Michael Sullivan

+1-662-***-**** ad01h9@r.postjobfree.com 253 Rosewood Cove Memphis TN 38018 United States GitHub: https://github.com/unixwzrd LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/msullivan Profile

Experienced IT professional with over 30 years in the technology industry, including 15 years of managerial and supervisory experience in the financial sector. Proficient in areas such as IT financial transactions operations, regulatory compliance, budget management, and vendor relations. Strong background in architecture, development methodology, project management, and implementation for the management of distributed UNIX/Linux and Oracle database computing systems. Industry experience includes software development, banking and finance, telecommunications, and internet commerce.

Experience

UNIX SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT, ECS FEDERAL, MEMPHIS, TN — NOV 2020 - AUG 2023

• Managed applications release process in an Agile environment from development to production, ensuring quick and efficient delivery while also having contingency plans in place for rollback in the event of failure.

• Managing logistics systems for the Postal Service and troubleshooting systems and applications issues across all environments.

• Providing Unix Systems Support for 900 Unix/Linux servers in development, test, QA, and production environments for the US Postal Service.

• Supporting operating systems issues arising from problems with applications, including performance tuning, permissions alignment, and more.

• Being part of an on-call rota for applications systems support. PRINCIPAL, CONSULTING SERVICES, DCS, LLC, NASHVILLE, TN — MAY 2009 - NOV 2020

• Designed and implemented VPN and firewall services using pfSense, Snort, IPSec, and OpenVPN, and tested using VirtualBox VM's over VPN using Remote Desktop Services.

• Designed and managed an international team of 3 people in creating an IaaS appliance in a cabinet, which included storage, compute, and control components in a single rack, with the ability to replicate for disaster recovery and load balancing.

• Designed and prototyped a small/medium sized business NAS storage appliance based on ZFS and a cloud-based extensible virtualized disk for use with the NAS appliance, with data encryption, compression, and de-duplication.

• Designed a backup service for DaaS cloud-based storage to complement the NAS appliance. Awards

• Mississippi New Venture Challenge (2nd Place) - May 2011 MANAGER - PRODUCTION DIV., AOZORA INFORMATION SYSTEMS, TOKYO — FEB 2006 - MAY 2009

• Managed a $33M budget for the Production Management Division and prepared reports for the President of Aozora Information Systems and Board of Directors.

• Reduced costs through consolidation using VMWare on Linux and reductions in operational labor expenses, resulting in a 15% year-over-year savings for two years and a total of $9M savings.

• Co-managed a team of 25 Unix/Linux and Windows administrators, who performed 2nd and 3rd line escalation from the Help Desk and led project work.

• Built a CMDB for cataloging all datacenter and desktop hardware for creating a budget and billing chargeback system.

• Designed and implemented a cost allocation and chargeback model for the SLA to recover internal IT costs for the Data Center and all IT services.

• Provided consultation on best practices for application architecture, design, and implementation, and assisted with database requirements and SQL query tuning. PRINCIPAL, CONSULTING SERVICES, DCS, LLC, TOKYO — MAY 2005 - FEB 2006

• Managed the migration of internet services from one data center to a new one, including upgrading Open Source software and creating packages for Solaris system configuration and patching, web servers, mail servers, mailing list servers, DNS services, and other supporting services.

• Reviewed Windows system and network architecture for a private hedge fund in Tokyo and made recommendations for improvement.

• Created a proprietary online trading system to client specifications and requirements. ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - HEAD OF SYSTEMS, KBC SECURITIES JAPAN, TOKYO — MAY 2002 - MAY 2005

• Managed a group of 5 employees in the Systems division and reported to the CIO.

• Developed business cases and cost estimates for CIO and CFO approval for each project.

• Provided daily systems operations support for the Front Office, Back Office, Research, and support areas, including telecommunications, networking, database administration, and vendor relations.

• Supported the Global Standardization of Systems Architecture and Infrastructure in collaboration with global counterparts.

• Provided on-site IT development support and guidance to software developers.

• Managed market data support for Bloomberg and Reuters platforms, including upgrades.

• Performed Oracle database migrations and upgrades and assisted developers with tuning SQL queries.

• Implemented increased uptime and availability of systems to less than 2 incidents per year.

• Managed a project to standardize server computing hardware and routing hardware for increased reliability.

