SUMMARY:

• Enterprise Technical Executive with 18 years of system design, implementation, requirement analysis, system development, UNIX administration, Network Administration, and financial market data Infrastructure. Full Life - Cycle understanding of Network and Systems infrastructure and Architecture.
• Recognized as a perceptive Enterprise Administrator with strengths in strong customer relations, and imparting product knowledge internally and externally in a comprehensive manner. Goal and Team oriented thorough knowledge of support, and implementation of Market Data Technology, Firewalls, senior level UNIX Administration, Networking and Security products.
• Over 10 Years of Solaris Administration, VERITAS Products (Volume Manager and Clustering), and other COTS products
• Exceptional Problem Resolution, Client Relation, and Technology Management skills.
• Ability to build team cohesion and inspire colleagues to higher achievement. Great vendor relation skills.
• Excellent presentation, training, and mentoring skills, Team leadership.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND ENVIRONMENTS:

• UNIX Solaris 2.4 - 2.10, Solaris 10 Zone Virtualization, Red Hat/Linux 6.0 and 7, Windows servers, NIS, NIS+, NFS, DNS, send mail, SUN Workshop products, Legato Networker Products, VERITAS (Volume Manager), VERITAS SRVM VERITAS Clustering, SUN ODS, Raptor Firewalls Check Point Firewall, TIBCO, Solstice Enterprise, AIX 4.1.4 - 4.3.1 , HTML, PERL, KSH Scripting, Oracle, Sybase, E10k Certified, IBM MQ Series, WebLogic Suite, NetBackup, Remedy
• Tivoli, Spectrum, Object Store, Orbit, Rational Rose, MAKE Systems, CISCO Routers, 3COM Routers and IBM Routers, Net cool and HP Open view
• Open Bloomberg, Reuters Data Products, Thompson, Prebon
• Public Key and CA (certificate) Confidential base applications
• SDLC Full Life Cycle 24x7 Production Environment for 15 years
• Solaris 8 certified
• Sun/Oracle Hardware from Blades, Sparc and Netra-T1 servers
• Red Hat Linux

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administering user rights on the systems supported and maintained by Confidential .
• Creating and/or maintaining file systems.
• Performing file system migrations.
• Adding additional storage as required.
• Working on assigned Change Requests/Problem tickets.
• Investigating, responding to and resolving alerts generated by the various monitoring systems in use at Confidential .
• Performing hardware maintenance/repair activities.
• Investigating and resolving operating system errors.
• Assisting application owners with identifying underlying OS issues associated with their applications.
• Maintaining Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment (RHEV).
• Assisting with server migrations within the Confidential RHEV environment.
• Installing and configuring new server builds via Cloudforms.
• Troubleshooting hardware and software problems with AIX, HP-UX and Red Hat servers.
• Evaluating and implementing potential new tools and technologies.
• Writing and maintaining technical documentation for new and existing projects.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performs moderately complex systems and database administration. Monitors and tunes appropriate systems to ensure optimum level of performance.
• Support Solaris 8,9,10 and Linux 5 and 6
• Oversees appropriate level software installations and upgrades and related software packages.
• Collects and reviews system data for capacity and planning purposes. Analyzes capacity data and develops capacity plans for appropriate level enterprise-wide systems. Coordinates with appropriate management personnel in implementing changes.
• Supports complex data/media recoverability through system backups and database archive operations. Plans, coordinates and directs appropriate level data refresh strategies.
• Oversees, recommends and implements appropriate level database solutions and enhancements to ensure an improvement in system reliability and performance.
• Oversees and applies appropriate support packages/patches to maintain system integrity.
• Develops and maintains appropriate system documentation to ensure that documentation is current. Oversees the maintenance of a library of system-supporting process and procedure documentation.
• Interacts with client management to answer questions, problems and requests regarding complex system issues. Provides leadership and work guidance to less experienced personnel.

Confidential

Sr. Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported 40 Solaris and Red Hat/Linux servers -10 virtual Solaris
• Develops solutions for Enterprise wide Unix systems.
• Creates systems documentation to be used by others to build and maintain systems.
• Operating Systems & Disk Management
• Storage and Backup (if applicable):
• Performs backups, recoveries, and restores.
• Understands SAN/HBA software interaction with OS.
• Sets up and troubleshoots standard storage functions.
• Understands storage allocation impact on system performance.
• Conducts comprehensive performance and capacity monitoring, tuning, and analysis.
• Networking
• Installs and configures application software on servers following prescribed instructions.
• Uses knowledge of networking and TCP/IP filtering to facilitate firewall and ACL requests.
• Correlate application-layer metrics and network device metrics, such as throughput, response time, congestion, dropped messages, queue depth measurement, and lost data.

