Summary

IT Architect, Team Leader and hands-on Administrator. Master level

experience with UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Virtual Machines as well as

Network Operations and Storage. Extremely skilled in systems scripting and

performance analysis. Advocate of processes for Design, Build, Audit, Unit

Test, Load Test, Deploy, Monitor, Alarm-Response and Change Control.

Designer / Implementer of High Availability solutions and Disaster Recovery

preparedness and exercises. Crystallizes into action ambiguous and complex

visions. Establishes task automation and process improvement. Presents

visual and textual documentation.

Skills

Operating Systems: UNIX, HPUX, Linux, Solaris, Windows Server, SunOs (inc.

Virtualization) ESX (VMware-vSphere)

Clustering/HA: MC and MC/LX- Serviceguard, Veritas Clusters, Linux HA,

Compute Clusters, Load balancing

Logical Volumes: LVM, VxVM (Veritas), mdadm (Linux)

File Systems: Vfs, VxFs, Journaled-ext (Linux), OCFS (Oracle), ASM

(Oracle)

Sub-Systems: Apache, Jboss, Squid, LDAP, CIFS, SMTP services, Ignite/UX,

SystemImager, Cygwin, Graphics...

Languages: bash, csh, vbs/bat, perl, sql, c, cygwin, entry level java - 3G

4G languages

Networking: Directs network Engineering; Fluent in TCP/IP; Device

Knowledge - Cisco

Storage: JBOD, Arrays, EMC - HP Storageworks / Lefthand SAN, NAS

Database Support: Oracle / Oracle RAC, MS-SQL, Progress, MySql,

Backup: Veritas Netbackup, Tivoli Storage Manager, Custom scripts, on-line,

off-line, logical, physical

Monitoring: SNMP, Open Source (Zabbix), Openview, Ipmonitor, Nagio

Performance: Native OS commands, Mercury tools QTP Loadrunner, Glance,

Security: Saint, Nmap, Proventia, Custom scripts,

Application Support: Oracle Apps, CAD, Custom and many types of application

Other: Office tools (Word, Excel, Project) and Visio, UNIX Internals

Professional skills:

* Solution Identification / Design / Implement * Product Evaluation-

Benchmarking * System Sizing * Scripting

* Application Support * UNIX/Windows Interoperability * Performance *

Networking * Documentation * Change Control

* Infrastructure Cut-over * IT Security * Troubleshooting * High

Availability (HA) Clusters * Load Balancing

* Competitive Research * Business Integration Software * Business Systems *

Technical Systems

Leadership skills:

* Creates organization out of chaos * Meeting Leadership * Channeling

skilled resources * Outsource management * Vendor and Customer Business to

Business Coordination * Operational Procedure Creation * Classroom Teacher

* Lecturer * Pre-Sales Experience * Bridges the gap between technical and

business interests * Detailed * Focused * Accurate

Objective:

With knowledge, dedication and quick adaptability, aspires to contribute to

a company's technical and business IT infrastructure needs.

Education

Bradley University, Peoria Illinois

Bachelors Degree Electrical Engineering

Professional Experience

GE Asset Intelligence- Schaumburg, Illinois / Plano, Texas

2006-Present

UNIX/LINUX/WINDOWS - Distributed SYSTEms Admin / Network Architect

. Linux, Windows, vSphere Server Admin - Installed/Maintained

AssetIntelligence infrastructure for URL front end and webservices feeds

in multiple environments. Provided constant upgrades maintaining industry

supportability.

. Unix Admin - Based on Solaris, created lights-out off-line (cold) mirror

copying of ERP Oracle financials. Provides $0 cost maintenance. Used

Virtualization for Data Warehouse (SAS) lowering license costs.

. Storage Administration - Based on HP P4000/Cisco with multiple tenancies

in a mix of Windows, Linux, Solaris and Virtual Machines.

. Network Operations (NOC). - Using open source Zabbix software, SQL and

shell scripting, provided infrastructure and business oriented metrics

with real-time graphing, monitors, alarms and automatic actions. The

website is assured measurable and maximum uptime. C-level reports

provide weekly SLA charts.

. Offshore management - Lead teams of offshore resources. Improved quality

and shortened time to market.

