SUMMARY:

• Confidential to find a position that is of mutual benefit as well as a match to my unique skill sets. I am very diverse with 30 plus years of experience with systems, networks, software and database engineering. While managing several teams of developers, the QA team, the marketing team, support teams as well as driving three start - ups to success.
• Owning my own companies, afforded me a unique outlook on everyday problems and situations that others may not foresee. I have extensive VM, AWS, CentOS, Redhat, Fedora, Windows, MsSQL, MySQL, Mongo, Visual Studio, Borderware/WatchGuard and Cisco experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Basic, .Net Framework, Visual C#, ASP.Net, Html, Shell scripting (cmd, c-script, VBscript, bash), SQL stored procedures, Perl, PHP, Python

Microsoft Technologies: SQL server 2000 Database Administrator, .Net Web applications, Windows Server 2008/2003/2000/ NT, SQL Database Server, IIS7/6/5/4, RDP

Confidential s: 16xx-72xx Routers, Catalyst 55xx switches, PIX firewall, Cisco VoIP

Internetworking: Borderware / WatchGuard firewalls / email appliances, Nat and Mat translations, ACL rules, Big-IP F5 Load Balancers, Network protocols OSPF/BGP, DNS servers (Linux / Microsoft)

Design: Primary designer of enterprise wide logistics last mile tracking applications and WMS system Expert in creating / designing / supporting complex application on multiple platforms

Deployment: Testing Q&A process, Rollout process, Customer support

Misc.: Enterprise applications, Server Farms, LAN/WAN, RAID technologiesDatabase: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB clusters, Mongo

Platforms: Microsoft Windows V3.0 - V10 desktop and WinNT - Win2016 Server, RedHat, RedHat Cloud, Fedora, CentOS, AWS, RedHat HA and Galera Clusters

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Jacksonville, FL

Sr. Systems Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing and architecting solutions in Infrastructure Outsourcing area (including End user computing, Data Centre & Cloud Services, Network and Security Services ) across various industry verticals globally.
• Responsible for architecting AWS solutions and migration of Oracle to RDS using DMS tool
• Apply domain expertise and innovative ideas to architect/design winning solutions by collaborating closely working with onsite sales teams, internal delivery organizations, Domain SME’s and 3rd party vendors
• Designed POC WebSphere replacement solution using RedHat, Docker, .Net Core.
• Understand customer needs/requirements and translate these needs into a winning solution approach and position MSA to win new business
• Lead the overall solution approach including transformation approach to enable business outcomes for customer
• Acts as an advocate for the client, as the ultimate authority on the architecture designed to address client business problems
• Composes RFP/RFI responses and applicable services agreements that specify processes, technology, staffing, deliverables, commitments, risk, and project management aspects of a solution.
• Architects infrastructure technology (servers, distributed systems, server migration,, desktop, remote access) that effectively reflect business needs, service-level and availability requirements and other technology parameters. Provides senior technical expertise to the organization on selection, design, development of enterprise service management technologies and services
• Work closely with internal IT partners on service management, infrastructure strategies, operational readiness, engineering standards and designs.
• Focuses on the standards and technologies for enabling systems performance qualities, such as availability, scalability, recoverability, reliability, extensibility
• Supports the applications architecture in the design of the N-Tier application framework. Works with the other architects including data/database, computer (servers, desktops, remote services) and security.
• Establishes a process to monitor existing systems for performance problems and drafts system migration plan if necessary

Confidential - Miami, FL

Senior Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Support office desktops (Windows)
• Manage two dell r600 servers running CentOS
• Manage office kvm servers both Linux and Windows
• Manage all facets of network and connectivity to internet
• Manage firewall and network security
• Manage AWS cloud infrastructure for all AFS services - Disaster recovery - Backups
• Duplicated complete office info-structure in AWS to be used in the event the office was nonfunctional. IE Irma - Used DRDB to sync all office data.
• Implement Chef for all our info-structure both on site and in AWS
• Created Chef recipes using Python
• Create and manage all AWS Glacier archive storage
• Responsible for all VPC security, Groups, ACL's and monitoring of flow logs
• Administer Nagios monitoring server
• Administer MsSQL and MySQL databases. Responsible for all aspects of database servers.
• Create and maintain stored procedures
• Managed the Microsoft Reporting server.
• Conduct and implement database performance tuning assessments
• Configure users, security, haclusters, drbd drives, and samba from the command line.
• Support our Polycom VoIP systems using Nuvio as the provider.
• Maintaining a secure 24 x 7-production environment.

