Michael A Gallagher - Resume

Michael A. Gallagher
Email:  mike@mgmtech.us     
Mobile:  630-338-5520

Summary
Over fifteen years of extensive experience in large, demanding technical environments.  Self-directed, proactive, dedicated and dependable.  Excellent performance under pressure in addition to exceptional oral and written communication skills.  Working independently and within a small team to develop and support enterprise wide IT solutions networking projects on both the front and back-end. Projects include: analyzing networks, architecting database and server infrastructure, network topographies, and enterprise-level applications. Troubleshooting local and remote LAN and WAN connectivity issues. Administration, management and maintenance of network devices including routers, switches, firewalls/VPN, load- balancers and file servers. Network management including a variety of enterprise level applications.  Unix family platform (Sun Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, BSD, Redhat Linux) and Microsoft Windows.





Education

Olivet Nazarene University, Kankakee, IL
Masters of Business Administration, 1997

Southern Illinois University. Carbondale, IL
Graduated: December, 1988.
Obtained: B.S. Electronics Engineering/Management

Post Graduate Studies in Computer Science Engineering and Information Systems

University of Phoenix. Chicago, IL
Currently pursuing M.S. in Computer Science MIS, (2005 Estimated)                    

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

Sun Systems Administrator
HP Systems Administrator
Oracle 8 Database Administrator
Cisco Network Support Administrator
Microsoft Windows NT Administrator
TCP/IP Certified
MicroStrategy Data Warehouse Certified

Experience
Bank of America, Chicago, IL
Sr. Consultant
06/05 – 08/05
Responsibilities
Responsible for 24 X 7 support of production mission critical Hewlett Packard, Solaris, and Linux servers.  Environment was running Weblogic, Veritas, Veritas Cluster Server and Foundations Suite.  Responsible for applications, database and operating systems support of the enterprise.


JP Morgan BankOne, Chicago, IL
Sr. Consultant
1/05 – 06/05
Responsibilities
Responsible for 24 X 7 support of production mission critical Hewlett Packard, Solaris, and Linux servers.  Environment was running Veritas Cluster Server, MC ServiceGuard, Veritas Foundations Suite, Solstice Disk Suite, and Logical Volume Manager.  Responsible for developing software for automated monitoring and using Sun Management Center for Solaris monitoring.  Duties called for rotating pager support for mission critical applications.  Responsible for all facets of the Unix Operating system including Bind, DNS, SMTP, NFS, NIS, NNTP, VCS, VVM and analysis of applications running on these platforms.  Oracle 9i administration included maintaining and supporting a database used by Sun Management Center.  Responsible for Backup and Recovery, day to day administration, security and replication.  Software used was C, SQL, PL/SQL, Perl, Shell scripting, awk, and sed.   Familiar with SAN and NAS concepts and multi domain servers in HP and Sun.


Openwave Systems, Chicago, IL
Sr. Consultant
05/04 – 1/05
Responsibilities
Cingular Wireless
Responsible for a fifty node enterprise Sun server farm.  Responsibilities included administrating servers and applications, databases residing on servers.  Solaris 8 was the primary operating system used.  Responsible for server management, upgrades, day to day Systems Administration.  Veritas Foundations Suite, Veritas Cluster Server, Oracle 9i Administration, firewall analysis, Solstice Disk Suite, Jump Start, patching and upgrades.  Application was implemented for wireless communications for use with Cellular handsets to enable web browsing.  Application consisted of 23 Sun Solaris Nodes, Load Balancers, Radius Servers and more.  EMC storage SAN network implemented and administrated with SYMCLI, PowerPath and utility console.  Responsible for day to day operations, upgrades, patch management, backup and recovery of database and operating systems, performance and tuning of operating systems and databases.  Supporting all of the web base servers for Nextel and Cingular Wireless browser based phones. These systems support 1,000,000 users nationwide and require 7/24/365 availability.  Software was ported for Solaris, HP and AIX and certified against Oracle 9i.  LDAP component was also used to query and update subscriber information.  Familiar with SAN and NAS concepts and multi domain servers in HP and Sun.

