Engineer System

ENDRE MESZAROS

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Experienced IT Professional

Highly skilled and experienced IT Professional with over 20 years of IT experience in a variety of industries and

roles in the Systems Management, Systems Support, and Application Support areas. Proven track record of

managing several large and small IT projects from conception to completion, many of which ultimately resulted

in an overall financial savings, improved stability, or increased revenues. Qualifications include a masters

degree in computer science; graduate certificate in Information security; years of working with Unix systems,

networking equipment, security tools and commercial, open source and proprietary applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UBS AG, Stamford, CT

Lead Application Support Engineer (Associate Director) – Foreign Exchange 2009 – Present

• Primarily responsible for overall management of a large multi tiered trade settlement and notification

system. Making several design changes, recommendations, and infrastructure changes to improve production

stability, reliability, and customer confidence.

• Provide overall production support for infrastructure and various proprietary applications for electronic

trading in the Foreign Exchange. This includes troubleshooting, managing software releases and incidents, while

strictly adhering to SLAs and escalation procedures.

• Interface with business users and clients to resolve various technical issues.

• Troubleshoot Unix (Solaris and Linux) or Network issues that may be effecting client connections or

application performance and confer with System Administration and Network teams to correct any issues.

• Do capacity planning based on growth projections provided by the business.

• Responsible for troubleshooting and implementing the messaging infrastructure (MQ, RV/EMS, Nirvana).

Sr. Integration Engineer (Consultant) – Foreign Exchange 2006 - 2009

• Provide Production support for business to business client connections on currency exchange

• Troubleshoot proprietary applications when connection issues occur.

• Assist from technical perspective when clients are testing and during production “go lives”.

• Create and update shell scripts to automate processes.

• Troubleshoot Unix and Network issues that may be effecting client connections.

• Perform Solaris System Administration tasks on an as needed basis to support the currency trading

environment.

• Resolve any production client issues in a timely fashion, to ensure SLAs are adhered to.

• Recommend changes to applications for the purpose of improving clients trading capabilities and

performance.

• Troubleshoot issues with underlying messaging infrastructure such as Websphere MQ, Tibco RV/EMS

and Nirvana.

Sr. Application Support Engineer (Consultant) – Credit Derivitives 2006 - 2007

• Provide Production support for proprietary trade capture application for Credit Derivative trading.

• Troubleshoot and maintain new releases of proprietary trade capture application.

• Create and run ad hoc SQL queries on Oracle databases for troubleshooting and maintenance purposes.

• Troubleshoot any system problems related to trade capture application on servers running Solaris.

JUPITERMEDIA CORPORATION, Darien, CT

Technology Manager – Information Technology 2001 - 2006

• Planed and supported advertising technologies which were the company’s main revenue stream. Worked

extensively with Double Click’s AdServer and 24/7 RealMedia’s Open AdStream. Managed project to convert the

company’s advertising software from Adserver to Open AdStream, which resulted in a savings of about $400K in

software licensing and hardware costs.

• Recommended architectural changes, recommend and oversaw implementation of new applications, and

participated in capacity planning for database systems, web servers, and other servers supporting the

infrastructure, to improve performance and the customer experience.

• Managed and mentored a small staff of Systems Engineers responsible for implementing and maintaining

various applications such as DNS, Sendmail, Firewall, and iPlanet Messaging Server primarily on Solaris and

Linux, while still providing hands on support.

• Provided System and Application support for about 20+ Linux servers primarily running Red Hat 7.2, 7.3,

and RHEL 3, as well as various versions of Solaris.

Senior Systems Engineer – Information Technology 1998 - 2001

• Manage the setup and support of a large website encompassing approximately 150 websites primarily

running Apache webservers on Solaris and Linux, with some IIS as well as Netscape Enterprise servers.

• Responsible for system administration. Installing and configured Solaris with appropriate optimizations

based on server needs including tuning kernel parameters, Installing system utilities, and writing shell scripts to

automate processes.

