Engineer Management

Gary Manigault

Cell: 832-***-****

E-Mail: **********@*****.***

Summary

Highly motivated, results oriented and a leader in the information technology field. Having over 20 years of

experience in a diverse variety of fields (Energy, Insurance, Financial, Health Care, Telecom, Automotive,

Manufacturing, Engineering, and Computer manufacturing) has given me a very broad and international view of

the World economy. My skills have been honed over the years in the following areas (Networking and Design,

Database Administration, Project management, Web Development, Programming, Systems Architecture, and

System Engineering).

EDUCATION

University of Phoenix University of Detroit

Masters of Science in Computer Information Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance

Systems [WIPS*]

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE

Routers Cisco (6500, 2501, 2514, 2900, 1605, 1700, Pix), Switches, RIP, BGRP, Wireless Access Point,

Packeteer. NAI Sniffer, WireShark,

Proxmox VE, Windows NT Server, Citrix, Unix Solaris, Linux (Redhat, Gentoo, FreeBSD Mandrake, Suse,

Fedora, Centos, OpenSuse, Solaris, Centos, Redhat Enterprise), AIX, Snort, Iptables, Windows XP, Vista, OS/2

LANserver, Lotus Notes, Cyberark, Veritas, Clarion, Cisco, Juniper, VMware, Virtualbox, Dream Weaver 6.0,

AD, LDAP, Drupal, Joomla, Microsoft Exchange, DHCP, WINS, DNS, HTML, SQL Server,DB2, MySql,

PHPMyadmin, Oracle 7.3.4, 11G, Oracle RAC, Oracle ASM, TCP/IP, DHCP, VPN, WINs, IIS, Apache, BMC

Software, (Patrol), LDAP, Mercury Interactive (Loadrunner), Checkpoint Firewall,T-1, Fiber Optics, Cat 5, Perl,

AWK, SED, Postfix, PXE Boot, Kickstart, Postgres, MySQL, Nagios, Webmin, VMware, SAN, NAS, EMC

storage. Citrix Netscalar, Compaq Certified

EXPERIENCE

Centre Technologies

January 2014 – Present

Unix System Engineer

Contract

Responsible for creation and implementation of custom cloud setup for customer's application to work in two

data-centers with automatic fail-over. Vmware virtualization of Linux [Redhat Enterprise] High availability,

High Resilient Storage, clustering and custom monitoring.

• Vmware setup of 4 node stretch cluster [Houston, Dallas].

• DRBD implementation for block level replication.

• Implementation and integration of Redhat into Active Directory domain.

• Implemetation of Ubuntu, Nagios, for monitoring.

• Samba implementation for file-sharing of the DRBD block for application access.

• Bash scripts created for monitoring services, application, data access and authentiction failures.

Implementation of Proxmox Virtualization Environment.

Newpark Resources

October 2013 – December 2013

Unix System Engineer

Contract

Responsible for 70 Virtual servers. Managing them and monitoring them with Nagios, Thruk and Vmware.

Setup, configuration, provisioning and backups of the Unix environment integrated for Authentication with AD.

Server script enhancement and automation.

Gary Manigault

19351 Little Pine Lane, Katy, TX. 77449

Gary Manigault

Cell: 832-***-****

E-Mail: **********@*****.***

Hewlett Packard

April 2013 – October 2013

UNIX System Engineer

Contract

Responsible for creating, implementing and testing of new monitoring to help catch issues in the customer’s

environment. Creation of scripts using bash, and AWK to increase the efficiency of the application server and

notify Admins of issues with JVM’s and space issues among other things. Responsible for the Project Portfolio

Management application and implementation of new instances for new customers wanting access and creation of

their own environments. Replaced the frontend webservers and converted them from Windows /IIS, ISAPI to

Linux, 64bit, Apache servers with several key mods to increase available uptime and information from the

servers operation. Proliant servers were setup for our new Linux/Apache environment.

JP Morgan Chase

April 2012 – April 2013

Global UNIX System Engineer

Contract

Executing procedures and changes in the firm’s environment that is compliant with company policies and ITSM

standards.

SAN migrations and changes executed according to change management system and or according to incident

tickets to correct reported issues. Resolving issues with clustering, multipath, Veritas, NFS, ssh via boksm and

password less entry.

