SUMMARY:

• Managed project to upgrade 3600 servers and clients to latest (v8) Confidential /Rational tools version for Confidential Solutions.
• Upgraded 700 engineering workstations and servers to latest (v7) Confidential /Rational tools version for Confidential .
• Consolidated Confidential /Rational licenses across Confidential and Confidential reducing support costs by 7 million per year.
• Managed $8 million application license budget at Confidential .
• Very experienced Unix/Linux system administrator, very familiar with virtual machines (KVM, AWS, Virtual Box, etc.)

SKILLS:

License management (FlexLM or FlexNet). Solaris jumpstart. Capacity planning, performance tuning, and disaster recovery. I am Expert in Samba in a very mixed environment. I am a very experienced Unix/Linux Admin. I have experienced in upgrading ClearCase installations from v1.0 to v8.0 including thousands of clients and servers. Rational Quality Manager, Rational Functional Tester, Rational Publishing Engine, ClearQuest, ClearCase, MultiSite, Rational Software Architect, Rose, Rhapsody to name a few.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Release/Configuration Manager

Confidential, Hartford, CT

Responsibilities:

• Release and Configuration Manager for Confidential team.
• Responsible for version control of operating system, hardware, and installed software for program to convert billing and contract data from Confidential DB2 on mainframe to Websphere Java application running on x86 hardware with an Oracle DB.
• Manage a small team of developers, DevOps, using various tools like Stash, HP Service Manager, Rally, Ansible, Jenkins, etc.

Confidential

Technical Lead, Plantation, FL

Responsibilities:

• Lead for software developer support team in North America. Managed project to upgrade 3600 clients and servers to latest software development tools.
• Full range of software and hardware developer tools supported and maintained.
• Deploy new servers, diagnose NFS/Samba problems, standardize server configuration are some of the many tasks I headed.
• Large environment with multiple international sites, primarily Red Hat servers with occasional Solaris, Windows and HP - UX servers.
• Currently migrating to AWS for source code repositories (Bitbucket, Stash, GIT), and Jenkins for build automation.

Confidential

Rational Tools Support, Colorado Springs, CO

Responsibilities:

• Provide support for servers and tools on the Confidential Satellite Control Network. Primarily ClearCase, RequisitePro, ClearQuest and other tools for software development.
• Duties include patch management, software and hardware upgrades, upgrade of existing servers and new server deployment.
• Upgraded user base of 700 Windows based machines from older .msi based tools to new Installation Manager based tools.
• Upgraded Solaris, RedHat and Windows ClearCase servers to latest version.
• Managed split of development tools to a firewalled lab, new RedHat server (licenses and ClearCase).
• Started introductory training for Oracle 11g administration to ensure backups in new environment.
• Installed and configured Rational Quality Manager server to replace Rational Manual Tester and assisted with migration of existing data.
• Deployed and configured new ReqWeb, RPE (Rational Publishing Engine) and CqWeb servers.

Confidential

IT Software Engineer Staff, Scottsdale, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Provided tier 3 support for software engineering.
• Deployed new versions of tools to all engineers, upgraded servers, and provided license deployment and management.
• Deployed Windows 2008 license servers to allow migration of tools to token based licensing.
• Tested and deployed Rational Team Concert and integrated it with active directory (along with other Jazz tools).

Confidential

Principle System Architect, Dayton, OH

Responsibilities:

• I was contracted to architect a ClearCase system to support consolidation of 400 different Confidential procurement and logistics systems into a single system.
• Utilizing ClearCase, ClearQuest, and Requisite Pro to support 300 developers utilizing the new web based/Java based clients for distributed development for an Oracle based logistics and procurement system.
• I learned the new Confidential installation manager to install these tools (Java based).

Confidential

ClearCase Administrator, Chandler, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Contracted to set up an automated content retrieval system (drawings, videos, etc.) and adding it with other objects into source control (ClearCase).
• I programmed automated SFTP scripts to retrieve content from outside vendors who uploaded to an external FTP server and import these objects to internal ClearCase servers.
• These external submissions were then approved and added to content, or sent back for further revision to author.
• Loaded and configured Linux servers for ClearCase. Set up and maintained ClearCase Remote Client to enable a set of dual Linux servers to be utilized by multiple locations without utilizing MultiSite.
• This worked very well for multiple sites in the USA and India. Maintained and enhanced existing ClearQuest MultiSite environment.

Tools: Administrator (Senior IT Engineer)

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL & Chandler, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Started as technician diagnosing problems from the production line of the original Confidential PC.
• I was later moved to lead technician over functional test, debug, and quality control.
• Following this I was moved to the test engineering lab where I designed, prototyped, and programmed production test sets for electronic assemblies we were contracted to manufacture for other companies.
• Extensive use of Confidential (In Circuit Emulators), logic analyzers and assembler programming (Z80, 8085, 8088, 80186, 6502, 6809, etc.)
• Wire wrapping prototypes, digital circuit design, and PCB layout were among the skills used.