SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished IT professional combines 19 Years of corporate experience with proven leadership devising/executing technology strategies for UNIX/Linux and Storage systems.
• Hands - on skilled team leader/problem solver, adept at Implementing the next generation of enterprise computing.
• Excellent communicator/critical change agent.
• Responsible for overall planning, organizing, execution and maintenance of existing infrastructure, applications, and development of new technical solutions.
• Enterprise Initiatives Infrastructure Automation (ArchOps) Project Management Solution Integration Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Security Standards Engineered Systems Team Leadership IT Management Information Lifecycle Management Global Deployment IT Infrastructure Consolidation

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: UNIX/ Linux, Windows, Apple OSX, IBM OS/390, Virtual (Zones, LDOMs, VMware, Citrix, VDI)

Languages: UNIX/Windows scripting, batch, bash, korn, perl, python, ruby, sed, awk, expect, PHP, XML, JavaScript, VBScript, C/C++, SQL

Middleware: Apache, Tomcat, iPlanet, IIS, Jboss, WebSphere, Vignette

RDBMS: Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, Sybase

Network Protocols: HTTP, SSH, TELNET, FTP, NDM, NFS, DNS, DHCP, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, SSL, RPC, SNMP

Hardware: NetApp filers, SAN devices, HP/Compaq/Dell/EMC/IBM/Sun Microsystems midrange servers and storage products

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Danbury, CT

Technical Domain Leader

Responsibilities:

• Led the creation of the ArchOps project (DevOps based) worked directly with Chef key people (CTO Adam Jacob) to form the team that leads innovation through automation of operations.
• Extensively used Vagrant and Docker to containerize, isolate and easily move the environments needed.
• Security oriented, implemented and maintained iptables to secure the systems. Managed ACLs through AD group policies (on Centrify or Likewise enabled systems), generated own signed CA SSL certificates.
• Used several automation tools, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Opsware, AutoSys, OpsWorks to save time and be more productive as well as to eliminate repetitive tasks, mistakes and errors.
• Used Jenkins CI tool on a daily basis and GitHub repos for version control. Extensive RedHat and Debian experience as well as Solaris.
• Used the concept of DevOps for the last 5 years. Architected and implemented GE ArchOps (DevOps based) system resulting in faster and more Agile implementation of software and hardware.
• Responded to several outages related to OS/network/applications and corrected/stopped them (e.g. cron failures, libsldap problems, VCS split-brain issues, kernel panics, core dumps, etc.)
• Provisioned servers and installed applications with Cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, CBTS UCS, Salesforce, ServiceNow)
• Created and installed several scripting utilities written in bash, zsh, korn, perl, python, ruby, yaml.
• Regularly used sever/app monitoring tools like New Relic, Stackdriver, Nagios, Cacti, HP OpenView, CA Wily Introscope. Used Splunk forwarder to collect pertinent data for further analysis.
• Lead multiple projects with geographically dispersed teams on a global scale (EMEA and ASPAC).

Infrastructure Services Manager

Responsibilities:

• Consolidated Unix/Linux infrastructure within Capital America business, reduced number of server by 14 saving the business $220,000/yr
• Led and completed storage migration project which included re-tiering the storage T2 to T3 & de-allocation effort. This effort resulted in a 42,400/month reduction in storage costs. Annualized savings for Capital Americas of $508,800/yr.
• Successfully redesigned Capital America network load balancers environment and introduced more efficient ways of setup and configuration of BigIP monitoring solution.
• Researched and implemented new consolidated Unix/Linux centralized authentication process combined Windows and Unix user directories to be managed from one central team using Likewise and Centrify software.
• Detected changing trends in the industry and adjusted accordingly.

IT Specialist Technical Operations

Responsibilities:

• Crafted enterprise disaster recovery strategy and equipped recovery facility in Richmond, Virginia.
• Investigated, planned, and deployed Nexsan advanced technology attachment (ATA) solution to replace NetApp storage infrastructure, which captured $1M in capital expenditure savings.
• Developed a complete web-based tracking accounting and customer support system in PHP, Perl, and SQL allowing administrators, and customers to manage their accounts through a web interface, delivered 20% improvement in productivity.
• Implemented various Apache web-based tools that achieved 40% improvement in operations.

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identified opportunity and led team to consolidate Windows/UNIX servers that saved $250,000/yr.
• Developed Web-based self-service reporting application that enabled real-time reporting/analytics and delivered 20% customer productivity improvement.
• Deployed secure shell (SSH) standards to replace FTP with SCP as data transmission protocol between servers that strengthened corporate data security/integrity.