Administration and engineering functions for the buildup, maintenance, upgrade, and troubleshooting IT systems used for research and development.

• Select, install, configure, and administer hardware and software systems over a LAN/WAN architecture;• Install and maintain system upgrades, operating and security patches, and peripheral devices;• Performs moderately complex systems and database administration. Monitors and tunes appropriate systems to ensure optimum level of performance;• Support, monitor, test, and troubleshoot hardware and software problems related to server hardware, software, or network equipment;• Recommend and schedule repairs or replacement of equipment;• Oversees appropriate level software installations and upgrades and related software packages;• Collects and reviews system data for capacity and planning purposes. Analyzes capacity data and develops capacity plans for appropriate level enterprise-wide systems. Coordinates with appropriate management personnel in implementing changes;• Provide end user support for the server and server-based applications and connectivity;• Install, configure, and manage the equipment and software necessary to perform system backups and recovery of applications and data;• Maintain system and data files, and monitor system integrity;• Supports the design and configuration of complex system landscapes;• Supports complex data/media recoverability through system backups and database archive operations. Plans, coordinates and directs appropriate level data refresh strategies;• Oversees, recommends and implements appropriate level database solutions and enhancements to ensure an improvement in system reliability and performance;• Develops and maintains appropriate system documentation to ensure that documentation is current. Oversees the maintenance of a library of the system-supporting process and procedure documentation;• Interacts with client management to answer questions, problems, and requests regarding complex system issues;• Provides leadership and work guidance to less experienced personnel.

• Management of IT department which includes 5 IT employees.• Recruitment and hiring of all IT employees. • Management of all servers and networks. • Management and hands on of Cisco, BSD firewalls and IP firewalls.• Management of all Linux email servers and Microsoft Exchange servers.• Management of all security systems for CTV cameras.• Management of all security access points for secure areas.• Management of all cloud services, which include AWS services.• Management of all backup systems.

Head of Public Relations, which includes meeting with government officials and heads of corporations. Management of public and private grants team.

• Management of over 150 Redhat and Centos Servers.• News Room support• Management of Digital Newsroom servers and networks during 2016 Elections including debates.• Management of KVM systems• Management of Icinga (Nagios derivative) monitoring system• Advanced bash scripting for automation, monitoring, and other functions.• Management of AIX systems.• Management of TSM, and IBM Tape Library.• Management of Fiber connections for network and storage.• Management of Mac Desktops and Windows Desktops used for video editing.• Management of Quantum and Hitachi storage appliances.• Management of Windows 2008 and 2012 Servers.

Build and/or Maintain the following, Omni OS (Open Solaris), Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Centos, Redhat, Vmware servers.Support hardware such as, mini-itx motherboards, atom processors, xeon processors, raid enclosures, and enterprise level servers.Programming mostly in bash.

Administration of over 200 Division Servers, including Hyper V Clusters, and High Computing Clusters.Administration of Net Backup Using virtual tape libraries and LTO4, LTO5, LTO6 Libraries. Backups of Large Data Sets.Administration of over 200TB of Harddisk Space over NFS and SambaUtilized live rescue linux systems for recovery and operating system repair such as Slax and Knoppix.

Administration of over 200 Departmental Linux Servers, over 10 Windows and Apple Servers.Selection, Purchasing, and Building of all types of multi architecture desktops and servers used primarily for brain research and other psychology related research: example Sparc, Mips, i386, x86-64, Arm, Arch, Powerpc.Setup and Maintenance of Email Servers, Network Hard drives, Web servers, Printer Server: Design, Creation, and Administration, Web mail. Managing Large data sets.

Digital Newsroom Support!

• Recruited, Hired and trained new sales representatives for the new FIOS technologies.• Managed a team of 150 employees.• Review and verification of all sales conducted by employees.• Supervision and monitoring of sales between employees and customers.• Supervising daily meeting.

• Performed Door to Door Sales.• Promoted first week on the job after receiving award for most sales first week on the job.• Sold over 1000 Contracts in 1 year which brought in a gross of $5 Million per year for the organization. • Received multiple promotions on commendations for sales performance.• Training of new sales representatives for the new FIOS technologies.• Supervision and monitoring of sales between employees and customers.• Presented daily meetings along with other Sales Leads regarding new promotions.

• Performed telemarketing calls for the purpose of retention.• Increased gross income of retained customers by $7 Million per year.• Trained and assisted new telemarketing representatives.

• Provided all types of Network support (MS DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 Client, Windows 98 Client, Windows 2000 MS Server, Windows XP).• Provided all types of Hardware support (Printers networking support, build servers, build/repair workstations, network switches/routers).• Examined Hardware and Software and provided proper maintenance as required – prompt, efficient troubleshooting service.• Provided upgrades necessary for business to function at peak capacity.