• Managed and performed BCP for Tokyo and tested it once a year in August. MANAGER OF DISTRIBUTED UNIX SYSTEMS, CABLEVISION, LONG ISLAND, NY — OCT 2001 - APR 2002

• Managed a team of 15 UNIX Systems Administrators in providing 24/7 support for critical cable TV operations in the New York Metropolitan Area.

• Oversaw a department budget of $1.5M annually and provided mentorship and guidance to junior staff and systems programming teams

PRINCIPAL, CONSULTING SERVICES, DCS, LLC, NEW YORK METROPOLITAN AREA — OCT 1994 - OCT 2001

• Managed teams of 4 to 15 UNIX Systems and Database Administrators, most reporting to the CTO or CIO level.

• Designed and implemented strategic information system architecture for Internet commerce applications, such as insurance comparison, product fulfillment, and telecommunications provisioning systems.

• Developed and managed the implementation of backup and recovery plans for client data centers.

• Designed and implemented Oracle RDBMS development system architecture, including physical database installation and configuration.

• Conducted security audits and integrated the production system into a homogenous corporate network.

VICE PRESIDENT/SYSTEMS ARCHITECT, MERRILL LYNCH, NEW YORK, NY — APR 1992 - OCT 1994

• Led the development and implementation of applications and systems architecture for a financial systems migration project, moving Balance Sheet, General Ledger, Human Resources, and other mainframe-based systems to a distributed computing architecture on Sequent and Oracle RDBMS.

• Provided development support and training to a staff of 200 developers, as well as production application support, capacity planning, tuning, operation procedures, and standards for the entire distributed computing project.

• Assisted developers with performance enhancement of applications using parallel programming and helped with SQL queries to validate data transformed and loaded from the mainframe accounting systems.

• Managed a team of three systems administrators and provided backup for Oracle DBA support.

• Selected technology, including data transfer protocols, MVS system connectivity, and worked with Network Engineering, MVS System Services, Data Center Operations, and capacity planning. Awards:

• Merrill Lynch President's Award for Excellence - First Quarter 1993 PROJECT MANAGER, SALOMON BROTHERS INC., NEW YORK, NY — AUG 1987 - OCT 1991

• Designed, implemented, and supported a national network infrastructure for the Global Headquarters and Domestic Branch Investment Banking offices, including standardizing the UNIX environment for the investment banking network.

• Managed and supervised a staff of twelve PC and UNIX administrators, four software developers, and two network engineers.

• Successfully managed the seamless relocation of the 900-desktop Investment Banking group and a 40-server SunOS/PC-NFS network to the new World Headquarters at 7 World Trade Center.

• Constructed five Investment Banking floors in 7 World Trade Center from bare concrete. Awards:

• Business Technology Organization Communications Award – Feb 1991

• Business Technology Organization Communications Award – Feb 1990. Technical Skills

Applications: Microsoft Office, iWork, Omni Graffle, Omni Plan, Acrobat Pro, Photoshop Software: Visual Studio Code, X Window System, ZFS, GFS, Veritas, Sun Disk Suite, Apache (mod_perl, mod_ruby), Tomcat, JServe, LDAP, DNS, NIS, Sendmail, Git/GitHub, Subversion, CVS, NFS, CIFS, Secure Shell (SSH), Tripwire, NMAP, Snort

Database: Oracle 10g, 9i, 8i, 8.x, 7.x, PostgreSQL 10.x, 8.x, 7.x, MySQL, Berkeley DB Programming: Bourne/Ksh/Bash Shell, Python, Perl (Object Oriented, DBI, CGI, Tk), C, SQL, Ruby, HTML, XML, UML, Java Script, PL/SQL

Systems: OpenSolaris, Solaris 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, Linux RHEL, SUSE, Ubuntu, Mac macOS, OS X, OS X Server, VMWare, VirtualBox, Windows, MVS (z/OS), TSO Network: TCP/IP, PPP, NTP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, SNMP, NNTP, NAT, Berkeley Sockets, Cisco Router Configuration, Firewalls, IPSec, OpenVPN, pfSense, SSH Tunneling, Oracle SQL*Net, FIX, Bloomberg, Reuters, F5

Hardware: Macintosh, Sun SPARC, Intel x86, EMC

Education

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN - Post Graduate, Neuroscience/.Psychiatry, 2014 - 2016 University of Texas, Arlington, TX - BBA, Information Systems, 1987 Languages

English: Native

Japanese: Basic

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