SUMMARY: Senior IT infrastructure specialist with over ten years experience in project lead and supervisory roles in the IT Industry. Extensive experience with Infrastructure Architecture, Capacity Planning/Management, Datacenter Consolidation, UNIX Engineering and Administration and SAN Administration. Develop and implement standards for new technologies across IT infrastructure as part of my integration and engineering responsibilities. Have sound architectural knowledge of SUN and HP platforms running Solaris, Linux/Windows Operating Systems both on bare metal and on ESX VMware, Veritas Software for Open Systems including HA, Sun Volume Manager and SunCluter, EMC SAN Administration and experience in Sybase, Oracle, DB2, Informix, Web Sphere, MQ series and FAST environments. Intimately familiar with the intricacies associated with a large and complex IT Systems.

PROFESIONAL SUMMARY:

• Designed the Unix infrastructure for J P Morgan Investment Management US
• Designed the backup infrastructure .
• Designed and Successfully implemented multiple data center solution migrations.
• Designed multiple Business Continuity solutions.
• Architected multiple time savings solutions utilizing EMC's Timefinder which resulted in reducing application downtime by over 95 .

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Primary Skills:

• Software includes: 15 years Solaris and RedHat Lunix Systems Admin, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Netbackup, SUN Cluster, Solaris Volume Manager and File System Admin, NFS Admin, NIS Admin, DNS Admin, TCP/IP Admin, Automounter Admin, Tunning Kernel parameters and Shared Memory parameters for all applications. EMC Symmetrix Disk Array Admin SRDF/BCV , EMC Timefinder Admin, Legato Backup, Solstice Backup, Web Sphere, Iplanet, Sun One, Web Logic, WebSphere, MQseries, RabbitMQ, Jrun 3.x, Jboss, Tomcat, Apache, Autosys, Control-M, Puppet, ESM, SEM, Foglight, Nagios, Tivoli, Splunk, Perl, Python, Programming in Korne, Borne and c. Hardware includes: Sun Enterprise Servers, IBM Blade Servers, Dell Servers, HP Servers, EMC Symmetrix Storage, EMC Clarion Storage, Sun storage arrays, StorageTek tape libraries.
• Secondary Skills Experience With : Software includes: Sybase Support, Oracle RAC Support, DB2 Support, MySQL, MongoDB, Informix Support, HP-UNIX Admin, AIX Admin, SNMP, WebSphere, Windows Office Products, Programming in C, C , Pascal, Assembly, SQL, Netware, CAD Software
• Hardware includes: IBM RS6000, PC's, Communication Servers, Cisco/3Com Routers, Hub's, Multiplexors, Repeaters, Modems, DSU/CSU

EXPERIENCE:

Project Management

• Supervise system support personnel during and after application migration. Negotiate maintenance agreements and equipment contract pricing with vendors. Assist with equipment/software budget planning requirements. Plan and configure enterprise server for people soft, extensity, workspace and various other internal applications. Managed all system installs, moves, adds changes
• Coordinate and conduct customer training on migrated systems and applications. Put in place, procedures to minimize server down time, optimize computing power and simplify administration in SUNOS/Solaris/Linux environment. Review Engineering design specifications for technical feasibility and implement changes when necessary

Enterprise Storage Systems

EMC Storage Area Networks SAN , EMC DMX, VMAX Storage Arrays with MCDATA Cisco Switches, NAS Filers.

Sun Solaris/Red Hat Administration

• Configuring NIS Servers and Clients, including Troubleshooting NIS problems
• Installation and Configuration of Solaris Servers 2.1-2.10
• Setting up Jumpstart Server for Installation of Sun Solaris
• Configuring AUTOMOUNTER and Preparing maps
• Implementing NFS environment and troubleshooting issues
• Tuning Kernel Parameters, Network parameters, Tuning Shared Memory parameters for different applications such as Sybase, Oracle and various proprietary applications
• Developing Shell Programs to automate all the user, printer and network admin tasks
• SUN Solaris performance tuning, evaluation and monitoring
• SUN Cluster Installation/Configuration/Administration
• Administering DNS. Administering the Electronic Mail system.
• Handling power loss problems and system crashes. Scheduling maintenance programs through crontab files.
• Setting up the system log configuration. Reconfiguring the system kernel. Maintaining disks. Adding hardware to system. Maintaining printers and print servers.
• Maintaining TCP/IP related files and security in TCP/IP environments. Expanding the network. Diagnosing network problems
• Samba UNIX and Windows NT integration- sharing resources

Veritas Administration

• Hands on experience in Veritas Volume Manager RAID Configurations with EMC SYMMETRIX 3000/5000 Storage Array dmp
• Veritas Cluster - Installed and configured Veritas 2 node clusters for web servers, Sybase and Oracle database servers. Troubleshooting Veritas cluster
• Veritas Netbackup Installation/configuration/troubleshooting
• Sun Solstice DiskSuite and Solaris Volume Manger Disk Administration
• Installation of the DiskSuite Software, Creating metadevices stripe, mirror, concat, trans devices, Disk Mirroring and Striping for Sybase and Oracle Database