Assuring that change management is adhered to throughout the organization and eliminating and or minimizing

financial risk and or exposure

Disaster recovery implementation and redundancy.

Serve as an expert advisor to senior management in the development, implementation, monitoring and

maintenance of our UNIX environment

Responsible for Linux / UNIX, [Redhat Enterprise, Centos, Ubuntu] Solaris, AIX servers worldwide. 50,000

plus servers located worldwide.

Global UNIX server administration, OS, Level 2 Administrator

Software responsible for:

Tivoli Endpoint administration Windows server media and master configuration for

Netbackup netback up.

Boksm [Global Authentication] Migration of over 5000 VM servers

VMware migration Admin Oracle, (ASM, CRS)

Responsible for all technical aspects of migration Solaris, (ZFS)

and problem resolution during the after. Tools (ILO, LOM, KVM access, Nagios, Netcool,

Windows 2003 server configuration for netback up Peregrine)

of windows environment.

Windows server V2V migrations and static route

configuration.

Hostgator

January 2011 – August 2011

Webhost Support

Webhosting technical support, management and running of multiple sites.

DNS, Nameserver tech support, Bind, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, PHP, CSS,

Drupal, Joomla, Word press, php technical support

Cpanel, WHMCS, (Management tools for webmasters to manage their environments and the environments of

their customer's websites)

WHMCS (Complete billing, support tool for webmasters)

Domain Name registration

Gary Manigault

19351 Little Pine Lane, Katy, TX. 77449

Gary Manigault

Cell: 832-***-****

E-Mail: **********@*****.***

Shell Scripting

Web Development – Drupal, Joomla, HTML, PHP

Linux, Win2k, (Webhosting)

KBR Corporation

June 2010 – April 2012

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsible for the management, implementation, testing, monitoring, and updating of our Global Content

Management System [ECM], Global Survey System [Opinio], and Global Digital Marketing system [Lyris],

Introspect records manager

Implementation Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g and 10g Web logic 10.3.4, Oracle DB 11G, Oracle Universal

Records and Universal Content Management.

IIS configuration to work with multi tier applications and Oracle database backend.

Configuration of F5 Pool load balancing for our applications.

AD setup for ECM systems Tomcat administration and deployment of applications.

SSL certification setup and configuration.

Responsible for making and implementing changes in our production and testing environment of Lyris, Opinio

and ECM. Proliant Servers setup for applications

Lakota Data Center

May 2010 – Oct 2010

NOC Engineer

Night Operations NOC Engineer. Local datacenter, downtown Houston. 24/7 operation.

Cisco Configurations changes for our data customers

Installation of servers, routers for customers. OS installs, Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu.

Assignments of IP addresses from our iplan management system

Modifications of DNS entries to Bind for our customers.

Kickstart implementations to configure servers for clients.

Resolving issues with customer installations and servers.

Installation and configuration of customer servers, software and hardware.

Monitoring of network traffic and fraud, malware and copyright infringement.

Shell Oil Corp

Sept 2008 – March 2010

Systems Architect

Contract

Global Vista Implementation

Global Custom application development

Implementation of VMware environment

Implemented a VMware environment for our team. The virtual production servers were used for our projects.

Two production environments were created, for redundancy, fail-over and so that we had full authority in this

environment. We used ftp, SQL Server, Outlook, Office and other applications in our production environment. A

testing environment was created for use to test any applications prior to us rolling it out to the customer or for our

production use.

Vista Roll out to all refineries

Certified that the refinery applications were able to run with the Shell customized version of Vista

Sniffer setup for network component detection.

Divestiture of Central America (Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama and San Salvador)

Setup of swapkit to migrate users into for hand over to buyer. Migration to new HP Proliant G series server.

Worked with EDS, Systems and AT&T for cut-over from Shell to buyer.

Plan and implementation of complete Cisco network work migration to customers Subnet and network for

completion of sale.

Carve out all users to be migrated. Sanitized all user laptops and desktops, removing all Shell specific

information and applications for handover to the customer.

Support of the environment and problem resolution after the handover for 30 days.

Gary Manigault

19351 Little Pine Lane, Katy, TX. 77449

Gary Manigault

Cell: 832-***-****

E-Mail: **********@*****.***

SQL Server 7.0 (applications which use this DB as a back-end)

Oracle 10G, weblogic (applications which use this DB as a back-end

Linux, NT 2003 Advance server

Setup swapkit environment for our use with production applications, test environments, migration environments.

