Jeremy Erie Phillips

San Francisco, CA 94103

erie@eriephillips.com

 

Profile

Linux Systems Administrator/Engineer with recent focus on monitoring, automation and tool creation.  Customer interaction skills are a strongpoint and are built on experiences with both technical and non-technical audiences.  Overall, I’m happy to engage in a technical environment where my ability to grasp new concepts is exercised and my current scope of knowledge is tested.

 

Operating Systems

Linux 2.4-2.6(RHEL, Debian, Suse), Windows NT-2003 Server, Mac OS 7-10.6, Cisco IOS/CatOS

 

Programming Languages

PERL, Bash, PHP, Expect

 

Software

Apache, Bind, Cacti, Cfengine, Cpanel, ISC DHCP, ISPConfig, iptables, JBoss, Kickstart, Monit, Munin, MySQL, Nagios, Nmap, Oracle 9i /11i, Postfix, PostgresSQL, Puppet, SenSage, Sendmail, Snort, Squid, Sylog-NG, Tomcat, Tripwire, VMWare ESXi

 

Recent Experience

 

SenSage, Inc.                                 San Francisco, CA            05/2007 – 08/2011

Senior Technical Support Engineer

Team lead for department that provides high-level support and services to global customers and partners for a SIEM/Clustered Data Warehouse product.

 

·       Developed multiple tools and scripts, in multiple languages and environments to increase operational efficiency

·       Owned several of our largest customers as an MSP

·       Personally responsible for retaining $200K+ of revenue by resolving long-standing issues

·       Team lead for procedures, processes, methodology and best practices

 

Go Open, LLC                                  San Francisco, CA            05/2006 – 03/2007

Co-Founder

Co-founded an LLC, Go Open, focused on developing real-world open source solutions for low capital businesses.

 

      Handled incident responses for security breaches

      Hardware/software migrations for customers needing assistance with horizontal/vertical scalability

      Implemented DNS, HTTP, e-Mail and firewall solutions on a regular basis

 

Zeus Industrial Products                        Orangeburg, SC                 02/2000 - 03/2005

Linux System Administrator

Lead admin for Linux servers in a heterogeneous environment.  Routine Windows and network administration in addition to managing projects across multiple platforms.

                                              

      Designed and implemented enterprise wide IDS solution using Snort

      Converted Windows DNS/DHCP to ISC BIND & DHCP

      Designed and implemented a spam solution using SpamAssassin and Sendmail to integrate with Microsoft Exchange

      Implemented system monitoring for production servers using Nagios

      Migrated systems from RedHat 8/Suse to RedHat AS 3 on new Dell hardware

      Designed and implemented a Squid proxy solution for Internet usage authentication/authorization and enforcing company Internet usage polices

 

 

Certifications

      RedHat Certified Engineer (RHCE) # 803003806309715

      Linux+

      Network+

      A+

      Inet+

 

 

Education

      Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College 1998-1999

      University of Phoenix 2005-2006

 

 

References

Available upon request