Michael Tomkins

Wolli Creek, Sydney

NSW Australia 2205

0408 172 142

Summary

With over ten years of experience in the IT industry, I have worked closely with the latest technologies in both enterprise and devops environments. My last position was at Itis as a Linux Systems Administrator. The role primarily involved security, configuration and customisation of their CentOS Linux infrastructure.

Objective

I am looking for a role on AWS or Linux. I would like to work in a challenging environment that is learning centred or customer focused.

Education

2006Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Engineering,
University of Canberra

Employment Summary

Itis Pty LtdLinux System Administrator Jul 2017 – Aug 2017

TravelFeb2016 – Mar 2017

Corrs, Chambers AWS System AdministratorApr 2015 – Dec 2015

and Westgarth

FreelanceLinux System AdministratorJan 2014 – Apr 2015

Yahoo! 7Site Reliability EngineerApr 2013 – Oct 2013

FreelanceLinux System AdministratorFeb 2012 – Apr 2013

Wait-staff WorkJul 2009 – Feb 2012

Fulton TechnologyBusiness Application DeveloperApr 2007 – May 2009

Employment History

Itis Pty Ltd Jul 2017 – Aug 2017

Linux System Administrator

Itis is a SME Windows support company operating from Kingwood. I was employed to renew SSL certificate configuration on the Linux server which they run cPanel.

Responsibilities

SSL certificate renewal and scripting to automate task.
BAU documentation of steps to be performed by Windows admins.
Disk reconfiguration using LVM and CentOS clustered virtual file system.
pfSense firewall rule creation and audit.

Corrs Chambers & WestgarthApr 2015 - Dec 2015

AWS Systems Administrator

Corrs Chambers and Westgarth are a top ten national Legal Practice with offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.

Responsibilities

Windows R2 2008/2012 application configuration and AWS AMI creation.
SQL Server 2008 maintenance plans and BAU.
Aconex Database server installation and maintenance.
Monitoring, New Relic installation and configuration.
Service uptime, incident response, outage scheduling and data migration.

Achievements

I successfully completed my contract within the 9 month timeframe, including testing, user acceptance, user support and data-migration.

Self EmployedJan 2014 - Apr 2015

Freelance Developer and Systems Administrator

Responsibilities

Pick and place of small business systems onto AWS framework. Reproducing current application frameworks in EC2, RDS with S3 logging.
Export SQL and upload to RDS, configuring CloudWatch to alert on site problems, logging sites to S3, configuring application access with IAM.
Automated AMI creation using Packer and Puppet.
Mostly single node EC2 with RDS and CloudWatch. Also static sites on S3 and some robust sites using AZ and resource duplication in Sydney region.

Achievements

Improved my cold-calling, product specification, implementation, user acceptance and negotiation skills.

Yahoo! 7Apr 2013 - Oct 2013

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

This is the Australian partnership between Yahoo! and Channel 7.

Responsibilities

Log analysis and root cause determination. Use of CLI tools to create custom reports for management on incidents; tail, grep, netstat, sed, ssh, dig, host.
Responsible for 120 instance KVM setup, imaging, updating and monitoring. Run from a 15*1U onsite servers with internal SAN.
Legacy systems maintenance. Including managing change migration and testing of new features to ensure system uptime, on RHEL5 and FreeeBSD systems.
Apache monitoring, vhost editing and server config updates.
MySQL admin, setup, configuration, replication and backup.
Service problem solving including a C10M solution.
Incident response within the ITIL framework, on call every second week. With 1000 servers downtime is not acceptable, so preemptive trouble-shooting is required.

Achievements

Wrote, packaged, tested and implemented various modules for Yahoo! standard library, with dependency resolution.

Self EmployedFeb 2012 - Apr 2013

Freelance Developer and Systems Administrator

See above June 2014 - Apr 2015, same role.

Fulton Technology Apr 2007 - May 2009

Business Application Developer

Fulton Technology is a Business Process Application shop in Canberra.

Responsibilities

Administering TASMIS system and ensuring that servers were available.
Entry of AGD66, WGS84 and GDA94 data onto ESRI framework. Manipulation and generation of reports based on that data.
Helpdesk phone support for the TASMIS system.
Writing User documentation on new features in the TASMIS system.

Achievements

I produced a site boundary translation from ADG66 to GDA94 formatting that was gazetted with the ADF.
Created a new report over time sensitive data using VB/macro scripting to output in Microsoft Word format, the automation reduced a 1 day job to a 15 minute check of formatting.
Sped-up user data download using grep and ftp to transfer 150k lines of CSV data into 10k of targeted data that became database entries on Lotus Notes. Speedup was from 4 hours to 12 minutes.
Coded a geodetic data reduction set using convex hulls to preformat data. This took a set of unordered points and returned a hull-set of ordered points.
I produced an arc translation method and JavaScript library from SVG point relative to PDF arc relative original dataset. This moved 7 data-points in an ESU system into a 6 data-point ENU system.

Interests

Cycling, karaoke, crocodile wresting, observing if anyone is paying attention.

Skills Matrix

Skill / Years Used / Last Used / Rating*
Applications / Tools
Ansible / 4 / Current / 8
Apache / nGinx / 8 / Current / 5
AWS / 6 / Current / 8
Docker / Compose / 2 / 2015 / 5
Git / 9 / Current / 8
Jenkins / Garrett / 2 / Current / 6
KVM / QEMU / libvirt / 1 / 2013 / 4
New Relic / 1 / 2015 / 4
Puppet / 3 / 2015 / 5
Serverless Framework / 1 / Current / 3
SSH / Screen / Tmux / 14 / Current / 9
Terraform / 2 / Current / 5
Vagrant / Virtual Box / Packer / Vault / 5 / Current / 5-8
Vim / 14 / Current / 9
Databases
MS SQL Server / 1 / 2015 / 5
My SQL 5.1 / 2 / 2013 / 5
Postgres 9.1 / 1 / 2015 / 1
Operating systems
Debian / Ubuntu / 14 / Current / 9
RHEL 5 / 2 / 2017 / 5
Solaris 6-9 / 5 / 2009 / 5
Window XP, Vista, 7, 8 / 7 / 2017 / 7
Windows Server 2008/2012 / 3 / 2017 / 7
Programming Languages
Bash / Ksh / Zsh / Shell / 14 / Current / 8
C / C++ / Flex / Yacc / 8 / 2012 / 5
HTML / CSS / JavaScript / JSON / XML / 16 / 2015 / 7
LotusScript / VB script / 2 / 2009 / 7
NodeJS / 1 / Current / 3
Python 2/3 / 7 / Current / 5
RegEx / 14 / Current / 8

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* RATING:

10 - Considered expert in field
9 - Good knowledge of skill, able to train or mentor others
8 - Good level of confidence in skill (currently using)
7 - Good level of confidence in skill (not currently using)
6 - Above average level of knowledge of skill

5 - Medium level expertise (able to competently use key functionality)
4 - RTFM with bells on (commercial use)
3 - Experimenting / play (non-commercial use)
2 - Few months experience only (commercial use)
1 - Few months experience only (non-commercial use)

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