Career Summary:

• Experienced, hands-on IT professional accomplished in IT management, systems design, systems administration, database administration and network security.
• A solution-driven problem solver, the go-to guy who excels under pressure.
• Seeking an environment in which to improve my Linux administration and programming skills.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Modernized and secured an aging infrastructure using VMware VSphere to consolidate 15 server down to three VMware servers with an HP MSA SAN.
• Managed all Linux systems, patching, upgrades, BASH scripting, MySQL maintenance, including public websites, hosted on Rackspace one Joomla / CiviCRM, the other Wordpress, IP Tables management, upgrading SSL certificates, all troubleshooting.
• Multiple Linux installs: Nagios and Cacti LAMP installations, staging Joomla/CiviCRM web server, DNS / DHCP server, Subversion SVN repository.
• Ran periodic vulnerability scans and penetration testing, utilizing OpenVAS, to protect network systems and public websites.
• Taught new marketing personnel how to create web content utilizing our Joomla / CiviCRM website.
• Developed the capacity to stream events through the Garrison Institute website, including creating a gated event landing page in Joomla, installing a dedicated Metro-E line and working out all logistics and price points between the customers and AV vendors.
• Advanced Microsoft SQL scripting to data mine registration and fundraising CRM database, including creation of stored procedures and views, to provide advanced reports for development and marketing campaigns.
• Led project to create C bridge program to sync MySQL database data to in-house Microsoft SQL Server-based registration system iMIS .
• Management and advanced configuration of iMIS registration system, including an upgrade from iMIS 15.2 to iMIS 20.1, advanced reporting, new feature configuration, and user training.
• Installed Windows Server Update Services to automate the patching of all window server and PCs.
• Rolled out Symantec Endpoint Protection to centrally manage antivirus across all server, PCs and Apple systems.
• Created a low-cost, in-house knowledgebase and helpdesk application utilizing Microsoft Sharepoint.
• Upgrading dedicated internet connection from T1 to Fiber/Metro-Ethernet.
• Administer Exchange 2007 and Barracuda anti-spam system.
• Co-authored the project plan and budget to modernize the website WWW.GARRISONINSTITUTE.ORG still under consideration.
• Working with Communications Director, co-created plan to upgrade website.
• Manage all purchasing and vendor management. Created 2015 IT budget.
• Managed 30 PCs and 12 apple systems.
• Managed one employee network administrator / IT support technician.

Confidential

Director of Technology / Systems Administrator / Project Manager

• Led the installation of a modern DA datacenter, with redundant power, cooling, fiber connectivity and physical security and monitored access.
• Migrated all offices from Novell 6.5 to Windows Active Directory, including Active Directory OU design, file server share design, account creation and data migration.
• Windows Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS and DHCP management.
• Led the project to migrate the District Attorney's case management system from a Magic system, utilizing a Pervasive database, to a C .NET system, with MS SQL. Planned out and supervised all phases of the project, installed all hardware, software and pre-requisites, and worked as sole technical contact with Firefly Migration, the company hired to perform the migration. Performed all phases of application and database migration using pre-created scripts, then took over all C programming and SQL server administration. Light programming of Magic system prior to upgrade.
• Programming of District Attorney's C case management system post migration bug fix, feature addition and improvements utilizing Visual Studio Professional 2010, storing code in Subversion SVN repository.
• Managed a county-wide WAN crisscrossing 13 offices including more than 60 servers, 300 PCs, laptops, firewalls, routers, switches, printers, network copiers and peripherals, to meet the needs of 300 end users.
• Virtualized production environment with VMware VSphere, consolidated 35 physical servers down to 4 VMware VSphere 5 servers.
• Installed and managed Landesk application management platform.
• Installed and managed WSUS update system.
• Migrated from Groupwise 6.5 to Exchange 2010.
• Consolidated remote office file server network from ten servers down to three, by replacing T1s with Metro-E lines and consolidating all data in the main datacenter.
• Installed three LAMP systems Nagios, Cacti and NTOP. Modified PHP, MySQL and Apache configurations as needed customized Nagios plugins as needed.
• Installed a central syslog server on Ubuntu Linux to centralize all firewall and network logs.
• Migrated document management systems from OpenText DOCSOPEN 4.1 to eDOCS 5.3.
• Managed eight Microsoft SQL server installations, ranging from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2012.
• Hosted and managed six different secure data-sharing systems to share data with local, state and federal agencies.
• Managed a Citrix Presentation Server system, hosted on an isolated VMware environment, utilizing Citrix
• Utilized Ghost to roll out more than 300 new PCs and laptops.
• Rolled out Crystal Reports to provide advanced reporting and analytics.
• Rolled out Microsoft Sharepoint to serve as an IT helpdesk, inventory and knowledgebase.
• Authored an Acceptable Use Policy for the DA's office, currently under review for implementation.
• Authored the DA's first five-year IT financing plan, approved by the County Legislature.
• Represented the District Attorney's office during a New York State Comptroller's Office compliance audit, February 2012.
• Partnered with Westchester County IT to secure training resources and technical assistance as needed.
• Utilized redundant equipment, VMware and MSDN licensing to provide a low-cost, secure testing network for my department.
• Reorganized IT Department personnel, responsibilities and procedures to optimize staff performance and increase morale to provide the best possible customer service.
• Supervised creation of new IT infrastructure in new Mt. Kisco office.
• Utilized scripting windows command-line, Linux bash or Microsoft Powershell to automate as much administration as possible.
• Lead four full-time employees.

