Work with the customer's Information Technology group to satisfy support and maintenance requests. Lead the six million dollar hardware refresh of the customers core business environment. Built out customer disaster recovery site. Support day to day operations of the toll collection network.Gather business requirements for new projects. Perform regular security audits of corporate IT systems to satisfy PCI security requirements.Maintain experience on RHEL and Oracle Linux. Configure and maintain new VNX 5700 Unified Storage Platform. Engineer and assist in planning and building new production environments as part of six million dollar hardware refresh. Manage system backups with NetBackup Configure and manage F5 Load Balancers. Assisted in the development and maintenance of of the corporate IT security policies to comply with PCI security requirements. Provided expert level advice and assistance in the areas of security architecture, systems auditing, security tools. Configure and maintain new Recoverpoint Appliances to customer requirements.Engineer and configure replacement Brocade SAN to replace legacy SAN.

Configured and managed the F5 Load balancers serving customer web applications. Create and execute test plans at the customer's request. Ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems, networks, and data through the planning, analysis, development, implementation, maintenance, and enhancement of information systems security programs, policies, procedures, and tools. Support the corporate VPN environment using Cisco ASA 5500 series security appliances and RSA SecurID. Perform regular security audits of corporate IT systems to satisfy payment card industry security requirements. Responsible for the maintenance of the core OS distribution used for toll collection services across multiple customer organizations. Engineered the disaster recovery site for customer data per customer requirements. Provides technical support and guidance to staff in matters relating to information management (IT) issues that involve a wide range of IT management that typically extend and apply to an entire organization or major components of an organization. Provided expert level advice and assistance in the areas of security architecture, systems auditing, security tools. Maintain experience on RHEL and Oracle Linux. Monitored and managed customers networks to ensure proper operation. Responsible for the configuration, maintenance, and operation of a 400+ node collection of Linux systems used for the real-time collection of tolls on the Illinois Tollway. Provided 24x7 support to mission critical applications. Responsible for training new analysts and for providing on-call support to the technicians who are responsible for the operation of the hardware in the field. General scripting, systems configuration and development of KickStart configurations for automated provisioning of systems.

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Provided hardware and software recommendations and installation services for Linux based distributed high performance computing clusters support more than 75,000 users. Provided support of mission critical applications requiring 7/24/365 application availability. Performance tuning the Linux servers to improve application performance. Provided ongoing technical and software support for Linux and OSX users. Requires working knowledge of C, C++, HTTP, and CVS on multiple platforms. Deployed web serving cluster using Apache 2.x, MySQL and PHP. Load balancing provided via round robin DNS for survivability. File synchronization is handled using RSYNC. MySQL databases are replicated between servers for complete access to data.

Designed, engineered, installed, and supported a SUN and FreeBSD UNIX system that greatly reduced customer implementation time. Automated many system and network tasks through the use of bash, perl, and python scripts. Designed and built a ATM network, while serving as second and third tier network support. Installed, configured and supported MySQL and Oracle databases. Introduced maintainability by creating scripts to perform automated upgrades. Achieved 98% less down time through implementation of fault tolerance systems and network infrastructure. Realized profitability 5 years sooner than internal time estimates by re-designing an obsolete network.

Enteract was acquired by 21st Century Telecom in 1999. Please refer to my duplicated position for the same time frame. This is here to permit others to search on Enteract and still connect with me.

21st Century Telecommunications was acquired by RCN in 2001. Please refer to my duplicated position for the same time frame. This is here to permit others to search on 21st Century Telecommunications and still connect with me.

FORE Systems was acquired by Marconi Communications in 1999. Please refer to my duplicated position for the same time frame. This is here to permit others to search on FORE Systems and still connect with me.

Performed on-site network analysis, testing, trouble shooting and problem resolution for critical cases and "Hot Sites", contracted quick-response (2/4 hour) for strategic accounts as defined by FORE Systems management. Coordinated with the corporate Technical Assistance Center and Engineering in the determination and correction of product deficiencies related to installed system performance. Assisted and directed third-party Authorized Service Providers in problem resolution. Documented issues and status to customer and FORE Management. Assisted in the installation of FORE equipment as available. Provided expert analysis and prompt resolution of difficult or high visibility problems for customers in the region and throughout the U.S. Extended FORE's support services capability beyond that provided by TAC and allowed pre-sales systems engineer’s to focus on increasing product sales.

Managed network operations and engineering for seven buildings of a fifteen thousand-user customer campus. Designed, configured, and supported many different types of routing and switching equipment and associated networks. Designed and programmed many dynamic web-based programs using CGI, and Perl to collect and present network traffic statistics using a web based format. Managed and supported a wide variety of Sun SPARC hardware and Solaris UNIX software. Participated on a team to redesign and migrate the customers eight thousand node local area FDDI network to a hybrid Fast Ethernet and ATM switching network.

Directly responsible for the testing, evaluation, implementation, and integration of ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) equipment into the customer’s operational network. Kept track of the software and hardware versions. Investigate the equipment for security holes and software bugs, and work with the vendors to correct problems. Support the customer’s enterprise-wide client/server based internetwork, providing network hardware support, and integration of network management tools. Performed as a lead system administrator and troubleshooter; managing DNS, NIS, and mail software; assisted less experienced systems administrators; automated many of the system administration functions on a network of many different UNIX servers as well as both UNIX and DOS workstations. As a network engineer in a Network Operations Center, performed network configuration, fault troubleshooting, and security accounting for a FDDI based multi-campus network, which included numerous LANs (Ethernet, Token Ring, AppleTalk, IPX, TCP/IP, etc.) as well as two WANs. Performed system administration support on many types of UNIX machines, automating many of the tasks through the coding of shell scripts.

Furnished direct support for customer LANs and WANs at customer sites; installed operating system and packet switching node software; tracked and installed patches for the customers PSNs (Packet Switching Node), routers and gateways; responsibe for troubleshooting problems on customers networks and taking corrective action; developed wide range of experience in network problems using equipment such as IDACOM X.25 protocol analyzers, network diagnostics hosts, ethernet sniffers, and satellite delay simulators.Responsible for maintaining all system activity records; performed tape and disk to disk backups; created and maintained a variety of short C programs and shell scripts to automate system administration; performed system accounting for billing of machine usage; Coordinated test lab usage; Wrote and performed various test plans for software and hardware patches; Performed all in-house data cabling and connections.