Systems Administrator, Project manager

ANTHONY P. FERRARA

**** **** **** ****** ****, PA 16506 814-***-**** ***********@*******.***

Accomplished Information Technology professional with over 25 years of experience in various roles. An effective team player used to multitasking with strong analytic, communication and management skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IT Consulting & Support Present

PHB Inc.

MIS Director 1997-09/2010

Technical Support Coordinator 1991-1997

Systems Programmer 1987-1991

FMC Smith Meter

Systems Software Programmer 1985-1987

Achievements

Hands on virtualization experience with VMware since 2002. Many production workloads were virtualized and VMware's HA features were implemented.

Saved $185,000 per year by migrating from IBM mainframe hardware to a much lower cost Linux based mainframe emulation platform capable of running the company’s proprietary CICS/COBOL legacy system.

Worked with the development staff to manage business improvement projects and the associated software implementations.

Developed and implemented automated EDI interfaces for custom legacy applications and ERP XML based e-commerce interfaces. Developed EDI transaction mappings with Gentran for Windows supporting both the X12 and EDIFACT EDI standards.

Eliminated 2nd and 3rd shift attended operations by implementing automated job scheduling with automated backups.

Added cloud based anti-virus scanning and SPAM filtering to e-mail infrastructure.

Directed the implementation of two iSCSI SANs to enable real time replication between two locations and enable the high availability features of VMware.

Migrated physical mainframe tapes to virtual tapes and developed tape management software and procedures.

Experience with Windows Server, developed production applications in VB6, Visual Studio .Net.

Closely involved with help desk and end user support.

Developed Crystal Reports solutions. Examples: Enabled MICR A/P check printing from a text based legacy A/P application. Developed a QA analysis tool to view costs of rejected material by various criteria.

Provided support for AutoCAD, ProEngineer, and SmartCAM workstations.

Ability and willingness to learn new technologies as needed as business requirements change.

Education

Edinboro University Computer Science 1985 4.0 GPA in major/3.88 overall GPA

Many other skill sets were obtained “on the job” as required by the business. These include but are not limited to: Microsoft .Net programming, Crystal Reports, EDI administration and data mapping, local/wide area networking, VMware, SQL/DB2, Windows Server administration, MS Office applications support and remote support tools.

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