Classified Ventures, LLC (Chicago Tribune), Chicago, IL
01/04 – 05/04
Responsibilities
Sole responsibility for a twenty-five node Sun server farm.  Responsibilities included administrating servers and applications, databases residing on servers.  Solaris 8 was the primary operating system used.  Responsible for server management, upgrades, hardware and software server builds, jumpstart configuration, apache, relocation of server farm from Oakbrook to Elk Grove Village where most servers were housed.  Additional responsibilities include Big IP administration (F5), SNMP configuration and monitoring, implementation of monitoring and management tools and Redhat Linux 9 administration.  Also responsible for DNS, SMTP mail and Netbackup.  Responsible for day to day operations, upgrades, patch management, backup and recovery of database and operating systems, performance and tuning of operating systems and databases.  Familiar with SAN and NAS concepts and multi domain servers in HP and Sun.



Aon Corporation, Chicago, IL
03/03 – 01/04
Consultant
Responsibilities
Project Management of technical projects over millions of dollars.
Group Manager reporting two levels below Chief Information Officer
Administration and support of a 75 node Sun server farm.  Veritas products include administration and configuration of the following, Netbackup, Veritas Volume Manager and file system, Flash snap, Volume Replicator and Veritas Cluster Server.  In addition implemented and administrated databases as follows: Oracle with advanced and standby server replication, Sybase and SQL Server.  Used and maintained Autosys  and performed in depth Solaris administration along with scripting and development.  Worked with application servers such as Imanage application server, Websphere database administration.  Administrated web servers such as Tomcat and Apache and IIS.  Responsible for day to day operations, upgrades, patch management, backup and recovery of database and operating systems, performance and tuning of operating systems and databases.  Responsible for Windows 2003 Advanced Server administration, implementation and support.  Also responsible for Business Objects implementation and Websphere implementation.
Familiar with SAN and NAS concepts and multi domain servers in HP and Sun.


Sapient Corporation at Motorola, Inc
03/03 – 04/03
Consultant
Responsibilities
Designed and implemented logical and physical database model for an OLTP database application.  Performed database and systems architecture, database implementation and support of SQL Server 2000 databases.  Used ER Studio, Rational Rose to create and maintain the data model and DDL scripts.  Developed PL/SQL scripts and performed performance and tuning for the databases.  Used Microsoft source safe and maintained the source safe database for the developers and self.  Used DB Artisan and native tools to maintain and administrate the databases.  
Administration of Web Logic application for a team of 50 developers.  Performed Windows 2000 server administration for a 50 node network.  Responsible for end user and server administration.  Responsible for Windows 2003 Advanced Server administration, implementation and support.


Acxiom Corp, Downers Grove, IL                                                                                                          
01/02  - 03/03
Responsibilities:
Performed HP-UX and Solaris Systems Administration tasks for a large customer base belonging to Acxiom Corporation.
Responsible for implementing and supporting high availability systems using MC/ServiceGuard and Veritas cluster manager for the HP and Sun environments on multiple servers.
Performed SAP Basis administration with SAP Basis 4.6C.  Performed system installs, upgrades and multiple functions on a large landscape containing two database servers, three application servers, development, Q/A and integration testing.
Wrote various programs and scripts in the following languages; C, Perl, Shell, SQL and PL/SQL.
Responsible for the Oracle database in which the SAP systems were running on.  Performed and designed backup and recovery, disaster recovery procedures.  Performed day-today operations and database recovery procedures for the SAP databases.  Performed system refreshes on a monthly basis to test and non-production servers in the landscape.  
Administrated applications on Linux (Mandrake and Redhat) for a 10 node network.  Performed systems administration tasks with AIX for a 20 node network.  Responsible for day to day operations, upgrades, patch management, backup and recovery of database and operating systems, performance and tuning of operating systems and databases.


