Senior UNIX Technologist with a broad and very deep knowledge of technology. Committed to contributing to the success of an organization. Highly technical, a key member of decision making teams with a proven ability in strategic planning and tactical implementation, with very hands on experience. Specific expertise includes:
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AIX
- (3.25 - 5.1) Including the usual work with LVM, SMIT, PSSP, HACMP,
Perspectives, etc. in regular and SP environments.
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LINUX
(RedHat, SuSE, Slackware, etc.) Installations, configurations, shell scripting,
firewalls and clustering.
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Shell
Scripting, very strong in korn, bash, csh, pdsh
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UNIX
- Including SCO, AT&T, Sun/Solaris, ICL, SysVR4, OpenBSD, Data General
(DG-UX), with all the usual UNIX tools/cmd's: cron, named, rc.* mkfs, fsck,
mknod, etc.
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TCP/IP
- including OpenSSH, telnet, ftp, smtp, snmp, timed, dhcp, dns, bootp, tftp,
sip etc. and most others.
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PERL
development, both application and system programming.
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MySQL
- installations configurations, administration, development and support.
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Oracle
- (7.3.4 - 8i) Working along side DBA's to develop effective SQL, PL/SQL, and
data models. Particularly with retail applications like JDA and ReTech
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C/C++
- simple development and use.
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TSM/ADSM
- Installations and configuration, including development of retention plans and
backup policies
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HTML
- Development and configuration of http servers, including Apache and IIS
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NT
- (3.5 - 4.0) Installations and management for application, file and print
servers
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Win
- (3.1 - 2k) Installations and management. Including remote deployment and
servers (Win2k).
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Security
Tools - Including PIX, CheckPoint One and ipchains/ifwadm (linux firewalls)
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Scheduling
packages, inc AutoSys, Tivoli, etc.
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SNA
- Configuration
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MQSeries
- Plus other middleware products
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EDI
- Applications including OpenEDI, Perminos, Harbinger TLE etc., deployment and
use.
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Office
Tools - Including MS Office, Word, Excel, etc. and extensive use of MS Project
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OS/400
- Use, upgrades and applying patches
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OS/390
- Use
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RS/6000
- From old 300's through S85's, including R/J30's - 50's, S70's, S7A's, high,
thin and wide SP nodes
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CISCO
Routers - 2900's to 6500's, installations and configurations including routing
tables, ACL's, etc.)
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Storage
- SSA, ESS, EMC Symetrix, Sun StorEdge, Compaq, SAN's and other DASD
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Sun
- Ultra450's, 3000's, 4500's, and 6500's
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Intel
- Intel based systems, generic through Compaq, Dell and IBM high-end servers
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AS/400
- Installations, 320's, 270's and 640's
· 3494 - Plus other tape libraries, installation and maintenance3590, DLT - Plus other tape drives, installation and maintenance
Independent Contractor 2001 - present
Carrying out Systems Administration and others tasks. Clients include (among others):
AstraZenica
Contracted with IBM to provide System Adminstration of the AutoSys servers and application. This provides the world wide scheduling service to this global customer. Daily monitoring, management and ongoing support is provided from remote locations to the the mutilple servers and several hundred clients.
Army Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES)
Contracted with IBM to assist in migratation of 90+ sites world wide of various RS/6000's, consolidated on to LPARs on 4, P690 frames. The consoldation included the update of the OS to AIX 5.2 (ML5). The preparation and actions required detailed planning & co-ordination to accomidate the spreadacross world tme zone, transportation of tapes and the availability system to be worked on.
JP Morgan
Chase
UNIX/AutoSys Administrator, leading the project to upgrade and install CA's
Enterprise job scheduler (3.5 to 4.0). Conducting the automation of the
processes for all server instances and the 1000+ clients(mixed UNIX & NT).
Maintaining and managing daily activities, including implementation of Change
Controls. Extensive coding in PERL and shell scripting for jobs and automation
of tasks and monitoring. Creation of DR solutions for 5 enterprise scheduling
servers, including HACMP, SRDF/PPRC and AutosysHA.
Southern Dock
Products -
on site and remote management of UNIX systems for Corporate Accounting and
Inventory Management. Carrying out the migration of systems due to company
re-organization. On going day to day support for user problems, printers etc.
Performance monitoring and analysis.
Southwest Sports Group (Texas Rangers) - Consultancy and support of HACMP. General
UNIX System administration and customized Shell scripting. Emergency recovery
support.
ABCOR Services - various projects
including, installation and configuration CISCO routers and LAN/WAN
implementations. Deployments of ssh, inc OpenSSH
Corporate
Computer Services. Remote administration, management and monitoring of customers systems.
Security assessments, development of scripts (shell and perl) to provide daily
reports, backups and management.
RSI Inc, - development and
deployment of Linux based web site server, running Apache. Development of CGI
(PERL) code for the dynamic creation of web pages and interaction with
marketing material database (MySQL).
footStar,
Inc., Irving,
Texas 1999-2001
Technology Services
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Successfully
created and implemented a Centralized Data Center, growing from 2 RS/6000's
(AIX) to over 28 RS/6000's (J40's thru S85's - AIX), 20+ Wintel based machines,
almost 17TB of DASD, and a variety of servers such as NT, Linux and AS/400.
