PROFESSIONAL  SUMMARY:

• Accomplished, versatile senior professional specializing messaging / directory services (SMTP/LDAP) & identity management consultant with over 25 years experience.
• Experienced and expert capabilities with the business use of computing systems.
• Extremely effective communicator.
• Successfully implements directory systems and messaging solutions for a wide range of clients.
• Strong expertise in building and maintaining directory (LDAP) and email (SMTP) systems.
• Strong expertise in UNIX systems (BSD UNIX, HP - UX, Linux, SunOS) and all types of Microsoft server solutions (Windows XP/2000/NT to Active Directory).
• Highly proficient in TCP/IP client/server design, troubleshooting, and operational management.
• Adaptable and crafty with automation and monitoring tools.
• Consistently meets all time/budget goals for mission-critical development projects.
• Exceptional ability to research, translate and present complex technical information to end-users Confidential all levels.
• Results-driven high-achiever, consistently producing technical solutions that contribute to revenue growth, improve business efficiencies and increase service levels.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: AIX, Digital UNIX, HP-UX 9.x/ 10.20/11.0/11.11 , (Debian, Redhat, Slackware), FreeBSD, Linux (kernel 0.99­2.6), NetBSD, OpenBSD (2.9-5.0), Sun 0S 2.x, Solaris 7/8/9/10/11, OpenSolaris, Windows NT/2000/XP/ 2003/2007/2008 , 2012, Cygwin

Software Tools: Apache Webserver, LDIF, Nagios, Perl, HTML, Logical Volume Manager, SQL, Shell Scripting, WLST, Veritas

Scripting: Bash, Korn Shell, Java, Net::LDAP, Nagios::Plugin, Perl, Python, XML:: Simple

Networking: BIND, DHCP, DNS, IPSec, JMX, LDAP, Network Appliance, Novell, NIS, OpenSSH, OpenBSD “pf “packet filter, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, Proxy Servers, Samba, SSH, Squid, SMB, SMTP, SSL, TCP/IP, TLS, WINS, X-Windows, VPN

Directory Systems : OpenLDAP 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, iPlanet, Sun Directory Server 5.1, 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, ODSEE 11.1.1.5.1 , Samsung X.500, Worldtalk LDAP/X.500 gateway, Netegrity Siteminder, Entrust GetAccess, Tivoli Directory Server, UnboundID

Databases : Apache Cassandra

Messaging Systems: Amavisd-new, Courier, Groupwise, Greylisting, HP Openmail, IMAP, LDAP, Lotus cc:Mail, Lotus Notes, MS Exchange, MS Mail, POP3, Postfix, Samsung Contact, SASL, Sendmail, SpamAssassin, STARTTLS, Worldtalk Netjunction, X.400/500

PROFESSIONAL  EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Instrumentation/Application Monitoring/LDAP Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Single-handedly designed and implemented production 3 Nagios 4.x core environments, one for LDAP environment, one for web server environment, and another for Cassandra/Coherence environment.
• Writes many custom monitoring tools using mostly python but also jython, JMX, perl and bash..
• Documents each monitoring alert with a wiki page and linked each alert to a corresponding wiki page.
• Catalogues monitoring requirements in a spreadsheet to achieve a robust system management awareness of many servers in an extremely complicated and rapidly changing environment.

Confidential

LDAP/Messaging Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and build redundant OpenLDAP 2.2 environment.
• Upgraded OpenLDAP 2.2 replicated environment to OpenLDAP 2.4.
• Developed Sentinare LDAP schema.
• Design web portal interface for LDAP object management. Operational Reliability: Platform has had very good success, technically, with a high-level of monitoring and automation resulting in an extremely reliable (99.999% + uptime), very low technician-to-server ratio.

Environment: OpenBSD, OpenLDAP 2.2 and 2.3, Linux kernel 2.4.20

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Identity Management Operations Staff

Responsibilities:

• Gain proficiency in the operations of Kaiser’s unique and strenuous identity management and compliance infrastructure.
• Automation of routine desktop support tasks using experience with Perl Net:: LDAP. Monitoring system audit and overhaul.
• Design and implementation of Nagios XI monitoring infrastructure.
• Integrate Nagios XI with Tivoli Identity Manager and Oracle Identity Manager. Automation of former “Daily Checker” manual monitoring tasks.
• Miscellaneous automation projects.

