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Denver, Colorado

Manage National Jewish Linux infrastructure, consisting of physical and virtual servers running RHEL 5.x, SLES 11.x, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Support HPC Clusters used by NJ Health Center for Genetics and Environmental Health. Migrate external DNS from Network Solutions onto Ubuntu servers and Bind. Responsible for implementation of EMC/Avamar backup solution to replace existing IBM Tivoli backup system; solution consists of Avamar Grid, Data Domain, and Avamar Extended Retention. Replace… Show more Manage National Jewish Linux infrastructure, consisting of physical and virtual servers running RHEL 5.x, SLES 11.x, and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Support HPC Clusters used by NJ Health Center for Genetics and Environmental Health. Migrate external DNS from Network Solutions onto Ubuntu servers and Bind. Responsible for implementation of EMC/Avamar backup solution to replace existing IBM Tivoli backup system; solution consists of Avamar Grid, Data Domain, and Avamar Extended Retention. Replace Nagios Monitoring systems with Icinga systems. Configure OnCommand Balance Monitoring for NetApp Filers and SAN infrastructure. Provide support for Windows Systems as required. Show less

Greater Denver Area

Consultant, 06/11-08/13Linux System Administration services for Carpet Exchange. Complete Security Assessment and assist in resolving any vulnerabilities. Rebuild the Production POS and HR System.Consultant, 02/10-03/10SOX/PCI Compliance remediation for WildBlue Communications. Determine in-scope systems. Develop and document policies and procedures. Develop plan to bring any non-compliant systems/policies into compliance.Consultant, 07/09-08/13UNIX System/SAN… Show more Consultant, 06/11-08/13Linux System Administration services for Carpet Exchange. Complete Security Assessment and assist in resolving any vulnerabilities. Rebuild the Production POS and HR System.Consultant, 02/10-03/10SOX/PCI Compliance remediation for WildBlue Communications. Determine in-scope systems. Develop and document policies and procedures. Develop plan to bring any non-compliant systems/policies into compliance.Consultant, 07/09-08/13UNIX System/SAN Administration services for Eagle Claw. Environment consists of HP rp7420s running HP-UX with VPARS, HP EVA 6000, and Brocade Switches. Performed SAN, System, and Backup/Recovery Assessment. Documented and corrected any issues identified. Planned and completed SAN and System upgrades. Worked with Oracle DBA to test different disk layouts to optimize database and application performance. Configured regular filesystem backups. Show less

Greater Denver Area

UNIX System Administration Services for Century Link. Support Oracle (Sun) Servers running Solaris 10, Java and/or Oracle WebLogic Applications. Build new Documentation system utilizing Drupal 6.x. Perform quarterly OS patch updates via Solaris Live Upgrade, and application updates as required.

Greater Denver Area

Member of team responsible for build out of new Data Center and migration from Solaris on Sparc to RHEL on commodity hardware. Implement BlueCat Adonis DNS Solution to replace existing Bind and Incognito platforms, and BlueCat Proteus IP Management System to manage approximately 1.5 million DNS Objects. Configure Linux servers with Password Policies and RSA Authentication. Weekly and Quarterly PCI/SOX Compliance Reporting and Remediation. Assist with supporting Remote Gateway sites… Show more Member of team responsible for build out of new Data Center and migration from Solaris on Sparc to RHEL on commodity hardware. Implement BlueCat Adonis DNS Solution to replace existing Bind and Incognito platforms, and BlueCat Proteus IP Management System to manage approximately 1.5 million DNS Objects. Configure Linux servers with Password Policies and RSA Authentication. Weekly and Quarterly PCI/SOX Compliance Reporting and Remediation. Assist with supporting Remote Gateway sites providing Internet services for approximately 400,000+ Subscribers. Show less

Greater Denver Area

Led team of seven System/Storage Administrators responsible for Systems/Storage Engineering and Architecture for photobucket.com, tinypic.com, picpoke.com, and twitgoo.com. Managed projects for the deployment of new infrastructure to handle 2 million new customers every 3-6 months. Supervised the projects of team members to ensure requirements and schedules were met. Performed yearly performance reviews. Provide data for yearly budget requirements.

