Team Lead Unix Resume
New, JerseY
SUMMARY
- Form an entity to provide IT consulting services
- Diverse industry experiences in Defense engineering, Retail, Finance, Automotive, Biotech, Pharma, Healthcare, Publishing, Higher Education, Management Consulting
- Broad and in - depth Swiss Army knife skillset thru continuously evolving, gaining and expanding competency and expertise in engineering and IT
- Strong cross functional and technical team collaboration skills
- Familiarity wif cloud computing, Azure, AWS, GCP, and Google BigQuery
- Competency in Software, Systems, DSP, Analog, RF and Embedded systems engineering
- Experience in design, develop, test & validation, and system integration to support E2E business
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills wif agility in learning new technologies
- Easy-going, self-motivated and strong team player
- Excellent client service skills
- Hands-on technical lead in infrastructure, web development, LINUX/UNIX/Windows (LUW) engineering and administration, database, SAN, LAN, desktop engineering & support
- Technical project management skills to deliver quick results in fast-paced environment
- Experience wif system integration of enterprise applications, infrastructure, security into cohesive solutions
- Familiar wif automated API testing - REST, SOAP, HTTP - using Swagger, Postman, HTTPie, Curl, SSIS
- Expertise in process automation & workload automation - RPA, TWS, AutoSys
- Experience in On-prem DC migration and consolidation to Azure cloud - DBaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
- Competency in container and virtualization - Docker, GCP, Amazon AWS EC2 & S3, VMware, VirtualBox
- Experience wif Windows, Red Hat, CentOS, Linux, HP-UX migration to Azure Cloud
- Upgrade SQL Server and SSIS to 2016 and Oracle to 12c to support ERP and BI applications
- Google Cloud Platform support, monitoring and maintenance
- Familiarity wif the Google Analytics Big Query environment - create data pipelines & perform ETL
- Develop secure RPA solutions using Microsoft Power Automate / FLOW
- Experience in Microsoft technology stack - BizTalk, Dynamics AX, .NET, SQL Server & IIS
- Experience wif web development, continuous integration and system programming
- Hands-on skills wif database design and query - SQL and PL/SQL
- Experience wif Windows / AD administration and Azure Cloud
- Competency in designing and building HA clusters in Linux, UNIX, and Windows
- Experience in managing HPC compute nodes including load balancing and Disaster Recovery
- Familiarity wif identity management and access control and cryptographic technologies - OAuth2, DMZ jump servers, CA eTrust SeOS, PKI certificate, SSL/TLS, Kerberos and PGP/GnuPG encryption
- Scripting knowledge - JavaScript, Google Apps Script, SAPscript, VBScript, VBA, Bash, ksh, Perl, Python, PowerShell, WMIC
- Experience wif remote access and file transfer protocols & tools - SFTP, SSH, Citrix, RDP, FTP, secure tunneling, PGP/GnuPG encryption, AS2, Cleo LexiCom, Sterling Connect:Direct, NDM, secure file transfer solutions on Mainframe, AS400 and distributed environments
- Experience wif office automation and documentation using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio
- Google Sheets, Google Maps, and Gmail automation
- Support Apache Tomcat, Eclipse, and IBM WebSphere MQ in distributed environment
- Knowledge of IBM MQ servers and data loading to Oracle and real-time data distribution wif XML format
- Knowledge of XML and JSON to format the messages (Manhattan 2017 WMS and EDI)
- Support Java, J2EE on LINUX/UNIX/Windows (LUW)
- Experience wif Windows & Linux P2V, V2V, V2P, and P2P migration
- Knowledge of Enterprise workload automation
- Experience in z/OS and AS400 open solution stacks
- SAN and NAS technologies - EMC/IBM/HP/NetApp/Brocade/CLARiiON/FC/iSCSI/SMB/CIFS/NFS
- NetBackup & IBM Tivoli Storage Manager - SAN/NDMP/VTL Tape Library
- Support NetApp Filer running Clustered Data ONTAP
- Knowledge of TCP/IP network protocols, load balancing, firewalls
- Experience wif end-user support and enterprise IT operations
- Experience wif IT asset lifecycle management
- Experience wif FDA validated systems
- 10+ years of electrical engineering experience in defense industries - GPS, command & control, software, analog & digital hardware, firmware, systems engineering & integration
- Experience in embedded/electrical engineering designing, building, testing, programming embedded devices - micro controllers and DSP processors
