Darren OwensObjective To introduce myself and to say the ambition of my first words is

to strike to a verbal consonance with all assembled hearers as well as to fill a vital role in an information system environment with a progressive company that values tenacity, dependability, and creativity.

Technical Background

Hardware: SUN/Oracle, HP, Dell, IBM, SUN/Oracle SB6000 chassis, SUN/Oracle CT900 chassis, SUN/Oracle CP3260 – X6270 blades, HP C7000 blade system enclosures

Operating Systems: Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, Linux, BSD, Solaris2.X-Solaris 10, IRIX, AIX

Software/Programming Languages:

MS Office 2003,2016, Sun ONE, IRIX & ORACLE, Landmark, Geoframe, IESX, Veritas, Openwave MAG, LCMG WSB, Ericsson NGG/MIEP/MSP, Ericsson OSS, Ericsson Business Objects, Quality Center, iTest, IxiaLoad,Landslide, Wireshark, SecureCRT, Putty, Nettgain, TestQuest, TestDirector, Remedy, NetCool, SysEdge, MySQL, SQL, PL/SQL, SysEdge, sed & awk, XML, JAVA, Perl, PHP, VB, Apache, WebLogic, PowerBroker, TCL, VMware, vSphere, Net-SNMP, Cacti, Nagios, Splunk, Microsoft Azure for Linux, PowerShell, PowerShell ISE

Specialized Training Installed, troubleshot, serviced, repaired and maintained

Macintosh, Dell, Oracle/SUN, SGI, and various IBM compatibles. Microsoft Azure Cloud computing for Linux virtual machines;

install, configure, serviced, repaired and maintained via web portal as well as Azure Cli using PowerShell

Configuration Management: Puppet, Chef, Oracle JET Systems Monitoring: SNMP, Net-SNMP, SysEdge, Cacti,

Nagios, Splunk, SolarWinds, NetCool, Remedy Virtualization: VMware, vSphere, KVM Linux Administration: CentOS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, SUSE, Free-

BSD, Solaris2.X-Solaris 11, IRIX, AIX MySQL Administration: MySQL, SQL, PL/SQL NoSQL Technologies: Cassandra, HaDoop, MongoDB Networking Equipment: Cisco 6500 switch/router chassis; Cisco

3700 series · Load Balancing: Citrix NetScaler, F5 Big IP Utilization and configuration of various Unix/Linux security and

authentication models as well as application layers such ssh keys, ssl certificates, SELinux as well as using NMAP to display

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network layout details for low level vulnerabilities such as open ports

Created and maintained various unix/linux scripts for administrative duties including data warehousing uses various types of scripts such as shell, perl, sed, awk, python, ruby, expect, and ruby

Experience installing and configuring both relational and ‘NoSQL’ databases such as Sybase, Informix, Oracle for Unix, MySQL for Unix, Linux and Windows, Apache-Casandra ( NoSQL )

Installation of different configuration and file management applications such as subversion, cfengine, Chef, Puppet, Apache-Ant, and Maven

Installed and supported DOS, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Win NT 4.0, Mac O/S 7-9, MS Office, Solaris, IRIX, Linux, Common Desktop environment, and OpenWindows.

Experience with various internet and network protocols including TCP/IP, UDP, UUCP, ICMP, DNS, DHCP, SCP, SSH, IMAP, MIME, SMTP, SNTP, SNMP, FTP, SSL, HTTP, HTTPD, WAP, XML, LDAP, WDML and WML

Experience installing, configuring and utilizing various internet and network software such as Web Portals, Pix Firewalls, intranets, extranets, Wireless Gateway (WAP), GGSNs, SGSNs, VPNs, APNs, electronic mail, RADIUS, proxies, push/pull services, security, snooping and tracerouting.

Installed, troubleshot, serviced, repaired and maintained various computer applications and services for Sun Solaris versions 6 -10 including package adds, patch updates and source codes compiling ( ex. Sunfreeware/GNU products )

Installed, troubleshot, serviced, repaired and maintained various SUN/Oracle SB6000 and CT900 chassis/blade systems utilizing Sun Netra baldes CP3260 up to current X6260 blades. SGI servers including Octane up to Onyx2 & Orion series.

Knowledge of various RAID-arrays. SUN RSM series- 219-2000. Baydel RAID Array and MTI arrays. Working knowledge of Clarion RAID and disk units.

Knowledge of TDMA, CDMA, GSM/GPRS, and UMT-S networks including various Ericsson RF and OSS training.

ExperienceJuly 2016 – present Microsoft Azure FTE for MndTree / Project :Azure Linux SME

Azure Linux Support SME

Install, configure, maintain Linux Virtual machines utitilizing Azure web portal as well as via Azure Cli

Install Azure cli for PowerShell and PowerShell ISE Create, configure, test VMs using Azure classic and ARM Troubleshoot, diagnose, monitor application and system

performance for production customers Document procedures and create step by step guides for

customers Facilitate issue resolution for various levels of case priorities Communicate professionally with customers as well as team

around the globe

February 2014 – December 2015 AT&T - CTO Lab S.O.W. contract via MobileIntegration WorkGroup

Sr. Application Eng II/ DNS RADIUS OCG

Install, configure,maintain DNS in new vEPC creating new virtual machines for Evolved Packet Core network(s).

Migrate legacy DNS Oracle HW/SW from Solaris 10/11 to new virtualization environment utilizing VMware and Red Hat

Create, configure, test VMs using VMware/vSphere via HP C7000

Install, create test cases to monitor various DNS KPI and KCI(s)

Install, configure NMS software such as SNMP for fault management and performance management

Configure and monitor load and performance tests using mobility test suites such as Ixia’s IxiaLoad and Spirent LandSlide

Configure, edit, test configuration updates specific to DNS zones and mobility network elements ie: SGSN; PGW and MMEs

Troubleshoot, diagnose, monitor application and network performance for production and lab teams.

Install, configure, maintain various management applications such as Cacti, Puppet, Oralce JET and Nagios for various lab elements.

April 2012 – January 2014 Expedia Inc.

Application Eng II/TransAxsvc

Deploy new application code for Order Management Service as well as other services for Core Service

Engineering Operational team Utilize CI/CD pipeline to manager OMS infrastructure to test,

build, and deploy various OMS services and applications to move towards a more agile as well as automated infrastructure.

Install, configure and maintain applicaition, alerts and monitoring for core services maintained by our team

Understand network appliance configuration and modification for service groups managed by the Citrix NetScaler appliance

Setup and configure Java application to use AppDynamics application for JMX and JVM performance monitoring as well as alerting

Create DNS service groups for application server farms as well as virtual machines

Act as SME for oncall rotation

Utilize some basic UNIX administration skills such as SSH, netstat, tcpdump, scp, vi, snoop and ifconfig to trace mobile traffic for internal and external networks as well as service providers.

Collected and analyze various types of network packet data including TCP/IP, UDP, ICAP and SNMP using application such as Wireshark

February 2011 -- April 2012 AT&T S.O.W. Contract via InfoVision/Ericsson Inc. Engineer II/Intagration –Svcs RF

Configuring SB6000 chassis and building SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 kickstart servers.

Kickstarting MSP database nodes and admin servers. Kickstart of all traffic servers. Prepare systems for EM storage configuration

Post-kickstart configuration and application installation for all nodes in the MSP HA system.

Configuration of various traffic parameters as well as provisioning of the system of client subscribers. Testing and backing up the system.

Collected and analyze various types of network packet data including TCP/IP, UDP, ICAP and SMPP using application such as Wireshark.

