PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Senior systems professional with over 30 years’ experience with Linux/ Unix / Windows / and OpenVMS management in Finance, Pharma, Stock Exchanges/trading floors, engineering, and Banking industries. Effective problem - solving skills, multitasking and meeting stringent deadlines. Successful working with users and managers alike to accomplish goals.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Red Hat server Linux 5,6,7, Windows 2012, 2016 Server Solaris 8,9,10 HPUX-10.20, 11i, VMS 7.3-1, 8.2

Hardware: IBM System X3550 M4 Lenovo SR630, SR650 HP DL360 Gen 9,10 SUN 450, 4500, E10K, V890, V240, V210, E220R, E280R, 420R, T2000, 445, 245 HP K220/260/460, L2000, N4000, J7000, Superdome, 9000, LPARs and VPARs DEC/COMPAQ/HP: VAX 6660, 4090, 7860 Alpha Server 300, 1000a, 2100, 4100, ES40, ES45, GS140, CI clustering, fiber cluster.

High Availability: Veritas Cluster Server 3.5, MC Service Guard, Fix 4.2

Storage: EMC Symmetric/DMX (Power-path, ECC, Solution Enabler), Auto Raid (HP/SUN), HSJ40, HSJ50, HSZ80, HSG80, Netapps Storage, Celerra NAS, Centera.

Openview: Netview 6000, ITO (OvO), Network Node Manager, OpenView

Security: Check Point Firewall-1 3.0/4.0

Web: Apache Server, IIS 6.0, IIS 7.0

RDBMS: Oracle 8I, Oracle 9.2, Oracle 10G, Sybase and Mircosoft SQL

Programming: DCL, Ksh/Csh Scripting, Perl Scripting, DOS shell

Third Party: Software:BMC Patrol, Tivoli, ISE Schedule, Remedy, Clarify, Peregrine ServiceCenter, Asset Manager, SAP, Issuetrak, Weblogic, Nuance Management station, Tidal scheduler, Service Desk, CAE HP Radia, Service Now

BackupUp: Fbackup, vxdump, Symantec Backup Exec 11d, Veritas NetbackupAdmin Tools:sysinfo, vmstat, iostat, top, sar, traceroute, nslookup, nfstat, plan, Active Directory 2012R2 exchange server, NIS, DNS, NFS, Multipathing, Solstice DiskSuite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Linux System Administrator / Production Application Support

Responsibilities:

• Provide reliable and quality support 24X7 in a production environment.
• Respond to events from the monitoring tools, with the goal of restoration of service.
• Carry out deployments for new servers and replacement or failed components.
• Carry out system health checks periodically and following deployments and upgrades.
• Analyze application logs to determine root cause of problems.
• Perform trace analysis using TCP dump, Snoop and Ethereal.
• Plan and document Change Requests, as required to implement Application and Server upgrades and changes.
• Applied the ITIL practices using Service Now for ticketing and including Change Control.
• Work with hardware and software vendors to obtain support to diagnose problems.
• Participate in meetings with other groups (Engineering, Development, and QA) to plan and document deployment approaches and Operational Requirements.
• Perform Change control Task
• Add/Modify/delete users in Active Directory.
• Maintain trouble shoot UAT environment.
• Create configurations for new AI / RTV/ DFC / EBSD Core systems.
• Manage and maintain VM vSphere clients and clusters.
• Use Radia to add/remove applications from AI servers. Replacement/create AI Servers.
• Use QIP and LDAP add servers to production environment.

Confidential

UNIX System Administrator / Application Support / System Implementer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the testing of NYSE/ Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC) National Market System (NMS) environment in Mahwah, NJ.
• Wrote scripts to support testing of the NYSE application environments which use FIX protocol in the National Market System environment.
• Assisted in the migration of NYSE/SIAC-User Acceptance (UAT) environment from Brooklyn, NY to Chicago, IL, which involved creating scripts to report and control the application environments.
• Installed applications in the UAT environment to replicate the NYSE production environment.
• Performed System Administration tasks, such as Linux RPM, establishing ssh trusts, and managing user accounts.
• Assisted internal and external users of UAT in matters concerning areas of access and maintenance of applications.
• Monitor Stop and Start of application via Tidal Scheduler. Attended 1-day class for Tidal.