• Provided database administration by Installing, configuring and tuning Oracle database primarily

version 8.x.x., including the configuration of RMAN to do hot backups of databases.

• Provide general network administration by troubleshooting and correcting network problems, as well

as maintain network and network security devices such as Cisco switches, routers, and firewalls.

• Setup and maintain Sendmail, POP, and DNS servers.

• Designed and maintained system backup using Solstice Backup (Legato Networker) and automated

DLT tape changers. Converted all the systems from UNIX “dump” command, greatly improving system

recoverability.

• Managed project to convert banner system from Adfinity to Double Click’s AdServer giving the

company more flexibility in targeting and tracking advertising to increase revenue.

SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT, Stratford, CT

Senior System/Network Engineer – Business Systems Dept. 1996 - 1998

• Assisted in the design and management of a large local and wide-area TCP/IP network.

• Installed, configured and maintained DNS/DHCP and SMTP servers.

• Worked with counterparts at other UTC companies to establish a corporate intranet.

• Implemented and maintained company network security systems such as Firewall-1 and

SecureID.

• Installed and configured web servers running Netscape Enterprise Server on Solaris.

• Responsible for system administration for the various SUN servers, maintaining user accounts

and writing shell scripts.

Network/System Administrator - Engineering – Simulation & Systems Support 1991 - 1995

• Responsible for a variety of system administration and network management tasks for a large

multi-platform LAN consisting Macintoshes, PCs, SUNs, SGIs and VAXes.

• Support functions ranged from end user technical support and troubleshooting for Macintosh, PC,

SUN and VAX users to network planning.

• Recommended and installed new hardware and software for Macintoshes and SUNs.

• Served as a technical consulting member of a company wide Electronic Mail Integration Process

Action Team and the Engineering Department Automation Task Team.

Network/System Administrator (Coop/Intern) - Engineering – Simulation & Systems Support 1989 - 1991

• Performed a variety of system administration and network management tasks for a large LAN of

Macintoshes, PCs, VAXes, SUNs and SGIs. This included end-user support and troubleshooting systems and the

network.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering 1991

University of New Haven, West Haven, CT

Master of Science, Computer & Information Science 2001

University of New Haven, West Haven, CT

Graduate Certificate, Information Security 2011

Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Sun Microsystems Inc., Customer Training Center, Chelmsford, MA

Solaris 2.X System Administration I, Solaris 2.X System Administration II, Solaris 2.X Network Administration, Solaris

2.X Network Security

Oracle Education

Database Administration, Database Backup and Restore

SKILLS

Programming - Unix shell scripting, Perl, PHP, and C.

Web Applications - Apache and iPlanet web servers.

Operating Systems - Solaris (7,8, 9 and some 10), Red Hat 7.x – EL3, SUSE Linux 9.x, Windows (XP, Vista, 7).

Networking and Protocols - TCP/IP, DNS. Cisco routers, switches, load balancers, FIX, XML

Messaging - iPlanet Messaging Server, Sendmail, LDAP, Websphere MQ, EMS, Nirvana.

System and Network Security - Gauntlet and Checkpoint Firewalls. UNIX system security tools, SSL.

Systems and Hardware - Sun Servers, HP Proliant systems. Some familiarity with Hitachi 9500 series SAN.

Backup Software - Legato Networker.

Storage and Disk Management - Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System

Databases - Oracle 8.x and MySQL 3.x. Oracle’s built-in backup facility (RMAN).

Office Productivity Software - Microsoft Office, Open Office and Star Office suite of products.

General System Administration - Performance analysis and tuning on Solaris and Linux.

Management - Experience in managing, mentoring, and evaluating a small group of System Administrators.

Oral Communication - Experience in giving technical and non-technical presentations to groups of professionals.

Written Communication - Experience in writing cost justifications, ROIs, RFIs, and technical guides.

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