- Cadence CAE/CAD/CAM design experience from emulation, simulation, OrCAD schematic capture to PCB board layout
- Experience wif statistical analysis, optimization, reliability analysis, Monte Carlo simulation
- Plus more
Core Competencies:
- Data Engineer
- DSP, Analog, Digital, RF, Embedded systems
- Expert Developer
- Design Engineering
- DevOps
- Software Engineering
- Solutions Architect
- Secure File Transfer Engineering
- Database Administration
- Robotics Process Automation
- Storage Administration
- Infrastructure Architect
- Technical Project Management
- Workload Automation
- EDI Analyst
- LINUX/UNIX/Windows Engineering
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Languages & Tools: Engineering & Scientific Computing R, C/C++, MathLab, LabVIEW, Digital Signal Processing SQL Programming T-SQL, PL/SQL UNIX & Cross Platform Perl, Python, Bash, KSH, TCL/Expect, Make, CMake, CVS, SVN
Windows Platform: ASP.NET, C/C++, C#, COM, DCOM, VB, VBScript, CMD batch, netsh, PsTools, WMI, ADSI, AutoIt
Web Platform: XML, JSON, JavaScript, Selenium, Python, SOAP, Postman, Fiddler, WebLoad
Technical Knowledge: C#, Java, Python, PowerShell, PHP, Ruby, X++ (Microsoft AX)
Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL Self-sufficient on LINUX, UNIX and Windows
LINUX HPC & Grid Computing: Red Hat HPC, Platform Computing Manager, xCAT, IBM SP
Platform Computing: Docker Container, RHEL, CentOS, CoreOS, SuSE, Debian, Windows 2016/2012/2008 Server, AIX, DLPAR, NIM, PowerHA, HACMP, HP-UX, Solaris, VMware ESX, Red Hat OpenShift, Ansible, AS400, z/OS, z/Linux
Web Technology: Apache, Tomcat, IIS, WebSphere, WebLogic, iMacros, Selenium Python Web Automation
Workload Automation & Operations: CA Workload Automation, AutoSys, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, FLOW, Power Automate
Performance Monitoring & Availability: ManageEngine, Nagios, Tivoli OMEGAMON XE MQSeries Monitoring, Tivoli Monitoring, HP OpenView, IBM Director, IBM NetView, Tivoli Composite Application Manger for WebSphere
Storage Management & Data Protection: NetBackup, TSM Server, EMC Networker, IBM SAN/SVC
Source Code Management: Team Foundation Server (TFS), GIT, Subversion (SVN), CVS, PVCS
Business Integration: TIE Kinetix eVision EDI, spEDI*map, spEDI*tran, IBM Cast Iron, Microsoft BizTalk, AX, SSIS
Managed File Transfer & Encryption: MOVEit DMZ, GlobalSCAPE MFT, CLEO Lexicom, AS2, Ipswitch, WS FTP, PGP, OpenPGP, GnuPG
UNIX/Windows Interoperability: MKS Toolkit, Cygwin, Microsoft Services for UNIX
Productivity Office Suite: Microsoft O365, Google Office Suite, Excel, Word, Project, Visio
Data Recovery/Rescue: Hiren Boot CD, BartPE, Knoppix, SystemRescueCD
Clustering: Veritas Storage Foundation, Microsoft Cluster (MSCS), Red Hat Cluster (RHCS), PowerHA/HACMP, Tivoli System Automation for MP, Veritas VXVM/VXFS/SFW/VCS, IBM GPFS
HPC & Cluster Hosted Apps: MS SQL Server, DB2, Oracle, WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Application Server (WAS), Pipeline Pilot, CA AutoSys, IBM IBM Workload Scheduler (TWS), Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), NetBackup, File & Print services, FTP service, IIS
Hardware: Dell Blade, Dell PowerEdge, HP Blade, HP Proliant, HP Integrity, IBM Blade, IBM xSeries, IBM pSeries, SUN SPARC. Familiarity wif the Remote Systems Management using Dell DRAC, HP ILO, IBM RSA and IBM HMC.
Network: Cisco, Expand Networks, Wireshark, Active Directory, ARP, DHCP, DNS/BIND, LDAP, OAUTH2, FTP, FTPS, SFTP, SCP, GATED, IPSEC, NFS, autofs, NIS, OSPF, PXE, EIGRP, RIP, SMTP, SNMP, PGP, SSH, SSL, OpenSSL/TLS, CIFS /Samba, TFTP, UDP, SAN, iSCSI, NETBIOS, WINS, EtherChannel, Network Teaming, Linux Bonding, Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, InfiniBand switches
Real-time OS (RTOS): pSOS+ & OS9
Cyber Security: Splunk, Fluentd, Syslog-NG, OWASP ZAP
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, New Jersey
Team Lead UNIX
Responsibilities:
- Engage in hands-on role to support application and infrastructure teams SAP ERP, GCP, Azure, AWS, Dynamics AX, Hyperion Finance, Payroll, and BI including LUW engineering and administrators.
- Work wif enterprise file transfer team to support the secure encrypted data transmission wif partners and suppliers (JPMorgan Chase, AMEX, Wells Fargo, Workday, Kronos, Zeta, Concur, Ultimate, High Radius, plus more).
- Support Payroll, HR, and Treasury groups to automate secure electronic fund transfers, cash reporting, and employee payroll.
- Technical lead to implement Oracle Hyperion Financial & Planning server infrastructure.
