I am a highly experienced Infrastructure Management, Architect and Sr. System Administrator, with over 17 years of extensive IT experience and RHCE, NCLA and MCITP Certified Engineer. I am Talented, results-driven and versatile IT leader, with a record of success in implementations requiring an in-depth knowledge and solid experience working with complex cross-platform systems, network architecture, installation, implementation, integration, and administration in local and remote environments.

I have demonstrated the ability to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical people. Reputation is a problem solver who sees the big picture, pulls the right team together and gets things done. Known for finding solutions that are simpler, faster and more efficient.

Entrepreneur by nature, I established successful businesses and later sold and they are operating successfully this day.

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

• Operating Systems: VMware, Linux Red Hat, SuSE, CenOS , Windows 03/08/12 AIX, SCO
• Application: Exchange 2007, 2010 , WAS, View, ThinApp, IIS, Cluster App, DNS, Web Server, NAS,
• IDM: Novell Identity Manager, Likewise, NetIQ, iChain, Redhat IDM, SAIL IDM
• Patch Management App: Red Hat Satellite, IBM Endpoint Manager, ZLM,
• Security: Microsoft ISA 00, 04 , Websense, Webtrande, SurfControl, FortiNet, Nessus, PIX CISCO ,
• Networking: CISCO Route and Switch
• Databases: MSSQL, DB2, Oracle, MySQL, Progress 4GL
• Programming Language: C/C , Shell script, SQL, Progress, Basic, VB, PHP, PERL, HTML, Java, Java Script, CGI, ASP, BOB
• QA Testing Tools: IBM Debugger, Test Director, Win Runner, SQA Robot

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Lead Infrastructure Architecture

• IT professional skilled at innovative design, development and implementation of technology by leading cross-functional teams to achieve desired business goals and objectives. Successfully architect projects by understanding both business and technical requirements and helping each side to understand and appreciate the concerns of the other in order to build consensus and cooperation. A proven leader who is frequently chosen during acquisitions to manage new teams and integrate them into the corporate culture. Always going the extra mile to get the job done.
• Consolidated 4 datacenters, acquired through acquisitions, into two new datacenter, highly virtualized, highly available, highly redundant, multi-provider datacenters operating in a hot standby DR configuration, on an extremely aggressive schedule, standardizing on servers, VMWare vCenter Virtualization Solutions, NetApp SAN Storage as well as Cisco Networking Hardware to support the customer facing applications and databases, as well as internal enterprise applications, resulting in operational cost savings of million annually.
• Met with Board of Directors to assure alignment of technology initiatives and long term business strategies.
• Introduced high efficiency IT methodologies into the Managed IT business processes.
• Architected Application migration strategies, and processes, Disaster Recovery models and methods which were designed to meet the requirements of a highly available financial processing SaaS infrastructure.
• Delivered highly available solutions for Databases, Networking, Storage, Servers and Enterprise Applications, in order to meet aggressive SLAs, RTO, and RPO and increase availability, while increasing corporate security posture.
• Created vision for future growth path of these services based on projected high growth rate. SLAs increased from 95 uptime to 99.99999 uptime for all services.
• Prepares Solution Design and support for the company software as a service offering.
• Worked extensively with various team members on patch management process development, planning and execution for Windows and Linux environments.
• Information security vulnerability scans remediation and validation for multiple datacenters.
• Creating and managing partnerships and engagements with technology partners
• Establishing trusted advisor relationships with customers
• Setting-up, mentoring and managing a team of solution architects across several complex cross-platform systems Administrator
• Gathering requirements from customers and business partners and design, implement and provide solutions in building the environment.

Confidential

Open Source Solutions Systems Engineer

• Perform successful planning, configuration, implementation and on-going support of vendor-supplied software and operating system solutions. Engage on presale activities with members of the sales team including technical briefings and demonstrations of new technologies. Research new software products' emerging in specialty field and advises MSI management team on benefits / opportunities related to new products. I enjoy working with leading-edge technology to deliver innovative business solutions and currently focus on cloud and virtualization and enterprise mobility.
• Performs project management and account management duties, as they are identified and assigned.
• Demonstrate in-depth understanding on complex projects to include clustering, systems management or virtualization technologies.
• Provide skills transfer to clients and other engineering team members.
• Customer: TD Ameritrade, Mutual Of Omaha, Info Group, Alegent Health, Yellow Book, Computer Instruments , ACT , Accenture, First National Bank Omaha, Maritz , Money Gram, Wesleyan University , Farm Credit Bureau Services, First Data, Western Computer, Dine Equity, San Ford Health, Cox Health

Confidential

System Administrator and Linux Team Lead

• Responsible for Newly accounted Linux Team Lead role for the corporate level test and production machines, meeting production schedules, resource and project management, and problem resolution. Installation and configuration of Linux, Windows 2003, service packs, other parts of Office and everything else Daily Linux, Windows 00, 03 Domain/Active Directory administration user accounts and groups Resource administration and implementation of domain security Performance tuning Disk space management Backup strategy planning and implementation Server crash/fault recovery
• Install, Configure and Managing Servers including VMware, Linux, Windows 00,03 Active Directory Services, DNS, IIS, FTP, proxy ISA , Novell Identity Manager, iChain, Apache, WebSense, WebTrande, WebSense, Policies and System Administration.
• Responsible for ensuring the Linux operations team and Windows operations teams work together in the smooth running of the all systems. Identifying problems and rectifying them, organizing training, network security, statistics monitoring.
• Performed a comprehensive security audit, including software vendor patches, network trust, password strength, and network layer filtering
• Implemented a comprehensive statistical monitoring system for web traffic, bandwidth utilization, server response time, server load, server uptime, file system utilization, and other data
• Created and maintained detailed procedural documentation regarding operating system localization, installation and configuration of software packages, vendor contact information..
• Maintained system backups and performed system/file restorations on multi platform Linux/Windows systems
• Provide complete Help Desk / End-user support for domestic and international office
• Review software requirement, specifications, and other design documentation to plan for, create and execute effective test cases.
• Demonstrate high quality, results-driven, prompt and professional customer service and support to instill confidence in technical advice and directions.
• Recognized as a quick thinker, creative and effective technical troubleshooter, tester, and problem solver

