SUMMARY

• Results oriented, BIG Data minded, seasoned ITIL v3 certified Engineer with a track record for getting the job done on - time, often under budget, I am experienced in all aspects of Business Analysis, Engineering, SA, Cloud, DevOps, Project Management, Testing and successful implementation, while consistently exceeding expectations.
• I owe all my success as a highly organized, detail oriented data scientist with proven ability to prioritize workloads, resources, manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, deliver to senior leadership and build professional work teams to my love for Data Science.
• AIX v3,4,5,6 HACMP system engineer/administrator
• LAMP - RedHat, CentOs, Linux v4,5,6, 7 system engineer/administrator, Satellite administration, configuration management, patching, compiling kernels.
• Apache HTTP/Tomcat installation, configuration, admin, BEA Weblogic MySQL 4/5 installation, configuration, administration
• Perl scripting, PHP, ksh/bash scripting
• DB developer - Oracle 8-11g, PL/SQL, SQL, MySQL Developer, . PROGRESS 4gl development
• Storage administration IBM fastT, HP EVA SAN & EMC/Power path and native multipath
• SAN/NAS HBA configuration, engineering/migration, NFS
• Security compliance hardening, patching and APAR remediation including ITCS104
• Monitoring - BMC patrol, Icinga, Nagios, Sitescope, Tivoli
• Ticketing - BMC Remedy, ZENOSS (6 mo), HP Service Center
• System/configuration management - HP System Manager, Cisco UCS, Dell remote SM
• VMWare/VCenter/ESX v3.5 - ESXi v4.5-5.5 implementation, administration and level 3 technical support
• Cloud - AWS, LogicallS (2+ yrs.) and private cloud implementation UCS/VMWare
• Backup - NetVault, NetBackup (v6.5, V7), Data Domain, Sympana - implementation and administration
• Scheduling and Workflow - BMC CTL-M (6 mo) Tivoli, Cron , CA / Autosys (6 mo)
• Project Management, Architectural High Level, Detail Design and IQ (installation qualification)
• Windows 2003, 2008 R2 - AD, Group Policy, Symantec AV, Update implementation, administration and support
• Eclipse, GIT, Maven, Jenkins - proficient use of web development tools, baseline and branch development
• SAS, SAP, QAD, Quicken Loans Lakewood Confidential system server builds, software development, migrations and production support
• Automation - S hell scripting bash, ksh Puppet configuration management and manifest development for Linux automation. AWS EC2, S2, OpsWorks, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Enterprise Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Performed outstandingly on hundreds of consulting projects over thousands of hours while seeking contracting or an exciting, permanent or contract to hire position. Confidential - between contracts I do private development work for a friend's company in Chicago remotely. This involves J2EE, Spring, Hybernate, AWS EC2, S2, EBS, Rt 53, RDB, other services as required. performed migration from in-house datacenter to AWS, implemented scheduling for workflows, Implemented Hadoop, pig, hive, other stack, data lake . 2017 currently developing build and deploy automation using AWS OpsWorks, Cloud Formation, CloudWatch logging.

Confidential, Brandon, FL

Responsibilities:

engineering contractor for Corporate & Investment Banking in this DevOps role I developed Infrastructure and core application high level and detail plans, automation scripts ( ksh, bash, java and PL/SQL ) as well as created and modified CA (Autosys) workflows for the migration of their retail statement internal and front-facing websites under their 2016 technical refresh program. I further tested and implemented and/or prepared change requests and supervised implementation in all development, QA, UAT and Production environments - all successfully and timely.

Confidential, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA

Sales/Mktg partner

Responsibilities:

Provide Progress OpenEdge development and Linux engineering solutions; AWS & Confidential cloud infrastructure builds and data migrations Confidential (partner/provider) incl. installations (kick-start, manual), patching (satellite and RHEL site) LVM /software RAID, built numerous VMWare/Esxi v4-5.5 environments as a tier 1 Unix Engineering Consultant, automation ( Puppet, ksh, bash, perl, etc.), cron job scheduling and Project Manager for their QAD manufacturing clients on a quote-by-quote basis for their clients through.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Contractor

Responsibilities:

Confidential Banking Technology sector responsible for Agile story development for multi phase roll out of OpenEdge based Quicken Loans Confidential application and Confidential processing systems, production support, GUI software development and Linux engineering, performance improvement in areas of NAS, SAN storage, VDI desktop solution, cron and BMC CTL-M job scheduling and related 3 tier infrastructure tuning and troubleshooting under a 6 mo contract.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Engineering (Linux/Windows 2003/2008)

Responsibilities:

Consulting systems engineer, developed high and detail level plans as well as Puppet manifests for the configuration and remediation of newly acquired Division/C lusty search enterprise infrastructure (approx 300 Linux servers re-IP'd and removed un-needed services) in order to meet corporate ITCS 104 and best practice security standards including Linux server hardening prior to production deployment into the IBM domain, performed patching, Linux APAR remediation and isolation migration tasks via Puppet automation and manually with engineering team as well as implementation and configuration of same into Power 9 network environment and developed workflows using Tivoli scheduling under a short term contract.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

UNIX Engineer/Systems Administration

Responsibilities:

Executed engineering projects and implemented general day-to-day Linux administration for their 5,000+ UNIX systems users nationwide. I also troubleshot and maintained older OS platforms such as IBM AIX v3 and SCO. Numerous installation and configurations of Apache and Roxen web server instances and hundreds of various Linux and Windows package installations like C+, VNC, sudo, sar tools and utilities within the security policies defined by the company. IBM, Data Core, HP EVA, and EMC Power Path on Symmetrix SAN utilizing multi-path I/O over fiber HBA to implement in conjunction with several enterprise wide data migrations from one SAN to another within and external to the complete implementation of enterprise Oracle Business suite, Siebel, Kronos, Cognos into the enterprise. I also participated in the Architecture of hardware infrastructure, Security compliance and hardening, and developed a baseline for patching and Linux and AIX APAR remediation. Successfully led overall reduction in forces by consolidating (5) Linux engineering and administration positions down to (1) - me. Delivered timely implementation of the Siebel/Oracle/Kronos/Cognos migration and full multi-application go-live implementation.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

UNIX Engineering Contractor

Successfully decoded existing back end shell scripts that performed various ETL, data normalization and data submission functions (about 500). Re-engineered each to new specifications and implemented them on (2) farms of 200+ IBM RS6000 and Linux blades servers in (2) datacenter locations. An active/passive failover architecture was used. Authored over 2,000 pages of procedural and testing documentation and completed complete cycle tests for each script.

Confidential, St. Peters burg, FL

UNIX/Virtualization/Security Engineer & UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

Executed hundreds of engineering projects in support of IT Operations sector growth and general day-to-day UNIX, AIX, HP-UX, Linux administration as well as Windows Active Directory administration of 300+ servers for the company’s 25,000+ UNIX and Windows systems users worldwide, built over 50 ESX/ESXI v3.5- 4.5 servers for dev, staging and production environments in their private cloud where team and I virtualized most of the physical servers and installed, configured (50% using Puppet ) as part of their self-serve builds (RHEL4/5/6 64, Windows 2008R2) for internal customers. Performed Oracle and SAS migration from IBM AIX 5L platform to RHEL6 64 x86 into the private cloud and AWS EC2 using S3, EBS storage and Route 53 networking.