Summary

IT Systems Administrator / System Analyst that enjoys the design, development, and implementation of exceptional systems: Extensive technical knowledge, with mentoring, and communication skills; managing diverse systems, leading production tiger teams to create competitive performance data systems, providing growth resources, and operational superiority.

Accomplishments

• Implemented revolutionary converged infrastructure solution; pooling servers, I/O, networking, and Storage resulting in a greatly strengthened and simplified data center management model.
• Prevented $3.3 million contract penalty, by compressing 12 months of design production into one month. Developed data modeling methods to achieve target goals - on time, streamlining production time-line and improving work quality.
• Managing and training a virtual reality data production team with goals that were exceeded by 10-20%/yr.
• Documented and transitioned EDI processes away from IT staff to the primary financial stakeholder for their direct management, producing a first year savings of $100,000.

Transferable Skills

• Experienced to make wise decisions
• Plans & Implements timely ideas
• Able to construct complex systems
• Adaptive to new technology
• Distributed/virtual systems leader
• SGI, Sun, Mac, Dell, Egenera, HP.
• Program scripts (bash, csh, etc.)
• Reads/implements schematics
• Customer/vendor liaison
• Accomplished instructor
• ESD certified (Hughes/TRW)
• Disaster Recovery design leader.
• Storage Management lead.
• Information Security team member.
• Windows 08-7, IRIX, Solaris, Linux

02/02 - 03/10 Confidential, Woodland Hills, CA
System Administrator

• Part of a Linux and Windows AD/LDAP integrated systems management team responsible to manage server systems maintained at remote, collocated, and primary systems sites. Monitoring all aspects of server performance and availability, system backup, restoration, patch management and security updates. Assisting staff at all levels with issue resolution, training, and documentation. Utilizing critical thinking in a scrum environment to provide effective proactive solutions to critical business issues. Integrating resilient IP4/IP6 secondary 'named' services with primary Active Directory name service, configuring IIS and internal Apache/Wiki services, and Samba 3 in an AD authenticated service.
• Supported Windows 2008-7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Oracle 10g/11g data and application servers, on an Egenera Processer Array Network - a converged Xen-like Virtual Machine infrastructure, managing o/s & software installation and upgrades; supporting production Oracle servers, application servers, VsiFax servers on blade server hosts equipped with FOIP software modems; APC Data Center Power System planning and installation; SAN/NAS installation & administration; spearheading Juniper WX/WXC data stream optimization, Blue Coat security systems, Numara job tracking, PGP encrypted Electronic Data Interchange, bash scripting , Solarwinds/Cacti/Nagios/Tivoli reporting systems.
• As a System Administrator at One Call Medical Inc. was integral to meeting requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 for production internal control reports, HIPAA, and SAS 70 Type II audits, corrective actions and the outcomes of the resulting corrective measures. One Call Medical was the first company in their market segment to voluntarily meet these requirements. c.2008
• Hardware systems Dell, Egenera, HP, Juniper, Cisco, (Linux/Windows2003-2008/Windows7).

02/01 - 02/02 Confidential, Woodland Hills, CA
Unix System Administrator

• Install, monitor, maintain, document, and migrate changes to a variety of architectures.
• Managed all aspects of configuration control, software installation and upgrades.
• Hardware systems Intel (Linux/Solaris) - Ultra 10.

12/00 - 02/01 Confidential, City, CA
Unix System Administrator

• Responsible to monitor, maintain, document, and migrate changes to a Solaris 7 and Argus Security (Pitbull) system in a Foundry switched high availability architecture. Provided hand in hand support to DBA of Oracle databases hooked to Jakarta Tomcat java server (JSP) with Apache & Stronghold web servers, installation, configuration, & netbackup.
• Hardware systems supported include Ultra 10, and Enterprise 220R, 450, 3500, NetApp, EMC.

07/00 - 08/00 Confidential, Sherman Oaks, CA
Unix System Administrator

• Setup local development and remote production platform configurations of Linux and Solaris 8 systems for delivery of visibility metric data to customers via Apache web server, and MySQL databases processes, with network backup offsite.
• . Hardware supported Ultra 10, Netra X1 and Enterprise 450

11/99 - 04/00 Confidential, Culver City, CA
Unix System Administrator

• Part of administrative support team providing coverage for Solaris systems vital to this leading financial institution's international success.
• Authored scripts for system security, performance, and status reporting in perl, ksh, csh, and c. Provided oversight and technical assistance to a staff of novice/junior system administrators, responsible for the archival, restoration, and disaster recovery of Oracle corporate databases to/from onsite to Digital Linear Tape using Veritas NetBackup tools.
• Hardware systems supported include Ultra 10, up to Enterprise 10000 systems housed both locally (Los Angeles, CA) and at remote sites ranging from San Francisco, CA to New York, NY.

08/98 - 04/99 Confidential, Culver City, CA
Unix System Administrator on pre-STIG secure internal networks for military project..

• Responsible for Irix, Solaris, & NT systems. Familiar with DNS, TCP/IP, NIS, and NFS. Supported developers; user accounts, performed storage management, backup/recovery using Veritas NetBackup, performance monitoring, software installation, licensing, upgrade, migration, and removal.
• Hardware supported: Sun Sparc 5, to Enterprise 3000, and SGI O2, Octane, Indigo 2, and Onyx, StorageTec, Auapex.

01/81 - 01/98 Confidential, Binghamton, NY
Support Engineer EX1 - pre-STIG classified data projects.

• F-117A WST, Stealth Fighter Simulator - Test and integration of hardware and software systems: initial form fit and functional testing of digital avionic interfaces, used to simulate all functional systems of the aircraft. As software Support Center Lead, I managed and trained a new design team tasked to deliver detailed Virtual Reality. Evaluated quality of work performed in support of corporate ISO standards and U.S. Defense objectives.
• Hardware systems supported included CCC 3250; SGI 4D70, Crimson, and Onyx.

Education/Training

Computer Science Major

C Programing I/II

Instrument Flight Instructor

MultiGen[Presagis]

Perkin-Elmer - 120 hrs. - CCC 3200/3200MPS/8-32 MLM Maintenance Courses

SGI - 200 hrs. - Maya Essentials(40); Onyx/4D Maintenance(160).

Parker Hannifin - 40 hrs. - Industrial Hydraulic Technology