PROJECT WORK

April 2002 to December 2002

TELUS MOBILITY, Scarborough, Ontario
Technology / Position
  • UNIX SA (Solaris and HP-UX)
  • HP OpenView 
  • Veritas
  • Online Disksuite
  • Netscape/iPlanet Web Server

February 2002 to March 2002

ROMARK LOGISTICS Inc., Toronto, Ontario
Technology / Position

  • Business Analyst
  • Oracle 
  • MS SqlServer 2000
  • PERL / DBI

July 2001 to August 2001

CTI, Mississauga, Ontario
Technology / Position

  • Oracle DBA
  • Oracle Designer
  • MS SqlServer 2000
  • PERL / DBI
  • SQL

February 2000 to August 2001

COMCEPT CANADA INC., Markham, Ontario
Technology / Position

  • Oracle DBA
  • Oracle OAS 9i
  • UNIX SA (HP-UX, Red Hat Linux)
  • Windows SA (NT4)

July 2000 to August 2000

BOMBARDIER REGIONAL AIRCRAFT, Downsview, Ontario & Montreal, Quebec
Technology / Position

  • Business Analyst

June 1999 to October 1999

COMCEPT CANADA INC., Markham, Ontario
Technology / Position

  • Business Analyst
  • Systems Architect
  • Infrastructure Architect

February 1999 to June 1999

DEUTSCHE BANK OF CANADA, Toronto, Ontario
Technology / Position

  • UNIX SA (AIX, Solaris)
  • Oracle DBA

November 1997 to October 1998

IBM GLOBAL SERVICES, Dallas, Texas
Technology / Position

  • Oracle DBA

October 1996 to November 1997

ONTARIO HYDRO, Toronto, Ontario
Technology / Position

  • UNIX SA (AIX, Solaris)
  • Oracle DBA

January 1995 to October 1996

COMCEPT CANADA INC., Markham, Ontario
Technology / Position

  • UNIX SA (AIX, SCO)
  • Oracle DBA



MAINTENANCE WORK


February 2003 to May 2003

HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL, Tottenham, Ontario 
Technology / Position

  • UNIX SA (Solaris)
  • Firewall-1

December 2002 to Present

F&P MANUFACTURING, Tottenham, Ontario
Technology / Position

  • UNIX SA (Solaris)
  • Firewall-1

January 2002 to Present

PIXEL WORKS INC., Thornhill, Ontario (formerly Jaldi Semi-Conductors)
Technology / Position

  • UNIX SA (Solaris, HP-UX)

December 2001 to Present

BLOOMEN NETWORKS INC., Mississauga, Ontario
Technology / Position

  • Chief Information Officer 
  • Windows SA (2000)
  • Unix SA (Red Hat Linux)
  • WebMaster
  • Network Administrator
  • PHP Developer
  • Apache

July 2001 to April 2003

INGERSOL-RAND, Toronto, Ontario
Technology / Position

  • UNIX SA (Solaris)
  • Oracle DBA

September 2000 to January 2003

HDS RETAIL, Toronto, Ontario
Technology / Position

  • UNIX SA (Solaris)
  • Legato Networker
  • Online DiskSuite

July 1997 to Present

AEROSOFT SYSTEMS INC., Mississauga, Ontario
Technology / Position

  • UNIX SA (Red Hat Linux, SCO)
  • Windows SA (2000/NT4/XP)
  • Network Administrator
  • Apache
  • Netscape/iPlanet Web Server

November 1998 to August 2001

COMCEPT CANADA INC., Markham, Ontario
Technology / Position

  • UNIX SA (Solaris x86, Red Hat Linux, AIX)
  • Oracle DBA
  • Windows SA (NT4)
  • Network Administrator
  • Apache
  • VPN 

 

ASSIGNMENT DETAILS


Holy Trinity school, Thornhill, Ontario             

UNIX SA

  • Recovered root password for the school’s firewall machine running Solaris 8 and Firewall-1.

  • Recovered admin password for FW-1 software.  Re-configured control workstation for FW-1 software.

  • Made some firewall securiy policy changes to accommodate new needs for the school.

