GLENN J. KOMSKY
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Portfolio: www.exhibit42.com/gjk
Objective
After 10+ years as a Unix Systems Administrator, Engineer and Programmer I
am looking to step over to the web and multimedia side of things. In this
last year I have been concentrating on developing my skills with Flash and
Actionscript and am looking to further my career down this new path. I am
a highly organized self starter with strong communication skills and a
diversified hands-on technical background that can confidently tackle and
deliver any project.
Technical Skills
Web / Media: Flash, Actionscript, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Premiere,
Drupal
Software: Unix - Solaris / Linux, OS X, Sybase, Informix, NT, ODS,
Veritas Volume Manager, Open Windows 2/3, Motif, NIS+, NIS, NFS,
TCP/IP, FTP, PPP, NetMatrix, MS Project / Word / Excel, Lotus,
Lotus Realtime
Languages: Perl, csh, sh, ksh, SQL, Visual Basic, Tcl, Tk, Expect, Modula
2, Assembly, Pascal
Market Data: Tibco, Triarch, Bloomberg, ADP FS Partner for
UNIX/Windows, Instinet, Autex, Market Data Feeds (Reuters,
Telerate, Hilliard Farber, Knight Ridder, Cantor Fitzgerald)
Hardware: Sun Sparc / Enterprise Servers / Ultra / Netra and Blades, HP
ProLiant Series, NeXT, Dot Hill Raid, HDS Xterminal, Xyplex
Terminal Server, various i386 and x86_64 Systems
Professional Experience
BCJ Systems Inc. All Metro Staffing / Technical Manager
September 2007 - Present
. Research and develop new web technologies and content management
systems.
. Redesign BCJ Website
. Manage consultant teams' technical delivery across multiple
disciplines and accounts.
. Developed methodologies for Project Management, organization, roles
and responsibilities, tasks, budgets and timeliness.
UBS / Senior Unix Systems Administrator May
2002 - August 2007
(Excluding dates listed
in Film Industry section)
. Managed and Implemented Unix Teams 1000+ server migration to Co-
Location
. Backup LAN Migration Project: Engineered migration off the Paine
Webber legacy backup network onto non-routable NetBackup VLAN's.
. OS Upgrade Project
. Unix Collect and Generate Scripts: Developed series of scripts and
tools which dynamically collect data, generate files, then push and
reconfigure multiple servers
. Developed perl/cgi and web interface for extracting global unix admin
data
. Initiated, designed and programmed perl scripts to dynamically manage
Unix server migration (over 1000 servers) to new Layer 3 Cisco
Switches.
. Developed Best1 check script to manage files created by Best1
collections.
Film Industry Work / Director, Writer, Editor, Producer
January 2004 - August 2005
January 2003 -
August 2003
Client: Mind the Gap Productions
Assistant Director
. Assistant Director on Feature Film 'Mind the Gap' starring John Heard
and Elizabeth Reaser (written/directed by Eric Schaeffer)
o Responsible for days shooting schedule
o Coordinate and structure all departments' schedules
o Communication link between Production office and the Set.
o Responsible for all Union specific requirements, forms and rules
for Cast (SAG/AFTRA)
Exhibit 42 Productions (Exhibit 42)
Producer/ Writer/Director
. Hired Production team of 30 people and a cast of 42 to develop and
shoot short film.
. Managed and Hired Post Production team - Editor, Composer, Color
Correction, Sound Engineer
. Authored and Produced DVD
. Festivals
o Developed and designed marketing strategies, press-kits,
posters, cards
o Premiered at over a dozen festivals including Tribeca Film
Festival
. Awards
o Best Short Film - Sedona International Film Festival
Client: Ober/Scott Films
Editor / Post Production Supervisor
. Edit / Restore feature film 'Homecoming'
o Transfer, recover lost footage and reedit original film
o Remix sound design
o Produce final DVD
BCJ Systems, Inc. / Senior Unix / Market Data Systems Consultant
January 1999 - May 2001
Client: Credit Suisse First Boston
Global Team Leader
. Engineered fault tolerant Tibco market data infrastructure for global
implementation. The design put into operation approximately 1000 users
throughout North America, Europe and the Far East with New York and
London being the central hubs.
. Team Leader and liaison to the development teams, third party vendors,
and businesses for existing projects as well as evaluating new
projects involving Unix and Market Data.
. Global Tibco Unix Administrator - responsible for Production
infrastructure, configurations, administration and methodologies for
North America, Europe, and their satellite branches (20+).
