SUMMARY:

• Solutions - oriented IT Systems Engineer with notable success managing a broad range of information systems while participating in planning, analysis, implementation, and development of information security in direct support of business and government agencies’ objectives.
• Track record of increasing responsibility in system design, systems analysis/development and a full lifecycle systems administration.
• Demonstrated capacity to successfully manage information technology systems and network technologies.
• Hands-on experience administering all types of hardware, and software.
• Outstanding leadership abilities: able to coordinate and administer all phases of systems administration efforts while managing and implementing for end users.
• Adept at developing effective information technology data reports, user activity reports and system performance reports
• Windows Network Administration Data Integrity and Recovery
• Unix System Administration Disaster Recovery Planning
• Bourne Shell Scripting

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: UNIX (Solaris, HPUX, AIX,) MS Windows 2000 server, XP Pro, X Windows(Hummingbird). Sun SPARC Sol 8,9 and 10, HP L9000 systems, and Linux RedHat.

Networking: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, Novell 4.x, VPN, Citrix Server, NT Terminal Services, Perl 5.8 for Win32 systems, Lotus Notes, Wireless Networking, and Apache Web Server. Unix Networking Environment.

Languages: UNIX Shell scripting, Visual Basic 5.0 / 6.0, Visual Basic .NET studio, HTML, Perl, And junior Java Enterprise Developer

Tools: LAN Manager, Windows NT Terminal Services, Novell GroupWise, IBM Tivoli

Framework, Tivoli Remote, Tivoli Help: Desk, Tivoli Software Packager, Tivoli Inventory, Microsoft Office Suite 97/ 200 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, Outlook), FrontPage, Dream Weaver 3.0/4.0, Macromedia Fireworks 4.0, HP Open View, VERITAS Backup, Lotus Notes and Citrix Server. VERITAS Net backup, VERITAS volume management, VERITAS Clustering Software, SUN Clustering Software v3.1, Oracle 9i and 10g installation and configuration. Comprehensive familiarity with Powerbroker, and BMC patrol Remedy helpdesk.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior UNIX Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide day to day administration of Linux RedHat 6 based virtual systems hosting HUD web services using oracle fusion software. Duties include updating, integrating, configuring new application updates, updating OS, installing, troubleshooting and supporting all middle ware application such as oracle Weblogic WebCenter and Oracle apache server.
• Recruited to help with migration of HUD’s domain from Sun Servers to Linux redhat 6.0. Built, configured, setup and maintain all RedHat virtual server using VMWare.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain other client applications related to HUD using weblogic webcenter.
• Participated on an on-call basis to provide weekend second level support to HUD’s Domain.
• Meet with Higher management, engineers, developers, DBAs, and technical staff to inform, provision, and provide effective solutions to technical questions and concerns with migration project

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide day to day administration of Linux RedHat 6 based virtual systems hosting internal financial application. Duties include updating, integrating, configuring new application updates, updating OS, installing, troubleshooting and supporting all middle ware application such as Fuse ServiceMix, WebSphereMQ, apache tomcat, and related.
• Essential part of ALIS Project to integrate old LifPro financial system to new one (ALIS). Contributed knowledge and guidance to integrate into Linux systems and windows 2008.
• Part of Second level support for all middleware and virtual environments which includes windows server 200, 2003, 2008, and LINUX bases systems hosting an array of other applications such as IIS 6.0 / 7.0, MOVEit, BizTalk, and cloud Virtual environments.
• Participated on an on-call basis to provide weekend second level support to all GAFRI entities.
• Meet with Higher management, engineers, developers, DBAs, and technical staff to inform, provision, and provide effective solutions to technical questions and concerns of ALIS project.

Confidential

Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility includes administration, setup, configuration, maintenance, upgrading, and patching of the UNIX OS to include HPUX 11+, SUN Solaris 10, and MS Windows 2003, 2008 software and hardware.
• Provide first and second level support to ensure functional and operational integrity of Data Center technical services used throughout the company and their subsidiaries in support of business products and infrastructure shared services for all internal and external products.
• Additional responsibilities includes processing of service requests, change and release engineering and deployment, incident and problem management, Asset management, shared services and infrastructure planning, design and implementation, shared services and infrastructure lifecycle management, project support, administration of processes and policies, and administrative management of support tools.

Confidential

Sr. UNIX Systems Admin & Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• In charge of the administration, configuration, and setup of all UNIX SUN Solaris systems.
• WebSphere Application support and administration via WebSphere portal and application server which includes creating, building, deploying, and testing application clusters, cluster nodes, application installations, and testing new installs.
• Installation of PRPS application reporting modules, update database, and provide .ear file deployment.
• Backup monitoring using VERITAS Netbackup for UNIX systems and VERITAS Backup Exec for windows based servers.

