M Siltanen [Lion] Email & Phone Number

Pasadena, CA, US

Pasadena, CA

Southern California

Numerous IT jobs for the banking/financial industry, Healthcare, Telcom, and Entertainment industries. ( including WaMu, JPMC, Morgan Stanley, BA, UBS, Merrill Lynch, AT&T, Ericsson, Wellpoint, startups, and others ) Hollywood Streaming and Media startups.Systems ( hardware and software ) and network installations, configuration, management. VMware ESXi.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Did whatever is necessary to make a great conference for the Linux / Open Source community.

Managed IT/Operations and Business Development for a Information Assurance / Anti-SPAM /Anti-phishing startup with offices in the USA and China. Duties included traditional IT setup and Operations, supervising and managing Facilities construction and Facilities, designing and building out of data center and all telecommunications infrastructure. Prepared.

Management consultant with a focus on IT systems and asset management, BCP, DR, Web/E-commerce systems design, facility design & review. Trained staff on backups, anti-virus procedures, computer system maintenance, computer security training and system recovery.

Managed an IT staff of 5-6 supporting a global software development company Principle information security officer.Designed and supervised construction of a corporate data center and network to minimize environmental risks and maximize facilities availability Successfully managed the build out and migration of computing and telecommunications.

Security Analysis and configuration. Configured and upgraded web and DNS servers. Trained numerous individuals and groups on security and Unix/Linux. Frequently, the training was geared towards roll out and maintenance of more reliable and secure servers at ISPs and other internet exposed operations. Attended numerous networking and training sessions with.

Maintained and supported various Unix servers. (Including SUN Solaris and SGI IRIX systems) Prepared for a 50 Terabyte storage system for the GDPS component of the SRTM project Refurbished data center space for new equipment, including the downsizing of a Thinking Machines super computer (128 CPU) Ordered and prepared networked stations (Macs, Xterms) for.

Responsible for configuration and system tuning of server hardware and software, including database servers and HA storage systems for a rapidly growing startup Registration of domain names Design and creation of a corporate data center to support the backend of our online presence Security and performance monitoring Installation and configuration of.

Ensured that the systems were up and facility operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to support the entire call center operations including e-commerce services. Responsibilities included: Managed and directed vendor field engineering during major hardware upgrades Network configurations and design Installed and configured system hardware and software.

Recommended computer hardware and software for clients. Recommendations ranged from add-in boards to completely configured platforms and LANs. Software recommendations at times were followed with on-site training and system configuration.

Converted Fusion research application to a Cray YMP supercomputer running UNICOS, a Unix variant.

Created and converted custom Oceanographic research application code (in Fortran and C) on VMS, Unix, and NeXtstep systems. Processed large data sets. Setup and used systems on the internet.