This was done with RHEL and VMware, NT Server.

It was done to give our group total autonomy to create and tear down any environments we needed for our

projects.

IDMS, API / SRBI

Active Directory

Web Development and Site management (Drupal, Joomla)

MySQL, Postgres,

MySQL was used to create website with Drupal as the CMS for our projects. It allowed all users to access this

site for critical information and allows us to distribute information once the users as not longer on the corporate

email system.

Huntsman Corporation

Dec 2007 – Sept 2008

Systems Architect

Contract

DBA / application support and implementation.

Setup configuration and management of the following applications (GEARS, OmniRim, Getpaid, PPMC). These

applications run on the NT Server, and Linux(Redhat Enterprise).

Responsible for implementing and recommending changes in our Gears, OmiRim, Getpaid and PPMC

environment. Kickstart implementations to setup and configure new Linux servers for our environment.

Their environment of applications is mostly a web frontend (IIS, Apache and a DB backend of Oracle 10g or

SQL Server 2007)

I was brought in the middle of most of the implementations and had to play catchup and implement them

according to the predetermined timeline. All apps were successfully implemented per the agreed upon timeline.

SQL Server 7.0 (applications which use this DB as a backend)

Oracle 10G, weblogic (applications which use this DB as a backend

Linux, NT 2003 Advance server

Getpaid (SunGard app), ERam (D&B)

Linux RHEL application used globally to collect debts in local currencies as quickly as possible. This application

was in the process of being upgraded. It was recommended that we create a virtual server environment,

(Production, Testing, Development, and QA). This process was started before I left but it is unknown if it was

completed.

GEARS (Custom Auditing IIS app, management of upgrades and testing for promotion to production

environment), OmniRim (Custom document management app, implement to our production environment and

testing of upgrades prior to production roll-outs)

Appworx Enterprise management scheduler

SAP – Sales and Distribution, Finance, Quality Management, Production and Plant Maintenance Production and

Plant Maintenance

JP Morgan Chase

Dec 2006 – December 2007

Application Manager

Application support.

Nightly runs of Global Trading system to provide traders with their positions and their risk exposure. The run

cycle is from 15:00 to 06:00. Nightly completion is critical.

Modification and enhancement of that application on a weekly basis or when necessary were written, tested and

promoted to through development to production following our approval process.

System release of patches etc on a bit weekly basis.

Deployment of new hardware to support our application.

We used VMware in a Linux environment to deploy our virtual servers for the complex calculations that were

needed to produce the traders’ positions nightly.

Use of MOM for server monitoring and control of our environment.

Gary Manigault

19351 Little Pine Lane, Katy, TX. 77449

Gary Manigault

Cell: 832-***-****

E-Mail: **********@*****.***

Managed nightly run of our Global Trading application for a successful production of the morning report. When

there were problems, I would coordinate who would need to be involved in the event conference call when

necessary to resolve the issue. Should a bug fix be necessary used our incident management system to record the

problem and the fix. Worked within our change management to get the fixed coded, tested, and implemented in

production once approved.

SQL Server 7.0,

Oracle 10G, Admin

NT Server Advanced 2003,

Linux Admin, shell scripting, BASH

Perl Scripting

Ctrl -M Admin (Enterprise scheduler)

DELL

June 2005 – December 2006

Application Management III

SQL Server 7.0, Admin, DBA.

Oracle 10G, Admin, DBA.

IIS web design, admin

NT Server Advanced 2003, Admin

Terminal Server, Admin

Linux, Apache

Citrix testing of our application for outsourced sales personnel.

Application development, with the use of SDLC methodology.

Use of websphere for out inhouse application, (Symphony). The application was used by all of our sales staff

both in the US and internationally.

Testing of updates for NT OS and execution of our change management process.

Work with Networking, DBA’s, programmers and customers on upgrade weekends for our symphony application.

Part of the team to implement changes in our Symphony environment. Changes were done about 3 to four times

per year.

DBA for our patch tool project Creation of stored procedures

Setup and configuration of DB server (SQL Server Support and deployment of our sales app

Enterprise version) IDD/Symphony in US, Europe, Asia, Philippines,

Setup of databases for development and production South America

Setup of maintenance plans, scheduling of jobs Supporting databases on both Oracle 10G and SQL

Empirix monitoring Server Enterprise

Setup monitoring our IDD/ Symphony web sales Work with Development and sales to distribute

application. application out on launch night.

