SUMMARY:

• An innovative IT professional with a proven record of administering Information Systems.
• Skilled in planning, installing, and tuning hardware and software.
• Background includes: project management, systems administration, systems integration, custom programming, and vendor management.
• An effective coordinator in scheduling projects to achieve objectives.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Working with management, vendors, and users.
• Expertise in scripting (Bourne, Korn, bash, Perl).
• Operating system, middleware, backup, and application software installation, configuration, tuning, and upgrades.
• System and storage hardware installation, configuration, upgrades, troubleshooting, and monitoring.
• Operating system and application security.
• Adept at learning new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Servers: Alphaservers, Sun, PC, HP, VAX

Peripherals:: StorageWorks, RAID controllers, fibre - channel, SANs, network equipment, SCSI disks and tape drives, printers

Operating Systems: Linux (primarily Red Hat/CentOS & SUSE/OpenSUSE), Solaris (2.8 2.10), Digital UNIX / Tru64 (V3.2c - V5.1B), UNIX SVR4.2, VMS

Languages: Perl, UNIX shell (Bash, Bourne, and Korn), PHP, Expect, Tcl, R, C

Tools: Gcc, version control systems (RCS, CVS, git), make, Gnu / Linux command-line, X11, Apache/Nginx, Wikimedia, PostgreSQL, Windows utilities, Xen, Cygwin

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

UNIX / Linux Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Performed upgrades to Linux servers, file system maintenance, reorganizations, and conversions in preparation for a migration to centralized/cloud storage and virtualized servers/services.
• UNIX subject matter expert for a project with a consulting firm to migrate a legacy Digital UNIX system onto a vtAlpha - based virtual machine. Supplied assistance with bare-metal recovery, disk labeling, file system layout, kernel recompilation, and operating system upgrades.
• Created communications for local high school sports team, generating iCal files about team events and updates for distribution to athletes and parents.

Confidential

IT Contractor

• Contractor working with a San Francisco-area health insurance client performing DevOps support for a major database project, shell scripting, and support of applications on Red Hat Linux.
• Extensive Shell and Perl Scripting and support of Linux (Red Hat, SUSE) to analyse log files to determine what caused conflicts or crashes in the system.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Security Compliance Specialist

• Used PowerShell scripting in a Windows environment in support of compliance activities.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Systems Administrator

• Contractor working with a Chicago-area client performing virtual server/machine (CentOS, Xen) and software installation, configuration, and support.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Technical Specialist

• Administration and technical support for Tru64 and Solaris UNIX servers used by the client's Sales, Marketing, CRM, and Supply Chain groups.
• Day-to-day support of the Tru64 UNIX environments handling trouble tickets, change requests, and migration-related issues.
• Managed the Linux-based Nagios monitoring systems overseeing over 700 North American systems modifying the monitoring configurations as systems transitioned into IBM data centers.
• Trained overseas user account management team on the use of Tru64 user account management utilities.

Confidential, Vernon Hills, IL

Technical Consultant

• Administration and technical support for Tru64 UNIX and Solaris UNIX servers used by the Sales, Marketing, CRM, and Supply Chain groups of the company.
• Coordinated the migration of system backups from Legato Networker to Veritas Netbackup, re-engineered the backup scripts used in the batch scheduler, and worked closely with backup and network teams to resolve backup performance problems.
• Migrated the locally-attached fibre-channel storage for clusters onto a centralized SAN to greatly reduce data center power use.
• Managed a Linux-based Nagios monitoring system for over 550 production systems across North and Central America including maintaining system configurations in a CMS.
• Wrote Perl scripts used for generating daily system availability reports from Nagios data.
• Internal consultant to developers and DBAs regarding UNIX-related issues including security, performance, and software development, primarily in the area of shell scripting.
• Developed a database application using Perl and PostgreSQL that allowed users to easily obtain information using simple SQL scripts about the 11,000+ batch jobs running in the Autosys batch schedulers.
• Created Perl scripts to automatically track changes to disk volume definitions and failed devices and to provide alerts to administrators.

Senior Technical Specialist

Confidential

• Received Award for saving $5M in capital expenditures by implementing a backup order entry system on an existing UNIX system using shell and Expect scripts and the Autosys batch processing system instead of purchasing new equipment and software.
• Administered clustered Tru64 UNIX-based Oracle database servers for Development and Production environments performing all hardware and software installations, upgrades and system reconfigurations.
• Managed more than 10X growth of application storage and migration from locally-attached disk arrays to SAN-based storage.
• Identified deficiencies in locally-written shell scripts controlling applications and redesigned them to significantly improve the reliability of the clustered applications during failovers.
• Reduced resource conflicts with critical nightly processing needs by developing new backup procedures for the UNIX clusters and integrating them into the production batch schedule.
• Automated FTP file transfers and mass electronic mailings to Baxter customers using shell and Expect scripts that ran as part of the nightly production batch jobs and eliminated the need for manual transfers.
• Installed and configured 3rd-party middleware and applications such as DataMirror Transformation Server, CA's Autosys batch scheduler, Apache web server, Perl CPAN modules, and others.
• Developed new procedures to backup the core cluster operating system environment to speed up bare-metal system recovery.
• Wrote scripts to automate the daily production of snapshots of the cluster hardware configuration and reports of logged errors and security events.
• Wrote extensive documentation of Trucluster configurations, backup procedures, cluster service failover procedures, and all locally-written scripts.

Confidential, Arlington Heights, IL

Manager, Technical Services Team

• Manager of Technical Services team supporting over 400 users in a multi-state health care organization.
• Managed team responsible for the design, implementation, and administration of local- and wide-area networks and information systems based on Novell, Windows, VMS, HP-UX, Linux, and AIX operating systems.
• Supervised operations team members responsible for day-to-day operational aspects of hospital and physician practice applications including user support and nightly processing.
• Supervised data center expansion project.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Administered all UNIX-, VMS-, and Linux-based servers and established resource monitoring processes, backup procedures, and HIPAA-compliant security policies for all hospital systems.
• Reduced after hours support calls by setting up a Linux-based Apache web service to host web-based system monitoring (CGI and SNMP), operations procedures, and help functions for centralized operations staff.
• Created new procedures for network address allocation to eliminate a problem of duplicate IP address assignments.
• Performed and supervised all hardware and software upgrades.