TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE SYSTEMS

Novell, Cisco IOS, Juniper, IBM AIX 4.3, Solaris 8 10, RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentoOS, Fedora Core, Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Windows NT/9x/2000/XP/7/Advanced Server/SBS, Vmware ESX Server, ISILON SAN, DAMS Artesia Open Text, Rhozet Transcoding Farms, Signiant Client/Server platform 7.4 8.4 and Work Flow Automation, Aspera file transfer platform, Redhat Clustering, Oracle 10G 11 , Linux, Cisco CDS, Avaya IVR, DAC 6000.

HARDWARE

Router/Switches setup/configure Cisco and Juniper , Hughes and Raydne Satellite Modems, EMC/Legato, Sun v40z, Sun Blades, Sun Netra's, Sun Cool threads Series, ISILON, Dell Power Edge, IBM RS6000, Netcrypts

SOFTWARE

Apache, Tomcat, Resin, qmail, sendmail, postfix, MySQL 3 5 and MySQL Cluster, Innodb, Mailman, fwbuilder, iptables, Spam Assassin, Checkpoint Firewall, MRTG, Big Brother, Net X Ray, What's Up Gold, GPG Key Management, SSH, SSL, tiny dns, djb deamon tools, MS Exchange, Microsoft Office, rsync, Mediawiki, Oracle10g 11 Administration and Setup, Informatica 8.1.1, Nexus , Maven, Team City, Fuse Service Mix, Alfresco CMIS, Activemq, WordPress, TextPattern, Drupal, Movable Type, Blojsom, postgres. Jira, Salesforce. Cisco CDS, Mystro, Remedy.

NETWORKING

• DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, SNMP,NTP, VPN, NAT, Routing, ACL Security.
• LANGUAGES PHP, Perl, bash and shell scripting WORK EXPERIENCE

Time Warner Cable

Interactive Systems Engineer I/Video Operations

• Configure new channel lines ups using Cisco CDS , VSM and
• Video on Demand platform. Configured USRMS , Service Groups, Channel maps
• Using Mystro platform. Administered Linux systems used for broadcast operations. Performed code upgrades to live customers set top boxes, participated in networking trouble shooting and set top box provisioning, and repaired channel outages. Experience with DAC 6000, Netcrypt devices. Used bash and Perl scripts to do day to day tasks more efficiently. Some data manipulation and automation.

Confidential

System Engineer/Programmer

• Deployed and maintained Signiant File Transfer Servers
• Developed Signiant content work flows in Perl and bash
• Developed enterprise wide open source virus scanning application for field upload.
• Supported Java developers and help to develop file transfer applications.
• General Unix/Linux and VMware Administration
• Worked directly with upper management in Digital Media Delivery department to develop goals for expansion of Rhozet trans code farm and migration of Signiant server farm from single server to fully RedHat clustered scalable server farm.
• Developed Perl scripts for VOD cable labs standard content meta data and xsl transformation.

