Engineer Manager

Gaetano Giacalone

Spring Valley, CA *****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaetano-giacalone-198834106

********@***.*** 619-***-****

Senior IT Engineer

Surpass internal and external goals through strategic planning, procedural implementation, staff development and project execution.

Unix / Linux Administration Infrastructure Strategic Planning / Analysis

Process Improvement

Highly analytical and solutions-oriented IT Engineer with extensive experience in network experience and IT support. Deliver creative and effective solutions for automation of processes and tasks. Guarantee optimal performance through revision of inefficient operational code applying expert analytical skills.

Core Competencies:

Skills

SiteScope, AppDynamics, Nagios, Splunk, ELK

Bash, Perl, PHP, Python, Yaml, Ruby

Perforce, Git, Subversion

Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB

Apache, Tomcat, Nginx, Redis

Jenkins, Bamboo, Docker, Puppet, Chef, Ansible

SQL, PL/SQL

RHEL/Centos Solaris HPUX, Ubuntu Debian

Kubernetes Hadoop Vagrant

JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, NodeJS

Key Accomplishments

Application Inventory Database: Designed database to manage web and application inventory by replacing flat file system as main data source for installation, maintenance, monitoring, and metrics gathering.

Application Manager: Created UI to manage the application inventory database with custom WordPress plugin.

Application Agent: Oversaw NetApp applications project spaces, JMX metrics thresholds and SSL certificate expiration dates by inserting results into events table.

Continuous Delivery: Built system to automatically deploy code, and static files to application environment that complimented Jenkins or Atlassian Bamboo.

Continuous Integration: Authored system to automatically build, deploy war files to tomcat, and updated configuration files to Tomcat, and Apache.

Web Services Audits: Authored monthly Web services audits to report web hits, deployments by users, referrer links, and web errors.

Professional Experience

QUALCOMM INC., San Diego, CA 2008 – 2015

IT Engineer, Senior

Gathered infrastructure metrics and performed necessary installations and configurations for web applications. Key participant in 24 / 7 support of web applications for virtual and standalone hosts.

Eliminated excessive user intervention by writing and implementing automation, maintenance, provisioning tools, and processes.

Adjusted memory and resource consumption to facilitate optimal configuration items, as key participant during load testing.

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Implemented developers and quality assurance requirements to configuration items during development life cycles.

Provided tier 3 support comprising troubleshooting, root cause analysis and remediation by performing research and development for new and existing tools, processes and tasks.

Managed users and access restrictions to non-production and production hosts by creating Andrew File System (AFS) groups.

Initiated monthly user and access audits to assist management in determining access and potential accomplishments.

MIRO TECHNOLOGIES, La Jolla, CA 1998 – 2008

Systems Administrator

Deployed bug fixes and specific customer requests to database configuration, COBOL runtime, Uniface forms and service migration and data model changes. Upgraded and patched all customer applications and database schemas.

Created PL / SQL, SQL, UNIX shell scripting and Uniface runtime data by exporting and importing.

Steered and installed Oracle instances and users for new and prospective customers, including current user table spaces, rollback segments, and importing and exporting data.

Oversaw revision control system for customer and in-house install programs and self-written productivity tools.

THE SUTHERLAND GROUP, San Diego, CA 1997 – 1998

Technical Support Specialist

Troubleshot and resolved unknown software issues, meeting customer needs within Hitachi's Notebook line and laptop computers. Acquired extensive knowledge of hardware configurations specific to laptop design, meeting broad range of customer support topics.

Additional Experience

VENEZIA TILE AND MARBLE, Spring Valley, CA

Partner / Manager

Education / Professional Development

Certificate, Basic Programming and Network Administration Fundamentals,

Coleman College, San Diego, CA

Microsoft Certified Professional

Online Course Certificates

Docker Master – see certificate

Docker Swarm Mastery – see certificate

Master Jenkins CI for DevOps and Developers – see certificate

The Complete Kubernetes Course – see certificate

Advanced Kubernetes Usage – see certificate

MySQL, SQL and Stored Procedures from Beginners to Advanced – see certificate

The Complete Python Masterclass – see certificate

Web Developers Bootcamp – see certificate

The Ultimate Hand-On-Hadoop see certificate

Learn DevOps: CI/CD with Jenkins using pipelines see certificate

Learn DevOps Continuously Deliver Better Software see certificate

Complete Developers Guide to MongoDB see certificate

Complete IT Monitoring Nagios see certificate

Chef the Practical Guide see certificate

Chef Fundamentals see certificate

Mastering Ansible see certificate

AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate see certificate

Elasticsearch and Elastic Stack see certificate

GitHub and Docker Hub Repositories

GitHub

Docker

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