SUMMARY:

• Information Technology Engineer with extensive experience in systems administration and Technical Leadership in various global projects in Europe, Asia & Latin America regions.
• 10 years in pre/pos sales IBM, SUSE, SCO, ClockWorksIT
• IT Security Specialist, Expert in Corporate IT security initiatives planning, analyzing, and implementing solutions
• Risk Assessment, Vulnerability, Intrusion Detection, Penetration Testing
• Secure network/servers/applications full life cycle, Hands - on experience
• Network and Systems Security
• Regulatory Compliance Experience (PCI, SOX, HIPAA)
• SRG/STIG Linux 5/6/7 Hardening
• Disaster Recovery, Team and Project Leadership
• Extensive Emergency Recovery experience,(backup/restore and remote sites)
• Credit Card Security Experience
• Virtualization & private/public Cloud
• Installation, Performance Tuning, Support and Patching Linux RHEL/SUSE, Microsoft Servers and virtualization such as VMWare/Hyper-V/KVM/XEN/Virtual Box
• Cyber Security using tools like NMAP, Kali Linux, Wireshark, Tripwire, Qradar
• Experience using storage EMC2, Clarion, ISCSI, SAN and NAS
• Unix Networking, AIX, HP-UX, SUN, DG-UX, CISCO, LINUX, SCO, VMware, Hyper-V
• AWS & AZURE
• 10+ years of programming experience using C, COBOL, Shell, Perl, Python, TCL, ESXCLI, Power Shell, VB-Scripts
• Package management using WSUS, SCCM, Space-Walk, Red Hat Satellite, yum, zypper.
• Performed Product Management, Change Management, Technical specs, road maps and SDLC management
• Tidal, Control-M, autoSYS, crontab
• Installation IIS, Apache and Tomcat
• Managed new products vulnerability tests, (OS, applications and network), using various methods and security verification tools.
• Presented new security/technology products recommendation (hardware, software) to the management advisory board.
• Performed as a high level consultant during the development life cycle for all new product and enhancements.
• World Wide Support 4th level (Call, traveling, incident tracking and Resolution) including different languages and time zones
• Large installations running Oracle Retail, SAP, Manhattan Associated, BPCS, Macola
• Lead project teams from initiation, planning, and execution to closure phases.
• Effectively managed multiple vendors and remote data center support.
• Team member of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCP & DRP)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SOFTWARE: AIX, HP-UX, LINUX, VMware, Hyper-V, XEN, Merge, IRIX, SUN, SUN NET MANAGER, HP Open-view, SNMP, DG-UX, SCO, ORACLE, INFORMIX, Documentum, MCBA, SLES, SLED, SLEPOS,(SUSE Point of Service), kiwi Image creator, SUSE STUDIO, LoneTar, C/C++, DG/UX, Windows XP-Embedded CE/XPe, Windows XP-PRO/2003/2008, Java, JBoss, J2EE, ULTRIX, CISCO, MIMS, BAILEY, VULCAN, PICTURE TEL, RM / LPI COBOL, Korn/Bourn/C-Shell TCL/TK, Expect, NFS, Samba, Progress SQL, Share Point, NewPOS, PC-POS, Open-PEWS, Credit Card, (SoftPOS), PCI Security, Spread, win PEEEE, ImageX, RemoteWare, BigFix, Apprmor, Rsyslog, IPTables, Open LDAP, SLM, XEN Server/Embedded XEN, XML Data Store/Retrieval, XML-RPC, SSH & IPsec, Win XP Embedded Studio, Thin Clients, flash-disk write filters. Hitachi Storage Manager, cron,(crontab and at ), jobs management

HARDWARE: PAR-POS, PANASONIC-POS, NCR-POS, IBM-POS SUREPOS- 700 480 0-742/743, HP-POS, TYCO-POS, IBM Servers, HP, SUN, COMPAQ, NEAX PABX, IP FAX, CISCO, UNISYS, Terminal Servers, HUBS, Radio Link - Optical Fiber, Satellite Connection, Print Server, TELXON, SONY TV network, Smart UPS. Exabyte tape libraries, Data General, Computer Telephony, Intel Matrix Storage, LSI SATA Disk Array, Adaptec SCSI/SATA Disk Arrays, Controllers, DG-CLARiiON Storage, EMC2 Storage Systems, Magellan IBM NCR Bar-Code Scanner, and Hitachi Storage Systems. Micros-3700/9700, Micros-Fidelios, Traffic Counters SMS/Axper

