RHODORA RICAFRENTE-BORLAS

Mandaluyong City 1552 Philippines

Email Address: rai@ricafrente.com

 

 

Summary: A Red Hat Certified Linux Engineer with a penchant for travelling the world and discovering food. A blogger and amateur photographer every now and then but most of the time, a Unix System Administrator who plans of starting an independent animal shelter for abandoned cats and dogs.

 

 

System Administration Skills

 

System Administration:

-       Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS Linux

-       SUSE

-       AIX

 

Service Administration:

-       Apache, MySQL, PHP, SSH, BIND, Postfix/Sendmail, Squid, MRTG, DHCP, FTP, IPTABLES,

 

Scripting:

-       Bash, Perl, PHP

 

 

Professional Certification

 

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) – Certificate Number: 805008627634893

 

 

Work Experience

 

UNIX System Administrator - OIST Department (2009 - Present)

Asian Development Bank, 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City

 

Main responsibilities include setup, hardening, maintenance and monitoring of Linux/AIX servers.

 

·          Handles the deployment of server monitoring tool using Nagios.

·          Currently deploying the department monitoring dashboard using Nagios and Nagvis.

·          Worked with the SWIFT Virtual Printer project that aims to conserve paper by converting SWIFT messages to a PDF file.

·          Research, testing and rollout of updates and patches on development, staging and production servers.

·          Coordination with other IT teams during maintenance activities.

 

 

Linux System Administrator II - IT Department (2005 – 2009)

US Auto Parts Network Inc., Pasig Office, 6F RCC Center 104 Shaw Blvd., Pasig City

 

Main responsibilities include setup, securing, maintenance and monitoring of Linux (Red Hat, Fedora and CentOS variants) production and development web, database and email servers and ensuring that maximum uptime is achieved by taking necessary actions to prevent downtimes.

 

Other key performance areas include:

 

·          Setup, securing, deployment and monitoring of company e-commerce and static sites in coordination with the development team.

·          Maintenance of SSL certificates and domain name registration, network connections between servers.

·          Coordination with data centers that house company’s servers in making sure that hardware are in optimum performance level.

·          Development and implementation of server backup scripts in Perl or Bash for monitoring systems and task automation.

·          Research, testing and rollout of updates and patches to production servers.

 

 

Technical Support Engineer - IT Department (2003 – 2005)

Intl. Family Food Services Inc. (Shakey’s), AFP-RSBS Industrial Park, Taguig City

 

·         Received commendation from Franchise and Business Development Department.

·         Performs setup, implementation and maintenance of Linux servers for ShakeysPizza.ph domain (Email and proxy server).

·         Provided over-the-phone and on-site technical support by installing/troubleshooting personal computers and laptops, dial-up configuration and LAN setup (Restaurants and Head Office).

·         Handles store sales checking and uploading and user assistance in accessing datawarehouse.

 

 

Applications Support Engineer - IT Technical Services, Contractual Employment (March 2003 – August 2003)

SMART Communications Inc. 11/F Rufino Tower, Ayala Ave. Makati City

 

·         Provided over-the-phone and email support for SMART employees nationwide in their concerns regarding installation, configuration, troubleshooting and/or repair of workstations and notebooks.

·         Coordinated with the other IT groups for transferring and updating of job orders and reports.

 

 

Educational Background

        

College: Bachelor’s Degree Major in Computer Engineering

AMA Computer College, Sta. Mesa, Manila (1998 – 2003)

 

High School and Elementary:

Dominican College, San Juan, Manila (1988-1994, 1994-1998)

 


Trainings and Seminars

 

·         October 2008 - RHCE Training Track RH033, RH131 and RH253 (Q-Linux Labs)

·         April 2007 – PHP MySQL Training (MERALCO Foundation Inc.)

·         January 2005 – Linux System Administration (MERALCO Foundation Inc.)

·         March 2002 – CISCO 1 – Networking Basics (AMACC Sta. Mesa)

·         August 1998 - Structured Cabling System Seminar, Lucent Technologies (AMACC Quezon City)

 

 

Character References

 

1.Roy Gerard Warren Peña

Product Support Engineer – Link2Support (Libis, Quezon City)

           

2. Jay de Vera

Network Support Engineer – Sykes Asia Inc. (Quezon City)