SUMMARY:

• I am Unix and Storage System Engineer/Architect with over 22 - year work experience, in which 10-years were of management/lead role including mid-level position.
• In my recent Confidential position, I did architect, built from ground up and managed 3 separate Data Centers, I did hire people and managed them.
• Computers and photography are my passion in life. Before Super Storm Sandy I used to have a mini data center in my basement where I could “play” with new software OS and applications, where I could configure and test different setups and configurations.
• I love to get my hands on new technologies, learn new skills and just be on top of everything.
• I am geek at heart but I do enjoy working with people.
• I am very dedicated and committed individual, I take my work seriously and can deliver results.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Software: Netscape 2.x, 3.6, 4.x & 6.x, Oracle 8.0.5 8.1.7 & 9i, mysql. Veritas Cluster, Volume Manager, Veritas Storage Foundation, Verity Search (k2), WebVision Auctionnet, Weblogic 5.x and 7.x, Legato, Trillium, Checkpoint FireWall - 1, TCPWrapper, IPFilter, BigBrother, OpenSSH. TCP/IP, orca, sendmail, ntp, bind, ProFTPd, Solaris ZFS, DSPAM, SpamAssassin & ClamAV
• Hardware: T2000, V490, V440, E4500, E3500, V240, V210, E450, E420R, E220R, E250, U10, U5, V120, V100 and X1. Cisco 3640, Local Director 416 & 430, hubs & switches Catalyst series, StorEdge 3320, 3510, A3500, A1000, A5200, DLT7000, L8, L25, L280 & L1000. Nokia 440 and 330 Firewalls, SAN Qlogic SANbox 5600
• OS: Solaris 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Also know Linux Kernel 2.1.x, 2.4.x, RedHat 8, Win 2k/XP
• Languages: PHP4, PHP5, bash, ksh & perl. Light knowledge of HTML, XML, DHTML & AJAX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York

Senior IT Specialist

Responsibilities:

• I am part of the Watson Client Experience Center, my job and responsibility is to run complete data center, from Server (UNIX/Linux, Windows and OSX) trough networking (CISCO) and SAN infrastructure including Confidential XIV to Power and Cooling (Server Room).
• I did architect 3 data centers for client experience center in Austin, Cambridge and San Francisco.
• I did spec the power and cooling requirements, patch panels, cabinets, networking, san, storage.
• I then implemented the designed solution and helped maintain all while running the Astor Client Experience Center.
• Having managed 4 separate Data Centers made me aware of so many aspects of day to day challenges.
• Unix, Windows, OSX and VMWare systems administration (RedHat 6, Ubuntu 12, 14 and 16), Windows (7, 8, 10, 2012 R2), VMWare (5.5, 6.0 and 6.5), OSX.
• Administration consisted of setup and installation, recovery, maintenance and patching across multiple datacenters (in client experience centers which I managed) Interviewed and hired personnel to help maintain datacenters that I did build.
• Implemented support across those sites with full remote administration via all LAN supported devices across all the sites (Power strips, IMM, ilom’s etc) Supported DevOps environment (GitHub, Docker, Ansible, etc.) Supported Applications in Confidential Hybrid Cloud environment.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Was part of the Markets Systems Engineering team in a Confidential of New York.
• As part of Markets Business Technology staff, I support Markets Group business lines objectives trough researching, evaluating, designing and implementing various technical solutions for Group's mission-critical systems.
• Served as technical subject matter expert to the Confidential ’s Group’s project teams.

Confidential

Senior Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for system 24/7 availability and security.
• I did Data Center reallocation from NYC to TX.
• Designed and implemented UNIX server migration.
• Consolidated servers utilizing Solaris 10 containers/zones and zfs.
• Migrated Linux jboss servers into Solaris 10 zones. Drastically reduced footprint.
• Implemented new development and QA environments based on datacenter migration so that they are the same.
• Worked with developers to develop deployment scripts and procedures.
• Working on new disaster recovery strategy and implementation for our new Texas Data Center.
• Involved with new Oracle SOA and Application servers, code deployments, troubleshooting.
• Did setup new EMC Clarion CX320 from Dell, installed PowerPath. Maintaining it.
• Also, had to upgrade enclosure to gain more storage.
• Daily UNIX system administration, backups, code deployments and troubleshooting Cloned various production environments using Solaris 10 zones for demo presentation purposes Configured and implemented awstats to collect web servers, mail gateway and ftp server statistics.

