Engineer Software

UNIX/LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

Over ** years of professional IT experience in domestic and international

computing environments in a variety of industries. Leadership, hands-on

technical, and consulting skills on a wide range of ongoing enterprise-

level projects spanning defense contracting, corporate research, commercial

& private banking, equities trading and healthcare.

SKILL SET

Operating Systems

SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8, 9, & 10, OpenSolaris 2009, FreeBSD

8.2, AIX 3 & 4, Red Hat

Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 4 & 5, CentOS 5.6, Ubuntu Linux Desktop 6.10 thru

11.04, Compaq Tru64 UNIX

4.0F, MacOS 9, MacOS X (10.1 thru 10.5), Windows 98, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, &

7, Windows 2003/2008/2008R2 Server, IBM VM/CMS

Networking, Applications and Utilities

Check Point 2000 Firewall-1, BMC PATROL, Jumpstart, Kickstart, Legato

Networker, Samba, Veritas Volume Manager/FirstWatch, AFS, ZFS, COPS, Crack,

Gauntlet TIS/FWTK, Kerberos, RRDTool, SNIPS, sudo, Amanda, NFS, NIS, DNS,

LVM/LVM2, RAID, DHCP, Filezilla, Clonezilla, Active Directory, UltraVNC,

RDP, Citrix XenApp (Citrix Presentation Server), Citrix Client, Cisco VPN,

WSUS, VMware ESX/vSphere, Vmware Player, VirtualBox, Apache

Programming

Bourne shell, Korn shell, BASH, awk, sed.

Hardware

Sun Enterprise 4500, 3500, 450, 420, 250, Ultra 10, 5, 2, 1, Sparcstation

20, 10, 5; IBM

RS/6000 320, 340, 540, J40, F30; Compaq Alpha ES40, DS20, 8200, 2100,

AS1200, 600, 600A; Cisco

PIX; various PowerPC-based platforms and Intel-based platforms.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CONSILIUM1 LLC, Rochester, NY 05/2010

- 03/2011

Technical Resource/Consultant

GE Healthcare, South Burlington, VT, Sales IT Support (SITS)

Support for users of the Centricity Remote Demonstration Access (RDA)

portal, a dedicated virtual environment designed for demonstration by sales

teams of GE Healthcare products at trade shows and hospital/private

practice sales calls.

Support of the RDA required the maintenance of over 200 VMware VMs running

Windows 2003/2008/2008R2 Server, Windows XP, or Red Hat Enterprise Server

(RHEL) 4 & 5. Tasks included:

Creation and modification of VMs via VMware vSphere console

Creation and modification of user accounts via Windows Active Directory

Support for Citrix XenApp (formerly Citrix Presentation Server)

Installation and administration of hardware in support of the RDA

Daily, weekly and monthly maintenance tasks in support of the RDA

Shipping and receiving of SITS inventory used for remote demos throughout

the Eastern U.S.

Remote and on-site support for trade shows and remote demos throughout the

Eastern U.S.

On-site IT support at industry trade shows attended by the client.

INDEPENDENT IT SUPPORT PROVIDER, Manchester Center, VT 10/2002

- 05/2010

Provided OS, networking and hardware support for residences and small

commercial environments. Tasks included:

Wireless network installation and configuration:

Assessment of environmental needs (distances, potential signal

interference, etc.)

Recommendations for wireless network equipment purchase

Installation of hardware and software configuration

Network troubleshooting as needed.

Hard drive data transfer:

Assessment of error codes/messages

Provide transfer media (external HD)

Transfer data

Rebuild file system and restore data.

DSL Network Troubleshooting

Assessment of error codes to determine cause

Contacted and worked with Verizon Engineering to find solution

Resolved issue and provided continuing on-site support as needed.

Platform Assessment and Recommendations

Interviewed primary user to determine needs

Made appropriate recommendations for OS, hardware, and software upgrades.

Software upgrades and patch management

ADVANCED SYSTEM CONSULTING, INC, Marlton, NJ 06/2001

- 10/2002

Senior Consultant

Assigned to Merrill Lynch HQ in NYC to assist their global email recovery

following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Supported the installation and configuration of Firewall-1 for Day-Timers,

Inc. in PA and McGraw-Hill, Inc. in NJ.

Implemented company server/network monitoring and of a custom-designed

secure gateway product using open source software.

COLLECTIVE TECHNOLOGIES, INC, Austin, TX 06/1997

- 04/2001

Senior Consultant

Member of the Northeast Region (NY/NJ/PA) technical staff

Helped train and mentor colleagues in technical and business skills

Interviewed over 50 potential new hires with emphasis on technical and

business skills sets

Member of bonus review committee and security practice development group

Performed assessments; delivered and implemented recommendations for

improving IT environments

Clients included:

