SUMMARY

• Offering Strong Qualifications and a Results - Driven, Strategy-Focused Approach to IT Solutions Development within Technologically Sophisticated Environments
• Visionary IT Expert with 15+ years of experience in technology management; network administration. Has a demonstrated track record of directing breakthrough initiatives in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of complex systems, networks, hardware, and software within a wide range of industries including finance, high-tech, telecommunications and real estate.
• Effectively used technology to increase profits, productivity and competitive edge with significantly reduced costs. Skilled troubleshooter and problem-solver; able to “see the big picture” while maintaining focus on the details necessary for successful solutions.
• Effective trainer and mentor in explaining, demonstrating, and facilitating techniques to boost capability of end-users. A detail-oriented eCommerce Consultant with a wide range of outstanding technical, management and training skills. A strong communicator with a very positive and cooperative attitude.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - New York City, NY

Business Analyst / Infrastructure Management (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Led and implemented 70 Server Redhat 4.x & SLES9 to Solair 10 migrations in London, APAC and Germany for over 200 Servers for EAS Linux DAP & dWeb software configurations.
• Followed ITIL Best Practices for Capacity Planning and analysis of CPU, Traffic-Data and capacity extrapolation planning for Application, Web and Server Unit Allocation.
• Administration of BEA Weblogic, Apache and Sun Secure Global Desktop webservers. Working alongside off-site development team; installation and maintenance of development and QA environments; built development environment to mirror production configuration.
• Involved with the following items for EAS infrastructure: Incident management, Problem determination and root cause analysis, Problem management/resolution, RFC submission, Hardware failures, Network issues, ES/Server Database support liaison, Configuration changes, Server reboot, Server crashes and future maintenance.

Confidential - New York City, NY

Sr. Unix Administrator / Build Support (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all Linux software configuration tasks of project and interact with developers, architects, production support engineers and management throughout the organization. Responsibilities include: Data Migrations, Creation and maintenance of development, system test, UAT, regression test, and production builds of GS Portal application(s); Provide updates, maintenance to, promotion of, and training in the configuration management system for ongoing portal projects.
• Assisted DBA and developers on migrated a 1TB database powering a multi-million dollar website from two 9i Servers to a clustered Oracle 10G T2540 Server with disaster recovery in under three hours. No downtime or data loss was incurred because of SCC Cluster.
• Member of configuration management group with responsibility for Baseline Virtualization, ESX Server (GS RHES Linux), CVS and VirtualCenter architectural assessment and access control. Accountable for strategic planning, testing, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, administration, and Software Configuration management activities.
• Supported NAS supported NFS and CIFS, addressing the interoperability issues between Unix-centric and Windows-centric networks. The product also supported NIS, PAM, MS Active Directory and PDC, Window/NT ACLs, supported a single logon, and users mapping between the environments. Product was based on Sun Solaris and Linux operating systems and included VERITAS Volume Manager, File System, Cluster Server and NetBackup products. The CIFS implementation was based on Samba.
• Member of configuration management group with responsibility for Baseline Virtualization, ESX Server (RHES/AS), AMP and VirtualCenter architectural assessment and access control. Accountable for strategic planning, testing, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, administration, IDS Openview NNM and Software Configuration management activities.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Sr. Unix Administrator (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Key Member of the team which is responsible for the infrastructure that supports Citrix Metaframe ICA Client, software development and release engineering environment before code changes deployed to business. Third level support for websphere portal 4.2 and MQ 5.3 on Solaris Zones and LDom.s.
• Defined, documented and implemented hardened, standardised operating system images based on Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4, Centos 5 and FreeBSD 7. Migrated legacy operating systems (FreeBSD 4/5/6, Red Hat Linux 6/7, Centos 3/4, SuSE 9, Solaris 2.6) onto customised images.
• Implemented several four node 10g RAC cluster 4 on M4000s platform with EMC SAN storage and Symantec Veritas Cluster Server 5.x.
• Member of VMware group with responsibility for Baseline Virtualization, ESX Server, P2v and VirtualCenter architectural assessment and access control. Internal and external audit compliance. Maintenance of Kickstart and VM Patch scripts for ESX servers including Platespin PowerRecon.
• Maintaining current hardware infrastructure while also building out new hardware infrastructure using Sun Servers, IBM Blades, X33* Series Rackables (Linux) and Citrix Metaframe Farm (W2K).
• Resolving the customer systems issues using ticketing systems (Remedy / Infradesk based) .
• Building Solaris 10 systems using Jumpstart and Redhat Linux systems using Kickstart. (V445, V880, T2000, M4000, M5000). Building HPUX 9000 pa-risc servers running HPUX v11.11.

