Guy Egozy

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Guy.Egozy@gmail.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/GuyEgozy

 

Summary

I’m an IT professional driven by challenges with more than 10 years of experience in managing, supporting and designing mission critical Internet environments.

 

I have vast hands-on and managerial experience in scale-out system design, implementation of new technologies, rapid disaster recovery incidents and zero downtime system modification. I had the opportunity of managing all aspects of IT work – system design and scaling, project planning with financial aspects, hardware planning and acquisition and human resource management. I currently manage the IT team of a few of the biggest Israeli internet sites (TheMarker and Haaretz).

 

I’m interested in leading IT operations of rapidly developing system infrastructure in large and versatile environments. I’m also interested in a position that will put to affect my experience in managing all aspects of IT. My wide areas of knowledge and project management abilities allow me to translate a company business needs to a detailed and productive IT deployment plan and a long term cost effective working system.

 

Abilities

·   Strategic and tactical understanding of business needs.

·   Efficient technical project planning and execution under time and resource constraints.

·   IT team management.

·   Fast understanding of complicated integrated systems.

·   Ability to work efficiently in high stress situations.

·   High level of debugging skills.

·   Very fast selective self learning skills.

·   Vast experience in supporting clients, team members and technical personal.

 

Expertise

·   High Availability scale-out design.

·   IT personnel management and hiring.

·   Automation and optimization solutions for Internet integrated systems.

·   Monitoring systems and quality of service assurance.

·   System modification projects with zero downtime.

·   Various OS server design, optimization, integration and security.

·   Networking.

·   System shell scripting.

·   Software deployment design.

·   Open source based solutions deployment.

 

Languages

Hebrew – Native

English – High level

 

Employers

2006-Now          Xpert – Senior Unix consultant and team leader, system integration and maintenance.

Outsource positions:

·      Mobival (1.5 months): Full layer 2 redundancy system (about 10 servers) upgrade project.

·      Marvell (3.5 months): Assisted integrating new computing center (500+ servers).

·      TheMarker (1 year): IT manager. Stabilizing and maintaining Haaretz group internet sites with 3 employees.

2003-2006         GNS – Senior system engineer, Linux team leader, project management, system

administration, integration.

2002-2003         Actcom – Private and business support shift supervisor.

1996-2001         Netvision – Private support shift supervisor.

 

Project examples

·   Migration of monitoring system from Big Brother to Hobbit (plan and execution):

o     800 computing and IT servers.

o     Customized monitoring scripts and graphs.

·   Layer 2 High availability upgrade plan and management of an internet hosting system (research, full plan document and system aspects execution):

o     The system included 8 servers, load balancers and firewalls.

o     Execution of all system aspects, including teaming and vlan tagging on Linux servers.

·   Setup of a production system subset for testing purposes (research, plan and execution):

o     Duplication a working subset of the system (5 servers out of 20) to a VMware server.

o     Debugging of P2V problems with windows systems.

o     Used Acronis and dd for block device replication.

o     Used VMware internal networking to forge the original environment.

·   Disaster recovery of approximately thousand web sites on Linux and Windows hosting environment:

o     Bare metal recovery from backup to a temporary environment.

o     Included web sites, DNS records and ftp access.

·   Migration of approximately thousand web sites into a hosting environment (software architect, management, engine code, web front-end management, support personal technical management):

o     Design and programming of an automated modular migration engine.

o     Migration of all services (email accounts, web sites, DNS records).

 

Knowledge

·   Internet Services: Mysql, Bind, MS DNS, Apache, IIS (5 and 6), NTP, SNMP, Qmail, NFS, Oracle, Radius (radiator), sendmail, postfix, Voip (asterisk).

·   High Availability: Mysql replication, reverse proxy using squid, Radware WSD, custom scripts.

·   Security: IPtables, CheckPoint, Pix, Fortigate, F5, Nessus, IDS and IPS systems.

·   Monitoring and quality: Cacti (and stand alone rrdtool), Big Brother, Hobbit, IPmonitor.

·   Networking: Profound grasp of all aspects up to WAN level.

·   Programming and scripting: Bash, batch files, sed (regex in general), awk, C, PHP, PERL, ASP (VB).

·   Virtualization: VMware.

·   OS: Linux, Solaris and Windows.

 

Education

Technion, two years for electronics eng.

Technion, pre-academic studies

 

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