Industry: Financial Services – R. W. Baird Duration: 6 Months Position: Sr. Technical Project ManagerEnvironment: Application Upgrade and Re-PlatformTools: Rally, Redhat 7.9, Ansible, DynaTrace, Axway API Gateway 7.7, LDAP/Kerberos Integration, Solarwinds, AIX 7.2Technical Project Manager for Axway API Gateway 7.7 upgrade and Tech Lead for the re-platform from Windows to a new Redhat 7.9 environment. Leveraged Ansible 2.9 for sever build and management automation. Integration with Active Directory using Kerberos internal and LDAP/TLS on DMZ. Integrated new server environment with management processes: Splunk, McAfee, QRadar, Solarwinds, DynaTrace. Coordinated Team cross training and documentation.

Consulting Assignments:Industry: Financial Services – Foreside Financial Group Duration: 6 Months Position: Sr. Technical Project ManagerEnvironment: Financial Broker Dealer Compliance Consulting - Company Acquisition ProjectTools: Wrike Project Management, Samanage Service Desk, Logic Monitor, OnPointe – Proofpoint – Global Relay Email Archives, MS TeamsTechnical Project Manager for a company acquisition of a division of USBank in Milwaukee WI. Managed migration of several applications and business processes including email archives, email forwarding, employee on-boarding and IT setup. Researched alternate office locations and established 2 internet services providers into the temporary office location. Received and installed Cisco Firewalls and Switches and Dell VMware Servers. Due to COVID-19, the permanent location build was delayed and project was put on hold until employees can occupy the new location.

Solution Architect in the Enterprise Software Division [ formerly Computer Associates ] at Broadcom (AVGO) , primarily focused on large, core accounts in Wisconsin. Partnering with customers to design holistic solutions across the spectrum of IT Technology: PLAN, DEVELOP, DEPLOY, OPERATE, MONITOR. Beginning with IT Business Management and Agile Development, to Testing and Test Data Management, to Continuous Delivery and Automation, to Security and Integration, to Infrastructure, Application and Client Experience Monitoring, to Operational Intelligence / AiOps.

Consulting Assignments:Industry: Health Care – GE HealthCare Duration: 12 Months Position: Sr. Systems Engineering Consultant, Infrastructure, EdgeEnvironment: Linux (Oracle Ent Linux 6/7; Redhat), Cloud - Scalr- > AWS and OpenStack; Windows, VMware, Worldwide Network, VPN, WireSharkTools: HP SiteScope, NewRelic, Jenkins, Chef, WiresharkInfrastructure Engineer supporting 150+ Systems on VMware, AWS EC2, OpenStack Private Cloud managed with SCALr, and Solaris Zones. Extensive Network Analysis on a Worldwide Network consisting of thousands of P2P VPN tunnels servicing 250k+ customer systems for Field Engineer Support and Predictive Analysis (PREDIX). Supported numerous applications running on SunOne and Apache Web, interfaced to Middleware WebLogic, Tomcat, and Karaf connecting to Oracle Database Clusters and 14 CRM systems. Network Management with HP SiteScope, moving towards NewRelic, with custom solutions for legacy Solaris Systems. Automation primarily Jenkins for Application Build/Deploy combined with Chef/Ruby focused on Infrastructure. This position challenged my Versatilist Skills, spanning Legacy Solaris to current AWS EC2 Cloud and OpenStack, SiteScope to NewRelic and Jenkins/Chef/Ruby. Renewed old skills in Networking with deep dive WireShark analysis of NFS performance issues, LDAP and 2FA/Radius, as well as SunOne and Apache Web Server Performance Analysis with WebLogic Middleware.

Sr. Project Manager in Consulting and Integration Team, Business Continuity Tech Lead, Capacity Planning, Problem Management, SAfe Agile Product OwnerNorthwestern Mutual Sr. Project Manager/Product Owner Dec 2011 to May 2017Industry: Financial / Insurance Duration: 5 years (11 Total)Position: Sr. Systems Engineering Consultant, Infrastructure Lead, Technical Project Manager, SAFe Agile Product OwnerEnvironment: Unix (AIX, HP, Redhat), Windows, VMware, F5, O365, Exchange2010, Good Mobile, BCPTools: CA SiteMinder, Identity Management, HP Openview, WiresharkInfrastructure Lead accountable for infrastructure design and end to end security and performance on large corporate projects. Implemented Good Mobile solution across multiple data centers and firewalls to provide high availability. Designed a Single Sign On solution for mobile clients with Kerberos KCD and CA SiteMinder. Led a IDM project to consolidate an Active Directory Multi-Forest/Multi-Domain design to Single Forest/Single Domain. Led project to upgrade Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 to support 50k users in 6 DAGS.Product Owner for SAFe Agile teams primarily focused on Email, Voice and Mobile technologies. Completed extensive SAFe training and coaching. Assumed an additional Product Owner role for the new System Team.

Sr. Consultant/IT Versatalist working across a wide range of technologies and industries. Unix Lead/Specialist, Security Team Lead/Specialist responsible for vendor relations, training, mentoring. Technical interviews, Pre/Post Sales, Problem and Performance consultant, special projects, PMO/RFP.Many contract assignments - Reference Resume for details

Gerber Systems Technology 1985 to 1992Industry: Computer Manufacturing Duration: 7 yearsPosition: Sr. Systems Engineer Environment: CAD/CAM, Process Control, Shop Floor IntegrationTools: HP 1000 Systems, Gerber CAD/CAM, IGES, HP UNIX, SGI UNIXSenior Field Engineer responsible for 32 contract customers in 7 states. Provided UNIX technical support and hardware and software repair. Installed and configured networks including NFS, TCP/IP, diskless clusters, and UUCP. Developed shell scripts and custom interfaces to 3rd party devices. Served as internal System Administrator for in-house network consisting of various Hewlett Packard and Silicon Graphics servers and PCs.

U.S. Navy 1978 to 1985Industry: Defense – CINCLANTFLEET, COM3RDFLEET Duration: 7 yearsPosition: Petty Officer First Class (E6) Data Systems Technician Environment: Admirals Staff, Command and Control Centers, Patch and Test FacilitiesTools: NTDS, FHLT, WWMCCS, Univac, CDC, Datascopes, OscilloscopesAssisted with installation of a patch and test facility for over 400 serial links on a Honeywell 6000 mainframe (WWMCCS). Supervised and coordinated the technical and non-technical training of personnel in problem resolution. Resolved communication problems with local Honeywell field engineers and remote sites. Shift Supervisor responsible for maintaining the FHLT computer system, linked to the Department of Defense World Wide Command and Control System (WWMCCS). Maintained hardware equipment and communications links; acted as system administrator; and trained new personnel.