Jason S. Schlachet
San Francisco, California 94110
Email: jss@offramp.org

*** I am not currently looking for employment. ***

Objective

To advance my career as a UNIX Systems Administrator. Having worked as a contractor for 7 years and as a full time employee for 4 years, I have garnered a mature approach to UNIX systems administration. I am looking forward to learning emerging technologies, architecting solutions, and sharing my experience and ideas in a team environment.

Relevant Experience

UNIX Systems Administrator, IS&T
Electronics for Imaging, Inc., Foster City, California - 2006 through Present

• One of two UNIX systems administrators, responsible for 150 physical servers, plus escalation support for field offices
• Installed and managed VMware Virtual Center and ESX
• Lead on VMware Lab Manager installation

Senior UNIX Systems Administrator, Computer and Information Services
Affymetrix, Inc., Santa Clara, California - August 2002 through 2006

• Lead Solaris systems administrator, covering enterprise wide application servers (Oracle, JDEdwards, DiCarta, Peoplesoft, etc) using Sun hardware and EMC Symmetrix storage
• Architected hot standby local failover for financials system
• Installed Peoplesoft HRIS and CRM along with applications staff
• Upgraded and customized Nagios, an open-source system monitoring solution.
• Authored and validated procedures to ensure all revenue related systems are Sarbanes-Oxley compliant and ISO Validated

Senior UNIX Systems Administrator, Corporate Business Systems
Hitachi Data Systems, Santa Clara, California - November 2000 through November 2001


• Primary UNIX admin handling a complete in-sourcing of IT Department infrastructure. Created initial documentation and mentored new team members in best practices. (Solaris, AIX, dynix/PTS systems)
• Implemented and streamlined new infrastructure using SAN technology (Brocade and Hitachi Data Systems products), Veritas products (VxVM, VxFS, Cluster), and Sun Enterprise hardware
• Reconfigured and monitored backups using Alexandria and Storagetek media libraries
• Setup and configured Big Brother, NTP, Brocade/HDS SAN gear, Cisco switches, NUMA-Q, VxVM, VCS (Veritas Cluster Server), AIX and HP-UX systems

Senior UNIX Systems Administrator
Riverstone Networks, Santa Clara, California - May 2000 through October 2000


• Configured and repaired Sun Solaris engineering workstations
• Managed storage migrations to a two node Network Appliance filer cluster
• Maintained storage, monitored backups, managed user accounts, planned/executed filesystem migrations, configured workstations

Senior UNIX Systems Administrator, EUC Group
Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, California - November 1998 through May 2000


• Provided Tier-3 UNIX support for Sun Solaris desktops and compute servers
• Performed upgrades on Sun Solaris servers and Network Appliance filers
• Assisted in Y2000 testing and patching in all domestic field offices and local data centers
• Configured NIS, DNS, NFS, NTP, SMTP, Jumpstart

Senior UNIX Systems Administrator, MIS Department
Integrated Device Technology, Inc., Santa Clara, California - October 1997 through October 1998

• Primary UNIX and Intranet Support
• Planned and executed Linux to Solaris server consolidation
• Maintained and improved POP3 service
• Developed and implemented LDAP management tools

Additional Information

• Proficient in Perl, Shell Scripting
• Amateur photographer

Education

Professional Training

• SANS 2006 Unix/Linux Security
• Veritas Netbackup 4.5
• Veritas Netbackup 4.5 Advanced

Undergraduate Computer Science Student
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana - August 1992 through May 1996


• Teaching assistant for student labs in beginning C++ class
• Staff Programmer, Purdue University Computing Center

References available upon request