Paul Guglielmino

paulg@ccs.neu.edu

617-262-2353

 

SKILLS SUMMARY

Languages

Perl, Unix Shell, SQL, Java, PHP, C, C++, Lisp

Operating Systems:

Solaris, AIX, Linux, Irix, Windows, MacOS X

Open Source Software:

Bind, Sendmail, Apache, ISC DHCP, Squid, Samba, sudo, mysql, OpenSSH

Commercial Software:

Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Manager/File System, Symark Powerbroker, IBM MQSeries, VMWare Server

Hardware Systems:

IBM SP/Power5, Sun Sparc/Enterprise/Sunfire, Intel,  Cisco MDS, EMC CLARiiON/Symmetrix/DMX, EMC Celerra

Protocols / Services:

TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, HTTP, SMTP

Certifications:

Redhat Certified Engineer for RHEL 5

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EDS (BlueCross BlueShield account), Systems Administrator

July 2005 - Present

Member of a team administering AIX servers, a 100Tb+ EMC SAN and a TSM backup environment.

  • Deploy and maintain AIX SP and Power5 servers connected to EMC storage for Data Warehouse environment
  • Install and configure IBM Directory Server (LDAP) with dual masters and replication for Unix authentication
  • Evaluate and document use of Alt disk install procedures to reduce system downtime for maintenance
  • Create Perl scripts to automate zoning and management of Cisco SAN switches
  • Help install EMC SRDF link over FCIP using Cisco SAN switches
  • Create Virtual IO / LPAR server environment for evaluation and testing
  • Create Power5 NIM installation environment
  • Review systems for security audits
  • Install and configure Apache and Tomcat as web front end for IBI WebFocus
  • Assist in TSM backup server operations
  • Install and manage Netezza data warehouse appliance running Linux

 

Profitlogic, Systems Administrator (Contract)

January 2005 – July 2005

Work on IT staff to enhance and maintain collocated Unix hosting environment and local development environment of Linux, Solaris and AIX servers.

  • Designed and built monitoring and trend reporting system with Linux, Nagios and Rrdtool
  • Built Solaris 8 webflash install DVD to automate installations at remote datacenters
  • Built Windows Active Directory servers

 

State Street Global Advisors, Fixed Income Software Developer

April 2004 – January 2005

Worked in Fixed Income Systems, a group supporting the IT needs of the Fixed Income trading and operations staff.

  • Designed and built a Java/Swing application to interface with the Bloomberg Trade Feed
  • Helped create schemas, XML data structures and PL/SQL queries for three tier reporting application
  • Built prototype Java Swing UI screens for credit reporting application and helped write UI requirements with business users
  • Modified existing C++/MFC applications to allow for user login and to disable hard coded passwords

 

State Street Global Advisors, Unix Administrator

March 2001 – April 2004

Worked on a team of Unix administrators to enhance and maintain a 400+ node heterogeneous Unix network of Solaris, Tru64 and AIX servers in a 7x24x365 financial environment.

·    Built, customized, supported and troubleshot servers configured for high-availability running services such as Oracle, Sybase, Nortel NetID and trading applications

·    Engineered new Solaris Jumpstart system based on Sun’s Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit software and improved build process to automate tasks normally executed by hand

·    Developed custom scripts to automate patching of Solaris systems

·    Developed custom scripts to take filesystem snapshots with EMC BCV/Timefinder commands on disaster recovery servers

·    Needed to stay current on server, cluster, volume manager and other in house technologies through research, training and practice

·    Work on Windows system applications for cross platform printing and NFS gateway

·    Created and deployed homemade Solaris packages for software such as Openssh and TCP Wrappers

·    Assisted in setting security policies and procedures for the Unix systems

·    Evaluated new technologies such as Sun Blades

·    Performed hardware maintenance, system racking and installation

 

Liaison with other groups within IT to

·    Diagnose, troubleshoot and repairs issues across the applications, networks and systems

·    Map out server requirements including storage, cluster requirements and server sizing

·    Work to ensure applications are cluster aware and that teams can interact with their applications and the cluster

·    Provide continuing upgrades, service, support and anticipate future needs

·    Develop standards and procedures

 

Lycos Gamesville, Unix Administrator 

July 1999 - December 2000

Responsible for all aspects of the administration and maintenance for a production Internet website (www.gamesville.lycos.com), running Irix on SGI Origin servers, in addition to a development environment consisting of both Irix and Linux servers and workstations. 

·    Resolved problems and anticipated future growth needs for Lycos Gamesville which had over seven million registered users and 14 thousand concurrent users per day

·    Managed all Unix based corporate services including backups, DHCP, name services and email

·    Designed and built a direct email system for the Lycos Network using Linux and qmail

·    Built Redhat Kickstart system to automate installation of all Linux servers and workstations

·    Managed internal Cisco switch network

·    Serve as backup to Windows administrator and team with Windows administrator to integrate Exchange into Unix email services and to solve desktop/network issues

·    Handled relations with vendors and assist with purchasing

·    Provided budgetary assistance to the Director of Operations

·    Managed and supervised a technical assistant

 

EDUCATION

Northeastern University Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

June 1999

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Usenix / SAGE

 

PUBLICATIONS

“High Availability Clustering with Veritas Cluster Server”, SysAdmin, May 2005.

“Simplifying Solaris Patches”, SysAdmin,     December 2005.

“AIX Tools: Suma and Inventory Scout”, SysAdmin, March 2007.