Share my rich I.T. experience and expertise to fulfill your company’s business objectives
Ensure customer satisfaction through appropriate attitude and prompt technical solutions
Create, maintain, and monitor processes, policies, procedures and methodologies in an effort to help ensure the ongoing integrity of supported systems and applications
Plan and develop an organization and technology infrastructure that can respond rapidly to business growth and requirements
Coordinate departmental and vendor relationships for highest levels of cooperation and efficiency
Implement high-quality, cost-effective technology solutions that meet business, budgetary and functionality requirements
Almost two decades as a system administrator
Over two years as an I.S./I.T. manager
UNIX, especially Solaris (2.4-9), AIX (4.2, 4.3 and 5L), FreeBSD, Linux (including Redhat Enterpise AS 2.1, 3.0 and 4.0), Mac OSX and HPUX (10 and 11, RISC and Itanium)
Backup systems (notably Veritas Netbackup and HP Openview Storage Data Protector) including full solution comparisons, site customization, implementations and application customization
User accounts (including NIS and LDAP integration), file permissions, lpr (printing), resource usage and other basic UNIX service issues
Web servers and services, especially apache and tomcat
DNS architecting and maintenance
NFS, SMB/CIFS and AppleShare file sharing from UNIX and Network Appliance servers
Server specifications and capacity planning management
Architecting and implementing system and server monitoring
Redundant and expandable systems using RAID, high availability software (including Veritas tools), warm backup systems and clustering
LAN and WAN including Cisco router configuration
Maintenance of intranet and internet web sites
SMTP e-mail (sendmail)
System monitoring with NetIQ AppManager, opensource tools and custom scripts
Setup, monitoring and enforcement of networking security
Opensource products including GNU utilities and CVS
Excellent documentation and oral skills
Build cost-effective solutions to fulfill business needs
Support end user software on UNIX, Macintosh and Windows
Diagnose and repair hardware and software problems and issues
2001 – present Sanofi Pasteur (formerly Aventis Pasteur)
UNIX Systems Analyst (contractor)
Performed all levels of administration for HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris systems throughout the North American infrastructure
Analyzed, audited and improved system security on all UNIX systems using a variety of methods (e.g., sudo and ssh)
Performed numerous significant analysis and upgrade implementation on three backup servers (HP OpenView Data Protector)
Developed improved backup infrastructures and more efficient use of backup server resources including implementing a SAN for tape access
Primary workflow automation administrator using CA’s AutoSys software
Administered Platform Rocks Red Hat Linux Cluster (28 node) and assisted with developing a POC 64-bit Oracle RAC (cluster)
Administered VMware servers (running Red Hat Linux Enterprise and VMWare ESX) for Windows and Linux virtual machines saving the company over $80,000 in hardware costs during the first year and creating significant improvement in server room usage
Created auditing and standards for the backup system (OmniBack II 4.0 through Data Protector 5.x)
Developed a new, secure external DNS infrastructure during a major eCommerce infrastructure upgrade
Developed and documented standards for operating system installations and migrations on all UNIX versions
Architected TAN (Tape Area Network) and created specifications for virtual tape environments to provide significantly reduced backup times
Administered system access to EMC disk storage (CX700, NS700, DMX1000, etc.)
Created recommendations for unifying “islands of SAN” approach to EMC storage
Implemented new commercial monitoring (AppManager) and developed localized monitoring tools to ensure proactive capacity planning and system alerts
1999 – 2001 Navis LLC Oakland, California
Information Systems Manager
Managed a team of system administrators while growing head count from 0 to 8 over two years
Successfully implemented two major moves of the company within downtown Oakland
Quickly implemented and successfully tested contingency plans for rolling blackouts
Improved LAN network security and reliability
Built or migrated entire computing infrastructure (cross-platform file sharing including SAMBA, netatalk and NFS; sendmail/SMTP/POP; DNS/NIS; etc.) on cost-effective and reliable Linux platform
Recommended and implemented vast improvements to WAN and dialup user access. Implemented low-cost improvements for these services that improved access to a vast degree
Upgraded firewall protection and other security policies in order to maintain the company’s data integrity and privacy through filtering, intruder detection, tight host-based security and rapid implementation of vendor security patches
Documented I.S. internal processes and created end-user FAQs
Increased use of company intranet by example, through numerous initiatives and by improving its performance
Recommended and implemented significant cost-savings via outgoing modem servers and telecommunication management
Managed vendor relationships for all I.T. and telecommunications functions
1996 - 1999 TCSI Berkeley/Alameda, California
Systems and Network Administrator
Worked with a team of system administrators to support and maintain a UNIX and MS-Windows network (600-800 nodes on WAN)
Provided weekday and on call support to an international team of developers on Solaris 2.4-7
Implemented service solutions for a growing network of Windows 9x and NT users in a TCP/IP networking environment (including setup of DHCP, SAMBA, NT domains, standards, etc.)
Assisted team with several moves and new setups of network and computing facilities including a Tokyo, Japan office and affiliated WAN connections
Specified, evaluated and implemented a new backup solution for enterprise backups (Veritas NetBackup) including building vast customizations for efficiency and tape management
Improved infrastructure servers (sendmail, DNS, ClearCase, NFS, etc.) using kernel/system tuning, Veritas Foundation Suite, and improved hardware configurations
Designed and implemented server setups that provide higher availability, faster reboots, faster backups, etc. (HA, RAID, xfs, etc.)
Improved remote access issues including https, VPN, dialup/dialback and Cisco routers
1994 - 1996 Project Technology Berkeley, California
System Administrator
Managed and implemented all network, operating system and computer hardware issues corporate-wide (40-90 nodes)
Administered (SunOS 4.1.4 and Solaris 2.5) servers in local and remote offices
Setup, upgrade, maintain and administer LAN/WAN at four corporate sites
Implemented network security for Internet connectivity and customer connections
Research, testing and purchasing of all client (Wintel) hardware and software for all divisions
Setup and maintained communications server and modem pool
1988 - 1994 Natural Language Alameda, California
System Administrator
UNIX systems administered included SunOS, HPUX, AIX, DGUX and Solaris
Supported developers on UNIX, MacOS and NT and other divisions on Wintel and Macintoshes
Planned and implemented move of all services from Berkeley to Alameda
1982 - 1985 McDanel & Associates Fort Worth, Texas
Computer Operations
DOS and CPM based administration
1977 - 1981 Drake University Des Moines, Iowa
Bachelor of Arts
1981 - 1983 Brite Divinity School Fort Worth, Texas
Master of Divinity
Available on request.