Senior Compute AssociateOctober, 2013 – November, 2014

Bridgewater Associates.  Norwalk, CT.

Operational and engineering support for Linux and VMware investment trading environment at the world’s largest hedge fund.  Heavy focus on system automation and development of new Linux environment.  CFEngine configuration management.  Member of system architecture review team.

 

Senior Linux System EngineerFebruary, 2006 – October, 2013

CitiGroup.  New York, NY and Dallas, TX.

“Linux Technology Chief” for Capital Markets Trading.  Engineering position attached to global operations. Provided oversight, terminal level escalation, scripting and tuning for all Linux servers.  Responsible for Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration supporting fixed income, currency, rates, commodities, credit and equities clients globally.

Managed global grid system engineering team and oversaw cloud and grid development and handover to ongoing support structure. 

Provide training and mentoring to Linux administration staff within the organization helping to promote a unified “Linux practice”.

 

Technical Fellow / Director of Information TechnologyFebruary, 1999 – April, 2006

Niagara Technology Group, Inc. / Nicklin Associates, Inc.  Pavilion, NY.

Senior IT position responsible for internal corporate information infrastructure, external IT services and consulting, and oversight of software product development.  Mix of management and technical responsibilities including project management and systems analysis as well as direct management of core infrastructure and line of business.  Direct management of IT teams and heavy customer interaction.

Project Manager and Software Architect overseeing the design, development, deployment and support of the core healthcare SaaS cloud application. 

 

 

Senior System EngineerNovember 2004 – October, 2005

Wegmans Food Markets.  Rochester, NY via Dell Professional Services.

Responsible for Proof of Concept and subsequent implementation on behalf of Dell, Microsoft and Veritas for large scale, 68 site, Windows and SQL Server migration project.  Extended to include Pilot Migration project in January, 2005. 

 

Systems Analyst / IT ManagerNovember, 2000 – June, 2001

IBM.  Endicott, NY.

Senior IT manager for drill sector. Project manager and software architect on cross platform factory automation software development project.  Engineering and operational responsibility of Solaris, AIX, Red Hat Linux and Windows Server production environments.

 

IT Training Coordinator(Part Time)January, 2001 – June, 2001

Computer Task Group.  Endicott, NY.

Advisement, curriculum development, teaching, course workbook development and mentoring.  Management of educational Linux and Solaris classroom environment..  Primary work in SUSE Linux Administration training.

 

LAN Administrator, WebmasterAugust, 2000 – November, 2000

Oil Navigator, Inc.  Washington, D.C.

Senior IT position responsible for all LAN and web hosting issues including administration of Windows NT 4 and Red Hat Linux servers, security, WAN connectivity and LAN networking for petroleum industry reporting and news firm.

Solaris Help DeskJune, 1994 – September, 1995

GMI Engineering and Management Institute (Kettering University.)  Flint, MI.

Helpdesk position assisting users on approximately 300 Solaris terminals and UltraSparc workstations.  Bash shell scripting.  Extensive work in Fortran 77 and some C. 

 

Software Engineering InternSummer, 1989

Eastman Kodak.  Rochester, NY.

Database and interface development intern working unsupervised and creating strategic proof of concept for engineering division.

 

Systems Engineer, Team Lead and Field Engineer September, 2002 – November, 2004

Dell Professional Services (DPS) and Dell Migration Services.

Engagements ranging from one day to three months including onsite coordination and management of technician teams all over New York State and Washington, DC.  Including 350 desktop migration to Windows XP Pro for Schenectady International.

 

Contract Engineer, Project Manager and TechnicianSeptember, 1999 - November, 2004

Compaq, HP, Deutsche Telekom, University of Rochester, etc.

Consulting Engineer and Field Technician for various consulting groups functioning throughout New York performing a variety of tasks including project lead.

 

VMware vExpert 2013

Spicies: SMB IT Innovator of the Year (2009)

The Register: “Most Influential IT Professional in the Most Influencial Community” (2014)

UNIX:Linux: Red Hat, CentOS, Suse, Oracle, Fedora, Ubuntu.

UNIX: Solaris, Mac OS X, AIX.

 

Windows:Windows Server 2012 R2 - Windows NT 4.

 

Service Applications:MySQL, Apache, SAMBA, PostFix, BIND, Linux Terminal Server (LTSP), Squid, Asterisk, Zimbra, Scalix, JRun, Websphere, KickStart, Unitrends, Netbackup, Elastix, FreePBX, Vyatta, WebLogic, Unitrends, Chef, CFEngine.

 

Microsoft Backoffice:IIS, ISA, SQL Server, SharePoint, Service Center and Exchange Server.

 

Languages:Fortran, Java, Ruby, Python, Bash, Visual Basic, PHP, C#.

 

Virtualization.:Xen & XenServer, VMware vSphere & ESXi, Solaris Zones, HyperV.

 

 

Previsor (Brainbench)              2007 – Present

Certification consultant helping to write, test and approve vendor neutral industry exams.  Regularly beta test a wide variety of exams.

 

Software Business Analyst (Partial Writer)ASP.NET 3.5 (Validator)

Linux Administration (RHEL 5) (Approver)Network Security (Validator)

Web Design Concepts (Validator / Writer)ASP.NET Basics (Validator)

UNIX Administration (General) (Writer)Cloud Computing (Validator)

Linux Administration (RHEL 6) (Writer)Windows Server 2012 (Validator)

Amazon Cloud (Validator)Azure Cloud (Validator)

Regional Commnuity Leader with SpiceCorps and MangoLassi              May, 2009 – Current

International

Spearheaded the foundation of local SMB IT Manager "user" groups, called SpiceCorps, in conjunction with SpiceWorks in Northern New Jersey; New York City and Rochester, NY; Philadelphia, PA, Toronto, ON; Houston and Dallas, TX; Antwerp, Belgium.  MangoLassi events in New York City.

 

Castile Christian Academy              November, 2004 – January, 2009

Castile, NY

Volunteer technology coordinator, network engineer and system administrator for private school.  Designed and built Suse Linux environment for use by students, teachers and administrators.  Worked to procure donated equipment for the school.  Oversee curriculum, class materials and technology facilities. 

Additionally taught extra-curricular class in web design using web standards..  Developed all course materials including printer materials, sample material, network resources and presentation material.

 

Onondaga Community College, SUNY              February, 2005 – June, 2012

Syracuse, NY

Serving on Professional Advisory Committee for the Computer Information Systems department helping to review curricula, adjust course content and requirements, define needs, etc.

 

QuinnStreet (Internet.com)May, 2009 - Present

Professional columnist for Datamation Magazine, Linux Today, Enterprise Storage Forum, Enterprise IT Planet, Small Business Computing and Server Watch. Have written articles on IT management, vendor relationship, virtualization, storage and hiring practices.

 

Co-authored eBooks "What to Expect with Virtualization" and “The Guide to Managing IT Staff”.

 

SpiceWorld Austin 2009, 2010 & 2013

2009: Presented session on Managed Service Providers in the Current Market to over 800 MSPs.  Additional panel on IT Professionals surviving the current economy. 

2010: Presented Open Storage technologies.

2013: Open, Live Technology Q&A Session

 

Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010 in Washington, D.C.

Co-presented session on “Making IT Social”.

 

Miscellaneous Writing:SMB IT Journal, The StorageCraft Blog, Frugal IT, SpiceWorks Spotlight, MangoLassi