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Sr. Unix Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for daily Unix administration which includes adding and controlling user account creation and access, user password maintenance, and maintain a secure environment by maintaining large server farm of AIX and Solaris servers compliant with business rules and regulations.
• Daily administration and user support through ticketing process utilizing internal application and BMC ESS software.
• Develop and modify scripts to automate and deploy security profile changes for large environment in both SUN and IBM servers.
• Manage Account ID changes to security profiles using PowerBuilder program and deploy those changes to both environments: Sun and IBM UNIX servers.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues user ID accounts after changes were deployed.
• Managed the test and development of automating identity and security forms for the UNIX SUN and IBM environments to integrate with remedy ticketing software.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

UNIX Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for technical support of UNIX SUN Solaris Systems of 150 + SUN SPARC servers running SUN Solaris 8 and later. Technical Support includes both Hardware and Software.
• Installed, setup, and configured all new Sun Hardware to include SunFire V240, V440, V890, and Enterprise T2000 Servers.
• Installed, configured, and updated OS, to include installing latest patch clusters, and firmware revisions, and device driver updates.
• Successfully installed, configured and administered Sun Cluster 3.1, Installed and configured VERITAS Net Backup, VERITAS Volume Manager, and comprehensive knowledge installing and configuring VERITAS Clustering Software.
• Installed and configured a variety off-the-shelf applications for UNIX platform and worked closely with customers to fine-tune and monitor their performance and impact of resources on systems to include Dimensions 8.0/10, Oracle 9i/10g, and Compuware Vantage Analyzer.
• Continuously analyzed and monitored all UNIX system performance using a variety of performance monitoring tools such as cricket, SUN internal tool: prstat, top, vmstat etc..,
• Wrote and modified shell scripts to accommodate application needs to automate daily tasks.
• Configured RAID 5 storage array using 3310 StoreEdge Sun servers to produce a global environment for clustering test and development, and production environments.
• Worked closely with WebSphere administrators to assist in the installation of WebSphere server and client applications.
• Secondary responsibilities included administration of IBM AIX 5.2 & 5.3 light administration of 200 + servers and 10 Linux Enterprise servers Red Hat 7. Duties included creating user accounts, password resets, server performance monitoring, hardware maintenance, software and firmware updates and OS patching. Basic knowledge of SVC SAN architecture and configuration, drive management, capacity planning, Brocade Fabric Switch installation, and comprehensive configuration, and IBM T3500 Tape library support. Fiber channel component and driver installation.
• Installed, configured and implemented test environment for further testing and future use of Solaris Zones. In addition to zones, I also configured, a test environment using Solaris containers using V490, and V890 hardware for further testing and future use.

Confidential, Boston, MA

UNIX Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities include configuration, performance monitoring, kernel tuning, SUN OS 8/9 installation and patching, OS tuning, storage management, volume management and administration, and file system creation.
• Responsibilities included change management which included which includes memory replacement, disk replacement, SCSI Controller card replacement, and CPU upgrade or replacement.
• Software responsibilities include software raid creation using disk-suite, disk mirroring, VERITAS backup monitoring, Storage TEK array monitoring, VERITAS volume management, VERITAS cluster configuration and installation.
• Installed and configured Oracle Installed and configured a variety off-the-shelf applications for UNIX platform and worked closely with customers to fine-tune and monitor their performance and impact of resources on systems to include Dimensions 8.0/10, Oracle 9i/10g,le 9i and 10g as part of my primary functions to assist DBAs. Comprehensive knowledge of Oracle RAC.
• Hardware administered includes SUN SPARC systems to include SunFire v210, v240, v440, v480, v880, v890, comprehensive knowledge of SAN EMC architecture, drive configuration, and disk management.
• Successfully installed and configured VERITAS Net Backup, VERITAS Volume Manager, and comprehensive knowledge installing and configuring VERITAS Clustering Software..
• Responsibilities for all incident and release management which included patching, upgrading, and application releases.

