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Completed Business Plan to acquire venture capital for business start-up; Market research and strategy; Budget and break-even analysis

• Supervised systems and storage teams• Ensured that projects remained on schedule and that team goals were met• Conducted employee performance reviews and maintained work schedules• Played a key role in the procurement of SPARC Enterprise servers as part of the Solaris server upgrade project. Reviewed and made several iterations of changes to come up with a final invoice for the server, storage, and application procurement• Helped in the design and development of a migration plan for sandbox, development, QA, and production applications to run in the Solaris 10 container environment

• Installed, configured, and maintained all servers running Solaris for the ERM SAP Project; have been involved from project start-up to go-live of the SAP R3 implementation• Responsible for the management of the Hitachi SAN to include LUN creation, allocation, and deletion• Assisted with the creation of a UNIX Security posture, using the Solaris Security Toolkit • Participated in planning strategies and providing Unix recommendations for future projects with respects to procurement and assisting with vendor selection• Assisted with the development of Backup sand Recovery strategies and architectural proposals with respects to the SAP landscape

• Responsible for system administration functions – hardware and software platform maintenance, configuration management, performance, security, disk management, network communications, backup and recovery, and training for a large data center processing environment• Wrote and maintained Operating Instructions for HEB applications running on Solaris servers • Functioned as co-project manager for the direct support of the UPS replacement project, providing a methodical approach in order to achieve optimal results with no interruption to the business• Managed the migration of several servers and applications to another data center

• Responsible for system administration functions for IBM’s AIX platforms• Wrote scripts to automate system administration functions and gained a working knowledge of using automated means to manage the system using BMC’s Patrol Software• Performed work involving the design and implementation of development and production systems from system configuration and creation of disk layouts and disk and volume group creation to application installation and various application-specific customization tasks

• Responsible for system administration functions for IBM’s AIX platforms• Wrote scripts to automate system administration functions and gained a working knowledge of using automated means to manage the system using BMC’s Patrol Software• Performed work involving the design and implementation of development and production systems from system configuration and creation of disk layouts and disk and volume group creation to application installation and various application-specific customization tasks• Responsible for the operation Unisys mainframes, processing large database applications for a worldwide customer base • As a senior level member responsibilities extend to supervisory and administrative functions• Created monthly performance reports for UNIX servers• Developed software to automate the data gathering and reporting processes for this function using awk and Bourne shell scripts• Conducted monthly performance evaluations and made recommendations based on those evaluations• Chaired the UNIX Configuration Control Board (CCB) Technical Panel for controlling, computer resource utilization, status accounting, and configuration item identification and documentation• Wrote and maintained Operating Instruction manuals (OIs) and Contingency Plans for a Tier 1 system whose daily processing was deemed critical in support of the mission• Functioned as Computer Systems Security Officer (CSSO) responsible for enforcing adherence to Government Regulations pertaining to computer security