Liviu Mihai Damian

Senior Linux System Administrator

RHCE #120-129-168
Symantec Certied Specialist - Veritas Storage Foundation 6.0 for UNIX
Profile
I am an experienced and highly skilled professional Senior Linux System
Administrator with more than 8 years of experience. I am very passionate
about what I do and I am always pushing my limits farther. I always deliver
the best results in timely manner, respecting the business needs and the
deadlines.
2A Bucharest Blvd, No. 2A, Bl.
5H, Ap. 28, Ploiesti, PH,
100520, Romania
M: +40 (722) 257757
E: [email protected]
L: www.linkedin.com/in/liviudm
Experience
Linux Technical Expert, Layershift; Cluj-Napoca, Romania - October 2012
- Present
- Escalation point for complex Linux issues
- Designing, implementing and supporting new scalable infrastructure
- Maintaining and improving existing infrastructure
- Communicating with strategic customers and internal staff (UK office) pri-
marily in English
- Developing and implementing provisioning and automation strategies with
Spacewalk and CFEngine
Linux System Administrator, AT&T; Bratislava, Slovakia - April 2012 -
July 2012
- Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of Linux OS
(RedHat Enterprise Linux) - more than 20,000 physical and virtual (VMWare
vSphere) servers
- Incident management, Change implementation (including patch manage-
ment and upgrade management), problem management, project implemen-
tation and performance management for UNIX OS and hardware. - Implemen-
tation, storage migration, storage reclamation, troubleshooting of SAN storage
(EMC, HP EVA, HDS TagmaStore) using Veritas Storage Foundation and
Storage Foundation High Availability (SF and SFHA) - Installation, configura-
tion and maintenance of clustering solutions based on Veritas Cluster Server
(VCS)
- LVM storage implementation and troubleshooting on EMC PowerPath
- Disaster/OS recovery procedures and root cause resolution
2A Bucharest Blvd, No. 2A, Bl.
5H, Ap. 28, Ploiesti, PH,
100520, Romania
M: +40 (722) 257757
E: [email protected]
L: www.linkedin.com/in/liviudm
Remote Senior System Administrator, Intouch Media; Florida, USA -
July 2010 - December 2011
- Replicated MySQL installation, configuration, tuning and troubleshooting
for high volume database - qmail and postfix installation, configuration, tuning
and troubleshooting for very high traffic SMTP servers
- Disaster recovery procedures and backup solutions using open source tools
(Bacula, custom scripts)
- iSCSI target and initiator configuration
- Citrix XEN, VMWare ESXi installation, configuration and maintenance
- LAMP installation, configuration and maintenance
Senior System and Network Administrator, Opticnet Serv SRL; Ploiesti,
Romania - January 2009 - July 2009
- Layer 2/3 switching and routing on Cisco and Zyxel equipments
- Administrator of Zyxel xDSL concentrators
- Network monitoring and maintenance (Cisco, Zyxel, Linux with in-house
developed tools in addition to SNMP, Cacti, ngrep, ntop, tcpdump)
- Web hosting infrastructure configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting
- MySQL installation, configuration, tuning and troubleshooting
- Microsoft Windows workstation and Server maintenance
Senior System and Network Administrator, iAccess SRL; Buftea,
Romania - December 2007 - August 2008
- Static and dynamic routing with Quagga (BGP4), prefix-lists, route-maps,
BGP communities
- Network monitoring (SNMP, Cacti, ntop, glflow, tcpdump, wireshark)
- Traffic shaping (HTB)
Senior System Administrator, Zitec Com SRL; Bucharest, Romania -
November 2007 - January 2008
- LAMP installation, configuration and troubleshooting
- DNS server (bind) installation, configuration, maintenance and DNS zone
administration
- custom backup/restore scripts and procedures development
- cPanel installation, configuration and maintenance
- evaluating the customer needs for implementing the server side of their
projects
