SUMMARY:

• An I.T. professional and self labeled geek - ette with many years of experience developing, maintaining and supporting complex software systems under multiple operating systems and languages while providing proactive communications with customers and channel partners.
• My career began as a system administrator, and over the years I honed my skills to a systems engineering and programming level, but always with a DevOps philosophy, even before the industry knew what DevOps was.
• A team builder who has excelled many times at being a manager and supervisor for various companies but yet maintained a technical edge and hands on engineering abilities.
• I am someone who enjoys seeing and assisting in the personal growth of team members and peers alike.
• I have successfully built and implemented many sustainable and expandable solutions for companies and would enjoy bringing my skill set to your company.
• 10+ years leading/managing systems personnel in various capacities.
• 16+ years of Linux kernel, OS and application experience (12 yrs RedHat, 4 yrs Gentoo, 12 yrs Slackware, 4 yrs SUSE, 8 yrs Debian, 10 yrs Mandrake, 15 yrs Ubuntu flavors)
• 15+ administering and building Microsoft Windows server and desktop environments
• 15+ years of experience as Unix (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, SCO Unix, Ultrix) administrator.
• 1+ AWS (Amazon Web Services)
• 15+ total years of scripting experience; Perl(10+ yrs), korn(12 yrs), Bourne/BASH(12 yrs), C-shell(18 yrs)
• Installation, configuration & support of various application servers, software, databases & web servers; DB2, Oracle(8i,9i,10g), Informix, MQ series, Confidential WebSphere Application Server 2.x to 5.x, Jboss, Tomcat, Confidential HTTP Server Administration, Apache, iPlanet, LDAP, sendmail, Mysql, DHCP, Bind.
• Networking experience in WAN and LAN support and Network Protocols(TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, OSPF, RIP, BGP).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Server Software/Middleware: Jboss, Tomcat, Sendmail, Smail, Postfix, FTP, NFS, Bind, INN, SSH, c-news, Samba, Apache 1.x and 2.x, Domino GO, IHS 1.3/2.x, Netscape Enterprise Server 4.x, IIS, WebSphere 2.x to 5.x, JRun, Vignette, Network Dispatcher, LDAP(IDS, OpenLDAP), DB2, MySQL, Tivoli Storage Manager and various other Tivoli tools.

Programming Languages/Environments: C(++), BBX and Thoroughbred Basic, Dbase II-IV, COBOL, SQL, HTML, Bourne Script, Korn shell, PERL, Python, PHP, SQL, Currently learning GOLANG

Automation Suites/Platforms: Puppet 3yr, Ansible 2yr, Salt(Min), VMware VRO/VRA, Docker, Expert custom scripting solutions.

Hardware: HP, Confidential, Sun, Unisys, VAX and MicroVAX - including but not limited to memory, disk, hardware and peripheral upgrades, installs. Toshiba systems, and various phone equipment, network and phone cabling, patch panels, punch downs, etc. Cisco and other network devices.

Storage: SAN, NAS, RAID, Fiber Channel, LVM, HP FC Disk Arrays, CIFS), Samba, NFS, GFS/2, EMC

Networking: Alteon and Cisco routers and load balancers, Ascend, Bay Networks, Bridges, Multiplexors, T1, 56KB and ISDN equipment, High speed LAN/WAN equipment, Network Analyzers.

Network Management software: HP Openview, RADView. WAN and VLAN Telecommunications using dialup PPP, leased line, xDSL and ISDN technologies. Protocols used include TCP/IP, PPP, ML-PPP. Knowledge of firewalls and Internet security. Experienced with DDS, Frame Relay, and ISDN technologies and the related support equipment.

Secure data transactions such as: SSL s and encryption technologies in support of web based applications.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Long Island City, NY

Senior Linux Engineer/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Leading the CTR TDP project which includes new process and procedures to allow for future growth and ease of security mitigations and patching
• Leading the efforts for integration of the CTR TDP platform into the new private cloud Data Center Rationalization project.
• Maintained a scalable elastic compute endpoint for all technologies involved and self developed
• Leading RnD project for micronization and conversion of current TDP platform using Docker and containers
• Managed and guided several junior and senior engineers and admins during their introduction to the the various Linux projects and continue to be a mentor and guide while managing the teams direction
• Developed a custom orchestration methodology which leveraged Puppet Enterprise and completely automated server deployment and application installation and config.
• Converted automation over to Ansible to reduce costs and increase speed and ease of use for scaling and deployments.
• Developed a procedure and all supporting scripts in bash, perl, python, for deploying a complex middleware application to hundreds of servers in multiple silos/environments in an increasingly rapid amount of time over the course of the project. Original roll - out of infrastructure and platform was three(3) to four(4) weeks, reduced this to three hours including server build out and platform instantiation.
• Currently working on a new datacenter project to develop a private cloud for JetBlues biggest existing compute environments which consists of multiple DR sites, ESX, VMware, VRO/VRA, and various other components.
• Currently guide and assist the ITPE team with continually documenting all current processes and standards while also developing with the team processes to procedures to transfer this knowledge to our technology business partners.
• Assisted is developing a server naming convention which is now a JetBlue standard.