Greater Denver Area

Provided 24/7 UNIX support for Sun Solaris infrastructure in Corporate Data Center as well as ten Remote Gateway sites supporting 275,000+ Subscribers. Coordinated and managed the deployment of seven gateway sites. Configured, maintained, upgraded SAN/NAS environment. Administered Production Billing and Customer Provisioning Systems. Designed, deployed, and maintained Legato Backups. Developed manual failover solution for Billing System not supported in a Clustered Environment. Installed… Show more Provided 24/7 UNIX support for Sun Solaris infrastructure in Corporate Data Center as well as ten Remote Gateway sites supporting 275,000+ Subscribers. Coordinated and managed the deployment of seven gateway sites. Configured, maintained, upgraded SAN/NAS environment. Administered Production Billing and Customer Provisioning Systems. Designed, deployed, and maintained Legato Backups. Developed manual failover solution for Billing System not supported in a Clustered Environment. Installed configured, and managed WebLogic 9.2 Cluster supporting Provisioning and Order Entry. Administered Corporate and Customer DNS Infrastructure. Show less

Greater Denver Area

Configured and deployed Network Node Manager 6.41 and HP OpenView Operations 7.1x for monitoring world wide corporate infrastructure. Installed and maintained mission-critical Hosting Center Sun Fire systems providing data and services to 3200 customers in 85 countries. Administered platform supporting internal production and development groups. Managed team responsible for system administration of all Sun, Novell, and Windows servers. Managed HDS 9960 Disk Array providing SAN-Attached disk… Show more Configured and deployed Network Node Manager 6.41 and HP OpenView Operations 7.1x for monitoring world wide corporate infrastructure. Installed and maintained mission-critical Hosting Center Sun Fire systems providing data and services to 3200 customers in 85 countries. Administered platform supporting internal production and development groups. Managed team responsible for system administration of all Sun, Novell, and Windows servers. Managed HDS 9960 Disk Array providing SAN-Attached disk to Sun and Novell servers as well as a Mainframe System. Show less

Greater Denver Area

System Administration Services for Hewlett-Packard. Member of nation-wide team responsible for planning and executing the move of 500 servers from Bay Area Data Centers to Denver. Installed and configured HP-UX. Reconfigured servers not requiring OS installs. Researched and corrected hardware, OS, and network problems. Configured remote console access via LAN port or serial port. Verified and configured security packages on servers. Provided 24x7 customer support.

Greater Denver Area

Staffed and managed a team of UNIX System Architects and Engineers supporting customers on the managed services platform as well as back office and network management systems. Prepared yearly budgets requirements. Completed annual performance reviews for team members. Designed and installed the production managed services platform SAN for the Denver and Irvine Data Centers. Standardized customer server UNIX platforms on Sun hardware running Solaris. Deployed backup solution for ISP… Show more Staffed and managed a team of UNIX System Architects and Engineers supporting customers on the managed services platform as well as back office and network management systems. Prepared yearly budgets requirements. Completed annual performance reviews for team members. Designed and installed the production managed services platform SAN for the Denver and Irvine Data Centers. Standardized customer server UNIX platforms on Sun hardware running Solaris. Deployed backup solution for ISP division. Designed, installed, and maintained DNS solution supporting external customers. Show less

Greater Denver Area

Researched, designed, deployed, and managed initial Managed Services proof of concept platform consisting of SAN and NFS Storage, Backups, and Customer Servers. Administered production, development, and test servers for the back office systems. Installed Xyplex Terminal Servers for remote console access. Defined user account standards. Deployed NIS+ to manage accounts, hosts, and automounted directories.