- Experience wif System Security Hardening and best practices, infrastructure monitoring and management tools
- Analyze and document system interface requirements for Microsoft Dynamics AX and SAP ERP system.
- Assist production support team to develop, implement and maintain comprehensive balance & control in daily, monthly, year-end processing.
- Implement global shared access infrastructure using Distributed File System (DFS) in Windows platform.
- Provide operational expertise wif configuration, change control and source-code management methodologies.
- Perform SVN & PVCS version manager administration as part of source control and configuration management.
- Familiarity wif QA test automation tools for change management, issue management and defect tracking using tools like JIRA, BugZilla, and GIT.
- Implement CA AutoSys Job Scheduler and SAP Adapter in HP-UX environment. Provide technical support, troubleshoot batch problems, improve batch scripts, and implement error handling and job restart framework. As a result Operations team was able to simplify and streamline data processing of Warehouse Management (WMS), EDI and SAP ERP systems to achieve near lights-out operations.
- Assist QA, production support and SAP Basis teams wif a few major SAP upgrades. Setup/configure/test multiple AutoSys environment for SAP ERP & CRM DEV/TEST/PROD instances. Install/configure SAP Adapter specific transport and SAP load balance. Put daily balance & controls for SAP, EDI and other systems.
- Support HP-UX migration from PA-RISC to 64-bit Itanium as part of hardware refresh and SAP consolidation project. Provide the project management team wif a list of comprehensive analysis of applications and software compatibility issues.
- Implement Windows MSCS Cluster for global data exchange and Red Hat HA Clusters (physical, virtual and hybrid) on IBM & HP Blades and VMware. Familiarity wif EMC CLARiion SAN storage, Navisphere, PowerPath and Linux multipath.
- Design and deploy physical and virtual server infrastructure to host CA Workload Control Center (WCC)/Autosys and Oracle 11g wif multiple listeners. Troubleshoot/diagnose hardware and software issues.
- Provide multi-platform infrastructure engineering and application support in a mix of Red Hat, CentOS, AIX, AS400, HP-UX, Solaris and Windows environment.
- Perform application specific Oracle database upgrades for EDI and CA AutoSys workload automation.
- Translate business & technical requirements into workload and process automation.
- Create, maintain, and support AutoSys command language & Job Instruction Language (JIL) in Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, and Windows server environment.
- Create and maintain Linux, UNIX, and Windows shell / batch scripts.
- Gather requirements, design, implement, maintain SAP Process Automation of Finance, Sales & Distribution, CRM, Manhattan Warehouse Management (WMS) 2017/2011.
- Build/maintain production program library in Perl, Python, Power Shell, VBScript, Bash / ksh using open source tools to automate, analyze, and control many of the complex operational functions. Continuously enhance error handling and code maintenance. Use Python for RESTful API to get/post/put/delete the database tables and for web automation.
- Implement MOVEit DMZ managed secure file transfers. Propose common security technologies (data encryption) and best practices to meet the security requirements.
- Implement and maintain web security for in-house developed Executive Decision Support system.
- Assess/document/review computer security risks & application interface requirements for new systems implementation.
- Support global data transfer project to replace EDI VAN for EDI file transfers between Confidential divisions using Java mail box technology in heterogeneous environment including AS400.
- Setup QShell UNIX subsystem on AS400 to run java program and achieve application transparency between AS400, HP-UX and Windows.
- Rewrite and automate financial balancing and control reports using SAP GUI and Excel programming.
- Member of Database and WebSphere MQ infrastructure team.
- Support, maintain, and troubleshoot J2EE application performance, development, and deployment related to WebSphere Application Server. Gain experience in Java web development using IBM Rational RAD and Eclipse.
- Maintain/enhance in-house custom ETL program (Download Listener) written in C/C++, Oracle SQL/Shell scripts, and system libraries used to load data to Oracle database.
- Work closely wif application team to implement and provide service enhancements, capacity, availability, automation and testing using Python & Selenium.
- Responsible for disaster recovery, business continuity, and system security
- Participate in Incident and Problem Management activities based on ITIL guidelines.
- Strong Windows Server OS, UNIX, infrastructure monitoring and management tools to automate, troubleshoot and analyze issues in multi-tier web environment.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot apps, WebSphere MQ and secure file transfer issues in LUW platforms.
- Support .Net developers wif installation, configuration and troubleshooting access permission and connectivity issues wif LINQ, Entity Framework, Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server (TFS).
- Support application developers wif system access, development tools, and operational issues
- Setup secure file transfers, manage security configurations, deploy code releases, and provide technical support wif file encryption/decryption.
- Manage IBM Workload Scheduler (TWS) and the job scheduling in Data Warehouse, WebSphere MQ, Business Objects, Oracle environment.
- Install/upgrade DB2 8.x/9.x supporting IBM Tivoli environment.
- Support CA eTrust Access Control (SeOS) and SiteMinder Web Access Management.
- Install/coordinate OS and application deployment and fixes on development, QA, and production systems.
