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Curriculum Vitae
IT professional with comprehensive experience in establishing and enhancing process-driven environments, and directing custom development, with a steady record of achievement in team leadership, organizational development and training.
Strategic planner with solid skills in project and change management, network security, budgeting and human resources; effectively introduce and lead organizational and operations changes to promote efficiency and scalability.
Extensive exposure to doing business in global market places, particularly in Russia and the UK.
Proficient in personnel issues, as well as training, motivating, focusing and managing high-performance teams of cross-functional managers and administrative personnel to exceed goals and objectives.
Possesses a very high level of technical competence with a focus on highly-available, mission-critical systems.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Infrastructure Architecture & Management · Strategic Thinking · Team Leadership & Motivation ·
Network Design & Administration · Asset Consolidation · IT Strategy · Requirement Identification
EXPERIENCE
TRAFIGURA, London, UK · Jan 2007-Present
An employee-owned, global commodity trader specializing in energy and base metals with a 2007 turnover of 51bn USD, with 2500+ employees located globally in 60 offices.
Infrastructure Manager
Hands-on leader with a focus of maintaining progress and accomplishment of long-term strategy for a fast-growing, global organization; collaborate with top-level engineers and managers to determine key business initiatives; formulate long-term strategy to obtain competitive advantage in technology. Maintain morale and develop subordinates; oversee key project plans and technology deployments; manage third-party vendors, suppliers and contractors. Foster an environment in which individuals can collaborate in pursuit of a common mission and shared goals; ensure adequate policies are in place and documented to support global IT; establish processes including maintenance, backups and guarantee business continuity.
Administrative Accomplishments
- Key project manager in mission-critical, highly-available UNIX/Linux, Oracle and storage infrastructure delivering critical business intelligence applications.
- Manage software projects and ensure best practices are followed in software delivery for bespoke applications from third-party services and offshore development.
- Formulated plans for infrastructure redesign to support a consistent heterogeneous environment.
- Established and maintained global storage strategy for business intelligence applications. This involves multiple data centers and business continuity planning for critical applications.
- Mentored personnel in use of various technologies such as Python, regular expressions and Linux.
- Project manager for disaster recovery asset migration to new data center.
Technical Accomplishments
- Developed extensive automation suite of products used by analyst personnel to control multiple cluster instances of grid calculation software on RHEL. The software is written primarily in Python with Bash and communicates over the network to handle operating system services, Oracle RMAN and shared storage. This software slashes countless man hours from tedious, repetitive work.
- Created standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux build for preferred platform in Business Intelligence applications.
- Integration of various Risk systems software such as Algorithmics on the RHEL platform.
- Automated a rapid deploy strategy for release of emergency software builds to production servers.
- Developed daemon to automatically receive and make deposited software available for analysts.
- Migration of Logical Information System (LIM) Market Information Machine (MiM) from Solaris to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Integration of Active Directory with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and J2EE platforms.
- Design of framework and shared environment for deploying automation tools and libraries.
- Tuned Linux NFS client, iSCSI client and IP stack for maximum performance with NetApp filers.
- Created custom PXE configuration for rapid deployment/recovery of servers. Developed custom initial ram disk for inclusion of unsupported drivers.
- Implemented hypervisor virtualization to consolidate and maximize hardware usage. This saved the company significantly on investment in new hardware.
- Perform significant research in new and developing technology for bottleneck and integration efforts.
- Developed Windows service for monitoring SharePoint portal services and gracefully handling service failures by disabling nodes on a Citrix Netscaler load balancer.
- Developed Windows service for migrating user contacts to Microsoft Office Communicator.
OILSPACE, Moscow, Russia · Jan 2005-Oct 2006
A software development firm focused on supply chain and enterprise content management targeted to energy and commodities sectors, with 100-200 staff located in the US, UK, Russia, and Asia.
Head of Infrastructure
Deep technical leadership position for talented Linux/storage and product development teams; formulated long- and short-term strategic technology plans. Managed global IT infrastructure that delivers market-data services to traders and other clientele. Led and mentored system/network and database administrators, script developers, security, release management, project management, and helpdesk personnel. Developed policies and technology to streamline performance, integrate assets, and manage risk. Integrated software with system management vendors and provide bundled releases for client installations. Technical and management oversight for global assets distributed across America, Asia and Europe that interface with exchanges such as Nymex, IPE, BT Radianz, Comstock and Platts.
