SUMMARY:

• More than 32 years of experience in systems architecture and design; supporting business critical systems, effective process improvement; Systems Deployment; Designed Cloud Systems Environments; SAN system administration, UNIX systems administration; Storage Systems Administration; Systems security; SOX compliance auditing; systems integration; systems programming; LAN administration; software design and integration; data base design; computer systems security and systems test.
• Recent emphasis on data center migrations, SAN migrations, SAN design and supporting highly critical systems with systems integration, implementation, and design; business and financial systems; computer security.
• Proficient in various environments, including Confidential SAN, Unix ( Confidential AIX/6000 v5.3, HP - UX v11i, SUN Solaris 10, RedHat RHEL 6.2, Microsoft Windows Server, VMWARE); WAN; LAN and TCP/IP.
• Team player with the ability to work independently and lead teams.
• Capable of planning, budgeting, estimating, product evaluation and leading teams.
• Process design, improvement, evolution, and refinement.
• Great communications skills with users and co-workers Confidential all levels and units including finance and business.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HARDWARE: Cisco UCS Blade Systems, VCE Vblock, EMC VMAX, EMC VNX, EMC Recovery Point Applicances, HP c7000 Blade Systems, HP Gen8 Blades, Sun M5000 Enterprise Servers, Confidential RISC/6000 P-Series Servers, Pentium Based Workstations and Servers, SUN Fire Servers, HP-UX Enterprise Servers, EMC VMAX, EMC Symmetrix DMX Disk Arrays, Confidential Enterprise Storage Systems (ESS), Hitachi USP, HP StorageWorks Arrays, Cisco SAN, and Confidential SAN

SOFTWARE: AWS, VMWARE, RedHat Enterprise Linux, AIX/6000, NetView/6000, HACMP/6000, UNIX, SUN/Solaris, HP/UX, C, C++, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server,, MOTIF, X-Windows, ORACLE RDBMS/SQL, Shells (bsh, csh, ksh, perl, javascript, visual basic script).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

SAN Systems Administrator

Confidential, Broomfield, CO

Environment: Cisco SAN, Confidential SAN, Cisco UCS Blade Centers, VMware, AWS, Linux, Solaris, Xymon, Splunk, Puppet bourne script, ksh script, ruby-on-rails and perl.

Responsibilities:

• Design Migration Mythologies for new clients into Storage Infrastructures.
• Daily Storage Infrastructure Management
• Planning and Migration of customer Storage.
• Maintenance planning of SAN fabrics.
• Scripting of monitoring of SAN Utilization.
• Project management and status reporting.

SAN Systems Administrator/Server Deployment Engineer

Confidential, Broomfield, CO

Environment: Confidential SAN, HP Blade Centers, Gen8 Blades, VMware, AWS, Gridiron, Linux, Solaris, Splunk, Puppet, Xymon, bourne script, ksh script, ruby-on-rails and perl.

Responsibilities:

• Engineering On-Demand Deployment of AWS Amazon Linux Instances with EC2 ELP (Load Balancers) and IAM Security. Deployment of DNS, Xymon, Puppet, Splunk and scripting within AWS CLI. Emphasis on Redundancy, Survivability and re-generation while minimizing cost.
• Engineering Deployment of user self-deploying VMware clusters on HP c7000 Blade Systems/Gen8 Blades with Enterprise storage. Utilizing VMware permissions to restrict and allow users advanced VMware functionality to create VMs as needed.
• Engineering and product assessment of advanced storage caching, utilizing Violin Gridiron TurboCharger GT-1500 SSD Cache array.
• Engineering and testing of Load Balanced SunOne LDAP/Open LDAP.
• Engineering and Managing Documentation repository using MediaWiki.
• Designing scripts to automate and enhance the consistent successful/repeatable execution of daily tasks.
• Project Planning and Migration of Principle Corporate Financial Systems to newer Data Center.
• Planning and Migration from a McData to a Confidential SAN with two redundant fabrics.
• Maintenance planning of SAN fabrics.
• Planning and Migration of Data Center infrastructure.
• Systems space planning and Data Center environmental controls to comply with SOX.
• Scripting of monitoring of SAN and Blade Center status, and configurations.
• Project management and status reporting.

