Senior UNIX Technologist with a broad and very deep knowledge of technology. Committed to contributing to the success of an organization. Highly technical, a key member of decision making teams with a proven ability in strategic planning and tactical implementation, with very hands on experience. Specific expertise includes:
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AIX - (3.25 - 5.1)
Including the usual work with LVM, SMIT, PSSP, HACMP, Perspectives, etc. in
regular and SP environments.
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LINUX (RedHat, SuSe,
Slackware, etc.) Installations, configurations, shell scripting, firewalls and
clustering.
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Shell Scripting, very
strong in korn, bash, csh, pdsh
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UNIX - Including SCO,
AT&T, Sun/Solaris, ICL, SysVR4, OpenBSD, Data General (DG-UX), with all the
usual UNIX tools/cmd's: cron, named, rc.* mkfs, fsck, mknod, etc.
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TCP/IP - including
OpenSSH, telnet, ftp, smtp, snmp, timed, dhcp, dns, bootp, tftp, sip etc. and
most others.
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PERL development, both
application and system programming.
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MySQL - installations
configurations, administration, development and support.
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Oracle - (7.3.4 - 8i)
Working along side DBA's to develop effective SQL, PL/SQL, and data models.
Particularly with retail applications like JDA and ReTech
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C/C++ - simple
development and use.
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TSM/ADSM - Installations
and configuration, including development of retention plans and backup policies
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HTML - Development and
configuration of http servers, including Apache and IIS
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NT - (3.5 - 4.0)
Installations and management for application, file and print servers
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Win - (3.1 - 2k)
Installations and management. Including remote deployment and servers (Win2k).
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Security Tools -
Including PIX, CheckPoint One and ipchains/ifwadm (linux firewalls)
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Scheduling packages, inc
AutoSys, Tivoli, etc.
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SNA - Configuration
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MQSeries - Plus other
middleware products
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EDI - Applications
including OpenEDI, Perminos, Harbinger TLE etc., deployment and use.
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Office Tools - Including
MS Office, Word, Excel, etc. and extensive use of MS Project
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OS/400 - Use, upgrades
and applying patches
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OS/390 - Use
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RS/6000 - From old 300's
through S85's, including R/J30's - 50's, S70's, S7A's, high, thin and wide SP
nodes
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CISCO Routers - 2900's
to 6500's, installations and configurations including routing tables, ACL's,
etc.)
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Storage - SSA, ESS, EMC
Symetrix, Sun StorEdge, Compaq, SAN's and other DASD
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Sun - Ultra450's,
3000's, 4500's, and 6500's
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Intel - Intel based
systems, generic through Compaq, Dell and IBM high-end servers
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AS/400 - Installations, 320's,
270's and 640's
· 3494 - Plus other tape libraries, installation and maintenance3590, DLT - Plus other tape drives, installation and maintenance
Independent Contractor 2001 - present
Carrying out Systems Administration and others tasks. Clients include (among others):
JP Morgan Chase – UNIX/AutoSys Administrator, leading the project to upgrade and
install CA's Enterprise job scheduler (3.5 to 4.0). Conducting the automation
of the processes for all server instances and the 1000+ clients(mixed UNIX
& NT). Maintaining and managing daily activities, including implementation
of Change Controls. Extensive coding in PERL and shell scripting for jobs and
automation of tasks and monitoring. Creation of DR solutions for 5 enterprise
scheduling servers, including HACMP, SRDF/PPRC and AutosysHA.
Southern Dock Products - on site and remote management of UNIX systems for
Corporate Accounting and Inventory Management. Carrying out the migration of
systems due to company re-organization. On going day to day support for user
problems, printers etc. Performance monitoring and analysis.
ABCOR Services - various projects including, installation and configuration CISCO
routers and LAN/WAN implementations. Deployments of ssh, inc OpenSSH
RSI Inc,
- development and deployment of Linux based web site server, running Apache.
Development of CGI (PERL) code for the dynamic creation of web pages and
interaction with marketing material database (MySQL).
Corporate Computer Services. Remote administration,
management and monitoring of customers systems. Security assessments,
development of scripts (shell and perl) to provide daily reports, backups and
management.
footStar,
Inc., Irving, Texas 1999-2001
Technology Services
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Successfully created and
implemented a Centralized Data Center, growing from 2 RS/6000's (AIX) to over
28 RS/6000's (J40's thru S85's - AIX), 20+ Wintel based machines, almost 17TB
of DASD, and a variety of servers such as NT, Linux and AS/400.
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Creation of
self-monitoring and automated failover Internet servers (ftp etc.) based on
Linux RedHat.
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Proposed and implemented
workstations for Computer Operations staff, built on Linux RedHat, providing a
secure and controlled environment for Data Center Computer Operations to be
managed from.