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Creation
of self-monitoring and automated failover Internet servers (ftp etc.) based on
Linux RedHat.
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Proposed
and implemented workstations for Computer Operations staff, built on Linux
RedHat, providing a secure and controlled environment for Data Center Computer
Operations to be managed from.
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Carried
out installations of AIX systems using IBM SP network install tools (e.g. PSSP)
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Carried
out and managed the relocation and re-hosting of applications and systems from
the New Jersey Data Center to the Irving facility, including the migration from
legacy platforms and the move to Oracle DB (8I). Optimizing DB stored
procedures for significantly reduced batch cycles.
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Put
ADSM/TSM in place as the Data Center backup solution, integrating in to IBM
3494 tape library (1 xL12 plus 3 x D12).
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Worked
with NT/NOS administrators to integrate ArchServ and to utilize IBM 3575 tapes
libraries and StorageTech DLT libraries.
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Successfully
reconstructed (with out interruption to production) DNS to be efficient and
reliable, replacing NT with primary/secondary, master/slave systems based on
Linux using bind 8.2
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Created
automated monitoring and altering of AIX systems, using PSSP and Perspectives.
Monitoring and altering for filesystem usage, hardware and system process
failures. And carrying out automated text paging of on call personnel.
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Created
a stable production environment by developing and introducing standards and
procedures for coding, system installations, system and DB administration and
application integration. Particularly by creating much more efficient batch job
scripts executed by the scheduling system (CA's AutoSys).
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Developed
and created an automated formatting of Marketing and Sales reports, created
from Oracle DB SQL queries and automatically sent to user's printers or e-mail
(depending on requirement).
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Carried
out design and management of SAN using IBM ESS (Shark), deploying 3 systems
plus one expansion unit utilizing fiber network and McData directors.
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Performed
extensive performance tuning of RS/6000's and SUN systems. Particularly through
AIX Performance ToolBox (perfmon etc.) to reduce to a minimum batch processing
time for nightly sales processing and interactive users of the Allocation and
Replenishment systems.
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Carried
out upgrades and replacements to IBM AS/400's including 320's, 270's and 640's
Michaels,
Inc.,
Irving, Texas 1997-1998
Technical Services
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Carried
out and Directed build of IBM SP environment for implementation of new
merchandizing applications (Sales accounting and Sales History), leading to
nightly batch processing being reduced from 5 hours to less than 30 mins. This
was accomplished through completely re-writing the vendor-supplied code.
(Moving a lot of the code from Oracle Stored Procedures to C and PERL).
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Installation
and configuration of IBM RS/6000 (inc. SP, Thin and High nodes, S70's and
AS/400's).
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Successfully
took the production environment from one of constant 'fire drills' to a stable
and routine operation.
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Carried
out the IT infrastructure build out of new distribution center and the IT
expansion of existing distribution centers. Including selection of RS/6000's,
installation and initial management. Creation of menu driven administration for
Site Administrators, utilizing the 'role' facilities in AIX.
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Provided
development teams with foundation in TCP/IP socket programming to develop on
line inventory look ups through hand scanners and developed backend to support
that.
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Developed
and created snmp monitoring and remote management of RF single processors through
the use of UPS's.
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Applied
necessary APARS and PTF's to maintain OS compliance and to support Oracle
Parallel DB operations.
Greyhound Lines, Dallas, Texas 1996-1997
Technical Services
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Implemented
HACMP and HAGEO Systems providing 100% availability to Bus OperationS System
(BOSS).
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Developed
and created HA (using native UNIX tools and shell scripts) Firewalls
(CheckPoint One) for bus terminal access to corporate systems.
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Carried
out the deployment and integration of bus terminal ticketing systems (essentially
a POS system for bus tickets) across the CompuServ's network. Providing cheap
WAN connectivity prior to the widespread use of the Internet. Most of the
development work being done in C and UNIX Shell Scripts.
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Developed
monitoring and remote management of AIX (RS/6000) and SUN (SparcCenter 2000)
systems using Tivoli.
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Established
policies and procedures for all systems administration activities.
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Carried
out usual SA tasks of backups and restores, using mksysb and developed in house
tools using 'backup', 'dump', 'tar', 'dd' and 'SysBack'.
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Provided
technical services required to migrate from legacy (outsourced) mainframe
environment.
Outside
Force/CUSA Technology, Dallas, Texas 1994-1996
National Implementation Engineer
Handled implementation of all new customer systems and provided system
level support to customers.
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Led
team of 12 systems administrators responsible for implementations and support,
nationally.
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Designed,
developed and carried out customer installs, including hardware (RS/6000,
DataGeneral and SUN), OS (AIX, DG-UX, Solaris) and applications, nationally.
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Provided
customer support both remotely and on site for all UNIX and NT systems.
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As
an IBM VAR carried out the duties and functions of an IBM CE.
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North
Texas Autosys Users Group - President
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North
Texas Technology Council - Sitting on the International Relations and Education
Affiliation Committees.
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Dallas
Fort Worth UNIX Users Group
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DFW
Linux Users Group
Education
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, School of Electrical and
Mechanical Engineering,
4-yr degree in Electrical and Mechanical Production Engineering. (Bordon
Hampshire, England.)
Security
SF86 completed and cleared by DSS (required for project with AAFES).