Engineer Management

Highlights

Data Center management and migration

System Design, and implementation

Planning and project management

Application implementation and migration

Creative solutions to company problems

Development of applications to facilitate administration needs

Technical Skills

Operating Systems: Linux RHEL, Fedora, CentOs, Gentoo, Xen, Solaris

Microsoft Windows, Apple OS/X

Enterprise VMWare ESX/Server, BEA Weblogic, ATG Commerce Suite,

Applications: Fast ESP, MST Ticker Plant, Cinnober Trade Express,

MIT - Millennium Exchange, Tipco Smart Sockets,

Oracle Application Server, BMC Patrol

Open Source: Apache,Tomcat, JBoss, Nagios, HA Proxy, Samba

Shares,

Webmin, HypericHQ Monitoring, Job Scheduler, HaDoop/DFS,

Control Tier

OpenVpn, ActiveMq, Jetty, Stomp Framework

Databases: MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, DB2

Languages: Java, C/C++,Perl, PHP, HTML,XHTML,CSS, Javascript (Ajax),

XML, Shell Scripting (Bash,sh,ksh

Protocols: SQL,TCP/UDP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, FTP, TFTP, NTP, DNS,

DHCP, LDAP, NFS, LDAP, SSL

Hardware: Sun (sparc II, Sparc III, X86)

HP ProLiant DL series

Dell 2800, 2900 series

NVIDIA S1070 and CUDA enabled hardware

Super Micro Hardware

Silicon Mechanics

Current SourceForge.com projects

JMrTools: Is Java application to aid in administrating large

infrastructures by executing local scripts on a remote system in parallel.

Currently implemented protocols are Ssh, Telnet, and Scp, future protocols

will be Ftp, Http and Rsync. As well as workflow dependency

Xml Ls: Is a command line utility to provide directory and recursive

directory listing in XML format

WebStats-solr: A search Engine based web statistics index. In the spirit of

AWStats Webstats-solr will provide a more granular details of your website

volume. In addition allow you to easily create other reports bases on a

complex query search strings.

Professional Highlights

Consultant - KBC Financial Planning (www.kbcfp.com)

Infusive Solutions Inc February 2010 - Present

Coordinate and execute the shutdown of their current Data Center and

migrate all

hardware between 2 different data centers while not impacting day-to-day

operations.

Accomplishment

- Planned and executed 3 Hardware migrations to different data center

locations (250 Servers total)

- Executed Staff Office move to new office

- Identified and Shutdown 50 servers prior to migrations

Responsibilities

- Planned the movement of all hardware, analysis of power, and space

- Monitoring of the facility and servers addressing heating and cooling

issues.

- Analysis of all hardware and decommission unneeded hardware before the

move

- Installation of new routers, hubs, terminal switches

- Racking, Wiring and reconfiguring of servers

- On Call Rotation 24/7 for critical company problems

- Assisted in day to day support of the Solaris, and Linux environment

Alliance Time LLC July 2009 - January 2010

I was the companies only Linux System Engineer and had to handle the entire

companies Linux needs while they migrated the site to a Linux/Java and ATG

E-Commerce site from windows/Asp.

Accomplishments:

. Deployment of the Ashforf.com website

. Full automation of build an deployment with Control Tier Application

. Created infrastructure and Run Book procedures for non-linux users

. Implementation of Nagios Monitoring solution and wrote plug-ins for

custom monitoring

Responsibilities

. Managed and maintained VMWare's server farm of +30 Centos 5.3 Guest

Machines

. Managed Rackspace hosting provider +15 64Bit Centos 5.3

. 24/7 Monitoring and on call support

. Configuration and deployment of LAMP+J stack to run ATG e-commerce

framework

. Work with Site Architect to determine additional needs for the site

Milabra LCC January 2009 - June 2009 (www.milabra.com)

Hired to perform the role of Systems Architect and Administrator: design,

implement and operations for all of the companies IT needs. The goal of the

company was to

implement a real-time object detection technology that would requires high

volume and low latency transactions on a LAMP+J stack network. This

required setting up a mix of Linux and windows environment, which included

finding specialized hardware to could utilize the NVIDIA CUDA Graphics

cards

Accomplishments

. Built Alpha environment to support the companies growing needs

. Reached initial goal to process 1 million transactions per day and

show how it would scale to 1 billion transactions per day

. Fully automated start of environment using a combination of webmin and

JMrTools

Responsibilities

. Guiding the company in discovering the best fit hardware for their needs

. Management of Linux, and Windows, and VMWare servers +20 Hosts

. Working with offshore development teams on design and specifications

. HPC computing using LAMP Stack and Active MQ, to perform millisecond

transactions

. Installing configuration and support of all computer and networking

hardware

. Application coding and debugging in C, Java and PHP

. System Administration (Write shell scripts, deployments, upgrades

. 24x7 on call

Accoona Corporation April 2008 - Oct 2008 (www.twing.com)

Hired as a Sr Systems Engineer to work out their automation and deployment

needs as well as come up with solutions to other issues they had in the

environment.

