1. OBJECTIVE:
I am seeking a challenging position with a progressive organization that will utilize my proven skills, experience, and
leadership abilities.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
8/2011 – Current
Hewlett Packard
ITO Delivery
· Excellent program management and process development skills.
· Excellent relationship management skills.
· Excellent quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, including competency in financial analysis.
· Strong leadership and influence skills.
· Effectively collaborate; build relationships; and influence team members to work towards common objectives
across functions and groups.
· Routinely exercise independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and criteria for achieving
objectives.
· Handle multi-disciplinary decisions and issues beyond the bounds of the assigned engagement but within
compliance of HP standards of business c
· Able to communicate with internal and external senior management confidently and demonstrate
professionalism.
· Regularly make strategic decisions.
· Recognized as a valued resource for consultation by executive management.
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01/2010 – 08/2011
Teksystems
· Facilitate physical hardware design, acquisition, environment creation, and capacity planning
· Troubleshooting failover, monitoring, and software licensing.
· Sun, AIX, and Linux servers including Weblogic and webshere.
· Integrate infrastructure components in the areas such at network, operating systems, web services, failover,
supportability, and maintainability.
· Maintain service integrity and continuity throughout the life cycle of projects.
· Troubleshoot problems across functional boundaries.
· Create standards and process that reflect operational standards of excellence
· Design backup strategy for critical data, NetApp, DataDomain, and disk backups.
· Proactive diagnostics to prevent alert abnormities and resolution utilizing Veritas Netbackup, Legato, and
TSM.
· Create and configure monitoring tools to proactively prevent issues in environments.
· Incident detection, handling and remediation
· Facilitate the establishment of appropriate Access Control List (ACLs) and other security tools
· Establish processes to ensure changes are effective and sustainable.
· Demonstrated skills in test, problem solving, indentifying vulnerabilities, and recommending enhancements to
systems, infrastructure, and processes that minimize business disruption
· Implementing Key management appliance (KMA) to support encrypted tape backups
· San storage experience (HP EVA, EMC, Clarion,)
· Proficient skills in writing, presentations, troubleshooting and user/system support.
· Experience with MS Windows, Linux, Solaris, and HPUX operating systems.
06/2005 – 2/2009
Affiliated Computer Services
IT Solution Engineer
· Gather customer requirements for migration of data center and SAN infrastructure from client location to
corporate data center.
2. · System Administration HPUX and Linux
· Troubleshoot TCP/IP network or firewall issues to ensure communication of servers.
· Document, test, and analyze security enhancements
· Security administration via automated scripts, encryption, and PGP.
· Indentify system needs and define security standards, implement, and enforce security policies.
· Migration planning, backup strategy, SQL statements, DR planning and implementation.
· Provide coordination of software interfaces between application and support team including change
management opening, documenting, and implementing via Remedy, Harvest and Peregrine
· Perform project planning management, documentation and communication of business solutions.
· Design training documents for turnover of public key infrastructure, encryption server, data encryption and
protection.
· Knowledge of permission sets, security groups, and access controls lists.
· Monitor and evaluation security vulnerability alerts, perform assessments, and implement solutions.
· Design and automate quarterly SOX audit reports, including compliance, checks and balances.
· Deliver on SLA commitments, mandates, and objectives.
· Perform troubleshooting and root cause analysis on system impacting issues.
· Perform audit research and forensics utilizing systems tools.
06/2004 – 6/2005
Essilor of America
Sr. System Administrator
· Data center migration UNIX environment to SAN infrastructure
· Hardware planning and implementation of XP512 layou
· EMC controller suite, reporting and continuous access
· Consolidation of HP SCO servers over to HP UNIX.
· Implement IS security policies and standards
· PCI, Oracle and BMC support
· CA monitoring and controls
· Change control utilizing Remedy and Vantive
· Administration of HP UNIX systems including software installation, security, performance tuning,
troubleshooting, problem resolution, maintenance, capacity planning, and standardization.
· Capacity management of systems
· Hardware planning and implementation on EMC symmetric, HP XPs, and HP Superdome
· TimeFinder, SRDF, SDR, and ECC.
· Create scripts to automate system administration daily, weekly, and or monthly tasks.
· Design and implement SCM to stream line installation packages and patching.
· Main point of contact for Veritas backup solution and change control
· Design and coordinate Disaster Recovery Procedures, including tabletop scenarios.
· Development of process and procedural system security administration documents.
· -Discovered deficiencies in system builds that resulted in 75% single point of failure and lead efforts to
correct.
· Developed metric reports for downtime, change requests, and problem reports to keep the LD team focused
and driven in securing SBC business commitments.
· Discovery of deficiencies in procedural documents, which resulted in mistakes causing downtime.
· Developed and implemented procedural documentation checklists.
12/2000 – 06/2004
SBC Services Inc., Dallas, TX USA Sr. System Administrator
10/1997 - 12/2000
Southwestern Bell Mobile System, Richardson, TX USA Technical Manager