- Maintain documentation for SOX compliance - access protection, system integrity, system reliability, audit control, and system recovery methods and procedures.
- Monitor/automate/collect/review/retain the system and security logs as part of daily tasks and as evidence for SOX audit & control.
- Provide system tuning, diagnosis and troubleshooting of WebSphere MQ, IIS, Apache, and Proxy servers.
- Provide SSL Certificate installation and maintenance. Experience in VeriSign, Thawte, and GoDaddy SSL certificate process for Intranet and Internet facing web servers (IIS and Apache) and for code signing.
- Manage TSM and IBM Total Storage enterprise tape libraries in LAN/SAN environment.
- Provide AIX and Solaris administration - DLPAR/VIOS/p5/p6/p7/HACMP/VxVM.
- Provide AIX upgrade and P7 hardware migration wif NIM and Alternate Disk Installation method.
- Keep current wif latest software enhancements, security patches and fixes.
- Member of Roche Pharma Research & Scientific Informatics group.
- Support clinical & biochemistry research groups & systems. Analyze performance and manage application issues.
- Main applications supported among others are ClinAxys LIMS, Ariadne Genomics Mammalian database, and Chemistry modeling running on Red Hat and Windows servers.
- Provide Windows and Linux administration, application support, and maintain documentation for the FDA regulatory GLP, GMP compliance (Familiarity wif FDA CFR Part11) and IQ/OQ/PQ protocols.
- Familiarity wif pharmaceutical life science applications and computer systems validation and access control.
- Interact closely wif development group and participate occasionally in daily standup and code review. Familiarity in agile development, continuous integration and scrum processes.
- Provide Red Hat Linux HPC engineering and administration supporting Pharma research. Design & implement Red Hat Clusters, GFS2, and Red Hat HPC in HP Blade and HP SAN storage environment.
- Configure & support HP Blade System, Emulex/QLogic HBA, Brocades, MSA/EMC mid-range SAN storage, HP and Cisco switches.
- Support various infrastructure projects including migration of Solaris web application to Tomcat on Linux.
- Consolidate and maintain script library to automate extranet LDAP updates to Rally software for agile development.
- Extend UNIX shell environment to Windows servers to achieve remote SSH and batch job automation.
- Setup and support AD replication using bash/Perl/ruby script library for Continuous integration.
- Implement shared folder security audit and access controls using Quest File Access Auditing for FDA audit compliance.
- Complete Roche Project Management I & II, Pipeline Pilot, Spring & Hibernate training.
- Setup multi-nodes DB2 cluster using Tivoli System Automation (Tivoli SAMP) and DB2 HADR on Red Hat Linux.
- Implement 3-way active MQ Clusters on Red Hat Linux and VMware ESXi.
- Implement IIS and SQL MSCS Cluster on Windows servers.
- Configure & support Expand Network switches, Load Balancer, Dell MD3000, EMC SAN & iSCSI (Red Hat & Windows).
- Implement Tivoli OMEGAMON XE Monitoring for MQSeries and Composite Application Manager (CAM) for WebSphere Application Servers.
Confidential, New Jersey
Team Lead UNIX / Linux / Windows/ Storage
Responsibilities:
- Engage and collaborate wif technology/tool vendors on infrastructure projects.
- Establish consolidated server monitoring using syslog facility. Integrate AIX Error log facility to syslog via ODM.
- Support Power VM/DLPAR/VIOS/p5/p6 and IBM SP2 migration to pSeries AIX hardware.
- Consolidate the script library to automate and harmonize common workflows, support systems management and configuration management across the heterogeneous environment.
- Extend UNIX shell environment to Windows servers utilizing cygwin UNIX subsystem service to achieve improved network connectivity (SSH, sftp, rsync, telnet, etc.) and production batch job environment. Allowed to reuse Bash/KSH/Perl based script library wif no or very little changes on Windows platform.
- Research/investigate xCAT (Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit) to automate production deployments of Linux and Windows images on Intel servers and Blades. Experience wif Linux imaging methods using Kickstart, AutoYast, and SystemImager.
- Standardize job scheduling of TSM backups using mainframe CA-7 scheduler and turnover to operations. Achieved maximizing system administrators’ resources by separating non-essential operational duties and functions as much as possible from sys admin duties.
- Experience wif JCL, TSO, ISPF, z/Linux.
- Assess and improve heterogeneous DMZ server administration by drafting secure tunneling method for terminal and graphical console access.
- Collaborate wif Infrastructure security team to meet security standards & compliance.
- Manage and troubleshoot all system backups (NetBackup and Tivoli TSM) and tape storage.
- Identify and develop methodologies for installation, planned maintenance, rollouts, patch updates, backups and scheduling reboots.
- Prepare and organize knowledge base, documentation, support scripts and administration procedures for operations.
- IBM Tivoli engineer; implement Tivoli Management Framework 3.7 & 4.1. Extensive background in Tivoli Management Server, Managed Nodes/Gateways, Endpoints, Profiles and Profile Managers. Experience wif IBM Tivoli suite of Inventory, Software Distribution and Tivoli Configuration Manager.