UC4 Systems Consultant

Confidential, Englewood, CO

Environment: HP-UX 11i, UC4:global v5, bourne script, ksh script, and perl.

Responsibilities:

• Migration of crontabs to UC4:global (Multisystem event driven scheduler).
• Re-engineering scheduled jobs/scripts into event driven job plans.
• Project management and status reporting of team.

AIX Systems Administrator

Confidential, Plano, TX and Denver, CO

Environment: AIX 5.3, RedHat RHEL ES3, Sun Fire V20z, Hitachi TagmaStore USP, Hitachi TrueCopy, Confidential P-Series Servers, HMC/.LPAR, Energy from Peace Software, Perl 5.6.2, CommVault, Apache Web Servers, Oracle DBMS Server, OpenLDAP, Weblogic 9, Solaris 9 and Solaris 10.

Responsibilities:

• AIX Systems Administrator managing implementations to accomplish:
• Hardware integration of three P-Series P570s to development and production; managing storage requirements and doubling execution performance,
• Utilized Vertias Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster services.
• Major Energy applications integration from a two tier model to a three tier model, merging customer relation and billing systems into one platform, reducing hardware, software and support to reduce cost,
• Managed over 14 TB of Hitachi Storage to increase performance.
• Managed and supported Dual HMCs implementing LPAR, DLPAR, VIO and Virtualization.
• Coordinated systems monitoring; problem resolution and problem determination,
• Acted as Liaison between utilities services and ADS support groups,
• Technical lead for systems architectural changes,
• Evaluated AIX systems support activities, and ORACLE Database performance,
• Focused support on proactive vs. reactive availability,
• Developed implementation plans while assessing change and configuration risk,
• Tactical environment planning,
• Coordinated long term maintenance activities,
• Created a common systems LDAP utilizing OpenLDAP.
• Storage Systems Administration managing SAN, DAS and NAS implementations to accomplish:
• Assessment of capacity and performance issues.
• Implement advance storage operations like moves and LUN level copies.
• Managed upgrades and Maintenance issues.
• Managed Architectures with three P-Series P570 Frames/12 LPARS, Six Sun Fire V20z(s) utilizing RHEL ES3 and Solaris 9.
• Designed scripts to map storage utilization, audit critical systems performance parameters.
• Supported applications technical teams and customer utilization of application.

AIX Systems Administrator

Confidential, Boulder, CO

Environment: AIX 5.3, Confidential P-Series Servers, HMC/LPAR, VM Servers, Tivoli Storage Manager, Apache Web Servers, Oracle DBMS Server.

Responsibilities:

• AIX Systems Administrator managing implementations for customer delivery management to accomplish:
• Hardware transitioning of multiple P-Series P590s, P570s and P550s from development to production; doubling execution performance,
• Major Food Services applications data center build-out and in-sourcing, merging customer relation and billing systems into a smaller Confidential footprint. Reducing hardware, software and support to reduce cost,
• Managed over 30 P-Series Servers to tune and maximize performance and utilization,
• Coordinated systems monitoring; problem resolution and problem determination,
• Evaluated AIX systems support activities, and ORACLE Database performance,
• Focused support on proactive vs. reactive availability,
• Developed implementation plans while assessing change and configuration risk,
• Tactical environment planning,
• Coordinated long term maintenance activities,
• Managed Architectures for over 30 P-Series Servers/Frames.
• Designed scripts to map network and storage utilization, audit critical systems performance parameters.

AIX Systems Architect DB Concepts

Confidential, Denver, CO

Environment: AIX 5.2, Confidential ESS Model F20s, Confidential ESS Model 800, FlashCopy, Peer to Peer Remote Copy, Confidential P-Series Servers, LPAR, Energy form Peace, Weblogic, MQSeries, Vertias Netbackup, Apache Web Servers, Oracle DBMS Server, Crosworlds.

