Lee S. Whatley

1876 Filmore Ave.                  504.304.8953
New Orleans, LA 70122        lee @ whatley . org

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Experience	Field Technical Support Consultant IV	January 2020 – present
		Hewlett Packard Enterprise		Stennis Space Center, MS
	Continuation of on-site system analyst role after HPE purchased Cray
•	Site lead responsible for coordination between DoD customer and HPE, including legacy Cray and SGI assets
•	Guided installation of one of the first production HPE Cray EX (Shasta) supercomputers.  Resources total ~12PFlops of peak computing power and over 16PB of parallel storage 
•	Reconfigured and refreshed XC40 system that was originally planned for decommission to provide it with additional usability
•	Assist users with porting applications to new systems/architectures

		System Analyst IV		 August 2014 – December 2019
		Cray, Inc.			Stennis Space Center, MS
	Lead analyst responsible for system administration, service, and support of five TOP500 Cray XC30 and XC40 HPC systems at DoD HPC customer site.  Resources total over 5.8PFlops of computing power and over 8PB of parallel storage
•	Guided installation of three XC40 supercomputers simultaneously from manufacturing turnover to customer acceptance testing in under 22 days
•	Plan and coordinate all maintenance activities, software updates, and customer requested changes to the systems
•	Act as a resource for customer's user support team when troubleshooting user compilation and performance/runtime issues
•	Assist with installation, configuration, and troubleshooting at other Cray customer sites where needed
•	Mentor new hires at other sites
•	Perform root cause analysis on system/node/application failures

		Senior System Administrator	 July 2004-August 2014
 		Lockheed Martin		Stennis Space Center, MS
•	Contractor for DoD HPC Center. Manage multiple Linux systems and TOP500 Linux clusters.
•	Manage virtualization/migration and lifecycle of site's Linux infrastructure
•	Lead administrator for all RHEL support systems (DNS, web, mail, database, etc.)
•	Lead administrator of multiple RHEL satellite servers used for management and provisioning of site-wide RHEL infrastructure 
•	Lead administrator for Appro/Cray nVidia GPU infiniband cluster  
•	Member of administration team of 12,000+ core Cray XT5 supercomputer
•	Member of administration team of Sun servers, including multiple F12k/15k/M5k systems, and large IBM P-series system clusters (p690/p655)
•	Member of administration team of multiple 18,000+ core IBM iDataplex infiniband clusters
•	Member of administration team of multiple 30,000+ core Cray XC30 supercomputers
•	Develop and maintain RPM packages for in-house software
•	Provide shell/perl scripting for custom applications and support of the systems 
•	Assist with administration of multi-Petabyte mass storage/archiving systems

		IT Security Administrator	February 2007- September 2008
		Lockheed Martin		Stennis Space Center, MS
	Contractor for the DoD HPC Center.  Duties coincided with system administrator position above.
•	Continuously audited all Linux/AIX/Solaris systems to insure security integrity
•	Performed network scans
•	Coordinated patch installations
•	Coordinated system hardening
•	Maintained custom security software stack (Kerberos, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, etc.) for all systems
•	Acted as primary KDC server administrator 
•	Acted as liaison between center and other DoD security agencies 
•	Ensured that center meets all DoD security requirements and guidelines
•	Lead comprehensive security assessments 
•	Evaluated new software products from a security standpoint before they are deployed
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		System Administrator		 June 2000- July 2004
		Bashinsky Computer Center	University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
•	Installed, configured, and managed multiple Linux servers
•	Developed/managed user account creation and maintenance system for high-traffic web server with over 10,000 users
•	Performed network security testing and auditing
•	Updated server software, including compiling/installing kernels and security updates
•	Planned and successfully executed migration of all C&BA Linux servers from Red Hat Linux 9.0 to Red Hat Enterprise 3.0
•	Wrote extensive system documentation and trained other employees on system use and maintenance
•	Developed, wrote, and maintained multiple in-house perl, shell, and php scripts

Education	Master of Science in Criminal Justice 
		The University of Alabama	Tuscaloosa, AL
		Thesis: Using Differential Association, Peer Imitation, and Negative Definitions 			to Explain Deviant Computer-related Behavior

		Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
		The University of Alabama	Tuscaloosa, AL
		Major: Management Information Systems
		Minor: Computer Science

Certifications	Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
		Red Hat, Inc., License 120-079-504
		May 2012 – May 2015
		Security+ CE
		 CompTIA

 I currently posses a US Government “Top Secret” security clearance (DoD SSBI)