Brian Hurless Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

ArcSight Administrator and server architect.Netapp Certified Data Management Admin - NCDA.

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Senior administrator of a back-office network of mission-critical 24-7 production servers and test/development servers running Solaris 10, 8 and 2.6 with Oracle Database and Oracle Financials.Supported the upgrade and implementation of the Oracle application environment.Provided operational support to the Oracle DBAs.Provided performance tuning of the Oracle database in coordination with the upgrade of the application.Designed, planned, built, and configured new systems for the network.Maintained sendmail email system with interface to MS Exchange mail system.Maintained and enhanced comprehensive shell script system for monitoring systems and sending email notifications of error conditions.Maintained Big Brother system which also monitors systems and sends notifications.

Reston, Va, Us

Through Calnet worked numerous contract positions at various IT companies.Established internal IT infrastructure of growing company.Recruited IT professionals for contract positions.

Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nl

Managed MIS Oracle Financial databases on Sun Enterprise 5500s and SPARCcenter 2000s. Migrating applications from legacy Unix systems (HP, AIX, BULL OS) to new Sun systems.Expert at setting up SPARCstorage arrays and Veritas Volume Manager for best performance with databases. Expert at Solaris performance tuning. Expert Unix Administrator for Oracle and Oracle Financials databases.

Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nl

Senior Administrator for a network consisting of several Solaris 2.6 servers , several Windows NT servers, and Windows 95 on hundreds of desktops.Designed and implemented sendmail system that can route email across several internal mail domains left over from company mergers.Built firewall using TIS Firewall Toolkit on PC running Linux.Responsible for all Internet services (email, netnews, web, ftp, telnet, firewall) at Wang.Created and participated on design teams for corporate Internet and Intranet web pages.Installed Firewall-1 and Eagle Raptor firewalls at sites in Chicago, Ill.

Managed four HP9000/800s and 20 486 PCs running Interactive Unix in both production and laboratory environments. Responsible for ensuring identical configurations of all machines. Established shell script system to monitor configurations.Helped to build some of the 486 Unix PCs, found and corrected problems with hardware configurations.

Managed a heterogeneous network of 30 Suns, 15 PCs, and a Lab containing numerous platforms from HP, Silicon Graphics, and MIPS.Network had not been administered before and required a complete cleanup. Established password and file security. Consolidated and standardized configurations. Started NIS and Automounting. Set up backup schedule. Installed shell scripts to monitor systems and report by email.

Managed a heterogeneous network consisting of 75 Sun SPARCs, 250 Novell/DOS PCs, and an HP 9000. Responsible for all aspects of computer operations for a telecommunications firm working on a major product development.Reduced network downtime for both Sun and Novell from a daily occurrence to infrequent planned maintenance.Brought Network Management discipline and a service orientated philosophy to a previously unmanaged network that was in a state of disarray.Managed a staff of two Network Administrators.Planned and managed a project to combine several aging Novell servers into one new high capacity Novell server. Project was completed on time with only minor downtime experienced by the users.Designed and built an Internet gateway and firewall machine using Morningstar PPP and the TIS Firewall Toolkit on a Sun SPARCstation.

Managed a network consisting of three SCO Unix 486 file servers, an IBM RS6000, an HP 9000, a Digital MicroVax, two Novell 3.11 486 file servers, and 50 PC workstations running Windows 3.1Supervised a staff of two Administrators.

Responsible for the administration of a network of fifty Sun workstations. Duties included backups, cabling, purchasing hardware and software, adding and deleting users, file system maintenance, network design and problem solving.Hired, trained, and supervised an assistant administrator.Proposed, designed, and implemented project to upgrade all network systems to latest operating system to provide compatibility with current software and to redesign network topology to improve performance and functionality.Designed and built an on-site X.25 network that served twenty hosts. Network was connected to Accunet and Bell Atlantic via a Motorola Codex X.25 switch.

Administered thirty station Novell network supporting Progress database accounting system.Designed and developed data conversion software which retrieved information from tapes and modified it to be compatible with Telenet's information processing center.Enhanced existing UNIFY database office automation software. Modified and added to the client's customized payroll and accounting system.Customized ship's payroll accounting system written in Progress 4GL database.