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EDUCATION	Bachelor of Science - Computer Science 1987 Houghton College of Liberal Arts, Houghton, New York Formal classroom coursework:  Sun Solaris System Admin II course, Veritas RAID Volume Manager, IBM AIX System Administration levels I and II, Veritas Cluster Server High Availability for Solaris, MFS Manager's Foundations course.
SUMMARY	Senior  Unix Administrator with thirteen continuous years system administration experience with multiple flavors of UNIX and Open Systems.  System and network architect experience with TCP/IP fiber/ethernet topolgies for E-Commerce and Internet/Intranet environments.  Configuration and troubleshooting for  Unix Servers, TCP/IP, email, DNS, firewall, and iPlanet/Netscape Web servers.  Project management, experience managing support personnel, technical operations, system installations and migrations, configuration and purchasing of hardware/software servers for MIS.
TECHNICAL	WEB/Internet Tools:  E-Commerce hardware/software design, iPlanet/Netscape Web Server, iPlanet LDAP, iPlanet Portal Server, Java Development Kit, HTML coding, Netscape Composer, PERL, C, cgi-bin and ksh/csh scripts, Sun Netra-I, TCP/IP (on Win 3.x/95/98/NT, Solaris, VAX Multinet), installation/configuration of SMTP/Sendmail servers, POP3, FTP, DNS servers,  MS-Exchange 5.5 Server, Outlook-98, Eudora, Raptor Eagle Firewall 5.0.3, firewall extranet and VPN tunneling. Operating Systems:  NT Server 4.0, Sun OS, Solaris 2.3 to 8, Windows 3.x/95/98/NT Workstation, VAX VMS, NFS, DEC Ultrix, Linux, Mac System 7, Cabletron Spectrum SNMP/RMON network management.  Hardware & Architecture: Sun SPARC (models 2, 5, 10, 20, Ultra-1, 2, 10, Netra, Enterprise Servers 420, 450, 3000, 3500), PC hardware (386 through Pentium III), Cabletron and DEC hubs/switches, terminal servers VAX/VMS 4200 and Alpha, DEC Alpha NT Server, HP NT Servers, Intranet/Internet/Extranet design, HP LaserJets/JetAdmin, fiber optic and Ethernet LAN design. Databases: PICK (UniVerse, Unidata, Prime Information), exposure to Informix Online 7.0, Sybase 11.9.2. Desktop Tools:  MS-Office 4.3/95/97 (Outlook-98, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Visio, Paint Shop Pro, Netscape, SmarTerm, Solaris CDE and X-Windows emulation, Raptor firewall GUI, Veritas GUIs. Clustering Software:  Veritas Cluster Server for Solaris, Vinca CoStandby Server for NT, VAX/VMS, exposure to IBM SP-Frame and HACMP.
EXPERIENCE Aug 99 to Present	MFS Investment Management, 500 Boylston St., Boston MA,  "Inventor of the Mutual Fund" Technology Services & Solutions, UNIX Systems Department LEAD/GROUP MANAGER, SOLARIS SYSTEMS SENIOR UNIX ADMINISTRATOR The lead Sr. Solaris administrator and manager for the Solaris team for MFS, responsible for the uptime of 45+ Enterprise class Sun servers.  Most servers are E3x00 or rack mount E420R systems for E-Commerce and real time financial market databases.  Veritas software is standard for volume management and clustering of Sybase trading databases using fiber channel disk arrays.  Provide on call support via pager/cell/laptop for both Solaris and AIX infrastructure.  Work with senior management to migrate legacy financial systems to Unix and implement cutting edge designs for E-commerce Internet/Intranet, enterprise backups, and migration to fiber storage area network. · Numerous (weekly) installations of Sun Enterprise class machines (E3000, E3500, E420). · Installation of E-Commerce infrastructure including 17+ E420R servers, and installation of iPlanet Web Servers, iPlanet Portal Server, LDAP, Java Development Kits and Sun Forte Development tools.   Three tier architecture includes mulitple iPlanet Web Servers on the front, ATG Dynamo Personalization Servers in the middle, and Oracle on the back end. · Manage all Sun storage arrays (A5100, A5200, D1000) with Veritas RAID Volume Manager. · Installation and management of Veritas Clusters for Sybase and PeopleSoft servers. · Installation of management and job control software (BMC Patrol, Tivolli Maestro, SNMP). · Configuration of backup software (Legato Networker, Veritas NetBackup, ufsdumps). · Disaster Recovery drill at SunGard’s Philadelphia data center - Solaris/Sybase/application testing. · Kernel tuning and performance monitoring through sar, mpstat, and graphing stats with Excel. · Solaris Recommended and Security Patch installations, Y2K patch installations. · Supervise, train, and evaluate performance for four junior Solaris administrators.