Confidential

System Administrator and Linux Team Lead

• Design, develop and support mission critical servers and workstations. Provide technical leadership and mentoring to the other LINUX, UNIX Systems Administrators and work with NT, Network, Developer and Security Administrators to provide high quality cross platform solutions.
• Provide project planning and management.
• Work with the other System Services groups as well as Development, Production Support and Ecommerce personnel and vendors in order to achieve sufficient performance/capacity levels, resolve problem issues and make general improvements.
• Manage vendor relationships and assist in contract negotiation.
• Create and maintain effective policies, standards, strategies and procedures.
• Ensure Disaster Recovery plans exist and are tested regularly.
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of all jobs and changes through proper testing.
• Create and maintain up-to-date documentation.
• Monitors performance and provides troubleshooting for system hardware and software.
• Manages Performance installations, upgrades, maintenance and security scans.
• Ensures successful replication between various servers in different locations.
• Responsible for complete backup and restoral of organizational systems to the most recent information.
• Develop operational processes and procedures while providing on-site system training for users and administrators.
• Lead investigations of security violations and breaches and recommended solutions.

Confidential

System Administrator

• Installed, configured, upgraded and provided 24x7 support for mission critical servers. Served as sole administrator for infrastructure and custom-built RS/6000 AIX servers for a Microelectronics Division chip plant. Down time could idle hundreds of line workers.
• Installed, configured AFS/DFS, ADSM/Backup, NT, WINDOWS 2000, and Custom Function servers for BTV Burlington , FSH Fishkill , END Endicott , POK Poughkeepsie and several Design Centers.
• Installed, configured Java, Web Sphere, DCE, Tivoli, Security APARS , dce monitor, Apache, JAC, DB2 and e-design applications that run on servers under contract which servers for various organizations on site.
• Installed, updated and supported AIX, Linux and Windows 2000 affinity software on engineering servers.
• Test and continued to keep up-to-date on IBM open source developments.
• Audited servers for compliance with IBM's overarching ITCS204 server-security policy, corrected all security violations, and applied APARS
• Provide immediate hardware repair of servers under contract when possible and open problem with Hardware Support or Software Support and coordinate repairs with hardware and software Support and customer for their servers.
• Provide all IBMer and contractors for their AFS/DFS/ Lotus Note volume restore, change password, Add user ID, add printer, kill job, create new file system and add permission to the user or group etc.

Confidential

System Administrator

• Developed new IBM Retail Store Solution using Thin Client on Linux Operating System to make all of its server platforms Linux friendly, including 4690 OS, SurePos 550,500, 700, 750 etc RS/6000, Netfinity servers using java application 360 Commerce or IBM Store Flow and these services RAID- , JFS, LDAP, PAM, Kernel customized , Create application RPM.
• Developed and installed new POS Red Hat 6.x, 7.x Server to provide a variety of new services including Thin Client, JFS, DHCP, BOOTP Server, DNS, SSH, FTP, Samba, Printer and Apache Server RAID, Security using OPEN LDAP, Bastille, Socks5, NSS LDAP, IP Masquerade, IP Chains, Error Log
• Responsibility to maintenance, patching, custom modification porting between versions and support/design on IBM Thin Client. Also worked on custom Red Hat vendor's developer team making tools to help build custom IBM Think Client Linux install CD's easier and faster, maintaining packages, modifying the installer and testing and debugging.
• Built custom Kernel for the exact system, which will speed the boot process and reduce the risk for system crash.
• Provided task management user friendly for end user making touch screens on IBM hardware.
• Built Thin Client by using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP with PXE extensions and Trivial File Transfer Protocol TFTP . That had its own local applications and own X configures files. User can log-in and they can shutdown or reboot their Thin Client without having any problem on the server.
• Created an application that traces the system fatal error and dump in certain file that make human readable for example message Number, Time, Date, Terminal or server ID, Component Name, Return code etc.
• Created RPM for Thin Client and Server which was easy to install.
• Evaluated different hardware and software applications, making recommendations to management regarding their usability and effectiveness in meeting organizational needs.

Confidential

System Administration

• Maintained a network using more than 500 workstations and servers within different operating systems Red Hat 6.2, UNIX SCO 5.0. , Windows NT.
• Developed and installed a new Server to provide a variety of new services including Web Hosting, POP3, IMAP, SSH, FTP, Samba, DNS, Cache Server,
• Installed, upgraded and configured new workstation and server
• Wrote shell and PERL scripts to automate routine tasks daily, weekly or monthly.
• Installed, configured and maintained hardware software and network
• Provided technical support to users and resolved problems with hardware, software and network operating systems.
• Developed a software build and installation system to facilitate timely updates of open source software.