Pete Nesbitt

Career Highlights:

Over nine years enterprise Linux Administration (RHEL/CentOS)

Quality Bash Scripting

Thorough knowledge of BIND DNS environment

Currently, I have been working on some personal projects such as Picture Placemat a web based image management system built on Bash, Apache and MySQL, enjoying some time off and getting back up to speed after knee surgery.

As the Linux Administrator Technical Lead at Nzone Media, I headed up a distributed team of 3, managing a geographically disperse environment of several hundred servers. Although most tasks could be completed by any team member, I was the primary maintainer of a complex geographically disperse script assisted manual DNS environment serving a number of internal and external views from over 4,000 zones files. Also falling primarily under my responsibility were the Linux side of our email systems, consisting of several Barracuda Spam Firewalls as well as about 8 postfix and sendmail servers. As a team we maintained about 450 installs consisting mostly of RHEL and Centos with a few AIX, Solaris and Fedora systems as well. The environment included a large VMware Infrastructure as well as a wealth of blades and enterprise servers.

In January 2009, as the sole Linux Administrator, I migrated our external DNS service which spanned two locations and merged email systems including external gateway and internal message routing service, to another facility in Quebec. Additionally, internal DNS services moved to a different local site. The migration which was part of a Data Centre move, included SOA and MX changes to all external DNS zones, MX changes to all internal zones, and IP changes for about 150 internal systems. The move was successfully completed while maintaining 100% DNS and Email service availability.

Shell scripting is an important aspect of any Linux environment. I pride myself on my ability to conceive and deliver quality scripted solutions for virtually any situation. My first milestone in scripting came in November 2003 after I dove into regex to learn how to fix a bug in Red Hats logwatch (bugzilla.redhat.com #109498). In May 2005 I released my first OSS, Flac-Jacket, a set of BASH scripts and supporting files which simplify the process of creating FLAC audio files from raw data files, and creates a hyperlinked index of the resulting files. There are a number of scripts available for review on my scripts page (at linux1.ca).

I am self-motivated, analytical, and excel in a challenging work environment. I posses very strong troubleshooting skills with a solid understanding of system and network architectures. With excellent work ethics, strong communication and technical skills, I am a valuable contributor to any Linux centric IT department.

email: Pete Nesbitt