MIGRATIONS/DEPLOYMENTS: DOS to Linux, Windows to Unix/Linux Unix to Linux, Windows to VMware/Hyper-V, Linux to VMware, Unix to VMware, Unix to Hyper-V, Unix to Windows,(using Cygwin and SFU C and Bash/Shell/AWK )

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Systems Eng

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Certified SPLUNK Power User/User and working on Administration
• User level operations, queries, data modeling Linux/web/Network devices
• Power user data input by source, sourcetype.
• Universal Forwarders/Heavy Forwarders
• Macros
• Reports/Dashboard creation
• Cisco, inux statistics
• RHEL 5/6/7.3 SUSE 10-12
• Scripting,( Bash, Python, Perl)
• Windows data input for splunk

Systems Architect IV

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Data centers Migrations, (UAT, Dev, Perf, Prod), from KC to PA
• Weblogic/Java deployments including Sybase/Apache MQ Server 7.5/8.0 swift connectivity
• PCI, SOX environment, ITIL
• Tripwire & Splunk logs
• RHEL 5/6/7.3
• Scripting,(Shell, Bash, Python, Perl)
• Migration of autoSYS jobs.
• DR Mapping
• Agile env. Jira

Linux UNIX Security Consultant

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Penetration Testing, IDS/IPS.
• Raspberry Pi, Kiosk/Touchscreen hardening
• Scripting,(Shell, Perl)
• ITIL, COBIT
• RHEL 5, 6 and 7 Hardening for LifeCare (DataLink)
• PCI, SOX, HIPAA Audit/implementations
• SRG/STIG Windows - Linux vmware ESX, vmware Horizon bacula using samba
• Performance tuning, packages updates and Backup Planning log scanning, tripwire, Splunk
• Application Security ssh configuration
• Tripwire/auditd and log analysis
• Ansible for deployment
• DR Definition
• Risk Assessment, Vulnerability, Intrusion Detection, Penetration Testing

Linux/UNIX Security Specialist

Confidential, Miami, FL

Responsibilities:

• Device security & hardening
• Firewall & Event/log management
• Change & configuration management
• File integrity monitoring
• HPUX, AIX. Solaris, Linux RHEL/CentOS
• Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic
• SSL certification/updates
• PCI/SOX ITIL Environment
• Tripwire Enterprise for configuration control
• AIX
• HPUX 10/11.3x
• Linux, (RHEL 5-7, SUSE 9-12) vmware/vsphere yum package management
• Solaris, Solaris 10 Zones weblogic, Oracle, JRE+JDK
• Jboss
• AWS - Linux
• Security tools NMAP, Kali Linux, Wireshark, Tripwire, Qradar, Splunk
• Security Standards Documentation
• RHEL Hardening
• CA Service Desk, CA Clarity for Change Management
• Anthill 3 Pro Security Monitoring
• Chef rules/scripting/monitoring
• Detailed Planning new deployments/requirements
• Repositories definition/creation
• DR Analysis
• Chef recipes and scripting using shell+knife

SUSE Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• 2.1/3.x, Space-Walk for Package Management RHEL 5-7
• Migrations to AWS - AZURE vmware/vsphere load balancer f5 & Kemp
• SLES/SLED, SLEPOS
• SaltStack
• SRG/STIG Windows - Linux hardening
• PCI, SOX, HIPAA standards
• Scripting,(Shell, Perl, Expect)
• Z-Linux/SAP-HANA
• Performance tuning, packages updates and Backup Planning
• Weblogic, SSL Certification
• Ansible playbooks, basic scripting
• Repositories definition/creation
• Snort & Splunk
• Risk Assessment, Vulnerability, Intrusion Detection, Penetration Testing
• ITIL env.

Senior System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Scripting,(Shell, Perl, Expect) 600 shell script 50 Perl scripts
• EDI Migration from HPUX to Linux under Vmware/vsphere
• Shell to Bash Migration in a X12 HIPAA environment
• PCI/HIPAA, ITIL
• SRG/STIG Windows - Linux - Unix hardening
• Patching/Updates Linux/Unix/Microsoft
• P2V Migration
• AWS - RHEL (Development)
• Linux Chef recipes & scripting
• Team member of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCP & DRP)

Senior System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Virtualization Eng
• Migration from vmware to hyper-v
• Scripting,(shell, Perl, Power Shell, Expect)
• Back Office Integration, migration from VMware to Hyper-V, P2V, V2V.
• Patching/Updates Unix/Microsoft/Hyper-V
• Bios update Scripting
• ITIL
• SSL/TSL
• PCI, SOX unix/windows hardening
• Chef prototyping & Power-Shell
• Backups and DR
• PCI/SOX Environment
• Risk Assessment, Vulnerability, Intrusion Detection, Penetration Testing

