OBJECTIVE:
To bring my skills and experience to clients who need a strong professional addition to their IT/IS support team, to assist in creating a very proficient and timely response to issues in the computing environment; establish, enhance or maintain a detailed documentation repository on system configurations and the processes and procedures to revise or enhance those systems; assist management in the development and implementation of a Disaster Recovery strategy and the procedures and processes to support minimal downtime; tune systems for maximum performance, assist in platform migrations, and provide effective training/mentoring to other support team members.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Nialla Enterprises, Inc.
Computer System Consulting Group (CSCG)
(1/83 to present )

INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT:
- provide services targeted to the IT/IS and corporate managers for system configurations and integration on specific HP, SUN, Linux or PC target platforms; provide recommendations on backup system operations and crash recovery methodologies, dataset storage and media rotation considerations; training of end users in application usage, system maintenance, structured programming languages (C and Fortran), CASE methodologies and tools, and O/S concepts; provide system management/administration services for HP1000 (RTE), HP9000 (HP-UX) and SUN (Solaris and SunOS) systems, and provide assistance in migration efforts from a current legacy computing platforms to newer ones (i.e. HP MPE/iX to ??). These services include installing new system and network hardware and upgrading system and RDBMS software as required, setting up LAN environments for the systems to utilize the TCP/IP, NFS, NIS and DNS services of the systems connected; authoring special scripts to perform routine and special tasks; kernel and system tuning as required, and monitoring of system performance with HP's OpenView NNM, ITO/ITA, GlancePlus or custom routines as required.

CONTRACT ACTIVITIES:
09/07 to 09/11 – Via Atlas Intelligence and CDI, provide remote System Administration services to IBM, maintain two of their client's servers, one with 2600+ HP, Solaris, Linux and AIX servers, performed Night Shift OnCall, do system builds, patch management, system tuning, performance tuning and general support as required, comply with very stringent SLAs, document all maintenance in the Remedy system for planned and unplanned maintenance, assist in maintenance of FAQs and event logs for SA staff, second one with 7 Linux and 9 AIX servers, performed routine patch analysis and installations and system and performance tuning for the Linux servers.

01/04 to 09/07, analyze sites and install wired & wireless networking system for hotels, motels, RV Parks, Marinas, industrial warehouses and office facilities.

08/01 to 09/07, working with several client companies for short term migration efforts from HP3000 platforms to HP9000 systems; provide analysis of current computing capabilities and make recommendations of new services and system configurations for successful migration activities; provide Project timelines and detailed plans for implementation schedules and man loading requirements; provide training in how to manage and operate in the new environment with comparisons to the old ones.

01/01 - 06/01 - At CareBid.com, Oakland, CA, system administrator for application and webservers for a medical insurer claim processing system; set up the co-lo environment and support services for the production servers with disk arrays in RAID5 mode, mirrored root drives using SDS, current system patches; setup Veritas NetBackup using an Exabyte Library.

10/00 - 12/00 - At White Pajamas, Hayward, CA, system administrator for 49 servers and over 30 workstations all running HP-UX 11.0; draft the procedures and processes to establish the baseline for configuration management.

07/00 - 10/00 - At Intira Corporation, NOC, Pleasanton, CA, provide Netbackup support to over 60 internal systems and over 30 customers with over 400 production servers; assist the Support Maintenance Center (SMC) staff in monitoring the HP-UX and Solaris environments using ITO, NNM and NOCOP systems in this 7x24 facility.

03/00 - 07/00 - At Acuson Corporation, System Support Group, Mountain View, CA, provide process analysis, system administration services, and documentation of their computing environment; training and mentoring of a junior system administrator.

09/99 - 02/00 - At Match.com, San Mateo, CA & Dallas, TX, system administrator and project manager for the development and launch of the Y2K compliant version 2; maintained the version 1 platform during development and conversion of the hardware into version 2 test environment; automate environments for file system maintenance, backups and system monitoring; problem notifications provided via e-mail to pagers.

05/99 - 08/99 - At Diebold, NOC, Akron, Ohio, remote & on-site system administration services to upgrade systems to Y2K compliance, upgrade the ITO/NNM and CiscoWorks software; train the in-house staff.

03/98 - 09/99 - At Intel, FAB-D2, Santa Clara, CA, system administrator for the FAB, responsible for over 400 x86 Solaris systems and over 40 HP Servers/workstations; upgrade all systems with patches to be Y2K compliant; install and maintain two MC/ServiceGuard Clusters for the Yield Analysis Support (YAS) database. Develop and implement a documentation standard and repository system.

01/97 - 12/97 - At HP, Corporate Data Center, Palo Alto, CA system administration services for over 300 UNIX servers; upgrade OpC to ITO/NNM in an MC/ServiceGuard environment; create & managing a web-based database for system status and statistics

12/95 - 01/97 - At Pacific*Bell, ACN Project, San Ramon, CA, set up and manage Operations Center, re-architect Development and Test environments using HP MC/ServiceGuard clusters; setup active monitoring of all systems utilizing ITO/NNM

10/95 - 12/95 - At Packard Bell, Customer Response Call Center, Magna, Utah, install an HP9000/T500 server; automate system maintenance and backups; document system; train the in-house staff

05/95 - 09/95 - At HP, CTS Group, Roseville, CA, remote system administration services for client companies that were outsourcing IT system management services to HP

HARDWARE:
HP9000 all platforms from 700 Series Workstations to the new Itanium Blades
HP1000 M,E,F,A,L-Series
SUN all platforms from SPARCStations to x86 based systems thru the top of the line Business Servers
PC's & Laptops
Wireless Routers, Gateways, Access Points, Bridges, Linksys, D-Link, SmartBridges, MaxRad and many others

LANGUAGES:
C, Ratfor, Fortran, HP Assembly, MLINK, PL/1, Basic, Lisp, HTML, PILOT, UDL, PERL, Korn shell

DBMS:
Oracle, Informix, Sybase, IMAGE, Eloquence, SQL (from a SysAdmin perspective of installing and configuring, I am not a DBA, and I have no intention of becoming one)

APPLICATIONS:
SoftWindows, SoftPC, ReflectionX, Exceed, VUE, CDE, GNOME, MC/ServiceGuard, RHCS, VCS, HP OpenView, NNM, ITO/ITA Scopus, MKS Toolkit, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Magic, LVM, BRU, Veritas Netbackup & Solaris Disk Suite Manager, Solaris Volume Manager, Omniback, HiBack/HiBars, CADRE's Teamwork, Virtual Avionics Prototyping System (VAPS), Dataviews, IDE's Software Thru Pictures, and custom developed system utilities.

OPERATING SYSTEMS:
HP-UX, Solaris, SunOS, RTE, MSDOS/Win9x/Win2000/NT/XP, currently no Vista or Win7

MILITARY EXPERIENCE: USNR-Retired, AQC (E7)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Encompass, Hewlett-Packard Users Group
USENIX, SAGE Member-at-Large

REFERENCES: Available upon request