Manage a group of project managers who are driving IT infrastructure projects to completion. Manage larger programs and projects as needed to keep work flowing. Work regularly with cloud technologies especially AWS.

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Managed 17 onsite deskside support personnel for 6 sites for Farm Machinery Manufacturing client. Worked to streamline processes and ensure timely resolution of incident tickets, system deployments and misc. project work

- Manage team of UNIX technicians to ensure timely resolution of incident tickets, patching and security vulnerabilities.- Approve vacation, sick leave and Time and Attendance for team as well as yearly performance/salary reviews.- Schedule on-call rotation for 24x7 support of fast-paced mission critical operations ensuring maximum uptime.- Manage and communicate planned and unplanned outages and resolutions to affected internal business units.- Review and approve change request forms for UNIX department as well as others that may affect UNIX systems.- Plan and Manage Operational and Capital budgets, vendor management and SW/HW maintenance agreements.

Managing technical projects and occasional hands on technical work. Managing technicians who visit customer locations to perform IT work onsite.

Unix and Windows System Administration.

Manage systems, personnel and budget for five regionally dispersed data centers including one lab facility. System OS's include Solaris, Redhat Linux, Ubuntu and Windows as well as some Cisco proprietary appliances.Manage servers for all customer facing applications and monitoring systems related to high speed internet and telephony products.Manage $2.6M Capital and $3.5M Operational yearly budgetManage team of 22 system and database admins in two different locations 1000 miles apart.Instrumental in implementing company Change Management and Incident Management policy and procedures.In 6 years grew data center from 4 employees managing approx 10 servers in two locations to 22 employees managing approx 300 servers in five locations

Perform all duties related to Solaris system administration (Sun Cluster, Veritas/Solstice Volume Management, NIS, NFS, account maintenance, Auto-mounting, License Management, Printer configuration, Trusted Solaris)TIBCO product administrationSamba administration

Perform all duties related to Solaris system administration (NIS+, DNS. NFS, user account maintenance, backup & recovery, Auto-mounting, License Management, Printer configuration)Coordinate installation, setup and support of computer resources for temporary relocation of 500+ users and managersAdminister applications allowing cross utilization between NT4.0 and Solaris operating systemsSignificant AccomplishmentsDuring travel to Saudi Arabia performed upgrade to site specific application software in approximately five days, which previous system administrators were unable to accomplish for three monthsPerformed remote upgrades to eight systems at five different operating locations in three different countries, eliminating need to send system administrators to each site.Accomplished technical refresh on local Solaris server suite upgrading machines from older Sparc architecture to state of the art Ultra Enterprise servers. This required reinstalling the operating system and site specific software while retaining important user dataRecognized for excellence for three months outstanding work

Command and Control System Engineering TechnicianMonitored overall status and health of $3M Global Command and Control System supporting Department of Defense Joint Chiefs of Staff and over 350 regional customers.Analyzed Sun software/hardware using scripts and commercial software providing metrics and recommendations for performance tuning to senior leadership.Installed and configured hardware/software, maintained user accounts and wrote scripts to perform system backups for over 200 workstations/servers as well as all other aspects of Solaris system administration.Significant AccomplishmentsEngineered procedures to remotely install Sun operating system and applications on over 60 machines in five different European countries from a central location.Handpicked for travel to Incirlik AB Turkey to reinstall and reconfigure network of Sun workstations, which were continually failing due to improper administration by local administratorsLead five-person team in effort to build an Enterprise 4000 Oracle database server. Completed the project in three weeks when previous team lead had failed after a month.Attended management training graduating as a Distinguished Graduate in the top 5% of the class Recognized for outstanding achievement for three months work in Incirlik TurkeyRecognized for consistency as a top company performer during the

Maintained a $5M Sun/DEC/HP heterogeneous environment supporting the entire software lifecycle for a $2.7B military command and control system. Responsible for the maintenance, accountability and procurement of both hardware and software.Procured, installed and tested commercial software and operating system releases and updates to include CERT advisories and operating system patches.Performed other basics system administration tasks already outline above.Significant AccomplishmentsDesigned, procured materials and implemented a network consisting of an FDDI token ring backbone and several Ethernet segments using Sun workstations with dual network interface cards as routers.Wrote scripts to backup servers to a previously unused 12 tape DAT stacker. Scripts performed flawlessly using error detection and notification if problems arose.Due to software limitations in NIS, developed a set of scripts using rdist to disseminate the password and shadow files for over 60 Unix workstations. Used file-locking techniques to ensure data integrity throughout the network.Recognized for consistency as a top company performer during the; Operating Systems/Protocol experience: Sun Solaris, Domain Name Service (DNS), HP/UX, Veritas Volume Manager, Sun Clustering, Network File System (NFS), Microsoft Windows NT/95/98/XP, TIBCO, TCP/IP, DEC Ultrix, NIS/NIS +/LDAP, Samba