Utilize some basic UNIX administration skills such as SSH, netstat, tcpdump, scp, vi, snoop and ifconfig to trace mobile traffic for internal and external networks as well as service providers

September 2008 -- December 2010 Mobile Integration Workgroup

System Test Engineer

Analyze and test Next Generation Gateway provided by Ericsson including test plans and test procedures for various WAP services as well as devices

Utilize various UNIX skills to monitor various traffics servers running Solairs 10 in lab environment

Collected and analyze various types of network packet data including TCP/IP, UDP, ICAP and SMPP using application such as Wireshark

Utilize some basic UNIX administration skills such as SSH, netstat, snoop and ifconfig to trace mobile traffic for internal and external networks as well as service providers

Build, describe, test and run various mobile device tests for Next Generation Gateway within the lab network using QualityCenter by Mercury.

Create, test, debug server load test scenarios utilizing third party software such as PuerLoad and LoadRunner for testing wireless devices and major network elements such as WAP g

January 2008 – June 2008 Getty ImagesOpen System Engineer III

Maintain and configure various Unix and Linux enterprise servers running Solaris and Ret Hat

Utilize various applications and protocols to create system healthchecks and setup various monitoring tools incorporating basic UNIX system administration skills with standards such as SNMP, MOM, shell scripting and UNIX job automation.

Maintain and configure various Veritas application including NetBackup, Veritas Cluster Management, and Veritas Storage Foundation.

Maintain various internal applications and databases including Oracle, SQL Server, and Vitria.

March 2000 – January 2008 Cingular Wireless Bothell, WASystem Administrator

Maintain and configure various wireless applications including Ericsson OSS Applications: CTR, MTR, R-PMO and NWS.

Collected, analyzed and reported on various network KPIs down to the cell level.

Utilize various applications and protocols to create system healthchecks and setup various monitoring tools

incorporating basic UNIX system administration skills with standards such as SNMP, Sysedge, shell scripting and UNIX job automation.

Generated, maintained, and monitored various UNIX scripts and auto application events including alarm configuration and notification.

Collected various network data on RF voice and data network examples being cell site drop call rates and data packet delivery statistics

Configure, audit and monitor various application services such WAP and Web traffic as well as application performance utilizing syslog, sysedge, snmp, snoop, netstat, and traceroute or third-party applications such as NetCool or Remedy.

Participated in varying degrees of mission critical application debugging from setting up conference bridges with Engineers and Developers to collecting core dumps and various application thread dumps for vendors.

Coordinate efforts across many functional organizations to help minimize customer impact.

Participated in large scale application deployments for various Multi-Media services including Ericsson OSS, mMode wireless Portal, Openwave MAG, and Vox Mobili Mail.

Nov 1998-March 2000 Texas Mill Supply Houston, TXSystem Administrator/EDI Coordinator/Analyst

Experience with working with Trading Partners in bringing up new and working with existing Transaction Sets.

Ability to read a data stream and assist T/Ps in correcting errors

Experience working with VANs Works well with other departments to define EDI

requirements Ability to map new Transaction Sets Experience with the Platform, Language, and Database the

companies using, i.e. NT, UNIX, Oracle, Oracle EDI Gateway, Shell Scripting, Communication Scripting, COBOL, C and Veritas NetBackup 3.1.

Provide UNIX system administration for EDI environment via SUN Enterprise 6000/Solaris 2.6 in conjunction with Gentran: Server 5.1-1 for UNIX.

Monitor UNIX data directories and files insuring data integrity utilizing capacity planning and performance analysis.

Set-up Internet access and network printers. Monitor all EDI system environment processes, translator

processes and data managers. Maintained 3 servers and approximately 100-200 LAN &

WAN end users.

Maintained system back-ups. Implemented Y2K version 4010 conversions for all transactions sets

Responsible for Application Layout development for maps and gap analysis of client and trading partner data

Understanding of transaction sets and document flow for Manufacturing and Distribution Industry

Education 1989-1994 Baylor University Waco, TX

Bachelor of Music

Achievements *Certification of completion for SUN Solaris 2.X Essential for Maintainers, Solaris 2.X System Administration Essentials, &

Solaris 2.X System Administration II.

*Awarded for Outstanding Customer Service with a plaque from Geoquest.

*Advanced System Administration For The Solaris 9 OE from GCA

*WSB BOC Course provided by LogicaCMG

References *Available upon request