Senior UNIX Systems Engineer with excellent technical and communication skills. Robust knowledge of datacenter procedures and industry best practices providing a distinct ability to manage enterprise compute environments from architecture to implementation, from day-to-day maintenance/operations to outage support, from security hardening to performance tuning. Insightful ability to provide timely and innovative solutions offers rapid recovery from crisis situations. Independently motivated to identify hardening advancements that provide a increasingly robust environment, thus increasing the certainty of business continuity. Specialized in SAN/NAS storage implementation, administration and capacity planning. Veteran at designing, implementing, administrating and upgrading backup strategies.