EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

• Technology Professional with over 20 years of overall experience with a variety of systems, including brokerage, finance, telecommunications, and Internet and a focus on (HA) high availability, 24x7x365 enterprise network systems, business procedures, and technology development.
• More than 10 years of technical project and people management and implementations. Strong ability to build, motivate and retain, multi - disciplined, culturally diverse workgroups.
• Excellent in determining the overall strategic direction and providing technology vision as well as leadership in directing the information and data integrity within organizations. Proven track record of using creative approaches to problem-solving, with the ability to avoid and resolve crisis situations.
• Solid experience examining requirements, and determining ROI, creating budgets, controlling cost and creating strategic plans.
• I have a progressive record of advancement and accomplishments based on the delivery of quality implementations of corporate initiatives.
• Excellent interpersonal communication, strategic planning, and critical thinking skills.
• Great management skills and the ability to gain consensus between people, groups or departments.
• Proven leadership in operations/network management, strong team player, very technical & hands-on.
• More than 10 years of experience with heterogeneous, client/server systems WINDOWS NT 3.51, 4.0 & 2000, 2003, 2008 & 2013 Active Directory systems, HP & Sun UNIX, with early Novell.
• 6 plus years of technical project management and implementation experience
• 6+ years’ experience with integration, development & management of Enterprise system technologies such as SOLARIS, LINUX, WINDOWS AD, ORACLE 7 & 8i, SQL 7 & 2000, Pervasive SQL
• Effective interpersonal, verbal, written, time management and prioritization skills
• Ability to manage concurrent projects within scheduled timelines and maintain IT budgets
• 9+ years of hands-on networking including troubleshooting, help in design and architecture
• 8+ years’ experience managing complex technology environments including Windows, Unix, Oracle, SQL, Exchange, VMware
• 4+ years’ experience of maintenance of relational databases including SQL, Oracle, Informix, Sybase
• 6+ years of staff supervisory experience, large and small, excellent mentor to the groups managed
• Cisco TCP/IP, RIP, VLANs, VPN Voice over IP and network security
• Several Certifications, SMS Implementation, Windows NT 2000 & 2003 AD Server Implementation, Cisco Call Manager installation, and administration

TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS:

Hardware:

Desktop systems: Compaq, Dell, Apple Mac, Power PC, Cisco Unity G3, G4.

Laptop systems: Apple, Toshiba, Compaq & Dell, HP

Server systems: HP DL & ML systems, Sun & Sun SPARC station, HP Unix 8000, VMware 4.3 thru 6.5

PAN systems: HPBL 6XX series, Egenera

SAN systems: 3PAR SAN systems, HP XP48 SAN systems, Winchester SAN, QNAP NAS, EMC NAS

Working knowledge of Cisco: Catalyst 2900, 3500, 3700, 5500, 6500. & 2500, 3000, 4000, 7200, 7500 Routers, DSU/CSU, Fiber Channel. Clustering & RAID

Operating Environments: Red Hat 5.5-7.2, Centos 7.1, Windows Desktop, ME, XP, CITRIX, MAC 10, HP Unix, Sun Solaris, VMware 5.X-6.5, Kubernetes, LVX-Ubuntu 18.04 Window 2000 thru 2018 server & Linux OS builds.

Programming Languages: Basic, Visual Basic, Perl, Shell, HTML, JAVA, Python, Ruby, XML, CGI, SHTML

Network Services & Protocols: Active Directory, SMS, DNS, WINS, DHCP, BOOTP, VPN, SMTP, SSL, PGP, Frame Relay, Appletalk IP, PTP DS1, and DS3

Email Systems: MS EXCHANGE 5.5, 2000, 2003 and O365, LOTUS NOTES, SMTP, Blackberry wireless mail server

Database Systems: MS SQL, MS Access, MS Fox Pro, Oracle, Pervasive SQL, File Maker Pro, Informix, Sybase (now Oracle)

Enterprise Management: Data Backup & Management VERITAS 3.4, thru 7.1 & AWS-VTL, Antivirus McAfee, Symantec Network Monitoring HP OpenView, Compaq Insight Manager, CiscoWorks 2000, Solar Winds, Windows Site Scope 11.23, Solar Winds, IP Monitor

Security: Proxy servers and firewalls Checkpoint/Nokia, Cisco PIX Firewall, Cisco VPN Router, Nortel VPN Router F5 Load balancers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Leandro, CA

Owner

Responsibilities:

• Professional voice over and audio services. Full studio announcements and sound.
• Consulting on the installation of full commercial audio and broadcast studios for transmission locally and to the internet. Installation and setup of networked audio playout systems with national news feeds.
• Installation of systems for the encoding of signals to ISDN\internet and broadcast and joint use networks including AWS & OVH Docker Linux based systems.

