IT PROFESSIONAL Disaster Recovery Business Continuance Senior UNIX administration

Information technology professional with extensive experience driving impactful changes in processes and systems and work with cross-functional teams, wide range of technical depth and results oriented.

Articulate communicator skilled in delivering presentations with business partners, peers, senior leadership to improve systems, software and hardware

Skilled vendor manager experienced in hardware, software, and maintenance RFP and contracts allowing for maximizing IT budgets

Proven designer and tester resulting in improved systems, recovery and processes.

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Senior IT Consultant

Information technology professional with extensive experience driving impactful changes in processes and systems and work with cross-functional teams, wide range of technical depth and results oriented. Experience in O M Process, disaster recovery, UNIX, LINUX OS, SAN, SAP and other. Extensive experience in facilities management, installation, configuration and infrastructure support. Skilled in vendor management and experienced in hardware, software, and maintenance RFP and contracts allowing for maximizing IT budgets.

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Owner/Vice President

AS owner and Vice President of a holding corporation of a Fred Astaire Franchised Dance Studio in Cherry Hill NJ., I was responsible for all facets of the facilities management, installation, configuration and supported infrastructure and the coordination of business startup.

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Senior UNIX Administrator

Responsible for all aspects of the HP UNIX and Red Hat LINUX environments including analyzing, designing, implementing, maintenance, performance, and capacity planning. Responsible for design and testing of disaster recovery, and backup processes. Proficient at interfacing with the DBA team, SAP BASIS team, application implementers, and operations. Assisted in the migration of mission critical applications off of the mainframe, to open systems on proprietary hardware, and finally to commodity hardware landscapes to lower IS expenditures. Supervised UNIX team during the enterprise wide SAP application upgrade project ECC, BW, and SCM at which time the SAP infrastructure was migrated off of HP PA and ITANIUM proprietary hardware running HPUX to INTEL commodity based HP Blades running Red Hat LINUX, native and under VMWARE. Mission critical SAP applications ran under the VERITAS HA cluster. Designed, acquired, and configured the HPUX and Red Hat LINUX infrastructure to enable HOT site for DR testing.

Key Accomplishments and Responsibilities:

• Ensured teams participation in change management procedures
• Coordinate all capacity planning activities
• Installed, patched, and supported enterprise wide scheduler UC4
• Installed and maintain third-party application software, maintaining continuity with licensing and maintenance agreements
• Worked with SAN team for server storage allocations placement, formatting, performance for HPUX and Red Hat LINUX LVM, mirroring, RAID, JFS, VERITAS, alternate path
• Worked with SAN and BACKUP teams to ensure proper HPUX and Red Hat LINUX backups were obtained
• Designed, implemented, and managed the HPUX and Red Hat LINUX DR testing program
• Implemented and managed multiple configurations of HP C7000 blade enclosures and blades
• Designed and managed fiber and HBA connectivity between SAN, backup equipment and servers
• Designed and managed HP Virtual Connect, Flex Connect, and Flex Fabric in the blade infrastructure
• Configured and supported backup recovery process including tape, VTL, EMC BCV split mirror scripting
• Supported EMC DATADOMAIN and AVAMAR for HPUX and Red Hat LINUX backup and recovery
• Supported VERITAS HA clustering with Red Hat LINUX
• Supported VERITAS Storage Foundations on Red Hat LINUX VERITAS journal file systems, and disk manager
• Supported Red Hat LINUX guest running under VMWARE
• Worked with Data Base administrators implementing and supporting Oracle DB, RAC, ASM, OEM, and Data Guard WHQ to DC2 on HPUX and Red Hat LINUX
• Supported SAN team with VNX and DMX environments
• Supported UNIX use of arrays including SYMMETRIX, DMX, CLARIION, and VNX
• Collapsed an HPUX distributed data center to WHQ as part of migrating a subsidiary onto the SAP enterprise platform
• Introduced HPUX virtual partitioning VPAR and hard partitioning NPAR enabling server consolidations
• Introduced HP ITANIUM MINI DOMES RX8600 servers furthering the server consolidations
• Supported HPUX HA Service Guard clustering solution for SAP and other applications
• Managed equipment acquisition from VARS
• Managed support contracts for server hardware
• Selected and managed back fill consultants as needed
• Managed third party maintenance and monitoring support or UNIX at WHQ and DC2
• Migrated off HP ITO Operations Manager to third party monitoring for level one support SOLAR WINDS
• Supported outsourced monitoring and HELP desk functions
• Supported HPUX on PA-RISC, Itanium and blade infrastructures
• Supported DELL blade enclosures M1000E , blades M710/M910 , and standalone servers used for Red Hat LINUX
• Supported Red Hat LINUX on Intel rack and blade server hardware HP and DELL
• File system support including allocation, formatting, placement, rights, and performance
• User administration including creation, allocation, group ID, security
• Configured and maintained HP OPEN SPOOL and native LP spooler for print Queue and printer management
• Assisted in all US and Canadian federal audits IRS

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Senior Technical Systems Analyst

Held various IT positions including System Programmer responsible for the IBM mainframe S370/390, ES390 running the VM, VSE, with CICS. Responsibilities included installation, patching, maintenance, configuration, monitoring and tuning. Completed a successful migration from the mainframe to open system - HPUX. CICS was migrated off the mainframe by implementing in UNIKIX a CICS emulator on HPUX . Support functions included all HPUX products, tools, print spooler, remote printing, compilers, HA clustering, EMC SYMMETRIX array, tape and disk subsystems, and servers. Implemented a source program control system by using HPUX scripting to included processes for checkout, test, and turnover, with an additional accept and reject authorization all performed by operations. Also completed a migration from UNIKIX to Oracle Application, staying on HPUX. Managed power remediation project which installed a UPS and backup generator.