SUMMARY:

• Systems Engineer and Management in Information Systems Engineering Analysis and Integration, where over 20 years experience will add value and ROI to corporate operations.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential, Oldsmar, FL

• Lead Engineer for the 1.5bn dollars project, Media Works, supporting 23 environments of 600+ Red Hat Virtual Servers, managing 10 - 30 million transactions a day, operating on ESX and Hyper-V
• Managed 600+ Red Hat RHEL Systems OS, Security and Middleware. Patching, troubleshooting, maintenance
• Lead AMQ Broker Engineer — Primary interface Engineer with Confidential Media Works Red Hat Engineering on AMQ Broker issues
• Lead JBOSS AP/EAP Engineer
• Lead Red Hat JBOSS Operations Network Engineer
• Managed the normalization of disparate environments, JAVA version, OS level, Kernel

Systems Engineer/DBA

Confidential, Tampa, Fl

• Provided Integration and Systems Engineer expertise in the SDLC, CMDB and ITIL v3 processes and in the designing, building, and deploying of technical solutions for over 40 projects of varying size and complexity based on AIX, Linux and Windows platforms and Java, .Net and Progress’s proprietary language
• Worked to manage and maintain Retail server frame deployments of Java and .Net applications into both the pre-production and Production environments
• Worked on OS partitioning, for AIX, Solaris 11, SuSE, RHEL 6 and 7 and capacity for 12 individual pre-production environments (DEV, IST, UAT, PERF, PREPROD all parallel twice) and 8 More for Production
• Worked with application partners and architects for over 40+ separate applications, written in Java, .Net and Progress code, and participated in the design and documentation of the infrastructure and systems, building out the end-state solution, Networking layout and requirements, load balancing, high availability and working with production support teams to ensure a smooth transition into production.
• On all pre-production applications and environments served as a knowledge expert for issues that arise with the designed/implemented solutions.
• Was lead trainer for a five week course on the entire Mortgage Express suite of applications, middleware applications, support infrastructure, security, troubleshooting
• Entered or resolved as many as 250 Remedy Tickets a day that were generated by SCOM, Openview, Patrol and Sitescope as well as hand written code we designed to assist in monitoring over 800 servers and thousands of applications across the entire Infrastructure.
• Assisted in providing the technical decisions needed when working with project managers, application developers, and business partners.
• Acted as an Integration Expert for the customer's technical needs while ensuring compliance and adherence to all applicable processes SDLC and ITIL v3 procedures, and standards and recommend solutions and alternatives in situations where they view efficiencies were not being met.
• Worked to include large-scale cross-function application environments, smaller simple application servers, systems re-engineering/re-design, and system/site moves.
• As required, work weekends and/or off-hours to meet project/workload demands and occasional production on-call duties.

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Systems Engineer/DBA

• Assisted in developing plan, purchase and deployment of HA solutions for mid-size Private firm providing online and local solutions for services purchasing using Weblogic Middleware with Oracle backend DB
• Consulted on performance tuning of WebSphere, Weblogic and Microsoft deployments and acquisition of HP monitoring tools for those purposes
• Worked with local company providing worldwide services, hosting all Microsoft solutions, IIS 7 and SQL 2008 and up
• Assisted with security plan set up and plan for new acquisition of provider Kaspersky

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Senior Systems Engineer

• Senior SME and mentor for IBM WebSphere Application Server Administration and all Java deployments to the Production Environment, JRE diagnosis, WebLogic and JBOSS SOA technologies
• Lead the Build Middleware Team in updating and/or creating SLA’s that used SDLC, CMDB and ITIL v3 best practices
• Supported Web Farm architecture for 1100+ Apache and Tomcat Servers across 3 data-centers
• Worked with other Senior Leads to write all of the management scripts for the Java based Application servers
• SME for Integration into Production, Implementation and administration of 18 DataPower XI50’s and 5 XC10’s
• Assisted developers in facilitation and scripting of migration from IBM MQ series, MSMQ messaging ESB technology, to the DataPower XI50 systems
• Assist in IBM WSRR deployment, upgrade to 7 and Integration into the Infrastructure
• Responsible for managing IBM WebSphere Application Server versions 5 through 7 and Apache Web servers through Version 5 as well as the Network interfaces that supported them and the load balancing/ high availability
• Tier 3 Senior Lead for offshore L1 and L2 support in India and Primary POC for the WM Benefits development team and the Logistics team
• Secondary SME for Microsoft Implementations. Migration of all application to the Microsoft 2008 Server level was successful
• Responsible for administering and maintaining Middleware applications, WebSphere, JBOSS, iPlanet and DB2 systems on AIX and SuSE Linux as well as some HP-UX Mainframe and Microsoft Virtual implementations
• Responsible for maintaining, installing and monitoring HP Openview, BMC Patrol, Microsoft SCOM and SiteScope implementations across all environments