- Implement and support Tivoli Monitoring ITM 6.x.
- Integrate Tivoli TEC Console to Remedy Helpdesk ARS.
- Expert-level knowledge of the standard UNIX/Linux command-line tools: awk, sed, bash, ksh, lsof, truss, etc.
- Install, configure, and support Veritas VxVM, VxFS and Cluster on Linux and Windows.
- Perform TCP/IP Network administration - DHCP, DNS, WINS, Postfix, REXEC, Secure Shell, Exim, and Sendmail. Troubleshoot network issues for Layer 3 - 7.
- Support z/OS mainframe migration/relocation to Germany. Assist application groups wif post-migration issues wif batch jobs and DB2 client connections. Setup test secure ftp server for access and performance issues over WAN.
- Support mainframe REXEC jobs on AIX, Linux and Windows.
- Perform OS and software installs, patches and upgrades.
- Provide level 2 & 3 troubleshooting support.
- Provide on-call support.
Storage administration
- Support SAN storage infrastructure wif Brocade switches, IBM ESS800, DS4300, HP XP10000 and clustered NAS NetApp ONTAP filers. Support the migration of IBM ESS800 SAN & SVC (San Volume Controller) to HP XP 10K SAN to meet global storage standardization requirement.
- Install, setup, and configure HBA and multipath device driver software - Veritas DMP and IBM SDD/MPIO.
- Perform AIX, Linux and Windows storage administration tasks (LVM/VXVM).
- Responsible for managing all VMware ESX related SAN projects. Interface wif application groups to assess, help determine storage requirements and implement solutions.
- Provide performance management and capacity planning for the mid-range DS4000 SAN. Administer and maintain storage monitoring. Administer disk array and network configurations.
- Support the disaster recovery planning & exercises at SunGard and IBM Business Continuity and Recovery Services.
- Provide SAN support for Disaster Recovery planning and testing.
- Maintain documentation for storage requirements and SAN systems.
Windows administration
- Technical lead for 250+ Windows servers in data center and regional offices while active member of Network Infrastructure group. Lead in the planning and implementation of new systems including VMware ESX.
- Support/maintain/troubleshooting/resolve issues wif Active Directory, Domain Controllers, Exchange, Hyperion, IIS, SQL, Citrix, Cognos, Cisco ACS, FTP servers, MSCS Cluster File Server.
- Troubleshoot performance issues, repair system software, OS configuration and hardware failures - disk, raid controller.
- Support backup/recovery procedures and Windows Clusters. Hands-on wif Windows Cluster troubleshooting, setup and configuration changes.
- Develop dissimilar hardware bare-metal restore procedures for Windows servers. Proved to be very useful wif VMware server consolidation project. It allowed us to accomplish the physical-to-virtual server migration wif ease. Experience wif Windows imaging methods using RIS and Symantec Ghost to automate production deployments of Windows servers. Develop expertise in working wif Windows registries.
- Implement & support Veritas VxVM on Windows clusters.
- Support NTLM migration to Active Directory.
- Support Active Directory group Policies.
- Provide level 2 & 3 complex troubleshooting support.
- Maintain documentation for server standards and operating procedures.
- Architect and support TSM desktop backup client on 1500+ desktops/laptops. Extreme familiarity wif issues supporting fixed and mobile clients in an Enterprise environment.
- Implement integrated POSIX run-time environment on Wintel servers to achieve Linux platform transparency.
- Troubleshoot and support Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere, and IIS Web Servers
- Consolidate Windows batch jobs (Bash/KSH/Perl/REXEC/CMD Shell) to run under CA7 mainframe scheduler.
- Develop system libraries to standardize cross-platform production job environment.
- Develop Intranet IIS web application for configuration management. Maintain WMI scripts and ASP.Net enabled web pages to automate gathering of data from Windows servers. Populate data in SQL server to track new server deployments and daily configuration changes. Provide a simple interface to publish how-to and troubleshoot technical documents.
Security
- Develop and implement secure file transfer infrastructure in DMZ.
- Consolidate Windows eventlog, UNIX syslog and SNMP traps to centralized syslog-ng servers for network and OS event monitoring. Setup open source Perl event correlation tool for pattern matching and rules processing.
- Diagnose authentication problems and troubleshoot issues wif Secure Shell & DMZ access. Maintain jump servers (AIX, Linux and Windows) and SSH proxy servers to run remote execution jobs on DMZ servers.
- Maintain systems in DMZ to meet the security compliance - patch updates, upgrade IIS5 to IIS6, periodic port scan, disabling services - sendmail, ftp, telnet, etc., and monitoring user accounts.
- Architect & implement secure electronic funds transfer to JPMorgan Chase and other business-critical EDI transactions.
- Support secure file transfer service for HR, SAP, Finance and other business units. Familiar wif FTP, SFTP, SSL, FTPS, SCP, WinSCP, WSFTP, Globalscape EFT, Secure tunnel, and PGP/GnuPG.
