SUMMARY:

• Led the design and implementation of a new cable data system in the Chicago Market for Confidential to replace an aging and obsolete one, resulting in significant revenue gains.
• Built the new Operating Systems platform for Confidential and managed the conversion QNX to Linux for all real - time processing on the Illinois Tollway.
• Led engineering effort for Illinois Tollway business systems equipment hardware upgrades.
• Ported the front end code for the Confidential “ Confidential ” from the Windows platform to both Linux and OSX platforms.
• Participated on a team to redesign and migrate the customers eight thousand node local area Confidential network to a hybrid Fast Ethernet and ATM switching network.
• One of three people responsible for the creation of scripts to perform automated loading of sun workstations and servers prior to the existence of JumpStart.
• Worked with software engineers at Confidential to create a new service-provisioning package to replace an existing one, thereby reducing provisioning times by 94%.

CAREER RELATED SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE:

• Requirements Gathering and Definition
• Systems Architecture
• Network Design and Management
• Systems Design
• Software Maintenance
• Network Support
• Virtualization (VMware and KVM)
• EMC CX and VNX
• Cisco Switches, Routers and Firewalls
• Functional and Technical Specifications
• Team Leadership
• Systems Administration
• Real - Time Design Experience
• High Availability
• SAN
• Blade Servers (HP and Dell)
• Windows and Linux Enterprise Administration
• Ubiquiti Routing and Switching

ADDITIONAL SKILLS:

• Apache Web Clustering
• BASH scripting
• MRTG configuration and management
• DNS/BIND
• ISC DHCP
• Mail Scanner
• SNMP data collection
• Experience with CVS and Subversion
• ISCSI configuration
• Nagios
• 26 years of UNIX experience
• 10 years experience engineering and managing ATM networks
• Development of information security programs, policies and procedures.
• Active Directory / OpenLDAP
• SpamAssassin configuration
• PHP scripting
• Cacti configuration and management
• Desktop and Server Support
• Sendmail configuration and management
• Some PERL scripting
• Linux Clustering
• MySQL database administration, including database replication
• RSYNC
• 802.1Q and ISL VLAN configuration on Linux and Cisco devices
• Bugzilla administration and usage
• 10+ years of Linux experience
• 23 years of systems security background
• Conducted security audits, risk assessments and remediation.

CAREER EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Aurora, IL

President and lead developer

Responsibilities:

• Automate server builds using puppet, chef and cobbler for RHEL 6, and RHEL 7 builds.
• Setup Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment systems using GitLab to manage development and Dev/Test environments.
• Provide 7/24/365 customer service as required.
• Continued development of game script and server code.
• Maintain cross-platform codebase across Windows, Linux and OSX platforms.
• Build and Monitor ESX cluster using iSCSI over 10GB Ethernet (Cisco Nexus 3548 switch)
• Provide monitoring of systems using Nagios and check mk.
• Maintained server availability for customer facing systems.
• Developed and maintained backups to DR site.
• Engineered and maintained environment for PCI compliance.
• Supported the client and server platforms for the Bitcoin Casino “Dragon’s Tale”

Confidential, Lisle, IL

Sr. Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Day to day operations support of the toll collection network.
• Gather Business Requirements
• Perform regular security audits of corporate IT systems to satisfy PCI security requirements.
• Maintain experience on RHEL and Oracle Linux
• Configure and maintain new VNX 5700 Unified Storage Platform to customer requirements.
• Engineer and assist in planning and building new production environments as part of hardware refresh.
• Manage Backups with NetBackup
• Configure and manage F5 load balancers.
• Assisted in the development and maintenance of of the corporate IT security policies to comply with PCI security requirements.
• Provided expert level advice and assistance in the areas of security architecture, systems auditing, security tools.
• Appliances to customer requirements.
• Engineer and configure replacement Brocade SAN to replace legacy Silkworm and McData SAN.
• Responsible for Cisco router, switch and firewall configuration

Confidential, Aurora, IL

Sr. Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide day to day operations support of all systems, including sales order, and production.
• Convert production systems from legacy SCO UNIX to Linux RHEL systems.
• Build VMware and KVM virtualization environments and build scripts.
• Build subversion repository and imported all legacy code to allow for change tracking.
• Build automated monitoring tools
• Built Kickstart server and defined templates for all production machine types to allow rapid virtual machine deployment.