Monitoring server via ping, trace route sampling Debug application prior to launch

Monitoring via FIM page sampling Resolve issues when application is in production.

Monitoring responsiveness of our databases serving On Call 24 /7 internationally

our apps via sampling

Dunn Center

December 2003 – June 2005

Senior Systems Analyst

CMHC (Medical Application) Administrator Backup and restore of data

CMHC (Medical Application) application developer Management of Multiple Lpars

SQL 7.0 DBA Implementation of disaster recovery for this system

AD setup for our environment. and its apps

Implementation of IBM P570, 2 Lpars, AIX 5.3,

Tivoli 5.2 Implementation of Email gateway server (Redhat

P570 system administrator (AIX) 9.0, Software Mirroring, Postfix, Awstats, Samba).

Purchase and installation of IBM P570 and AIX 5.3 Maintained a 95% uptime. This server replaced a

Administration and security of the box and previous, non-documented BSD gateway setup by a

applications contractor. Once in place uptime was increased,

Gary Manigault

19351 Little Pine Lane, Katy, TX. 77449

Gary Manigault

Cell: 832-***-****

E-Mail: **********@*****.***

spam was decreased, more statistics were generated Network Security (Proposed implementation of

about amount of email, countries of origin, states of Dragon Software)

origin, domains of origin, etc. There was one Implementation of DHCP throughout the

incident that occurred which proved the value of organization

this Linux gateway. The cause was that the Sniffers (Ethereal, NAI) Zoomtown / Cincinnati

Exchange server whose email database had reached Bell, Cincinnati, OH

its capacity stopped delivering mail. The gateway Implementation of Acorn Activity Based Costing

was holding all incoming mail. The decision was system. This application allowed us to see our

made by my boss to reboot the gateway. No mail profitability down to the customer level according

was lost but they later figured out exchange was the to a number of accounting categories. It runs with

issue. SQLServer 7.0.

Managed a team of 2 Technicians and one Administration of network. We had NT running on

contractor, Wintel server side and Wintel Desktop and AS400.

support. Worked with AT&T managing our data circuits and

Migration of CMHC application from 4.0 to 4.1 voice circuits also. Handled everything from

Management of CMHC (Medical Application) troubleshooting to testing to reconfiguring.

which resides on a RS6000. Responsible for routers and switches; (3640, 2900),

Development of applications within the CMHC Dell (3024). Setup a T-1 connection directly to our

application. network from a major customer site. Their access

Migrated the Users of the CMHC application to a was limited and they were setup to print directly to

Browser user interface. our branch locations around the United States via IP

Securing the network and managing bandwidth. printing. Also have a VPN backup system for

Administration of Active Directory in W2K and failover if the main T-1 line goes down for any

2003 server environment reason.

Administration of Citrix and Terminal Server Initiated VPN connectivity to our site via our PIX

Management of Cisco Routers and Switches ( 1600, Firewall using 3 DES securities.

1721, 2600, 2900, 3640, PIX), HP 4104 gl switch Redesigned network to the Cisco ISO model of

Network Infrastructure design (Cisco Routers, PIX Core, Distribution and Access layer. Eliminated the

firewall, Switches) Access layer (got rid of hubs and went to a

Pix Firewall management manageable switch network). This was done on all

Implementation of Linux Redhat 9.0, Software our remote locations both in the the US and abroad

Mirroring, Postfix to give controllability down to the port level.

WebMaster Increased performance, accessibility and

Evaluated Nagios to install in our environment for manageability.

management of our network.

SharkTECH Computer Consulting, Cincinnati, OH.

OKI Bering, Cincinnati, OH

January 1999 – January 2003

March 2002 – September 2003 Senior Consultant

Network Engineer

Designed implemented and managed several

Lotus Notes Administrator (Domino 6.01) organizational websites. Hiring personnel for

Windows 2000 server administrator and engineer. project implementation of New servers, network

On a AS400 management and website design.

Pix Firewall management, management of Cisco Management of multiple websites

3640, 2600, & IOS Design and implementation of multiple websites

Purchase and implementation Packeteer 6500. This Designed and managed several networks using NT

is being used for bandwidth shaping and to give and Linux.

mission critical applications priority on our Implementation of Linux servers (Apache, Ssh, ftp,

network. With the implementation of the hardware email, Postgres)

we were able to do the following. Network Architectural Design.