Senior System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• RHEL 5,6,7 vmware/vsphere jboss, weblogic, ansible as configuration tool
• F5 load balancer, Clustering, EMC2 Storage
• Manhattan Associate WMS and DF/IO(FNR) support/installation/updates
• SDN patching WMS/DFIO/FNR
• PCI, SOX RHEL Hardening
• Qradar, log analysis
• Servers Hardening (PII/SOX Security)
• Bash, Python, Perl, C, basic ant
• PBIS, Power Broker Identity services
• Application Support Level 3 for FNR/DFIO
• Python/Bash Scripting
• Storage Management, (LUN->VG-LVM-XFS)
• Tidal - Cron-jobs
• Backups
• Linux Chef recipes, (RHEL)
• Chef scripting
• DR Team
• Team member of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCP & DRP)

Technical Project Manager/Lab Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Red Hat + Oracle + WebLogic Installation/configuration/performance tuning weblogic, Oracle, JRE+JDK
• Python,(jython), programming, Windows Batch Programming, RHEL shell scripting
• Risk Assessment, Vulnerability, Intrusion Detection, Penetration Testing
• QA Lab build//support for SIT/UAT, HTA programming
• Network Management, Replacement of IP POS with ORPOS
• Fujitsu Terminals, POSReady 7 64 bits, Retail Hardware Configuration, Receipt Printers, Bar Code Scanners, Touch-screens
• PCI/SOX env
• Gold Box Creation.
• Store System Architecture Design
• Update/Upgrade Automation ssl & ssh key/certificates
• Traffic Counter migration using SMS/Axper batch programming

Oracle Retail Deployment Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• ORPOS,( ex-Commerce-360), ORBO, ORCO under Windows 7/2009/Sles/11/Slepos weblogic, Oracle, JRE+JDK
• Retail Hardware Configuration, Receipt Printers, Bar Code Scanners, Touch-screens
• Gold Box Creation for POS and Server
• Deployment Procedures and Programming
• Store System Architecture Design
• QA Lab build//support for SIT/UAT
• Red Hat + Oracle + WebLogic Installation/configuration/performance tuning
• Python,(jython), programming, Windows Batch Programming
• Micros POS 3700
• Hta programming
• Risk Assessment, Vulnerability, Intrusion Detection, Penetration Testing

ISP Consultants

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Remote Data Center Support
• Data Processing for 15,000 Stores.
• SUSE Linux ,(SLES & Open SUSE), 10.x11.x/12.1, MySQL, JIRA, Apache, Solaris 10/11, zfs, xfs, reiserfs, Bacula Backups
• Administration of *nix servers that poll and process data from 16,000 stores
• VMWare EXS/i 4.x/5.x where Linux and windows VMs run to process over 8 TB of data
• Migration from VMware to KVM-Suse
• DR Team
• Remote backups for 10,000 locations using secure ftp, sftp
• Solaris 10.x/10.x Administration
• VMWare ESX/ESXI/Server. Linux and Windows Vms
• Pfsense, Dell EqualLogic SANs and FreeNAS.
• Shell Scripting, Perl Scripting
• PCI Audits
• Team member of Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCP & DRP)

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• NewPOS, support, Back-Office, Kiosk.
• Shell/vb/powerShell Scripting
• Servers hardening,(PCI Security)
• Windows 2003/2010 Hyper-V/VMware for Store Servers

Technical Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• ORPOS, (ex-Commerce-360) ORBO, ORCO under Windows POSReady 2009
• Gold Box Creation for POS and Server
• PCI Env.
• Deployment Procedures and Programming. Scripting in batch and python
• Store System Architecture Design
• Weblogic + Oracle JRE/JDK production

SUSE Linux

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Basic POS IBM 4690 configuration and interfacing. This OS was been replaced with SLEPOS,(SUSE Linux POS). Shell scripting and package management using zypper
• Weblogic abd Java apps. Jython and bash/shell scripting
• QA Lab build//support for SIT/UAT
• ORPOS,(ex-Commerce-360), ORBO using SUSE Linux POS, (SLEPOS ) and weblogic + IBM DB2
• Worldwide retail POS effort, working for Europe, China and Japan next Store System
• QA Lab management, Image Creation, shell/Perl scripting.
• 10,0 00 Locations/20, 000 Linux Devices.

