers running AIX) connecting to SAN infrastructure (Sun 6780) and defining the standards for future Sun 6780 customers to be standardized with.
  • Maintain operational documentation and procedures for provisioning and maintenance tasks for server hardware and operating systems in OnDemand. This includes audit controls that verify work has completed correctly, and is matching standards.
  • Assist rapid provisioning project by providing operational procedures that automate the deployment of server hardware and OS configuration to support turn around time of 8 hours to provision a new customers instance of eBusiness Suite Online.
  • Work with Oracle OnDemand data center supporting many thousands of servers on a wide range of hardware including Dell, Sun, HP, and IBM.
  • Work with Service Delivery Managers and management on projects to reorganize data center space allocation with various projects including server hardware conversions, OS upgrades, physical relocations, and finding other acceptable options while doing so in the least amount of time that is safe to perform the work.
  • Work with a team of administrators and vendors to provide single point of contact for problems diagnosis and resolution.
  • Researched and updated incoming and outgoing data standards to allow for hard drive based delivery of data in a safe, fast, and secure fashion.
  • Work with a team to develop processes and procedures to provide virtualization of as many as possible servers.
  • Work with a team to define procedures for maintenance and best practices for managing a large number of PeopleSoft instances in a hosted environment.
  • Work with a team to perform scheduled environment refreshes for all types of currently supported Oracle products.
  • Maintain with a team of System Administrators a variety of Windows and UNIX Platforms including Linux, and Solaris.
• TEKsystems
  Austin, TX
  UNIX System Administrator
  July 2005 – December 2005
  Current Assignment, Oracle Corporation
  
  • Working with a team of System Administrators to provide support for internal as well as external customer supported systems.
  • Maintain with a team of System Administrators a variety of UNIX Platforms including RedHat Enterprise Linux, and Solaris.
  • Provide fast response to customer and monitoring software-generated requests.
• Clear Channel Worldwide
  San Antonio, TX
  Senior System Engineer
  November 2000 – May 2005
  
  • Led team of administrators to perform daily maintenance tasks for PeopleSoft systems.
  • Worked with team on converting PeopleSoft Financials 8.4 from Oracle to MS SQL Server.
  • Worked with team on implementing and maintaining PeopleSoft HRMS 8.3 and Financials 8.4.
  • Worked with team on maintaining over 100 separate critical business systems.
  • Led development group in PHP based web site management for over 1200 radio and television web sites.
  • Administrated over 300 RedHat Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, and Windows machines.
  • Administrated cluster of 35+ RedHat Linux Apache servers hosting over 1200 radio and television web sites and over 4000 auxiliary non-traditional revenue web sites.
  • Administrated cluster of 10+ RedHat Linux MySQL servers hosting the databases for over 1200 radio and television web sites.
  • Administrated Cisco based network of Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Cache Engines, and Load Balancers.
  • Administrated Fiber SAN based on EMC Symmetrix 3000 Series, Clarion CX600, and Celerra NAS solutions.
  • Act as a knowledge base for team of System Administrators, Database Administrators, Network Administrators, and Developers.
• CompuNet Systems, Inc.
  Austin, TX
  Service Bureau Manager
  January 2000 – September 2000
  
  • Administrated Apache, DHCP, DNS, Samba, and Sendmail services running on RedHat Linux.
  • Administrated Microsoft Exchange running on Windows NT.
  • Administrated VPN using PPTP and L2TP running on Windows 2000 for clients.
  • Administrated VPN using IPsec running on Cisco and Compatible Systems dedicated hardware.
  • Converted corporate website from static HTML running on Microsoft IIS to template based PHP running on Apache and RedHat Linux.
  • Managed Cisco and Nortel based LAN/WAN infrastructure for CompuNet and clients.
  • Managed Compaq Proliant, IBM Netfinity, and IBM RS/6000 based servers for CompuNet and clients.
• 1stBuy.com, Inc.
  Austin, TX
  Network Manager
  April 1999 – December 1999
  
  • Led team of developers and administrators in management of the web site content, software development, and database administration.
  • Administrated Apache, DHCP, DNS, MySQL, Samba, Sendmail, and SNMP services on RedHat Linux.
  • Administrated Cisco based LAN/WAN infrastructure.
  • Converted various flavors of Linux servers into consistently configured RedHat Linux servers.
  • Converted desktops to standardized hardware and software to reduce costs and increase productivity.
  • Developed gift certificate system for existing Perl based web site and shopping cart system.
  • Provided guidance to web development group in usability, design, and layout of web sites.
  • Implemented a disaster recovery system.
  • Implemented network monitoring solution via Perl & SNMP capable of fixing common problems automatically.
• ClearCommerce Corporation
  Austin, TX
  Unix System Administrator
  August 1998 – February 1999
  • Administrated Sendmail, Linux Firewall, DHCP, DNS, Samba, WINS, and Apache on RedHat Linux.
  • Administrated MySQL, Solid, and iPlanet Enterprise Server on RedHat Linux, IBM AIX, HP-UX, Sun Solaris and Windows NT.
  • Administrated Microsoft SQL Server and HP OpenView running on Windows NT.
  • Administrated Cisco based LAN/WAN infrastructure. Developed and implemented PHP & MySQL web based applications for IS/IT problem tracking and resolution.
• Business Partner Solutions
  San Antonio, TX
  Web Developer
  June 1996 – August 1998
  
  • Administrated Lotus Notes E-mail, Web, and Application servers running on Windows NT, IBM OS/400, and IBM AIX.
  • Administrated Microsoft IIS Web servers running Allaire ColdFusion.
  • Administrated Microsoft SQL Server running on Windows NT.
  • Administrated Sendmail and BIND DNS running on IBM AIX.
  • Developed data exchange applications using Borland C++Builder and Microsoft VisualBasic.
  • Developed web based applications using Allaire ColdFusion, Lotus Domino, and iFactory Site Magic Extensions for internal work flow management and sales enablement software.