SUMMARY

Extensive background as a software developer, IT consultant and systems administrator. Tools development for Windows and UNIX client-server computing platforms. Systems administration focused on high availability, robustness, and continuous quality improvement.

PLATFORMS

• Windows, Linux, HP 9000, Sun, IBM BladeCenter AIX and Linux , VMware
• TOOLS
• Wise for Windows Installer, InCntrl5, Reggen, Ghost, VMware, Veritas Backup, Retina Network Security Scanner
• Kofax, Captaris Alchemy
• C/C , CCS PCM Compiler, Visual BASIC 6, Perl, Tcl-Tk, POSIX Shell, FORTRAN
• ORACLE, ERwin, MySQL, Sybase, Ingres, Informix
• UNIX HP-UX, AIX, Linux, Solaris, IRIX , Windows, Cygwin, WebSphere, IBM Content Manager, Common Store
• Apache/IBM IHS Server, Tomcat
• Visual Source Safe, Subversion Repository, CVS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IT Consultant

Confidential

• Day-to-day duties have included managing and maintaining approximately 120 CentOS and VM servers in a small data center. Data center best practices including HVAC, cabling, and rack-mount equipment. Managed several mid/long-term projects and coordinated resources to achieve project goals.
• High-end ACT and Penguin computing equipment for HPC clusters, Cisco networking, VMware virtualization:
• CentOS System Installation and Administration
• LDAP/NIS
• Bind DNS
• Bash/Perl scripting
• LAMP stack administration
• Switches, Routers, and Firewalls
• Cisco Catalyst/Firewall ASDM
• Wireless networks
• Munin and Nagios Servier Network Monitoring
• SSH Remote-access admin and site-to-site VPN
• Virtualization VMWare and Linux VirtualHost
• Backup and disaster recovery planning
• IT planning and strategy

Sr. Software Engineer

Confidential

• Perform root-cause analysis to identify problems and their causes in processes or systems,
• Perform critiques and post-job assessments to measure results and performance at the end of a project.
• Primary administration and end-user support for a lab-wide document scanning and repository system implemented with Kofax 10.0 scanning-software, Captaris Alchemy 9.0 repository software, and Kodak high-speed scanners.
• ORACLE, Kofax, Alchemy, Ghost, Borland C , Test scripts, XML, Paradox, SEI CMM.

Programmer Analyst

Confidential

• Color Tiff Scan Project: worked with S/W developers to enhance the DocStorage scanUtility. Developed several shell scripts to process scan results to indentify color tiff files.
• Document and metadata conversion and loading,
• On-line redaction/review capabilities,
• Data modeling utilizing the Entity Relationship Diagram features in TOAD,
• Data integrity checking,
• Report generation and automation using CRON to execute optimized queries of ORACLE DBs,
• Document processing methodologies for compressed deadlines, and minimizing impacts on production DBs.
• Tools developed in PERL, PL/SQL, and BASH Shell on LINUX.
• Automated document categorization - Developed a PERL wrapper for CategoriX Java-based document categorizer from XRCE Grenoble Research Center which automatically detected and assigned documents to specific legal categories responsive/privileged thus obviating the need for legally trained reviewers.
• Interfacing with SW Development - New Mime Type analysis and DB schema update to t document types ORACLE table

IT Specialist

Confidential

• AIX/Linux Systems Administration - Administration and software installation for AIX servers running DB2, WebSphere, IBM Content Manager and Common Store. Responsibilities included:
• Posix Shell and PHP/XML scripting for the web-based ticket system and Wiki document server,
• Working with application development project teams to monitor and measure computer system resource consumption and Java-based application performance using such UNIX tools as nmon.
• SUSE Linux servers running Apache and RSA Secure Authentication Server.
• AIX, SUSE Linux, WebSphere, DB2, Posix Shell, PHP, HTML, XML

Consultant

Confidential

• Lead role interfacing with another GE business to adopt best practices for packaging Exceed, and a dozen engineering applications,
• Utilized Six Sigma strategies to define CTQs for continuous process improvement,
• Conceptualized and implemented a Virtual IP-based Lifeboat layer to preserve access to legacy UNIX apps on MS Windows next generation workstations.
• Developed a Visual Basic client software package installation tool called Software Store.
• Windows, Wise for Windows Installer, Ghost, VMWare, InCntrl5, Reggen, Visual Basic

