System Administrator Engineer

Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name FRANCESCO RATTO

Address VIA CRISPI 18/7 16030 SORI (GENOVA)

VIA CA’ DE GIORGI 54 – 27040 PINAROLO PO (PV) ITALY

Telephone Mobile +39-335-*******

Fax +39 10 366645

E-mail *.*****@**********.**

Nationality Italian

Introduction

The skills acquired in several years of work and in variously sized environments (from

enterprise to startup) range from *Nix systems expertise and connection/interactions

with windows system to firewall administration and security assessment / intrusion

detection and monitoring.To complete during projects I did project and crew

management

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Degree Master Degree in Computer Science and Electronics

TECHNICAL SKILLS System Administration

Linux (RedHat AS – Suse Enterprise Debian)

FreeBsd Openbsd

Sun Microsystem including Solaris up to 11.1 LDom 3.0

HP – UX

Aix

Silicon Graphics

Digital Unix

Security :

Firewall : Checkpoint FW1 Cisco Pix Ipfilter Iptables Astaro Cisco Asa

IDS Tools : snort tripwire ethereal cisco ids nessus vulnerability assessment

Secirty assessment : Nessus - nmap

Open source softare firewall systems (Pfsense - Smoothwall - Firewall

Builder/iptables Endian)

Hardware Firewall Cisco Pix / Asa Nokia FW1 /Astaro appliance Sonicwall

Networking

Cisco Router

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Cisco Switches

Alteon Load Balancers Cisco Arrow Point Big F5

Hp Procurve

Monitoring

Hp OpenView Nagios Groundwork HP NNM Suite

Storage Systems

Emc (Dmx Clariion Celerra)

HP Xp 102*-***-***** 24000

Hitachi HDS (various models)

Sun

Brocade

McData

Emc

Cisco Director

Database

Relational Dbase and Technology concepts

Oracle 10g 11i

Mysql ver 4.x 5.x

Perl and Shell scripting

Applications

Sun One Suite

Web Servers :Apache (1.3.x 2.x) Iplanet

Application Servers :Bea Weblogic Broadvision Forte Tomcat

MTA :Sendmail Postfix Qmail Sun One Mta

Dns :Bind 8.x 9.x Named 4.9

Ldap and Directory services “Sun One Ldap Open Ldap

Newsserver : Innd

Authentication Server :Radius Tacacs

MANAGEMENT SKILLS Group Administration

I directed system administration (both Unix and network) groups in some

projects with 30 or more people verifying their skills and giving them the more

appropriate activities and dealing with

day to day problems with both permanent and consultants

Project Management

I did project management activities for both technical and architectural issues

and true and just PM.Techically the projects were at enterprise level dealing

with internal IT systems and high volume public servers and networking

projects.

I got a very good knowledge of the most important vendors' architectures both

for hardware and

software and I often integrate classic type licensing model software with Open

Source.I have a good experience interacting with suppliers in negotiations of

purchase.

Budget Management

I did budget management mainly on purchases and staff search in order to

comply with successthe first two activities

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• NAME AND ADDRESS OF From Dec 2013 up to now

EMPLOYER

• TYPE OF BUSINESS OR SECTOR Ericsson

• OCCUPATION OR POSITION System Administrator (Production Environment)

HELD

• MAIN ACTIVITIES AND For the customer Fastweb (the biggest italian isp) I am working in a

consolidation project which consist of transforming a few dozen of multidoman

RESPONSIBILITIES

Sun Oracle servers (15K 25K M9000) with hundreds of zones using T4 T5 Sun

Oracle servers and Ldom virtualization firmware and software .The process

ends in some hundreds of solaris 10 - 11 zones with all the production services

including sap crm etc. Using solaris systems (clustering logical domain zones

etc).

The infrastructure consist of 10g network Emc storage etc.

• Name and address of From May 2012 up to now

employer

• Type of business or sector Elsag Selex

• Occupation or position held System Administrator (Production Environment)

• Main activities and Unix System Administration - Troubleshooting - Storage Administration

responsibilities

I manage with colleagues the entire Unix and Storage infrastructure of Selex

Es (Finmeccanica Group)

Manage big customers Unix services including network and security

troubleshooting new installs monitoring security patching etc

The Unix services includes servers and workstations on the Finmeccanica

network and the entire Elsag Unix infrastructure including several vmware

farms

Aix - Solaris - Linux (RH) *nix servers

Storage including IBM - Emc - NexSan – Netapp

• Name and address of From May 2010 up to April 2012

employer

• Type of business or sector Elsag Selex

• Occupation or position held System Administrator (Production Environment)

