SUMMARY:

• Currently working for Confidential at a world class d Confidential center supporting Middle Tier servers. Confidential is a Travel Commerce Platform, a global company providing solutions for Airlines (hosting several, such as Delta Air Lines), Car Rental Companies, Hotels, Travel Agencies
• Corporate Travel Departments, Tour Companies, Cruise Companies, E - Business Companies (such as Orbitz, Expedia, Priceline), and Governmental Agencies.
• They provide multiple applications for daily operations as well as for connecting the traveling public with companies that provide travel services.
• One of their most mission critical applications is e-Pricing which provides pricing for air travel tickets on any airline from around the world. This service must be accurate and timely requiring an uptime of almost 100%.
• Engineer Linux solutions for multiple applications - Manage complex implementations and migrations - Coordinate effectively with multiple groups - Working knowledge of Networks, LDAP, DNS.
• Timely Project Implementations - Effective Team Member - Knowledge Transfer through detailed documentation - Learning new and innovative solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Apache-Tomcat, Apache-Zookeeper, Apache-Kafka, Apache-Storm
• Apache-Hadoop, Horton Works Ambari, Cisco UCS, VMWare, Docker
• Docker RepositoryRed Hat Enterprise Linux: RHEL 5, RHEL 6, RHEL 7
• Red Hat Cluster Suite, LVM, Multipath, SAN, NAS, SNMP, Ganglia, Nagios
• HTML.Red Hat Satellite Server, Red Hat Directory Server, Altiris
• Active Directory, DNS, Firewalls, Load Balancer, Hitachi Storage, Tivoli Monitor.
• WebSphere: MQSeries, Message Broker, WAS, ILOG, DMGR.
• Oracle DB, Informix DB, DB2, Tuxedo, MQIPT.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Part of a team that designs, implements and supports numerous applications running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Our current emphasis is on building tools for rapid deployment in our private cloud with an eye to the future use of the public cloud.
• To achieve this goal of rapid deployment in a virtual environment, our team uses the many options available in Red Hat Satellite Server, Red Hat Directory Server, VMWare, and a locally developed provisioning server, Workload Manager.
• Responsible for supporting the WebSphere Suite of Applications, with main support for WebSphere MQSeries. We are currently upgrading all servers to RHEL6, which requires a complete rebuild of every server and MQ QManager.
• Also support WebSphere Application Server (WAS) which is a prime candidate for rapid deployment. Working with Big D Confidential Development Team using Hortonworks Ambari to setup and deploy Hadoop; HDP, Hive, Zookeeper, Solr, Kafka, Storm.
• Build test frameworks using Python-behave tool and automate them using Jenkins. Becoming familiar with containers; Enterprise Platform Team setting up Docker with Jenkins, Github, Docker Repository.
• Building environments on RHEL7 using VMWare with rapid provisioning tools. Assigned as Automation Test Lead to identified and developed automated testing scripts using Mercury Test Suite (WinRunner, Test Director, Load Runner) to perform regression, performance and load testing.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Supported numerous applications in middle tier environment running on Linux, working closely with Server Engineering, Network Engineering, and Windows Support to ensure 99% availability of systems for Airlines
• Internet Clients and Travel Agencies who rely on our systems to make reservations on Airlines, Auto Rentals, Hotels and Cruises. My Primary responsibility was supporting MQSeries in a Clustered environment running RHEL4 on Confidential x346 Intel servers.
• The MQ Clusters provide connectivity to numerous vendors and connectivity between the Confidential Mainframes and the e-Pricing farm. Planned, tested and implemented migration of Kinetics Terminal Emulation Application from RHEL3 on a DL380 to RHEL4 running under VMWare.
• Used wxPython heavily for widgets and features involved in creating a typical desktop application. Enforced CRUD permissions using MySQL and presented them with the beautiful wxPython widgets. Development and implemented automation framework for a client/server call tracking application

Confidential, Boston, MA

Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Supported numerous applications in middle tier environment running on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and Linux, working closely with Server Engineering, Network Engineering, Windows Support to ensure 99% availability of systems for Airlines, Internet Clients and
• Travel Agencies who rely on the Confidential systems to make reservations on Airlines, Auto Rentals, Hotels and Cruises. Migrated WebSphere MQSeries from AIX running on P670 to RHEL4 running on x346.
• Recreated all MQ environments on Intel servers running RHEL4 with Red Hat Cluster Suite (using multipath to EMC ESAN), modifying all monitor scripts to run on Linux, modifying all monitors on our team web page to reflect the new environments, and creating documentation of all new environments on our team wiki. Migrated storage from EMC to Hitachi on all clustered environment. Worked with Hitachi to minimize down time (Hitachi plan called for 2 to 4 hour downtime doing migration on Hitachi Device).
• Planned and tested procedure using LVM to do migration and implemented procedure in production for MQSeries Clusters with no downtime or impact to users. Supported Kinetics
• Terminal Emulation Application running RHEL3 on DL380. Total support for application, planning for adding or deleting users with needed configuration changes on servers and corresponding mainframes. Day to day responsibilities include primary support for MQSeries and Kinetics Servers, and secondary support for all other applications running on Solaris, AIX and Linux (Oracle, UDB, TSM, Netview, Content Manager, Portal), plus DNS, ONCALL beeper rotation for UNIX/DNS, and preproduction program load support for all windows applications in the middle tier environment

Confidential, Boston, MA

Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported MQSeries on HP-UX and Kinetics Terminal Emulation Application on Linux. Stabilized clustered environment for MQSeries on HP-UX. Built and implemented plans for ordered failover of MQ QManagers during application and system upgrades to minimize downtime and impacts.
• Planned and implemented migration of Kinetics Terminal Emulation Application from Red Hat 7.2 to RHEL3. Total support for Kinetics Application. Participated in group planning for migration of all applications from HP-UX to AIX.