Confidential

Network/Linux Consultant

• Designed and implemented a centralized OpenLDAP authentication system on RedHat Enterprise Linux designed and installed OpenLDAP and all dependencies, created a certificate authority, created certificates, configured secure OpenLDAP, created schema and configured client servers with certificates and configuration to use OpenLDAP server for logins - to process Django application logons as well as developer logons via SSH.
• Designed initial network infrastructure including networks, firewalls, applications servers, database servers and authentication server.
• Configured and administered new servers on Amazon Web Services.
• Designed and implemented a centralized OpenLDAP authentication system on RedHat Enterprise Linux designed and installed OpenLDAP and all dependencies, created a certificate authority, created certificates, configured secure OpenLDAP, created schema and configured client servers with certificates and configuration to use OpenLDAP server for logins - to process Django application logons as well as developer logons via SSH.
• Configured SE Linux and tested with in-house applications.
• Configured Django servers utilizing Python, Apache, Django and MySQL on RedHat Linux.
• Configured test OpenLDAP, MySQL and Django servers on Fedora Linux.
• Procured and installed Symantec SSL EV certificate on web server.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Designed and implemented a custom performance monitoring system to collect performance metrics and drive customer upgrades, utilizing Redhat Linux servers, BASH scripts, the 'K' scripting language, a Nagios monitoring system, and custom windows scripts installed on 300 server clients.
• Installed, customized and managed two LAMP systems Nagios and Fogbugz, to monitor performance and track issues.
• Conducted a company-wide security audit to identify and eliminate security threats and design flaws in the datacenter and office networks.
• Managed public Linux web server hosted on AWS, including all LAMP server maintenance and patching and Apache administration, customization and module addition.
• Managed and installed IPCop and Smoothwall firewalls on Ubuntu Linux.
• Managed all of 1010data's Equinix datacenters, all server and network equipment installation, all contracts and work orders.
• Installed more than 200 servers, new switches, fiber connections.
• Slashed licensing and software costs by negotiating creative agreements with resellers.
• Locked down and optimized the performance of 350 datacenter servers to maintain an SLA uptime of over 99.9 .
• Implemented time-saving management tools including imaging and scripting solutions.
• Conducted tours of 1010data's datacenters for Fortune 500 customers.
• Managed a mixed PC Apple environment, installing and providing support for a variety of computer, laptops and devices including iPhones and Apple tablets.
• Managed customer specific access and security requirements, enabling secure access to their data on 1010data systems.
• Implemented a virtualized corporate back office and testing environment.
• Created 1010data's first customer request portal and in-house knowledgebase utilizing Sharepoint.

• Authored an Acceptable Use Policies for the company.
• Partnered with customer's IT and legal management to hammer out service contracts.
• Managed the 1010data move to larger headquarters in Midtown, Manhattan
• Managed one junior network administrator.