Environment: AIX 6.1, Tivoli Directory Server 6.3, Oracle Identity Manager, Weblogic, Websphere, WLST

Confidential, Seattle, WA

LDAP/Sun Directory Server Operational Staff/ Monitoring&Automation Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed 170,000,000 entry LDAP server environment.
• Worked with Development Team to architect DSEE/DSP 6 rollout.
• Troubleshooted replication issues.
• Performance analysis reporting.
• Redesigned and rebuilt monitoring system using Nagios 3 and NetCool: Resulted in 90% less alerts and 10 times the accuracy of the previous system.
• Redesigned and rebuilt LDAP environment Dashboard.
• Wrote various perl scripts for server monitoring, reporting and ldap modification.

Environment: Solaris 9, Solaris 10, Sun Directory Server 5.2, 6.3, Directory Server Proxy 5.2, 6.3, Sun Access Manager, Weblogic

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Responsibilities:

• Designed mechanism to provide UNIX workstation authentication centralized in the existing Microsoft Active Directory for 1500 Confidential UNIX users on 436 UNIX Machines.
• Project Kick-Off meeting with Active Directory and UNIX representatives
• Evaluated current methods for UNIX access.
• Reviewed the currently installed systems and made recommendations for changes
• Defined and documented UNIX user provisioning process in AD.
• Perform initial discovery of UNIX applications which may or may not be PAM- enabled.
• Discuss best practices involved in implementing VAS.
• Define group policies to be enforced on UNIX services with VGP.
• Created implementation documentation to help guide the implementation team during the installation and migration of users.
• Evaluate migration of file ownership on NFS servers.
• Installation and configuration of test environment (VAS & VGP).
• Validate Group policies in test environment.
• Knowledge transfer and a review of the solution.

Environment: Windows Server 2003, Solaris 5, 6, 7, Redhat 2, 3, 4

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Exchange Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed Exchange 2003 environment.
• Managed Samsung Contact environment.
• Managed Sophos Puremessage/UNIX environment.
• Managed Goodlink environment.
• Wrote perl tool to migrate users from Samsung Contact (OpenLDAP) to Exchange (Microsoft Active Directory).
• Wrote perl tool to migrate Active Directory users from old Exchange environment to new Exchange environment.
• Wrote perl tools to migrate Samsung Contact groups to Active Directory. Environment: Linux, Windows 2003

Confidential, Cary, NC

Responsibilities:

• Define Business Requirements for LDAP project
• Design and document LDAP infratstructure for integration with Entrust GetAccess, Microsoft Websphere, and IBM Websphere
• Design and document LDAP access control scheme LDAP administration training

Environment: Solaris 10, Sun Directory Server 5.2

Confidential, Basking Ridge, NJ

LDAP (Directory Server) Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Design of LDAP infrastructure for Identity Management Team

Environment: AIX, Directory Server 5.2

Confidential, Dallas, TX

LDAP (Directory Server) Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Proved-of-concept schema (& migration tools) designed, created, and delivered.
• Assist in roll-out of the new Sun Identity Manager SPE (Service Provider Edition).
• Performance tuning & optimization of 2 production directory systems.
• Designed and wrote Upgrade Plan for DS 5.1 to 5.2 migration.

Environment: Solaris 9, Sun Directory Server 5.1 sp2, Directory Server 5.2

Confidential, Walnut Creek, CA

LDAP Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Augmented existing personal to assist in day to day server operations.
• Built and activated several production servers.
• Rewrote cron jobs to more efficiently use servers

Environment: Solaris 9, Sun Directory Server 5.1 sp2, Directory Server 5.2

Confidential , Dallas, TX

LDAP (Directory Server) Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installed Sun Java Directory Server 5.2 on an AIX platform for use as repository for Identity Management Server.
• Developed Confidential - Confidential schema.
• Wrote perl scripts to import data from a variety of sources: mainframe, UNIX, Lotus Notes, Windows Active Directory.
• Design and implementation of test plan.

Environment: AIX, Sun Java Directory Server 5.2 2004Q2, Sun One Identity Server

Confidential, SF, CA

LDAP (Directory Server) Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and built LDAP network using Sun Java Directory Server 5.2 2004Q2.
• Worked with Engineering on migration of data from SQL (Oracle) to LDAP.
• Developed, tested and wrote Deployment Guide for Operations staff.
• Designed and build OpenLDAP servers for PAM LDAP authentication
• Wrote Operations Guide for PAM LDAP

Environment: RedHat Advanced Server 2.1, Sun Java Directory Server 5.2 2004Q2,