Distributed Application Hosting Engineer

BRADLEY J. SCHIEK

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Bowie, Maryland 20715

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Summary of Qualifications:

. Adept infrastructure/middleware application support engineer.

. Current DHS clearance.

. 23+ years experience as Principle UNIX/Linux engineer.

. 12 years experience as a WebSphere Application Server ND (WAS) and MQ

architect, troubleshooter, and administrator.

. My strong suite is my ability to bridge the gaps between Java developers,

DBAs, OS administrators, and network specialists. I am frequently called

upon to resolve issues with distributed applications that have gone

unresolved by others.

. Extensive experience with initial setup and O&M support of WAS 6.1 and

8.5, WPS 6.1, DataPower XI50, and MQ Series 6 and 7.

. Extensive experience with SSO and Kerberos authentication using LDAP

services.

. Competency with automating build and deployment tasks using Jython and

Ant and Continuous Integration using Cruise Control.

. Experience with Subversion revision control software.

. Experience with VMWARE virtual machines (VMs).

. Experience with setup of Monitoring products such as Nagios.

. Open source enthusiast.

. Broad knowledge and experience with SAN technologies.

. Very good verbal communications.

Education, Certifications and Skills:

. High degree of proficiency in the support of J2EE application deployments

and the troubleshooting of distributed applications across physical and

virtual servers and appliance based platforms.

. Proficient with RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.x.

. Sun Solaris Enterprise certified.

. MCSE - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer

. Master ASE - HP/Compaq Master Accredited Systems Engineer (Enterprise

Storage Specialty).

. Broad exposure to UNIX/Linux administration and PERL scripting on

multiple UNIX variants (Solaris, RHEL, AIX, HP-UX)

. RAID Storage: Hitachi Data Systems, EMC, Veritas Volume Manager and File

System, Solaris ZFS.

. SAN Products: Proficiency with Brocade fiber channel switches and

integration of Host Bus Adapters.

. B.A. in Government and Politics, University of Maryland, 1983

. Computer Programming Certificate, Yorktown Business Institute, College

Park, Md. 1984

Employment History

October 2011 - Present

Infozen - Rockville, Maryland.

August 2008 - September 2011

Wexler Technical Services (WTS Inc.) - Rockville, Maryland.

Principal Linux/WebSphere Application Server Engineer providing IBM

WebSphere product support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement

(DHS/ICE/OCIO). I was the original installer, and provide primary

integration and administration expertise for ICE's WebSphere based

application server components (WAS 6.1 and 8.5, WPS 6.1, DataPower XI50, MQ

7.0) as well as JBOSS EAP. The platforms I've built here have provided 5+

years of reliable performance for the ICE application development community

and ICE mission stakeholders.

Jan 2004 - April 2008

CPSI Inc. - Catonsville, Maryland.

Principal UNIX/WebSphere Application Server Engineer providing design,

integration, administration, and troubleshooting expertise for application

servers at Lockheed Martin's operational support contract with Centers for

Medicare Services (CMS/HHS). Duties include operational responsibility for

70+ Java application deployments across 30+ WAS installations. I

participated in the design, and provided the primary integration and

operational troubleshooting for the Java applications resulting from the

Medicare Modernization Act (MMA). I am credited with effectively

establishing JEE operational support as a core competency within the

Lockheed contract, and establishing and leading a team of 6 WAS

administrators.

Technologies in this environment include WebSphere Application Server

Network Deployment 5.1 and 6.1, MQ Series 6.x, Solaris 9 and 10, IBMIHS and

Sun One web services, Cisco CSM load balancers, Sun based SSO products (AM,

IDM), and the Tivoli ITCAM suite of products.

July 2003 - Jan 2004

Cexec, Inc. - Dulles, Virginia.

Senior support Engineer, Contracted to Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation

(PBGC), a government owned corporation located at 1200 K street D.C.

Responsible for support of an 8 way VCS cluster with HP StorageWorks based

disk arrays and brocade fiber channel switches.

July 2003

George Washington University

Contracted to deliver PERL scripts for posting of Web form data to LDAP

service in a Solaris UNIX environment.

August 2001 - June 2003

Ajilon Inc. - Towson, Maryland.

Senior Internet Services Engineer, Internet Technology Group for Allfirst

Bank

Initially responsible for bringing stability to HDS SAN connected disks on

Solaris UNIX and Windows servers. I took interest in the support of

WebSphere application servers and was brought into a project team to create

Allfirst Bank's first online web banking application. Duties involved

initial build, administration, and support for 24 SUN SPARC servers running

Solaris 8, VXVM and VXFS (Veritas), Iplanet/Sun ONE httpd, WebSphere 3.5,

Sun ONE LDAP server 5.0sp2, Oracle 8, Netegrity Siteminder 4.5.2, and

Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). In this role I became quite skilled at

troubleshooting WebSphere based J2EE applications. It was a great job,

which unfortunately moved to Buffalo NY when M&T Bank bought Allfirst.

