Engineer Manager

ROBERT L. UZZI

Katy, TX ***** adf3hp@r.postjobfree.com

281-***-**** linkedin.com/in/robert-uzzi

SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Goal oriented Engineer with proven experience in systems administration, project management, and processing methodology. Adept in cloud infrastructure and trouble shooting. Skilled in creatively solving problems, negotiating with vendors and end-users while managing complex projects and working under pressure.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Operating Systems Red Hat; Centos; Gentoo; FreeBSD; Solaris on x86 and Sparc; Debian; Microsoft Windows

Computer Hardware IBM, HP Servers both x86, x86_64 and ia64 based, Dell Power Edge / Precision / Optiplex / Inspiron and Latitude product families, ia64 Itanium servers, desktops, portables; SAN / NAS; FireWire; RAID, SCSI, SAS, Fiber Channel, SATA, PCI-X, PCI-E. HP, Dell, and IBM blades.

Network Infrastructure Ethernet, CuGbit, WiFi, Fiber, Dell Power Connect switches; Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switches

Major Applications Microsoft: IIS, MS-SQL, Office, Visio

Misc: Apache, Sendmail, Postfix, Bind, MySQL, PhpMyAdmin, MRTG

Languages Bash, Perl, Python, HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL, Windows Shell Scripting

EXPERIENCE

Western GECO, Houston, Texas November 2007 – April 2020

Sr. Systems Engineer

Provided leadership to local administrators at remote sites. Managed the on premises and cloud infrastructure for the training department. Performed facility audits as needed. Supported users and applications.

•Packaged and maintained RPM’s used worldwide and maintained multiple Red Hat clusters.

•Provided remote systems administration, installation and user support, installation and ongoing maintenance for Western GECO’s 25+ seismic vessel fleet at sea and 10+ International computing centers along with Land crews.

•Configuration of Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switches.

•US subject matter expert for Hitachi multi-petabyte storage systems used for running Omega seismic processing.

•Traveled internationally to support sites and ships as needed.

•Project management and team logistics for numerous processing hardware system upgrade projects onboard vessels in port domestically and internationally and in foreign data centers with tight time frames and numerous logistical challenges. Project values ranged from .5 million up to 4 million.

•Identified and changed the processing worldwide to account for bottleneck in the cluster resulting in a 30% increase in processing throughput. Published internal whitepaper on load balancing and scheduling.

•Engineered and qualified a TSLM upgrade used worldwide and at customers sites.

•Supported multiple foreign external customers.

•Authored software that monitored the datacenter and shutdown the cluster in the event of an unmanned temperature issue.

•Project Management to build 4 data centers in Mexico.

•Worked with R&E to shape next generation hardware.

•Designed what was believed to be the world’s first automated unmanned passive micro seismic listening station.

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•Championed cold isle containment at remote centers resulting in approximately 30% decrease in AC costs.

Modis IT, Houston, TX May 2005 – November 2007

Senior Systems Engineer, Western GECO R&E department, May 2006 – November 2007

Managing certification and qualifications of hardware used in the compute cluster.

•Wrote documentation for all systems

•Managed certifications for IBM and HP systems.

•Interfaced with Vendors.

•Founding member of the HP Oil and Gas Advisory Council.

Senior Systems Engineer, HP San NAS Lab, May 2005 - October 2006

Report directly to Lab manager as second in charge of a HP SAN / NAS testing Lab. Train and supervise system testing personnel.

•Develop and maintain network and server infrastructure.

•Perform SAN / NAS testing and troubleshooting for HP.

•Specialized in Itanium testing under Linux.

•Identify, isolate, document, and report bugs in software and firmware.

•Developed internal dynamic website and applications and maintained MySQL database infrastructure.

Project Manager, Capital Star Oil and Gas, November 2005 to March 2006:

Managed VOIP, IT, and Network build out of office from ground up.

•Submitted and Managed Budgeting for Project.

•Managed Purchasing and delivery of materials.

•Managed Maintenance and Repair of infrastructure on a continuing basis.

•Trained and supervised personnel.

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

CompEdgeRacing.Com, Katy, TX, Owner

Racedirect.Com, Katy, TX, Manager

GRASP Enterprises, Austin, TX, Systems Administrator

Dell Computers, Round Rock, TX, Product Test Analyst

Hosting.Com, Austin, TX, National Web Engineer, Microsoft

Douglas W. Terry, MD, Austin, TX, Systems Administrator

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Coursework completed for Microsoft Certification, St. Edwards University

Coursework completed in IT, Sam Houston State University

CERTIFICATIONS

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) Microsoft Certified Professional + Internet (MCP+I)

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) A+ Certification

Red Hat Certified System Administrator ITIL Foundation

Google Cloud Architecture Google Baseline Data ML AI

GCP Essentials Google Baseline Infrastructure

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