UNIX Software Administration

Confidential

• Engineering application packaging for the HPUX, Linux and IRIX environments. Deployed to the GE Energy engineering environment the following:
• - eTracker web-based SCR request tool - implemented in PERL
• - Samba and Apache web admin for five virtual hosts
• - Pgeadmin NIS Tool development - Perl Tcl-Tk
• - Asset Management web-based tool - Perl Tcl-Tk
• - MySQL RDBMS admin ECS, Asset Management and eTracker
• - Ingres relational Database Installation on HPUX - analysis through deployment
• - FlexLm License administration
• - Implemented the web-pages and DBs for two EPIM teams' on-line customer surveys
• - Citrix Server and ICA Client installation and packaging
• - EPAS Apache Tomcat/Java Troubleshooting Admin
• - Engineering application packaging and installation using HPUX Software Distributor
• - New applications on-boarded: BladePro and Matlab - analysis through deployment
• - IRIX packaging for cross platform Windows client support.
• Skills and tools utilized included NIS, automount map, HP Software Distributor, PERL/Tcl-Tk and POSIX Shell.
• Defined metrics for measuring performance of said processes or systems to drive Service Level Agreements SLA in our service contract,
• Demonstrated a consistently high-level of troubleshooting analytical skills,
• Developed a Likert-scale based on-line customer survey to help gather performance statistics and measure customer satisfaction.
• Enhanced UNIX Team on-line documentation BERTdocs . Maintained Above Average or Outstanding individual ratings on all customer surveys.

UNIX, HP, NIS, Software Distributor, PERL/Tcl-Tk, Posix Shell

Confidential

• Developed enhancements to telemetry software which collected, in real-time, rotating temperature data from prototype testing of the 7FB Turbine conducted at the Gas Turbine Technology Lab. Implemented a Cold Junction Methodology algorithm designed to compensate for internal thermo-couple failures and spurious readings. The software ran error-free, the first-time, for several days during tests performed on the actual turbine machine generating reliable temperature data critical to a major GE utility customer.
• Consulted with GTTL engineering staff to define required enhancements, produce estimates, and implement software changes, in order to support new turbine designs:
• Developed software project plans and schedules to support the implementation, testing and deployment of two telemetry recording software programs,
• Developed specifications to define the requirements and document software system designs,
• Produced system administration and user's guide documentation.
• Software was implemented in C/C and POSIX Shell on an HP 3600 running HPUX 10.

UNIX C/C , POSIX Shell

• Data Mining - Developed enhancements to a web-based application which accessed an Oracle DB storing turbine and generator parts information. Developed a stored-procedure which utilized a recursive algorithm to explode turbine parts and all their sub-assemblies. Procedure was developed using ORACLE Developer 2000. Also utilized MS Access to pull main-frame based turbine data from legacy systems, merge it, and load into the ORACLE server. Software developed in PL/SQL, C, Pro C.
• Solutions Center Confidential - Developed enhancements to a client-server order processing and factory production system for Windows NT. Developed in C/C and Visual Basic using Visual Studio, Windows APIs, SQL/ODBC, COM/DCOM and document automation. Databases implemented in Sybase and SQL Anywhere.

Windows NT, Windows APIs, SQL/ODBC, Visual C/C , Sybase

Systems Analysis

Confidential

Performed a database performance tuning study on a client-server turbine-design system. Databases were implemented in Sybase. Effort included the development of a new schema and PERL scripts to migrate the data from the old schema to the new one. Also developed PERL code and POSIX shell scripts to automate the timing tests and run comparisons between the two systems. Wrote final report in HTML for access on a web-server based documentation repository.

Software Engineer

Confidential

Developed custom user interfaces in Visual Basic on Windows 95, which accessed full-text document databases on NT servers. Developed web page front-ends in HTML and CGI filters in C and PERL as part of hosting services and web-services development.

NT, Solaris, HP-UX, CGI, PERL

Electronic Publishing Product Development - Developed and ported full-text document engines for Windows NT, Solaris and HP-UX servers. Software was developed in C/C using Microsoft App Developer's Studio and Kuck and Associates C software development tools. Modules developed included the client-server sockets layer and the IPC portions of the Web Server component.

NT, Solaris, HP-UX, IPC, Sockets