EXPERIENCE

Director of Engineering, Registry Advantage
Responsibilities Include:

• Assist in business development of new proprietary infrastructure applications
• Manage project timelines and application development efforts using a combination of UP and Agile development methods
• Architecting and implementing a new infrastructure to run very high performance proprietary distributed software for high volume transactions over the internet
• Developing all system, network, and storage specifications to support these applications
• All phases of procurement and vendor management, including securing data center colocation space and internet connectivity around the globe
• Platform validation and stress testing of all components, including proprietary software
• All aspects of project management, including resource leveling and scope management
• All aspects of the implementation, from racking and stacking, to assigning 24/7 escalation responsibilities in our System and Problem management systems
• All business continuity and fail over scenario planning and testing
• Performance management, including collecting realtime metrics of all infrastructure components and key application metrics for capacity forecasting
• 5 dedicated staff, and 5 other teams matrix reporting into me for network support, system engineering, Unix system administration, Unix Operators, and DBA support

Senior Unix Systems Administrator
Responsibilities included:

• Y2K upgrade program for the Unix environment, including milestone management within the project plan, and Asset Insight inventory/reporting tool
• Head of the Unix projects group which included 1 full time staff and matrix reporting of 12 additional staff
• Operation and Maintenance of existing BMC Patrol and Alert monitoring system
• Design and development of a replacement monitoring environment using Tivoli TME 10 3.6 and Remedy ARS 4.0
• Develop SARGraph graphing package to graph sar data and an associated web interface so that daily sar performance data and graphs are available on line
• Develop ad-hoc monitoring of the automated DNS and Sendmail Aliases management and generation batch processing
• Maintain and support perl based management scripts for managing DNS, Sendmail, mailing lists served by Majordomo
• Consult on global email archiving implementation for Exchange and SMTP mail

Responsibilities included:

• Development of Unix monitors and Tivoli event correlation
• Integration of NT monitoring events into a Tivoli framework
• Development of deployment strategies for systems management software

Assistant Manager of IT, Head of Unix Administration
Responsibilities included:

• Assistant managing day to day IT operations, including 9 staff
• Regional manager for Unix infrastructure for S.W.I.F.T. Alliance server on Solaris 2.5.1 and other related systems (including IStarCM from Nomura) for Asia Pacific
• Regional manager for an internal capture/settlements/P&L system's Solaris and Sybase infrastructure (including TibCo's Rendezvous publish & subscribe middleware) for Asia Pacific
• Managing the Reuters Triarch market data unix infrastructure
• NatWest GFM Global DNS steering committee member and 3rd tier global DNS support
• Implemented "hands off" London DNS implementation for Greenwich NatWest (London) in perl
• Tokyo Millennium Program coordinator (this was primarily a project management and executive reporting function)
• Business Continuity Planning (disaster recovery) project co-coordinator

MIS Systems Administrator
Responsibilities Included:

• SunOS/Solaris systems administration, focusing on replacing ad-hoc methodologies with engineered support and maintenance solutions using scripting and automation
• Restructuring name service management and NFS management
• Developing distribution and maintenance procedures for in house developed risk analysis software (RACS), including managing an extremely dynamic development environment
• Managing critical file transfer batch processing to mainframes and external entities using UUCP, Zmodem, and FTP

Systems Administrator / Local Head of IS (Tokyo, Japan)
Responsibilities Included:

• Continued support of the NY/NJ overnight batch processing and HA issues
• Office expansion project assistance including network infrastructure upgrade and Mac to NT conversion
• Local Cc:Mail PO administration issues
• 1st level HP/UX support including the support of a NAS450 filer
• All local technology purchasing, maintenance, budgeting, and apportionments

Senior Systems Administrator
Responsibilities included:

• Production support of a SunOS based distributed computing environment, including NCD Xterminal thin clients, in an extremely high availability trading environment
• Development of tools to automate administration tasks including centralized user management, fault tolerance, and application distribution
• Project management for all Unix and network infrastructure upgrades
• Centralized proxy based network/system monitoring and performance analysis (tekmon + home rolled scripts)

Senior Systems Integrator
Responsibilities included:

• Development and staging of custom systems and networks
• System and network administration design and training on SunOS and Solaris, including disaster recovery planning and data availability (Legato and On Line: products)
• Network and system performance tuning on Solaris 2.x platforms (tunefs, enhanced newfs parameters, tuning the paging algorithm, using dispadmin for dispatch queue optimization, using ndd to tune /dev/tcp parameters for high volume short lived connections, etc.)
• System tailoring and tuning on VAX and AXP platforms
• 3rd party integration into VAX and Sun environments
• Providing training on complex administrative issues, tool creation, and window manager customizations

Education

• Formerly a member of Phi Theta Kappa Academic Honors Society while enrolled in Raritan Valley Community College
• Student instructor for adult elementary mathematics, also while enrolled in RVCC.

Special Skills

• Programming in: perl, bourne and C shells, C
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Internet technologies, including web server administration, CGI programming, extensive DNS knowledge including having written a custom threaded resolver library for performance and load testing