Dan P. Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

My team administers managed file transfer infrastructure, as well as Puppet, Foreman, SCCM, MDT, WSUS, Spacewalk, RHIM, Vormetric, InfoBlox and much much more

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Leading a team of four DevOps engineers working with multiple technologies, such as managed file transfer, automation / orchestration, Amazon Web Services.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Working with IBM Aspera, Seeburger BIS, Connect:Direct, and Axway Secure Transport / CFT / Sentinel / Synchrony. Completed building out an Aspera high-speed transfer environment in five FICO data centers to move terabytes of data at 1 gigabit per second.Built four new Seeburger BIS / BISFX / BIS Secure Proxy environments in FICO's Analytic Cloud data centers.Built CA Autosys 11.3.6 dev, test and production environments, and migrated the test and production environments to the new servers. Installed and configured ACCE by Arbiter Software to enable users to migrate Autosys jobs from test to production.

Greater Chicago Area

Consulting at a telecommunications company, migrating operations from a home-grown file transfer solution to a managed file transfer solution, using Axway Secure Transport 5.1 and Tivoli Workload Scheduler 3.8.

Architecting and implementing solutions including Axway Tumbleweed, Sterling Connect:Direct, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Internet Security Acceleration Server and more for IBM's clients in the financial sector.

Architecting and implementing solutions including Axway Tumbleweed, Sterling Connect:Direct, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Microsoft Internet Security Acceleration Server, Serena Collage and more for IBM's clients in the financial sector.

Consulting to small and medium businesses on Windows and Linux, security, networking, shared IT resources.

Managed userids and passwords, wrote shell scripts to automate daily operations, managed public/private keys for SSH.Designed, implemented and automated a solution (via shell scripting) to securely transfer thousands of databases to an IBM spin-off company.Responsible for RFS (request for service) responses to project requests from the customer. For each project request, created a list of my team's tasks and estimated hours per task required. Managed over two dozen concurrent, long-running, highly complex successful projects, gathering requirements from IBM's customer and their developers, then designing and implementing the solution.Responsible for audit issue tracking and closure for my team, resolving over 100 Sarbanes-Oxley related issues which the customer transferred to IBM on service commencement date.Managed my team's workflow, resolving customer issues and prioritizing tasks to ensure projects were completed before their due dates.

Built and maintained Windows 2000 and 2003 servers, IIS / ASP, Websphere, EDI. Advised developers on best practices to minimize server load and maximize application performance. Designed and implemented network, firewall, backups and server security for Internet-facing Windows 2003-based Notes / Domino web application servers at a remote co-location facility.

Designed and implemented a highly segmented 100-baseT Ethernet network for this division's new location. Implemented Seagate Backup Exec tape backups and negotiated an off-site tape backup storage site to provide disaster recovery. Built and maintained Windows based Lotus Notes servers to provide documentation and workflow services. Installed LEI (Lotus Enterprise Integrator) to provide the ability to automatically export Notes data to mainframe datasets.Designed and built Windows 2000 servers to host an IIS / ASP web supply chain management application. Integrated Crystal Reports with IIS to provide reporting services to customers.

Wrote Windows and UNIX shell scripts to back up working filesets on production and development Windows, Solaris, AIX, Novell and OS/2 servers. Managed DB2 and Sybase and MS-SQL servers, ensuring databases were backed up and recoverable.Diagnosed modem communications at the bit level, ensuring flawless data transmissions to Microsoft SQL servers hosted on customer premises. Created and managed DHCP and Remote Access Server dial-up services.

Computer Science, Small Business Management

Completed studies in Object-oriented programming techniques and c++ programming.

Cisco Ccna

Completed CCNA certification preparation class.

Certfiied Massage Therapy Practitioner, Massage Therapy

Activities and Societies: American Massage Therapy AssociationPassed National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork.