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IT Specialist Cell (815) 236-1511  Office (815) 338-7988





IT Specialist - Randy Spina spina@mc.net Ph: 815-338-7988 / Cell: 815-236-1511

Randy Spina; with 20 years experience working with Information Systems as an architect, administrator and consultant. I

have a mastery level of several flavors of UNIX/Linux as well as Windows. I have excellent customer relationship skills and

have been involved with installing and supporting third party software. The following goes over my key strengths:



* Solution Identification * Product Evaluation-Benchmarking * System Sizing * Scripting/Programming * Documentation

* Performance * Configuration Design * Installations/Implementations * Operational Procedure Creation * Networking *

Instruction (teaching) * Competitive Research * Backend Computing Environments * IT Security * Business Integration

Software * Business Systems * Technical Systems * Large Scale Desktop Environments * Data Collections * Process

Control * Real-Time Computing * High Availability (HA) Clusters * Compute Clusters * Load Balancing * VMWARE –

Client and Server * Application Support * Windows/Unix interoperability * Unix Desktop to Windows Desktop Conversion



Available for immediate interviews.



TECHNICAL SKILLS AND TRAINING

* Unix Sys-Admin * Linux / Open Source Software * Windows for the Enterprise * Oracle Apps/DB support

* Internet Security * Network Manager (OV) * Operations Center (OV) * Windows Core Technologies

* Ignite UX * SystemImager *Veritas Clustering (VCS) * MC/Serviceguard clustering * SANs

* Various Shell Languages * 3G and 4G Languages * Graphics Specialist * Real-Time Computing

* HP Products & Services * Theory of Operations of Unix * HPUX Internals * Samba/CIFS

EDUCATION

Bradley University, Peoria Illinois

Bachelors Degree Electrical Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE



CULLIGAN - NORTHBROOK, ILLINOIS 2006-PRESENT

UNIX/LINUX CONSULTANT

 Hired to conduct systems analysis, add automation (improve processes), document and train a newly formed

team that inherited a cluster of UNIX/Linux systems running the corporate Financial, ERP and Data

Warehouse applications.

 Functional areas improved included daily MFG/Pro-Progress DB backups, BaaN-Oracle DB Backups, Vertex

Taxing Application management improvements including transaction archive and Tax Reporting. Other areas

included SAN storage reconfiguration (Storageworks EVA), USER authentication centralization and

management (LDAP/Active Directory), Tape Backup reconfiguration (Tivoli), and Data Warehouse

application startup (CyberQuery).

 Analyzed, scripted, documented and participated in off hours and weekend “go-live” company owned store

conversion processes to QAD/MFG-Pro.

 Completed project in record time handing the team dozen’s of process improvement scripts and accompanying

documentation. They are now very capable of handling day-to-day operations.

 This project success was a direct result of my many years of experience mixing direct UNIX administrative

technical skills, documentation skills, startup, and training skills. The Culligan IT Director and CIO are

extremely satisfied and available for comment.

Randy Spina



USG - CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 2005-2006

UNIX CONSULTANT

 Worked on the Infrastructure team to build the technology necessary to support the development and

production of a brand new CRM system based on Oracle.

 This UNIX server based LAN and WAN environment included subsystems for high availability using

clustering from Veritas, VxVM, and Veritas back-up software as well as HP Hitachi-based SAN

technologies.

 Installed, analyzed and reported a global performance analysis over 54 large systems.

 Chartered to champion the UNIX level 4-Security design and implementation, which passed Risk

Management assessment with flying colors. Wrote over 120 scripts in 3 months to maintain security and

improve system and user management productivity. All of this was provided with full documentation.

 Participated in On-Call duties and off-hours system upgrades.

 Fielded questions via phone from clients and business users for “go-live stage” of the project.

 Participated in the "Go-Live" event. This included a temporary staffed "Situation Room", in which I was

selected as a front-line phone answering person because of systems knowledge and soft skills.





CONSULTING COMPANY - CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 2004-2005

UNIX Consultant

TransUnion

 Designed and Implemented 2 HA clusters using ServiceGuard for Linux (SG/LX). This RedHat

Enterprise Linux 3.0 based project was so successful; the customer requested I stay on for more services

well beyond the original statement of work.

 Accomplished the original contract to implement an IBM WebSphere/MQ HA service and then went on

to implement Apache http services, NFS services, and MySql database services.



