SUMMARY

• Information Technology Leader with special abilities in UNIX and Redhat LINUX engineering, leading technical teams and designing, developing and maintaining highly available computer systems and applications in the retail, health care, insurance, DoD and software vendor industries.
• Experienced in application software development, deployment, support and performance monitoring. Strong expertise in enterprise computing to provide complete solutions for multi - vendor, back-end components of large multi-tier, client-server, enterprise-wide systems and cloud computing.
• Skilled in project management processes to design and maintain computer environments that meet and exceed the customers’ expectations. Have experience in UNIX, Mainframe, LINUX (Redhat/Ubuntu/Centos/Oracle) and Windows platforms, high availability technology, Linux/UNIX shell scripting and server virtualization with VMWare and cloud technology, AWS (Amazon web Services).
• Additional experience of 5 years of “What If” or optimization/analytical modeling and capacity and performance planning, 4 years in IBM/AIX environments, 8 years in HP’s HP-UX, 7 years in creating tools with Korn/Bash shell scripts and utilizing UniCenter and Openview (OVO) for OS and application performance and incident monitoring.
• Performed analysis and implementation of open source software including OS - Ubuntu, RHEL, Centos, OLE; the BI/ETL tools - BIRT and Pentaho; databases - MySQL, PostgresSQL, Oracle; programming languages - Java, PHP, Javascript, AJAX, JDBC, HTML, Bash, Bourne Shell; development platforms - LAMPP, XAMPP, Eclipse, NetBeans; and the archiving tools - Archivematica and DSpace.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

GE Cloud Engineer and Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide technical guidance in application and infrastructure redesign for the transition of GE DMZ applications to a highly secure customer/internet facing environment.
• Evaluated the potential of applications for the AWS and recommended the changes in the applications and infrastructure to use the resources of AWS.
• Wrote a document to guide application teams to convert applications to be cloud ready.
• Evaluated the production readiness of Verizon Cloud for GE.
• Provided expert Linux guidance to the Commercial Cloud database team for the setup of MySQL, PostgresSQL, and Gemfire databases.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Linux Systems Administrator and Application Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed expert level Linux and Windows support for the infrastructure of the CIM application. This included the Linux application and MySQL Data baser servers and Windows 7 laptops.
• Provided the vendor interaction for the best installation and performance of the new CIM application.
• Provided application testing to insure compliance to the CareSource requirements with the vendor developing the application.
• Supported the various development states (development, integration and certification) leading to the deployment of the CIM application in January, 2014.
• Supported and configured the remote laptop Windows application and laptop for the online/offline CIM medical assessments performed in subscriber's homes and other locations remote to CareSource.
• Worked with the Network and Security teams to setup the necessary security and server load balancing for a laptop running the CIM Windows application to access the Linux CIM Linux servers behind the CareSource DMZ and firewall.
• Supported the Glassfish web server used in the CIM Linux server application.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Linux/Solaris/HP-UX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed expert level support and problem resolution for 5000+ Linux/Solaris/HP-UX systems as the second shift point of contact for both emergency and non-emergency events. This responsibility included triaging application events affecting access to Lexis/Nexis (LN) products and engaging the proper LN resources for timely application problem resolution.
• Participated with the UNIX team in server installations including both the Linux/Solaris/HP-UX OS and application software.
• Performed performance and tuning on the operating systems and application software to maintain a high customer satisfaction with LN products.
• Developed shell scripts for efficient system information gathering for performance improvements and distribution of system updates for increased stability and performance. These scripts included the automation of the OVO installation process for a project to bring 350 Linux/Solaris into standard RETS monitoring and the scripting tool for the analysis of 758 servers making recommended changes to the networking configuration files for the DC2 Networking project.
• Trained the 6 original Manila UNIX/Linux/Solaris staff in the procedures and processes of change and incident management and coordination with the technical and business Dayton staff.

Confidential, Fairborn, OH

Linux/UNIX and Web Systems/Applications Administrator/Developer

Responsibilities:

• Developed Java programs for the interconnection and the interoperability of open source applications on heterogeneous Linux OS systems.
• Installed different Linux OS environments for the development and testing of the pilot project.
• Installed Oracle OLE, MySQL and PostgresSQL DB’s for the pilot project.
• Installed J2EE compliance web servers including Tomcat.
• Performed data modeling and then created of medical and financial data bases to further demonstrate the capabilities of the final software deliverable.
• Performed a study of open source Business Intelligence (BI) software to be used in the analysis of metadata, GSV, MySQL and Oracle and PostgreSQL databases.
• Prototyped the use of JDBC, AJAX and BI/ETL (Business Intelligence) tools in creating the archiving solution for the DoD.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Linux/UNIX Systems/Applications Administrator and Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Developed Korn shell scripts for correlation of system information for performance improvements and the sizing of future growth of systems and applications.
• Performed as incident manager on a rotating basis for the P&G enterprise computing.
• Served as a technical advisor for several of P&G’s global business systems. This included performance monitoring and using the HP’s change/release management to insure proper tracking and implementation of changes across the enterprise.
• Provide the UNIX support for P&G’s new UNIX computing Business Process Resilience (BPR) projects. This included the following:
• Using the Business Copy (BC) functionality of HP XP Data Storage systems for timely data restores.
• Designing highly available critical business systems using Service Guard.
• Optimizing the availability of critical business systems by segmenting the network and putting specific UNIX systems in these segments to reduce the impact of a total network failure.
• Providing multiple data paths for UNIX systems to ensure uninterrupted access to data on the network.
• Served a technical lead in the installing HP’s newest technology for P&G LINUX and UNIX systems to increase disaster recoverability and higher availability and to provide greater system performance and stability. The newest technologies included HP’s continental cluster capability, latest Compaq based servers for the LINUX OS and server enclosures.
• Lead the HP UNIX/Linux team in the execution of several P&G DR offsite drills which involved temporarily moving subsets of operations from the P&G’s Cincinnati data center to HP’s King of Prussia’s DR site. After the drill was completed, performed a lessons learned exercise to improve the processes for the next DR drill.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

