SUMMARY:

I am an Innovative Information Technology Professional with 19 years of experience designing, developing, implementing and supporting hardware and systems software. Specialized skills with UNIX and proven ability in the implementation of supersystems including PeopleSoft. Acknowledged for superior support to clients and customers, and recognized for creative and timely problem resolution. Energetic, enthusiastic and dedicated to detail.

TECHNICAL ADDENDUM:

Hardware : NCR 3430, HP 9000 servers (A, D, E, K, L, N, T, RP7400 - 8400, V class, and Super Dome),HP workstations (7x -B2000), IBM RS/6000, SUN all SPARC systems, Enterprise servers ( Blades and SUNFIRE 2xR - 4xR, V8xx), various Intel platform boxes (basic knowledge), EMC Symmetrix, Clariion, HP's XP 256, Jamaica, IPL disk array systems, Brocade switches and various Cisco routers, F5's Big IP load balancing network appliances, StorageTek L700 tape libraries, stackers, DLT tape devices.

Software : PA RISC architecture, MC Service Guard, ADSM, DEC/Encina, Tivoli/TEC, Control-M, Autosys, PeopleSoft 8x, Oracle, Informix, Sybase, Omniback, MQ series, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Manger, File System, and Netbackup, Weblogic, Jolt/Tuxedo, FACS, SALSA, EMC TimeFinder & other EMC utilities, SRDF & BCV implementations.

Operating Systems : HP-UX 9 - 11i, Solaris 2.5 - 10, AIX 6, SCO, BSD, Novell Netware, Microsoft Win 9x, NT & XP .

Languages : Unix shell, Perl, C++, QBasic, COBOL, SQL, DB2, M/SQL, DL/1.

Other : Internet core protocols-TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, IGMP, ARP, IPX, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Short term independent consultant to assess and make recommendations for their multi - staged production, development, test software and hardware upgrade path from Solaris 8 and 9 to the desired 11i.
• The current hardware environment varies from E420r to V445 and needs to be replaced by currently supported machines.
• Oracle upgrade from 9i to the desired 12c. Many custom, in-house applications must remain and cannot be replaced.
• My duties included working together with the Oracle DBA and remote Unix Systems Administrator to make recommendations for currently supported hardware and steps to achieve that upgrade. Weighing the pros and cons of moving from Solaris web apps to Solaris zones, or moving to all VMWare.
• The production databases, currently running Sun Cluster to possibly Symantec VCS.
• With the assessment submitted, internal personnel were engaged to implement it.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Advisor for the UNIX oncall, third level support personnel, during critical incidents.
• Ensure that security concerns were met according to current standards of protection.
• Configure SAN storage space as required by user and application needs. Including Boot - from-SAN configurations.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I worked on a dedicated team to support production mission critical (multi - Trillion dollars/day) financial Oracle and WebSphere systems running VCS 5.x on Solaris 8 & 10 with various Sun hardware platforms. These consisted of Oracle and DB2 database back-ends, fronted with MQ Series, WebSphere application and web servers, all clustered in multiple VCS instances, across multiple networks and subnets, load balanced behind Big IP appliances. I administered the production Highly Available VCS complexes, across three geographically remote warm-sites, serving fault tolerance, disaster recovery and rolling upgrade purposes.
• Daily tasks included monitoring, fault tolerance enhancement, and problem resolution of the Operating System and VCS clusters, maintaining 99.99x% annual production availability rates.
• Also responsible for coordinating and executing hardware and software upgrades, utilizing the HA capabilities of both the VCS software and the physical separation of the warm-sites to seamlessly upgrade without interruption of service.

Confidential

Senior Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• I worked on a team of three Administrators supporting two production HP-UX Super Dome complexes that ran MC Service Guard, Oracle RAC and customer WebLogic applications load balanced behind pairs of Big IP appliances, in a highly available environment.
• Omniback was used for the backup strategy and OpenView was used for monitoring and alerting. Daily tasks included monitoring and managing data backups, performance monitoring and tuning, system troubleshooting, support of users and their applications.