. Data Center Migration / Consolidation - In charge of step-by-step "Go

Live" procedures for the team. Included self hands-on administration

contribution. Contained elements of a 3 Tier web, application and

database architecture. Also production networking and worldwide domain

changes with URL support. Flawless cut-over; $400k/yr. savings.

. Documentation demanding - Consistently ensured processes were documented

to help clarify assumed roles and activities for team members. Results

are clearer definition of responsibilities and faster triage.

. File archive management - Created monthly indexed catalog

archival/retrievable process for aging files, removing manual

maintenance. Saved $thousands in backup costs and prevented incident

disk space overflows. Retrieval confirmed.

. Test automation - Designed / Implemented URL exercising / performance

recording Robots (laptops) using Mercury Tools (QTP), Cygwin bash shell

and Window programming and the NOC. This self-initiated effort is now

used as the basis (benchmarking/ trending) for multi- million dollar

application re-writes.

. Oracle RAC - 9i major fault fix - (an inherited setup) - Self-motivated

analysis, found the no cost solution. The host provider services wanted

disruptive upgrades with costs associated at well over $25k.

. Oracle RAC - 11g - Upgraded Oracle including "Automatic Storage

Management" (ASM). Increased longevity of support.

. Quality control counselor - On top of regular responsibilities. (There

was no specific QA/Test department). Using a team approach, created

rules-of-the-road for software quality such as Scalability, Portability,

Maintainability and Security. This resulted in better design and improved

deployment accuracy.

. High Availability: Disaster Recovery - Created custom system HA

components and DR preparedness components. Proven exercises. Proof of

readiness was vital to the acquisition of specific customers.

. Daily support - (Systems programming/SQL) for JVMs (Jboss), Web Servers

(Apache), and DB servers. Off hours deployments and 24x7 emergency

response. Reduced the number of sys-admins needed.

CUlligan - Northbrook, Illinois

2006

UNIX/LINUX CONSULTANT

. Hired to conduct systems analysis, add automation (improve processes),

document and train a newly formed team that inherited a cluster of

UNIX/Linux systems running the corporate Financial, ERP and Data

Warehouse applications.

. Functional areas improved included daily MFG/Pro-Progress database

backups, BaaN-Oracle database backups, Vertex taxing application

management improvements including transaction archive and tax reporting.

Other areas included SAN storage reconfiguration (Storageworks EVA), USER

authentication centralization and management (LDAP/Active Directory),

tape backup reconfiguration (Tivoli), and data warehouse application

startup (CyberQuery).

. Analyzed, scripted, documented and participated in off hours and weekend

"go-live" company owned store conversion processes to QAD/MFG-Pro.

. Completed project in record time handing the team's dozens of process

improvement scripts and accompanying documentation. They are now very

capable of handling day-to-day operations.

. This project success was a direct result of many years of experience

mixing direct UNIX administrative technical skills, documentation skills,

startup, and training skills. The Culligan IT Director and CIO were

extremely satisfied and available for comment. They offered permanent

employment however the GE engagement was already committed to.

USG - Chicago, Illinois

2005-2006

UNIX consultant

. Worked on the Infrastructure team to build the technology necessary to

support the development and production of a brand new CRM system based

on Oracle.

. This UNIX server based LAN and WAN environment included subsystems for

high availability using clustering from Veritas, VxVM, and Veritas

back-up software as well as HP Hitachi-based SAN technologies.

. Installed, analyzed and reported a global performance analysis over 54

large systems.

. Chartered to champion the UNIX level 4-Security design and

implementation, which passed Risk Management assessment with flying

colors. Wrote over 120 scripts in 3 months to maintain security and

improve system and user management productivity. All of this was

provided with full documentation.

. Participated in On-Call duties and off-hours system upgrades.

. Fielded questions via phone from clients and business users for "go-

live stage" of the project.

. Participated in the "Go-Live" event. This included a temporary

staffed "Situation Room". Selected as a front-line phone answering

person because of systems knowledge and soft skills.

Consulting - Chicago, Illinois

2004-2005

UNIX Consultant

TransUnion

. Designed and Implemented 2 HA clusters using ServiceGuard for Linux

(SG/LX). This RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0 based project was so

successful; the customer requested continuing on for more services

well beyond the original statement of work.

. Accomplished the original contract to implement an IBM WebSphere/MQ HA

service and then went on to implement Apache http services, NFS

services, and MySql database services.

