Versatile DBA and Infrastructure Leader with Cloud Expertise
Resume:
Tim Sanko
Canton, OH 44706
Skills: architecture and infrastructure leadership
Oracle and SybaseDBA with Moindo AND nosql. ANS WELL AS db2
SQLServer DBA with over 20 years of exposure and 10 years experience from Version 7.0 of SQLserver to SQLServer 2025 and AWS Administrator with 8 years of Experience in Multiple contracts.
Hardware:
PC’s 8088- i9s; Sun/Oracle – Sparc1 – M9000,T7-2, T5-4, T5-2, 6k,10K,T6300-T5-1B; HP A class – Vclass (2200,2250,2600), HP rp and rx series; Unisys ES3000, GECOS on AIX servers. Oracle Exadata, X5-2 ODA, X4-2B, ZFS 7120, ZFS 7320, EMC Xtremio, VMAX, Clariion & SYMMETRIX 38XX – DMX-VNX using PowerPath, Navisphere, Symcli, eccadmin, HP Storageworks, Falconstor, Dell SAN storage, Cisco switches, F5 load balancers, Buffalo systems, Hadoop File system administration on RHEL. LEAPP, NexSan, NetApp San, and Exagrid backup storage. ODA hybrid SAN/Database appliance, ZFS appliances.
Software:
C,C++, Fortran,UNIX System Software, Office, Open Office, RDB, Multiple Shells, (C, Bourne, KORN, BASH), ORACLE 7-10g,Oracle Forms through Web App server, DBMS, DNS,DBA for Ingres, Informix, Sybase11 -sybase-19C, SQLServer 7.0-SQLserver2025, Oracle from version 5 on diskettes and Tapes to Oracle 19c, 22c, ESXi,VMWare RPG-III, Cobol, Foxbase, B-Trieve, Novell, Networking, Basis, Java, Cognos Powerbuilder, Active X, Windows, CICS, FORTRAN, CASE TOOLS, Smalltalk, AWS, Communications, JAVA, J++, AWK, PERL, SAM, SMIT, Solstice tools, LDAP, LVM, Veritas Volume Manager, ERWIN, Apache, Tomcat, Bind 4.8-10.1.1.0, SNMP, DNS management, Websphere, BEA Tuxedo & WebLogic, HTTP, HTTPS, PowerPath, Navisphere, Symcli, Eccadmin, Kubernetes, Openshift, Jumpstart, and Kickstart. Backup software – Legato, Netbackup, and TSM, VMware, ESX, Centrify and Delinea, ALOM, ILOM,XSCF, Oracle Virtual Box. CA Wiley,CA Spectrum, Hyperic, HP Openview tools including Performance Monitor, Backup and NNM. Kubernetes and docker and Openshift, HP Sitescope, Oracle OPS Center and SystemEdge, Go, Golang, Jenkins, Jira, C++, Ruby, Ruby On Rails, Rust, DNS
UNIX AND UNIX like Operating Systems: Solaris5-11, HPUX 5-11.24,LINUX, AIX,SUN O/S 2.X-4.X, RSX11M to DEC UNIX ULTRIX, VMS, Open-VMS, SSP, DOS, OS/MVS, AIX 5-7.1, MS DOS, OS/2, Linux; RHEL 5-,6.2,7,8.4-9.4, Fedora core 2-10, Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE 9-10, SCO OpenLinux, Caledera, and others.
System admin: AWS ADMIN, HPUX- 8 - 11.24. SunOS 4.3.2 - Solaris 5-11. Linux SUSE, Debian, RHEL 3-6. ESX, VMware, ESX,Oracle Virtual Box, Scalia and LSF administration on blade clusters, Hadoop Administration on Linux servers, True-64 with True 64 clustering, ORACLE ODA X5-2...
Network support for SAN and Ethernet: Cisco routers and switches, F5 load balancers for SEC EDGAR application and Backup since 2011.
Experience:
CMIS-3/22 – current OpenVMS Admin - perform backups account maintenance and general script maintenance. Maintainance and migration to virtual OpenVMS servers retiring old vax4400 servers supporting and configuring Linux Appliances, return OpenVMS Systems from Involta cloud services to on-prem, AWS for prototyping short term applications. Define AWS as a less than 6 months hosting solution.
