SUMMARY

• Versatile, resourceful IT Professional with 20 years of experience supporting global
• manufacturing operations with Space System Loral and at LSI Corporation. Successfully held Systems Analyst, Developer, System Administrator and Test Engineer roles in a rapidly growing Data Center with UNIX/Linux/Solaris/Citrix servers, 1TB+ of disk space and critical engineering and production applications such as dataPOWER.
• Accomplished technical generalist, skilled at working with others, including SMEs, to bridge the gap between business objectives and technology capabilities.
• Attack all projects with a positive attitude and sense of urgency; adept at staying on - task and on-time despite shifting priorities and tight deadlines.
• Proven ability to streamline, optimize and maintain system functionality, performance and recoverability in a mission-critical environment. Consistently leverage existing technologies to maximize organization benefit.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Perl, Shells, Awk

SKILLSDatabases: SQL Server, dataPOWER

Platforms: Sun Solaris, RedHat Linux, UNIX, Citrix

Networking: DNS, HP OpenView, Legato

Software: MS Office Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Streamlined backup of servers and data storage
• Set up Windows/LDAP accounts
• Setup and maintained remote access accounts
• Installed OS on Linux and Unix Servers

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Assumed complete control of yield database and enhanced Perl programs and Apache to require 35% less support.
• Performed extensive application modifications as disk space requirements increased from low megabytes to gigabytes.
• Streamlined data import process by 75% and improved application uptime 85%.
• Reduced need to purchase additional disk space or larger data servers. Created applications that periodically cleaned up engineering data servers, increasing availability of working space for incoming designs.
• Pivotal resource in altering major application to support company merge. Applied in-depth understanding of customer business practices and architecture to seamlessly combine several features of 2 applications into one.

System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Relocated engineering department of 100+ people to new data center, with little to no business interruption.
• Regularly upgraded Sun servers/workstations with latest OS, reducing downtime 65% and on-call support 45%.
• Upgraded old and installed new NetApp storage servers which increased the amount of disk storage by 30%. Providing disk space for Engineering using NFS and CIFS.
• Doubled amount of disk storage by installing new Dell data storage servers with RedHat Linux.
• Provided accurate and thorough problem resolution, increasing overall test floor yield at global sites by 97%+.
• Wrote and maintained engineering and production applications used by hundreds of engineers.