Designate which applications should have the most Broadband Internet access.

bandwidth and during which hours. Database Design

Eliminate from our network any nonessential or

prohibited protocols (i.e. Streaming audio, etc. ) Deloitte Consulting, Cincinnati, OH.

Implementation of Linux CVS for software

program management / versioning. This allowed the March 2000 – Dec 2001

programmers to code and check in and out their SENIOR CONSULTANT

code without heads of versioning.

Project Manager (EMC Project)

Gary Manigault

19351 Little Pine Lane, Katy, TX. 77449

Gary Manigault

Cell: 832-***-****

E-Mail: **********@*****.***

RFP for a state government to redesign their location which required coordination of data from

network for support of Oracle 11i and California, Texas, Taiwan and Australia. Tasked

implementation of PKI security, Checkpoint with providing the application resource on each of

Firewalls. their network segments to function efficiently and

Part of a team of 50 people to implement all of the to replicate any data in a timely fashion.

Oracle Financials for the State of New Jersey. Implemented our Network for the corporation from

Tasked with network security using PKI and the ground up. Chose hardware platform and

Firewalls to protect the data and application. We installed. Setup for all consultants to give them

had to do a RFP which took about 2 months and remote access, shared space, ftp, disaster recovery,

then a pilot to show the feasibility. Siebel access and email.

Project for Financial Institution to implement BMC Responsible for maintaining a secure network

Software products (Patrol Agents) for Oracle, environment, and implementation of VPN so that

Exchange, and SQL Server. employees could do their day-to-day tasks and work

Lead the implementation of BMC Software’s Patrol remotely.

products for Oracle and Microsoft Exchange. The

project consisted of 3 people. The product was to Attachmate Corporation, Cincinnati, OH. June 1997

be used to create benchmarks and then allow the – June 1998

Administrators to resolve problems prior to them Senior Consulting Systems Engineer

happening. Details available upon request.

Assigned to EMC to work on implementation of

SAN’s. Vanstar Corporation, Columbus, OH.

Managed teams of consultants on multiple December 1996 – June 1997

engagements. Senior System Engineer Enterprise

Participated in assignments ranging from Details available upon request.

internetworking, Oracle, web and stress testing.

Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, OH. February

Connaissance Consulting, Columbus, OH. 1993 – December 1996

Senior LAN Engineer

June 1998 – March 2000 Details available upon request.

Lead Consultant

American Electric Power, Columbus, OH.

Support and implementation of Seibel (server August 1995 – April 1996

configuration, desktop configuration) Senior LAN Engineer

Responsible for project management, problem Details available upon request.

resolution project deadlines and reporting status to

senior management. Cintech Tele-Management Systems Inc., Cincinnati,

Siebel (CRM) installations and configurations OH.

DBA for Siebel Pharma project using Oracle 7.3.4 January 1992 – February 1993

Managed the implementation and customization of Senior Telecommunications Specialist

Siebel Pharma. Reported back to senior Details available upon request.

management on status and when issues arose.

Resolved and issue with the customer VP who had Electronic Data Systems, Troy, MI. & Dayton, OH.

questions on our implementation methodology by

writing a response explaining how our cost due to July 1989 – January 1992

implementation methodology would be lower with Microcomputer Support Analyst

real dollar amounts. After reviewing it he was Details available upon request.

convinced and understood our direction and why.

Created a conference room pilot system to demo for Frieden Alcatel, Farmington Hills, MI. January

the customer with their data. Once it was approved 1988 – April 1989

created a test and production environment for Account Executive

Siebel. This ran with Oracle 7.3.4 on the backend. Details available upon request.

The project consisted of 4 people.

NT Server installation and configuration, Ernst & Whinney, Detroit, MI.

troubleshooting, OS updates, hardware June 1984 – December 1987

configuration. Programmer Analyst

SQL Server installation, configuration, backup, Details available upon request.

maintenance.

Oracle installation, configuration, and backup.

Implemented the network environment for the

implementation of Siebel for an international

Gary Manigault

19351 Little Pine Lane, Katy, TX. 77449

Gary Manigault

Cell: 832-***-****

E-Mail: **********@*****.***

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19351 Little Pine Lane, Katy, TX. 77449

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