CDW-Oct 2024 – Nov2024 For the University of Miami of Ohio. Cluster and build SQLserver RHEL clusters and document them on RHEL 9.4 on AWS
Conscious Security LLC. Rewrite C++ header files for Oracle GoldenGate to work with OEL 7.8 – 8.4. and Oracle 19c, 22c
Tech Mahindra 5/1/2022 –10/16/2023
Tech Lead- Member of Agile Team doing DevOps practices producing rapid deployments, redeployments of TSM servers utilizing Bitbucket, Github, Jenkins, RHEL 7.9, 8.2, Jboss and Java. Virtualization using Openshift, docker, and kubernetes. Building out k8s and clusters of UNUNTU and RHEL servers, Install, and Build SQLServer Red Hat 9.X clusters. Make DNS updates to slave zones and Master zones. The implementation of LINUX, AIX, using Delinea in a hybrid, mainframe, Solaris, AIX, AWS, and Linux environment we installed and configured CyberArk, gytpol, Jenkins, ansible, bitbucket github, git as Node.js and other Java script functions in a CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT/CONTINUOUS DEPOLYMENT (CI/CD) environment. In a non-stop process.
SAIC – 4-21- 2/2022: Senior Principal Linux Admin on Project for US Navy: ALRE IT. Virtualization and Linux Engineering - Virtualization of both LAB and development platforms. Integration of Amanda for backups, and Landscape for patching/monitoring in virtual machines..
DBA experience: Oracle DBA for multiple development projects in Unix environments.
DBA for DFAS CLEVELAND, DBA for development project for Title company. Informix DBA, Oracle DBA for Version 5.X through 9.i, 12c 19C and 22c, Sybase 11 DBA SQLServer 7.0- 2025. Physical DBA for Oracle 10 & 11G implementations. Oracle RAC. Using 12C and 19C on ODAs and Exadata.
Principal Consultant: 1-12 – 2/21 Keane - NTTDATA- SAIC – AIX/Solaris Admin- Responsibilities include compliance with Federal regulations, SEC guidelines etc. Staff responsibilities: Engineering Change Requests, and their approvals. Received ITIL certification April 6, 2012. Sr. Cluster implementer-designer for SunCluster 3.3. Maintenance of Solaris 10 OS and Solaris 8 containers. Act as the Solaris focal point for Data Center installations. Diagnose OS, SAN and UNIX network issues. Build a new production environment, and move the old production environment. Move DR to new facility.Build prototype k8’s and docker envirionments to facilitate rhel implementation Migrate BIND 9 to BIND 10.1.1.0 on McAffee firewalls. Single Sign-on with 2 versions of LDAP. One for a legacy application using openshift docker,Kubernetes NETSCAPE ldap and Oracle ldap for the user community. Virtualization with, LDOMs and containerization of platforms with VMware and VitualBox for windows. as well as Solaris 11, 10 and 8. support RHEL implementation containers with RHEL, openshift and Docker and Kubernetes. Pilot projects for CI/CD and Jenkins as well as other projects with Extreme Networking, BigSwitch, and Oracle operations manager both on prem and on AWS. SQLServer Admin for small project development. Hadoop support for multiple data facilities for SEC. Patching Solaris server and Linux servers with RedHat satellite server. Virtual servers patched via Oracle Manager (for both ODAs and RAC). Migration of UNIX and LINUX servers to NETAPP storage. SYBASE to Oracle conversion.
CMIS 2-2016 – 8-2016: Oracle Consultant – University Of Akron
Plan and implement Oracle X5-2 ODA Deployment and Production Oracle migration. Migrate Databases and create VMs for Application, Webservers and PeopleSoft Schedulers On Oracle.
Genesis 10: 8-2015 – 1/31/2016- AIX Admin responsibilities that included SAN migration of live AIX LPAR's storage, linux storage and OpenVMS storage, python and korn shell script creation, data manipulation, server analysis, Linux satellite updating and other duties as assigned. Upgrade VMware based Linux systems for SAN upgrade. Install 1st deployed AWS for MMO servers, IN AIX Determine whether NPIV or VSCSI was most appropriate.
TalentBurst 1/2015 – 7/2015 – AIX Admin: create korn shell scripts, create blade logic administration tasks, scripts to support bare metal recovery and mksysb support, avocent backups, AIX SAN migration, Determine whether NPIV or VSCSI was most appropriate. And other duties as assigned., VMware Vmotion of Virtual servers, etc.
