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Texas, United States

Woonsocket, RI, US

Provide technical leadership within infrastructure organization and across multiple teams. Responsibilities include coordination of multiple teams within IT infrastructure from assembling requirements and producing designs to data/information security, resiliency, system availability, and performance. Lead teams in specification of corporate infrastructure.

Coppell, Texas, US

Contracted to Brinks, Inc through Dicker Staffing. Provided leadership during migration of collocated data centers to new facilities and cloud-based providers. Migration included physical migration, provisioning cloud-based targets for migrations (AWS and Oracle Bare Metal cloud), and vCenter system migrations. Provisioning new virtual systems through.

Dallas, Texas, US

Contracted to Neovia Logistics via TEK Systems. Provided technical leadership for data center migration from Desford, UK to Boulder, CO, US and from Boulder, CO to Raleigh, NC. Provide architectural guidance and verification during planning and migration. Provided architectural consulting services as part of managed services offering. Provide consulting.

Jersey City, NJ, US

Contracted to DTCC via Hudson. Provided mentoring and leadership to team members. Led engineering, architectural and administrative services to update the AIX environment to a specific configuration and level. Migrated several hundred systems using NIMADM and alt disk methodologies. Significant remediation of some systems and network/firewall policies were.

Dallas, Texas, US

Contracted to Neiman Marcus via Maxsys Solutions. Provide technical project leadership as well as support and engineering services for a major storage migration to new platform (Hitachi Data Systems). Migrated over 130 current and legacy systems to new storage arrays using a variety of methodologies, including virtualization, mirroring, migration and.

Coppell, Texas, US

Contracted to Brinks, Inc via TEK Systems. Functional UNIX team lead and lead architect, following displacement of full time staff. Redesigned, architected, engineered, and built new AIX and Linux infrastructure on new and existing hardware in preparation for data center migration. Remediated existing systems to employ best practices, ensure appropriate.

New York, New York, US

Contracted to Citi via Apex Systems. Provided technical leadership and mentoring to existing staff through the course of the engagement. Perform installation, configuration, QA and asset management of new p7-795 systems for both LPAR and WPAR configurations. Developed scripts to automate portions of the configuration process. Reconciled resource.

Woonsocket, RI, US

Contracted to Caremark (CVS/Caremark) via TEK Systems. Developed scalable software (scripting) solutions to integrate with change management processes. Primary development in Korn shell on multiple platforms, to access and assess anywhere from three to nearly 2,000 remote systems. Worked on deploying 80 new micro-partitions (AIX virtualization) and.

Cork, IE

Provide AIX administration services, including system deployment, installation services, troubleshooting and hardware maintenance services. Perform installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of logical-partitions and servers on IBM p-series hardware (p520, p550, p690). Utilize NIM to install and upgrade the operating system. Provide administration.

Charlotte, NC, US

Contracted to Bank of America via TEK Systems. Provide AIX administration services, including system deployment, installation services, troubleshooting and hardware maintenance services on p-Series hardware (p6). Deployed hundreds of virtual server partitions on short time lines involving a major deployment of financial systems products based on SAP.

Contracted to Fidelity Information Services via Apple One/Agile 1. Providing data center services (as a contractor) to a Dallas area financial services provider. Services provided include system builds, VIO, LPAR and DLPAR technologies on POWER6 platforms, as well as legacy systems, system design/implementation, new system installation/configuration, NIM.

Plano, Texas, US

Contracted to Perot Systems (now Dell Services) via 4Ocean Systems. Providing data center services (as a contractor) to a major Dallas area outsource provider. On-site services provided to customer out of Los Angeles area offices. Performed client integration services for multiple clients on IBM hardware (p520, p550, p570, MMA, p595, blade center)..

Charlotte, NC, US

Contracted to Bank of America via TEK Systems. Performed installation, configuration, QA and troubleshooting of hundreds of LPARs, micro-partitions and servers on IBM p-series hardware (p510, p51A, p520, p570, p570-MMA, p750). Utilized NIM and Blade Logic tools to install and configure third party products as well as the operating system. System.

Plano, Texas, US

Contracted to Perot Systems (now Dell Services) via 4Ocean Systems. Providing data center transition services (as a contractor) to a major Dallas area outsource provider. Migration services include system builds, LPAR and DLPAR technologies on POWER5 and POWER6 platforms, NIM installations and data migration services.

US

02/2004 - 01/2008System Administrator Responsible for maintenance and operation of UNIX computing systems including RS/6000 and SP/2. Software includes AIX 5.2; PSSP 3.5; TSM 5.1/5.2/5.3; Perl; vi; sed; awk. Hardware includes IBM SP; IBM p550/p570/p670/p655/p615; IBM 3494/3590-E and 3592-J1A; McData ED-6140/5000/4700/4500/1000; IBM ESS 2105 F20; EMC.

US

11/1999 - 02/2004 Footstar Shared Services Irving, TX System Administrator Responsible UNIX systems including IBM and Sun (multiple platforms). Duties include installation, optimization of OS (AIX, Solaris, Linux), perf. tuning, scripting, system backup and restoration. Software: AIX 4.1/4.2/4.3/5.1; PSSP 3.1/3.2; Solaris 2.5/2.6/7/8; Red Hat.

System Administrator (1995-1999) -Responsible for oversight and maintenance of IBM RS/6000 system. Duties included system and software installation, scripting, system backups, system upgrades, and year 2000 compliance issues. Implemented new system and network, taking manual environment to full automation. Devised and implemented Y2K compliance strategy..

Director of Business Operations (1993-1999) -Helped determine the direction of company policy and create opportunities for growth. Instrumental in development of the company in the last five years of service. Restructured the internal organization to include better division of labor. Implemented training program readily adaptable to ISO-9000 standards..

Sales Manager (1993-1999)Duties concurrent with above. Responsible for oversight of inside and outside sales force and training of new personnel. Responsible for pricing strategies and introduction of new product lines. Developed employee training manual. Identified profitable accounts and implemented programs to increase both profits and service to new or.

Purchasing Supervisor (1991-1993) Responsible for majority of purchasing and inventory control. Expanded product offering to include items aimed at long term market strategies while reducing redundancy and obsolete items. Achieved higher profitability through efficiencies in buying, buying groups and special contracts. Improved order fill rates through.

Sales Representative (1986-1999) Helped to create a need for products exclusive to the company, while enhancing the company's share of sales to individual customers. Initiated vendor managed inventory (VMI) with select customers leading to improvements in customer service, inventory management and profitability. Expanded geographic territory while.

Ba, Business Management And Accounting

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