- Coordinate wif network security team to resolve Firewall and DMZ network issues related to infrastructure applications.
- Research/investigate Single Sign-On solution for Identity and Access management on Linux and Windows.
Data Protection & Disaster Recovery
- Architect, implement, monitor, support and troubleshoot NetBackup environment - IBM Total Storage LTO4 tape library (Dual robots, 1500 slots & 1 PB capacity), Sepaton VTL and deduplication. Knowledge of NDMP and SAN tape drives sharing.
- Provide NetBackup server administration on Linux and Windows. Use Bocata reporting tool to monitor the performance and statistics of NetBackup environment for capacity planning and daily operational reporting.
- Architect, implement, monitor, support and troubleshoot TSM and IBM Enterprise Tape library - NDMP, LAN-free, Server-free backups.
- Provide TSM server administration on LINUX, AIX, Windows, and z/OS.
- Manage Tivoli TSM and BackupExec migration to NetBackup. I can talk pros & cons of TSM vs. NBU in technical details having managed both environments.
- Build and support Oracle DBA team and their RMAN backup environment.
- Support Exchange Mail and Hyperion teams to implement customized backup requirements.
- Research/investigate alternative storage technologies to eliminate tapes - NAS, deduplication and remote replication.
- Research/investigate WAN accelerator devices from Cisco and Riverbed to simplify data protection of 10 regional centers.
Fault Management
- Architect, implement, monitor, support and troubleshoot Tivoli Enterprise Console and MQ Series Monitoring. Familiarity wif MQ Series. Install, setup, configure DB2 to support Tivoli Monitoring environment.
- Manage Oracle database for Tivoli TEC Console installation & operation. Expert installation knowledge of Tivoli Management suite on AIX, Linux and Windows.
- Integrate SNMP traps to IBM Tivoli NetView and TEC Console. Experience wif HP OpenView NMS. Expertise in customizing traps/notifications (MIB database and OID for SNMP V1 and V2) and forward to TEC Console.
- Support Tivoli Monitoring, Nagios, WhatsUP Gold and SiteScope (for Web transaction monitoring).
- Leverage many years of Perl programming experience to develop a toolset in Perl to monitor business critical web server pages. This was replaced later wif SiteScope to support monitoring solution standardization requirement.
- Collaborate wif Online Ordering J2EE application developers to architect application log management. Leveraged development skills to devise event logging wif Java log4j on UNIX and Windows platforms. Achieved distributed application log monitoring from single central log management server by utilizing syslog infrastructure.
Virtualization
- An early adopter of VMware ESX virtualization technology. Built a business case and got management’s approval to consolidate 90+ servers. Demonstrated vision, strong research initiative and leadership to complete the project.
- Implement VMware ESX server farms to reduce cost and complexity, maximize system availability, provide secure remote access in DMZ, and improve disaster recovery processes. Expert skills in P2V, V2P, V2V, and P2P Windows server migration.
- Develop dissimilar hardware bare-metal restore procedures for Windows servers.
- Responsible for managing all VMware related SAN projects. Interface wif application groups to assess, help determine storage requirements and implement solutions.
- Research/investigate alternative virtualization and storage technologies - NAS, Xen, Windows Virtual Server and storage provisioning and management.
- Research/investigate to extend server virtualization technology into desktops employing Citrix, VMware, Load balancer/Connection Manager and thin client PC.
- Support hardware migration from IBM SP2 to pSeries AIX hardware.
Confidential (New Jersey)
Responsibilities:
- Support Oracle DBA wif PeopleSoft and other high profile clinical data backup and .
- Support PeopleSoft team and Oracle DBA wif performance tuning and capacity planning.
- Provide data destruction service to sanitize PeopleSoft HR/Financial data and hospital patient information.
- Troubleshoot hardware failures and system performance issues.
- Provide support for data center move.
- Support hardware migration from IBM SP2 to pSeries AIX hardware.
- Support HP EVA SAN storage. Perform AIX storage administration tasks.
- Plan and coordinate the project to relocate the AIX and IBM SP2 servers in a tight no-fail window.
- Support High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP).
Following companies listed are prior to 2001 (New York & New Jersey)
Confidential
Lead Web Developer
Responsibilities:
- Lead programmer for the business-critical Intranet thin-client browser-based publishing workflow application.
- Expertise in JavaScript, JSP, Server-Side JavaScript, VBScript, Perl, CGI, VB and ActiveX controls running on Sun Solaris Server and Sybase.
- Familiarity wif ActiveX controls, VeriSign CA, ASP, PHP, and XML.
- Perform load testing, SQL performance tuning and vulnerability analysis (e.g., URL hijack).
- Perform webmaster-related tasks to upgrade, configure, and maintain Netscape Enterprise Web Server and Application Manager.
- Develop both front-end and back-end database related scripts and applications. Implement the operational standard by creating all production job turnover packages in Solaris pkgadd to simplify and manage the turnover process, application installation and version management. Use PVCS as version manager tool.