AIX/Solaris UNIX Lead: 5/27/11 – 9/11 AIX/Solaris LEAD-Federal Home Loan Bank via Modis
Develop standards and procedures, Implement InMage replication, Support production servers, install servers and zones and all necessary production software for new deployment. Oracle 10-11 implementation support. Deploy many FS changes on live or semi live installations. RMAN and Legato backup configuration/debugging. Multiple Zone Brand implementation on Solaris 10, (Solaris 8,9,10) branded zones. Virtualization and Server consolidation to Zone based environment from server based environment. Create LDAP single signon to common UNIX platforms. Eventually managed in MS AD. Legato backups on tape or Exagrid storage. Identify and coordinate server maintenance needs. Lead Fiber Channel Storage issue debugging. Discover several outstanding IP issues, as well as several application conversion issues. Determine outage reasons. SOX compliance Unix representative. AWS introduced for Linux services.
UNIX Deployment Lead: 6/7/10 – 6/11 Bank of New York Mellon via Modis - UNIX Deployment lead: Use Jumpstart and Kickstart to deploy large groups of servers (over 400 Solaris servers and RHEL Linux servers at one site alone as well as about 30 HACMP AIX clusters.) as well as many builds from CD. Cluster Building using Veritas Cluster Server. Three tier server design and implementation with RHEL, AIX, Solaris 10 and 11,Oracle,Windows 2008 server, and DB2 in a hybrid environment. TSM backup manager with RMAN used for Oracle backups. Deployment Lead with 15 Indian offshore personnel to facilitate Server implementation Virtualization for Windows and Linux using VMWare and Puppet for deployment. Solaris virtualization via LDOMs and contanerization of old environments built from FLARS of existing environments. Veritas Clusters and Veritas File Systems used for all clusters. ZFS used for Oracle implementations. Multiple Migrations to new VMAX storage. Client configuration of DNS on Bind 9.4. PCI Team for POS accounts. Unix representative on SOX audit team.
UNIX TEAM LEAD: 9/06 – 6/4/10 Unisys Corp- GTC Reston,VA 10/15/07 – 5/2007 Independent contractor to Unisys Implement large Data Center environment. Implement US CENSUS. In Linux and Solaris 9 & 10. Currently maintaining HHS, ITSC, and Census, and expanding SBI (Secure Border Initiative's Linux environment including building an initial DNS master server and several slave servers for Bind 9.4.) Harden and configure many servers. DST patch (200 Solaris Servers 175 Linux servers) Patch management for HP/UX servers. I was Team Lead on 7 man staff. Implement an ST8400 on Legato and Veritas for Backup/Recovery, manage Backup staff. Assist in maintaining USDOJ and US Courts backups on as needed basis. Lead Unix resource for HHS. Upgraded Bind 8 on Solaris 8 to Solaris 11 and Bind 9.2. Fix and debug DNS issues including many incorrect reverse lookup entries, trace network trafic to prove firewalls not permitting traffic, etc. SQLServer implementation for HHS (OBAMA Care) on MS servers, then Port Obama Care all to UNIX Cluster Servers for scaling capability. Reduced downtime greatly of many websites. Migrated MedImmune from RHEL 4.1 to a RHEL 4.8. Designed upgrade for MedImmune to 6.1 RHEL. Perform new Solaris Engineering and implementation for GTC from 1-2010 – 6-2010 for HHS. Corrected Many Procedures and create new ones. Maintain several Veritas clusters and implement and maintain multiple Solaris Veritas clusters. Use ECC to allocate new storage on DMX and 8800 series.develop ESXi for ES9000 server Manage Single Sign-on on Sun servers for HHS application. Storage raids for HHS. Manage 2 man Storage staff for HHS, and 3 man backup staff as well as UNIX staff. Allocate Clariion, and Falconstore storage for TSA. Benchmark VMWare base of Windows vs Rhel 6.2 base for windows platform deployments. Use ESXi to deploy ES7000 to support Microsoft's corporate email at Reston GTC. Spearhead Solaris 9 to 10 conversions for RSA authentication for Solaris. Smalltalk (GNU) screens for UNIX X-Windows DNS front end for NOC use.
