Senior Systems Engineer Resume Profile
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Wood Dale, IL
SUMMARY
Senior HP OpenVMS operations professional with a solid record of achievement in application maintenance and system uptime. Significant team leader experience in day to day operations and in new product training and support. Also have over a decade of Disaster Recovery DR successes with Fortune 500 companies.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Over twenty-five years of VAX/Alpha/Itanium OpenVMS system management starting with VMS Version 1.01 up to OpenVMS Version 8.2 on hardware ranging from VAX 11/780 to HP RX6600.
- Over twenty years of performance tuning and capacity planning on standalone VAX, LAVC, and VAXcluster and Alphacluster platforms.
- Over twenty years of system management with UNIX/ULTRIX/DIGITAL UNIX/HP-UX/SunOS operating systems.
- Over fourteen years of Disaster Recovery DR experience on DEC, HP, SUN, and RS6000 systems.
- Over seventeen years of experience with Windows, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, and Lotus Notes.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
Senior Systems Engineer
- Supported disaster recovery tests and 8 declarations for DEC, HP, and RS6000 customers.
- Supported and upgraded OpenVMS, Tru64, and HP-UX systems.
- Installed hardware on DEC and HP-UX systems.
- Used Ignite-UX on HP-UX and Jumpstart on Sun platforms to prep them for customer DR tests.
- Taught DR Procedure Development Workshops for OpenVMS, HP-UX, and AIX IT clients at their home sites. Also conducted stand-up IT DR needs assessment training business impact analysis for client's technical users.
- Produced more than a dozen final DR procedures for our clients as part of the Statement of Work.
- Trained local and remote internal staff how to use the new ORACLE-based scheduling system via WEBEX.
- Responsible for Midrange staff scheduling for customer DR tests. Generated weekly 30-day reports for staff.
Confidential
Senior Midrange Specialist
- Supported disaster recovery tests and 6 declarations for DEC, HP, SUN, and RS6000 customers.
- Did consulting for OpenVMS, HP-UX, and SUN customers when requested by our consulting group.
- Installed hardware for DEC, HP-UX, and SUN platforms.
- Used Ignite-UX on HP-UX and Jumpstart on Sun platforms to prep them for customer DR tests.
- Went on sales calls with account executives to handle technical questions from client's IT staff.
Confidential
MidRange Application Analyst
- Was responsible for ALL-IN-1 System Management on a 2000-user and a 500-user VAXcluster.
- Second-level user support for ALL-IN-1, WordPerfect, Message Router, Oracle, Jnet, and Internet.
- Network print queue maintenance on two VAXclusters, one here and one in the UK.
- Oversaw timely delivery of mail messages in the X.400 enterprise-wide mail system.
Confidential
Computing Services Manager
- Installed new PCLAN Pathworks for one division and upgraded Lantastic network for finance and sales departments.
- Installed PC based Financial system. Converted old VAX-based AP system into the PC based system.
- Implemented corporate-wide security procedures for all PC systems and PC LANs.
- Added Appletalk capability to the existing Lantastic network.
- Set up new file and print services for Pathworks network.
Confidential
VAXcluster Manager
- Oversaw the expansion of the VAX facility at West Chester, PA and Washington, DC and provided training for users. Increased processing power in West Chester by 300 .
- Aided Washington, DC office in setting up its DEC machines networked them via DECnet to West Chester.
- Tracked system usage for capacity planning and tuning purposes. Developed new cost algorithm for VAXcluster project billing and created ORACLE interface to record Federal project charges on WESTON's DEC systems.
- Upgraded VAXcluster with new 6440 business system. Helped convert ORACLE from Sperry to DEC 6440. Installed ORACLE Financial Package, Foundation, with GL, AP, and PO modules.
- Responsible for System Management of remote sites in Chicago, IL and Albuquerque, NM.
- Responsible for customizations and training in ALL-IN-1.
- Supported UNIX systems in other divisions DEC and SUN .