Accomplishments

. Architect and implement VMWare Environment for QA and Development farms

(+54 Servers)

. Implemented LDAP infrastructure and interfaced with Active Directory

. Implemented Job Scheduler to automate daily jobs

. Deployed TWING.com

. Implemented Hardware inventory application (OCS Inventory)

Responsibilities

. Administrating server farm of +300 servers of mixed operating systems

CentOs Redhat Fedora

. Working with application team on designing and implementations of

applications

. Web Services architect and administrator (HaProxy, LAMP, Tomcat, Oracle,

LDAP

. Administration and monitoring of Search Engine

. Data Center Operations - Racking, Wiring, and hardware maintenance

. Implementing Puppet to manage the VMWare server configurations

. SVN Administration

. System Administration (Write shell scripts, deployments, upgrades

American Stock Exchange June 2006 - April 2008: ( www.amex.com )

Hired to architect and facilitate the migration of the options and equity

market systems. The migration goals were to: move to 2 new data centers,

reduce cost though automation, standardization of the infrastructure,

eliminate outages and errors, and increase scalability all with no

interruption to the trading floor.

Accomplishments

. Approval of all changes and work to be accomplished in the environment

. Migrated the Stock Exchange Options Market into 2 new data centers and

shutdown the old ones

. Upgraded and migrated all hardware and software to RHEL 4

. Eliminated all known environment problems and reduced failover time from

15 to 2 minutes

. Implement new Market Data System Application to replace Tipco Smart

Sockets

. Implemented new FIX interface to the options and equities infrastructure

Responsibilities

. Architecture, Migration and management of Production Options platform +60

Servers

. Architecture and management of VMWare ESX infrastructure +100 Guest

Machines

. Approval of all changes and work to be accomplished in the environment

. Management of hosting company SAVVIS,Inc.(NASDAQ: SVVS) +600 Servers of

RHEL 4

. Team Lead of 12 people for 24x7 coverage plus weekend testing and

upgrades

. On call 24x7

. Working with Software vendors to identify all new environment

requirements, configuration

. Primary liaison to respond to all QA for all requests

. Performed Oracle, Sybase, PostGres, MySql Installations, Maintenance and

troubleshooting

. System Administration (Write shell scripts, deployments, upgrades

United Parcel Service 1996 to 2006: ( www.ups.com )

The Lead Systems Administrator for UPS.com and its subsidiary websites

where we provided SOAP access to UPS's database through a Global Cloud

style

architecture. I support day-to-day operations as well as design efforts.

Accomplishments

. Migrating BEA WebLogic Server Farm from Solaris to RHEL 4

. Migrated Oracle Application server to BEA WebLogic

. Architected web application infrastructures for subsidiaries (10 websites

and +20 Applications)

. Implementation of Load Runner infrastructure for QA to perform capacity

. Development of Web Interface to deploy web content to server farm

. Development of Web Interface to monitor BEA Weblogic servers (~200

servers)

. Development of Threaded perl application to massage data and provide

company audit reports

. Migrated 4 different subsidiaries web infrastructures to a unified LAMP+J

farm

Responsibilities

. Coordinated team of 10 people in projects and daily activities

. Management of Solaris/Linux server farm +200 servers

. Coordinated global inter-department teams to implement websites, and

service offerings

. Migration of all web and application servers from Solaris to Linux

. Work with development groups to identify, diagnosis problems with website

and applications

. Worked with operations to implement BMC Patrol

. Supported Netscape iPlanet Web and proxy Servers

. Java BEA troubleshooting, Installations and deployments

. Database troubleshooting of DB2, Oracle, Mysql issues

. Coordinated environment and application Life Cycle (Deployments,

Capacity, Patches

. Point of contact for all subsidiaries web hosting needs and problems

. On call 24x7 support of UPS FTP, Proxies, Reverse Proxies, and UPS Web

farms

. System Administration (Write shell scripts, deployments, upgrades

Contact this candidate