SUMMARY:

• Highly skilled technology professional with a career of overseeing daily operations of corporate infrastructure.
• Extensive experience developing strategic short/long term plans and action plans to implement project objectives.
• Accomplished in UNIX systems.
• Certified in HP - UX and Solaris 10. Creative leader with a solid learning ability.
• Solid reputation for strong work ethic, high energy level, loyalty and commitment to corporate success.
• IT Development Quality Control LAN/WAN Architecture Data Center Management UNIX Systems Strategic Planning Team Leadership Systems Monitoring Resource Optimization Data Analysis Short/Long Term Tactical Plans Proactive Solutions Infrastructure Design Project Management Downtime Reduction

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE:

HARDWARE: HP-UX 9000 Servers, Superdome, rx8640, rp7420, Blades c7000 HP SureStore Disk ArrayEMC DMX VMAX, Clarion 4700 storage system StorageTek tape Library

SOFTWARE: UNIX (HP-UX 11, Solaris, 10, Linux 6x), Veritas Clustered File Systems,HP Openview Operations U & -W, ServiceGuard, NPar & VPar & Integrity VM, Data Protector / Ignite, Borne / Korn

NETWORKING: TCP/IP / DNS / DHCP / LDAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Carlstadt, NJ

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed implementation of new HP-UX and Sun Server hardware.
• Provided 3rd level support for deployment engineers.
• Served as lead technical resource for HP-UX projects.
• Recommended redistribution of hardware for best customer utilization.
• Managed asset removal of legacy hardware resulting in over $100 million in corporate savings.
• Upgraded / customized hardware based on customer requirements.
• Participated in customer’s disaster recovery exercises.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Sanpulse Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed the San migration for an investment banking client, from EMC DMX arrays to EMC VMAX using Sanlogics software, Open Replicator and SRDF.
• Remediated / upgraded Solaris, HP-UX and Redhat servers to ensure compatibility.
• Migrated multiple Sybase and Oracle databases at block level using Open Replicator.
• Developed in-house Confidential (Korn Shell) scripts to semi-automate migration efforts.

Confidential, White Plains, NY

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Built Redhat Linux environment, patched to latest patch levels.
• Installed client provided applications, created users / groups and provided to on-site staff.

Confidential, Orangeburg, NY

UNIX Administrator / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Built HP-UX servers to support the Point Of Sale (POS) applications associated with the IPad and IPhone synergy launch between Confidential and Apple.
• Migrated existing data from older superdome servers onto the newly built C7000 Blade POS servers, configured OS parameters and installed software packages to mimic current production environments.
• Coordinated with the Network, SAN and Applications groups to accomplish tasks more efficiently.
• Performed daily system health checks, user maintenance / creation and patch management.

Confidential, New York City, NY

UNIX Administrator / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Mahwah data center migration project.
• Migrated and tested applications to the new operational environment.
• Revised health checkup scripts and operational procedures.
• Set up and upgraded new UAT Lab environment.
• Performed server configurations, software updates, system monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Provided trading floor support on an as need basis.

Confidential, White Plains, NY

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Confidential to design and install OVOW, a system and applications monitoring tool running on Confidential servers and Windows PC’s for greater response time to alerts.
• Trained on-site staff on the creation of trigger templates and the use of OVOW.

Confidential, Ramsey, NJ

UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Served as HP-UX and Linux resource for multiple projects, including migrating off a mainframe driven database onto a UNIX based database enabling the company to retire a legacy system coming off warranty.
• Investigated and proactively solved all production issues. Worked directly with Oracle and SQL DBA’s to install databases and resolve any production issues.
• Consolidated all RISC based HP-UX systems running HP-UX 11 v1 onto 2 Integrity based superdomes running HP-UX 11 v2, replacing over 60 HP-UX boxes, resulting in savings of $1.2M in leasing fees and a 20% reduction in energy costs.
• Developed borne scripts and executed a corporate-wide systems monitoring application for HP-UX, Linux and Windows platforms using HP’s Openview Operations software.
• Empowered individual functional teams to quickly respond to software and hardware issues.
• Reduced average outage window by up to 50% by allowing functional teams to be more proactive on systems with alerts from OVPO monitoring application.
• Lowered overall manpower in management of HP-UX / Linux systems with implementation of central log reporting and user management systems, utilizing NIS for user management and scripts.
• Initiated OVO Operations environment for HP-UX / Linux and Windows platforms with a failover secondary management server.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Perot Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided 2 nd level support for the Confidential Web Infrastructure team supporting Apache and Websphere.
• Installed Web sites for different departments within Confidential with follow-up content management.
• Spearheaded coordination for Global Change Management, ensuring seamless weekly production changes.
• Provided trading floor support via a trouble ticketing system.

Confidential, New York City, NY

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Jacven Medical Billing Services to develop and install a highly specialized Windows server/network system for greater business intercommunication.
• Provided support to PC end users.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

UNIX Administrator / Systems Manager

Responsibilities:

• Reported to Director of Infrastructure managing, maintaining and developing complete scope of work for production and development UNIX servers.
• Managed HP-UX / Sun Unix Systems running HP-UX 10.x and Sun Solaris 5 systems.
• Developed Borne shell scripts for backups and reports, reducing backup and recovery hours by 60% for the operations group.
• Installed, configured and maintained new and redeployed UNIX hardware.
• Reviewed daily system logs, verifying health of boxes, security and hardware status.
• Collaborated with Oracle DBA’s in SAP workflow streamlining.
• Evaluated both Netbackup and Data Protector with an implementation of a Data Protector solution.
• Worked with a highly specialized team to evaluate and implement a Storage Area Network using EMC's CLARiiON product line.
• Served as project lead for a major application upgrade to the Consumer Response System and increased savings of $100K per hour in downtime avoidance through upgrading a 60 million record database.
• Evaluated and executed a central backup solution utilizing HP’s Openview Omniback.
• Created a storage area network using EMC Clariion, enabling more effective data management.