Family Video, Springfield, IL                                                                                      
10/01 – 01/02
Consultant
Responsibilities:
Windows 2000 Administrator
Backend Administrator for Oracle Financials 11i
Administration of Oracle 8i including performance and tuning. Backup and recovery, security administration, Net 8 administration, patches and environment setup and architecture ADI, AP, GL, AR and Inventory
Provided training to client personnel.  Administrated Cisco 6000 routers for interfacing 200 stores throughout the US.  
Administrated applications on Linux (Mandrake and Redhat) for a 50 node network used as servers for an ISP vendor.
Administrated MySQL databases for the ISP operation.  Responsible for Windows 2000 Server administration, implementation and support.  Responsible for Lan/Wan management with Cisco 2800, 3800 and 7200 series routers and Catalyst 5000 switches.  Directly responsible for 8 Windows 2000 servers in mission critical applications supporting core business areas.


Cingular Wireless                                                                                                        
12/00 – 07/0
Consultant
Performed database administration functions in a Solaris environment using Oracle versions 7, 8i and 9i.  
Used Erwin to create and maintain the OLTP data models. Performed Solaris system administration functions with a variety of SUN hardware.  
Responsible for the administration of 100+ servers and workstations.  (Hardware includes SPARC, Ultra, E2500, and E4500.  HP N, V, L Class Servers)
Managed environments running DNS, sendmail, NIS and proprietary applications.  Responsible for 24X7 support of all systems.  Used Veritas File system and Volume Management, Solstice Disksuite, Sun Cluster Manager 2.2, Secure Shell (SSH), SQL, PL/SQL, Stored Procedures, Triggers etc

Dempsey and Co.                                                
05/00 – 12/00
Consultant
Planned and executed the re-architecture, implementation, and transition an IT infrastructure that supports the client's equity trading function.  Responsible for 75 workgroup and domain clients.
Analyzed, designed, constructed and implemented enterprise wide server and database architecture.  
Administrated Oracle databases running on Solaris 8 used to store and analyze trading and financial information to support business functions.
Configured backup and Primary Domain controllers.  
Configured Cisco network gear for point-to-point communications to Internet and to Dempsey clientele.  
Used Norton Ghost to reproduce system images.  
Configured Linux Server with Red Hat 6.2 for DNS, pop3 mail, Samba and web server services.  
Configured Apache web server to be used to serve the dempseyco.com domain.  
Responsible for operations of 3 Solaris servers serving Nasdaq applications and 2 Solaris servers serving a proprietary application called BRASS.  
Implemented and maintained Check Point V4.0 firewall for network security.
Implemented a trade server to allow personnel to make live trades via their homes.  
HP-UX 11.0 running on K and N class servers, Sun Cluster Manager 2.2, Sun Solaris 2.8 running on E2500 in a clustered environment.  Responsible for Lan/Wan management with Cisco 2800, 3800 and 7200 series routers and Catalyst 5000 switches.  Responsible for Microsoft Server environment using Windows 2000 server supporting over 30+ users on the trading floor.  Directly responsible for 6 Windows 2000 servers in mission critical applications supporting core business areas.


City of Chicago                                              
01/00 – 05/00
Consultant
Project Manager and participant for implementation of the City of Chicago's Network Operations Center:  A large heterogeneous network consisting of Nortell and Cisco routers and switches.  Concentrated on LAN/WAN technologies such as Ethernet, ISDN, T-1, Frame Relay and ATM switching.  
Designed, architected and supported Oracle 8 databases containing network data. Performed duties such as modeling, architecture, backup and recovery, performance and tuning and security
Administration of Cluster Manager 2.2, HPUX 10.20 and 11.0 with MC/Serviceguard
Implemented and configured HP Open View 6.0, HP ITO 5.0, HP ITA 3.2 and Net Metrix 6.0.  
Managed and administrated SUN Solaris Servers, Net Probes with ITO and ITA and Net Metrix. Installed and configured Autosys.  
Implemented and administrated Compaq Servers running Windows NT 4.0. and NT 4.0 Terminal Server.  
Implemented Glance Plus Pak and Perf RX into HP ITO across a Solaris Server environment.  
Administrated and maintained Checkpoint Database for the City's firewall.  
Developed an auditing program to track adds, deletes and changes to firewall records, rules and objects.