Confidential

IT Manager / Systems Administrator

• Redesigned Knoa's network architecture to increase performance and security with locked down networks for testing, production, development and customer POC systems.
• Optimized and modernized the datacenter with VMware, a performance monitoring solution, security upgrades, upgrades to production systems including Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange and Citrix and a new backup / disaster recovery solution.
• Managed entire Linux back-end network, including SAMBA file server with mdadm RAID inherited this one , LDAP server, Sendmail server, Linux DNS server, Linux DHCP server and Linux web servers, including a public web server, an in-house extranet site and an in-house intranet site.
• Created a new testing environment utilizing virtual and real hardware, to optimize resources for development teams.
• Created web application to display syslog logs using PERL scripts, CRON jobs and Apache.
• Enhanced customer management with the installation of Microsoft and SalesForce CRM solutions.
• Installed a new Minneapolis satellite office and managed all infrastructure and service installations.
• Partnered with customer's IT departments to create customized POC environments.
• Implemented a custom across-office POC solution for Microsoft to test Knoa Performance Management against Microsoft Dynamic CRM.
• Created a new Sharepoint intranet system including knowledgebase, Helpdesk site and custom sites for Finance, Development, Testing, Hiring and Sales.
• Managed company intranet site, written in PHP.
• Managed company extranet site, written in ASP.
• Authored the first Acceptable Use Policy for the Knoa company handbook.
• Managed one employee, consultants and occasional contractors.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Managed all Novell and Groupwise servers planned migration to Active Directory and Exchange.
• Rolled out Big Brother network monitoring solution LAMP installation, light MySQL configuration and HTML customization. Client-side scripting in windows command shell.
• Led project to combine WAN with new parent company network.
• Conducted first network security audit of ATM and parent company Island Global Yachting, successfully identifying and closing security vulnerabilities
• Managed Novell 6 and Windows 2003 servers in six offices.
• Assisted in planning and installation of new Island Global Yachting Ft. Lauderdale office.
• Rolled out Big Brother network monitoring solution LAMP installation, light MySQL configuration and HTML customization. Client-side scripting in windows command shell.
• Created a VMware Server testing lab.
• Contracted with Cisco for installation of new company-wide VOIP network.
• Rolled out new firewalls and security enhancements.
• Server administration, maintenance and occasional user support.
• Managed 1 helpdesk support person, as well as consultants in St. Thomas and Dubai.

Confidential

IT Consultant

• Deployed a Nagios solution on Linux with SSH-piped client connections back to server to provide preventative maintenance monitoring. Included creating scripts on Mac workstations and PCs.
• Set up Apple-workstation-based recording studio for English band Groove Armada.
• Network security and vulnerability assessments for freelance clients.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Managed a 24x7x365 market data contribution system, including 16 Solaris servers, Cisco routers and switches located in six global offices, numerous dedicated circuits to and from Reuters, Bloomberg and Telerate, as well as customized data feeds to contribution subscribers.
• Increased MCM revenue and market share by developing and programming new automated e-commerce market data products, utilizing the Tibco Messagebroker programming interface, Tibco RV feeds and knowledge of HTML and the Tibco RV protocol.
• Created an in-house web application to monitor publication timelines, utilizing a Linux server and BASH and Perl scripts and the Tibco RV protocol. System used a Round Robin database to record the times articles published, then updated the HTML pages hosted in an Apache web server for each product to record the time, title and author of each article published.
• Implemented MCM's first network security system consisting of Checkpoint Firewalls, a customized Snort Intrusion Detection System on Linux utilizing MySQL and Apache with a Demarc front end, Big Brother system monitoring of all servers, workstations and network appliances, Cisco router access policies, a centralized antivirus solution and Windows security policies
• Created custom batch files on Linux, Solaris and Windows systems to accomplish multiple systems administration tasks, such as live data backups and system updates.
• Managed Sendmail SMTP server later created an open-source anti-spam system on BSD, utilizing a Qmail SMTP server and a Spamhaus block list.
• Led the move of IT to InformaGM's new Manhattan office, May 2004. This included new circuit installs, new equipment purchasing, wiring installations, and vendor hiring and supervision.
• Upgraded Marketing and Sales departments from ACT to Salesforce.
• Supervised a global staff of seven IT employees.
• Created custom batch files on Linux, Solaris and Windows systems to accomplish multiple systems administration tasks, such as live data backups and system updates.
• Managed and upgraded Platinum financials system, utilizing Microsoft SQL databases and transact-SQL scripting as needed.