Thorne Lawler

System administrator with a broad skill-base. More than ten years’ experience with all scales of Linux and UNIX servers in a wide range of environments. Confident in all aspects of system administration.

Experience

Coles Supermarkets – September 2009 → Current employer

• Development, maintenance and support for a fleet of 400+ heterogenous Linux servers.
• Development and maintenance of an extensive suite of in-house system administration tools.
• In-depth familiarity with business processes and priorities to facilitate effective support.
• Providing proactive on-call support, both on-site and remotely.
• Hosting Australia’s largest web-commerce application, among others.
• Experience in a large environment consisting of virtualized systems on enterprise SAN disk.
• Support and maintenance for systems where meticulous change management and extremely rapid incident response were business-critical.

Key technologies: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Xen virtulization, Tivoli, Pacemaker, DRBD, Perl & shell script, SAN, HP Proliant BladeSystem, DNS (ISC BIND), Sendmail and Postfix, HP ServiceCenter, Apache, PHP, MySQL.

KAZ (Acquired by Fujitsu in 2009) - June 2006 → September 2009

• Business-as-usual maintenance and day-to-day hind-tier support for remote and co-located hosted systems.
• Designing and building servers and server templates for clustered web, database and email relay (LAMP) environments.
• Familiarity with ITIL, esp. in design, project management and capacity-planning.
• Providing proactive on-call support, both on-site and remotely.
• Hosting payroll and HR systems, well known public-facing web applications, and high-performance bastion servers.
• Providing these services for government clients, multinational corporations, local corporations and quasi-governmental bodies.

Key technologies: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (incl. Kickstart), SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Solaris (incl. JumpStart), Perl & shell script, Symantec NetBackup, DNS (ISC BIND), Sendmail and Postfix, BMC Patrol, BMC Remedy, AIX, Apache, PHP, MySQL.

Microlistics / Dawson Consulting / The Dawson Group - June 2003 → June 2006

• Redesigning and replacing outdated and largely non-functional infrastructure; from laptops & desktops to servers and inter-server authentication layer.
• Planning and installed new storage system with local and offsite automated backup.
• Performing a complete hardware refresh with zero business impact.
• Purchasing and installing Warehouse Management System Servers for domestic and overseas customers.
• Providing strategic planning for product-related IT resale, in-house infrastructure and procedure at all levels.
• Mentoring two IT dept. staff.

Key technologies: Linux (Red Hat Enterprise, SuSE), Solaris, Windows 2000 server, Windows XP, AIX, HPUX, Perl & shell script, LDAP, IMAP, Veritas NetBackup, iPlanet, Apache, Oracle, Sun One, Active Directory, Samba, Rational Clearcase, Cisco IOS.

Verve (Merged in 2001 to join Versata) - March 1999 → May 2003

• Maintaining and redeveloping in-house UNIX-centric IT infrastructure.
• Primary workflow engine development consultant on J2EE project for a major american bank.
• Providing level-3 developer support for international customers, including strategic planning and design for J2EE workflow solutions.
• Designing training curricula and training remote support teams in California and Oregon.

Key technologies: Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows NT4 and 2000, Java, JSP, Perl & shell script, Apache, Jakarta Tomcat, IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic, sendmail, DNS, Legato Networker, Oracle, Cisco IOS.

Training

• Solaris 10 Advanced
• AIX Jumpstart for UNIX Professionals
• Symantec Storage Foundation for UNIX
• Veritas Advanced NetBackup Administration for UNIX
• IBM/Rational ClearCase RS611: Mastering ClearCase Administration for Unix
• IBM/Rational ClearCase SCM275: Essentials of Rational ClearCase UCM

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) - Monash University
• Bachelor of Arts (Linguistics, Philosophy) - Monash University
  academic results transcript available on request
• Linux Professional Institute Certified Level 2
  https://www.lpi.org/en/verify.html LPI ID: LPI000047186 verification code: k65sx9agyg

Referees

Not included in online version. Please contact me for reference details if interested.