Confidential, NJ

UNIX & Virtualization Architect (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Implemented VMware ESX (2.5.x and 3.0) Server to provide Intel server consolidation and virtualization environment that offers Databases, Weblogic 9.x Portal, J2EE Application Servers, Windows and Linux virtual machines.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated EMC Storage SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflected specifications laid out in initial VMWare farm design to ensure successful deployment.
• Performed ROI cost analysis supporting consolidation of physical servers into VMWare using PowerRecon 2.5.x.
• Designed, acquired and deployed a corporate VMWare ESX Server infrastructure with capacity for 50 servers/blades across 3 separate environments.
• Identified and virtualised servers onto VMWare ESX 3, ESX 4i, VMWare Server and Xen virtual environments, coupled with Red Hat Cluster Suite and DRBD for high availability.
• Vmotion instances = Installed oracle RAC database software using ORACLE ASM storage. Refreshed RAC and non RAC development databases from production databases.
• Installed and upgraded (Critical patch updates) Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.x, Applied DTS patches, performance tuned several web-app environments.
• Developed and maintained a standardized system build process based on Dell/HP Deployment Kickstart Server.

Confidential, New York

Sr. UNIX & NETWORK ENGINEER (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead on " Confidential " Web Farm Upgrade, a project consolidating the web sites of Confidential 's websites. Participated in the selection of a commercial content management system (Rational Clearcase); oversaw installation and configuration of the unix system; acted as principal system administrator and Architect.
• Created XML data capture and presentation templates using Python code and HTML markup embedded in XML togenerate both proprietary (internal) and public (external) web pages from the same data.
• Responsible for administration of Confidential Unix (citrix, web, financial, syndication and licensing) Servers. These include: installation, backups, patch maintenance, performance tuning, monitoring results of cron jobs, scripting/automation of recurring tasks, day-to-day system resource management and monitoring.
• Work with Senior Developers, Network Administrator, Windows/NT administrators and Help Desk analysts to maintain day-to-day operations and resolve production issues.
• Troubleshooting production issues, deployments, database support, solving problems and implementation of system software. Provided 24x7 on call DBA support for Oracle, Weblogic and Resin.
• Performs day-to-day system administration tasks such as monitoring of Web Servers httpd & https processes, supervision of server access & error logs, monitoring disk space usage and archival, backup status, tape archive management.

Confidential, NJ

Sr. WEBLOGIC ENGINEER (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical consultation and software solution implementation to meet business needs of the intranet site: Managed the migration of S-PeWorld - asp based to SPHERE - jsp on a 4 node 3 tier cluster.
• Provided technical expertise for the planning and definition of new Unix and AIX system requirements.
• Server Deployments including Jumpstart Builds, Software Migration and individual product support for Veritas, Tivoli, Oracle 8i & 9.x, Wiley Interscope and BEA Weblogic.
• Performed feasibility and performance studies, including web benchmark, capacity planning, sizing etc.
• Developed appropriate systems recommendations to meet server application needs, including Weblogic clustering configurations, migrations and installation planning.
• Support and strive towards continual improvement of the CWP 2.0 hosting environments and systems integration.
• Wrote technical documentation including, but not limited to, user guides, installation qualifications, validation documentation and Service Level agreements