- Develop production batch jobs to extract and load data for Online and CDROM based products in T-SQL, Perl, Sybase Perl, DBI, and Korn Shell. Use Database Lifecycle Management tools like DBArtisan and RapidSQL for application development, SQL performance tuning, and database maintenance.
Confidential
Senior IT Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Provide a technical lead to support various IT initiatives and projects in Client/Server environment.
- Support the regional teams in US wif the analysis, development, testing and implementation and integration of systems, hardware and software packages. Coordinate wif the regional teams in Germany to harmonize IT operations to Global standardization. Projects were small to medium in scope and often involving integration of systems and applications and reengineering processes.
- Provide computer and network vulnerability security scan of AIX and Windows servers using Internet Security Scan software, COPS, and other Linux tools.
- Complete the DC relocation project to move from NYC to the NJ data center. Project tasks had to be completed according to the tight project plan since it involved business critical financial servers. Supervise Oracle DBA consultants for planning and migration of all UNIX and Oracle Financial servers.
- Instrument monitoring of the AIX production servers, operating system parameters, TSM, HACMP, and Oracle using SNMP and NetView. Administration responsibility involved supporting HACMP for Oracle Financial servers, TSM and StorageTek STK9710 enterprise tape library.
- Support Oracle database backup scripts - TSM & SQL-BackTrack.
- Support Windows team wif Lotus Notes database backup in distributed environment.
- Document UNIX operational procedures and server build standards.
Confidential
Team Lead UNIX
Responsibilities:
- Provide system support for corporate data warehouse on IBM SP2 and Oracle database.
- Manage the project to roll-out CA-Unicenter TNG system management suite to manage AIX and Windows production servers.
- Organize the activities of systems and programmer analysts. Assist client departments in the analysis of systems requirements, implementation of applications, projects and systems testing in an environment of diverse development platforms, software, hardware, technology, tools, etc.
- Investigate the analysis of both short and long-term business requirements and made appropriate recommendations of operating and capital expense budget requirements to VP of System Software.
- Provided in-depth technical leadership, direction and business knowledge to ensure efficient design, programming and implementation of high priority and special projects including SAP ERP system and Business Objects.
- Support Internet Web group, Oracle developer and DBA on systems management of company’s web site which hosts web servers running on Solaris servers for many divisions of Simon & Schuster, Prentice-Hall, Macmillan Computer Publishing, SAMS, Wiley, etc. Details involve checking statuses of web servers, FTP connection failure, disk space, swap space, Oracle database table space, E-mail failure, system processes, and network link availability.
- Support CA AutoSys Job Scheduler in distributed platform environment wif 300+ open systems servers including several AS400 and mainframe.
- Support network team to setup CISCO router configuration backup server. Setup primary/standby tftp servers for Cisco 7000 routers and switches placed in the data center and other remote sites/countries.
- Collaborate wif QA/Change Management team to create/standardize/document production processes and application changes using CA Harvest Software Change Management.
- Implement the corporate-wide DNS for 80+ registered domains for 25+ publishing units
- Setup and test split DNS wif firewall administrator.
- Write sed & awk scripts to compile /etc/hosts file and create DNS configuration files.
- Support TSM and IBM Enterprise Tape Library backup environment.
Confidential
Team Lead UNIX
Responsibilities:
- Support Digital Alpha 8400 TRU64 servers running Oracle and Sybase. Administrative work involved assigning tasks to team members, consultants and interfacing wif the vendors for backup and storage requirements. Alpha 8400 32 CPU servers were configured wif reliable transaction router, IST4 middle-ware messaging, and ORACLE for multi-site real-time replication between geographically dispersed sites.
- Support Sterling Connect:Direct and NDM on Mainframe and distributed Open Systems.
- Support Digital StorageWorks Enterprise storage and fiber channel Ethernet networking.
- Maintain secure computing platform and compliance to pass internal security/audit guidelines, standards and policies. Subscribe to be on CERT security alert notification mailing list.
- Analyze operational requirements and implement solutions for Windows and UNIX interoperability, evaluate OSF DCE on Digital UNIX, and setup, troubleshoot and maintain TCP/IP LAN and dial-up networking wif hardware encryption and one-time password generator.
- Implement secure console access (terminal services) to monitor/capture/audit on-site and remote accesses to highly sensitive data to monitor unauthorized access by privileged users.
- Develop Korn Shell, Expect, Tcl, and Perl scripts for task and alert automation for lights-out operations.
- Support NetView network management software, Veritas, Legato Networker, ReelBack and StorageTek 9710 Automated Tape Library for backup and archive, and Digital StorageWorks hardware RAID box wif the dual failover controllers.
- Initiate a project to setup Intranet Web server to monitor and distribute systems status, project documents and system status reports. Designed web pages wif Perl, distributed shell (dsh), Java applets, JavaScript, and FrontPage running on Apache.
- Provide on-call support.
