Consortium IT LLC - Portfolio

Financial Institution

Designed Unix hardware architecture for trading platforms and built pilot systems to prove performance characteristics met business requirements

Built UNIX clusters to support primary applications and delivered SAN connectivity to hosts, setup automated build environment for UNIX servers, including Oracle RAC clusters and Netbackup cluster hardware

Disaster recovery design, implementation, and fail over testing mutli-national

Designed tape backup architecture, building out Netbackup to 130 hosts including Oracle database San based backup.

Data center build outs with Sun/IBM/HP equipment in multi-national offices

Consolidation planning and equipment transfer from coast to coast

Storage support for Sun storage, IBM Shark, HP storage

Performance tuning and administration of Oracle, Sybase database base applications (Oracle Financials, Web Farms, PIMS Portfolio MGMT)

Installed Sun server farm; 35 Sun 4500 systems in multi-state locations as well as related IBM disk and Sun disk subsystems, also supported IBM AIX operating environment

Trained mainframe personnel on Unix administration and transition to Sun/IBM/HP platform setup and management

Assisted data center managers in multi-state locations to support a fast ramping of Unix infrastructure

Created log base alert management system for all UNIX hosts to send email of any issues servers may have had

Setup and administered large HP T500 hosts running distributed Infomix database application across 5 state service areas. CABS (Carrier Access Billing Systems)

Setup and implemented IBM MQseries message architecture from HP systems to IBM mainframe CICS for real-time web based application

Built management and performance monitoring environment with EcoTools, and Ecoscope for transaction timing across infrastructure, after evaluation of a large number of management products

Worked with development team to capture performance data and tune SQL for improved application response, HP glance performance collection

Provided next steps projects required to move towards the new design of the 10 year vision.

Provided data center reorganization study to maximize large data center assets

Worked with upper technical management and CIO to reduce cost of data center operations, provide a transition plan for refocused data center architecture

Delivered architecture plan and activities necessary to transition to lower cost state

Designed, procured and rolled out Dev/QA hardware, firewall and VPN for office personnel, and engineering staff

Performed data center site evaluation an designed data center hardware and software architecture to meet production needs to secure web application services hosted from Chicago (with equipment from Sun, Dell Red Hat AS, EMC Clarion, STK, Brocade, Veritas, Oracle)

Implemented clustered Sun Oracle RAC setup to migrate to Oracle 10G in production site as requirements for it mature

Setup an supported PeopleSoft HR system (Oracle, Veritas, Legato products)

Assisted in E10K project implementation for freedom center and implementation of Sun 4500/6500 servers

Setup Netbackup backup pilot, that later became standard backup architecture

Support Unix introduction to administration and management teams

Built helpdesk system and architecture

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Retail Company

For major retail chains our company designed information systems to extract and process sales information directly from POS terminals for analytical processing. Data from each of the POS systems is collected and processed at each store location, and summary movement data is passed to a headquarters data center for trending, sales analytics and order management.

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HigherED Institution

For Educational Institutions we partnered with a network company to design their first secure internet infrastructure for rollout to over 700 schools. The infrastructure included unix servers, directory, firewall and monitoring software. The architecture included fail over services, backup and support provided by a 3rd party to allow school employees to focus on teaching while reducing total overall costs.