Diamond Technology Partners                                                                                
12/99 – 01/00
Consultant
Built a Sun infrastructure:
Administrated Sun Ultra Sparc 4500 servers to support an e-Commerce infrastructure
Performed database administration for an Oracle 8i based development environment supporting an OLTP web application, Infoseek Ultra Seek development, WebLogic Administration and development, java scripting, shell scripting, Perl programming and C development.
Used Erwin to create relational data model

Comdisco Corp.                                                                                                        
07/99 – 12/99
Consultant
Project Manager and direct participant for Oracle DB and HP implementations.
Lead Oracle DBA.  Responsible for a multiple instance OLTP application environment. Used Oracle 8i, 8.1.5, 8.0.5, Oracle Enterprise Manager Server configuration, Oracle Diagnostic and Tuning Pack.
Performance tuned the OLTP database
Supported developers and customers.  Executed database backup and recovery strategy and replication.  Implemented, created, tuned and maintained each database instance.
Performed server administration and configuration on Hewlett Packard V Class and N Class servers.

Oracle Corporation                                                            
01/99 – 07/99
Consultant
Implemented an infrastructure for the Chicago Public Schools:
Designed and implemented a Hewlett Packard Server farm required for Oracle Financials, HR, and GL, AR in Oracle 8.0 and Financials 11.2 environment.  Server farm consisted of the following Hewlett Packard products: HP Open View Omni Back, HP-UX Version 11.0 64 bit, V Class and 10 K Class Servers, MC ServiceGuard, HP Open View/ ITO, K Class Servers, Process Resource Manager,
Supported multiple Oracle 8 databases used to store Chicago Public Schools data.  Responsible for day-to-day support, architecture, modeling, backup and recovery and security.
EMC Disk Arrays with Time Finder
Provided round the clock operations support and formal training to operators and administrators for handoff.

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory                                                  
08/98 – 01/99
Consultant
Upgraded Prism Software's FAMIS, a Maintenance Management package, from Rel. 5.0 (AIX based) to Rel. 6.0 (Windows NT 4.0 based).  
Devised database architecture (Oracle 7.3.3); planned and executed the conversion, performance tuned the database; set up backup and recovery procedures; and customized the application using PL/SQL, Stored Procedures, SQL, and PRO*C.
Performed data and application testing for data migration and cleansing efforts and installed application level patches.

Computer Sciences Corporation, Inc.                                      
05/98 – 08/98
Consultant
Assigned to Year 2000 conversion project:
Administrated Oracle 7 databases
Implemented and supported HP ITO and HP OpenView
24 X 7 Infrastructure support of a 200 Node network comprised of various HP, AIX and NCR servers
Systems programming for enhanced functionality and support of HP ITO using MIBS
Implemented and upgraded servers
Maintained various Unix sub systems including, DNS, NFS, security, scheduling, Logical Volume Manager.
Developed multiple modules of Web based Intranet application used for support personnel.
Configured and supported Oracle 7.3 running on HP-UX 10.20 for the purpose of supporting network databases.

Renaissance Worldwide                                         
04/97 – 05/98
Sr. Consultant
Representative Assignments:
Motorola Communications and Electronics (10/97 – 04/98)
Conducted a Network Management project for Motorola Sector Networking.
Implemented, designed and configured a Network Management server used to control Motorola's peer-to-peer network.
Oracle Version 7 database architecture, design, implementation and administration
Implemented and devised the architecture of Sun Ultra 3 Server with Metropolis disk array in RAID 5 mode.
Integrated HP-OpenView, Cisco Works, Optivity, Concorde and MIB support. Built network configuration maps and database to client specifications.  Worldwide network is in excess of 300,000 devices.

