Resume of IT Professional

Title
IT Professional

Primary Skills
My primary skill is to quickly grasp and understand technical issues.

Location
US-TX-Austin

Posted
May-11-07

Professional Summary

A technical professional in IT technologies with broad experience in
system/cluster configuration and high availability network environments.
Successful at implementing best practices and initiating continuous improvement
in dynamically changing environments. Fluent in both English and Spanish.

Professional Expertise

*Solid experience in HP Alpha VMS System Administration
*Generalist on HPUX/Sun Solaris Unix and Concurrent Real-Time Unix Administration
*Generalist on the Microsoft Office suites
*Generalist on SAN Configuration
*Implementation and Configuration on RAID Arrays
*Cluster Systems: Computer Interconnect (CI) - Small Computer Storage Interconnect
(SCSI) - Local Area Network (LAN) - Digital Storage System Interconnect (DSSI)
- Wide Area Network (WAN)
*DECnet-OSI - DECnet Phase IV - TCP/IP (Multinet) - SCSI Protocols
*LAN - Cisco Switches and Routers - Terminal Servers
*TN3270 connection to IBM mainframes

Professional Experience

Computer Science Corp - CSC Austin, TX
6/2003 - 3/2006
Sr Principal System Engineer
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As a result of Motorola outsourcing its IT functions, was picked up by CSC to
support the Dupont Accounts, (Fayetteville NC, Florence SC, Nashville TN,
Berkley Heights NJ, Lehigh Valley PA). And Dun and Bradstreet clusters here in
Austin,Tx.

System support of Alpha VMS platform with secondary responsibilities for Sun
Solaris 10 systems.

Member of team of four that successfully accomplished the Sarbanes Oxley (SOC)
audits every Quarter on all of Dupont Alpha systems.

Ran SysCheck Utilities monthly to monitor and maintain System and Network
Security policies.

Scheduled and managed weekly Change Management meetings for the VMS platform
utilizing
Remedy Software for all system changes.

Attended a Sun Solaris 10 System Administration class in 03/03/06

Motorola - Austin, TX
5/1997 - 6/2003
Sr. System Engineer
=================

Highly recommended and recruited to migrate the OS and Manufactory applications
from the Legacy VAX architecture to the Alpha RISC architecture at a very
critical time.

Worked with local vendors on system evaluation and selection.
Planned and executed Production systems hardware and software upgrade by
maintaining a concurrent environment resulting in minimum user impact and
Production downtime.

Planned and executed a Major OS upgrade, converted the data storage area from
SCSI to SANS configuration with minimal Production downtime and user impact.
After the upgrade the System/Cluster did not sustained a single downtime for
over a year until the
required Y2k reboots.

Secondary responsibility for Sun Unix servers that where integrated with Factory
equipment.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) - Austin, TX
11/1995 - 5/1997
System Engineer
===============

Initiated and managed Project Plan to upgraded all VMS FAB Clusters to VMS
6.2-1H3.

Worked with Oracle DB Administrator to implement our Disaster Recovery
procedures. Resulting with the automation of all active transactions being
updated to the Backup DB Sever.

Attended a weeklong Auspex server class to facilitate the implementation of our
distributed file system.

Provided a high level of customer satisfaction through the effective delivery of
technical support and service programs
Monitor Remedy tickets and initiated Change Management tickets for corrective
action.

Prepared weekly System audits for presentation to upper Management.

MCI - Austin, TX
6/1993 - 11/1995
Sr. System Engineer
=================

Corporate System Administrator and member of corporate team responsible for the
implementation and configuration of the VAX 4100 DSSI Cluster systems on all
Telemarketing Consumer and Customer Service Centers.

Configured and implemented the Boston Customer Service Center DSSI Cluster
systems.

Lead a team of 4 System Administrators that executed a detail plan to breakdown
and staged the entire Computer Center in South Austin to transport it to the
new North Austin Center during a weekend.

Configured and installed all hardware in the new Center ensuring that all
workstations and PC Windows configuration were properly working for start of
business Monday Morning.

Well -organized and tactful in explaining technical issues to non-technical
end-users.

Lockheed Missiles and Space Co. Austin Division - Austin, TX
5/1984 - 6/1993
System Administrator
====================

Lead of technology assessment team that included selection and configuration of a
classified cluster system for one of our Business groups.
As a System Administration trainee helped configured and installed one of the
first Desktop Workstation LAVC environments for the Desktop Publishing Business
group.

Migrated the Desktop Publishing Business group from the original LAVC systems to
the then new HPUX Server/Workstation and Windows PC platform.
Provided HPUX UNIX and Concurrent Real Time Unix support during my last 2 years
at Lockheed.

United States Air Force (stationed in Wichita, Kansas and Austin, Texas) -
Austin, TX
11/1975 - 5/1984
Staff Sergeant - Computer/Telecommunications Supervisor
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Supervised and maintained a Classified Mobile Communication Computer System.
Responsible for the change and control of Classified Crypto Cards and all
associated classified material.

Evaluated and rated personnel performance and established work schedules.
Operated Telecommunication equipment in classified environments.


EDUCATION
Park College, 1988
Parkville, MO
Bachelors of Science Computer Science GPA: 3.5
Member of National Honor Society Jr and Sr year in H.S.
Graduated Cum Laude from Park College 1988

Recent training:

Sun Solaris 10 OS System Administration Training (3/3/06)
OpenVMS Advanced Technical Boot Camp (10/04/02)

Military Training:

Information Data Specialist
USAF Supervisors Training
NCOIC Leadership School
Communication Security Management

Certifications
See above


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