UNIX Administrator and Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Created the multi-page PowerPoint document summarizing the strengths and implementation strategy for the Data Protector solution for increased high availability at P&G.
• Consolidated and simplified the use of HP web based training for the UIT Tower in ServiceGuard, Data Protector, StorageWorks and the Business Copy.
• Provide UIT Tower project support for the OR-BC, LAN Network Segmentation, HA Server and ADR projects. In particular, I created UIT change plans, created work orders and followed through to completion with HP’s off-shore UIT component for the successful completions of several OR-BC and LAN Network Segmentation server implementations. For the HA Server and ADR effort, I assisted in project design and capacity planning, respectively.
• Setup the first Data Protector cell server HA cluster using ServiceGuard.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

System Performance and Monitoring Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created programs using Korn shell scripting to monitor specific events and key application criteria/processes critical to the day-to-day business activities. This monitoring included real-time alerts for specified thresholds and the generation of data to create statistics for capacity planning with the various business units.
• Prevented system and application crashes or hang-ups by using Korn shell scripts I created to detect rapidly depleting disk space that would have prevented inter-server file transfers and log messaging.
• Designed Korn shell scripts which checked server health by focusing on file systems space, CPU, Memory and other disk and network performance criteria.
• Detected potential application outages by analyzing application and system log files, process availability and other critical application availability measurements using in-house developed Korn shell scripts.
• Monitored 400+ UNIX servers using UniCenter. This monitoring included real-time alerts for specified thresholds and the generation of data to create statistics for capacity planning with the various business units.
• Monitored the network using Openview. This included looking for bottlenecks and resolving and performance issues.
• Performed “What If” or optimization/analytical modeling using the UniCenter tool. This involved first determining a baseline performance and then reviewing the performance results of a system by varying the configuration of the system.
• Presented the capacity planning in the form of Excel spread sheets and pie and bar charts. Through this activity, we had been able to better understand the business cycles to more effectively utilize the existing hardware and effectively plan for future hardware and software growth.

Confidential

System High Availability Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Created greater cooperation and communication among vertically aligned IT departments and key business areas in analysis phase of the project.
• Opened dialogue for future deployment of corporate IT strategies and a greater involvement in high stress problem resolutions.
• Developed a future IT enterprise strategy maximizing customer satisfaction by creating 14 key recommendations from a 4 month period of technical meetings collaborating with all IT departments and business areas.
• Developed effective criteria to monitor the 400+ UNIX servers for performance tuning to best use the systems in place.
• Developed the metrics needed to perform the capacity planning that matches the anticipated growth areas in our applications in the business units.

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Increased productivity of technical implementation of the resources by effectively managing cross-functional teams.
• Contributed to the success of project by leading technical team through timely problem resolutions, eliminating delays in implementation.
• Reduced project costs by reviewing technical requirements and creating system designs resulting in cost-effective solution.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Lead UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Engineered the Confidential ’s and Old Navy’s new e-Commerce business for different distribution centers. The implementation involved prototyping and deploying new shipping, billing and warehouse software designed for processing online orders from the Confidential ’s and Old Navy’s new web sites.
• Performed as incident manager on a rotating basis for all the Confidential, Inc’s ( Confidential, Old Navy and Banana Republic brand) data centers’ for the system and warehouse management software.
• Designed highly available computer multi-vendor environments leading to uninterrupted flow of stock from distribution centers to stores. This included using MCServiceGuard system failure over technology, redundant processing capability, disk RAID technology and the design and creation Oracles databases for high availability.
• Reduced outages by proactively measuring performance of warehouse distribution servers by using Korn shell scripts I wrote that monitored all the Confidential ’s UNIX servers every 5 minutes.
• Created a performance web site for the servers in the Confidential ’s 14 world-wide distribution centers which displayed accumulated statistical data gathered from the performance Korn shell scripts.
• Designed, implemented and maintained highly available back-end, multi-tier computer environment for the Confidential, Inc’s internet business.
• Created highly available computer designs for the Confidential, Inc’s future distribution warehouse computing environments.
• Performed “What If” or optimization/analytical modeling by manually calculating orders of magnitude for system performance changes of increased memory or CPU speeds, the introduction additional memory or CPU’s or the transition to a different hardware platform.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Sr. Client/Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and maintained the Solaris OS and application software for all the SUN UNIX and Windows servers.
• Performed as incident manager on a rotating basis.
• Streamlined backups of systems for more reliability of data storage and recovery.
• Reduced systems failures and increased system supportability by keeping the UNIX and NT systems current in vendor component software upgrades.
• Decreased response time for correction of outages by creating remote access from home for system administration support into UNIX and NT systems.
• Performed support for company’s intranet web and DNS servers.