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Middletown, Pa, Us

Hershey, Pa, Us

Responsible for the care and upkeep 1000+ Linux, AIX and Solaris servers and the associated infrastructure. VMware, SaltStack, XenServer, OpenStack, Tivoli Storage Manager, Commvault, and LogicMonitor.Storage support for IBM Storwize V3700 and V7000, IBM XIV Storage System series and HP EVA8100.Priority focus on LogicMonitor and Saltstack configuration management as it relates to RHEL.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Provided system administration and hardware support for HP-UX, Solaris, Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Linux, FreeNAS and VMware ESX 4 supporting healthcare development with specific focus on the HP MetaVance product.• Project lead to convert JCL for client’s mainframe environment to shell scripts.• Developed and coded the MetaVance software packager and installer for HP-UX customers.• Configured and administered the HP EVA-4400 SAN from box to rack.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Us

Provided system administration and hardware support for 80+ AIX servers running version 4.3.3 through 5.3, and 70+ Linux for zSeries guests running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.• Developed and coded a menu based command line tool to aid administration tasks across 200 servers utilizing Unix shell scripting and SSH.• Developed and coded a Content Management System utilizing PHP, MySQL, XTHML, CSS and Javascript to provide server availability and maintenance notification via a web browser. • Installation and configuration experience with MQSeries, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal, IBM HTTP Server, Apache, Tivoli Workload Scheduler, Tivoli Storage Manager and DB2.

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Provided leadership and IT experience on the night shift operations team. Monitored order processing on HP3000, Solaris, IBM mainframe and Windows servers.• Mentored computer operations team.• Monitored all jobs on HP, IBM, and Sun systems / Tivoli Workload Scheduler.• Provided operating system support on MPE/IX and Solaris.• Resolved all abends, software, and hardware problems.• Provided backup and off-hours Help Desk support.• Created and updated user reference manuals as well as performed database management.• Executed tape backups for Sun and HP servers and IBM mainframe.• Printed and prepared reports and invoices.• Maintained peripheral equipment.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

I began my career as a computer operator at PA Blue Shield and received numerous promotions ultimately ending my career at Highmark as an application programmer on their OSCAR system. During my operations career I was promoted to Senior Computer Operator over a team of ten computer operators. I trained and mentored each of these folks and took the lead role during any problem resolution. During this time I handled all IBM Mainframe IPL procedures, AIX and Window server reboots, scheduling of my team and recovered abended jobs. • Experience with MVS, TSO, JCL, JES, IMS, DB2, CICS, job scheduler, and tape Silo operations.I received a promotion to Data Security Specialist in the mid-nineties and handled ACF2 security rules, as well as honed my JCL and REXX scripting skills as well as my AIX knowledge. I scored well on aptitude testing and was offered a COBOL Application programming job which I excelled at until deciding to seek other career opportunities.• Experience with COBOL, JCL, Xpediter, and DataXpert.

Information Technology

High School Diploma