Nate McConnell
adhzez@r.postjobfree.com
Objective
IT/Operational Management/Customer Service
SKILL AND QUALIFICATIONS
● Solaris/Unix 23 years
experience, installation,
patching, upgrade,
configuration, remote support,
beta testing, patch development
and testing, cluster and mass
storage familiarity
● Effective, experienced
and dedicated IT Manager with
17 years of service delivery
experience and IT leadership
leveraging exceptional IT process
coordination and technical
expertise to develop and execute
strategies and programs that
provide company business
continuity and growth.
● Consistently offer
practical IT solutions that
positively impact profitability,
control costs, and optimize
utilization; demonstrate the
ability to accurately identify IT
requirements and develop them
into actionable IT solutions.
● Field Manager focusing
on personnel and parts dispatch,
action plan implementation,
escalation coordination,
customer sat and issue port
mortem
● Extensive experience
enhancing systems and workforce
performance with advanced
platforms, infrastructure
implementation, and business-
focused solutions that address
strategic organizational
requirements.
● Skilled IT Manager who
inspires internal and external
teams to achieve corporate goals
and follow through with
assignments with sound cost
effective problem resolution
expertise.
● Experienced manager of
offshore partner relationships
and service provisioning.
● Experience providing
excellent customer service to
clientele on a daily basis.
● Service data
development and analysis
including SLAs, uptime
commitments, time to fix and
failure trendings.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Identity & Access Mgmt (IAM) Engineer Source One Prof & Huntington Bank Sep 2016 – Sep 2020
● Unix (Linux/AIX) support, configuration and diagnostics
● RACF/Mainframe experience
● SailPoint
● AD admin
● Apache
● Splunk (cloud)
● SAN admin/config and general Unix admin
● Orchestrate Unix system RBAC migration, Install, config, upgrade and conversion of LDAP to RBAC on Unix (SLES11, RHEL6&7, AIX6&7 etc).
● Validate post migration function of apps, users, network function troubleshoot, config and repair as needed
● Support, configuration and admin of hdisk/hdiskpower, HMC, SAN and cluster systems Solaris Patching TechSystems/PNC Jun 2015 - Jun 2016
● Work with technical teams, lines of business and management to schedule, plan, coordinate and implement patching on Solaris 11 (and prior versions) and Linux systems troubleshoot, config and administration as needed..
● OS, virtualization and firmware migration, configuration, upgrade and provide point of contact for business function validation
● Ensure all nodes, databases and virtual servers meet functional requirement are swapped out during outage windows and configured per business demand before, during and after upgrade and patching.
● Configuration, update and management of SQL servers and DBs.
● Ensure schedule compliance of patching cycle for hundreds of Unix/Linx servers through the patching cycle and provide technical input on building future implementation cycles.
● Weekly presentation for approval and awareness to business unit upper management of action plans, outage window compliance, impact, teams effected and contingency actions for patching, performance, decommissioning and configuration issues.
● Troubleshoot patching failures, cluster issues, storage configuration, database access failures and configuration issues during failed actions.
● Monitor actions and create trouble tickets for corrective actions on non and performance hampered production, quality assurance, test and disaster recovery servers.
● Process and documentation management and development for patch cycles of all servers in current and future patch cycles.
Supervisor Stratosphere Quality Feb-May 2015
Quality inspections, logistic, process development, supervision Yard Chief (operations manager) Pull-A-Part Cleveland, OH Dec-Feb 2015 Manage personnel, meet production goals, maintain equipment, generate and monitor production daily.
Manager Service Ops NewPush Aurora, CO Jan 2014-Feb 2015
● Manage and provide support on Unix Configuration, troubleshooting, installation, updates, planning, networking, remote access, app install and creation, public relations, troubleshoot and configure mass storage (Vmware/SAN), configure access troubleshoot repair server clusters, DNS setup/config/repair, email service setup/config/repair Lab tech PPG Cleveland, OH Sep-Nov 2014
Contract position providing support to chemist in auto paint division. Field Service Manager Oracle Corp. (formerly Sun Microsystems), Brunswick, OH 2009- Nov 2011
● Coordinated with in-house staff to resolve noted issues and assisted clients in providing the support necessary for business continuity for UNIX, Citrix phone switches, VoIP and Oracle Case Management tool configuration, installation and maintenance.
● Provided dotted line management within North America and all federal accounts for more than 100 customers supplied with a 24/7 SLA contract and received all incoming calls from the 1-800 number or by email.
● Serviced more than 180 products annually that included upgrades, systems interactions, networking, hardware, system/file backup, disaster recovery, software bugs or new installation/retrofit/moving systems to new locationstop 3 calls were upgrades, implementations and changes.
● Demonstrated complete knowledge of UNIX, Windows and all other systems from laptops to network connectivity and understood the technical aspects to accurately assign technical resources.
IT Manager/Field SSE/TSE - Sun Microsystems 1989-2009
● Manage overseas partner for tier 0 warranty support.
● Quality management specialist and internal international partner ISO auditor.
● Successfully grew the support structure to 15 teams with knowledge of technical proficiency within the solutions center for accurate and timely resolution of customer issues.
● Demonstrated astute understanding of technical support, solutions center workforce resources and effective troubleshooting operationsunderstanding the same technical language that ensured technical support excellence.
● Collaborated with company executives on service and support operations, monitored the top 100 customers that included outage reports, coordinated service delivery utilizing remote engineering field support and developed internal status reports concerning customer management deliverables.
● Immediately addressed onsite field technician workforce conflicts and successfully leveraged support requirements/demands with available onsite technicians.
● Addressed customer issues, assisted in resolution initiatives filed corrective actions if required and ensured all escalation processes for onsite deliveries and fault correction initiatives were managed and completed.
● Served as the UNIX Sun Solaris 10 team lead and oversaw the SunRay thin client installation, configuration and maintenance while monitoring usage.
● Experience with Sun SPARC desktop installation and configuration as well as the Sun UNIX Solaris 11 installation, software patches and configuration/usage. Sgt USAF - Cryptographic maintenance - Buckley ANGB CO 1985-1989 EDUCATION
Kent State University, Math and Physics Major
Business Conduct Training
Sun Sigma
Kepner Tregoe Analytical Trouble Shooting
International Service Partner Auditing Training
Solaris 2.X UNIX Network Administration
Solaris 2.X UNIX System Administration II
Decker Method: Effective Phone Communications
Structure and Logic
Business and Technical Writing
Leadership Skills for Technical Professionals
Managing Within the Law
Behavior Based Interviewing
Managing Interpersonal Relationships
NIS+ UNIX Administration
Certified Solaris 2.x UNIX Administrator
Advanced UNIX System Administration 4.1.2
UNIX System Administration 4.1
MILITARY AWARDS
Air Force
Outstanding Unit
Award
Distinguished
service award
Air Force Good
Conduct Medal
Longevity
award
Air Force
Training Ribbon
Non-
Commissioned
Preparatory Course