F&p Mfg, Tottenham, Ontario

UNIX SA

  • Upgraded the company firewall machine.

  • Upgraded SUN UltraSparc 10 from Solaris 2.5 to Solaris 8.

  • Upgraded Checkpoint Firewall-1 ver 4.1 to Checkpoint Firewall-1 ver 5 NG3

  • Upgraded Websense for Firewall-1 Verison 3.11 to Websense for Firewall-1 Verison 4

  • Migrated Trendmicro Interscan Version 3.0.2 to Symantec Enterprise Security Manager for Firewalls 2.0

TELUS Mobility, Scarborough, On         

UNIX SA

  • Part of the team configuring and maintaining the business and biling operations systems consisting of several SUN Hardware and HP Hardware Servers running Solaris 2.5, 2.6 7 and 8 along with HP-UX 10.20 and HP-UX 11.00.  Part of the team which administers and maintains the SUN E15K, SUNE10K and SUN E6800 Sunfire machines, HDS SAN.

  • Part of the team involved in the migration of HP of SUN machines.

  • SA for the upgrade of HP Openview from 6.0 to 7.0.

  • Investigate, evaluate, install and test a replacement printer daemon to the daemon included with Solaris 8.

Romark Logistics Inc, Toronto, On

Database Analyst

  • Analyze, design, develop, test and implement an interface between a SQL*Server database running on Windows2000 and an Oracle 7 database running on HP-UX 11 using PERL and DBI.

  • Build several reports using SQL, SQL*Plus and KSH scripts to report on the newly acquired information on the UNIX /Oracle platform.

Jaldi Semi-conductors, Markham, On

UNIX Systems Administrator

  • De-commission a HP-UX box.  Migrate disks and volume groups from de-commissioned machine to a production machine.

  • Install and configure Gigabit Ethernet card on HP-UX servers.

  • Upgrade some HP machines from HP-UX 10.x to HP-UX 11.

  • Upgrade a SUN E-250 Server from Solaris 2.7 to Solaris 8.

  • Configure and impletment DNS and NIS across Solaris, HP-UX and LINUX boxes.

BLOOMEN Networks, Mississauga, On

Systems Analyst / CIO

  • Developed a Web-based Customer Support System for the company’s on-line store.  This initiative is fundamental to the organization’s industry-leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) initiatives.

  • Set-up an office server running RedHat Linux 6.2 to provide network shares using SAMBA, DHCP, DNS and sendmail for the office.

CTI, Mississauga, On

Database Analyst

  • Analyze and migrate the data on a SQL*Server database running on Windows NT to a new design of the model on Oracle 8i database running on Windows 2000.

Ingersoll-Rand, Toronto, On

Oracle DBA

  • Created a new Oracle 7.3.4.5 instance and recovered data from backups on HP-UX 10.20 after the existing production instance had some of the data dictionary objects deleted by accident.    

  • Recovered an Oracle 7.3.4.5 instance running on HP-UX 10.20 from backups after disk failure corrupted some datafiles.        

  • Database maintenance support for their corporate database.

  • Maintain accounts, tablespaces, access control, etc.

  • Provide regular maintenance such as re-orgs, backups, etc.

HDS Retail, Toronto, On

SOLARIS Sys Admin

  • Manage and maintain the production and development boxes run Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 on E450 Servers.

  • Analyze and develop a backup strategy for the enterprise using Solstice Backup (Legato).

  • Incorporate the backup of the corporate databases (Oracle).

  • Integrate MS Exchange into the backup strategy.

  • Consult to the full time Sys Admin when required.

BOMBARDIER REGIONAL AIRCRAFT – Tech Pubs, Downsview, On

Business/Systems Analyst

  • Perform a study for the Technical Pubs of Bombardier’s Aerospace divisions in Toronto and Montreal to determine if a configuration management and version control software would be required or appropriate for their development efforts.

  • Wrote a report for management showing where configuration management and version control can be applied within their business plus a detailed implementation plan

Deutsche Bank of Canada, Toronto, On

UNIX Sys Admin

  • Administer and maintain RS/6000 machines running AIX 3.2.5.

  • Apply patches to AIX 3.2.5 to make OS Y2K compliant.