Confidential, Long Island City, NY

Senior Linux/UNIX Engineer/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed and maintained multiple installations of Linux distributions including but not limited to Oracle Linux, Suse, RH5.x, Centos.
• Maintained clustered environment for three tier development architecture.
• Responsible for level 3 on - call 24x7 support, RCAs, tuning, optimization and storage capacity management.
• Support all middleware for a complex SAP/Oracle/Web based business.
• Installing, setup, network integration, tuning and ongoing maintenance of load balancers.
• Installed and maintained Linux, Sun and HP systems for multiple Confidential customers. Number of servers per customer ranged from 10 to 1000s.
• Setup an SSL procurement, setup and maintenance.
• Created, documented and supported various Perl and shell scripts to support servers. Backup scripts, log file rotation scripts, DB maintenance scripts, etc.
• Install, tune and maintain various web servers such as IHS, Apache, IIS.
• Responsible for engineering tasks such as developing interim and long term storage solutions, rolling out automated tools such as puppet and chef, consolidation of physical hosts to virtual, etc.

Confidential, East Fishkill, NY

Senior Linux/UNIX Engineer/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed and maintained Linux, Sun and HP systems for multiple Confidential customers.
• Setup and maintain multiple Linux clusters and HA systems.
• Responsible for engineering and supporting 'support' solutions and POCs for team and environments.
• Responsible for level 3 on - call 24x7 support, RCAs, tuning, optimization and storage capacity management.
• Liaise with project office, delivery office and customer along with DB, development and application teams to ensure timely project delivery.
• Participated in highly matrixed global service delivery team environment for purposes of new projects and technology reviews.
• Mentor and provide guidance for junior and mid level admins.
• Created, documented and supported various Perl and shell scripts to support servers. Backup scripts, log file rotation scripts, DB maintenance scripts, etc.
• Responsible for implementing security fixes as they were identified and provided by the Confidential security team.

Confidential, White Plains, NY

Senior Engineer/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assisting managers with recruitment,, supervision, and evaluation of seven(7) to ten(10) employees and then finally managing twelve(12) systems people along with outside technical vendors and business partners
• Responsible for outsourcing and overseeing technical vendors and consultants as needed for various projects.
• Responsible for security infrastructure, procedures and reporting
• Engineered and built a highly scalable and robust production infrastructure.
• Responsible for creating policies and procedures along with thorough documentation; ie. disaster recovery plans, security plans, access policies, etc.
• Provide technical leadership to junior systems administrators and developers.
• Responsible for documentation repository.
• Successfully integrated I.T. infrastructure and staff of recently acquired 200 seat collection agency located in Las Vegas.
• Successfully completed major redesign and move of production server environment from large data center based in Secaucus, NJ to a NY based data center within two months of joining company.
• Engineered a solution to replace $500,000 predictive dialer and phone system with a low cost Linux and open source solution completely supported by internal staff.
• Replaced proprietary mail system with an open source solution thereby allowing integration of remote and satellite offices and realizing a significant savings on licensing and labor costs.

Confidential, Marlboro, NY

Owner

Responsibilities:

• Supported and engineered successful solutions for trading infrastructures.
• Heavily involved in tuning kernel, network and general OS for low latency environments.
• Supported RMDS, Tibco/RV environments.
• Also involved with support FIX. Provided root cause analysis and worked directly with traders and system architects to improve overall aspects of systems.
• Provided 24x7 oncall support as needed.
• Managed and supervised up to sixteen(16) contractors for Confidential at Confidential .
• Assist in the design and implementation of technologies on multi - platform global level systems.
• Level 3 support, RCA, tuning, optimization and storage capacity management
• Liaise with project office and delivery office and customer to ensure timely project delivery
• Participated in highly matrixed global service delivery team environment for purposes of new projects and technology reviews
• Mentor and provide guidance for junior level admins
• Helped to maintain a 99.95 percent Service Level Agreement for web site availability.
• Performed problem determination and resolution in a timely manner.
• Installing, tune and maintaining web middleware such as WebSphere, JRun, Vignette, MQ Series, etc.
• Installing, setup and maintenance of DB2, Oracle, MYSQL, LDAP and various databases in support of web middleware.
• Installing, setup, network integration, tuning and ongoing maintenance of load balancers.
• Created, documented and supported various Perl and shell scripts to support servers. Backup scripts, log file rotation scripts, DB maintenance scripts, etc.
• Interfaced directly with customers and internal Confidential teams to resolve problems and address ongoing web site evolution.
• Install, tune and maintain various web servers such as IHS, Apache, IIS.
• SSL procurement, setup and maintenance.
• Responsible for implementing security fixes as they were identified and provided by the Confidential security team.

Consultant

Confidential, Mahwah, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Initially hired to develop complete Internet services for Real Time.
• Began developing business plan which would compliment Real Time? current business model.
• Developed technical strategy for Internet implementation and ramp up of services.
• Developed marketing plan for initial roll out to existing companies and perspective clients.
• Responsible for in - house and documentation for Internet technologies and UNIX.
• In conjunction with the above; provided UNIX and Wide Area Networking consulting services to clients.
• Other consulting functions as required.