Responsibilities:

• AIX Systems Architect managing implementations for customer delivery management to accomplish:
• Hardware transitioning of two P-Series P690s from development to production; doubling execution performance,
• Major Energy applications upgrade from a two tier model to a three tier model, merging customer relation and billing systems into one platform, reducing hardware, software and support to reduce cost,
• Managed over 70 TB of ESS Storage to increase performance, utilization and reduce cost to support MB used.
• Coordinated systems monitoring; problem resolution and problem determination,
• Acted as Liaison between customer delivery management and service support groups,
• Techinical lead for systems architectural changes,
• Evaluated AIX systems support activities,
• Evaluated AIX systems and ORACLE Database performance,
• Focused support on proactive vs. reactive availability,
• Developed implementation plans while assessing change and configuration risk,
• Tactical environment planning,
• Coordinated long term maintenance activities,
• Storage Systems Administration managing SAN, DAS and NAS implementations to accomplish:
• Assessment of capacity and performance issues.
• Implement advance storage operations like moves and LUN level copies.
• Managed upgrades and Maintenance issues.
• Managed Architectures with four P-Series P690 Frames/8 LPARS, Two P-Series P650s/8 LPARS, Two Model F20 Enterprise Storage Systems, One ESS Model 800.
• Designed scripts to map storage utilization, audit critical systems performance parameters.
• Supported applications technical teams and customer utilization of application.

Senior Systems Administrator

Confidential, Oak Ridge, TN

Environment: RedHat Linux, Perl 5, HP-UX 11.11, AIX 5.2, Veritas Netbackup, Tru64 v5.1, Solaris v5.9

Responsibilities:

• Systems development of systems intrusion detection syslog analysis tools for Network Security. Designed and coded Perl 5 scripts to analyze RedHat syslogs for intrusion detection. Designed and coded Perl 5 scripts to analyze user histories and accounting logs to detect suspicious behavior.
• Systems programming of secure terminal inactivity timeout program for the AIX 5.2. Ported code from 32 bit to the AIX 64 bit platform with many kernel security interfaces.
• Supported 30 Solaris systems version 5.8 and 5.9. Evaluated Solaris 5.10. Supported operating systems, Tru64 version 5.1 systems and HP-UX 11.0 and 11.11 systems. Evaluated the usage of Enterprise Linux version 9. Supported Veritas Netbackup Enterprise backups with advance robotic libraries and DLT tape drives.

Senior Systems Support Engineer

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Environment: Apache Web Server, RedHat Linux, Windows 2000, HP-UX, MC/Service Guard, Vertias Netbackup, Netscape Enterprise Server, Oracle DBMS Server, Oracle Application Server, MQSeries, Sun Solaris 9, Crosworlds, Vantive, PeopleSoft.

Responsibilities:

• Integrated and implemented of the financial system using HP-UX 11.0 and Oracle Application Server 11i (11.5.8), High Availability with MC/Service Guard, Backups with Vertias NetBackup, Designed an integration with dual fiber channel access to StorageWorks Disk Arrays using PowerPath and Confidential Fiber Switches, Administered the Enterprise Storage System and Backup Solutions.
• Supported 16 HP-UX/9000 Servers, 7 Sun Solaris Servers, 12 Red-Hat Servers on Pentium based hardware and SNAP Servers. Planned and lead upgrades, patching and applications integration including (PeopleSoft HR, Crossworlds, MQSeries, Vantive, Configurator, and Agile.
• Designed scripts on critical financial systems for audit of computer security events and conditions, scripts to indicate vulnerabilities in secure systems environments. Implemented secure encrypted communications protocols between financial systems and interfaces. The systems member of the IT operations internal Audit team.
• Designed and Intergraded problem determination and routing help desk interface system on Red hat Linux and Apache web servers. The problem determination system would allow rapid changes in logical step progression of identifying symptoms and recommended solutions.
• Installed, administered and maintained six Linux production application and web servers.
• Produced of scripts to upgrade and standardize existing systems infrastructure.
• Designed and documented procedures for configuration management, maintenance, and patching.
• Mentored and trained senior systems administrators
• Implemented and worked solutions for a tedious data center move from California to Colorado, concentrated on the fourteen HP-UX servers, revamped the applications suite and implemented infrastructure support to minimize outages to business functions.