• Main activities and L2 and L3 Network administration Unix System Administration -

responsibilities Troubleshooting - Storage Administration

I manage with colleagues the entire campus of Ansaldo Energia spa

in Genova

The campus includes several hundreds of Hp Procurve switches connected

thru Fiber Optic for around thousands of network objects

The entire network is MPLS based and includes a bunch of factories around

the world

The Unix services includes server and workstations on the AEN network

and the entire Elsag Unix infrastructure including several vmware farms

Aix - Solaris - Linux (RH) *nix servers

Storage including IBM - Emc - NexSan – Netapp

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• Name and address of From Jan 2010 up to May 2010

employer

• Type of business or sector Vodafone – Telco

• Occupation or position held System Administrator (Production Environment)

• Main activities and Unix and Storage System Administration

responsibilities Together with half a dozen of colleagues we manage around 800 hosts

including the biggest and newest servers from HP (Superdome etc) HPUX

11.xx

Sun (M9000 e25K E15K and older) Solaris 9 and 10 with metro and

geoghraphic clustering technologies zones etc

Linux server with RedHat

Hitachi or remarketed Hitachi (Sun and HP XP) Storages and brocade

switches including somef 48000

• Name and address of From April2009 up to Dec 2009

employer

• Type of business or sector Mobango - Milan

• Occupation or position held Internet

• Main activities and Infrastructure Technology Architecture and Unix System Administration

responsibilities

• Main activities and Couple extremely new technologies like cell phones and business models like

responsibilities Apple Store with the stability needed for a web and wap portal

Coordinate and manage developer groups and business demand

Plan new projects and system to meet business demand in terms of

infrastructure networks security etc

Unix System Administration of around 70 linux hosts and 6 vmware server with

different application servers and homemade applications in a production

environment deployed to run the web and wap portal application

Monitoring systems (based on nagios) of the entire network mainly on

configuration and troubleshooting

Security and Firewalling on the environment (smoothwall)

From Nov 2008 up to April 2009

• Dates (from – to

• Name and address of AllOptions Amsterdam

employer

• Type of business or sector Financial

• Occupation or position held Infrastructure Technology Architecture and Unix System Administration

• Main activities and Plan new projects and system to meet business demand in terms of

responsibilities infrastructure networks security etc

Unix System Administration of around 100 Solaris 10 hosts and 30 Linux (RH

Debian Gentoo etc) with different application servers and homemade financial

applications in a production environment

Technical System Architect on global network and technologies

Monitoring systems (based on nagios) of the entire network mainly on

configuration and troubleshooting

Security and Firewalling on the environment (Chickpoint on Sun Solaris /

Pfsense on HP DL hardware)

• Dates (from – to From March 2008 up to Dec 2008

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• Name and address of H3g

employer

• Type of business or sector Telco

• Occupation or position held System Architect Infrastructure Technology and Planning Data Center and

Project Architect

• Main activities and Team Leader on technical and architecture group for new projects

responsibilities

Meet demand and business requirements on development of new services and

projects,searching for the best technology and planning the entire project that

will be executed.by operations.check that execution meet requirements and

guidelines.Using all unix flavours (Solaris 8-9-10) HP Ux True Unix Linux

Complete project management

Manage new projects considering people involved like external suppliers

developers group time schedule etc

• Dates (from – to From Dec 2007 up to May 2008

• Name and address of Hitachi Data Systems

employer

• Type of business or sector Telco

• Occupation or position held Storage Administrator

• Main activities and iI production environment I configure troubleshoot storage systems and

responsibilities switches in order to give

systems the disk space they need

I configure switches and zoning storage security etc

EMC Ecc storage monitoring solution

Using all unix flavours (Solaris 8-9-10) HP Ux True Unix Linux

• Dates (from – to From July 2004 up to 2007/12

• Name and address of Lutech spa for Vodafone spa

employer

• Type of business or sector Telco

• Occupation or position held Team Leader on system administrators Group

Senior Sysadm responsible for Monitoring and Firewall Data Center and

Project Architect

• Main activities and I configure and manage the monitoring systems using HP Openview and

responsibilities Nagios tools on V&D department.

