FABIO RANALLI

Address: Im Uhrig 16

60433 Frankfurt am Main - Germany

SUMMARY

I'm a senior IT professional with a great expertise built through over 10 years' experience,

especially in the design, implementation and maintenance of complex multi-tier and high-available

architectures. I can face a wide range of customers in heterogeneous and international environments

(on-line advertising, bio-tech and pharmaceutical, banking, sport events, public sector and

institutions). I love to learn and constantly improve myself. I tend to exceed expectations, have a

creative problem-solver approach, plus proven pro-activity and strong attention to details.

EXPERIENCE

Aug 2014 -

current

Senior Solutions Architect at

Schrödinger GmbH, Frankfurt am Main - Germany

I'm supporting EMEA customers in the pre/post sale phases to ensure they can use

our products effectively and the software performance is always optimal

  · Analysis, diagnosis and issue resolution on different Linux distros and

Windows platforms

  · Deployment of Schrödinger software including licensing, configuration and

integration for either on-premise and cloud based solutions (mainly on AWS)

  · Advice on designing and scaling of IT services and HPC technologies

(various DRMs for CPU & GPU computing)

Dec 2012 -

Jul 2014

Unix Systems Engineer for Serco Services GmbH at

ECB (European Central Bank), Frankfurt am Main - Germany

  · Design and implementation of the Linux Management Infrastructure based

on Red Hat Satellite, providing unattended OS provisioning, update &

patching, centralised configuration management and performance monitoring

  · Release Manager for the Linux OS platform at ECB

  · Development of custom RPM packages for software distribution

  · 3rd level support for RHEL and SLE OSes and for the SWIFT platform

running on Solaris

  · Extension of the Test & Development RHEL HPC environment

Jun 2006 -

Nov 2012

Systems and Network Engineer, Database Administrator at

Cyborg Srl, Chieti (ICT Solution Provider & Systems Integrator in Italy)

  · Responsible for data-centre security, maintenance and evolution (150+

among physical servers, VMs, storage & network devices)

  · Consultant at customer sites for systems integration, IT security and

performance tuning

  · Provisioning and tuning of high-available virtualised farms, based on

VMware and Xen Hypervisors

  · Setup and maintenance of infrastructural services such as DNS, DHCP,

Firewall, Proxy, VPN, Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems and Network

Monitoring Systems

  · Vendor and supplier management for ICT technologies

E-mail:

fabioranalli79@gmail.com

http://de.linkedin.com/in/fabioranalli/en

Jan - Sep

2005

Systems Administrator & Developer at

Krom Srl, San Salvo (Management consultancy firm in Italy)

  · Responsible for Windows Servers provisioning and management

  · End-user workstations troubleshooting

  · Endpoint and network security management (Policies, Firewall, ACLs, NAT)

  · Setup and maintenance of shared resources

QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Mar 2014

Feb 2013

Feb - Mar

2008

Oct 1998 -

Mar 2004

Introduction to SWIFT connectivity – SWIFT Training

ITIL v3 Foundation Certification – APMG International

Certificate Number 02374144-01-AVIG

PTR Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop I Ed 3 - Oracle University

PTR Oracle Database 10g: Administration Workshop II - Oracle University

Master's degree in Statistics and Computer Science - University of Bologna

(Italy)

The degree thesis was part of a research project about Information Systems:

its title is “Design and development of a grid file implementation in a P2P network”

TECHNICAL SKILLS DETAIL

Operating

Systems

Virtualization

Containers

- Linux (RHEL/Fedora, SLE/OpenSuSE, Debian/Ubuntu, Gentoo)

- Windows (from 9x to 8) including server editions (2000-2012)

- Solaris from 8 to 10

VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, RHEV/oVirt

Solaris Zones, Linux LXC (via Docker)

Cloud Computing Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack

Networking

- Protocols: ARP, LACP, IPv4, STP, IPSec, TCP, UDP, SNMP, NTP, POP3,

IMAP, SMTP, SSH, Telnet, FTP, HTTP(S), SSL, TLS, DHCP, DNS

- Firewall (even as HA solutions): CheckPoint S@O, R5x/R6x, Vyatta/VyOS

- (Reverse)Proxies: Squid, Varnish, Nginx

- Load Balancing: Apache with mod_jk, HAProxy, Amazon ELB

DBMS

- ORACLE 9i / 10g / 11g / 12c including ASM, DataGuard, RAC and RMAN

- MS SQL Server 20xx including High-Availability solutions

- MySQL 4 and 5 including master/slave and multi-master setups

- PostgreSQL 8 and 9 including PGPool-II

Directory services - MS Active Directory

- Red Hat Directory Server / 389DS including multi-master replica

- OpenLDAP 2.x including master/slave setups

Application

servers

Security

Management

Oracle iAS 10g and WebLogic 11g (plus SOA Suite), JBossAS 4.2-7.1 and

EAP 5-6 (active/active clusters too), Tomcat 5.5-7, Apache 2.x, Nginx 0.8-1.2

SELinux, Wireshark, TCPdump, Nmap, Tripwire, Snort, Splunk

High Availability Red Hat Cluster Server, SUN Cluster

HPC

Grid Engine, SLURM, Torque

Red Hat Satellite (both Spacewalk & Foreman), Puppet, Chef

NMS

Zabbix, Nagios, Cacti

Automation

Languages

Dev Tools

Languages:

Relational and

organizational:

Packer, Vagrant, Terraform, Jenkins

SQL, HTML, XML, JSON, PHP, Python, Ruby, Shell (mainly Bash)

NetBeans, Eclipse, SVN, GIT, make, Ant, Maven, Bugzilla, JIRA

TRANSFERABLE SKILLS

Italian - mother tongue

English – full professional proficiency

I can multi-task and balance among competing priorities, even under pressure.

I'm able to plan activities according to release schedules and strict deadlines.

I can work independently with no supervision, as well as be part of a team and

report to executives and/or project managers.

I've created and led small teams made by individuals with heterogeneous culture

and skills, either in DevOps or ITIL oriented environments.