Jan 95 to Aug 99	City of Keene New Hampshire  Information Management Services Department ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (Jul 96 to Aug 99) TECH SUPPORT SPECIALIST and Solaris UNIX/NT System Administrator (Jan 95 to Jul 96) Worked as lead architect for new LAN, Internet connectivity, and Intranet/Internet design.  Wrote and implemented comprehensive master plan for new infrasture to include long distance single-mode fiber LAN interconnecting 14 municipal buildings, and migrations to TCP/IP backbone infrastructure.  Built City’s first web site in-house on Sun Solaris hardware, with Sun native DNS, SMTP, and Raptor firewall/VPN components.  In charge of all technical operations, supervising two Technical Support Specialists and one Database Administrator.   The City of Keene is 5th in population in NH but first in technical innovations. · Designed and implemented 14 building fiber optic LAN among City, County, Schools.  Multiple installations of fiber and CAT 5 cable, coordinating with vendors and installers. · Wrote 70 page five year Master Plan for municipal LAN and information technology. · Standardized TCP/IP across all platforms and installed on VAX/VMS, Windows NT Server, Solaris Unix, and 180+ desktop workstations. · Installation and configuration of SMTP Sendmail, POP3 email service and T1 Internet gateway. · Installation of Raptor Firewall for full Internet firewall and proxy services. · Design, installation and maintenance of institutional Internet/Intranet Web servers. · Lead 15 user team with website design, cgi applications.  (see www.ci.keene.nh.us) · Installation and maintenance of DNS servers on Solaris, NT, and VAX Multinet. · Assist IMS Director with budget, to include recommendations and long range planning. · Migration to MS-Exchange Server 5.5/Outlook-98 client for email, calendar, groupware. · Installation of TCP/IP applications in HA Cluster environments (VAX and NT Vinca CoStandby) · Coordinate/manage contracts and any relationships with third party vendors. · Migration of servers from DEC Pathworks to Windows NT Server domain. · Upgraded Ethernet backbone from DEC hubs to Cabletron hubs and switches. · Installation of Cabletron SNMP/RMON graphical network management software (Spectrum). · Conducted user training, network management, and PC support as required on an ongoing basis. · Research, purchase and sell desktop computers on a regular schedule to keep the network of 180 Gateway desktop PC’s current to within three years old. · Employee hiring, employee reviews, recommendations, employee training.
Jun 87 - Jan 95	Hampshire College,  Amherst MA Management Information Services Department ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MIS (Jul 93 - Jan 95) SYSTEMS ANALYST (Jul 89 - Jul 93) APPLICATIONS PROGRAMMER (Jun 87 - Jul 89) Responsible for the management of the computing environment consisting of a DecStation 5000/240 running Ultrix 4.3 (Unix), DEC Pathworks 5.0 network, Windows for Workgroups, and UniVerse relational database.  Worked as the lead Database Administrator, responsible for the data integrity of this database.  Over one thousand Universe applications support the financial and administrative information systems community of college administrators.  MIS provided custom programming in this 3-GL environment to meet the needs of each administrative office.  In 1992 I assembled, configured and installed the DecStation to downsize operations from a Prime 9750 mini-mainframe to office environment Open Systems.  This included the migration from PRIMOS Prime Information (PICK) RDBMS to the UniVerse RDBMS. · Custom programmer for Admissions, A/P, A/R, Alumni, Accounting, Financial Aid, Payroll, Personnel, and Registrar for AIMS (Academic Institution Management System) using uniBASIC language. · Migration from Prime to DEC hardware and Prime Information to UniVerse database dictionaries. · Maintained integrity and resizing of database hashed files, data dictionaries, screens, menus. · Ad hoc 3-GL PICK query language support, user hotline and training, PC troubleshooting. · Managed hubs and insured connectivity over fiber/Ethernet to RDBMS system. · Maintained Pathworks network on DECstation for Windows 3.11 PC’s and Appletalk network on SPARCstation file server running UShare for Macintosh users. · Supported non-graphical Internet applications as Internet first arrived (NFS, telnet, ftp, UNIX email). · Built first Web site at Hampshire College and marketed its value to the administration. · Responsible for 1 to 2 database application programmers.