. Packaged Tibco distribution for global installs using Solaris
Packaging
. Wrote system administrators guide for support of Tibco/Unix
environment including infrastructure diagrams, guidelines and useful
techniques for day to day support.
. Help Desk Utility - Developed monitoring, pager and e-mail schema for
integration with Tibco's Hawk agents and GUI as the primary method for
monitoring Tibco processes as well as Unix.
. Developed Disaster Recovery architecture for NY location and European
branches.
. Wrote scripts for monitoring statistics, backups, and status of
overall environment
. Design of streaming server implementation of Tibco (iFSS) for Web
based applications.
. Implementation of Neomar Wireless Gateway for Blackberry (RIMM)
version of internal Market Data Application.
Client: Prudential Securities Incorporated
. Designed future solutions for server configurations and various backup
and recovery solutions.
. Performed emergency recovery of vital business files deleted from NT
Server.
Bond Technologies, Inc. / Practice Manager / Senior IT Consultant
August 1995 - December 1997
In-House Responsibilities
. Responsible for technical delivery and team development on multiple
accounts involving all programming, database and operating system
technologies.
Bond Chicago: Startup
. Worked in Chicago for 1 year as part of startup team for opening up
new branch.
. Partnered up with Technical Director to develop staff, roles,
responsibilities and client base.
Client: Merrill Lynch
Project Manager / Team Leader: Distributed Computing Operations -
Operations Center
. Represented the Operations Center on all projects handed off for 24x7
support. Met with development teams, third party vendors, and the
business side to evaluate, design and implement a fully fault
tolerant, DR ready, backup enabled, documented environment.
. Project Manager/Team Leader - Designed and implemented Global Data
Center Projects. (Payment System, Funding System and Documentation
System)
. Backup Solution Evaluation Project - Designed and implemented
evaluation criteria, benchmark matrices and crash tests for a Merrill
Lynch wide implementation of a distributed backup solution.(Tested
MTI, ADSM, Legato, Alphatronix).
. Created and wrote Perl Script to generically understand dependencies
amongst application daemons and be able to start, stop and check
accordingly. The program built a tree structure hierarchy from a
configurable flat file to understand all daemon relationships for
dynamic control. The script is being used to control all parts of the
Security Pricing System.
Client: ABN Amro
Programmer
. Design of Securities Database for Migration project moving to more
robust client/server design.
. Layout structure of relational database, SQL code and extraction
methodology for front end development.
. Designed and Implemented relational database. Responsible for
development of SQL programming (Stored Procedures, Triggers)
Client: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Systems Architect / Project Leader: VB/SQL/Informix Developer - Database
Programmer
. Project Leader for design and development of in-house Workflow System
responsible for articles being implemented into the digital
encyclopedia format.
. Designed and Implemented Informix relational database. Responsible for
development of all SQL programming and object based middle layer.
Smith Barney Inc. / Team Leader / Senior Market Data Systems Analyst
August 1994 - August 1995
Project: Trading Floor Relocation Project. (1600 Traders, 5 Trading
Floors)
. Responsible for the engineering, implementation and operation of
Digital Based Market Data systems for the Smith Barney Trading Floor
Relocation Project.
. Installation, management and support of Triarch infrastructure
. Developed Help Desk Notification System
. Developed Failover Scripts for Instinet Market Data System - The
scripts monitored server availability and health. Upon failure, the
script would notify the Help Desk while dynamically switching over to
a healthy server and port as the application made a full recovery.
. Development of administrative utilities in Perl and Boume Shell for
daily monitoring of system integrity for trading environment.
. Designed Hardware layouts, network connectivity, and created Solaris
packages for distribution.
. Member of Change Management Committee for operational changes to new
trading facility.
Swiss Bank Corporation / Systems Engineer March
1992 - August 1994
. Senior Administrator for FD Consulting/Micrognosis Market Data
Distribution System. Head of Application Engineering Committee that
discussed, created, and implemented new tools, utilities and standards
to the existing trading environment. Develop, test and integrate third
party and in-house developed applications into trading environment.
. Supported Sun/UNIX Production, Development and Test environment.
. Global Engineering, implementation, and administration of SBC
developed Foreign Exchange Automated Customer Tracking System. Tested
system for global use and then represented NY at other locations in
implementing and training traders on the application.
. Wrote MIPS Configuration Document for Swiss Bank
. Strategic Recovery Planning - Responsible for NeXT and SUN
applications
. Daylight Overdraft System - Tested and implemented real-time system
into Bank of New York for new FED Trading Regulations.
Education
B.S. Computer Science / Mathematics ? SUNY Binghamton
Recipient of Presidential Scholarship