SUMMARY:

• Certified Project Management Professional, certified through May 2018. Classes in Managing High Risk Projects, Managing Global Projects, Managing Remote Teams, Coaching and Mentoring Team Members, Effective Vendor Management, Conducting a High - Quality Risk Workshop, Establishing Quality Policies and more.
• 11 years Change and Configuration Management (DevOps), providing developer support in Source Code Management, Release Management, and Change Management. Responsible for the development and support of all automated software Build/Release and installation programs and scripts, and the integration of those programs, scripts and processes with the Change, Problem and Quality Management systems.
• Experienced programming in Perl, ksh, bash, sh, Make, Ant, Java Script, Powershell, Visual Basic, .BAT, HTML, CGI, Remedy API, and command line interfaces to Perforce, Harvest, Remedy, Clear Case, Subversion and CVS (some others). Some programming experience with C, Java and groovy.
• 20 years experience as a Systems Programmer, Analyst and Engineer. Significant experience with Redhat Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, CentOS Linux, UBUNTU Linux, VMWare-ESX, and IBM MVS operating systems. Weblogic, Tomcat, WebSphere, JBoss, JRun application servers. Apache, and Netscape web servers. Oracle, MySql, IDMS Central Version, and VSAM data base servers.
• 35+ years professional working experience with Information Systems and Technology in industries including Terminal Operating Systems Software Development, Network Appliance Engineering, Container Shipping, Aerospace Manufacturing, Banking Systems and the US Air Force, SAC War Planning division (SIOP).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

TOOLS: TeamCity 9, Puppet Enterprise, Chocolatey Package Manager for Windows, Artifactory, GIT, Subversion, Powershell, VMWare vSphere, CentOS and Redhat Linux, Jira, Confluence, IBM Tivoli Network Monitor, IBM Tivoli Systems Monitor (ITM), Oracle Agile, Sun/Netscape and Apache Web Servers, BEA Weblogic, IBM Websphere, Jakarta Tomcat and JRUN Applications Servers, BEA Weblogic Portal Servers, Sun/Netscape Directory Servers, Sun/Netscape Proxy Servers, Sun/Netscape Servers, Sun/Netscape Messaging Servers, Authentica Policy Servers, Oracle and MySQL Database Servers, Samba Servers, Adobe Distiller, FreeChat Chat Server, Veritas, Sun Solstice Disk Suite, CVS, Perforce, Subversion, Harvest, IBM Rational Clear Case, IBM Rational Clear Quest, Bugzilla, Remedy ITSM / CMDB, Marimba, LDAP/LDIF, wget, Microsoft Front Page Server Extensions, SSH & keygen, Bind 9, NIS, sendmail, snoop, WireShark, Arp, NDM, FTP. TSO, CA7, CA11, AFOper, Candle Omegamon, MVS systems console. Windows - InstallShield, InstallAnywhere, Symantec Ghost, Samantec End Point Protection, Knoppix Hacks, Ubuntu to fix Windows problems. VMWare Service Desk, VSI-FAX, EZSpooler, and more.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Configuration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• TeamCity Continuous Integration Engine.
• Puppet Enterprise - Infrastructure provisioning and configuration management on site, cloud or Hybrid cloud computing environments.
• Chocolatey - Package manager for Windows.
• PowerShell - Windows infrastructure programming language for interface into Chocolatey and Puppet.
• VMWare vSphere - virtual machine creation and management.
• Artifactory - Artifact repository and local Puppet/Chocolatey Forge.
• Jira, Confluence and Agile Development process.

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installed IBM Tivoli Monitoring on virtual Redhat Linux platform. ITM, TEMS, ITCAM, TEP, Netcool/OMNIbus, ITNM TIP and Impact. Setup monitoring agents on Windows, UNIX and Linux systems. Setup comprehensive Network Monitoring. Setup Web Transaction Monitoring. Setup Impact alerts and interaction with Service Desk software.
• Supported CGP’s nationwide AIX & Solaris UNIX and Redhat Linux environment.
• Participating in a multi datacenter systems upgrade project.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded/migrated source control systems from IBM Rational Clearcase version v 2003.06.00 (version 4.2 client) running on a Sun Blade 100 Sparc computer with Solaris 2.6 to open source Subversion running on a virtual Redhat Linux VMA with a VMWare-ESX host OS on a Dell Poweredge 1900. Wrote the data extract, migration and import scripts in perl and bash. Was able to keep all history by using an intermediary VMA on CentOS. Rewrote all the build and release software.
• Upgraded/Migrated a software bug tracking system from IBM ClearQuest with Oracle 8, running on a Windows 2000 server on a Dell Poweredge 2400 to an open source web based alternative, Bugzilla on Apache web server running on a virtual Redhat Linux VMA with a VMWare-ESX virtual host on a Dell Poweredge 1900. Wrote the migration and import scripts in perl and bash.
• Upgraded a Network Appliance F740 Storage Array to a Network Appliance FAS2020. Migrated production VOB and other data using rsync with file locks.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a backup to the IT Change Manager in the process for the approval of changes to production resources. Ensured adherence to corporate and industry infrastructure architectural standards and practices in order to minimize risk of degradation to applications and services. Advised stake holders of impact to availability. Resulted in improved developer and user productivity.
• Project Manager - Remedy ARS upgrade to Remedy ITSM / CMDB. Also participated as a technical implementer. This greatly increased efficiency in problem, change and configuration management.
• Wrote and/or maintained programs and procedures to automate the coordinated checkout, compile/build and installation of application program and configuration changes in the mainframe, client server, internet, intranet and B2B environments.

UNIX Systems Programmer, Analyst and Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Project manager - and participated as a technical implementer, to migrate all of the company’s internet, intranet, extranet and B2B presence from an Internet Service Provider in Alameda California and our Datacenter in Rancho Cordova, to our outsourcer’s data center in Dallas Texas. The benefit was reduced cost, increased reliability and the consolidation of resource management.
• Assisted in the research, evaluation, implementation and support of internet technology to provide for a Java application which allowed external customers to verify and track cargo. Configured and supported pre-BEA Weblogic “Servlet Server”.
• Assisted in the evaluation, implementation and support of internet technology to allow for the secure electronic transmission and metered printing of Bills of Lading to external customers. Using an Authentica Policy server to allow for electronic shredding of expired Bills of Ladding.
• Worked with numerous external customers to identify and correct problems relating to applications, networks, firewalls, proxy servers, protocols, routing, and user desk top setup. Getting applications working between networks. (GapScan, NetTrac, and others)
• Worked with developers, problem managers, IT and business unit customers to diagnose and correct anomalies in the performance, behavior or availability of applications and technologies on the internet, intranet, extranet and in the network.
• Researched, advised and assisted in the implementation of technologies to accomplish specific goals based on application needs where the technology was not being used or didn’t exist in house.
• Wrote a proactive end to end web applications monitor. HTTP or telnet based with pager, phone and email alerts. Brought focus on supporting infrastructure and provided performance and availability metrics.
• Later, installed and configured Weblogic Clustered Applications Server environment with HA web infrastructure.
• Worked with Veritas and Sun Solstice Disk Suite to provide a high availability fault tolerant production environment..