Senior Systems Architect/Engineer

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Environment: Apache Web Server, Windows 2000, MSDN, Microsoft Visual Studio, HP-UX, Confidential AIX/6000, Confidential SP2, Confidential Tru64 Unix, Netscape Enterprise Server, Apple Web Objects, Oracle DBMS Server, Oracle Web Server, Sybase DBMS Server, Informix XPS v8.2.1, Cabletron Hubs, Cisco Routers.

Responsibilities:

• Designed systems, configured and integrated HACMP on multi-threaded/multi-node Confidential S-80 Servers running AIX/6000 version 4.3.3, Oracle RDBMS and MQSeries. Integrated with dual fiber channel access to EMC Symmetrix Disk Arrays using PowerPath on S-80 and Confidential SP2.
• Scripted a weekend production upgrade of Nine HP-UX Servers from version .0 with tightly constrained cut-over schedules.
• Designed and documented procedure for enterprise wide upgrade of the EMC control center software to version 2.1.
• Mentored mid-level and junior systems administrators.
• Implemented SMTP and web based documentation exchange and handling; web based calendar systems.
• Designed and prototyped a kiosk system with non-escapeable browser interface to display a set of local or internet web pages.
• Architectural design of the support systems and infrastructure to include firewalls, load-balancing, web servers, database and file servers.
• Implemented small business financial transaction and reporting system.

Senior Design Consultant

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Environment: Confidential Tru64 Unix, Apache Web Server, Windows 2000, MSDN, Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft SourceSafe, PVCS, RCS, VCS.

Responsibilities:

• Defined the process definition and refinement of application life cycle management to include: evaluation of vendor configuration and defect management software. standardization of build environments. design of automated build processes. build automation improvement from 38 hours to 4 hours. formulation of configuration management backups and recovery process. configuration management administration and process control. lead and management of a team of release packaging engineers and test engineers through a cold inter-company transition. Technically reviewed candidates for the existing positions.

Senior UNIX Systems Administration-Architect

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Environment: HP-UX, Confidential AIX/6000, HACMP, Confidential SP2, Sun enterprise 10K, Confidential Tru64 Unix, Netscape Enterprise Server, Apple Web Objects, Oracle DBMS Server, Oracle Web Server, Sybase DBMS Server, Informix XPS v8.2.1, Cabletron Hubs, Cisco Routers.

Responsibilities:

• Managed thirty RS/6000 SP2 Nodes, fifty HP/UX 9000 Servers and three Confidential Alpha Servers to include: systems availability of all servers 24x7 with unscheduled down time less than 0.001% (99.999% scheduled availability), standardization of server environments. design of rule based web interfaced call center assignment and information systems. design of web based asset management system. development of Proactive Problem Resolution and Notification systems utilized HACMP to maintain high availability on AIX clusters and SP clusters. systems and application availability monitoring and capacity planning, integration of multi-vendor products into a seamless and continuous support environment, vendor management, vendor version and patch analysis and implementation, development of problem determination and statistical prediction to resolve problems, enterprise systems security management and C2 security management, disaster recovery planning, team leadership of a staff of first, second and third level production support, application tuning, mail configuration management, development of Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs), hardware diagnostics, hardware vender supervision, application installation, application release control, application monitor and log monitoring, system configuration management, failover planning and implementation, documentation of operations and maintenance procedures, manage network communication issues between application components, capacity planning, data configuration and synchronization across common platforms, managed and implemented 3 data center moves (across country, across metropolitan and across business campus) to included video switches, PBX, mid-range servers, LAN, WAN, telecomm equipment, desktop infrastructure and desktops with minimal impact to services and continuity of business functions.