LEGATO NETWORKER Administration - BACKUP/RESTORE TOOL

• Migrating from Legato 5.1 to 5.5.4 to 6.0
• Implementing, supporting, and maintaining Enterprise backup solutions
• Installation and Configuration of Legato Server
• Legato - Disaster Recovery using scanner and mmrecov
• Managing Media and client Indexes, setting up Groups, Schedule Directives and Policies
• Troubleshooting of failed backups, maintaining overall backup schedules and procedures, providing daily status of backups and assisting in client recoveries
• Integration of new enterprise backup clients and their respective modules into backup strategy
• Training of junior staff to support Legato Networker

Installing and Configuring Netscape Enterprise Server Iplanet SUN One

• Creating and Administering Servers, Assigning Ports and Managing Servers Using Browser Administrator Tool
• Installation and Configuration of Web Logic and Jrun 3.x

Installing and Configuring Autosys

• Creating and Administering Autosys Scheduling Server bundled and unbundled
• Creation of JIL scripts and modification of process

Database Installation and Configuration

• Installed and Configured Sybase Servers, creation of logins, groups, setup privileges and run adhoc queries. Creation and maintenance of data and dump devices, stored procedures, triggers and views
• Installation and Support of Oracle Servers

EMPLOYMENT:

Confidential

Technical Manager, Application and Infrastructure Operations

Responsible for client relationship and management of 24x7 production operations service supporting Verizon Media Suites, CCMP Capital and Tempo Financial video streaming, gaming site, FiOS cable setup boxes, FiOS Mobility and Financial Services Infrastructure. Provide technical services including monitoring, incident, problem and release management functions. Support change management process, develop implementation instructions and provide architecture and engineering recommendations based on production operations and systems metrics. Manage all aspects of project including administration of staff, shifts schedules, budgets, P/L statements and contract development and negotiation.

Confidential

Team Lead/Engineering and Infrastructure

As an Infrastructure Technologist my current role involves creating architecture solutions including but not limited to analyzing application profiles from application owners and business, applying right product mix from standardized engineering offerings, using infrastructure tools like Foglight, BMC, InfoVista and ECC for determining current capacity usage for existing applications , factoring in future volume growth for the business and providing target environment entertaining Server Consolidation and Server Suppression where applicable. Responsibility also includes managing Technical Capacity Request System Workflow for provisioning server capacity for existing/new business requirements after determining capacity on physical or virtual servers. Financial responsibility includes providing different options to clients with customized technology solutions that are optimal from the perspectives of cost, architecture and operations. Level III support for UNIX and SAN production related issues.

Confidential

Unix Engineering/Architect

Lead Unix Engineer in the design, implementation and documentation of multiple Disaster Recovery Plans. Designed, implemented and documented the move from a distributed backup strategy to the current backup strategy using a single backup server with multiple storage nodes and san based backups. Involved in a number of other projects including the datacenter move from mid-town New York to downtown New York and from New York to Delaware server migrations between New York, and Delware. Storage consolidation onto EMC storage data migrations between local EMC symmetrix frames data migrations between EMC frames at different sites using ISCSI routers. Performance monitoring, analysis and tunning using UNIX and third party tools.

Confidential

Senior Unix System Administrator/Project Manager

Migration and Centralization of various corporate applications, including people soft, extensity, workspace and various other applications. Provide third level support to all migrated and supported applications/systems. Manage various size teams 3-10 , based on scope of each project. Work with NIS, NFS, DNS, and Veritas. Setup and customize HA clusters using Veritas softwares. Heavily involved with setting up new servers after the 9/11 disaster. Involved with the planning and engineering of new servers at different sites for disaster recovery. Administer web applications including Netscape Server, Iplanet, Cold Fusion, Jrun, Web Logic and others. Involved with large Solaris Servers, including E10K/E15K with EMC symmetrix storage.

Confidential

Senior Unix System Administrator

Supported traders and developers running relational database applications on Sybase, Oracle and Informix. Administered web applications including Netscape Server, Iplanet, Cold Fusion, Jrun, Web Logic and others. Supervised and Trained Support Team. Provided user support and troubleshooting of system problems, file backups and restoration. Managed and configured printers. Performed various file system maintenance duties. Supported systems running Veritas Cluster and Veritas Volume Manger. Installed and Managed Legato Backup Server 5.x/6.x, including scheduling backups, doing restores, Sybase copy overs and troubleshooting. Also supported HP-Unix Servers.

Confidential

Senior Unix System Administrator

Supported traders and developers running relational database applications with Sybase. Managed Market Data Systems for trader applications. Administered Middleware DCE/Encina in Development and Production. Support all client projects and give system direction. Installed and Managed large NIS and NFS environment.

Confidential

Unix System Administrator

System Administration of users, workstations and servers in a SunOS environment. Set up and supported SunOS running NIS, NFS and DNS. Provide system support for relational database systems.

Confidential

Unix System/Network Administrator

System Administration of users, workstations and servers in a SUN Operating System environment. Set up and supported SunOS as well as NIS and NFS for the application development group.

Confidential

System/Network Administrator

Administered of users as well as servers, workstations and applications in Novell, Windows and Unix based environments.