Confidential

Senior Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• I solely supported a small, about 3TB, production Confidential consisting of HP9000 series systems of C, K, N, and rp7410 class, SAN attached to Storage Tek D178 arrays and MTI RAID disks. I had the rp7410 hardware partitioned into two VPARS and was running MC Service Guard, 2 node cluster, in support of an Oracle9i RAC database application.
• The backup sub-system was Legato Networker 6.1 driving a Qualstar 4480 library/silo.
• My primary responsibilities included performance and tuning, capacity planning and resource allocation and management, system integrity and health, data archival and restore, and disaster recovery planning, primary user, application and system s support.
• My customers applications relied heavily on SAS, Samba, and CIFS for Windows2000, NT4 and XP interoperability, the support/trouble shooting of which I was the sole Unix technical lead along with a Windows administrator.

Confidential, Richmond, Virginia

Core Systems, Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Functioned as Lead Unix Systems Administrator of the production Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project. Designed, developed, implemented and supported bringing PeopleSoft 8.0 into Confidential . System would replace all core infrastructure systems (Human Resources, Finance and Corporate Procurement Systems) to support the over 20,000 associates at Confidential .
• Coordinated activities on a cross - functional team with other groups across the enterprise to ensure the successful implementation of the ERP Project. Results led to efficient resolution of issues related to system implementation and functionality.
• Architected using VIPs/SNATs and HTTPS proxy on Big IP load balancers in front of HP servers running PeopleSoft Application and Web servers (fail- over Weblogic cluster), as the front-end for HP Oracle database servers configured in a MC Service Guard cluster. Protected the disk sub-system for the database cluster with EMC Symmetrix, BCV (Business Continuance Volumes). Results led to higher availability, performance and fault tolerance for systems overall.
• Configured the BCV groups to allow on-demand refreshes of the QA and Production Support environments by syncing the third production mirror out to the standard disk devices on those non-production servers. Results led to the elimination of the need for tape refreshes.
• Architected the environment to bring the databases down, synchronize the BCV mirrors, mount the production BCV devices to a third server, and back them up from that server resulting in an average weekly production downtime, for cold backup, of less than 15 minutes.
• Performed integral role in Disaster Recovery exercises, twice a year for all the enterprise systems. Completed an exercise which allowed a 72 hour window to recover all systems. Successfully completed project, including recreating and restoring to contracted host hardware at a hot-site.
• Functioned as Lead Unix resource on the team that developed the system recognized by InfoWeek as one of the top 100 innovative users of technology.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided day - to-day maintenance, capacity, and performance tuning of several production stand-alone and MCSG clustered HP-UX systems on an EMC SAN of EMC and Brocade switch technology.
• Maintained a production Confidential complex that included (but was not limited to) 7TBx 4 node HP V-Class OPS cluster.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided tuning and allocation of resources on Confidential s production fraud detection (real - time scoring/decision engine) and collections systems.
• Built a 650GB test environment on an HP K-class with an IPL disk subsystem. Daisy-chained three cabinets of IPL arrays and striped the LUNS (OS level) in such a way that it actually out-performed an EMC Symmetrix for the OLTP applications, due to the maximum number of read/write heads for each file system and VG.

Confidential, Richmond, Virginia

Associate Systems Programmer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented and maintained the enterprise performance monitoring and analysis system. Functioned as the liaison between key management and technical staff to achieve optimum performance of hardware and software running across various platforms.
• Functioned as part of a team of six Systems Administrators performing all facets of production multi - platform administration, (AIX, HP-UX, SUN) from installation to tuning, proactive initiatives, and back-line on call support for dozens of applications and assorted DBMS s on over 200 servers across the entire US, in support of thousands of users.
• Worked on Confidential s DIVX project, gearing it up for national launch by building its error and notification infrastructure.