Richard W. Otten Jr.

abqhvj@r.postjobfree.com

Based in the Columbus, Ohio area

Data Scientist

Mathematical Analyst

Infrastructure Architect

Unix Systems Engineer

Information Security Engineer

Technical Team Leader

20 years of hands-on experience working with Information Technology.

Specifically Unix variants: AT&T SVR4.Over 14 years of primarily working with Solaris System Administration and

Engineering.

Mission Critial and High Availability

systems.

Information Security, Performance Analysis and Tuning, and Capacity Planning.

Shell (sh, ksh, bash),

Additional Experience includes:Web, Proxy, and other Border Server design, installation, configuration, tuning and maintenance.PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, and Neo4jDatabase Administration

Strong background in Pure and Applied Mathematics with emphasis

on Numerical Analysis, Topology, and Combinatorial Geometry.

Experience in Law Enforcement, Military, Financial Services, Publishing, and Scientific Research industries.

Career Summary:

May 2011 - present:,

Data-Systems Engineer

Data Architect, DBA, Data Mining, and Data Visualizations for Oracle, MySQL, PostGreSQL. Designed and implemented a Highly Available Relational Data Architecture.

October 2007 - April 2011:,

contractor

As a member of the online services Java development team - Developed web user traffic pattern models and visualizations of web infrastructure performance. Responsible for Weblogic Administration, shell scripts, SQL scripts, ANT configuration, XSLT, CruiseControl, Clearcase configuration, code analysis, and related tools. Responsible for developing and maintaining a Mule 2 (Java) based ESB. Implemented, Administered and led User Training for a deployment. Maintained and updated compliance monitoring tools. Built a proof-of-concept Shibboleth implementation.

September 2003 - October 2007:,

Senior Enterprise Architect

Led the Solaris operational support and Sun system engineering services for the Education (publishing) line of

business. Developed corporate-wide Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 standards. Led the corporate-wide Daylight Saving Time Change efforts.

December 2002 - April 2003:,

Unix Implementation Engineering, Contractor. Project work

supporting the Unix infrastructure components for the Corporate Internet Group

line of business.

June 1999 - October 2002:,

Consultant. System and Network Administration

consulting at Fortune 100 and dot-com companies. Clients

have included Chase Mortgage, Bank One, SubmitOrder, e*Trade,

BrowseUP.com, and CheckFree. Assisted the sales team in a pre-sales

engineering role. See the more detailed

resume for an expanded description of the work done for these

clients.

April 1999 - June 1999:, Senior Systems

Administrator. Provided support for a 300 person software

development team. Designed a multi-platform backup solution

for the NT, VMS and Unix development servers. Worked on

the design of a multi-platform "home directory" storage

solution. Consulted on software design, system architecture

and performance issues.

August 1997 - February 1999: Brokerage

Technologies Group, Manager of Operations. Responsible

for production and development Solaris systems, installed nationwide,

which delivered 7x24 financial information via WWW and Client/Server

applications (MAXXnet).

These systems supported an average 4,100 concurrent users, who generated

about 1 million hits per day. Developed system monitoring tools in

Python, ksh, and awk. Sybase DBA for a web based portfolio

accounting system (MAXXtrack).

Conducted performance analysis, capacity planning, disaster recovery

planning, and architecture design. Supervised one other

System Administrator.

Summer 1997:Boston Phoenix, Sun User's Group, Knox

County Sheriff's Office,Consultant. Performed

performance analysis, system upgrades, and WAN installation as a

consultant at various Boston area companies and agencies.

1996 - 1997: BBN Planet, Consultant. Worked in WWW Research and

Development. Evaluated NIS+, AutoClient, and RAID technology

for suitability in web hosting applications. Designed and

installed an Electronic Commerce service based on 's

products. Developed SymBEL based automated Solaris

performance monitoring tools.

1993 - 1996:Penobscot County, Maine,

Information Systems Manager. Designed, installed,

trained, budgeted established, and managed a Solaris based IS

system consisting of a relational database and wide area

network. This was for 11 local law enforcement agencies with

350 users covering a region with a 15 mile radius. Re-wrote

8A1 client software (in C, with a CURSES GUI) to Solaris.

Supervised a team of volunteers.

1988 - 1993: Scientific

Programmer. Developed automated laboratory equipment and

mathematical models of experimental chemical processes (in C).

1988:, VT,

Contractor. Research and Development of switching

power supplies.

1988 - 1996: US

Coast Guard Reserves, Sonar Technician/Quartermaster Second

Class. Assignments included recall to active duty to

participate in Operation Uphold Democracy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,

in 1994. Unit Computer Security Petty Officer.

1984 - 1988: US Coast

Guard, enlisted, Sonar Technician Second Class, active

duty. Assignments included duty

in northern Alaska and drug

interdiction patrols in the Carribbean.

Education & Professional Training:

BS Applied Math,, March 1993

Sybase Database Administrator Course, March 1997.

Certified eB2B Implementation Specialist, December 2000

Certified eB2B Program Manager, December 2000

AIX for Unix Professionals Course, December 2002.

Sun Java System Directory Server, May 2005.

Veritas Cluster Server with Oracle 9iR2, May 2005.

Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris Administrators, May 2005.

Solaris 10 Differences (from previous versions), February 2006.

www.windfish.net -- Rick's Family's home page.

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