Career Objective:
To architect and develop leading edge web and e-business products and technology.
Qualifications:
- 30 years in software development and computer systems administration
- 20 years of staff and project management experience
- Knowledgeable in over 50 different computer languages and tools
- Certified Webmaster
- vSphere Certified
- Master of science degree in computer science
- Received many awards for innovative ideas and strategies
Experience:
General Motors
- 2014 to present: Core Linux Engineer for GM Information Technology worldwide ensuring stable state operations for over 50,000 AIX, HP-UX, SunOS, SuSE, Redhat, OEL and Ubuntu servers running in over 120 countries. In charge of build automation design, configuration management, security and maintenance.
Periscope Holdings, Inc
- 2014: Infrastructure Manager for BuySpeed, an eProcurement Web-based product used by over 50 state and local agencies. Led the team responsible for the design, release and support of the hosted or remotely deployed infrastructure.
Xerox Business Services
- 2011-2014: Infrastructure Management Senior Analyst for Xerox ACS CHFS financial IT division. Developed, supported and secured the virtual vSphere infrastructure of over 2000 servers ensuring the proper function of payment card processing for over 2 dozen state agencies and the federal social security system.
State of Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, Austin TX
- 2010 to present: Web Administrator for all State of Texas CPA Web Sites. Responsible for internet and intranet enterprise web sites using WebSphere, Tomcat, PHP, Apache and ASP.NET.
Frontline Systems, San Antonio TX
- 2009: Virtualization Consultant planning conversion of Fort Sam Houston Army data center to a virtual systems enterprise infrastructure. Capacity and financial analysis and strategy roadmap for the consolidation of servers onto VMware vSphere for the Directorate of Information Management. Estimated cost saving from $6M to $8M in the first 5 years.
IBM Austin TX
- 2007-2009: Project Manager for DEMONet infrastructure. Developed, hosted and administrated SOA worldwide customer live online demonstrations integrating the latest Tivoli, WebSphere, Rational and DB2 products using VMware Virtual Infrastructure technology. Engineered web-driven scheduling and provisioning of concurrent hands-on user demonstrations available worldwide on the open internet.
- 2003-2007: WEB Development Technical Lead for IBM WebSphere Front Office for Financial Markets product partnering with Bloomberg and Reuters. Led the development and test teams which developed the Management, Administration and Auditing Warehouse components using Tivoli, MS-SQL, Crystal, WebSphere J2EE JSF, struts, JSR168 and DB2 on Linux and Windows systems.
- 2003: Technical Lead for Sprint/Nextel web downloadable media prototype development. Developed a WebSphere Commerce and DB2II prototype initially for Sprint and then for Nextel to manage web site downloadable media content stocking and ordering. The prototype was directly responsible for a $20M contract for web site and e-business software and service.
- 2001-2003: E-business Technical Lead for IBM Financial Solutions Software Development. Complete Product Design and Implementation for B2B bank e-Payment systems using DB2, MQSeries, MQSeries Integrator, Java, C++, HTTPS, S/MIME SMTP, XML on AIX and Windows systems. Was also on the WBIFN/SwiftNet architecture review board in Boeblingen, Germany.
- 2000-2001: Java Development Technical Team Lead - porting Sun's Java2 SDK to the IBM 64-bit AIX PowerPC platform. Converted all UI components including AWT, Swing, audio, imaging and Unicode character and fonts. Skills included project planning, Java/C/C++ Programming, knowledge of WebSphere, AIX, Linux, applets and servlets.
IBM Poughkeepsie, NY
- 1996-2000 WEB Development Technical Lead and Webmaster for IBM's Engineering Products Service Support World-wide Web Sites. Redesign of AIX Supportline infrastructure Perl based CGI servlets to provide higher customer satisfaction with such tools as; downloadable try-and-buy software, international media ordering, automatic user access registration, remote administration services and news bulletin automated email.
Successfully converted the US IBM PLM customer support center into a profit center with the design and implementation of many e-business service support tools which automated service processes such as automated customer problem data transport and processing, automatic problem triage data collection, nationwide distributed live phone support and support center client-server internal deployment. Skills included JavaScript, Perl, C, C++, Ksh, Motif, AIX, HPUX, Solaris, IRIX, Windows and OS2.
IBM Kingston, NY & Austin, TX
- 1990-1996 Advisory Programmer / Staff Manager for 3D interactive graphics projects, including GL, OpenGL, PEX and PHIGS. Later became responsible for all AIX graphics products development, release and service support structure. Skills included C, C++, Motif, Xlib, AIX Systems Programming, CMVC, Debugging Tools.
Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Bethpage, NY
- 1979-1989 Software Development Group Leader for CAD Software design and deployment using MVS. Providing a complete engineering environment of CADAM, CATIA and in-house Preliminary Design and Analysis tools; finite element modeling, radar and spectral signature analysis systems for the Space Shuttle, the X-29, the F-14 and the EF-111. Was also DOD cleared for top-secret work.
Formal Education:
New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury, NY
- Masters of Science Degree in Computer Science, minoring in Computer Graphics.
- Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, minor in Electrical Engineering.
Nassau County Community College, Garden City, NY
- Associate of Science Degree in Mathematics.
Austin County Community College, Austin, TX
- VMware VCP Certification in vSphere V5.
- Webmaster Certified.
Additional Training:
- Leadership Excellence
- AIX, Linux and Windows Server Operating Systems - administration, programming
- Java JDK Development and Debugging, Java JVM Internals, OOP in Java
- WebSphere Business Integration Modeler, Monitor, Broker, Process Server, Server Administration, Servlet, JSP and JSF Development
- MQSeries and MQSeries Workflow
- Tivoli ITCAM, TEP, TEM, TFIM, TWS, TMS, TIO and TPM
- Vmware Infrastructure - V4, V5
- Webmaster Certification - Dreamweaver, Flash, Photoshop, ADA Section 508, CSS
- CHEF Automation and Programming
Programming Languages:
| JavaScript |
ActionScript |
PHP |
XHTML |
XML |
| Java |
JSP |
C++ |
C |
Perl |
| JEE |
Swing |
HTML |
VRML |
XSLT |
| X-Windows |
PHIGS |
OpenGL |
GL |
CHEF |
| Xlib |
PEX |
Shell Scripting |
JSR168 |
JMS |
| SQL |
TLL |
Baroc |
JACL |
MQ |
| PL/I |
Fortran |
COBOL |
Assembler |
JCL |
| LISP |
ADA |
Motif |
TCL |
EXPECT |
| Python |
Jython |
JSF |
Struts |
VIper |
| Ruby |
PowerCLI |
PowerShell |
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Operating Systems:
| Windows95/98/ME/XP/NT/2000/2003/Vista/7/2012 |
Linux RHEL/SLES/OEL/Ubuntu/CentOS |
| ESX |
DOS |
OS2 |
AIX |
Solaris |
IRIX |
HP-UX |
VM |
MVS |
Cisco IOS |
Awards and Achievements:
- 48 General Motors innovation and teamwork awards
- Bravo award for architecture of DEMOnet virtualization using VMware
- Invention Achievement Award - first international patent filing
- Bravo award for architecture work on WBIFN/SwiftNet
- Team award for design of a new national live customer service phone dispatch network.
- Award for deployment of AIX client/server systems for US CAD support center.
- Award for AIX Customer Service Support Achievement
- Advanced Workstations Award for PEX Development
- Graphics Systems Award for graPHIGS remote nucleus development
