Joanna Delaporte

Joanna Delaporte

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Linux Administrator/Domain Designer
Linux Administrator/Domain Designer

My passion is to provide system administration and systems process analysis for enterprise-critical technology. I enjoy resolving technological challenges and improving architectural stability of my domains. At Parkland College, I was the Linux Administrator for the Business and Computer Science Technologies (BCST) academic department: linux lab machines, thousands of student accounts, and various servers including NIS, NFS/filesharing, DNS/bind, nagios, Ansible, FreeIPA, CUPS and apache webservers on Slackware and CentOS. I leveraged Ansible for configuration management and AWS for backups and warm spare servers. I wrote scripts in bash, and maintained/updated the previous admin's scripts. I learned Python 3 in order to write a complex script that would have been too ugly using bash built-ins. I trained one of my talented students to take over my position. At the ASPCA, I managed the VoIP automated attendant, accounts, staff training, and provided top-tier on- call support for telephony. I was regularly called on to resolve issues such as dropped calls, echoes, user error, dropped database connections, and IVR routing. In my courses at Parkland, I wrote programs in .Net and Java. I have written one Android application in Java. My hardware experience involves phones, networks, and computer hardware. I have installed Cat5 ethernet in existing construction. I have replaced server and desktop RAM, hard drives, network cards, graphics cards, fans, power supplies, and CPU coolers. I am currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology at CSU Global.

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Joined October 2017
EXPERTISE
5 years experience
For three years I was the sole Linux Administrator for my local community college, and I maintained and improved the Linux infrastructure...
For three years I was the sole Linux Administrator for my local community college, and I maintained and improved the Linux infrastructure there. I built a warm spare environment on AWS as an disaster recovery option. I now manage even more complex Linux cloud infrastructure with a team. I have experience with NFS, NFSv4, FreeIPA/RedHat IdM, NIS/YP, bind/named, Ansible, and Nagios. I also have experience with Cobbler, Puppet, kickstart, apache, tomcat, Zabbix. I prefer to work primarily on command line and with scripts using bash, ansible, and python.
Red HatCentOSUbuntuSlackwareGitBINDNamedNisBashCLI
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1 year experience
I have configured various AWS EC2 servers manually and through Ansible.
I have configured various AWS EC2 servers manually and through Ansible.
1 year experience
l have built playbooks and roles for running Linux domain services, including LAMP servers, bind, NIS, ntp, FreeIPA. I have also written ...
l have built playbooks and roles for running Linux domain services, including LAMP servers, bind, NIS, ntp, FreeIPA. I have also written playbooks to provision and configure AWS EC2 instances, including attached block devices and managed security settings.

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EMPLOYMENTS
Web Cloud Systems Administrator
Wolfram
2017-08-01-Present
Provision and maintain all public web-facing systems.
Provision and maintain all public web-facing systems.
Python
Linux
CentOS
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Python
Linux
CentOS
Hardware
Puppet
Zabbix
Cloud technology & infrastructure management
Cobbler
Kickstart
Apache tomcat
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PT BCST Faculty
Parkland College
2015-08-01-Present
I am coordinating and teaching the Linux Administration courses at Parkland College known as CSC171 and CSC271. These courses cover objec...
I am coordinating and teaching the Linux Administration courses at Parkland College known as CSC171 and CSC271. These courses cover objectives for LPIC-1 and Linux+ certification exams. In 2015 used the Network Development Group (NDG) Linux I course through the Cisco Networking Academy (netacad.com), and virtual machines hosted by AWS. This coming year, we will continues using NDG Linux and use virtual machines on Azure. Note: Since Parkland College offers a Pearson Vue testing center, the LPIC-1/Linux+ exams can be taken onsite at Parkland.
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Linux Administrator
Parkland College
2014-01-01-2017-03-01
At Parkland College, I was the Computer Science and Information Technology academic department's Linux Administrator. Following are some ...
At Parkland College, I was the Computer Science and Information Technology academic department's Linux Administrator. Following are some of my most significant responsibilities: Maintain 25 computer lab workstations running Slackware (64 and 32-bit). Maintain NIS server with several thousand staff and student accounts. Maintain NFS server. Maintain LAMP-stack webservers running Slackware and Oracle Enterprise Linux, apache, MySQL, mariaDB, php and python. Maintain DNS server. Maintain CUPS server. Leverage Ansible for automation where possible. Set up Nagios to monitor servers' and two APC UPS battery backups' health. Set up NRPE daemons to work with Nagios to monitor remote servers. Regularly back up data on all Linux servers. Add hundreds of student accounts every term. Test and apply update/upgrade procedures. Document servers' profiles and DNS domain IP allocations. Document account and backup processes. Write and update bash scripts to improve processes. Set up logging server to capture logs from student-administered CISCO routers in my domain. Monitor logs, top processes, and root's mail. Provision and configure a backup server and a warm spare webserver on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)...scripted through Ansible to provide a repeatable process for replacement of primary production server.
Linux
Ubuntu
CentOS
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Linux
Ubuntu
CentOS
BIND
Slackware
Nis
Freeipa
Redhat idm
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