Together with the first activity i manage the configuration and troubleshooting

the firewalling infrastructure from the V&D department to the Phone network

during the end to end and business tests

Tools and services

Trouobleshooting on the Vodafone network infrastructure

Capacity Planning on the services above (relating to V&D)

Resource Monitoring (Hp Openview )

Resource Monitoring (Nagios)

Troubleshooting on Unix servers

TestDirector

Remedy

Hardware u

Sun Enterprise Servers E15000 – Sun E10000 [Solaris 6 7 8] Hp Superdome

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[Hp-Ux 11.x]

Digital Gs80 [True Unix 5.x]

Networking stuffs

Routers Cisco (72xx) Cisco Switches (65xx (Layer 2 and 3) troubleshooting on

network connections together with Vodafone personnel.From and to different

departments and technologies IP and cell phone signaling protocols

Firewall

Cisco Pix Checkpoint FW1 NG configuration IDS (snort and cisco) and

troubleshooting on network connections together with Vodafone

personnel.From and to different departments and technologies IP and cell

phone signaling protocols

• Dates (from – to) From March 2006 to 2006/12

• Name and address of Soloinrete spa

employer

• Type of business or sector Commodities – Energy

• Occupation or position held Senior SysAdm responsible for monitoring activities

• Main activities and I projected deployed and manage the monitoring system on the IT

responsibilities infrastructure

The controlled hosts are Linux servers where high volume transactions Oracle

10g databases are taking place.The data are stored on a Emc Clariion CX5000

storage

Software

Resource Monitoring (Nagios)

Resource Monitoring (Groundwork)

Troubleshooting on linux servers and IT infrastructure

Security and Firewalling on the environment (Astaro)

Hardware

Server Dell bi-quadriprocessors

Emc Clariion

• Dates (from – to) From May 2002 to April 2005

• Name and address of Lutech spa for Vodafone spa

employer

• Type of business or sector Telco

• Occupation or position held System – Network Administrator – Unix System Admin Leader in a

preproduction environment – Architecture Capacity Planning

• Main activities and As a team leader of a System Administrator group in a preproduction

environment I deal with capacity planning configuration and troubleshooting of

responsibilities

connections and services between my department and production or

development .

Together with a group of Oracle Database Administrator we deal with a very

complex environment made of very large databases, contractors applications

Vodafone developed applications and traditional Internet services

My main responsibility is about resource sharing and interconnections between

different departments systems and resulting firewall configurations and

troubleshooting

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Coworkers administration and planning

Tools and Services

Dns Web Server Apache and Application Servers (Bea Weblogic,

Broadvision, Forte)

Ldap server [Sun One Directory Server 5.1] configurations and troubleshooting

Firewall and routing configuration and problems solving Checkpoint FW1 NG

Cisco Pix

Capacity Planning on services above and Oracle Databases (8i,9i)

Resource Monitoring (Hp Openview on HP-UX server)

Unix Server configuration

Hardware

Unix Systems

Sun Enterprise Servers E15000 – Sun E10000 [Solaris 6 7 8 and 9] with

Veritas Filesystem Sun Cluster

Hp Superdome [Hp-Ux 11.x]

Digital Gs80 [True Unix 5.x]

Connected with local storage and Emc Nas Storage

Network Devices

Cisco Routers (72xx) and smaller Cisco Switches (65xx (Layer 2 and 3)) and

smaller Load Balancers (Alteon)

Firewalls

Cisco Pix Checkpoint FW1 NG on Nokia Appliances

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• Dates (from – to) From September 2000 – to April 2002

• Name and address of Fininvest spa

employer

• Type of business or sector Internet Services

• Occupation or position held Unix System Administrator Network Engineer Unix System Administrator

Team Leader

• Main activities and As team leader of the Unix System administrators I was in charge of the

Internet Services of the conglomerate Fininvest owned companies such as

responsibilities

Mediaset (and TV channels and programs related services) Mediolanum Bank

and Insurance Pagine Utili Forza Italia political party various newspapers etc.

Responsible for :

Mail services and spam protection

Dns services

Web services in very high volume sites

Firewalls and Security policies

Router Configuration and troubleshooting

Project and capacity planning of new services and websites

Tools and services

Bind 9.x Sendmail 8.x Apache 1.3.x Iplanet Netscape Enterprise Server

Firewall : Checkpoint FW 1 Cisco Pix Open Bsd transparent firewall

Shell scripting (Tcsh Ksh)

Database : Oracle 8.1.7 Parallel systems and Hot Standby in HA systems

Hardware

Sun Servers (E3000 E3500 450 420R 220R etc) Sun storage (Fiber Channel

and SCSI) SunCluster 2.2 (Solaris 7 and 8) Veritas Filesystem

Digital S40 server (True Unix 5)

IBM X series and Compaq ML series Intel Servers (frontend webservers)

(Linux RedHat)

Cisco Router and switches (720*-****-**** 6509(Layer3)2948 etc)

