SUMMARY:

IT Operations Manager with significant technical and leadership skills. Detailed knowledge of UNIX, LINUX administration and Windows systems. Diverse industry experience in high pressure and highly secure environments including financial services, a global research laboratory, a leading technology company and the Confidential .

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Systems Management
• Leadership and Team - building
• Scripting in BASH
• Project Management
• Disaster Recovery
• Creative Problem Solving
• Infrastructure Management
• System Security and Patching
• Capacity Planning

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Oracle Enterprise Linux, RedHat Linux, Scientific Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, CX-UX, Confidential & Confidential Unix, VMWare, Spacewalk, Automic (UC4) Automation Software, FTP, SFTP, Confidential, Puppet, Big Brother, GeneOS, GPG, Veritas Cluster Service, Disaster Recovery

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

IT Manager, Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• Created an equipment inventory database in MYSQL. To keep database up to date, created and deployed agents to generate “install” SOL statement for new systems, detect changes on existing servers and generate “update” SQL statement.
• Managed the Linux portion of a Data Center Consolidation Project, consolidating six Data Centers to three. Older legacy servers were updated saving thousands in hardware and software support contracts.
• Set up and administered Spacewalk Server to monitor/manage OS Patching, and Server Builds.
• Managed Linux and Windows administration teams. Arranged Windows and RedHat training, transforming the two individual teams into one, “Production Support Engineering Team”.
• Wrote wiki documentation for trouble shooting, software operations/deployments and problem solving protocols.
• Promoted to Associate Director and assigned World Wide Team Lead, Linux/Windows.
• To advance “Follow the Sun” Project, set up a World Wide “Hot Line” and initiated bi-weekly meeting to promote teamwork around the globe.
• Migrated cron-run, bash-script transfer jobs to Automic (UC4) Enterprise Automation Workflows.
• Used Veritas Cluster Services to create High Availability for critical systems such as client facing FTP/SFTP Server and multiple queues on IBM MQ Servers.
• Member of team that migrated a single, external, FTP/SFTP Server into a four-server cluster, using a Load Balancer. Later turned it into a six-server, then 10-server cluster. Converted this cluster segregating internal connections vs. external use to ensure secure environment.
• Merged Societe Generale process to work on Newedge Servers and migrated servers due to merger of two organizations.
• Participated in moving Newedge Data Recovery Site from Illinois to the Banks Disaster Recovery site in New Jersey. Assisted in moving some of the production systems in Chicago to New York.

Confidential, Batavia, IL

Systems Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Digital Tru64 Unix and Linux Servers for the D0 Detector on the far side of the Tevatron particle accelerator.
• Set up Big Brother Monitoring software, adding own customized modules and scripts to handle common issues.
• Installed and configured TruCluster and Confidential on the Digital Equipment Servers running Tru64 Unix.
• Installed and configured RedHat Clustering software, creating several Linux Clusters for various purposes.
• Purchased, installed and configured Control Room Servers, with varying requirements, such as between two to eight X Displays.
• Installed and configured Confidential Agents on servers in Computer Room and in Control Room, to configure to all Fermi Lab requirements and configured D0 Confidential Server to configure D0 requirements.
• Used Bastille to protect Control Room Servers, yet still allowed access to people in remote locations during the Tevatron run.

Confidential

Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on an eight-week project to prepare company for an upcoming audit. Installed and configured Confidential, servers and Agents on 60+ Linux Servers split into DataBase Servers and Application Servers, with different requirements on each.
• Discovered Network Administrator had created a Syslog Server.
• Deployed new syslog.conf to all servers overnight via Confidential .
• All servers were sending log files to the Syslog server the following morning.
• Installed Logwatch on Syslog Server to review all server logs for errors specified in audit requirements.
• Set-up Anomaly Detection in Confidential and as an added bonus, finished the project in six weeks.

Confidential

Linux Resource Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Ran the second shift Computer Operations for National Loss Control Services.
• Wrote monitoring software to send alert pages for issues during off hours and weekends.
• Wrote scripts to fix common issues, improving “Loss Run” performance significantly. Wrote menus for Saturday and Sunday processing, virtually eliminating mistakes and decreasing time required to complete weekend processing earning the nickname “Mr. Scripts”.
• Single handedly managed dozens of Linux System, with CPU power and storage capacity exceeding that of the mainframe.

Confidential

Implementation Technician

Responsibilities:

• Installed Linux computers, printers and monitors Confidential company sites, installed software and spare parts inventory.
• Trained coordinators, technicians and manager.
• Modified installation procedures for LINUX servers by having software installed, configured and checked out in offices, then shipped to final location for plug and play operation.