SUMMARY:

• Over 17 years hands - on experience in Systems administration working on Windows, UNIX/Linux, Citrix and Vmware environments and 14 year of experience supporting trading applications in the financial industry.
• Proficient in both Unix/Linux and Windows Operating Systems and scripting in Perl and C shell
• Extensive experience in troubleshooting hardware, software and network issues
• Dedicated, detail oriented, strong organizational skills with ability to carry out tasks with minimal supervision
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and a demonstrated willingness to work in a team environment
• Ability to manage and mentor other system administrators

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS Platforms: AIX, BSDI, Linux (RH), Solaris 2.6/8/10(Sparc/X86), Windows Server (2000/2003/ 2008/2012/2016 ), Windows (7/8/10), Mac OSX

Hardware Platforms: SUN Enterprise Series, Sun fire series & Intel/AMD series, IBM/HP/Dell Servers, Egenera blades, HP Workstations, Apple hardware

Software: VMware ESX Server 3.5/4/5, Citrix, Sun JumpStart, Kickstart, PERL and C Scripting, Sybase database, Microsoft AD, Office 365, Exchange (2007/2010/2013 )

Networking: DNS, DHCP, FTP, SFTP, SSH, Telnet, HTTP/HTTPS, VPN, TCP/IP, SMTP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage desktop support for both Windows and Mac Operating Systems for clients
• Technical lead of migrating Users’ desktops from XP to Windows 7
• Responsible for migration client servers from Windows 2003 to either 2008/2012/2016
• Technical support for trading applications (Neovest/Quodd/Thompson/ Fidessa/Bloomberg)
• Responsible for installation and upgrading of QuickBooks application
• Technical support Office 365 for client locations
• Primary technical support for one drive and one drive issues
• Responsible for scripting and putting in place processes to upload and download files to Fidelity
• Responsible for users’ desktops and servers maintenance in clients domain
• Worked on Group policy issues for financial clients to lock down desktops in domain as part of security guidelines from FINRA
• Technical lead for setup and maintenance of Compliance Archiving platform SMARSH
• Responsible for email setup and maintenance from both server and cloud technologies
• Setup, configure and maintained of printers and network devices
• Troubleshoot network issues at clients locations
• Responsible setting up access to network and email to remote devices

Sr. Level System Administrator

Confidential, Ridgefield, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and maintain both Unix and Windows client and backend servers
• Configure and installed on both client-side and backend servers with trading applications for both UNIX and Window platforms
• Primary lead for Unix/Linux (RH) configuration and administration of messaging application
• New client setups and configuration of trading application on client server based machines and or VMware/Citrix
• Cloning Virtual machines on Citrix/Vmware servers in order to set up trading application
• Technical support lead for trading applications (BRASS/B2/U2/VALDI/Playmaker ) troubleshoot application issues and while working with developers to generate code fix to fix applications
• Created configuration and applications packaging tools to deploy clients in order to streamline application updates and configuration rollouts
• Design roll out method for trading applications updates for Windows clients
• Responsible for the accuracy of client rollout database for trading applications
• Implemented and tested performance and kernel tuning changes to Unix systems
• Created C scripts to create the needed engines for trading application for clients, deployment of an application, and certain automated administrative processes
• Set up and installation of monitoring applications for both backend and client servers with Nagios and propriety monitor software
• Technical lead for maintaining and administrating Egenera blade servers
• Involved in configuring and setup of Test environments both client, development team and internal users
• Worked on infrastructure recommendations for clients with performance and networking issues
• Documented setup guidelines for Windows, UNIX, Citrix, and VMware, to training other administrators

UNIX System Administrator

Confidential, Cedar Knolls, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Installation and maintenance of Sun Servers for dot-com industry
• Worked on migration of client accounts of dot-com servers from BSDI Unix servers to Solaris OS
• Installed and configured Checkpoint firewall and worked on certain security issues
• Developed Perl scripts to automate certain day to day processes
• Setup and configured Legato Backup software to be implemented on backend servers
• Designed and implemented backup schema to backend servers.

Technical Specialist

Confidential, Upper Saddle River, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and maintain both NT and Unix operating systems for company imaging archive
• Technical lead for vendor images to be added into in-house digital archive application database
• Developed C scripts to automate certain day to day processes
• Troubleshoot hardware issues for servers, workstations, and tape storage units
• Developed Perl scripts that interfaced with Adstar Storage Manager software while automating certain day by day monitoring commands
• Prepared and maintained business continuity plan that is a systematic procedure for recovering from a disaster