Confidential, Dayton, OH

Senior Systems Analyst/ System Integration Engineer

• Member of team leading development of a centralized distribution point for all HHT data transition throughout the Air Force and partners.
• SME and senior mentor to development engineers specific to the Global Combat Support Systems Air Force (GCSS-AF) and System
• SME in using the proper iSDLC, CMDB and ITIL v2Engineering Process 554 th ELSG (SEP information management systems architecture/processes.
• Worked with developers to write or re-write all scripts for their J2EE and Oracle 10 an 11 deployments
• Senior consultant to the integration partner leads involved in the development of system roadmap, database applications and software supporting knowledge transfer through the Enterprise Data Collection Layer (EDCL). Consulted to Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), NSA and DoD security/controls.
• Liaison to senior leadership, Enterprise Supply Systems (ESS), Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) and Hand Held Terminals (HHT) user community.
• Supported and maintained $1.5 million in development servers, software and support in the Capabilities Integration Environment (CIE)
• Supported and administered applications residing on Solaris and Microsoft systems. This includes SSO, Oracle, JBOSS, Websphere and iPlanet Application server deployments
• System Engineer/ Administrator for Solaris 8 - 10 and 11
• System Engineer/ Administrator RHEL 5.x - 6.x

Confidential, Montgomery, AL

Senior Systems Engineer

• In charge of the facilitation of the ERP development effort of the $10 million Financial Information Resources Systems (FiRST ) application awarded to Accenture, which is used to present the yearly USAF total budget to the President of the United States
• SME for installation of Oracle 11i Application and Oracle 10gR2 Database Collaboration Suites, Cognos and additional ERP elements in support of this effort on Sun Solaris 10
• Wrote specialized scripts to assist in automating the installation, which can take in excess of 40 hours.
• Instrumental in delivery of FiRST, spiral 2.1.3 on time
• Hands on installation and administration of Oracle 10gR2, Oracle 11iAS, Cognos on Solaris 10 and 11 hosted on Solaris 12ks

Confidential, Huntsville AL

Senior Systems Integration Engineer

• SME and mentor for Solaris 8 and 10, Oracle and 12, Microsoft IIS, SQL and Sharepoint Integration and Administration
• SME for using proper iSDLC, CMDB and ITIL processes in both Pre-production and Production Environments
• SME for IBM Websphere J2EE Applications and Oracle SOA Implementation and Support Of Microsoft Enterprise elements (not currently SOA)
• SME for TAM Implementation of Single Sign On (SSO) into the AirForce Portal as well as administered the LDAP and SSO backend.
• Assisted with engineering the interchange ISAPI filter to allow SSO from Microsoft products as well as Java based products to work together
• System Engineer/ Administrator for Solaris 8 - 10 and 11 on servers hardware 12K’s, 220rs, v440 and v880s, SPARC in 5 different data-centers
• System Engineer/ Administrator for 300 Windows Servers
• Managed over 40 separate Java (J2EE) and .Net developmental efforts simultaneously, while also developing new framework service to support burgeoning technologies with budgets in excess of 200 Million dollars
• Responsible for overseeing the successful integration of over 30 Air Force developed applications and over 50 GCSS-AF (Lockheed Martin) IF service releases
• SME to developers for integration from software based ESB messaging onto the IBM XI50 and IBM MQ Series for IBM WebSphere
• SME and Integration Engineer for Akamai Integration for Edge Caching Technologies
• SME Microsoft Enterprise Technologies, MS SQL, MS SharePoint, Active Directory Integration into TAM for Single Sign On
• SME and ISSM for security standards (DISA STIG, DISA Gold Disk, Retina, EITDR)

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential

• Team Leader and Senior Technical Analyst for the DISA Montgomery/ PE Dayton GCSS-AF Portal Pre-production and Production Support Team and resident technical authority for assigned java applications thru Websphere and Weblogic and other Beta middleware applications
• SME to Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) organization for the planning, design, script writing and implementation of new and improved information systems to meet the requirements of customers
• Managed over 300 high level server systems that work with the Pre-production and Production releases across multiple data-centers
• Lead and performed disaster recovery efforts yearly or as needed per DoD
• System Engineer/ Administrator for all 400 Solaris 8 - 10 on Servers including four 12K’s, 220rs, v440 and v880s, SPARC
• Experience with High Availability, Sun Cluster, HACMP MSCS
• System Engineer/ Administrator for 300 Windows Servers
• Responsible for maintaining daily status of Security readiness, Antivirus availability, System Architecture
• Applied STIG, Implement BMC for the CMDB (Configuration Management Database), Sitescope, ADP and all other system and hardware monitoring tools available at the time
• Managed the LAN/WAN setup of the 4-5 VLAN interfaces and network routes needed to facilitate the functionality of the MEA Integrated Framework