Objective

A web engineering leadership position where my contributions will improve processes and performance, and provide the opportunity to strengthen operations.

Experience

7/2004–Present                        Novartis Pharmaceuticals                              East Hanover, NJ

Lead Engineer

§     15 Months as an onsite consultant (via Piece Technologies) before becoming an FTE in 10/2005

§     Senior most engineer in the Intranet web hosting team, a part of IT shared services

§     Management, training, and coordination of an off-shore engineering team

§     Architected and implemented a scalable three-tier shared J2EE web hosting environment using Apache, and WebLogic, including standards such as SSL, database connectivity (Oracle), monitoring, log rotation, and publishing (TeamSite and OpenDeploy).

§     Implemented an SSO initiative using custom software and LDAP with WebLogic and Apache

§     Created a streamlined web application instance build system

§     Created a methodology for custom solution architecture within our standard framework

§     Responsible for application and infrastructure troubleshooting and issue management

§     Responsible for customer relations regarding project engagement and ongoing management

§     Performance analysis and benchmarking, capacity planning, load analysis, ad hoc and detailed report generation, and log analysis

§     Coordination and management for scheduled changes via a global management system

5/2001–6/2004                          Credit Suisse First Boston                                 New York, NY

Sr. Systems Administrator

§     Senior most Unix (Solaris, RedHat Linux) resource in the bank’s American Infrastructure Applications Support division supporting over 2,000 web and application servers including Iplanet, WebSphere, WebLogic, ColdFusion, etc.

§     Frequent interaction with clients, international colleagues, and management to provide high level support, troubleshooting, fault analysis, re-engineering, policy suggestions and implementations

§     Senior support resource for proxy infrastructure, single sign-on initiative (SiteMinder), LDAP (Iplanet), secure certificate management, content management (Interwoven), inventory control, usage analysis, and monitoring

§     Extensive programming and authoring/maintenance of programs and custom libraries in Perl, shell, Tcl/Tk, C, C++, javascript

§     Enhancement/programming/maintenance/(re)design of various customer facing applications

§     Created a secure, ensured content delivery utility which has replaced Microsoft CRS firm-wide (Perl, Interwoven)

§     Created an infrastructure-wide inventory collection system (Perl, shell, Sybase)

§     Created a team portal system for monitoring and collaboration (Perl, Sybase)

§     Frequent ad hoc data analysis, report generation, and whitepaper drafting

§     Modernized and updated major infrastructure services for preventative maintenance

§     Performed system and application level diagnostics of faults and errors in services and client code for root cause analysis

4/1999–5/2001                          Breakaway Solutions, Inc.                                 New York, NY

Systems Administrator

§     Corporate and client postmaster, administrating over 2,000 email accounts (sendmail, postfix)

§     LDAP Directory Master administrating mid-sized human and resource inventories

§     Created a customized 50+ page LDAP 'gateway' portal, allowing access to, viewing, and administration of a 10,000+ object LDAP database (Iplanet)

§     Participated in large data center migration/relocation to a newly built facility. Moved 150+ servers from 400 sq ft space to 5000 sq ft space using 50+ “swing” servers

§     Project Management for capacity planning, network/service/infrastructure design, hardware/software migrations and upgrades, human issues, and crisis management

§     Training of CSR and data center staff members on administrative tasks from basic system administration and troubleshooting, to advanced administration/configurations

§     Other administrative tasks include DNS administration (bind), Unix server standards, level 0 - 3 troubleshooting, web administration, database and server administration

Education

9/1997–12/2000                       New York University                                             New York, NY

§     B.F.A. Film and Television Production, completed in 3.5 years

§     Concentration areas included visual arts, business, producing, directing, and animation

§     Minor in Psychology

Software & Skills

§     Linux: Kernel 2.2 - 2.6; RedHat 6 - 9, RHEL; and many other distributions

§     Mac OS: 9 - X

§     Solaris: 4 - 9

§     Windows: 95 - XP

§     Application Servers: CGI, .NET, Perl, PHP, WebLogic, Cold Fusion

§     Database/Directories: Iplanet/Sun Directory Server, MySQL, OpenLDAP, Postgres

§     E-Mail: Postfix, Procmail, Sendmail, Unix mail, Courier IMAP

§     Languages: Ant, HTML, Perl, Tcl/TK, PHP, Python, Ruby, XML, Actionscript, Javascript (including Ajax), shell (sh/ksh/bash), batch. Limited exposure to C, C++, C#, Objective C, Java, VBS

§     Network Protocols: ftp, http, ldap, ntp, nntp, tcp/ip, telnet, smtp, ssh, ssl, etc…

§     Productivity: MS Office Suite, OpenOffice, Star Office Suite

§     Proxies: Cacheflow/Bluecoat, Netscape Proxy, Squid, PAC files

§     Security: htaccess, httpacl, LDAP, RSA, SiteMinder, WebERA

§     Various Tools: chroot, DNS, NIS, NFS, PAM, RPM, sudo

§     Version Control: cvs, rcs, subversion, Interwoven TeamSite/OpenDeploy

§     Web Servers: Apache 1.3.x, 2.x, MS IIS 4-5, Iplanet/Sun 4-6

* This is not an all-inclusive list; it comprises the more “commonly used” tools with which I am experienced.

Other

§     Well developed communication skills, both verbal and written

§     Extensive experience improving operational and procedural efficiency

§     I am a practicing audio/video artist and am adept at “thinking outside the box.”

§     My artistic portfolio may be made available upon request

§     My contributions to the open-source software community are available at http://siege.org