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KEY QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

Over 20 years of progressive technical support experience, 17 years with UNIX, with construction, manufacturing, telecommunications, publishing, public services, financial and consulting institutions.

Logical, practical, analytical and good level of interest in technical work and people. Independent-minded, persistent, determined, practical around solving logistical or technical problems.

UNIX systems technical support on HP-UX, AIX, SunOS/Solaris and also on Ultrix, Irix, Dynix/ptx, and SCO UNIX platforms focusing on UNIX and IT security, performance management and tuning, high availability computing, disaster recovery and resource capacity planning. Very good in UNIX shell programming and Distributed Computing Environment DCE , and very familiar with SQL Server, Windows NT/XP, Tcl, C and Perl programming. Also good in JDEdwards OneWorld ERP software, SANs, VERITAS Volume Manager, and Legato NetWorker.

INDUSTRY CERTIFICATONS

JDEdwards OneWorld System Configurator.
Sun Certified System Administrator - SCSA.
HP IT Professional - HP-UX System Administration.
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX V4.3 System Administration.
Cisco Certified Network Associate - CCNA.
Certified Information Systems Security Professional - CISSP.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• AIX System Administration, DCE Installation and Administration IBM .
• HP-UX for Programmers, HP-UX System Administration, HP-UX Network Administration, Theory of Operations for PA-RISC HP 9000 Systems, HP-UX System Security, HP-UX Performance and Tuning, Korn Shell Programming, MC Service Guard High Availability Software, Virtual Vault Administration HP .
• Perl Programming Sun .
• Dynix System Administration Sequent .
• Banyan VINES System Administration Lanpar .
• Definity AUDIX Voice Mail System Administration, Definity G3 PBX System Administration, Definity G3 World Class Routing AT&T .
• MS Word, Harvard Graphics, WordPerfect, Lotus 123, Project Management Nortel .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Short term contracts - small Windows NT/XP and Linux systems integration and support Acentrum, Chicago , HP-UX systems security audit Enairpro, Toronto, Canada , AIX and OS/2 application profiling and performance analysis Discover Credit Card, Salt Lake City .

Providing technical expertise to support consultations to clients regarding the applicability and feasibility of UNIX technology. Determining how UNIX-based technology will be utilized and participating in project planning efforts by identifying tasks and dependencies. Representing the companies with consultants, vendors and service providers.

• Installing, configuring, and controlling the deployment of the JDEdwards OneWorld software throughout customer configurations. Testing various configurations. Creating data sources and environments, implementing data replications and distributed processing. Setting up user and group profiles and security for technical applications.
• Participating in development and implementation of UNIX-based solutions and delivering quality systems design.
• Evaluating and selecting UNIX technology. Working with technical architects and senior technical management in the selection and development of technology which supports the goals of the clients.
• Overseeing installation, configuration and testing of Sun servers and Cisco routers for a company Internet center. Reviewing operations procedures and other documentation and making suggestions for changes and updates. Working with global UNIX technical services group as the second level system specialist providing the support to global applications users, Help Desk and system administrators using HP-UX, Sun Solaris and Irix SGI servers and workstations.

Supporting the achievement of the Bank information security objectives of integrity, privacy, availability and continuity of the Public Key Infrastructure configuration for Scotia OnLine PC banking on HP-UX and AIX platforms for over 100,000 home users. Researching, evaluating and pursuing emerging information security technologies which can be exploited as solutions to support business innovation and performing reliable risk and performance evaluations of security architectures to identify exposures and changing/emerging threats.

• Responsible for HP-UX and AIX system management, providing a high quality technical support to the user community by constantly understanding clients needs to meet their expectations.
• Upgrading HP-UX and AIX OS software for Year 2000 compliance. Verifying that HP-UX and AIX systems are set up and running correctly for Entrust Public Key Infrastructure PKI applications.
• Facilitating the applications as required for higher performance and reliability. Reviewed and documented the setup of HP-UX high availability cluster software for PKI applications, analyzed the setup and recommended changes to significantly improve high availability of the applications.
• Evaluating and implementing automated utilities on HP-UX and AIX servers to verify that the Bank s security standards are in place and analyzing security standards relevance when new programs are introduced or security warnings arise.
• Responsible for performance and resource management, providing the reports of resource usage and data growth on HP-UX and AIX servers to the management. Utilizing the system monitoring and reporting program for alarm conditions on CPU, memory, disk and networking.
• Assisting in forecasting and capacity planning by testing the performance of HP-UX servers to determine the transaction rate and response time for PKI transactions to predict when upgrades are required.

Responsible for activities surrounding computer hardware and related environmental software and the support of Computer Operations and Applications Development groups as it relates to the AIX operating environment and distributed processing.

• Providing AIX system support. Assisting Help Desk with resolving complaints of system hardware failure, investigating and solving system problems reported by users. Assisting all TPS personnel with computer related problems. Communicating system problems to all effected users and documenting them for reference purposes.
• Writing and implementing security standards and procedures for use of all information systems. Setting objectives and planning for development of additional security for all information systems. Reviewing existing standards and procedures and evaluating alternatives based on these objectives.
• Providing ongoing assistance in the deployment of the security control system in the field. Identifying the problems in the design of the future systems and applications that affect information security, informing management of these problems and recommending the solutions.
• Developing technical systems in the area of security and client/server systems. Participating in the development and implementation of system applications. Providing the technical expertise in developing of TP technical infrastructure.
• Scrutinizing system logs to identify security violations. Preparing reports, making recommendations and disseminating any pertinent information as required. Conducting periodic data processing hardware and software security evaluations of all units across the TPS to assess compliance with procedures and polices.

Managing the diverse corporate computing environment for publishing business and financial applications on HP-UX platform. Providing technical and administrative support for data and telecommunication systems. Providing expert advice, support and recommendations based on experience and research to the company with respect to the systems security, resource and performance management.

Providing UNIX system management for HP-UX, SunOS/Solaris and Ultrix platforms, ensuring supportable processes and configurations. Providing the support for UNIX system security, resource capacity planning as well as developing, testing and implementing system level contingency and disaster recovery plans.

Responsible for HP-UX and Ultrix servers and workstations. Providing the technical and sales support for DEC compatible terminals manufactured by the company.

EDUCATION

Slovak Technical University, Bratislava, Slovakia 1971 - 1976

Master s Degree in Electrical Engineering - major Technical Cybernetics, specialization in Automation Engineering.