Confidential

Senior System Administrator

• Maintained development, qa and production environments running on a heterogeneous network environment comprised of Solaris 8/10, CentOS 4 5 and Windows 2003 Enterprise Server systems.
• Managed all environments web servers, DAMS Artesia system, resin/tomcat application servers.
• Managed RSU really simple upload system for digital asset ingest into trans code farm.
• Managed three separate RHOZET trans code farms composed of 4 master servers and 9 transcode agents.
• Managed WFA work flow automation system/xsl transformation which hands off to DAMS system.
• Managed ISILON SAN problems and solutions.
• Managed 400 VMware instances on consolidated hardware.
• Managed and build servers from bare metal/vmware that host Fuse Apache ServiceMix, Team City, Activemq, Nexus and Alfresco CMIS. Maintained each of these tools in QA and Production environments and took ownership of troubleshooting and problem resolution with each package.
• Managed all MySQL servers company wide, setup up a 2 node MySQL Cluster that maintained 99.9 up time.
• Day to Day administration of oracle db table entry , some scripted operations and worked hand in hand with oracle dba to solve complex issues.
• Automated previously lengthy processes down to few minute processes using bash, Perl DBI and shell automation.
• Managed CDN accounts on both Akamai and Internap, configuring On demand Streaming, HTTP Download and Flash streaming for customer sites.
• Researched and implemented Action Script changes on Flash Media Server to enable our studio Digital Asset Management platform to capture still images from our streamed content. Guided Akamai and Internap on how to implement these changes to all our customers in the default templates.
• Day to Day A/D administration for both users and dns, Unix/Linux account provisioning and decommissioning via nis, sudo and ypserver.
• Management of user requirements, credentials, content, data and problem resolution from beginning to the end across the companies full product offering.
• Responsible for backups, scripted automation of day to day tasks and creating more efficient ways to manage our various day to day tasks.
• Tier II and III support for Customer Support who handled Tier I issues.
• Implemented LDOMS 1.2 on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 Cool threads Server with mirrored ZFS file system and Solaris 8 containers.
• Managed all CVS, SVN and FTP servers.
• Created inventory management system via bash scripts, OSGI and glpi.
• Daily meetings/cooperative work with Project Managers, Product Owners, Core Dev , Media Services and Creative teams.
• The Talener Group, Manhattan NY September2007 December2007 Linux/Unix Consultant
• Install Bare Metal Servers, RedHat 4 and 5, Solaris 8/9/10
• Sun Blade 6000, v40z's.
• Data Manipulation/Staging for Informatica 8.1.1
• Unix Production Script changes and modifications
• Oracle Installation and Support
• Vmware Esx 2.5 3,Virtual Center 2.02 2.5 Administration/Installation/Support
• Cron jobs and time scheduled builds with jboss, work flows in support of the development team
• SFTP chrooted setup/user support
• Administered load balanced Apache servers.
• Configured/Supported Oracle10g in Solaris/RedHat
• Created scripts, cron jobs, and bare metal server builds/replication
• Supported EMC SANS in Linux
• MySQL database administration/replication.
• GPG/Key Management for Financial and Legal Dept.
• Design of Central Logging Server/Imaging Backup Solution.
• Created new SVN and Maven repositories for Java Developers.
• Resolved technical issues with Avaya IVR on Solaris 10.

Confidential

Learning System Architect/Project Manager

• Analysed needs and created project for an online web based student learning assessment system.
• Specified hardware, software and outlined data management requirements.
• Performed text processing, parsing and data management.
• Identified competencies in each degree program and the artifacts that satisfy those competencies.
• Worked with faculty to move student data to Electronic Portfolios.
• Worked with faculty to create rubrics to assess student artifacts and competencies.
• Assisted Five Towns College to Achieve Middle States re accreditation in accordance with the latest Middle States Requirements.
• Assisted Five Towns College in structuring student data and assessment tools needed to achieve NCATE re accreditation in 2008.

Confidential

Technical Consultant

• Patched hacked servers, secured ports, remove Trojans, recommended firewall solution.
• Documented all technologies, patched all third party applications.
• Transitioned access databases to MySQL.
• Setup a secure remote access solution and managed existing user base.
• Migrated Legacy Applications from NT Server to WIN2K.

Confidential

Linux Administrator

• Installed and Maintained RedHat/Gentoo Based Servers.
• Maintained Security for Picture Marketing Inc.
• Created bandwidth monitoring scripts and applications
• Maintained Apache, openSSH tomcat, and MRTG, set up routing and switching.
• Maintained Hardware and Servers.
• Automated MySQL backups with innodb.
• Automated media backups with rsync
• Administered 3 Linux firewalls with iptables/fwbuilder
• Administered tomcat5 and Apache, maintained MySQL databases.

Confidential

Technical Consultant

• Win2000 Server to Windows SBS 2003 Migration.
• Migrated live data and email archive to new exchange server.
• Administered DNS.

Confidential

Ampath/Internet2 Network Engineer

• Installed and maintained Mailman and Apache daemons for mail and web services on Linux And Solaris servers.
• Responsible for documentation of all physical and logical connections.
• Purchased for Internet2 servers and Equipment, negotiated maintenance agreements.
• Performed upgrades and maintenance on Cisco GSR 12012 and Juniper M10 routers.
• Established ATM Circuits and Gigabyte Ethernet routes and connectivity.
• Administrated Access Grid for controlling live Internet2 Audio/Video conferencing.
• Maintained Various Solaris 2.6 machines.

Confidential

R D Team Member/NOC Operations

• Implemented hosting systems to create a full service automated hosting/billing solution.
• Bare metal installs of Aix 4.3 on the RS/6000 platform.
• Implementation of kxmail on Aix 4.3,
• Monitored and supported Satellite Up links and Down links.
• Provided support for DNS, NTP, FTP, HTTP, and maintained Cisco ACLs on Class C networks.
• Worked with a team to resolve network issues in a time critical manner.4