CNA Insurance (06/97 – 10/97)
Overall responsibility was to make technical and process recommendations to management. Assisted the client with architecture, and re-engineering issues for a Data Warehousing system used to store and track claim and customer information.
Reviewed re-designed and tuned Sybase and Oracle stored procedures; "C" source code, awk, Perl and shell scripts.
Tuning tasks included normalization of the system data model, aggregate tables, re-indexing strategy, re analysis of query plans and optimization, Oracle and Sybase performance and tuning and Operating System tuning analysis.
Used Erwin to maintain and create data model
Motorola Communication and Electronics (04/97 – 06/97)
Performed software development and QA Testing for a Motorola wireless data product used to transmit data to remote mobile units.
TCP/IP, Assembler, Networking, SNMP, Product Development and Quality Assurance Test Concentrated on Windows 95 MFC, Winsock, Assembler, and low-level protocol analysis in Hexadecimal format.

Accenture (formerly: Anderson Consulting)                                       
09/95 – 03/97
Manager / Sr. Technical Consultant
Client: Business Integration Providers
Assisted customers in infrastructure configurations. Emphasis placed on all major UNIX platforms including HP-UX, Solaris, AT&T, and AIX, system design, configuration, performance and tuning and all aspects of UNIX and infrastructure.
Provided architecture, performance and tuning, and administrative services for Oracle and RDBMS issues.
Provided Engagement teams with expertise in server platform sizing, client/server architecture validation, UNIX implementation strategies, application architecture review/validation, interoperability and connectivity strategies/validation, operation backup/recovery strategies, custom technical document write-up, overall client/server project quality reviews.
Designed and developed numerous white papers and methodologies for Andersen internal use regarding Unix, System Hardware, RDBMS Performance and Tuning guidelines, vendor selection methodology for O.S., RDBMS, and server hardware, RDBMS and server sizing, performance with various applications.
                                                 
CNA Insurance (03/95 – 09/95)                                                                               
03/95 – 09/95
Consultant
Performed Oracle development using PL/SQL, PRO*C, triggers, stored procedures, sequences etc for the ARMS project.
Wrote “C” language programs using SCCS for source code control
Performed systems administration functions in HP-UX 10.x environment
Performed Oracle Database administration functions including performance and tuning, and backup and recovery
Application tuning and SQL tuning
Used shell programming, awk, sed and Perl to format data for data loads
Participated in data modeling and logical database design

Motorola Cordless Telephone Manufacturing
01/95 – 03/95
Consultant
Corporate Security Audit for computer infrastructure.
Platforms involved were HP-UX on HP-700 series workstations, System V R4 on Motorola MPC hardware. Project consisted of implementation of sysload, X-Windows auto locking mechanisms, TCP/IP and disaster recovery procedures.
Used "C" programming, shell scripting and UNIX administrative technology to meet Motorola Corporate guidelines. Responsible for design, support and change control of the new software modules. Database responsibilities include architecture review, implementation, data migration, optimization and implementing operation strategies.

Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group
09/94 – 01/95
Consultant
Developed network software modules to meet security guidelines specified by Motorola Corporate Computer Security. Project consisted of system and network-programming techniques in an HP-UX, Solaris, AIX and Apollo networked environment.
Performed extensive "C" programming, IPC techniques such as shared memory, socket I/O and pipes.
Used shell programming, Perl, awk, curses and sed to integrate new software modules.
Responsible for design, support and change control of the new software modules for a 300 node cellular network.

Motorola, Inc                                                                                                            03/89 – 09/94
Sr. Software Engineer / Sr. Network Engineer /Database Administrator / Unix Systems Administrator
Details of above experience are available on request.


Skill Sets
Systems Administration: HP-Certified System Administrator.  Perform senior level support for large HP-UX and Solaris environments.  Includes  server sizing and procurement, proactive hardware and software maintenance, disaster recovery planning, general security, filesystem creation & maintenance, kernel tuning, and performance monitoring.   Created Ignite-UX server and patch/application depots.  Worked in environment with 250+ servers on rotating 24X7 on-call schedule.