  • Upgrade to AIX 4.2 where user applications require.

  • Develop some SQL reports in Oracle 8.0.4 as part of application migration from AS400 to a clustered Oracle database running on a Solaris 2.6 HA Cluster.

  • Was asked to extend my contract for 2 months in order to look after the Oracle databases in Toronto.  I managed the productionizing of two Oracle based systems in Toronto.  One was rolled out from London UK and the other was rolled out from NY, USA.  With the help of Oracle, introduced the bank and migrated some applications to Oracle Discoverer.

AeroSoft Systems Inc., Mississauga, On

UNIX Systems Administrator/NT Administrator/Network Administrator

  • Set-up an office server running RedHat Linux 6.2 to provide network shares using SAMBA, DHCP, DNS and sendmail for the office.

  • Migrated the e-mail server and DNS server to LINUX for the aerosoftsys.com site.
    Built a firewall using ipfwd to protect the company’s internal network from the Internet.

  • Configured a new server for the aerosoft.ca site.

  • Built a firewall using ipfwd to protect the company’s internal network from the Internet.

  • Involved in the configuration of the WEB server of the aerosoft.ca site to host multiple WEB servers.

  • Install, set-up and configure a Windows Nt4 PC running iPlanet Web Server with Merant’s PVCS Tracker, VM Server and VM I*Server.

  • Configure and administer a Windows NT4.0 Server for Web Serving, Web Development, printer services, e-mail, user accounts, backups, etc.

  • Install and configure a Netopia ISDN router and firewall to connect internal network to the Internet for fulltime access.

  • Install and configure Tunneling Software for secure access from offsite developers

IBM Global Services, Dallas, TX

ORACLE DBA

  • Create, configure and tune Oracle 7.3.x instances on OpenVMS for a DataWarehouse application in a Petroleum Refinery.

  • Consult to application development team, implement database changes in Data Model using Oracle’s Designer 2000 version 1.3.2 and forward engineer changes to database.

  • Provide DBA support to development effort.

  • Maintain a Production, Test and Development database environment for the project.

  • Co-ordinate with off-site development efforts.

  • Communicate with system vendor for software/application fixes.  Apply patches as required.

  • Part of team for initial delivery to customer in Saudi Arabia, later part of a team to implement and test interfaces to the DataWarehouse application and finally part of the team for commissioning support of the system.

Ontario Hydro, Toronto, On

UNIX Sys Admin

  • Administer and maintain an 8-node SP2 RS/6000 machine running AIX 3.2.5.

  • Perform security audits; communicate with system vendor for software/application/hardware fixes.  Apply patches as required.

  • Manage/maintain ADSTAR unattended backup system, Kerberos security system, and LoadLeveler distributed loading system.  Also manage and maintain software licenses such as IMSL math libraries and XLF FORTRAN.

  • Manage and maintain user accounts, mail services, printer services, NFS services, DNS domain and NIS domain.

  • Assist users to resolve shell/system problems as well as perform data archives.

Comcept Canada inc., Markham, On

Unix Systems Administrator/Oracle DBA

Set-up and configure development environment.

  • Create an Oracle 8.1.5 instance running on Red Hat LINUX 6.1 to house a Designer 6.0 repository.

  • Configure users and managers on repository.

  • Manage versions of database model in repository.

  • Architect and configure development environment configuration (i.e. product versions, install order or products and patches) on developer’s desktop running Windows NT4, SP6a and Windows 2000 SP1.

  • Install, set-up and configure a Windows NT4 PC running iPlanet Web Server with Merant’s PVCS Tracker, VM Server and VM I*Server.

  • Install and configure VPN server using PoPToP on hardened RedHat Linux 6.2 to allow developers to remotely access the development lab resources.  The PoPToP server supported people from Ottawa and Houston.

  • Spec out, install and configure a L-1000 HP Server for code development and testing.

  • Install and configure Oracle 8.1.6 and Oracle OAS9i on the L-1000 running HP-UX 11 for development and testing.

  • Patch HP-UX and Oracle as required.

  • Install and configure SAMBA on L-1000 to allow NT File Sharing from the client PCs to the L-1000.