Confidential, Columbus, OH

UNIX Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primarily responsible for technical support of UNIX SUN Solaris Systems of 150 + SUN SPARC servers running SUN Solaris 8 and later. Technical Support includes both Hardware and Software.
• Installed, setup, and configured all new Sun Hardware to include SunFire V240, V440, V890, and Enterprise T2000 Servers.
• Installed, configured, and updated OS, to include installing latest patch clusters, and firmware revisions, and device driver updates.
• Successfully installed, configured and administered Sun Cluster 3.1, Installed and configured VERITAS Netbackup, VERITAS Volume Manager, and comprehensive knowledge installing and configuring VERITAS Clustering Software.
• Installed and configured a variety of off-the-shelf applications for UNIX platform and worked closely with customers to fine-tune and monitor their performance and impact of resources on systems to include Dimensions 8.0/10, Oracle 9i/10g, and Compuware Vantage Analyzer.
• Continuously analyzed and monitored all UNIX system performance using a variety of performance monitoring tools such as cricket, SUN internal tool: prstat, top, vmstat etc..,
• Wrote and modified shell scripts to accommodate application needs to automate daily tasks.
• Configured RAID 5 storage array using 3310 Store Edge Sun servers to produce a global environment for clustering test and development, and production environments.
• Worked closely with WebSphere administrators to assist in the installation of WebSphere server and client applications.
• Secondary responsibilities included administration of IBM AIX 5.2 & 5.3 light administration of 200+ servers and 10 Linux Enterprise servers Red Hat 7. Duties included creating user accounts, password resets, server performance monitoring, hardware maintenance, software and firmware updates and OS patching. Basic knowledge of SVC SAN architecture and configuration, drive management, capacity planning, Brocade Fabric Switch installation, and comprehensive configuration, and IBM T3500 Tape library support. Fiber channel component and driver installation. software and firmware updates and OS patching. Basic knowledge of SAN architecture and configuration, drive management, capacity planning, and Brocade DCFM basic knowledge.

Confidential, Columbus OH

Site Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Recruited to assist with the migration of data centers
• Project included working with the following hardware: Windows 2000/2003 standard and enterprise servers, Various UNIX systems to include HPUX, HP Superdome, IBM AIX, Sun Solaris 9/10
• Responsible for the support of all hardware for bank datacenters which encompasses assembling, configuring, building servers with OS, installing requested software
• Responsible for working with vendors when needed escorted into to building for maintenance and repairs
• Responsible for all UNIX related change management with production and or development servers which included os patching, outages, and maintenance on all UNIX servers.
• Responsibilities for all incident and release management which included patching, upgrading, and application releases.
• Basic knowledge of SVC SAN architecture and configuration, drive management, capacity planning, Brocade Fabric Switch installation, and comprehensive configuration, and IBM T3500 Tape library support.

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Sr. Windows/Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental in developing and implementing project 1B onsite at Holloman Confidential, NM. Project 1B encompassed the consolidation of all Northern Region Air Force Bases' system infrastructure Software and Hardware managed by the Air Force Material Command Center.
• Developed and implemented data backups plan to ensure data safety and server operating system configuration safety.
• Contributed to patching and systems integrity and performance.
• Provided Installation, configuration and Administration of Tivoli Enterprise System to include HelpDesk, Framework v3.7 & 4.0, TEConsole, Inventory, and software distribution
• Collaborated with air force command to maintain compliance in all network Unix servers.
• Installed and configured VERITAS 5.0 volume manager as required by the US Air force Command for all Bases.
• Successfully installed, configured and administered Sun Cluster 3.1, Installed and configured VERITAS Net Backup, VERITAS Volume Manager, and comprehensive knowledge installing and configuring VERITAS Clustering Software.
• Provided technical support to all AFMC command bases in the northern region to include phone support and on-site installation and of client applications.
• Provided support for Oracle 9i and 10g database administrators in configuring, installing and troubleshooting database errors.

Confidential, Las Cruces, NM

Sr. UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented a backups plan in an environment where one did not exist.
• Developed several security measures in collaboration with county officials to better secure information for all departments within the county.
• Collaborated with web administrator to implement a secure shell web environment.
• Provided technical support for all UNIX hardware and software applications. Hardware included installing and removing components. Software support included applying patches, updates, and new revisions.
• Installed and configured VERITAS Net-Backup application as our backup operations.
• Installed and supported Oracle 8i and 9i database as necessary.
• Responsible for all disk management, logical volume management, performance monitoring, system patches, OS patching, setup and configuration of applications as needed.

Confidential, El Paso, TX

Local Area Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered, and troubleshoot NT 4.0 Servers Network, Windows 9.x, NT Workstation, NT Terminal Server, Client Applications, LANs and WANs.
• Administer, and troubleshoot Novell Network, Novel client applications, and ICA Citrix server client software, GroupWise 5.5, Lotus Notes, LANs and WANs.
• Administer and support UNIX AIX operating system and network Administration. Managed all user account creation and user security permissions.
• Installed, setup and configured all UNIX AIX hardware server components
• Install, configure, and maintain User PCs, printers, software, and peripherals in a multi-tier environment.

Confidential, Harrison, AR

Systems Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Instrumental in developing and implementing new software applications to better manage and download all meter information via infrared communications.
• Conducted all company and client on new software development, and electronic parking meter software metertrax .3.x and 4.0, Integrator 2000 software.
• Collaborated with Network Admin in migrating from a peer-to-peer network to designing and implementing a company internal and secure network.
• Provided technical assistance with all incoming calls from national and international customers to assist with troubleshooting for Metertrax software, Integrator 2000, Symbol technology, and Husky hand-held technology