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Carried out
installations of AIX systems using IBM SP network install tools (e.g. PSSP)
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Carried out and managed
the relocation and re-hosting of applications and systems from the New Jersey
Data Center to the Irving facility, including the migration from legacy
platforms and the move to Oracle DB (8I). Optimizing DB stored procedures for
significantly reduced batch cycles.
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Put ADSM/TSM in place as
the Data Center backup solution, integrating in to IBM 3494 tape library (1
xL12 plus 3 x D12).
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Worked with NT/NOS
administrators to integrate ArchServ and to utilize IBM 3575 tapes libraries
and StorageTech DLT libraries.
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Successfully
reconstructed (with out interruption to production) DNS to be efficient and reliable,
replacing NT with primary/secondary, master/slave systems based on Linux using
bind 8.2
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Created automated
monitoring and altering of AIX systems, using PSSP and Perspectives. Monitoring
and altering for filesystem usage, hardware and system process failures. And
carrying out automated text paging of on call personnel.
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Created a stable
production environment by developing and introducing standards and procedures
for coding, system installations, system and DB administration and application
integration. Particularly by creating much more efficient batch job scripts
executed by the scheduling system (CA's AutoSys).
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Developed and created an
automated formatting of Marketing and Sales reports, created from Oracle DB SQL
queries and automatically sent to user's printers or e-mail (depending on
requirement).
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Carried out design and
management of SAN using IBM ESS (Shark), deploying 3 systems plus one expansion
unit utilizing fiber network and McData directors.
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Performed extensive
performance tuning of RS/6000's and SUN systems. Particularly through AIX
Performance ToolBox (perfmon etc.) to reduce to a minimum batch processing time
for nightly sales processing and interactive users of the Allocation and
Replenishment systems.
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Carried out upgrades and
replacements to IBM AS/400's including 320's, 270's and 640's
Michaels,
Inc., Irving, Texas 1997-1998
Technical Services
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Carried out and Directed
build of IBM SP environment for implementation of new merchandizing applications
(Sales accounting and Sales History), leading to nightly batch processing being
reduced from 5 hours to less than 30 mins. This was accomplished through
completely re-writing the vendor-supplied code. (Moving a lot of the code from
Oracle Stored Procedures to C and PERL).
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Installation and
configuration of IBM RS/6000 (inc. SP, Thin and High nodes, S70's and
AS/400's).
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Successfully took the
production environment from one of constant 'fire drills' to a stable and
routine operation.
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Carried out the IT
infrastructure build out of new distribution center and the IT expansion of
existing distribution centers. Including selection of RS/6000's, installation
and initial management. Creation of menu driven administration for Site
Administrators, utilizing the 'role' facilities in AIX.
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Provided development
teams with foundation in TCP/IP socket programming to develop on line inventory
look ups through hand scanners and developed backend to support that.
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Developed and created
snmp monitoring and remote management of RF single processors through the use
of UPS's.
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Applied necessary APARS
and PTF's to maintain OS compliance and to support Oracle Parallel DB
operations.
Greyhound
Lines, Dallas, Texas 1996-1997
Technical Services
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Implemented HACMP and
HAGEO Systems providing 100% availability to Bus OperationS System (BOSS).
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Developed and created HA
(using native UNIX tools and shell scripts) Firewalls (CheckPoint One) for bus
terminal access to corporate systems.
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Carried out the
deployment and integration of bus terminal ticketing systems (essentially a POS
system for bus tickets) across the CompuServ's network. Providing cheap WAN
connectivity prior to the widespread use of the Internet. Most of the
development work being done in C and UNIX Shell Scripts.
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Developed monitoring and
remote management of AIX (RS/6000) and SUN (SparcCenter 2000) systems using
Tivoli.
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Established policies and
procedures for all systems administration activities.
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Carried out usual SA
tasks of backups and restores, using mksysb and developed in house tools using
'backup', 'dump', 'tar', 'dd' and 'SysBack'.
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Provided technical
services required to migrate from legacy (outsourced) mainframe environment.
Outside
Force/CUSA Technology, Dallas, Texas
1994-1996
National Implementation Engineer
Handled implementation of all new customer systems and
provided system level support to customers.
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Led team of 12 systems
administrators responsible for implementations and support, nationally.
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Designed, developed and
carried out customer installs, including hardware (RS/6000, DataGeneral and
SUN), OS (AIX, DG-UX, Solaris) and applications, nationally.
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Provided customer
support both remotely and on site for all UNIX and NT systems.
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As an IBM VAR carried
out the duties and functions of an IBM CE.
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North Texas Technology
Council - sitting on the International Relations and Education Affiliation
Committees.
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Dallas Fort Worth UNIX
Users Group
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DFW Linux Users Group
Education
Royal
Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, School of Electrical and Mechanical
Engineering, 4 yr degree in Electrical and Mechanical Production Engineering.