Confidential, Lisle, IL

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Day to day operations of the toll collection network.
• Software testing and fault isolation.
• Create and execute test plans.
• Gather Business Requirements
• Worked with customer to bring their environment into full PCI compliance. The environment handled roughly $4 billion/year of credit card transactions.
• Perform regular security audits of corporate IT systems to satisfy PCI security requirements.
• Maintain Linux distribution built for handling real-time toll collection.
• Support Silkworm and McData SAN.
• Provide Tier 3 and Tier 4 support to the lane control analysts.
• Configure and manage F5 Load Balancers.
• Support corporate VPN environment using Cisco ASA firewalls and RSA SecurID.
• Assisted in the development and maintenance of of the corporate IT security policies to comply with PCI security requirements.
• Provided expert level advice and assistance in the areas of security architecture, systems auditing, security tools.
• Maintain experience with RHEL and Oracle Linux

Lane Control Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configured, and maintained large scale (450+ nodes) Linux environment in real-time operations.
• Training of Junior Personnel
• Remote Field Support
• Application and Systems Tuning
• Test Plan Generation and Execution
• Fault Isolation and Remediation
• Vendor Management

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Lead Ports Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Systems Administration
• Linux Performance Tuning
• PHP scripting
• Maintenance of real-time compute clusters
• Network Programming
• Patch Maintenance
• End User Customer Support
• Web server cluster maintenance
• C / C++ code maintenance
• Game Scripting and Design

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Vendor Relations
• Systems Engineering
• Develop and maintain scripts to perform automated software upgrades of network devices, automate network configuration
• Network Troubleshooting
• Requirements collection
• Implement ATM backbone
• Interoperability testing and remediation
• Managed network team
• Track network capacity and make recommendations for additional capacity to maintain consistent service levels
• Shell scripting
• Systems automation
• Manage software releases

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Regional Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Network Analysis
• Technical Support Coordination
• Assist customers in diagnosing and repairing issues.
• Systems and Network Troubleshooting
• Issue Documentation
• Assist and direct authorized third party service providers in problem resolution

Confidential, Oakbrook, IL

Senior Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Manage network operations and engineering
• Design and develop several dynamic web applications
• Manage a variety of Solaris UNIX machines
• System and Network Security Compliance
• Vendor Management
• Security Administration
• Network statistics collection and processing
• Design, configure, and support routing and switching infrastructure
• Network Design
• Network Traffic Analysis
• Network Troubleshooting
• Systems Forensics

Confidential, Hanover, MD

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Testing, evaluation and integration of ATM technologies in the customer networks
• Audit equipment for security flaws
• Systems engineering on a large scale distributed computing environment.
• Test for software bugs and work with vendors to resolve them
• Tracking software and hardware revisions
• Architect networks and systems to take advantage of integrate video, voice and data to the desktop.

Systems Administrator / Systems Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Integration of network management tools
• DNS Management (BIND)
• Sendmail Configuration
• Develop tools to ensure compliance with SLAs
• Systems Administration
• NIS Configuration
• Automation of management tasks
• Capacity planning

Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Router Configuration
• Security Accounting
• Shell and Perl Scripting
• Statistics collection and processing
• Develop tools to automate system OS loading
• Fault Troubleshooting
• Systems Administration
• System and Network performance tuning
• Customer Training
• Develop automated network test tools

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Network Analyst

Responsibilities:

• X.25 packet switching network tuning
• Installed updates on the packet switching network to resolve customer issues.
• Troubleshooting of network issues on global scale networks.
• Customer Relation Management
• Assist in customer demonstrations
• Statistics collection and analysis
• Installed updates on customer network management systems to ensure maximum reliability and availability
• Maintained customer test environments for both routing and switching architectures
• Develop customer training and perform training
• Technical support for proposal responses

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• UNIX system tuning
• System accounting for usage charge back
• Write test plans
• In-house cabling and connections
• Script and C program programming as required
• System backup / recovery
• Test lab coordination
• Perform test plans
• Administration of all Desktops and Servers
• Maintained customer testing labs