Confidential - Jersey City / NJ

UNIX SYSTEM ENGINEER (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Configuration Manager - coordinate deployments to test environment with DBAs, using Ant to Iplanet, Oracle 9i, Weblogic 8.1, Netegrity Siteminder, LDAP, Build source code from ClearCase for deployments and Develop test reports.
• Global Finance System Engineer includes configuration, tuning, administration, disk array configuration, load balancing, user creation, security, database installation, logical and physical file system partitioning, ldap policy construction, profile creation, database table formation, and Veritas Netbackup backup/recovery strategies.
• Architecture level input and administration into application design and integration Upgrade from WebLogic 6.1 to 8.x, Iplanet 4.2 to Sun One and Getaccess 4.5 to Netegrity for about 10 applications.
• 24x7 Level 3 support, on rotation of GFA Backups, Oracle Express applications, Autosys, NDM Connect, SSO and Web Servers.

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

CLEARCASE ENGINEER / SENIOR UNIX & NT ADMINISTRATOR (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Build Master for 15 products on 4 platforms (Solaris/AIX/HPUX/WindowsNT). Developed a ClearCase Automation Tool. Parallel Development Branching Strategy. Tool & Process Documentation. Deployment End-User support.
• Setup and configured large Enterprise Weblogic Clusters utilizing BEA’s Weblogic 8 SP1, Oracle 9i, SiteMinder, Sun One, and Netegrity policy server. Wrote LDAP scripts and Java utilities that determine the performance of the staging and production sites. Reviewed, designed, implemented and tested Siteminder Policy Server and various SSO solutions.
• Advanced use of LoadRunner 6 - 7 (Web, Oracle 2-tier, WinSock, Corba-Java), WinRunner 4 - 7, C, Java 1.2/1.3, Caliber RM 3, Perl, DumpSEC/DumpACL, Oracle 8i, SQL.
• Managed Clearcase license’s for two Multisite regions, Automated Jobs, registries, created and managed VOBS.
• Setup and configured large Enterprise Weblogic Cluster utilizing BEA’s Weblogic 8, Wrote scripts and Java utilities that determine the health of the production site.

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

DNS ENGINEER / POSTMASTER (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Earned recognition for contributing to the success of global network infrastructure change and DNS transfer project that involved wide-scale changes in all company systems and allocation of servers for sub-domains.
• Install and customize Documentum eContent Server software and associated products (Foundation Classes, WebTop, Documentum Administrator, Developer Studio) to meet the needs of various departments. Create instructions and documentation to details eContent server installations and customizations
• Led flawless standardization and upgrade of 40 Sun servers as part of Y2K Compliancy project and Tivoli/QIP-DNS, Websphere infrastructure rollout to guarantee proper functioning of systems.
• Captured significant time/cost savings through introduction of strategy for full-scale Solaris implementation that instituted centralized application servers and consolidated operating system environment.
• Architected, implemented, and administered IP infrastructure for PY4 and RRC, including primary and backup DNS and DHCP services; troubleshot DNS routes and resolved network disturbances.
• Implemented pilot installation of DDNS and DHCP for NT 2000 (QIP/DNS).
• Modified B2B website search engine for better performance.

Confidential, New York, NY

SENIOR UNIX SPECIALIST (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Led successful network enhancement initiative that involved securing four servers and 25 workstations and installing/maintaining NFS, Sendmail, DNS, and SUDO servers; achieved 25% improvement in systems stability and processing speed. Trained staff, wrote documentation, and consolidated network in four months.
• Maintained multi-platform Legato Networker based backup infrastructure. Legato Enterprise Network Backup Solutions. Performed implementations, migrations and upgrades. Migrations included data exports, imports, loading. Perform installation of Compaq Proliant SErver Farms and SUN Enterprise Systems Network Installation.
• Installed and maintained a host of applications in both development and live environments.

Confidential, New York, NY

EQUITY TRADING SUPPORT SPECIALIST (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Designed Equity Support Domain (ets.merrill.com) within UNIX server infrastructure that included NFS, NIS, DNS, mail configuration, and printing components, increasing speed/stability for equity support trading group.
• Maintain archived data on DLT tapes (Legato)
• Participated as member of Equities High Availability consulting team that addressed firewall stabilization, Y2K, SMS, and NASDAQ issues. Gained hands-on experience in working with high-availability software.
• Responsibilities included project management, NIS domain design, Y2K support, hardware sales quotations, Solaris desktop rollouts with jumpstart, recovery of data with Legato, testing and monitoring implementation of network systems and day-to-day on-going support for CICG Computer Administration organization.