Production Systems and Network Administrator

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Responsibilities:

• Administrated, installed and integrated Confidential RS/6000 Servers in Production, Testing and Development stages of product rollout.
• Maintained systems availability management utilizing HACMP with a 99.999 percent availability requirement.
• Administrated the installation and integration of Workstations and ethernet LAN.
• Migrated Confidential RS/ to RS/ Es to RS/ Js to RS/ to RS/, and data center relocation of the RS/6000s and LANs.
• Administrated the installation and integration LAN and WAN to 4 geographical sites.
• Evaluated network and server performance.
• Performed hardware and software diagnostics on RS/6000 and LANs.
• Managed the time-relative, time-sensitive and off-hours batch processing and scheduling on AIX/6000 servers.
• Created and tested the AIX system scripts (Java, perl, c, bourne, and korn) needed to control processing on AIX/6000 servers.
• Designed and implemented Mail Transports between RS/6000 Servers and MCI Mail.
• Installed new development releases of the Video Reservations System.
• Designed, implemented and insured system backups and disaster recovery of all AIX RS/6000 Servers.

Systems Consultant

Confidential, Denver, CO

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot the TCP/IP LAN using SCO UNIX and FTPs PCTCP. Preformed systems administration, installation and integration of SCO UNIX servers on 486 and Pentium Platforms.
• Installed workstations on the LAN consisting of ethernet segments.
• Administrated new user accounts on a LAN and SCO UNIX Servers.
• Administrated, installed and integrated Network Information Systems (NIS aka Yellow Pages) and Network File Systems (NFS).
• Evaluated network and server performance.
• Designed, integrated and insured time-relative, time-sensitive and off-hours batch processing and scheduling on SCO UNIX servers.
• Created and tested the SCO UNIX system scripts (c, bourne, korn and perl) needed to control processing on servers.

Support Systems Administrator

Confidential, Boulder, CO

Responsibilities:

• Administrated, installed and integrated new RS/600 Servers and workstations on the LAN consisting of both ethernet and token ring segments.
• Administrated, installed and integrated new PS/2 and ValuePoint Servers and workstations on the LAN.
• Performed administration of user accounts on a LAN with AIX and OS/2 Servers.
• Performed administration, installation and integration of NIS and NFS.
• Performed administration, installation and integration of RISC X-stations on the LAN.
• Administrated, installed and integrated of OS/2 LAN consisting of NetBios and TCP/IP protocols.
• Evaluated new product documentation and system administration and installation procedure.
• Evaluated network and server performance.
• Performed hardware and software diagnostics on RS/6000, OS/2 servers and workstations; and RISC X-stations.
• Managed a user LAN services HOT-LINE, user workstation problem determination and problem solutions.
• Maintained time-relative, time-sensitive and off-hours batch processing and scheduling on AIX servers.
• Created and tested the AIX system scripts (c, bourne, korn and perl) needed to control processing on AIX servers.
• Aided development in the establishment of code building and testing scripts.
• Trained developers in the use of AIX systems functions.

Senior Systems Administrator

Confidential, St. Paul, MN

Responsibilities:

• Installed and integrated cc:Mail product line on a MicroSoft LANMAN network utilizing TCP/IP, Ethernet and token ring protocols.
• Administered SUN Unix Servers and OS/2 servers with interconnect to PS/2 and DOS workstations.
• Evaluated product updates and administrated migration of product upgrades.
• Maintained the Server interconnection to Confidential and DEC Mainframes.
• Provide technical guidance to cc:Mail administration.
• Developed administration tools in REXX/2 on OS/2 servers.
• Designed network configuration, tuning and network efficiency metrics.

