Senior VMware/SAN Systems Administrator

Computer Science and Management in Technical Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Control Systems, Department of Managerial Processes and Information Systems, Northwest Open Technical University (https://www.nwpi.ru), Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1998.

June-2012 – present, JSC CONSYST-OS, Sosnoviy Bor, Russia,  https://www.consyst-os.ru

• Technologies are used:
• VMware vSphere 4.1, 5.0, 5.5.
• Cisco UCS Datacenter.
  
• Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012.
  
• Active Directory.
• HP/IBM/Brocade SAN.
• Responsibilities:
• Head of Department. Arrange of Department's business time.
  
• Administrations of vSphere 4.1 and 5.5 infrastructure - about 300 virtual servers.
• Administrations of new Cisco UCS Model Test Cluster - farm of 2 blade systems with 10 blade servers.
  
• Administrations of SAN - about 15 data storages based on NetApp, HP, IBM.
• Participates in determining the development of virtual infrastructure.
• Supervision over the work of support servers group and of information security group.
  

Oct-2009 – June 2012, Public Corporation VNIPIET, Sosnoviy Bor, Russia,  https://www.atomts.ru

• Technologies are used:
• Windows 2003 R2, Linux, FreeBSD, apache, mysql, squid, sendmail.
• Active Directory.
• Oracle 10g, Primavera P6.
• ENOVIA, CATIA, DELMIA.
  
• VMware Infrastructure 4.1.
• XenServer 5.2.
  
• HP ProLiant servers; HP SAN (EVA).
  
• Responsibilities:
• Work as a Systems Architect and Consultant.
• Conduct research into user interaction with information technology systems and areas in which ease and efficiency of use could be enhanced.
• Review and develop computer architecture and design, computer languages, computational techniques, data communication processes, and user interface devices.
• Test new information technology system designs and rectifies design problems found.
• Perform acceptance testing of new system components.
• Write reports and papers describing findings for publication.
  

Jun-2007 – Oct-2009, Public Corporation TGC-1, St.Petersburg, Russia, https://www.tgc1.ru

• Technologies are used:
• Windows 2003 R2, Clusters (MSCS)
• Active Directory
• MS SQL 2005
• VMware Infrastructure 3
• HP ProLiant servers; HP SAN (EVA); HP tape libraries
• IIS, SharePointPortal
• ISA
  
• Responsibilities:
• Microsoft SQL 2005 Server Cluster administrator, database administrator.
• Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Server Cluster administrator.
• VMware Infrastructure 3 Cluster administrator.

Jun-2007 – Jul-2008, A.I.S.T. Pty Ltd., St.Petersburg, Russia, https://www.biok.tv

• Designing a very large, sophisticated network with providing of high level security.
• Designing ways of connecting new customers to the network with security adherence.
• Design of video-on-demand core heartbeat clusters (Linux, FreeBSD, DarwinStreamingServer, Heartbeat, DRBD) of servers.
• Design of local heartbeat server cores at the regional communication centres (53 centres total).
• Project Management.
• Broad experience:
• DSLAM adjusting.
• HA clustering of critical services based on Linux + Heartbeat + DRBD.
• Team working and management.
  

Oct-2006 – Jun-2007, Open JSC SPII VNIPIET, Sosnoviy Bor, Russia, https://www.vnipiet.ru

• Information Security Service Management for design, maintenance and development of the computer system, communications and connections, fire- and intruder alarm, video control equipment for different departments of the business.
• Working out and introducing disturbance-free working policy, e-mail safety policy, administration policy, access policy, users’ internet access policy, antivirus protection policy, firewalls policy, LAN inter-segment communication policy, databases backup and security policy.
• Construction of new Linux and FreeBSD based server core which provided the data security.
• Security shield of computers and LAN in accordance with the security policy concept.
• Audit and inspection of the security requirements, providing secrecy of the government secrets and commercial secrets of the business.
• Achievements:
  
  • Improved antivirus of e-mail and Internet content.
  • Crucial design and organization chart change such as changing Internet provider.
  • All-new cisco-based front-end gateway and new UNIX (FreeBSD) back-end gateway selected, configured, setup, and put in operation, equipped with a network IDS/IPS based on SNORT.

Jun-2005 – Sep-2006, Association North-West Pty Ltd., St.Petersburg, Russia, https://www.topsys.spb.ru

• Development and implementation of documents: “The Disturbance-free Working Policy”, “The Email Safety Policy”, “The Administration Policy”.
• Development and realisation of the elaboration and protection strategy of corporate holding’s LANs under the management of Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2003 Active Directory, as well as telephone networks, on geographically wide asunder areas.
• Development of new design of Active Directory structure, layout and setting of Windows 2003 Active Directory Servers and Microsoft ISA 2004 Servers, organization of dedicated Active Directory sites in business units (7 sites total) and data link channels between asunder units, ideology of holding’s subnets enumeration, domains and sub-domains naming, traffic routing between sub-networks and sites.
• Development and control under realization of arrangement plans of protecting of updated computer networks and telephone networks, assurance of efficient and uninterrupted working of computer and telephone networks and technical support of users.
• Development of documents which are regulating cooperation of IT Department with the others business units.
• Control under fulfillment of plans by systems administrators of holding’s business units.
• Achievements:
• Designed a new based on Windows 2003 Active Directory domain holding’s structure (AD Forest, 5 sub-trees, 3 Exchange servers, 3 ISA servers) and developed connection ways and protocols.
• Local data link for battery station Russko-Visotskaya, Fibre-Optic Channel, 1.7 km long.
• Global holding branches Data Link with data encryption (based on MPLS & ISA 2004 Server).
• Management of new telephony and broadband access for global holding branches.
• Skills:
• Task control.
• LAN/WAN design and protection.
• Data resource management.
• Human resource management.
• Practical skills in communication and negotiation of IT projects.
• Microsoft Project 2003 Server/Client.
• Microsoft SharePoint 2003 Server.