AKDHC

 Diagnosed and improved system performance.

 For this UNIX based Medical Financials installation I conducted a performance analysis and improved

system response time.





HEWLETT PACKARD - CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 1979 – 2004



Job Responsibilities:

Set up the hardware, installed the Operating Environments, Loaded the Applications, Developed software

customizations where necessary, and created management schemes and documentation. The solution was then

transferred to the customer. I was successful in every project presented to me.



Solution Architect (1997-2004)

 Supported five sales specialists in solution identification, benchmarking, system sizing, competitive

research and configuration generation.

 Delivered technical results.

 Led customer implementations.

 Managed customer problem resolutions ensuring total customer satisfaction. Effectiveness was

optimized by proactively ensuring leading edge technical proficiency in hardware and operating systems.

 Managed individual customer sites for the evaluation and installation of new products.







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 Maintained technical expertise for System Administration through direct hands on administration and

support for systems at customer sites, pre-and post sales.

 Created and delivered solutions using LINUX RedHat 6.5, 7.0, 8.0, Enterprise Server (ES) 2.1 and ES

3.0

 Created and delivered solutions using Windows NT workstation, Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000

server.

 Created and delivered solutions using HPPUX 11i version 1.2 and 2.0.

 Penetrated new ground, winning OEM deal for Medical Imagery ($7 million annually - new business)

 Selected as one of three Midwest Regional staff to be trained on Intel’s 64bit computing product line.

 Created and authored white paper and lectured on Unix-Windows interoperability providing HP with

leadership recognition and technical expertise.

 Honored with the CEO Customer Satisfaction Award for quick resolution of key account’s major issue.

 Achieved four Individual Contributor Awards based on exceeding performance standards and achieving

high customer satisfaction.

 Selected to provide technical support leadership for new product launch of HP’s Visualization Product

(SV6).

 Created and implemented national sales training presentation of new products ensuring increased

knowledge base to improve sales cycles.



Sales Technical Consultant - Manufacturing Business Unit (1992-1997)

 Provided technical accuracy for all Midwest regional sales efforts for HP UNIX (HPUX) focused on the

manufacturing sector. This included commercial business transactional and modeling systems,

Engineering design systems and analysis applications, Network management, and Operations control

applications (HP Openview). Supported efforts for SDKs (software development kits).

 Developed and implemented a non-stop backup solution for systems using an Oracle database providing

continuous operations on a Unix server, which replaced the high cost of a mainframe computer. This

was accomplished using EMC Symmetrix storage systems with its “Business Continuity Volumes”

(BCVs) along with “Logical Volume Manage” (LVM) 3-way mirroring technology. Online split mirror

technology was used to allow offline backup/restore snapshot capability

 Developed/Scripted systems administration techniques to manage 500 CAD workstations per

administrator increasing productivity of the IT department.

 Implemented HP Openview in new accounts greatly reducing operational costs.

 Created/Scripted systems analysis program for an SAP environment, providing automated system health

check, eliminating costly manual effort.



HP Unix specialist (1985-1992)

Supported a variety of customers both technical and commercial

 Helped Develop Technical Manual and Training class for “Real-Time Programming for Unix”

 Wrote C language based software interface between test equipment controllers and an Oracle database

providing management new capability for reporting.

 Wrote C language UDP sockets based software programs creating the functionality for clustered Unix

systems to “watch” each other react as specified (flexibly with arguments).

 Led all efforts supporting the Midwest regional area major accounts retaining all accounts.

 Facilitated sales training to field offices teaching new product releases ensuring smooth rollouts.

 Increased customer satisfaction, monitoring maintenance releases, updates and upgrade releases.

 Accountable for identifying and selecting enhancements and system sizing satisfying customer

requirements.

 Selected as lead Technical Advisor for all UNIX related trade shows.





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Real Time Computing Specialist (1979-1985)

 Sales support for HP’s Real-Time-Executive (RTE) computing environment.

 Specialized in Data Acquisition, Test Equipment Control, and Business systems transaction front ends.

 Activities included sales support, instructing, consulting, system configuration, and software porting.

 Received four Excellence Awards.

 Implemented process control system for brand new processing plant reducing staff from several hundred

to twenty.

 Supported Automated Test Systems for Military aircraft maintenance decreasing diagnostic time.









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