Résumé for Robert A. Pickering Jr.
http://resume.pickering.net
Unix Engineer
Last updated December 18, 2005.
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CAREER OBJECTIVE:
A senior level technical management position, relocation acceptable.
SUMMARY:
Highly motivated professional with over ten years of leadership and technical
operations expertise, focused on network and systems administration and
architecture, design, and implementation, customer relations and support, and
problem solving. Strengths include successful strategic development and
leadership abilities, product, project and budget management, a strong ability
to build and improve customer relations and a proven record of identifying
proactive solutions that enable rapid implementation.
EXPERIENCE:
2004 - Present
Senior Network and Security Engineer, Proscan Imaging,
Cincinnati, OH
Provide highly available support for fifty AIX servers from deskside to H/M80 class servers in a 24 x 7 ISO 9002 certified corporate technical center environment. Solutions I have provided include correcting problems in the corporate website order taking process (Perl coding), making recommendations and enhancing security in corporate website, assisting in troubleshooting SAP R/3 disconnect issues, assist in troubleshooting IBM SecureWay Firewall software issues, bringing system software levels up to current fix revisions (AIX 4.3.3) and am currently working on enhancing the monitoring and notification infrastructures using tools like Netsaint, various GNU and Open Source SNMP and monitoring tools as well as in-house written Perl and shell scripts. Support duties include AIX, HACMP, IBM HTTPServer (Apache), IBM SecureWay Firewall, SAP R3, DB2 and DB2 Connect, ESCON Connection, Tivoli Storage Manager Client (ADSM), WebSphere, DNS and Sendmail.