Confidential
Senior Software Engineer / Systems Engineer / Design Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Develop applications using MapInfo Graphical Information System (GIS) mapping software, SQL server, C/C++, and Visual Basic for BCIS (Battlefield Combat Identification Systems). The project involved real-time communications programming wif MIL-STD-1553A/B bus interface to the airborne computers on Army Apache attack helicopter, RS-232/RS-485 serial communications, SINCGARS data radio, Rockwell GPS receiver, and real-time display of targets wif symbols, icons, and locations on topographical map display. Demo was successfully carried out and won the phase two contract.
- Support Attaché, Brigade 96, Force 21, and other project proposals related to battlefield communications and situational awareness (C3I). The proposals involved joint efforts wif Lockheed-Martin and IBM Federal Systems. Assist business development and the project teams to provide the technical leadership wif a broad knowledge of system and technology alternatives. Hands-on role wif the application design, system architecture and systems integration of secure military communications and computers during the proposal development and demos.
- Embedded systems design engineer (Motorola 68360, OS-9, and pSOS+ real-time OS) to analyze, design, develop, integrate, and test TCP/IP and X.25 data communications systems for hand-held and mobile SINCGARS voice/data packet radio, and command and control computer systems. Expertise in setting up NDIS, ODI, HDLC protocol, and Packet Drivers to build multi-protocol bridges and routers wif Ethernet cards, wireless LAN, Yagi directional antenna. Familiar wif firmware design.
- Senior analog design engineer for GPS, W-Sensor board, and various internal research and development projects. Analog circuit designs involved low noise amplifier, A/D converter and high precision temperature sensors. Experience wif radiation hardened and mil-standard specs & design requirements, thermal analysis for heat dissipation and temperature control.
- Analyze hi-speed discrete components and circuits using Cadence Analog/PSpice EDA design, simulation & modeling tool for worst-case analysis, Monte Carlo analysis, parameter variation, temperature variation and stress analysis, and component/circuit-level reliability/predictive failure analysis for 7 year product life cycle. Heavy use of spectrum analyzer, hi-speed digital oscilloscope, waveform generator and other electronics instruments to analyze/generate/measure timing jitters, signal-to-noise ratio and other parameters for design and testing.
- Board-level system design and integration of PC-104 single board computers and VME 16/32/64 in Eurocard or 6U-form factor for battlefield communication systems.
- Provide guidance and direction on technical issues wif the system integration of data radios, mobile workstations.
- Program Visual Basic and National Instruments LabVIEW/LabWindows for instrumentation and measurement using digital I/O card, relay board, and GPIB card to automate test instruments to measure system specifications and performances of devices under test.
- Serve as an ECAD & CAE design automation committee member to re-engineer design automation process. Expertise working wif Cadence design tools, Signal Processing Workstation & digital signal processing (DSP) design tools, and Op-Net network modeling and simulations on SUN workstations.
- Support multi-vendor Windows, UNIX, SCO Unix, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, and Digital UNIX. Use NIS, NIS+, DNS, Automounter, and NFS to consolidate file servers. Use SNMP and PPP for system monitoring and remote access. Implement creative use of automount to support different hardware platforms and OS versions.
- Design, develop, and market Motorola DSP56000 development board, 16 bit A/D and D/A converter boards, and other peripheral hardware including RS232/RS485 and optoelectronics. Develop a true appreciation about the degree of difficulty involved in designing good A/D & D/A boards together wif other hi-speed digital circuitry.
- Develop software debugger, real-time audio spectrum analyzer, digital frequency synthesizer, and arbitrary waveform generator, embedded software and applications software for DSP development board. Use DSP assembler, DSP C, Microsoft C, and IMSL library in software and algorithm development.
- Design Graphical User Interface for embedded hardware system. Familiar wif using Standard Template Library (STL) & other third party C/C++ libraries, event driven programming model and object-oriented framework.
- Manage projects and time schedules to develop, complete, and deliver products. Interface wif vendors and advertising companies for purchasing parts and marketing products.
- Research & develop electronics hardware for 24 Mbit QAM modem for cable TV application. Design involved high-speed PLL, phase splitter, power splitter/combiner, high-speed A/D and D/A converters, Xilinx PGA, high-speed op-amps, other analog components, and AS/ALS/F logic ICs. Use design tools, e.g., OrCad for electronic schematic capture, Tango PCB for board layout, Xilinx PGA, and MathLab for calculating filter coefficients, waveform analysis & Digital Signal Processing.
- Develop/test block parity coding algorithm.
- Research/investigate various coding algorithms to improve bit-error rate.
- Military Communications Systems engineer to develop and research in Time Division Multiple Access, Low Probability and Intercept (LPI) communications, coding theory, cost analysis, and performance analysis. Perform Communication system modeling and simulation.
- Create testing and validation procedures of various communications subsystems including Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) - an L band TDMA data network radio system used by the USAF.
- Design and develop analog electronics in research & development lab.
- Secret clearance