AKDHC

. Diagnosed and improved system performance.

. Conducted a performance analysis and improved system response time for

this UNIX based Medical Financials installation.

Hewlett Packard - Chicago, Illinois

1979 - 2004

Job Responsibilities:

Set up the hardware, installed the operating environments, loaded the

applications, developed software customizations where necessary, and

created management schemes and documentation. The solution was then

transferred to the customer. Was successful in every project.

Solution Architect (1997-2004)

. Supported five sales specialists in solution identification,

benchmarking, system sizing, competitive research and configuration

generation.

. Delivered technical results.

. Led customer implementations.

. Managed customer problem resolutions ensuring total customer

satisfaction. Effectiveness was optimized by proactively ensuring

leading edge technical proficiency in hardware and operating systems.

. Managed individual customer sites for the evaluation and installation

of new products.

. Maintained technical expertise for System Administration through

direct hands-on administration and support for systems at customer

sites, pre-and post sales.

. Created and delivered solutions using LINUX RedHat 6.5, 7.0, 8.0,

Enterprise Server (ES) 2.1 and ES 3.0.

. Created and delivered solutions using Windows NT workstation, Windows

XP Pro and Windows 2000 server.

. Created and delivered solutions using HPPUX 11i version 1.2 and 2.0.

. Penetrated new ground winning OEM deal for Medical Imagery ($7 million

annually - new business).

. Selected as one of three Midwest Regional staff to be trained on

Intel's 64bit computing product line.

. Created and authored white paper and lectured on Unix-Windows

interoperability providing HP with leadership recognition and

technical expertise.

. Honored with the CEO Customer Satisfaction Award for quick resolution

of key account's major issue.

. Achieved four Individual Contributor Awards based on exceeding

performance standards and achieving high customer satisfaction.

. Selected to provide technical support leadership for new product

launch of HP's Visualization Product (SV6).

. Created and implemented national sales training presentation of new

products ensuring increased knowledge base to improve sales cycles.

Sales Technical Consultant - Manufacturing Business Unit (1992-1997)

. Provided technical accuracy for all Midwest regional sales efforts for

HP UNIX (HPUX) focused on the manufacturing sector. This included

commercial business transactional and modeling systems, engineering

design systems and analysis applications, network management, and

operations control applications (HP Openview). Supported efforts for

SDKs (software development kits).

. Developed and implemented a non-stop backup solution for systems using

an Oracle database providing continuous operations on a UNIX server,

which replaced the high cost of a mainframe computer. This was

accomplished using EMC Symmetrix storage systems with its "Business

Continuity Volumes" (BCVs) along with "Logical Volume Manage" (LVM) 3-

way mirroring technology. Online split mirror technology was used to

allow offline backup/restore snapshot capability.

. Developed/scripted systems administration techniques to manage 500 CAD

workstations per administrator increasing productivity of the IT

department.

. Implemented HP Openview in new accounts greatly reducing operational

costs.

. Created/scripted systems analysis program for an SAP environment,

providing automated system health check, eliminating costly manual

effort.

HP UNIX specialist (1985-1992)

Supported a variety of customers both technical and commercial.

. Helped develop technical manual and training class for "Real-Time

Programming for Unix".

. Wrote C language based software interface between test equipment

controllers and an Oracle database providing management new capability

for reporting.

. Wrote C language UDP sockets based software programs creating the

functionality for clustered Unix systems to "watch" each other react

as specified (flexibly with arguments).

. Led all efforts supporting the Midwest regional area major accounts

retaining all accounts.

. Facilitated sales training to field offices teaching new product

releases ensuring smooth rollouts.

. Increased customer satisfaction, monitoring maintenance releases,

updates and upgrade releases.

. Accountable for identifying and selecting enhancements and system

sizing satisfying customer requirements.

. Selected as lead Technical Advisor for all UNIX related trade shows.

Real Time Computing Specialist (1979-1985)

. Sales support for HP's Real-Time-Executive (RTE) computing

environment.

. Specialized in data acquisition, test equipment control, and business

systems transaction front ends.

. Activities included sales support, instructing, consulting, system

configuration, and software porting.

. Received four Excellence Awards.

. Implemented process control system for brand new processing plant

reducing staff from several hundred to twenty.

. Supported Automated Test Systems for Military aircraft maintenance

decreasing diagnostic time.

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