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Kristopher Browne
2200 Madison St NE
Minneapolis, MN 55418
612.293.8394
kris.browne@gmail.com
Summary
Senior Systems Engineer with 24 years professional experience in building and maintaining Unix systems including Linux, BSD, Solaris/SunOS and Irix. Designs automation and maintenance processes to create reliable and reproducible practices through tools including Perl, Ruby, PHP and command line shell scripting. Looking for a position to leverage these skills to find solutions for businesses, schools and individuals.
Experience
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Analysts International; Edina, MN — 2017-Current
Contract support for clients, developing and maintaining solutions for workflow automation and monitoring systems.
- Elastic Stack for logging and analysis
- Kafka for document flow control and queueing
- Collectd, Graphite, Grafana and Icinga2 for metric collection and alerting
- Jenkins workflows for CI/CD
Senior Systems Engineer, Digital River; Minnetonka, MN — 2010-2017
Setup applications to replace internal or outgrown tools, including migrating from Splunk to ELK, internal monitoring to Zabbix, reducing reliance on Control-M through Rundeck. Created integrations to operationalize other tools to standardize best practices among staff.
- System Administration of Solaris and Linux
- Network and System Monitoring through Zabbix and ELK
- Automation, Process standardization and documentation
Prepress System Administrator, Nevada Color Litho; Las Vegas, NV — 2004-2009
As a satellite of Taylor Corporation, I carried out the same migrations here as in Mankato before, then continued to support their environment and help implement new prepress, color-management, proofing, and lithographic plating processes.
- System Administration on Irix, Linux, and Mac OS X
- Network Monitoring with SNMP and Zenoss
- Application support for Adobe CS, Quark, MS Office
- Setup and maintain Symantec/Veritas Netbackup 6.5 system
- Network troubleshooting and support
- Create process automation
System Administrator, Taylor Corporation — 1999-2003
Supported several hundred design professionals, both on the server side of their file/print needs as well as on the desktop. Championed a transition from Irix to Mac OS X servers. Created a roadmap for other parts of the company to do the same, and the training to smooth the transition and upkeep of the new environment.
- System Administration on Irix, Linux, Solaris/SunOS, Mac OS X, and iSeries
- Network Monitoring with SNMP and Zenoss & Nagios
- Setup and maintain Symantec/Veritas Netbackup
- Application support for Adobe CS, Quark, MS Office
- Network troubleshooting and support
- Create process automation
Skills
- Linux/Unix System Administration
- System Automation & Scripting
- Documentation Development
- Process improvement and standardization
- Network setup and troubleshooting
- Monitoring/Logging analysis and design
- Technologies
- Red Hat Linux
- Debian Linux
- macOS
- MySQL/MariaDB
- Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP, Bash
- VMware vCenter
- VMware vRealize Automation
- VMware ESXi
- OpenStack
- Docker
- Chef/Ansible
- ElasticSearch
- Logstash
- Kibana
- Beats
- Kafka
- Grafana
- Graphite
- Zabbix
- SNMP
- Zenoss
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