Infrastructure Specialist

Summary

I have nine years of experience in designing, implementation, and administering enterprise IT environment.

Areas of Expertise

Design, implement, and administrating large scale IT infrastructure systems

ñ  Design, install, configure, migrate, and manage network, operating systems, and middleware

ñ  Design, evaluate, and implement virtualization solutions

ñ  Scripting using Perl, shell script, and JavaScript. 

ñ  Provided pre-production and post-production support for eCommerce sites

Experience

UST Global/Vanguard                                                                                              Sep 2013 to Current

Senior Infrastructure Specialist

ñ  Provide support to development teams (nearly 1,000 environments, WebSphere 6/Tc Server on Solaris/Redhat Linux)

ñ  Monitor daily operations of development/deployment process

ñ  Analyze and troubleshoot software and system issues.

ñ  Create scripts for system automation and server management (ksh/perl/JavaScript)

ñ  Maintain existing system management software (perl/JavaScript/HTML/CSS)

ñ  Migrate home grown management software from Sun One/Solaris to Apache/Linux. Re-implemented/Modernized much of the code base (from Perl/CGI to AngularJS/HTML5/Bootstrap/Perl/Web Services/JSON).

Zobrist Consulting Group, Woodland Hills, CA                                                          July 2006 to Current

WebSphere/System Administrator

Provide technical services for both clients and internal development teams

ñ  Design, install, configure, deploy, administrate, troubleshoot, evaluate, and migrate WebSphere based middleware for clients on different platforms (Linux/Windows/AIX/Solaris/AS400)

ñ  Conduct capacity planning and system design for eCommerce sites

ñ  Design and implement high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) solution for clients, design and implement clustered solution

ñ  Provide full stack performance analysis and tuning tuning services to clients (JVM/OS/Network/Storage/VM)

ñ  Provide 24/7 production level system support to various clients after system go live.

ñ  Provide technical guidance to clients on security standard compliance, such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS)

ñ  Design and manage internal computing environment consists of Windows and Linux servers, virtualization environment implemented using both VMWare and XenServer products

ñ  Administrate internal network, storage system,  and router/switches/wireless access points

ñ  Lead data center migration project for company IT systems

ñ  Build and manage internal monitoring system (Nagios)

ñ  Created a PoC program to automate a significant portion of WebSphere Commerce using puppet

Odesus Inc/Warner Brothers Studio, Burbank, CA                                                 April 2013 to Sep 2013

Senior System Analyst

Manage Workbrain payroll systems

ñ  Managed Workbrain payroll systems (WebSphere/Oracle/Redhat Linux)

ñ  Analyzed and troubleshot production system issues

ñ  Provided support to development team

ñ  Created scripts for system automation

Randstad Technologies/CGI, Sacramento, CA                                                 October 2012 to April 2013

Environment Engineer

Provide environment support for EDR project

ñ  Managed existing environments for EDR (Enterprise Data to Revenue) project which consisted of hundreds of servers running a complex set of software

ñ  Built out environments needed for the next phase of the project (mostly WebSphere based).

ñ  Managed SAP Business Objects environment.

UCLA, Los Angeles                                                                                            July 2004 to June 2006

Research Assistant

Conducted acadmic research on computer system and the Internet

ñ  Worked on research projects related to fault tolerent systems.

ñ  Conducted research on the Internet security against large scale attacks

Education

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York                                                                              2002

M.S., Computer Science

Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York                                                                              2001

B.S., Computer Science

Skills

ñ  Middleware/Software: WebSphere Application Server/Portal/MQ/ESB/Commerce, IBM HTTP Server, Apache, ITCAM, DB2, Tivoli System Automation, Nagios, Rational AppScan, Lotus Quickr/WCM, HP LoadRunner, Puppet

ñ  Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, Unix (AIX and Solaris), i5/OS

ñ  Network: DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, SSL, Firewall/Router/Switch

ñ  Programming Languages: C/C++, Java, Perl, Shell Scripting, SQL, JavaScript, AngularJS, CSS/HTML, Bootstrap

ñ  Virtualization: VMWare, XenServer, KVM

ñ  Cloud: Rackspace, IBM SmartCloud, Amazon AWS

Certifications

ñ  IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions V7.1

ñ  IBM Certified Deployment Professional - Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnos

ñ  IBM Certified System Administrator - WebSphere MQ V7.0

ñ  IBM Certified System Administrator - Lotus Quickr 8.1 for IBM WebSphere Portal

ñ  IBM Certified Specialist - Rational AppScan Standard Edition

ñ  IBM Certified Advanced System Administrator - WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6.1

ñ  IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM WebSphere Portal V6.0          

IBM Certified Database Administrator -- DB2 9 DBA for Linux UNIX and Windows