Confidential

IT Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Log and troubleshoot incoming system related issues
• Install fixes and new releases to the applications and SQL databases on windows platform. f new staff members
• Worked closely with project managers to develop new and effective strategies for system monitoring and overall Operations and Maintenance support
• Monitor and maintained 511NY/511PA system performance and functionality as preventative maintenance measures
• Responsible for creating backup and recovery plans as well as generating weekly and monthly system performance reports for management and clients
• Creation and Deployment of ad hoc web based tools for system specific monitoring
• Knowledge of technologies such as Windows server, Exchange, SQL Server, Apache, IIS, and JBoss
• Manage 4 Specialists.
• Reimage 25 servers. 7 tellers and 18 workstations. Replace peripherals.
• Removal of decommissioned servers and COMM. Equipment form racks in the server room.
• Manage removal of decommissioned equipment from site.
• Manage Project from site for Insight.

Confidential

UNIX System Administrator / Facility administrator

Responsibilities:

• Migration and Consolidation of New York Data Center to Trumbull CT. Build out of new Data Center of over sixty Solaris and Windows servers. Install OS and products onto Sun servers. Disposal of old servers
• Maintain and monitor production and development servers. Daily operations include hardware, software troubleshooting.
• Manage and Install new SUN and Intel based servers into the many Data Centers environment of the bank.
• Attend Change control and project meetings. Keep track of all responsible deliverables. Keep Data Center management informed on Hardware installations.
• Manage the repairs of SUN, MS 2000/2003 servers and SAN equipment.
• Install SUN OS, patches and products.
• Experience from Unix system administration tasks including SSH, Bash, jboss, Apache Tom Cat and Perl Scripting.

Confidential

Windows 2000/2003 server, XP Professional System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure XP Professional add pc's onto the network.
• Configure outlook and Microsoft software Office.
• Use Exchange server and Active director to add/remove users.
• Configure QuickBooks for users and trouble shoot problems related to the server.
• Trouble shoot, users problems, network issues and printing problems.
• Stop and start IIS 5 server.
• Maintain Cisco PICs firewall and router.

Confidential

Application and VMS System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided the support to all Trading Applications.
• Maintain and monitor production and development servers
• Provided the 24 X 7 Phone and online support.

Confidential

VMS System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and monitor production and development servers. Daily operations include hardware, software troubleshooting, fix, performance analysis, third party software installation and distribution, system and security configuration update, and maintenance patch.
• Supported two Red Hat servers running RH 3.
• Provided the support to all Trading Application Support groups.
• Provided the 24 X 7 Phone and online support.
• Maintained nodes that used Decnet and TCP/IP.
• Wrote scripts In DCL.
• Maintain SNA-Gateway and Pathworks application.

Confidential

Unix System Administrator, Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Resolved issues related to web servers, BEA, e-business, IIS 6.0 Websites, and Apache TC.
• Installed updates to web sites.

Confidential

Unix / VMS System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and support Two Superdome servers hardware and software.
• Maintained and monitored over % HP, 5% Solaris, 1% Red Hat Server) production and development servers. Daily operations include hardware, software troubleshooting, fix, performance analysis, third party software installation and distribution, system and security configuration update, maintenance patch and package upgrade.
• Setup and configure TCP/IP based applications and services including NIS, DNS, NFS.
• Developed and update PERL, Bash, KORN shell scripts for system related tasks including Daily Check, System Monitoring, System Performance, and Unauthorized Modifications.
• For massive storage devices (EMC) and arrays, installed and configure various Volume Manger utilities including Veritas Volume Manager.
• Provided the second level UNIX support to all Trading Application Support groups.
• Provided 24 X 7 paging duty on a rotational base.
• Created and maintained Red Hat Linux, Sun Solaris, HPUX and VMS Servers.

Confidential

VMS, Prime and AS400 Systems Manager

Responsibilities:

• Installed and support of VMS and over 50 layered products on twenty Vaxclusters containing total of 50 nodes.
• Maintained system startup command files.
• Maintained Technical support for 20 major applications with excess of 1000 users.
• Ensured Security and Audit compliance are maintained at all times.
• Supported Data Center consolidation moves. Consolidated 35 Data Centers in the New York area to two sites. Perform system support and hardware support.
• Designed and executed contingency tests for both VAX and Prime environments