Administrative Accomplishments
- Slashed monthly telecommunication costs through renegotiation of contracts, asset consolidation and deleting un-required services; integrated all global assets to vendor data centers yielding process improvements in infrastructure and finance.
- Initiated and provided engineering oversight of the complete reorganization of the primary London data center, resulting in improved performance and reliability of mission-critical applications.
- Designed and implemented a corporate collaboration platform used as a main component of the corporate Intranet that served as a catalyst for productivity and process improvement.
- Instituted and chaired security committee to identify and correct weaknesses with ultimate objective of obtaining ISO 17799 compliancy.
- Established a comprehensive documentation system to track and clean up a large bespoke infrastructure of scripts and various utility applications.
- Achieved recognition as best managed team within 1st year of tenure.
Technical Accomplishments
- Instituted integrated authorization credential management and security protocols via LDAP and TLS in a highly-available and distributed design.
- Automated manual procedures for locating and fixing network failures that also increased availability of production infrastructure by introducing automatic failover of circuits (handoffs), core routers, load balancers, and firewalls.
- Continuously reviewed technical work for errors including benign and obvious or subtle bugs that could cause a significant disruption in service. This was extremely important on a system with many special-purpose scripts.
- Designed and introduced a framework for developing and deploying scripts and utilities.
US NAVY, various locations and assignments · 1996-2005
Advanced through several positions with increasing responsibilities, most recent first:
Subject Matter Expert - Senior Instructor Naval Submarine School, Groton, CT · 2001-2005
Delivered intensive lecture- and lab-based training to 100s of IT and security administrators and information security officers throughout the fleet. Served as the Tactical Integrated Digital Systems II (TIDS II) and SUBLAN subject-matter expert. The system is the most complex integrated data processing system consisting of ATM, Solaris and NT servers, and storage area networks deployed on submarines.
- Advanced to senior pay grade well ahead of schedule.
- Performed security penetration testing after the installation of the complete TIDS II system; located 2 critical vulnerabilities and liaised with NUWC and SPAWAR engineering teams to coordinate fixes.
- Instructed senior personnel on topics of information security, forensics, and DoD/US Code statutes.
- Significant research in integration technologies such as authentication and authorization mechanisms, heterogeneous file systems and devices, rapid build and deployment techniques and protocol / platform security / vulnerabilities.
Senior Network Analyst USS ALASKA (SSBN 732), Silverdale, WA · 1996-2001
Directed 6 staff in operation, maintenance, and administration of a division in maintaining mission-critical computer systems providing logistics, shipboard information, SONAR, ship, and weapon systems control.
- Served as Divisional Leader and maintained virtually 100% combat readiness in personnel and electronic assets.
- Operated complex computer systems, and directly interacted with senior personnel on the ship as the Weapons Deployment Primary Targeting Person.
- Commended by all levels of inspection personnel during inspections.
- Revamped and modernized procedures that were accepted by the Commanding Officer.
- Received Navy Achievement medal, Good Conduct medal, and two Admiral's Letter of Commendation.
Programming: C / JAVA / Python / Bash / Sed / Awk
Protocols: DNS / SSH / HTTP / IPSec / NFS / iSCSI / LDAP / NTP / DHCP / SMTP
Hardware: Cisco routers and switches / F5 Big IP & Citrix NetScaler load balancers / SAN FCP & iSCSI / Network Appliance Filers / IBM, Dell and HP x86 & x86_64 / HP Blade Center / Firewall appliances
Software: MS Windows 2000,2003,2008 / RedHat Enterprise Linux / Linux 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels / FreeBSD / OpenBSD / Solaris / HP-UX / Oracle 10G / Apache / Tomcat / Snort / NMAP / Samba / Cisco IOS / Veritas Volume Manager / Netbackup / Ethereal / VMWare ESX / Oracle RMAN / Subversion / Snapdrive UNIX / Postfix
US Navy - Network Security/Vulnerability Technician / Information Systems Administrator / Information Systems Security Officer / Naval Leadership Development / Naval Instructor Training
BS in Computer Science, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
Operating Systems / Programming Languages / High-performance computing / Computing & network security / Gadgets Travelling / Socializing / Culture / Digital photography / Reading
