Engineer Management

STEVE ROMAGNI

**** ** ** ** • Sunrise, FL ***** • 954-***-****

e-mail: abnhan@r.postjobfree.com

Testing • Layout • Design • Systems Management

An experienced System engineer. Architect, and team leader with specialized knowledge in managing and

implementing storage area networks, systems planning, implementation, networking, troubleshooting,

upgrades, disaster recovery, software selection, and project management functions.

SOFTWARE - SYSTEM APPLICATIONS

Solaris • EMC • STK • Oracle • SAN • SUN Cluster

Project Management • Netbackup • Brocade • Vmware • System Security

SYSTEMS SUPPORT

• well versed in systems architecture, administration and deployment involving complex UNIX

and Storage systems.

• outstanding project management skills.

• have engineering/technical support experience involving systems analysis and

on-line troubleshooting.

EXPERIENCE

Consulting Systems Engineer, LexisNexis Risk & Information Analytics Group, 2006 – Present

Responsible for recommending and planning use of new system features and hardware for new

products and servers to improve overall operation of systems (Solaris, RedHat, CentOS).

Communicate to vendors additional features or products needed and works with the business users

to institute system improvements. Establish standards for installation of products and system

components. Responsible for developing and advocate customary operating procedures around

the Storage Area Network infrastructure (Sun, Hitachi, Brocade). Responsible for

interfacing and leading storage performance improvements and implementation with database

administrators, production support, software developers and engineers to assist in providing

capacity usage, planning, and forecast future changes to the storage infrastructure. Conduct

routine hardware and software audits of servers for compliance with established standards and

policies, configuration guidelines and procedures. Develop and maintain a comprehensive SAN

architecture documentation including capacity planning and data disaster recovery

preparation. Facilitate and/or assist resolution to production issues and/or outages. Help in the

deployment of the company disaster recovery planning and final environment including remote

storage setup and administration. Act as technical lead in relocating 900 Tb of storage into a

new production datacenter with 0 down time. In charge as team leader for designing and

managing the implementation project for the company Vmware environment, as well as managed

the implementation team.

Senior Systems Engineer, Sun-Sentinel – Tribune, 1999 - 2006

responsible for day-to-day leadership with junior system engineers in providing administration of

all Sun Solaris production servers as well as the planning, implementation and management of the

planning and setup of multiple UNIX platforms, including implementing and managing Sun

Cluster environments; help automated day-to-day processes using UNIX scripts (KSH, Bourne,

Perl, etc); lead the efforts of implementing and managing a centralized storage solution (EMC

CX300 – CX600 – CX700), Brocade, Veritas backup solution, HP Openview NNM; provide

ongoing system maintenance such as applying patches, allocating system space, ensuring backups

are completed and that all application residing on the systems are up and running to daily

specifications. Provide third level support for affiliated teams, train junior staff and serve as team

leader for special projects. Team lead for Sarbanes-Oxley technology team, as well as team lead

for the Sun-Sentinel system security team, responsible for designing and implementing strong

security compliance general controls over all UNIX systems.

UNIX System Administrator, Precision Response Corporation, 1997- 1999

responsible for day-to-day system administration regarding all UNIX (Sun Solaris) servers as well

of the overall UNIX / Oracle disaster recovery system using Legato’s Networker Software.

Provided UNIX administration support for 1000 + end-users. Created, deleted, and maintained

user accounts in a NIS + environment. Performed system installation, troubleshooting, OS and

hardware upgrades. Set up and maintained clients work areas (both on production and

development) by allocating disk’s areas using disk utility tools such as Veritas and Disksuite as

well as setup user’s quotas; wrote scripts to help maintain, prevent, monitor and troubleshoot the

systems both at hardware and software levels.

UNIX Systems Administrator, Nuance Global Traders, 1995 - 1997

accountable for day to day systems operations for the United States regional systems/ UNIX network support

for 50 + end-users; created TCP/IP local and remote connections, performed systems installations,

troubleshooting, upgrades, software studies and selections; generate and implement documentation; in charge

for the integrity of the systems, networking and upgrading.

EDUCATION

M.B.A. with a specialization in Technology Management, University of Phoenix

B.S. Management Studies, Bauder College

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