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter 06/1997 - 08/1999

Performed the duties of Site Lead for two UNIX help desk teams, consisting

of 6 to 8 system administrators performing tasks common for 1st and 2nd

level UNIX support; teams provided 24x7 support

Supported other UNIX support teams to achieve the highest level of task

completion and customer satisfaction in an environment with more than 500

Sun workstations and servers running a customized version of Sun Solaris

Provided support for AFS, DNS, FTP, NFS, NIS, and Kerberos system and

network services

Performed file restores, using Legato Networker

Debugged TCP/IP connectivity problems on Sun workstations

Debugged problems with the UNIX printing subsystem

Installed third-party software packages for users

Upgraded Sun systems from SunOS to Solaris to maintain Y2K compliance

Configured Sun servers with Clariion RAID arrays and Veritas VM

Performed minor administration on a High Availability (HA) server pair,

using Veritas FirstWatch

OTA Limited Partnership

08/1999 - 10/2000

Administered 17 Sun servers and 7 Compaq Alpha servers being used for

arbitrage trading on the NYSE and NASDAQ stock exchanges

Configured and used BMC PATROL v3.3 to monitor UNIX hardware, business-

related applications and

financial data feeds

Provided rapid response capability to ensure trading application

functionality during NYSE trading hours (9:30AM - 4:00PM EST)

Schubert Ticketing Services 10/2000 - 11/2000

Performed an assessment of the Compaq Tru64 UNIX computing environment,

requiring a short ramp-up time in terms of understanding the environment

and the client's deadlines

Prepared and implemented a migration of the development environment from

Compaq 2100 and 8200 servers to an ES40 server and the consolidation of a

HSZ70 hard disk array

Prepared and delivered documentation, which included the implementation of

the development environment migration, recommendations for implementing a

secure environment on a Tru64 UNIX server, and client-specific building

procedures for a Tru64 UNIX server.

Elementis Technologies/Rheox 11/2000

Performed an one-day assessment of the lab's RS/6000 workstation; delivered

recommendations for upgrades to the hardware, operating system, and

application software.

Verizon Network Data 11/2000 - 01/2001

Contributed to a CGI/Perl application for an internal customer satisfaction

survey.

Omnisys Technologies 02/2001

Downloaded and installed software patches for Redhat 7 on four Dell

servers, built optimized kernels for the servers, and corrected network

anomalies.

SPEAR LEEDS & KELLOGG, New York, NY 04/1996 -

05/1997

UNIX System Administrator

Administered over 25 IBM RS/6000 servers running AIX 4 used to support

custom financial trading applications. Tasks included:

Scheduled system maintenance

Disaster recovery readiness

Creation and maintenance of logical volumes (LVM)

MOODY'S INVESTORS SERVICE, New York, NY 01/1994 -

03/1996

System Security Administrator

Administered security for more than 100 Solaris and SunOS systems and a

Gauntlet firewall

Applied open source software to implement company-authorized security

policies.

Monitored firewall traffic and alerted specific users and management when

company policies were being violated

REPUBLIC NATIONAL BANK OF NEW YORK, New York, NY 06/1989 -

12/1993

Assistant Vice President/Systems Programmer

Supported 10-12 large VAX systems running VMS, DECnet and VAXcluster

Participated in a multi-departmental project to migrate over 90 bank

branches in NY, FL, and CA to IBM RS/6000s running AIX 3 as follows:

Bank branches were broken down into groups of one, two, or more based on

branch size

An RS/6000 server was built using a generic AIX skeleton image and shipped

to each branch according to a schedule

After bank hours (Sat/Sun) the old IBM System 34 server was swapped out and

replaced with the new AIX server

During the following week on-site support was provided for the branch staff

as needed.

The implementation took several months and was completed on-time.

SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH CENTER, Princeton, NJ 06/1988

- 05/1989

Laboratory Computer Facility System Administrator

Supported the Laboratory Computing Facility (LCF), using VAX servers

running BSD UNIX, Ultrix, & VMS, and Sun2 servers running SunOS.

LOCKHEED MISSILES & SPACE CO, INC, Sunnyvale, CA 01/1985

- 03/1988

Associate Engineer, Senior

Information Services

Developed a batch job scheduling and management software package for use on

IBM VM/CMS; no scheduling system of this kind had existed for use on VM/CMS

at Lockheed prior to the creation of this application; written in REXX.

Received a Team Zero-Defects award for exemplary project development and

implementation for a report listing recommendations for upgrading the

existing mainframe computing environment.

Missiles Systems Division

Maintained software for analyzing D5 ballistic missile telemetry data.

Astronautics Division

Began work on software for a Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) project,

subsequently canceled.

EDUCATION

KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYVANIA - Kutztown, Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Science in Computer and Information Science, 1984

CERTIFICATIONS

Check Point Certified Security Engineer (CCSE)

2001

Check Point Certified Security Analyst (CCSA)

2001

Sun Solaris 7 System Administration 2000

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Network Flight Recorder Security NID Training

2002

Check Point 2000 VPN-1/Firewall-1 Management I & Management II

2001

Sun Enterprise 10000 Administration 2000

BMC PATROL Administrator/Developer for UNIX 3.3 1998

AIX 3 System Administration 1990

DEC Vaxcluster 1989

OTHER

Technical reviewer for "Backup & Recovery", W. Curtis Preston, O'Reilly

Media, Inc., 2007

Technical reviewer for "Using SANs and NAS", W. Curtis Preston, O'Reilly

Media Inc., 2002

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