Open Systems (Unix) Administrator

OBJECTIVE

Name: William H (Bill) Temps III

Telephone: 708.567.0732

Web site: wht3.org

Solaris

Eleven years on small teams supporting as many as 170 Solaris servers with highly varied configurations and functions.
Extensive background in financial systems.
Solaris from version 2.3 through 10.
Design, implementation, and on-going support of systems ranging from a single server to multiple interacting servers including three-tier client-server configurations and real-time financial trading systems.
Performance, tuning, and optimization of open systems.

Scripting and automation

Extensive experience in writing UNIX scripts using Bourne shell, Korn shell, C shell, and Perl.
Experience in operator automation for large mainframe (VM) environment at Bank One, using the REXX language and third-party products.

Application Development

Long familiarity and experience with various programming languages including C, C++, and Java.
Acted as sole design, implementation, and support for a set of programs, written in C, providing and interface between the TrustedLink Templar product and a mainframe CICS program for real-time transaction processing, using TCP socket communication. Later modified program to use MQ Series communication.

Troubleshooting

18 years in mainframe environments, responsible for software development, software maintenance, and system operation, including diagnosis and repair of complex software.
Eight years supporting large and complex UNIX environment at First Chicago, First Chicago NBD, and Bank One.
Two years in financial trading systems.
Experience in supporting large, complex Bank One UNIX environment running HP-UX, SAP R/3, Oracle, and PeopleSoft, which included first-line on-call duties requiring real-time diagnosis of problems, as well as prioritization and escalation.
Extensive experience diagnosing and fixing operating system malfunctions.
Experience in creating and debugging operating system modifications and enhancements.

Documentation

Extensive experience in both creating and reading system documentation.
Experience in HTML development, including W3C compliance.
Created departmental Web site used to support system documentation.
Recently created documentation on two complex UNIX application systems.
Background in professional technical writing, including speaking, magazine articles, and a book chapter.

EMC/Hitachi/IBM Storage Devices

Long experience in mainframe environment using IBM and Hitachi disk storage.
Experience with installing, configuring, and maintaining Sun and Storage Dimensions RAID systems, both hardware and software based.
Some experience supporting Sun Solaris and HP-UX using EMC storage devices.
Strong background in RAID, SCSI, and Fibre Channel standards.

MQSeries / Oracle

Have developed application programs using MQSeries on Sun Solaris UNIX platform.
Have supported applications using MQSeries messaging.
Extensive experience with large-scale UNIX environment supporting Oracle databases.

Chapter "Security" in the VM/ESA System Handbook, published by Prentice-Hall.
Brief magazine article on "Securing the CMS Shared File System".
Various papers presented at SHARE conferences (Change Control; Implementation of the acf2 security product), national VM Workshop (Change Control; implementing the acf2 security system; System Installation Procedures; IBM Enterprise System Architecture), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Auditor Training Program (Disaster Recovery Procedures), and local users' groups (several including LU 6.2 communication).

Definition and implementation of Minimum Security Baseline configuration for 170+ corporate UNIX servers running Solaris.
Implementation of large software application using VERITAS Storage Replicator for hot backup synchronization with disaster-recovery server (300,000 files, 70 GB data, 3000 users).
Implementation of Internet firewall using open-source software products and industry standards.
Defined procedures for and executed operating system implementation and upgrades for Sun Solaris 2.3, 2.5, 2.51, 2.6, 7, 8, and 9.
Supported large Sun Solaris environment including Oracle databases.
Operating System upgrades from HP-UX 11.0 to 11.i in extremely large and complex mission-critical environment, including SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, and Oracle.
Design and implementation of secure 802.11b wireless LAN using OpenBSD, Sun Solaris, SSH and IPSec.
Implementation of Apache Web Server for departmental Web site.
Implementation of Samba file server to replace Novell NetWare.
Design and development of "glue" programs to provide interface between the Templar EDI product and TCP/IP network. Later re-implemented using MQSeries.
Installation and support of BMC Patrol 3.4 monitoring software, including creation, modification, and debugging of scripts in Patrol Script Language (PSL).

Led team in testing, preparation, and certification of UNIX servers for Year 2000 readiness. Project management for UNIX year-2000 preparation.
Planning, implementation, and support of Lotus Notes corporate e-mail system with 90,000 users, using 42 Sun servers to replace 500 OS/2 servers.
Implementation and support of corporate DNS domain.
Received internal Service Quality award for VM/HPO 5.0 system.

High school plus some university; no degree.

April, 2004 - October, 2005: Merrill Lynch Broadcort Execution Services

Supporting financial trading systems based on Sun Solaris (8 and 9) and SunOS 4, plus desktop PC support.
June, 2003 - April, 2004: ABN AMRO

Supporting financial trading systems, using Sun Solaris (8 and 9), Sun OS 4, Perl, C language, Web site development and maintenance (Apache Web Server, HTML, CGI).
April, 2003 - May, 2003: Unemployed: Terminated from IBM Global Services because Bank One ended the relationship.
July, 1999 - March, 2003: IBM Global Services, Bank One account

System Administration, Sun Solaris and Hewlett-Packard HP-UX
August, 1994 - June, 1999: Bank One:

UNIX System Administration and project management.
June, 1984 - August, 1994: First Chicago Corporation

System Administration and project management for IBM Virtual Machine operating system (VM/370, VM/XA, VM/ESA).

Sun Solaris System Administration.
OpenBSD installation and support.
Linux installation and support (Red Hat, Fedora, Debian, and Slackware).
Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP installation and desktop support.
HP-UX System Administration.
Extensive experience in TCP/IP communication and program development.
Programming languages: Perl; Java; Ruby; C; C++; UNIX Bourne shell, Korn shell, C shell; awk; IBM Assembler; FORTRAN.
Classes in Sun Solaris performance and tuning and internals.

Updated 2005-11-07