SUMMARY:

• Over 25+ years of diverse experience in information technology with skills ranging from project management, network and UNIX based operating Systems
• UNIX/Linux based software application implementation projects.
• Hands on implementation experience with LAN/WAN design projects.
• Conduct research and emerging technologies testing and POC implementation.
• Shell Programming Languages on UNIX/Linux and Powershell on Windows.
• 15 years of people management experience consisting of teams with Networking, Web Dev, Storage
• Hands on experience with graphics design, creative processing for advertising agencies.
• Capacity planning/forecasting cycle design and implementation engineer.
• Financial planning, capital investment budgeting and pricing for all IT elements.
• Strategic planning, business development and market analysis.
• Management of operations support teams.
• Disaster recovery and business continuity Specialist.
• Business intelligence reporting and forecasting advanced skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Unix/Linux flavors/distros, Windows, OpenVMS, Storage Operating systems.

Hardware: Enterprise Class Sun, Oracle, HP, Dell Servers. EMC, Netapp, Pure, Dell, HP, Hitachi storage systems. Fiber ANSI SCSI SAN Architect. Cisco MDS/Nexus SAN expert.

Switches: Connectrix. Brocade, Cisco MDS HBA - Emulex, JNI, qLogic.

Software: Veritas storage products, WAFL, ZFS, EMC Control Center, vSphere/ESXi, RHEL mutipathing and Powerpath. Veritas Cluster Server, BMC PNET, BMC Contro-M, Netapp OCI Insight (SANScreen), Aptare, Virtual Instruments, Netapp OCUM/OCPM/WFA.

Scripting: UNIX Shell, Perl, Powershell.

Application Protocols: DNS, DHCP, SNMP, UNIX • Authentication Protocols - NIS, LDAP.

Messanging protocols: POP3, IMAP and SMTP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Unix/Linux/Storage and Backup/Network Security Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Administration, design, deployment and control all Unix/Linux infrastructure Also design and control of server security and server appliances on the network.
• Creation and revision of MOPs, SMOPs and SOPs repository for technical documentation and solution development of critical issues.
• Analysis and critical troubleshooting of all the environment. Lead Specialist for Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity solutions and implementation.
• Lead specialist for major operating environment data and hardware migrations.
• Data protection, Storage and Backup specialist responsibilities from design and vendor/technology selection/testing to implementation/upgrade of existing technologies.
• Virtualization environments development and design lead engineer on the Unix/Linux environment. Main resource for open source technologies and alternatives solutions.
• Lead engineer for Oracle RAC implementation on commodity hardware and virtualized environments.

Confidential

PC and Macintosh Sr. Engineer/Technician

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting in cross-platform compatibility between PC, Mac and Unix. Deployment and configuration of multiple platforms equipment and software.
• Creation of MOPs, SMOPs and SOPs for technical documentation of critical and standard issues.
• Analysis of graphic design, pre press, printing, publishing and web development environments for a publishing company.
• Support, monitoring and alarm for day to day help desk control infrastructure.

Confidential

Network Security and Microsoft Administrator/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed and Monitored Sun Microsystems Solaris And Sun OS based environment with several clustering technologies (details at the end of the paragraph).
• Use of different BMC (Patrol, Predict, Remedy, AOTS, etc…) products to analyze, predict and monitor corporate level environments nationwide to deploy and perform every kind of troubleshooting and upgrades to Unix, Mainframes and Microsoft operating systems Man, Lan and Wan.
• Report on status of jobs and backup systems. Participated in disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Ensured off site storage requirements are met. capacity planning for network servers and equipment.
• Other functions include storage forecast planning, quota management monitoring
• Clustering solutions (Sun, Veritas, Hitachi, EMC), load balancing. developed applications for dynamic
• Web servers of several technologies like J2EE, JBuilder, JSP and Cold Fusion working with Oracle 6i, 8i and 9i. IBM Websphere ND, BEA Weblogic, Sun ONE, IPlanet server family, Cold Fusion, ASP .Net, JSP and PHP Developer
• Maintained an NT Dot .Net Frame Dynamic Web Application Server (ASP .Net)

Confidential

IS/IT Director-Server/Security Arquitect

Responsibilities:

• Managed and Monitored Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 through Windows 2003 (Active Directory) network servers. Monitored event logs and disk space
• Troubleshooted server hardware and software problems with Microsoft and 3rd party software solutions. Managed software and O/S licensing.
• Monitored and tuned network environment. Assisted with automation of account creation, server hardware and software/BIOS upgrades and updates, server builds, server hardware/software ordering, security updates, operating systems, server agent installs. Monthly maintenance of servers and associated peripherals
• Managed Windows updates - driver updates - agent updates backup and restores. Lead Legato Networker and CA Brightstor engineer
• Report on status of jobs and backup system. Lead for disaster recovery planning and testing. Ensured off site storage requirements are met
• Lead the initiative for capacity planning for network servers and equipment.

Confidential

Director/Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed team of technicians. Providing supports for thousands of users. Data Integrity, Networks securities, Maintained company website adhering to best practices for data processing site (operations, implementation / change control, back-up / restore / archival, business recovery, documentation and procedures).
• Maintained External / Internal DNS tables. Design, configuration and critical troubleshooting of traditional routed LAN and VLAN network topologies for several environments and proprietary technologies including traffic and collision, capture of data and latency and broadcast segment problems. Developed the change management environment and the technical documentation initiative.
• Implemented disaster recovery and business continuity plans.