Jan-2003 – Jun-2005, Closed JSC TITANKOMTEH, Sosnoviy Bor, Russia

• Definition of paths of development, upgrade and protection of geographically distributed serviced networks of “Holding Concern TITAN-2” and their interrelations.
• Administration of indicated computer networks, designing security policies.
• Setup and support Kerberos authorization schema in Windows 2000 domain.
• Designing, implementation and support of traffic filtering schema in accordance with the users access levels between network segments on the basis of “ipfw” filrewall.
• Selection and designing of implementation policy of antivirus security facilities.
• Administration and protection of the central router, the Internet-gateway, and the email server under the control of network operating system FreeBSD, designing of Internet access policy, networks proofing from outsiders intrusion.
• Designing, implementation and support the accounting and limitation system of users’ consumptions of Internet traffic (squid + winbindd + apache + MySQL + PHP).
• Worked as the systems administrator of corporate firewalls, NAT, e-mail (sendmail + ClamAV + spamassassin, qpopper, imap-uw, majordomo), www (apache), http-proxy (squid), DNS (BIND, MS DDNS), ftp (pure-ftpd), nntp-proxy (nntpcache), samba servers. All of them based on FreeBSD.
• Worked as the systems administrator of distributed, corporate LAN/WAN, based on Microsoft Windows Active Directory 2000. It had over 10 peripheral branches and about 600 users, 7 AD servers, 5 AD sites, about 30 Citrix MetaFrame Terminal servers. Used data links: SHDSL, ADSL, (Fast)Ethernet, HomePNA, V35, G703, non-standard technologies.
• I got strong experience in:
• Installation, implementation and maintaining the indicated services.
• LAN/WAN fault locating and localizing.
• LAN/WAN fault-tolerant and reliable functioning assurance.

Mar-2002 – Jan-2003, Closed JSC SPF System-Service, St.Petersburg, Russia, https://www.systserv.nichost.ru

Head of Management-Information Systems Laboratory

• Worked as the systems administrator of corporate firewall, e-mail (sendmail + DrWeb, imap-uw, majordomo), www (apache), http-proxy (oops), DNS (BIND8), ftp (proftpd), nntp-proxy (nntpcache) and Samba servers. All of them based on FreeBSD.
• Designed LANs for industrial projects (GAZPROM was a key customer), their coordination and implementation control.
• Worked as the systems administrator of Windows -based LAN and telephone network. About 150 users.
• I got strong experience in:
• LAN/WAN design.
• Conducting negotiations with customers.
• PBX Ericsson adjustment.
• Telephone cross patching.
• 3Com switches configuring.

Nov-2001 – Mar-2002, Dune Pty Ltd, Sosnoviy Bor, Russia

Technical Director

• Modified the conception for extensive LANs designing, building and securing, conformably to modern requirements (vide infra, Jan-1999 - Dec-2000).
• Modified the Town Computer Network of Sosnoviy Bor in accordance with modified conception.
• Organized Technical Department functioning.
• I got some experience in:
• Human resource management.
• I got strong experience in:
• LAN/WAN design.

Dec-2000 – Nov-2001, Closed JSC SPF System-Service, St.Petersburg, Russia, https://www.systserv.nichost.ru

Systems Administrator

• Made software selection, installation and adjustment for e-mail functioning and internet access (sendmail, imap-uw, squid, apache, nntpcache). Based on FreeBSD.
• Made LAN functioning optimization and segmentation for network load reduction.
• Designed and implemented computer and telephone networks in a new building of firm.
• Worked as the systems administrator of the Windows -based LAN. About 100 users.
• I got strong experience in:
• Configuring and tuning UNIX/Windows services.
• Technical support of users.

Jan-1999 – Dec-2000, Dune Pty Ltd, Sosnoviy Bor, Russia

Systems Administrator

• Worked out the conception for extensive LANs designing, building and securing.
• Participated in designed and implementation of Town Computer Network of Sosnoviy Bor.
• Made software selection, installation and adjustment for various services of Internet Service Provider Dune and the Town Computer Network. All of them based on FreeBSD.
• I got strong experience in:
• TCP/IP, SMTP, POP3, routing.
• Remote and dial-up access, dial-out, LAN securing.
• US Robotics modems adjustment.

• Programming languages:
• UNIX-shells, Perl, HTML.
  
• Server products:
• VMware vSphere 4.0-5.5, HP/IBM/Brocade SAN, Cisco UCS equipment.
  
• Heartbeat, DRBD (clustering technologies).
• apache, squid, sendmail, bind, pure-ftpd, imap-uw, dovecot, samba, MySQL.
  
• Microsoft Windows family Active Directory, Oracle 10g, MS SQL, Microsoft ISA/Forefront Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Project Server, Citrix MetaFrame 1.8 Server.
• Information security – high experience.
• Operating systems:
• Brainbench certificate -
  
• FreeBSD 2.2.8-10.1 – about 15 years practice.
• all Windows desktop operating systems – over 20 years practice since Windows 3.1.
• DOS – over 20 years practice.
• Ubuntu Linux.
• Leadership experience - a team of 10 people.