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

NT & UNIX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR (contract)

Responsibilities:

• Improved systems performance and ensured stability by reconfiguring semaphore and shared memory kernel parameters for Lotus Notes, Xrunner, Sybase, Centerline, Tuxedo, Frame-Maker, and Cadre. Supported backup system for SunOS and Windows (CommVault Galaxy) - Private Computing Group
• Developed and implemented reconfiguration plan that boosted performance 30%; reorganized file systems on SPARC Storage Array and client workstations to enhance performance and provide redundancy.
• Desktop support for Microsoft NT 4.0 Server, Microsoft Mail, Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Lan-manager, Novell, Exceed NT/X in addition to troubleshooting network problems.
• Administrative network responsibilities include, Patching / Upgrading MS/NT server 3.51 for 300 nodes, Remote & MS mail support, Unix Confidential &T Starmail MMUG, and server administration.

Confidential, NY

VICE PRESIDENT, Fixed Income Research

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded comprehensive hardware/software migration from 286 to 386 platform and connected all machines with PC-networking file-server software to ensure compatibility with Sun file server.
• Improved order fulfillment process 50% through design and creation of tracking application that expedited Research division’s hardware and software ordering process; developed cost-effective hardware solutions to meet user needs.
• Designed daily transfer procedures for clients including Moody's, Putnam and Bank of Singapore. Managed daily uploads by connecting via telephone lines with mainframes and distant terminals for transferring data faster than delivering on media. Responsible for transferring portfolio data from DEC VT100 to IBM 381

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Networking: TCP/IP, SSH, SFTP, NIS, DNS, NFS, SMB, LLT, IPMP, LDAP, RAS, FTP, NNTP, PPP, VPN, SMTP, POP3, Samba, UUCP, SLIP, ISDN, SUNNet Manager, RDP, AppleTalk, PC-NFS, Sybase WebSQL, Sendmail, Checkpoint firewalls, NAT, WAN, ipchains

Software: IBM Websphere AS/MQ 5x, BEA Weblogic Portal, ATG Dynamo, Rational Clearcase/Multisite, Netscape Enterprise Server, Sun One, Entrust GetAccess, Netegrity SiteMinder, Veritas Volume Manager, Symantec VCS Veritas Cluster, Veritas Storage Foundation, Netbackup, CommVault / ABARS, ODS, SVM, NDM Connect, Documentum, Cyrus, EMC Control Center, Navisphere, HP Openview, Legato Networker, Quadritek QIP 5.x, Apache, Tomcat, Lotus Notes, Samba, Totalnet, NT Proxy Server, IIS 4.0/5.0, SMS, Oracle RAC, ASM 7.x/8i/9i/10g, SQL Server, IBM DB2, MQ-Series, Webtrends, Windows Media Server, Darwin Quicktime Server, Solaris xVM, VMware ESX 2.5.x/3.x GSX, 3.x

Hardware: Sun Ultra’s; Ultra Enterprise V440, V490, T2000, E2900, M5000, E6500, 15K, Compaq DL360, ML530, DL580; HP 9000, HP 3440, IBM RS/6000, SGI Challenge L & PowerChallenge XL, Cisco, Network Appliance NetApp, Adic, Clariion, DMX, Iomega NAS - (iSCSI and FCP transports)

Operating Systems: Solaris, OpenSolaris, SunOS, HPUX, Redhat Enterprise, Suse Enterprise, Fedora, Knoppix, Windows - NT/XP/2003/Media Center, Windows 2003/2007/2008 Server, AIX 4.3.x, SCO, Ubuntu, SUSE, MacOS

Languages: Perl, Apache modules (mod perl), CGI/HTML, JavaScript, Java, Korn, Bourne shell, C/C++, awk, SQL, Perl DBI, XML, ANT