Leo Kennedy Email and Phone Number

Working at LM In the Deep Space Exploration Division (DSE) has been aninteresting and often times return to yesteryear. What I mean by this is quitesimple. We have some ongoing missions which we support running hardware and softwaresometimes greater than 20 years old. One of the requirements of the positionwas the ability to move between RHEL 7 one day and SGI Irix 6.3c the next. It'sbeen a challenging and rewarding position supporting the older and newer systemscontrolling such hardware and software that supports things like the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, (MRO).

As it were, I was asked to assist MetLife (ML) in their efforts to streamlinetheir IT group in the Clarks Summit location by way of my expertise inautomating a select grouping of IT-related systems, procedures and a myriad ofother host processes that essentially run the business. The general idea was toautomate as much of their high volume SNOW ticketed incidents as was possible.In addition to scripting a plethora of processes centered around the managementof ML enterprise AIX, Linux, and Windows platforms, I was responsible for thecreation of documentation related to these processes where none previouslyexisted.During the time I was executing the duties I was responsible for at ML, I oftenfound myself having to carefully and cautiously manage the relationship I hadwith personnel that would ultimately be affected by the coming automation. Allsaid, It's been a truly interesting and enlightening experience in that havingonce been on the receiving end, I was now on the giving end of this majorcorporate transformation.

Managed all aspects of Crayola's server platforms including AIX, Linux and Windows operating systems. In addition to these major silos of responsibility I am either managed or moved on to the following technology platforms: Citrix, Cisco IronPort anti-spam and proxy, Checkpoint Firewall on Solaris, maintained DNS services as well as DHCP addressing throughout the organization. Another sometimes large part of my day is spent administering several servers in a hosted environment that are the internet-based web services providers for crayola.com.One of my more tedious and infrastructure related expertises is the monitoring and metrics gathering services. Some time ago I implemented an x86_64 ARCH Linux-based Nagios deployment for the company. This has and will continue to be a work in progress as these kinds of things normally are. I must say that this is one of my passions as it makes allowances for my keen ability to program and script in a greyhat-style. I really can make things shine here as creating Perl/PHP/Bash/C++ apps to gather difficult to obtain metrics is a specialty of mine. Oh, managing AD is a part of the day alongside some NFS/FTP/IIS/SSH/etc... services. I managed a server farm that numbered n the 200-250 range on VMWare 5/6 as well. i created a LAMP environment which housed our server infrastructure database and app used by the team.Along with the above items I brought TWS/IWS onto a RHEL 7 Linux platform which housed many automated scheduled jobs. Worked alongside our EDI Team to outfit their AS2 platform atop a RHEL 7 stack as well as being aside the Oracke BI Team in their efforts to run OBIEE atop RHEL 7 as well.

Managed various technology platforms within the many disparate functional areas of the corporate and scientific locales. I administered mainly VAX and MacIntosh-based systems throughout the organization as well as several Unix-based systems including SCO and Altos. Paying particular attention to the many areas of scientific discipline, i maintained several critical software packages and systems designed around molecular modelling. Interfaced daily with a number of physicists requiring custom programming and scripting routines which accounted for a part of my day spent creating/editing these routines.In addition, I gained skills centered around SPSS, a statistical analysis package, and other niche products and provided support on the same.

I became an E.M.T. and Paramedic while serving in the Navy in addition to my other specialties within the medical environment. Eventually, as one is to begin rotating "out" of the service in this field, you become less apt to continue patient care aspects of the career. This began my work in the IT field maintaining requisite Medical and Dental allowance lists within the IBM 360 world and card punch. The use and administration of Zenith computers containing 8" floppy disks was in my realm alongside such packages as Wordstar and Visi-calc and eventually Lotus 1-2-3. These terminal-based packages ran atop the CP/M-85 operating systems. Use of Condor FMS I/O was also part of my day.