Confidential

Sr. Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Support the Confidential Unix Lab Environment
• Installed Oracle 11g
• Supported 10 HP-UX servers all Virtual
• Created Virtual systems
• Provided and implemented Unix architecture to the DOD environment
• Upgraded servers to HP-UX 11v3

Confidential

System Manager

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop integrated solutions to meet business requirements or enhance performance.
• Perform and evaluates cost analyses and vendor comparisons of software/hardware systems to ensure cost-effective and efficient operations and measures feasibility of various approaches and makes recommendations.
• Provide escalated technical support to customers by handling systems-related issues; may provide on-call technical support telephonically and/or electronically.
• Analyze and resolve program support deficiencies and conducts testing to enhance performance.
• Conduct moderately complex projects or phases of significant projects; coordinate the efforts of technical support staff in the performance of assigned projects.
• Apply advanced methods, theories and research techniques and assists in the development, implementation and documentation of processes and procedures to ensure compliance with standard business practices. Develop and implements training tools and documentation.
• Provide technical consultation on current and proposed systems to other organizations and clients.
• Perform repairs, maintenance and upgrades of existing systems using solutions in accordance with standard operating procedures. Investigate and resolves matters of significance.
• Provide work guidance to less experienced personnel.
• Build technical solutions based on information gathered from submitted requirements documents and customer interviews.
• Develop project definitions and engineering estimates to include cost estimates and cost benefit analyses. Manage and perform implementation for technical solutions built.
• Owns the systems they implement and provides response to Gov't questions/concerns with regard to these systems.
• Provide inputs on technical refresh and life cycle planning for their systems assigned.
• Participate in all phases of the development life cycle with emphasis on the planning, analysis, testing and acceptance phases.
• Design and prepare technical reports and related documentation, and makes charts and graphs to record results.

Confidential

Enterprise System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I have provided Technical and its customers with a variety of engineering services including design, testing and validation, configuration, implementation, and network operations support.
• I have supported a Confidential Passport based converged network implementation in Europe and the Confidential .
• I also focused on Confidential OPTera customers. I supported the design and implementation of a national SONET network deployment.
• I have also supported a large carrier Confidential Passport based ATM and Frame Relay network and supported another carrier in certification testing of Confidential software.
• As a senior engineer, I not only supported customers in defining where new technology fits into their services solution, I served as third level support for Confidential ’s other WAN engineers. Networking Projects which includes:
• Pentagon - OPTera 3500 Metro Network Install, Staging, and Deployment
• US Secret Service - Frame Relay Network Implementation
• Maintain secured KSH scripts

Confidential

UNIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• I worked as a Contractor for the Pentagon IT area and supported the Enterprise UNIX Servers for the Human Resources Department. These servers supported a various amount of applications that HRD uses throughout the day. They are a combination of HP-UX 11.1 and Solaris 8-10.
• Created File systems, managed Change Controls and Build Servers. Troubleshoot application and network related issues for Sun and HP Servers
• Migrated custom Red Hat Linux/Solaris X86 servers to Solaris 8 -10

Confidential

UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• System integration and support with several Contractors over 100 servers
• Installed and configured Sun hardware on Solaris 8 and 10 Aix 5.4 and Red Hat Linus
• Implemented application deployment (full life cycle)
• Set up and configured contingency and disaster recovery plans
• Installed and configured NetBackup
• Created Start up scripts using KSH
• Installed and implemented Tivoli for monitoring
• Worked with AIX 5.4 creating filesystems and troubleshooting issues using smitty

Confidential

Sr. Systems Management Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Integrity, Infrastructure and Architecture of UNIX platform for the Trading Floors
• Supported the Financial Enterprise Systems which consisted of over 250 servers
• Implemented SOX and OFHEO guidelines
• Supported 250+ Solaris and Market Data Servers
• Tested Red Hat Linux for new development projects
• Managed the Migration of all software (Solaris, Net cool, Tivoli, Samba, VERITAS, and additional Market Data Applications - Bloomberg, Reuters, Thompson, etc., to the Production and Contingency Trading Floor via Solaris and Windows Servers and Ksh Scripts)
• Implemented, designed and migrated the Trading Floor’s Firewalls from Raptor to Checkpoint
• Assisted with the new Architecture and Infrastructure design from the Migration of the TIBCO Infrastructure to RMDS
• Managed the Migration of the full cycle development of the over 200 Sun UNIX Systems to next versions
• Responsible for the Third Party Vendor Environment which consisted of all Vendor Data feeds to Confidential
• Developed and managed all new requirements for Confidential ’s Trading floor
• Data Feeds, Firewall and Network changes, Software testing. Involved all facets of the FAPT Infrastructure that interface with the Market Room
• Managed Build and Architecture for Mornet Plus Classic
• Implemented the First Corporate Firewall DMZ Infrastructure
• Supported with the Data Center Build outs

Confidential

Sr. UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed security requirements for all the systems in the Confidential ’s Network Control Center
• Supported over 100 servers - Confidential and Domain Name Server for the network (AIX), Network Management System, and the Helpdesk Server
• Installed, configured, and analyzed all the software for the five Sparc 20 workstations. Migrated the storage capabilities by installing a SUN DATA CENTER, which was capable of holding up to 300 Gigs of storage, and Migrated all the Confidential Servers to Apache