Duties: Install, configure, and implement many applications at The GTC – Government Transformation Center for Unisys. Current position UNIX Admin. Additional duties include managing outages, vendor relations, and periodic departmental tasking. Last position, Unix Admin assigned to Production support for TSA and FBI.
UNIX admin: B&W 2/00 – 9/06 I started as a contractor for AT&T as a consultant and was in-sourced Sept 2000 as B&W employee. BEA Weblogic, installation and configuration, and Plumtree portal installation, configuration and OS tuning. Install and maintain 50 UNIX servers in a hybrid 300 server environment. Do all UNIX server and EMC software installation and hardware configuration for UNIX servers. This includes Celerra, Symmetrix 3430 – 8800s. Clariions to the CX500s (3) Veritas 4.5 - 6.0, BEA weblogic, Matrix one 8-10 on BEA weblogic software. EMC’s EDM 3.5 -5.0 I also was the Primary UNIX ADMIN for the Enterprise Backup system from installation to retirement Veritas 4.3-5.1. Install and configure all EMC UNIX software PowerPath, Navisphere, mpfs, etc. Second or third line support for Windows from NT 3.51-Win2k3. Install and configure LDAP with AD validation, Samba, Apache and CIFS on Celerras, Solaris 8,9 and HP/UX 11.11. Solaris installation and maintenance from Solaris 6 – Solaris 10 on 4800’s. Current environment included Solaris 8 – 10. HP/UX 11.0, 11.11, 11.23. I performed all patching, updates and major system maintenance. Cluster maintenance for Dec Alpha UNIX cluster at Research Center. Maintain DNS and DHCP services for B&W. Supplement, upgrade, migrate and then retire Dec Alpha UNIX cluster. SOX compliance team (UNIX)
Key Bank- 6/99 – 12/99 DBA – Sybase DBA – convert Databases from DB2 to Sybase. Then SYBASE to SQLServer.
Consultant Renaissance Worldwide 1988 – 1999 first Ohio consultant for National Registry in OH: many projects on UNIX boxes and AS400s, and PCs. Company changed names in 1993. National Registry became Renaissance Worldwide in 1993. Install initial Bind 8/DNS configuration for many clients including City of Kent, OH; Diebold; Medical Mutual of Ohio; and CNG.
Clients: City of Kent, Interbold, Diebold, Medical Mutual, Roadway, NASA Lewis, Boeing consulting, Lubrisol, Sun Oil, BP… Consultant for Database redesign for BlueCross Blue Shield. 10/99 – 12/99 migration from DB2 to Oracle DB. AS400 to HPUX10.2 Oracle 8.0.3
Consultant to NASA- 1/99 -9/99 via Boeing consulting, install, set up and maintain HPUX on Mars rover development project. C-Code and embedded software. Calculate Apogees and orbits and display on a raster graphics terminal.
DBA for DOD 10/1996 - 12/ 1998 sub to EDS- Oracle DBA Maintain and upgrade Databases, Install and configure deployment pay database for Department of the Navy. Upgrade to current DB level and tune DB. Measured 28% improvement on long running jobs after initial OS and DB tuning on same hardware.
Interbold-Diebold 6/94-6/99 develop communications packages in C, C++ on OS2 2.1-OS2R3. WinNT. Write private IP Network for Interbold - Diebold, and many of their clients, including EDS, Wells Fargo, BNYM, etc… Implement their private network on wide variety of hardware including: Tandem non-stop, AS400s,NCR UNIX, HPUX, and Solaris servers. For Interbold, I wrote the TCP/IP part of Diebold's communications sub system. Install NT server 3.51 and NT Workstation network on Frame relay backbone for Diebold/EDS project, write custom socket network, with embedded controls for security.
1/90- 1/91 for CNG – Columbia Natural Gas.
Member of region building team. Team created 4 new regions with working DB2, COBOL, SYBASE, Mainframe, Convert JCL and PROCS for region team. Utilize UNIX S crating, and custom C applications to convert regions on UNIX platform, FTP to place corrected JCL and PROCS in new region. Secondary FACF administrator, developer of current RACF security plan. Used UNIX tools to make OS/MVS JCL. Completed scripts to create the JCL to create and copy new regions automatically.
