Subject Matter Expert GITSM

• Vendor/Supplier Management CSC, IBM, Symantec, Redhat, etc..
• Standardizing of environments Security/Hardening/Monitoring/etc
• Technical Management AIX/VIO upgrades/ HW Refresh/Firmware/ Memory upgrades, etc
• Architecting new projects SAP/GMP/Virtualization
• Load and Performance analysis
• New Hardware evaluation and implementations
• Continual collaboration between Business Units and Application owners

Confidential

Sr. Technical Manager Onshore/Offshore

• Sr. Technical Manager for Midrange Farmers/Zurich North America accounts
• Responsible for knowledge transfer and Manager to our India counter parts for all North America
• Managed between eighteen and twenty four employees, onshore and offshore.
• Focal lead between the Business Units of Farmers/Zurich and CSC
• Responsible for day to day activities as well as planning and staffing needs for onshore and offshore
• Design and implement new in house architectures as well as DR strategies
• Focal point for all N/A midrange HW purchasing
• Vendor Management IBM,Redhat,EMC,etc
• Focal contact for Midrange OKC Data Center move/migration 200 servers in 10 weeks
• Converted 80 of physical environment to virtual VIO .

Confidential

Strategic Initiatives Midrange Lead Architect

• Core team member of Strategic Initiatives- Team responsible for 2010 Sourcing to CSC
• Midrange lead for sourcing contract between Farmers/Zurich and CSC 2009 estimated 2 Billion deal
• Engineered sourcing alternatives to maintain all IT in house to Farmers/Zurich
• Responsible for sizing and engineering multiple environments within a one year period
• Core contact for Midrange OKC Data Center move planning and engineering

Confidential

Sr. Systems Administrator Midrange Operations Lead Engineer

• Designed and documented procedures for configuration management, maintenance, and patching
• Moved large applications from old hardware to new in time critical situations
• Standardization of build environments
• Configuration management administration and process control
• Defined and configured NIM environment across entire complex
• Standardization of server environments
• Vendor version and patch analysis and implementation
• Development of Standard Operations Procedures SOPs
• Lead Engineer for disaster recovery maintenance and planning
• Application installation and release control
• Migration off of old EMC SAN switches to new ones
• Documentation of daily operations
• Administered, installed and integrated IBM RS/600, P-Series AIX
• Maintained systems availability management with a 98 percentage availability requirement
• Administrated the installation and integration of workstations and ethernet LAN
• Evaluated network and server performance
• Implemented and insured system backups and disaster recovery of AIX systems
• Administered new user accounts AIX, Linux, Sun
• Administered, installed and integrated Network File Systems NFS Samba
• Designed, integrated and insured time-relative, time-sensitive and off-hours batch processing and scheduling
• Evaluated new product documentation and system administration and installation procedure
• OS level migrations/upgrades with zero percent data loss
• Responsible for 500 servers, combination of AIX, Sun and Linux S80's, P690, P650, P550, P590, P595, Netvista, etc
• Weekly hot page rotation 24 7 support for over 500 servers
• Technical areas of work: AIX, VIO, Linux, Red Hat, NIM, Apache/IHS, Oracle Devices, WebSphere, Java, Sendmail, Filenet, Lotus Notes, Veritas, HACMP, NFS, HMC, SAN, SSA, TSM, etc...

Confidential

IT/Specialist

• Designed and documented procedures for configuration management, maintenance, and patching
• Moved applications and 48 AIX servers and associated infrastructures across business campus
• Configuration management administration and process control
• Lead and management of a team of administrators and testers
• Standardization of servers in 300 environment
• Vendor version and patch analysis and implementation
• Mail configuration management
• Development of Standard Operations Procedures SOPs
• Application installation and release control
• Documentation of daily operations
• Administered, installed and integrated IBM RS/600, P-Series AIX X-Series Linux servers in production, testing and development stage of product rollout
• Maintained systems availability management with a 95 percentage availability requirement
• Administrated the installation and integration of workstations and ethernet LAN
• Migrated IBM RS/6000 applications over to P-Series technology
• Designed, implemented and insured system backups and disaster recovery of AIX systems
• Administered new user accounts AIX, Linux, DCE/DFS
• Administered, installed and integrated Network File Systems NFS and Samba Systems
• Designed, integrated and insured time-relative, time-sensitive and off-hours batch processing and scheduling
• Evaluated new product documentation and system administration and installation procedure
• 2003/2004 President of IBM Club of Boulder
• Administered, installed and integrated DCE/DFS environment
• OS level migration of entire environment with zero percent data loss
• Directly in charge of 50 servers, combination of AIX and Linux P-Series, SP, F40s, Netvista
• Weekly hot page rotation 24 7 support for over 300 servers
• Technical areas of work: AIX, Linux, Red Hat, Apache/IHS, MQSeries, DB2, WebSphere, Java, Sendmail, Perl, Lotus Notes, DCE/DFS, HACMP, NFS, SAN, eND, SSA, ADSM, PSSP, SSH, etc...

Confidential

Unix Systems Administration

• User Admin, Printer Admin
• Responsible for SAP Business Warehouse filesystem manipulation JFS
• ADSM configuration and recovery, SSA configuration, TCP/IP configuration, Tivoli configuration and monitoring
• Daily/Weekly Reports
• Basic AIX installations and configurations on RS6000 Hardware
• Weekly page out rotation
• Minor work with ESM/SAN configurations
• Technical areas of work: AIX, Solaris, SGI, Tivoli, Apache, PSSP, Lotus Notes, Control S, Control M