Administrator install

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation of full commercial over-the-air radio studios for broadcasting local and to the internet. Installation and setup of a network system for national news feeds, the encoding of signals to the internet and joint use between stations.
• Installation and configuration of all networking for stations. Installation of Linux Based, radio automation systems for multiple radio stations using Docker and Kubernetes for station scale and replication.
• Individual DJ Hosted studios with Centos based Main NFS, MYSQL5.6 server connected via Confidential, using Ubuntu/Debian mini workstation for the client which does play out, for each station running.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on experience with Ubuntu 18.04 Strong knowledge of headless Linux servers, and Ubuntu systems administration.
• Experience with scripting and configuring automated tasks with Ubuntu.
• Experience with Ubuntu 18.04 network management.
• Experience with OverlayFS in Ubuntu 18.04 Experience with Raspberry Pi and configuring interdependencies across multiple systems.
• Python and application programming.

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintain Daily Backups with onsite DLT library and AWS VTL and Data - Center hardware
• Maintain and update firmware and drivers for Dell Chassis and Cisco UnityContinues monthly work doing security updates on all systems Windows and Linux updates.
• As well VMWARE on all hardware systems upgraded from 4.4 to 6.5 to bring blade systems & Unity OS up to current security requirements.
• Working on automation of Windows updates using Microsoft SMSSC
• NetApp SAN 140 Servers on site

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• AWS cleanup of 15 server systems for the sale information systems.
• Resized drives to maximize OS space and corrected VPC network issues.
• Work on AD connection for MFA to move Stash from an external company inside.
• Work to interconnect Jira with Fresh Services.
• Built out Dev systems in AWS for testing of stash Jira and Bitbucket systems on AWS. Splunk install script for GPO install.
• Worked to clean up issues show on security scans to help with Security issues due to new company acquisitions.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Brought in to finish the NetBackup environment upgrade from 6.5 up to the Current 7.1 as well as LTO system from 3&4 to LTO 6.
• Corrected and repaired HP - BL620 systems to move 48 VIM’s to this system for uses as DR systems.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Systems Admin

Responsibilities:

• AWS build environment.
• Amazon OS Windows Server 2012 R2 build systems.
• Investigate issue with the GIT systems and the SVN builds of the POS and POA systems used to sell and activate communication devices for Target stores.
• Clean up of AWS systems with over 240 servers, reduced to 30 servers for developers.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Integration engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Installation of the server systems for the client and network NATS in Windows Confidential set up.
• Windows-based wire funds-transfer systems for banks and financial institutions.
• Wire transfer services that flowed through the Federal Reserve Bank Wire system.
• Wells Fargo Western Union international funds systems.

Confidential, Oakland, CA

Senior system monitoring engineer

Responsibilities:

• New position created to bring fails alarms down and bringing systems up to need levels for two companies merging.
• Windows Site Scope 11.23 Splunk, SolarWinds IP Monitor.
• Upgraded Site Scope system from 11.00 to 11.23.
• Built and worked with Splunk to get the best out of their system to monitor as many of our clients as possible to allow alerts for individual clients.
• Built out the PagerDuty.com system for both companies to track and Fulfill the requested SLA’s of our clients.
• Reduced false alarms by 79% and improved systems used for monitors.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Senior system engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work with a team of engineers to rebuild the POS system for Confidential Store in Japan to switch from Windows server systems to Linux SUSE systems.
• Build systems using SVN to produce OS Server image for store systems.
• Built using scripting that used Perl, Ruby, and Python and bash elements that allowed for multi-country builds.
• Work with the development group to in corporate and QA the (ongoing) POS programming into the systems using CI through Jenkins
• Maintain and update procedural documentation of install and build in MS Folio