Confidential - Worcester, MA

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Enhanced OOMs and our WMS system to fulfill Exel requirements a SaaS based product.
• Established, direct, and maintain all of the strategic long-term goals, policies and procedures for the company.
• Designed customer service packages offerings including network support, desktops services, and security services.
• Created custom software to client specifications, managed process milestones, delivered projects on schedule and within budget, company used the agile methods.
• Gathered user requirements from the field and translated in to business requirements / technical designs for the development teams to code. Code reviews of all OOMS and WMS solutions.
• Created redundant email servers with shared queueing for stock trading company. Trades must be transmitted no fail system.
• Create and manage client’s migration process from legacy systems to SalesForce. Migrate data, create dashboard, train employees.
• Create SalesForce data import tools to assist in migration process.
• Created web based charting system for the nondestructive testing of water pipes, bridges, railroad ties. Utilized sonar pings to determine weak points in the structures, written in C# running on IIS over a MySQL database.
• Designed and implemented appropriate system security systems and procedures to protect systems and networks.
• Developed an online permitting system using PHP and Java on a Mongo database with Nginx server.
• Maintaining a secure 24 x 7-production environment supporting all client sites and SLA requirements.
• New England rep for Borderware / WatchGuard.
• Central Mass rep for Talkswitch VoIP systems.
• DBA MySQL and MySQL databases.
• Negotiated contracts with vendors.

Confidential - Worcester, MA

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Created the portfolio of services offerings and supporting contractual documentation required for service delivery.
• Established the Sales, Marketing, and Channels strategies and managed the tactical activities required to bring those strategies to fruition.
• Managed multiple teams supporting the end-to-end product development.
• Utilized mature consulting business practices and operational controls required for consistent, repeatable and successful solution delivery.
• Our delivery model allows us to rapidly address and respond to the needs of our clients by leveraging best-practice combinations of Agile/Scrum in the delivery of our solutions.
• Created and supported OOMS online order management system a SaaS product.
• This included the overall design, coding, testing and release process as well as trouble shooting any issues with clients. Evaluate and recommend new technologies to best support all clients.
• Design, develop, and evaluate MSsql database components for OOMs and WMS products
• Traveled the USA agents and gathering requirements from the users to improve the products by fulfilling user’s operational requirements. 6000 plus agents.
• Visionary behind the software, utilized my years of experience and creativity
• Supported agents via phone, chat and on-site when need.
• DBA MySQL server farm with Terabyte databases.
• Supported integration with shopping cart systems and many e-commerce websites,
• The main Exel web farm housed in my datacenter utilized Cisco load balancer and multi homed via BGP for failover. The site required a 99.9% uptime and had a cost of $10,000 dollars per minute for downtime via the SLA.
• Responsible for security of our network and edge devices.
• Responsible for email filtering / spam protection.

Confidential -Worcester, MA

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Founder of the company, then drove revenues to over a million in 18 months.
• Designed, managed, supported and built of all systems and Cisco based networks Maine to Florida. Support of all Cisco routers (7206 core) as well as managed network performance and capacity planning.
• Managed all firewall / security systems (Borderware and Cisco) for both SPlus and SPlus clients. Asset clients preparing for FDIC security audits. Create and maintain company and client web sites. Grew customer base to 70,000 plus clients via phone, chat, and on-site when required. Sold customer base and managed transition to Confidential
• Managed FDIC audits as the network/firewall provider for UniBank, Hudson Savings
• Managed support group for Teller-line software for Hudson Savings, UniBank, Holden Savings

Confidential -Shrewsbury, MA

IM&T Principal Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented an operations support plan.
• Capacity planning for short and long-term hardware needs.
• Management of web servers.
• Assigned to Raytheon DOD Secret clearance.
• Management of two large LAVC’s consisting of (2) Vax7620’s and 30 Vax ’s, (1) Vax9000, and 36 Vax ’s along with 1 Vax9430 standalone system.
• Provided direction to system operations for all shifts. f users on the use of case tools.
• Monitored and tuned system(s) performance.
• Designed and implemented architectural improvements for both system and network environments to improve usability and provide users with a faster more efficient platform.
• Assigned to Hanscom Air Force base (Lexington Ma )
• Managed 6 system managers who provided technical support to the user community, developed technical plans for short and long-term EMIS system needs.
• Acted as system manager for VMS clusters.
• Low end disk systems (Marlboro Ma )
• Management of main clusters mixed interconnects CI, NI.
• Installation of new hardware and software.
• Resolved all system and user issues.
• Supported 350 users.
• Member of security task force.