Greater Denver Area

Managed and staffed team of seven System Administrators responsible for the administration of business-critical UNIX servers on HP, Sun, and Sequent platforms. Part of team responsible for the hardware architecture of the company’s OSS platform consisting of HP and Sun Servers, and FC-AL attached EMC Symmetrix Arrays. Assured Y2K compliance of the UNIX infrastructure. Prepared yearly hardware, software, and maintenance budgets requirements.

Greater Denver Area

Staffed and managed UNIX Operations group. Managed the deployment of an Enterprise Backup Solution. Defined backup and off site tape rotation schedules and policies. Developed a change management system using Peregrine ServiceCenter. Performed daily incremental and full backups using Alexandria for Sequent servers.

Greater Denver Area

Provide System Administration Services to Cyprus Amax Minerals. Hardware and software support for HP-UX systems supporting users in seven countries. Research and correct security vulnerabilities. Monitored UNIX systems via EcoTOOLS and integrated the monitoring with HP OpenView. Performed and certified incremental and full backups and restores. Member of team responsible for Y2K testing of platforms and applications. Developed UNIX emergency shutdown procedure and script used by… Show more Provide System Administration Services to Cyprus Amax Minerals. Hardware and software support for HP-UX systems supporting users in seven countries. Research and correct security vulnerabilities. Monitored UNIX systems via EcoTOOLS and integrated the monitoring with HP OpenView. Performed and certified incremental and full backups and restores. Member of team responsible for Y2K testing of platforms and applications. Developed UNIX emergency shutdown procedure and script used by Operations group. Installed and configured Symark PowerPak. Show less

Greater Denver Area

Responsible for reliable operation and capacity planning of mission-critical systems in a large, heterogeneous client/server environment. Senior member of Systems Relocation team during twelve-month consolidation of engineering sites in 14-state region into one mega-center. This team planned, scheduled, coordinated, and executed the relocation of 2,500 users and over 200 servers. Developed and implemented methodologies using HP OpenView’s Software Distributor for the distribution of… Show more Responsible for reliable operation and capacity planning of mission-critical systems in a large, heterogeneous client/server environment. Senior member of Systems Relocation team during twelve-month consolidation of engineering sites in 14-state region into one mega-center. This team planned, scheduled, coordinated, and executed the relocation of 2,500 users and over 200 servers. Developed and implemented methodologies using HP OpenView’s Software Distributor for the distribution of applications and software to over 3,000 geographically distributed servers and desktops. Provided 3270 legacy system access and printing solutions. Developed and maintained Oracle applications. Performed and verified incremental and full site and offsite system backups and file recoveries. Created, staffed, and managed on site helpdesk providing hardware, software, and network support to local and remote employees. Developed Remedy Ticketing Solution for the helpdesk’s use. Trained users on desktop applications. Developed web documents to aid with user support, system administration, application support, and application/server documentation. Show less

Greater Denver Area

Designed, optimized, and maintained Ingres/VISION, Ingres/4GL, and Ingres/QBF relational database applications in a BSD UNIX environment. Provided software and hardware support for over 500 end-users in a four-state area as well as classroom and on-the-job training on network software, the UNIX Operating System, and Ingres Relational Database applications. Connected and configured new terminals and printers on a Datakit network. Responsible for initial diagnosis of cluster controller, 3270… Show more Designed, optimized, and maintained Ingres/VISION, Ingres/4GL, and Ingres/QBF relational database applications in a BSD UNIX environment. Provided software and hardware support for over 500 end-users in a four-state area as well as classroom and on-the-job training on network software, the UNIX Operating System, and Ingres Relational Database applications. Connected and configured new terminals and printers on a Datakit network. Responsible for initial diagnosis of cluster controller, 3270 terminal, and printer problems. Forecasted yearly hardware requirements. Show less

Greater Denver Area

Developed and deployed a Mechanized Capital Expenditure Tracking System using Ingres on a BSD UNIX system reducing the time required to produce monthly reports from three days to four hours. Provided hardware and software support. Created and maintained Ingres Relational Database applications in the UNIX environment.