July 2000 - May 2001

Usinternetworking - Annapolis, Maryland.

Director, Storage Area Networking

Responsible for formulating and leading technology strategies for Fibre

Channel based tape and disk storage. Including:

. Providing management vision and direction for a tape backup support

staff of 5 and a disk storage provisioning/support staff of 4.

. Leading effort to identify costs, simplifying integration, and

internally productize data storage and tape backup offerings in a

heterogeneous SAN.

. Designing and implementing geographic failover capabilities for

application environments using EMC's SRDF, Quest Shareplex, Veritas

File Replicator, and Rsync.

. Serving as USi's primary technical representative to the Suntone

Architectural Council, an ASP certification initiative of Sun

Microsystems Inc.

October 1995 - June 2000

Tri-Com Computer Services Inc. - Lanham, Maryland.

Senior Integration Engineer/Consultant.

Principle Pre-sales/integration Consultant to clients in Government and

Telco sectors. My primary role was to help create repeatable "packaged"

custom integration service products and act as technical team leader for

projects involving application servers, disk arrays, tape storage systems,

UNIX OS's, network security, remote access/VPN, and High Availability

application environments. Much of my billable work came from DEC/Compaq and

Microsoft Federal Systems projects.

Highlights of my consulting engagements with Tri-Com include:

. Multiple Microsoft Exchange deployment and troubleshooting engagements

involving some of the largest Exchange installations of the time.

. Net-tel Inc.- an emerging telco in Washington, D.C. I successfully

lead a project to integrate/deliver a multi-tiered application

environment using multiple Sun E-4500 and E-420R servers, an EMC

Symmetrix 3830, a Connectrix (McData) ED-1032 Fibre Channel switch,

and JNI HBAs.

. Net2000 Inc. - Implemented an NT/Solaris heterogeneous SAN based on

Compaq's ENSA initiative. The solution provided Net2000 with a 36 node

Brocade based SAN that included a StorageWorks disk farm and Veritas

Netbackup to a DLT based robotic library (TL-895).

. Teligent Inc. - Provided a security audit based on known NT and

Solaris exploits. Planned and lead effort to test production failover

of core business applications. Consulted with CIO on matters related

to SAN and Business continuance planning.

. Qwest Communications - multiple engagements at sites nationwide.

Projects all involved setup of SPARC based servers with SUN StorEdge

and DEC StorageWorks based disk arrays.

. Substitute Instructor for Windows NT training at the U.S. 1st Infantry

base in Germany.

January 1995 - October 1995

Seta Corporation. Mclean, Virginia.

Team Leader/Senior UNIX administrator for USAID Internet Data Services

A contract consultant at USAID since 1989, I was invited by the client to

change contract positions and lead a project team developing Internet

services for the Agency's newly created Internet Data Services group. I

Implemented, optimized, and refined integration and functionality of

commonly used internet service tools of the time: DNS/BIND, PPP, SMTP,

Sendmail, Gopher, WAIS, Listproc, Archie, Veronica, Lynx.

September 1989 - December 1994

Octacom Inc. Reston, Virginia.

Senior UNIX Engineer - USAID Telecommunications and Operations

Wang VS COBOL programmer responsible for migration of proprietary Wang

applications to UNIX. Introduced TCP/IP to USAID Banyan VINES LAN/WAN.

Worked on team to introduce dedicated multi-protocol routers (Cisco) and

solve interoperability issues resulting from dual network protocols on

Windows 3.1 desktops. Chosen to participate in a highly coveted role as

lead SunOS UNIX and TCP/IP expert on project team to rollout UNIX based

application servers to USAID missions overseas.

December 1986 - September 1989

General Sciences Corporation. Laurel, Maryland.

WANG VS COBOL Programmer - on site at US Dept of State

As a Wang COBOL programmer I helped develop the well known CUE (Controlled

User Environment) application interface used at Embassies. We used the

popular "CAP" CASE tool which allowed us to create re-useable code modules.

January 1984 - December 1986

G.C. Computer Systems Inc.

WANG VS COBOL programmer

Gary Comstock was a sole proprietor who developed customized software for

the non-profit market. I programmed Membership, Subscription, Grant, and

Donation thank-you systems for various customers such as Grocery

Manufactures Association, Epilepsy Foundation of America, and People for

John Heinz.

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