SUMMARY: Experienced IT professional with solid UNIX (Solaris/HP/Linux) & Windows administration, QA/Testing, Support and Leadership skills. Adept, motivated, self-directed individual, and strong team player.

COMPUTER SKILLS
HARDWARE: Sun SPARC, Sun 3/150, Sun Ultra 10s & 5s, Sun F15K, HP9000, IBM-PC, HP3000, HP B2000, IBM 3090, NetApp VTL, IBM RS/6000, DEC 5000/3000, Dell PowerEdge, Compaq Proliant & Prosignia family servers, HP Integrity rx2660, Sun 220R, 420R, HP SAN/NAS, Cisco Switches, PIX Firewalls, and IDS; HP StorageWorks, Zenith ARCA, Mitel 3300 ICP. Familiarity with BlueArc Titan 2000, Infloblox-250-A, EMC: CLARiiON CX700 & Symmetrix.

SOFTWARE: C, Pascal, Ada, FORTRAN, UNIX, DOS, 68000 family assembly languages, PROCASE, QuickBooks, Autosys, MS Word, Excel, Windows NT, 98, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 2008; DB2 ver 9.5, Legato BudTool 4.6.1, Visual Basic, MVS, JCL, Arcview GIS 3.0, Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD, DG/UX 5.4, IIS, PERL, Bash, Ultrix 4.3, SCO 5.0.5, AIX 5.3, IRIX, HP-UX 10.2, 11i v3, Solaris 2.7/ 8/ 9/10, DEC OSF/1, Red Hat Linux 4/5, TCP/IP, JD Edwards, Oracle Database 9, 10g, 11gR2, Veritas NetBackup, ePlus Document Imaging, CADIM/EDB a SAP add-on, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Ubuntu 9.0.4, Lynx, Samba, LAMP, FileMaker, Lotus Notes, Access, SQL Server, Exchange, AD; Knowledge of eClinicalWorks 8.0, TECNEX MD-2, Java, SOA, XML, Web 2.0 Framework, ASP.NET/VB.NET, AutoCAD; Oracle Financials, Forms, Reports, E-Business Suite, Manufacturing, PL/SQL, and Peoplesoft; PIC, Cobol, Cisco IOS, Keyscan System VII; knowledge of Remedy, Symantec Ghost, MySQL, VMware, WebFocus 7, ACT!, Visio, SAS, HACMP, McAfee UTM Firewall.

EXPERIENCE
5/08-present CONSULTANT/CONTRACTOR
Analyze and review management practices and procedures at small and medium sized businesses across the country,
and develop recommendations and special procedures for improvement. For example, worked on P/E control project
(finance) for Cocalico Plumbing & Heating in Denver, PA; developed labor burden spreadsheet to assist them do a
better costing on their bids for projects; IT/EMR/imaging consulting & M/A analysis for Allegiance Systems, AZ;
energy management services and energy use analysis; prospect, develop, and maintain business with commercial and
industrial accounts for Coast to Coast Energy, TX.
Also as a registered vendor, participate in the RFP/RFQ process for bids/procurement at the City of Houston.
Confidential,MSA Systems Engineer
Verification, integration and test of next generation HP MSA2000 SAN/NAS products across the HP-UX 11i
platform. Duties included test plan execution including black box/white box/Loadrunner/Hazard software stress
testing, etc.; test-bed set-up; HP-UX OS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux installs and upgrades; Brocade switch,
qlogic/emulex hba firmware upgrades, identifying and reporting product bugs/defects; maintain/manage SAN, etc.

4/2004-5/2008 Confidential,Houston, TX CONSULTANT
Design, implement and support near-line/archival solution based on QStar’s HSM 4.20 storage management software, Akanda software, Lotus Domino/Notes, and DISC’s optical library for the City of Houston’s Planning department. Design and implementcomprehensive backup strategy for the City’s PWE/Code Enforcement Dept. Develop and maintain BC/DR (business continuity and disaster recovery) plan. Routine backups using Backup Exec 10d and 9.1; recovery as needed. Administer and support ILMS (integrated land management system) permitting portal; used IIS and ePlus Document imaging software. Also tested and supported Solaris 10, HP-UX/Oracle 10g, and Red Hat Linux/DB2 beta versions; configured and supported external storage/HP SAN systems. Did evaluation and recommend purchases of new Hardware, software and infrastructure equipment. Other significant projects included NewExpress, which involved database programming/scripting and updating hundreds of building permits rate tables, thereby increasing the City’s PWE/CE revenues across the board by around 20 percent.
Install, configure and administer the network infrastructure at DHAP New Orleans, the FEMA/HUD housing inter-agency. Identify, analyze and resolve various network and user support/Housing Pro software/PhonePad/Polycom VOIP telephony issues; server management, network monitoring network with Solarwinds, MOM (Microsoft Operation Manager), SCOM (System Center Operation Manager) , etc. Provide recommendations in group use of technology.

