Under Assignment from Spring Lake Consulting

Under Assignment from Spring Lake Consulting

IT ConsultantUnix/Networking Administraton, Design and EngineeringClients: Millennium PartnersNew York, NYApril 2001 – September 2010TIAA-CREF (Now TIAA)New York, NYOctober 2010 – July 2011TIAA-CREF (Now TIAA)Charlotte, NCJuly 2011 – April 2013

Under Assignment from Spring Lake ConsultingNetworkingProvide design, implementation and support for a global enterprise with over 40 datacenters and offices located in 10 countries and 10 states. Designed and implemented 10 Gig DWDM Layer 2 Rings in New York, London and Singapore.Designed, implemented and maintain multiple Voltaire based Infiniband fabrics used for marketdata and trading in 7 datacenters worldwide.Developed a system of perl scripts to dynamically map all systems globally to their assigned switch ports, as well as graph network port utilization.Worked with a verity of vendors establishing marketdata and trading connectivity. UnixDesigned, implemented and supported a variety of Redhat, Solaris, and OpenBSD systems.Implemented a dual phase firewall utilizing Cisco Pix and OpenBSD.Managed all sendmail and qmail email systems including spam detection prior to switching to exchange platform.Utilized perl and shell based scripts for the monitoring and alerting of all unix machines using syslog.Market DataProvided assistance in the design and support of market data deliveryAssisted in growing the company from a single New York site utilizing Reuters RMDS to a global company utilizing market date delivered by a variety of vendors and direct feedsWorked closely with New York Stock Exchange Technologies (Wombat) and Extegy assisting in implementation of their systems.DatabaseProvided backup database support for Sybase and MSSQL systems.

Manage Global Systems Group.Provide hands-on administration of Solaris, HP-UX, NT/2000 environments, as well as Database Administration for Sybase, MS-SQL, and Oracle.Installed Legato backup system in New York and London offices.Visited customer sites to teach administration of our software and to assist in first time installations or major upgrades.Assisted company in growing from 25 people and one office in 1997 to over 200 employees in three locations by 2001. Assisted in opening of London & Houston Offices.

Provided Second/Third level supports for all Trade floors.Worked with Solaris and AIX as well as WinFrame.Assisted Sybase DBA's from time to time when shorthanded.

Provided support for trade floors running Solaris Workstations.Managed AP and GL systems on HP-UX.Supported Front and Back office systems Database platform (Sybase).Assisted in setting up backup trading floors in New Jersey.

Provided Systems Support and Database administration for data group.Developed interfaces from several vendors to import data to our own systems using Unix Shell and Perl Programming.Developed many ad-hoc reporting programs.