Alex Galea

Background

About Alex Galea

I’m an energetic self-starter and results-oriented individual. My ability to creatively deal with rapid growth or change, along with my strong organizational, analytical and planning skills, have enabled me to make a significant contributions to business. While my background is primarily in a Telecommunications environment, I have shown and believe I offer qualities that are adaptable to other service and professional environments. Below is a brief outline •Senior-level Enterprise UNIX System Administrator with over thirteen years of experience in varied industries. • Project-management of mission-critical production service implementations and migrations. • Designed built and maintained high availability enterprise class systems and storage solutions. • Knowledge of a wide range monitoring tools for the enterprise environment. • Versed in capacity planning processes and procedures. • Experience in Data-centre maintenance support and basic design. • Proven ability in a leadership role, solutions through teamwork, or as a sole resource. • Designed company standards for Unix systems.(OS design, OS security, PCI Compliance). • Designed & critiqued Disaster Recovery plans for core business UNIX hosts. • Ability to create low cost solutions through better use of current technologies. • Extensive working knowledge of a wide range of enterprise class servers & Storage systems. Full CV available upon request. Specialties : Backup/Recovery, Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Storage Area Networking (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Server/Storage Architecture & Storage management, Service Consolidation & Virtualization VMware/Solaris Zones), Shell Scripting (Korn/Bash/Bourne), Perl, UNIX (Solaris/Tru64), Linux (Centos/Redhat/Ubuntu/Debian), Unix/Linux OS Security, Vendor management, Enterprise Hardware support (SUN,HP,Compaq,Dell), Monitoring tools (Nagios,Zenoss,Zabix,Xymon,(splunk in a sandpit))