Cisco Pix Firewall Nokia Appliances with Checkpoint FW1

Load Balancer Arrow Point

• Dates (from – to) From January 2000 to September 2000

• Name and address of Sun Microsystem Professional Services – Costa Crociere spa Project

employer

• Type of business or sector Hardware and software Vendor

• Occupation or position held Unix System Administrator – Network Engineer

• Main activities and Configure update and troubleshoot Solaris systems Cisco Routers deal with

responsibilities the ISP responsible for the Costa Crociere Internet Services (Inet)

Configure and troubleshoot Cisco Routers to be deployed in ships and remote

sites with satellite and long distance leased lines (Brazil USA Argentina)

Tools and Services

Network Monitoring (Sun Net Manager - Hp OpenView)

Backup Configuration (Networker)

Shell scripting (Ksh) and Perl programming

Mail server configuration and troubleshooting (sendmail)

Database Progres Oracle

Chekpoint FW1 configuration and troubleshooting

Hardware

Sun Enterprise Servers (E3000 E3500 E6500 E10000 Sun Storage (A1000

D1000 Fiber Channel Storage) Sun Cluster 2.2 on both local and remote sites

Cisco 36xx 72xx routers

• Dates (from – to) From January 1999 to January 2000

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• Name and address of Wind spa

employer

• Type of business or sector Isp

• Occupation or position held System Administrator Network Engineer

• Main activities and I was in charge as technical staff member ot the maintenance and

responsibilities configuration of the ISP infrastructure

About 120 Cisco Routers with both static and dynamic routing protocol a lot of

Nas (Cisco 5200 5300 Ascend etc)

Customers’ leased lines activation configuration and monitoring

As system administrator I configured and maintained

mail servers cluster dns service

newsserver service innd (with satellite feeds)

Radius server (with perl and shell scripting for usertable generation and

features)

Security assessment on internal and customer services

Troubleshooting on internal and customers IT infrastructure (internet based

Only) Troubleshooting with carrier related issues (backbone etc)

Second Level Help desk for leased line customers

Hardware

Digital Unix (ver 4.0x)

Solaris (ver 2.5.1 – 2.7) on Ultra 2 and Ultra 450

Linux RedHat (ver 5.x 6.x) on Compaq ML class

Windows NT 4.0 on Compaq ML class

Tools and Services

Sendmail Innd Livingstone Radius Perl ver 5.x Ksh scripting Apache IIs

Bind 8.2 named 4.9

• Dates (from – to) FROM JANUARY 1998 – to January 1999

• Name and address of Village srl

employer

• Type of business or sector Isp

• Occupation or position held System Administrator

• Main activities and I was in charge of the Unix ISP Infrastructure collaborating with colleagues in

responsibilities charge of the networking part

Radius Server (Cistron) and Nas configuration

Perl and shell scripting Dns Sendmail (spam protection)

Security (with Open Source Firewall (ipfilter) and intrusion detection (snort))

Monitoring (Hp OpenView and Cisco Works)

Second Level Help desk for leased line customers

C Programming (for custom Radius server application)

Security and Firewalling on the environment (smoothwall/ipcop)

Hardware

Digital Hardware with Digital Unix (4.0h) Linux for Alpha (5.2 – 6.x)

Intel Server with Red Hat Linux (5.2 – 6.x)

Cisco Routers (5200 25xx)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Degree Master Degree in Computer Science and Electronics

• Name and type of University of Genoa (1993)

organisation providing

education and training

• Principal Electronics – Programming C C++, Relational Databases – Calculus –

subjects/occupational Rational Mechanics – Chemistry – Networking – Simulation

skills covered

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High School Scientific High School

• Name and type of Liceo GD Cassini (1986)

organisation providing

education and training

• Principal Calculus – History – Literature

subjects/occupational

skills covered

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PERSONAL SKILLS

AND COMPETENCES

MOTHER TONGUE ITALIAN

OTHER LANGUAGES

ENGLISH GERMAN

• Reading skills GOOD TECH

EXCELLENT

• Writing skills VERY BASIC

EXCELLENT

• Verbal skills BASIC

EXCELLENT

SOCIAL SKILLS Teamworking is both an esigence and a pleasure .

AND COMPETENCES

ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS In the last years my job was in great part regarding my colleagues organization

and resource planning. I had to preview and manage the budget for my

AND COMPETENCES

department and make decisions about people and their competencies and

responsibilities and buy new hardware

TECHNICAL SKILLS During my career’s years I updated constantly my skills and certifications

Sun Microsystem :System Administration I and II Sun Cluster

AND COMPETENCES

With computers, specific kinds Silicon Graphics: System Administration

of equipment, machinery, etc. Cisco Systems :CCNA CCDA ICRC ACRC

DRIVING LICENCE(S) B Driver License

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