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Atlanta, GA, US

Irving, Texas, US

Architected Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and cyber event recovery and isolated testing environments for thousands of virtual, legacy and cloud based application hosts to onsite, colo and cloud targets.Engineered robust and independent Single Sign On provisions (AD,LDAP,SAML) to otherwise isolated testing environments that regularly simulate.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Act as principle liaison between OHIA group and overall infrastructure groups, as well as primary interface for network security and Project Management for infrastructure projects.Author network firewall rules and specify server side security rules.Specify design requirements for storage, network and systems, and act as primary presenter for committee.

Fuschl, AT

Authored backend authentication scripts in Shell and SQL (MySQL) to inject structure for Single Sign-on using SAML for Science Logic enterprise monitoring environment. Authored scripts to seed device group structure for Science Logic monitoring. Engineered organizational structure for cross mapping of device and user profiles.Analyzed Cisco UCS environment.

Founded Skorpio Engineering as a technology assessment and development organization, primarily focused on leading edge modular infrastructure technologies, and more specifically within the Internet, video broadcasting and wireless market places.Authored technical aspects, cost analysis, and capital requirements for investor relation’s.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Authored detailed Agile Project Plan for the evaluation and implementation of Solid State Storage Arrays from multiple vendors.Scheduled and defined complex testing criteria for high volume Database applications and extensive virtualized environments in support of storage evaluations.Identified and documented extensive functionality and performance.

El Segundo, California, US

Managed enterprise infrastructure operation teams for Tribune Publishing entities.Proposed and executed common enterprise infrastructure deployments to replace purpose built individually specified legacy environments drastically reducing environment complexity.Proposed and executed mass deployment of wide ranging virtualized system structures for operating.

Directed the development of high performance, high availability enterprise wide network infrastructure in Los Angeles, CA with major data centers in San Jose CA, San Diego, CA, Houston, TX, New York, NY, and Reno, NV, with additional data centers in Montreal, Canada and the Caribbean.Engineered systems for extremely high traffic loads using load balancing.

Created South Carolina’s premiere Internet Service Provider for Dial-up Internet.Entire operation was planned, constructed and implemented in 4 months, acquired approximately 30% market of local ISP customer base in 60 days.Company recuperated initial investment and became profitable within 90 days of online operation.HARDWARE:RISC Based HP ServersHP.

Developed first automated microchip manufacturing system; using a series of robotic operations.HARDWARE:RISC HP ServersSPARC ServersCisco RoutersSOFTWARE:HPUXSunOSPPP and SLIPXCKsh

US

Implemented development environment for deployment of Lotus Notes on IBM RS6000s.HARDWARE:RISC HPSPARCRS6000 Servers.SOFTWARE:AIXHPUXSunOSNFSNISTCP/IPKsh

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Migrate operations from a legacy Sun environment to an HP9000 environment.HARDWARE:SPARC and Motorola SunsHP9000AuspexSOFTWARE:SunOSHPUXOpenViewNFSKshVeritas

Engineered extensive monitoring environment and statistical display for digital cellular network.HARDWARE:HPSunTandamRS6000 ServersGlennatre IVRSOFTWARE:HPUXSunOSAIXShKshNFSOpenView

Dallas, TX, US

Engineered automated distribution of updates and execution of scripts for database applications.HARDWARE:AT&T 3B2X StationsDataKit SwitchesSOFTWARE:AT&T SVR3 UNIXTCP/IPKshProgress SQL

Re-engineered application for enhanced user management, realign corporate security guidelines.HARDWARE:HP9000HP SwitchesX StationsDataKitSOFTWARE:HPUXKshShCshX windowsMotif, Ingres

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Developed UNIX training program to educate staff on proper operations of RS6000 server network.HARDWARE:IBM RS6000 ServersIBM PS/23ComSOFTWARE:IBM AIX UnixIBM OS/2KshShCNFSNIS

Performed post-mortem on machines confiscated by US intelligence to gain evidence against hackers.HARDWARE:AT&T 3B2, 3B5, 3B15, 3B20 ComputersSOFTWARE:AT&T SVR3 UnixShKshC

US

Engineered large-scale PBX communications routing system using ISDN.HARDWARE:Intel ServersIBM RS6000AT&T Definity PBXsSOFTWARE:AIXi386 SunOSKshShNFSTCP/IP

Global, US

Engineered remote dialup access to TCP/IP based Terminal Access Controllers.HARDWARE:SunTACModemsSOFTWARE:CQmodemKermitTCP/IPSLIPX.25

Chicago, Illinois, US

Managed system providing disk subsystem integrity in a data destructive testing environment.HARDWARE:Motorola Based Sun SystemsDSC Telco SwitchesSOFTWARE:SunOSCKshCshNFSYP (NIS)

Lead team of sys admins migrating DEC to Sun. Project created what would later become Solaris.Provided expertise to an AT&T, GTE joint venture for ISDN feature capabilities to GTEs GTD5 switch.Developed cluster computer system for general-purpose computing environments.Developed destructive testing environment where engineers could restore quickly.

Chicago, Illinois, US

Developed one of the first GUI based desktop page layout and publishing systems.HARDWARE:DEC MicroVAXSCSI camPostscript PrintersSOFTWARE:VMSPage Setting LanguagesPostscript

Chicago, IL, US

Integrated third party credit card systems into the new Discover Card system.HARDWARE:IBM 3083 EnvironmentSOFTWARE:C0B0LQuickJobBALJCL

Mclean, Virginia, US

Developed General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Billing, and Payroll packages.HARDWARE:AT&T 3B2 ComputersIBM RT ComputersSOFTWARE:AT&T SVR3 UnixMicrofocus C0B0LCKsh

Prepared all systems furnished to the trade press, demonstrations, and trade shows.HARDWARE:AT&T 3B1, 3B2, 3B5, 3B15, 3B20, and 6300 PCsSOFTWARE:AT&T SVR1.1,2 UnixCKshShInformixMS DOS

Coordinated conversion for banks Burroughs to IBM document proofing and clearance operations.HARDWARE:IBM 3890 Document ProcessorsSOFTWARE:C0B0LBAL3890 Machine Language

Designed routines to convert graphic vector files in a complex CAD environment.HARDWARE:DEC VAXIntergraphSCITEX SystemsSOFTWARE:VMSCFORTRAN

Coordinated an operations merger of several competing bank clearing houses and MCCI.HARDWARE:IBM 3890 Document ProcessorsSOFTWARE:C0B0LBAL3890 Machine Language

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