2002-2004 Confidential,Houston, TX IT MANAGER
Install, configure, administer, maintain and secure company’s network. Troubleshoot and resolve Hardware, software and Network/LAN problems that arise. Take effective measures to ensure servers, applications, information and data systems are available to organization. Perform and manage backups of servers with Veritas NetBackup; also recovery as needed. Maintain internal and external web presence. Provide company-wide IT support for Windows 2003/2000/98/NT & RedHat Linux systems and Applications and services including Comsense AHM, GoldMine, FaxPress, IIS, DNS/DHCP, Ethernet, VPN, TCP/IP; PIC, SQL Server, FileMaker database support; backup/recovery, monitoring and performance tuning. Also evaluate and purchase new hardware, software and network equipment.

2002-2004 Confidential,Houston, TX ADJUNCT FACULTY
Adjunct Faculty at the college’s Department of Computer Science and Applied Technology. Primary responsibility was to teach Computer Information Technology courses to college students.

2000-2002 CONSULTANT/CONTRACTOR
Confidential,Houston, TX ACCOUNT MANAGER
Account management and sales of DSL, T1, T3, ATM, Frame Relay, and Disaster Recovery solutions that deployed SBC technology to small and medium sized businesses. Product education, field operations, DSL installations, etc.
Confidential,Houston, TX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR III
Unix and Windows administration; backup administration using Veritas Netbackup 3.4 of Sun 220R & 420/R Solaris 2.7 & 8 servers, Windows 2000 &Red Hat Linux servers. Also system maintenance, management/monitoring with HP Openview 6.2, configure software & hardware and the various services like RAID, Bind, DNS, SSH, etc. OS/sw installs, upgrades and patch updates, shell/Perl scripting, etc. Install, configure & integrate third party software packages like Ciscoworks, Veritas Volume Mgmt and Cisco router at enterprise data center start up. Production Oracle database support – tuning; install, upgrade, patch Oracle 8i & 9i software; backup and recovery.
Confidential,Houston, TX CONFIGURATION MANAGER
Support SAMMI, SENDERA and DXF2SAMMI (real-time data visualization software) test and release builds, configuration management (CM) for both SAMMI and SENDERA projects, post build tests, maintaining and improving current CM processes. Platforms supported include Solaris 2.7, IRIX 6.5, NT 4.0, Red Hat Linux 6.1, HP-UX 10.20, PC Solaris 2.5, Lynx 3.1.0, and AIX 4.3.2; used clearcase, sccs, rcs, shell scripting, imake etc.
Confidential,Houston, TX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR Responsible for installation, system upgrades, and maintenance of a 100+ node heterogeneous network of Solaris 8, Linux and NT systems. Duties included troubleshooting, recovery, resolving errors/failures and resource utilization; installing and configuring hardware, software and OS performance monitoring; capacity planning, routine Backups with BudTool and NT Backup; maintaining and ensuring optimal system/data security; research of new technologies to enhance existing methods; configuring/managing NFS/NIS/DNS/RADIUS and CISCO router.

1995-1999 Confidential,Houston, TX SUPPORT ENGINEER III
Provided technical support to major accounts, business/enterprise customers and resellers. Duties included diagnosing, analyzing and resolving Hardware/Network Operating System/Database sw issues (SCO Unix, Red Hat Linux, Netware 3.12 & 4.1; Windows NT 3.51 & 4.0; Oracle7) with the Compaq Proliant, Prosignia and Systempro family servers; Configure and support Compaq Online & Stand-by Recovery Server Clustering solutions. Also provided pre/post sales support, and support with Compaq Server utilities including Insight Manager; and internal consulting to Compaq technical and field support engineers.

1993-1995 Confidential,Rockville, MD ENGINEER
Led the integration and test of ES/Backup, an automated network backup and restore product; and Mastarmind, a hierarchical storage management (HSM) solution across Sun Soalris, HP/UX, AIX, IRIX, Ultrix, SCO, Solaris, OSF/1 and DG/UX platforms, over a variety of Optical & Tape Jukeboxes and Stand-alone Drives. Duties included system administration, writing and executing test plans, identifying and reporting software defects, problem analysis, configuration management, sales support, and making weekly software builds, and reporting weekly software test status.

1990-1992 Confidential,Santa Clara, CA ASSOCIATE ENGINEER
Responsible for software development and maintenance of real-time software for a PBX switch. Code development
in C and proprietary RPL language in Solaris and AOS/VS environments respectively. Other activities
and accomplishments included the following:
Responsible for planning and release of the latest version of a CBX switch software release (9004.2.34).
Responsible to the section for the usability and maintainability of a CBX 9005 Mod 40/4000 Lab System.
Performed system test and verification of Adams Lite Rel 2.0 diagnostics system.
Wrote the test plans and did the regression testing of PhoneMail Release 5.3 System Administration,
Outcalling and ANI (Automatic Number Identification) features.

EDUCATION

B.S. Computer Systems Engineering
MBA

CERTIFICATIONS
Oracle7 Master’s Certificate in Database Administration
Cisco Networking -- CCNA