Systems Engineering: Perform hardware upgrades & reconfiguration of HP & Sun servers, O/S upgrades, patch research & installation, performance and storage optimization, advanced LVM/Veritas tasks, and data/application migration.  Actively reconfigure database servers to better utilize available resources.

Programming: Create well-documented tools using Perl 5.6.X, C, PL SQL, PRO*C, Assembler and Windows for application and systems development. Examples include: Automated LVM Volume Group creation and optimization, enterprise-wide user group modification, password file & UID unification, disk storage allocation reports, OmniBack auditing reports, Oracle database statistics/reports, various batch jobs, creation & gathering of configuration profiles from Unix servers for disaster recovery, and various critical-process monitoring tools.

Project Management: Manage work intake using well-developed procedures to analyze and meet business objectives. Includes extensive use of Microsoft Project, making technical recommendations, tracking progress, status reporting, allocating server resources and performing necessary administration/engineering work.

Capacity Planning: Analysis of business and application resource requirements for recommendations to Management.  Includes planning hardware & software upgrades, database migration & conversion, and proactively monitoring performance & resource utilization.  Acted as liaison between Facilities Management staff and Unix Support groups to coordinate the placement of Unix servers, EMC Storage Subsystems, STK Tape Backup Robotics, LAN connectivity and power infrastructure.

SAP Basis Administrator:  Performed all aspects of Basis administration from new configurations, upgrades and day-to-day administration.

DBA: Very strong DBA skills include database creation, user and security management, schema analysis, data imports & exports, storage usage statistics, and general maintenance.  Strong fundamental understanding of support issues in a shared database-server environment.  Involved with conversion of databases from Sybase to Oracle.  Familiar with Oracle 8i, 9i, SQL Server 2000 and Sybase.  Performed data modeling with ERWIN and Rational Rose for OLTP and data warehousing systems.  MicroStrategy and Oracle certified.  

Web Development: Mid-level skills using Macromedia Dreamweaver/Fireworks to create various websites.  Use Perl to generate web pages & reports.  Examples include a Small Business site, a small Data Warehouse, policies & procedures documentation site, and a contacts-management site.

Technical Writing: Create documentation to support technical proposals to management.   Create system-specific documentation for ease of maintenance.  Created a manual for ordering, procuring and building Unix servers within established guidelines. Also created a Policy & Procedures website for new and existing documents.  Document all procedures developed and scripts written.

Hardware
Hewlett Packard: K-Class, L-Class, L-Class, N-Class, T-Class and V-Class
Sun: Enterprise-class servers, UltraSPARC workstations, 280s, 450s, 4500s, 6800s, 420s, 4810, 480, 5200, A1000 & D1000 Storage Hardware
EMC: Storage Subsystems: Models 3430, 3500 and 3700
Cisco: Cisco IOS, Terminal Servers: Model 2511
F5: BigIP
Storage-Tek: DLT Libraries:  9710 and 9714
DEC: Storage Works Optical Jukebox

Software
Hewlett Packard: HP-UX 10.X & 11.0, MC/ServiceGuard, IT/OpenView, LVM, PRM, Ignite-UX, OmniBack 3.5, Glance, Perfview
Sun: Solaris 5.6 – 5.8, 8, 9 Veritas Volume Manager, Jumpstart, Veritas Cluster Manager, Solstice Disk Suite
Perl: 5.6.1 and below, perl module installation & use, ANSI C, ksh, gcc
Emc: Symmconsole, BCV, SRDF
Veritas: Disk Suite, Volume Manager, NetBackup
IBM: Websphere
Unicenter: Autosys
Apache Software Foundation:  Apache, SSL
Macromedia: Dreamweaver/Fireworks studio
Microsoft: NT 4.0, Win2000, Windows XP, 2000 Server, Visio, MS Project, 2003 Advanced Server
Red Hat: Linux 9.0 and previous, Fedora
Oracle: Oracle8.X, 9.X and Oracle Financials, WebDB, Oracle Admin Tools, SQL, PL/SQL and PRO*C
AT&T: SVR3/SVR4 Unix
SAP Basis: 4.6C