SUSE Linux

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• PoweShell v1/2
• Shell Scripting/CLI Scripting
• Qradar
• General Support, Linux Installation, shell scripting.
• Blade H Installation and Support in AMEX.
• VMware & Hyper-V support.
• Quest Diagnostics, Emergency Recovery Exercise, with IBM Business Continuity and Resiliency Services. 100 RH rebuilds using kickstart.
• Sprint Nextel RH HAC, Conga,(luci & ricci), 9 nodes cluster for a migration from SUN, KSH annalists and port.
• Micros-Fidelios in Caribbean Hotel Chain

SUSE Linux

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• General Support Stores, Linux-POS and Back-Office.
• Verifone, credit card software, networking
• ITIL wiki Service Now. POS based on Red Hat/Fedora/SUSE 11.2
• Sun-OS Administration, VERITAS-fs, SSH, ZLM. SCO UNIX.
• Oracle Support over Unix & Windows
• Nagios alarm system
• TOMCAT Support.
• Net Backup
• Preparation of test beds for Oracle 360 commerce, ORPOS,(ex-Commerce-360 ), ORBO,ORCO
• Support for Servers running Micro-strategy 9, (BI).
• IBM, EMC2, Hitachi
• QA Lab build//support for SIT/UAT

SUSE Linux

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Migration of 500 C programs and scripts from MS to SUSE Linux 11.2 Using gcc, make, cvs.
• Testing and reprogramming of credit card readers, balances, bar code scanners, Customer Display Units.
• Creation of gold single Linux Image for the POS next generation, based on IBM 4 800-74 X, resulting image is PCI compliant. Including MSR, Bar Code Readers, Balances.
• Design and code Deployment tools over SLEPOS/ SLES 11 for 85 00 Stores using VSAT connectivity.
• Image ghosting, Image Maintenance, SLES-11 Servers Setup, PXE Boot Tiny Core 2.6 busy-box and Clonzilla Boot
• ZLM with Oracle 11 as db. Engine, SLM, Open LDAP, ntp, rsyslogd, IPTables. Transform to RemoteWare to Linux version and BigFix SUSE-Linux Clients.
• CVS Repository. IBM + SUSE Linux
• QA Lab build//support for SIT/UAT
• Scrum methodology, share point tools.

Technology Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Creation of gold Virtual Machines for Hyper-V Core and VMware, 21,000 VMs installed in USA.
• Product Manager for Global Servers Design aka Store Controller based on Windows 2003/2008 and Hyper-V Server over 8,000 servers installed worldwide. P2P, P2V.
• Design coding and QA of backup/restore and Disaster Recovery of VMware/Hyper-V VMs in a 24/7 network environment of XPe, W2003R2, NewPOS 3/6 Java, Power Shell, Unix-Shell, AWK.
• Designing & Testing the Virtual Environment for our 32,000 restaurants using Hyper-V Core/Server. Pilots in USA and France. Exchanging data through NFS, SAMBA and CIF.
• Saved $3M to Japan redesigning the memory foot print of over 6000 devices already installed.
• Save over Millions worldwide in Licenses with a solution replacing DOS-GHOST with win-PE-imageX.
• Creation of Windows 2003 image to support Kiosk.
• 4th level support for our Global Server, (Store Controller), in total 32,000 restaurants.
• 4th level support for our multi screen Kitchen Video Display, used in 120 countries.
• Product Manager for Embedded Devices: Information Displays, thin clients, Kiosk and POS based on Windows XPe over 50,000 thin clients installed worldwide.
• Active member of the McDonald's IT Center of Excellence, (COE), representing USA.
• ITIL and PM++. Share-point tools.
• Help porting POS code from DOS to Linux and Windows XP Embedded.
• First Credit Card payment system in Fast Food industry.
• Software Expertise in applied technology like Windows XP Embedded, W2003, W2008, Win-CE, WAIK, Microsoft-BDD, SCCM, SMS, AIX, Linux, Server/Embedded/Workstation, VMware, MS Virtual Server, Hyper-V, Merge and VP/IX, SMS-SNMP, Power Shell, and Microsoft SFU, SCO-UNIX, SUSE and RH Linux, Windows-PE 1X/ 2.X,(win-PE), BCDedit and imageX. Call center system using VoIP and Oracle 11 as DB engine, used Progress SQL..
• Hardware POS, (Panasonic, Par, NCR, IBM, ELO), IP Cameras, IP Serial, Embedded Devices, SATA/SCSI Disk Arrays, Solid State HD, SD Cards, Windows XPe & CE. HP Servers, IBM Servers.
• Micros 3700 migration to NewPOS.