Install and maintain numerous NT 3.51, NT 4.01, Win95, Win98 nodes on hybrid NT servers, Novel, Unix NFS network. Novel administration since 3.11. TCP/IP OS/2, GCOS, HP/UX, SCO UNIX, Solaris.
Install UNIX servers and do all Unix Design and network design for City of Kent, configure NFS, Vision FS, on 10/100 base T Ethernet Network.
On HP/UX Oracle5.X – 7.4 developer and DBA of warehousing application using Pro C and Forms with TELXON Hand Helds. Performed Oracle upgrades, UNIX Administration For Telxon
Mufti Platform Informix & Oracle Application Development.
HP/UX-Dist.-C Socket Programming to Informix & Oracle Databases using ProC & ESQLI. Functionality: Data Warehousing & scheduling roll up transactions for S.W. Summation Log Creation for Com Servers.
On - SCO Platform ORACLE Forms. On Oracle DBMS 7.0.1.4 for SQLNET application on diverse platforms (NT, 95, UNIX).
SCO based Oracle release 6.0 32. Support for Hand held TELXON units with inventory control and let downs putaways. Replenishment for retail outlet written ProC for all ORACLE ACCESS. Ported to CSQL for Informix.
Install ORACLE 8: on NT for BETA parallel test with 7.0.14 also used Delphi
Set up SQLNET on Myriad PC’s using different TCP/IPs for large banking project.
Oracle programmer and DBA doing recovery and upgrade of UNIX based databases. Version 7.x experience in SCO, HPUX and AIX environments. UNIX ORACLE installs and migrations from Er 5.x-8.x.
Use C to Support of Novell systems up to version 4. 4.
Create websites, developed screens to include receiving data and sending E-mail, all was done in Java. Several animated screens were also done in Java on Sun v880.
ORACLE DBA and programmer doing updates and system tuning along with UNIX/XENIX consulting. Develop applications and utilities for various clients in C and C++ as well as shell scripts for clientele that includes Telxon, BP, Richards & Merrill, S.R. Arner and Co., Midwestern National Life. System management and support for AIX, SCO UNIX/XENIX, AT&T UNIX, Motorola UNIX. Setup multiple networks including TCP/IP support, SNA Gateway VAX/IBM & UNIX/IBM terminal emulation software, Micnet, ODT, X Windows, HP/UX Oracle and Informix programming and support.
1985-1987 Long term contracts with Manufacturing Systems Associates, and BP in Cleveland. Developed multi-media applications for IBM’s Multi-media division exclusively utilizing Visual Age & Digitalk Smalltalk. Installation and third line support for Win2k3 Have experience with Netscape from 1.0. Utilized and developed C-code in all X-windows environments including Active X, X-windows and other X-open systems.
Training users on the use of the UNIX operation system. Implemented Oracle 7.0 - 10g. Evaluated existing LAN systems for the engineering department as well as implementation of Oracle 7.0 with all programming responsibilities written in C for a local municipality. (five separate contracts with City of Kent)
C-code and serial communications as well as software router development for Telxon, multiple projects (four separate contracts)
Banyan ANI since 1988
Data warehousing project for Interbold / Diebold.
Smalltalk application development/object oriented development since 1990. Novell support to ver 4. 4.x.
Visual Age for Smalltalk for software configuration, which created configuration, files for multiple hardware platforms in a GUI environment. Products Oracle Developer Designer since 1996.
Database Manager
6/87-12/87
Davis Bessey Nuclear Plant
DBA of several databases. Primary analyst of miscellaneous application on DBIS BAX. Supervise implementation of SNA Gateway on DBIS VAX.
Software Engineer
1/87-3/87
Daedal Systems Inc.
Redesign and implement SPC (Statistical Process Control) package in C. Define database layout, modules, and PO systems.
Electrical/Electronics Designer 4/86-12/86 National Acme.
Design CNC controls on Intergraph VAX 8800 based CAD machine as a consultant.
0Programmer/Analyst 9/84 – 9/85 JB Muncer and Associates. INC.
Engineering Programmer – Resource Plus 2/84 - 9/1984
Consult to Rouge Steel division of Ford Motor Company. Fine tune real time controls of rolling steel. Software and hardware maintenance on DEC VAX cluster.
Education
Physics and Chemistry Bowling Green State University
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