  • Set-up and perform Operating System Backups and Oracle backups on the L-1000.

  • Support development environment.

Set-up and configure production environment.

  • Architect production machines consisting of 2 x L-2000 DB Servers, 2 x L-1000 Oracle Application Servers, 1 x B2000 HP control workstation and 4 x Compaq ML370 Application Servers.

  • Install and configure Oracle Parallel Server and redundant SQL*Net fail over on both L-2000 servers.

  • Install and configure Oracle iAS 9i on both L-1000 UNIX Application Servers.

  • Assemble rack for 4 x Compaq ML370 Windows NT Servers.  Install onto rack the Compaq servers.

  • Install a 3Com fiber-optic Gigabit Ethernet switch onto the existing Fast Ethernet network.

  • Provide system and database support for FAT and IFAT.

  • Design systems in Front End Engineering Design project for one of Comcept’s client.

  • Interact with company’s engineers to speck system requirements and design a system that will house the data warehouse intended to be developed for the client.

  • Interact with vendors of systems and vendors of applications to ensure that system designed will be adequate for the intended system.

  • Part of the team that produced the technical requirements document for the FEED project.

  • Set-up an office server running RedHat Linux 6.2 to provide network shares using SAMBA, DHCP, DNS and sendmail for the office

  • Migrated the company’s Internet server from Solaris x86 to LINUX. 

  • Developed a Firewall in order to migrate the company’s Internet connection from Dial-Up to dedicated.

  • Installed a WEB server in order to allow the company to deploy their web presence to the WEB.

  • Successfully recovered the company’s corporate data into a LINUX-Intel box from the crashed RISC box running AIX 4.

  • Upgraded to Oracle 8i on LINUX.

  • Upgrade Oracle 7.3 instances to Oracle 8.0.4 running on AIX 4.1.3.

  • Install and configure SAMBA on AIX4.0 server to provide NT4.0 services to workstations.

  • Upgrade hardware on desktop/laptop workstations and migrate office environment from Windows95 to NT Workstation 4.0 using automated deployment.

  • Install and configure a Netopia ISDN router and firewall to connect internal network to the Internet using dial-up ISDN.

  • Deploy a Web server on a PC running Linux for Intranet development.

  • Develop an inventory application for office and perform inventory of office equipment

Office Systems Upgrade/Support

  • Migrate office server from OS/2 to Solaris X86 v2.5 on a Compaq Pentium 100 MHz.

  • Configure desktop and laptop clients running Windows95 and OnNet 32 to connect to new server.

  • Configure UUCP to connect to the INTERNET for e-mail.

Petroleum66 Project in Houston Texas

  • Install and configure a RS/6000 J30 running AIX 4.1.4, as an Oracle 7.2 and Oracle 7.3 database server along with NFS server and LPR/Print server.

  • Create a development environment for PowerBuilder 4 and later 5 running against Oracle 7.2 on AIX.

AGIP Project with IBM Italy.

  • Install and configure SCO Open Desktop on a Compaq 486-DXII/66 with the Open Desktop Development package.

  • Participate in the development of standards for the GUI being developed in UNIFACE 5.2f for OS/2 and Uniface 6.1c6 for MS/Windows.

  • Use BACHMAN/DBA CASE tool to analyze Business Model (defined in BACHMAN/Analyst) and generate DDL for Oracle 7.0.16 running in OS/2 and for Oracle 7.1.4 running on SCO Open Desktop 3.0.

  • Document, develop and implement backup strategy for the Oracle RDBMS in the development lab and for the customer site in Europe.

  • Consult to the Project Manager to define hardware requirements for the move from Oracle on OS/2 to Oracle on SCO Open Desktop and later to Oracle 7 of AIX.

PROMIS Systems Corporation, Toronto, On

Software Engineer (UNIX Administrator/Oracle DBA)

BOEING CANADA, de Havilland Division, Downsview, On

SYSTEMS ANALYST (UNIX Administration/ORACLE DBA)       

BOEING CANADA, de Havilland Division, Downsview, On

MANUFACTURING ENGINEER (PROCESS PLANNER)