Network Administrator, Interglob SA; Bucharest, Romania - August
2007 - November 2007
- Routing (BGP4, OSPF), prefix-lists, route-maps, ACLs, BGP communities,
symmetric and asymmetric routing
- Route reflector with Quagga
- Switching, VLANs, trunking, QinQ
- qmail installation, configuration and maintenance
- DNS server (bind9) installation, configuration, maintenance and zone
administration
- Technical support for business clients
-
Senior System and Network Administrator, Giganet Info SRL; Ploiesti,
Romania - February 2007 - November 2007; September 2005 - March
2006
- Static and dynamic routing with Quagga (BGP, RIPv2)
- Switching, VLANs
- PPPoE configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting
- Traffic shaping with HTB (IMQ, destination-based, protocol-based (layer 4
and layer 7))
- iptables firewalls (GeoIP, TCP flags, MARKing)
- LAMP installation, configuration and maintenance
- Proxy server (squid) installation, configuration and maintenance
- qmail email server installation, configuration and maintenance
- DNS server (bind9) installation, configuration, maintenance and zone
administration
- Network monitoring with Cacti and in-house developed tools via SNMP
Freelance System Administrator, MediaTrust SRL; Bucharest, Romania -
January 2006
- RedHat servers update
- MySQL Database migration from 2.32 to 4.1.18
- Apache installation and configuration
Cisco CCNA Trainer, Toma Socolescu High School; Ploiesti, Romania -
August 2004 - July 2011
- Teaching Network Basics, Routers and Routing Basics, Switching Basics
and Intermediate Routing and WAN Technologies for CCNA exam 640-801
2A Bucharest Blvd, No. 2A, Bl.
5H, Ap. 28, Ploiesti, PH,
100520, Romania
M: +40 (722) 257757
E: [email protected]
L: www.linkedin.com/in/liviudm
Setup OpenVPN ALS - March 2010
http://www.guru.com/pro/ProjectDetail.aspx?ProjectId=596960 - Install and
configure OpenVPN ALS (Adito) ( http://sourceforge.net/ projects/openvpn-
als/ )
Server Administrator - July 2010
http://www.guru.com/pro/ProjectDetail.aspx?ProjectId=622614 - LVM migra-
tion
- Install and configure Novell iFolder
OpenVZ Adminstrator, XIG Networks; Chicago, IL, USA - November
2010 - January 2011
- OpenVZ server installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting
- OpenVZ containers deployment
- Install, configure and maintain Glassfish, Adobe Flex, Apache httpd, Apache
Tomcat, MySQL, SVN
- Reverse proxy configuration with nginx
Linux Server Setup, The Actor Store; West Los Angeles, CA, USA -
August 2011
- Install and configure Xen VPS with MySQL database
- Install and configure Xen VPS with Apache, PHP and vsftpd FTP server
- Install and configure Social Engine web application
2A Bucharest Blvd, No. 2A, Bl.
5H, Ap. 28, Ploiesti, PH,
100520, Romania
M: +40 (722) 257757
E: [email protected]
L: www.linkedin.com/in/liviudm
Freelance Projects
CCNA Articles, CiscoKits.com; Cream Ridge, NJ, USA - August -
September 2009
http://www.guru.com/pro/ProjectDetail.aspx?ProjectID=535387 - Create arti-
cles for the curriculum provided by CiscoKits
Unison Installation, Concepta Inc; Orlando, FL, USA - February 2009
http://www.guru.com/pro/ProjectDetail.aspx?ProjectId=485311 - Install and
configure Unison Unified Communications Gateway
Education
Spiru Haret University, Bucharest - BS in Internation Business, October 2010 -
2013
Skills
RedHat Enterprise Linux 4/5/6, Debian/Ubuntu, Veritas SF/SFHA, Veritas
VCS, SAN storage, Shell scripting (bash, ksh, perl), DNS (bind9), Proxy
(squid), HTTPD (Apache, ngingx, lighttpd), SQL DBs (MySQL, Post-
greSQL), NoSQL DBs (MongoDB, CouchDB), FTP (vsftpd, proftpd), Email
(sendmail, postfix, qmail), puppet, cfengine, pragmatic troubleshooting
Publications
Ease package management with SUSEs y2pmsh - http://www.linux.com/
feature/52024
2A Bucharest Blvd, No. 2A, Bl.
5H, Ap. 28, Ploiesti, PH,
100520, Romania
M: +40 (722) 257757
E: [email protected]
L: www.linkedin.com/in/liviudm