Confidential, Wesley, MA

Responsibilities:

• System Administration of Unix Systems (AIX/6000, SUN/OS).
• Systems Security Evaluations with threat and vulnerability analysis.
• Top Secret Security Clearance. (May 1993).

Systems Administrator and Development Analyst

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Responsibilities:

• Unix Systems Administration of Confidential &T 3B2s.
• Assisted in the development of the Weapon Resource Management System for the Sacramento Air Logistics Center.
• Development consisted of Confidential &T 3B2s utilizing UNIX on an Ethernet-TCP/IP LAN with Workstations utilizing SCO UNIX and FTP’s PCTCP.
• A centralized database developed in UNIFY 20000/ACCELL Fourth Generation Language.
• UNIX .
• Preformed requirements analysis, specification development, test procedures and documentation.
• Designed, developed, implemented, evolved and tested a prototype database environment.

Senior Systems Administrator

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Responsibilities:

• Unix Systems Administration of MAC/OS and Unix System IV.
• Mainframes integrated were Honeywell DPS-8 and DPS 8000 supported through a DataNet-8 and DataNet-6661 front-end communications processors, Data General mainframe and Confidential 3090 support by Confidential 7171 front-end processors.
• Integrated system security and network security management utilizing Network Manager System, SCO XENIX and Secureware System High Workstation software for enhance A/UX system security administration on the WIS Workstation.

Systems Administrator and Design

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Responsibilities:

• Unix Systems Administration of MAC/OS and Unix System IV.
• Defined and designed a SQL distributed relational data base for 1st Space Wing Management Information Systems (1SWMIS).
• Utilized 4th Generation ORACLE RDBMS (SQL Forms, SQL Plus, SQL Report and PRO C) in a rapid prototype development of the 1SWMIS.

System Security Administrator

Confidential, Colorado Springs, CO

Responsibilities:

• Unix Systems Administration of SUN/OS and Unix System IV.
• Performed rigorous security verification of the Multi-Net Gateway Security Model using GYPSY and UNIX on SUN Workstations.
• Defined, designed and implemented a rapid prototype of a relational data base, demonstrating Advance Tactical Air Command Central (ATTACC) functionality for a proposal, using ORACLE RDBMS.
• Defined, developed and implemented Computer Aided System Engineering (CASE) tools for the security analysis, correspondence and publishing of Space Defense Operations Center (SPADOC) Descriptive Top Level Specifications in relational data base.

Data Processing Manager

Confidential, Pineville, KY

Responsibilities:

• Unix Administration and PC Support.
• Other Accounting Duties.

Systems Acquisition and Design Manager

Confidential, Pikeville, KY

Responsibilities:

• Unix Systems Purchase and Integration.
• Trained employees and advised management in the use of the mutli-user system.
• Implemented a digital measurement retrieval system.
• Planned the future expansion of both systems.

System Administrator and Design Engineer

Confidential, Pikeville, KY

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in design of banking cost accounting system.
• Created network designs for the cost and information retrieval systems.
• Tested model prototype of system.
• Evaluated and solved problems in resource loading of data base used in Banking Transaction and Cost Accounting System.
• Created an serial interface from NCR mainframe system to micro systems for Reporting Modules implemented on micro systems.

Director of Computer Systems

Confidential, Logan, WV

Responsibilities:

• Designed security system for the multi-user operating system in C and PDP-11 Assembly Languages.
• Maintained system operations and supervised computer operator and programming staff and part time student employees.
• Acted as troubleshooter for the existing FORTRAN and COBOL code.

Mini-Macro LAB Systems Technician/Administrator

Confidential, Lexington, KY

Responsibilities:

• Preformed systems administration of three DEC PDP-11/23 and DEC PDP-11/34 systems running UNIX.
• Design and implemented systems Backups.
• User account administration.
• Patched UNIX operating system with the use of “C”, PDP-11 Assembly language, and c-scripts.
• Coded device drivers needed for communications interface of the PDP-11/23 mini-computer to the various and sundry micro-computers utilizing RS-232C protocols.