Software: Netscape 4.x & 6.x, Apache 1.3.x & 2.x, Oracle 8.1.7, 9i and 10g, MySQL. Veritas Cluster, Volume Manager, Veritas Storage Foundation, Sun Volume Manager, JBoss 3.2.5, Veritas Netbackup 4.5PM6 & 6.0MP3, TCPWrapper, IPChains, IPFilter, SiteScope, OpenSSH. TCP/IP, sendmail, bind, Solaris ZFS, Solaris Zones/Containers, CITRIX, BMC Control-M Hardware: V880, X4100, T2000, Sun-Fire 480R, V490, 280R, V245, V240, E4500, V440, E450, E250. Local Director 430, Big IP F5, hubs & switches Catalyst series, StorEdge D1000, LTO3, SAN Qlogic SANbox 5600, HP MSL6030 & Dell ML6010 Tape Libraries with LTO-3 drives, HP SAN EVA4000 (HP StorageWorks 4000), HP SAN EVA6000, EMC Clarion CX320. OS: Solaris 7, 8, 9 and 10 (SPARC, INTEL and AMD64). Linux RedHat ES Release 3 & 4, Linux kernel 2.4.21 - 2.6.9 , Win 2000/XP/2003, ALOM, RSC, ILOM, OBP, VMVARE

Languages: AJAX, PHP4, PHP5, bash, ksh & perl. Light knowledge of HTML, XML & DHTML.

Confidential

Senior Unix Systems Administrator Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Supervise day to day UNIX system administrator team tasks.
• Manage and negotiate vendor relations and maintenance contracts.
• Responsible for system 24/7 availability and security Designing and implementing fully redundant secure internal system architecture Designed and implemented Disaster Recovery infrastructure for mission critical application.
• Implemented complex monitoring structure.
• (BigBrother, Nagios, MRTG, ORCA) Drastically reduced cost of operation ($950k in between 2001-2005).
• New infrastructure design and implementation, upgraded complete backup systems to new Sun Microsystems technology.
• Upgraded legato networker 7.1 to emc networker 7.3.2 Did play major role in 2006 major infrastructure upgrade (hardware, OS, software & application).

Software: Netscape 2.x, 3.6, 4.x & 6.x, Oracle 8.0.5 8.1.7 & 9i, mysql. Veritas Cluster, Volume Manager, Veritas Storage Foundation, Verity Search (k2), WebVision Auctionnet, Weblogic 5.x and 7.x, Legato, Trillium, Checkpoint FireWall-1, TCPWrapper, IPFilter, BigBrother, OpenSSH. TCP/IP, orca, sendmail, ntp, bind, ProFTPd, Solaris ZFS, DSPAM, SpamAssassin & ClamAV

Hardware: T2000, V490, V440, E4500, E3500, V240, V210, E450, E420R, E220R, E250, U10, U5, V120, V100 and X1. Cisco 3640, Local Director 416 & 430, hubs & switches Catalyst series, StorEdge 3320, 3510, A3500, A1000, A5200, DLT7000, L8, L25, L280 & L1000. Nokia 440 and 330 Firewalls, SAN Qlogic SANbox 5600

OS: Solaris 2.5, 2.6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Also know Linux Kernel 2.1.x, 2.4.x, RedHat 8, Win 2k/XP

Languages: PHP4, PHP5, bash, ksh & perl. Light knowledge of HTML, XML, DHTML & AJAX.

Confidential

Senior Unix Systems Administrator / Owner

Responsibilities:

• Initial setup, design and implementation of a company.
• Vendor relationship, contracts, projects and management were the major part of my responsibilities.
• Managing Sun and Linux servers, Cisco routers, dialup servers and internet servers such as email (pop3, imap and smtp), ftp, web (apache with perl and php3), database (mysql), DNS, Radius.
• Light programming in languages such as C/C++, perl, php3, java script, shell, bash, ksh.
• Light web design (html programming) High networking and Internet background (founded the company and made it grow up to this point, set up all the equipment such as servers, routers, dialups, switches and hubs).
• High technical skills such as building and fixing computers, finding and fixing network problems.
• Microsoft knowledge and support (Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000) Project management and customer relationship were the key steps to success as our Internet Services grew.
• Provided Web Services to many private and public Customers.
• Created websites. Needed to deliver quality of services and keep competitive timelines.
• Coordinated efforts of many people for the success of the company.