System architecture and system management for the Public Safety group. Manage internal development and test servers, as well as production systems at several 911 call centers in North America.

Designed clustered servers and HA storage solutions for major dispatch centers in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Designed and implemented several VMWare ESX server farms, utilizing enterprise-class SAN storage arrays. Currently working with customers to design virtualized disaster recovery centers.

Designed and implemented Integrity Virtual Machine environment for internal development and testing. Working with Hewlett-Packard to extend VM capabilities to include clustering, Windows, and Linux support.

Helped design and build a highly available environment for the United States Navy. Implemented a blade server solution, switched network solution, enterprise SAN solution, and a complete SAN-based backup solution.

System architect for the open systems platforms. Worked on a storage re-engineering project which involved consolidation of over 40TB of data. Manage Storage Area Network with over 130TB of data. Involved in extensive server consolidation plan that involved 120+ servers. Involved in the design and implementation of a Tape Area Network to provide virtual tape drives to backup servers throughout the organization.

Publish white papers and mentor staff on technology best practices. Help staff members troubleshoot production system performance and configuration issues.

Proficient in design and implementation of EMC hardware and software. Skilled in design of Symmetrix, DMX, Clariion, Celerra platforms. Extensive knowledge of ECC software, Timefinder, Powerpath, Optimizer, Volume Logix, ESN Manager, and Connectrix Manager. Use supported EMC tools to build and modify EMC "bin" files without requiring assistance from EMC support organization.

Manage 500+ port SAN connecting approximatly 200 hosts and 130TB of Enterprise-class storage arrays. Implemented Core-Edge, dual-fabric SAN design. Experienced with multiple SAN switch vendor hardware, including McData, Brocade, and Cisco.

Extensive experience in SRM tools. Led an evaluation of four industry-leading tools. Involved in the implementation of EMC StorageScope, and Storability GSM. Working with vendors to improve the funtionality of SRM tools.

Chartered with enhancing company's offerings by designing and implementing highly-available, scalable and manageable Internet web site solutions.

Published white papers and mentored staff consultants on technology best practices. Led regional project teams in troubleshooting production systems performance and configuration issues.

Worked with a team of system administrators to manage one of the largest HP-UX environments in the Chicago area. Managed several V-class servers that support 500+ users. Managed several MC/ServiceGuard clusters that directly impacted the operation of the airline.

Implemented new methods for rolling out standard images for 600+ remote workstations. Designed and implemented corporate-wide capacity planning tool. Designed utilities/methodology to create bootable recovery tapes for Highly-available systems by adding functionality to existing HP tools. Designed tools to help manage operating system patches for a large production environment.

Managed large multi-platform UNIX environment supporting Searle Research and Development, and main corporate sites. Involved in capacity planning, system performance/tuning, Software upgrades and patches. Implemented many changes in NIS/DNS/NFS strategies. Worked on a large-scale security audit of all Searle UNIX machines in Chicago area.

Recommended and implemented highly-available hardware solutions including several multi-node UNIX clusters, Raid disk storage arrays, and redundant network/disk connections to critical machines. Re-built Searle’s disaster recovery plans, including setting up offsite tape rotation policies, daily backup procedures. Installed and configured hardware/software necessary to perform nightly backups of over 2 terabytes of data.

Daily responsibilities included managing 70+ HP, DEC, SGI, Sun, and AIX workstations and servers, and providing support for 1500 users. Constantly worked on hardware and O/S upgrades.

(June 1995-Sep 1996) Senior system & network administrator for 150+ users located in 4 cities. Implemented and supported new technologies including Novell 4.1, Windows 95, WindowsNT, and Shiva Remote dial-in networking.

Daily responsibilities included performance monitoring of UNIX systems (HP-UX, Solaris, SCO), network management (Novell servers, terminal servers, modem racks, hubs, and routers), management of office telecommunications equipment, supporting office PC’s (running Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, and Lotus Notes), and recommending new hardware and software to support Peapod’s rapid growth.

Designed and implemented Peapod’s WWW server, and provide technical support to our webmaster. Managed internet firewall to ensure that internal network remains secure.

Designed and managed new internal telecommunications strategy for corporate office and customer call center. Experienced with phone systems, digital voice mail, and automated call distribution (ACD) systems.

(July 1992-June 1995) System manager for a 200+ user development environment. Responsible for maintaining stable environment for users, managing user accounts, system tuning and performance. Proficient in many programming languages, and UNIX shell programming. Installed and evaluated various utilities designed to monitor and improve performance on our system. Designed and coded utilities to help manage the development environment.

Sized/recommended hardware for various projects.

Supported all hardware, including 50+ HP, Sun, IBM workstations, and 5 HP servers.

Traveled to various Andersen clients to evaluate the performance on their systems. Recommended solutions to clients' performance problems. Participated in six-month performance characterization of several of Andersen's major commercial software packages. Led performance benchmark study on several products that were in development stage.

Responsible for configuration and management of relational databases (Informix and DEC Rdb). Designed several tools to assist in creation/management of database environments. Responsible for improving relational database performance at a system level.

(August 1989-May 1992) Designed and taught computer classes to Michigan students and staff (Mac/OS & Windows 3.1). Held consulting sessions several times each week. Managed several computing sites across campus. Responsible for hiring and training staff of consultants, scheduling, payroll, and ordering supplies.