Jon R. Nials

jnials@gmail.com

CAPABILITIES:

· Architecture – Technical architecture and project management in a large IT environment

· Solutions – Proven analytical and problem solving abilities

· Systems Administration – Enterprise systems administration

· Management and Leadership – Experience running large and small teams

Skill Summary:

Languages	Python * C * Unix Shells * Perl
Operating Systems	Linux * AIX * BSD * Cisco IOS
Technologies	Kerberos * LDAP * SNMP * PostGres* MySQL * Email * OpenAFS * Routing and Switching * VOIP
Applications	OpenNMS * cfengine * BCFG2 * Visio 2003
Management & Leadership	Complex IT projects * Team leadership * Operations Management * Security auditing * Disaster recovery * Server room development and deployment * Budgeting and purchasing

EXPERIENCE:

Director of Operations

UnwiredBuyer, March 2007 to present

· Systems administration.

· Network Architecture and Administration.

· Infrastructure architecture and administration.

· Vendor relations, purchasing hardware, negotiating purchases.

· IT process and metric development.

Principal Consultant/Owner

Thanesoft, March 2002 to present

· Consulting on systems administration.

· Custom programming for customer web sites.

· Compiler maintenance.

· Network protocol testing.

Director of Operations

RenewData Corporation, March 2005 to April 2006

· Manage systems administration and database administration departments.

· Supervise 40+ Oracle servers with over 200 Terabytes of raw storage as well as 400+ windows machines acting as clients to the oracle database servers, and the development and QA environments.

· Led standardization of server environment.

· Develop policies and process for and manage corporate change review board.

· Managed deployment of enterprise tape library (StorageTek SL8500) and AIX servers (IBM p595 and p570).

Lead Systems Administrator

Digital Motorworks, ADP Dealer Services, July 2003 to March 2005

· Wrote programs and scripts to automate systems administration work.

· Lead team that manages the enterprise server farm.

· Linux and Solaris systems administration.

· Standardized and upgraded hardware and software server platforms.

· Architected new mail system.

Senior Programmer

CDI, February 2002 to January 2003

· Performance analysis of their complex computing environment.

· Developed performance tests and strategies, collected data into various relational databases (MySQL, Postgres).

· Developed a statistical model for their computing environment.

Senior Programmer

CDI, February 2001 to September 2001

· Maintenance programming and debugging of a complex software product (DCE).

· Wrote and debugged threaded code in C/C++ and IDL on Solaris, AIX.

Manager of Internal Development

Nowdocs, January 2000 to January 2001

· Designed and developed nationwide back end distributed print system.

· Lead development and deployment of intranet site that managed vacation, payroll, call center.

· Managed department of 9 people, including webmaster, programmers, and database architect. Built solid IT development team from scratch.

Senior IT Architect

IBM Global Services, May 1999 to December 1999

· Responsible for architecture and administration of the test environment for IBM internal web site delivery.

· Developed tools and scripts to automate environment.

· Mentoring and training of Junior systems administrators.

· Member of team providing corporate direction on midrange systems architecture and administration.

Senior IT Specialist & Team Technical Lead

IBM Global Services, January 1997 to May 1999

· Wrote tools and scripts to automate systems administration.

· Responsible for day to day operations of over 120 site servers, 2500 workstations, 12 Terabytes of data storage (8 Terabytes allocated).

· Led enterprise IT team of over 40 people, as well as served as Unix platform architect for multi-site IT re-engineering efforts.

· Developed and managed processes for regional and site operations.

Advisory IT Specialist & DFS Team Lead

IBM Global Services, February 1996 to December 1997

· Designed and deployed DCE/DFS (Distributed File System) implementation, as a replacement for AFS (Andrew File System) on the Austin Site.

· Led the team responsible for deployment

· Developed tools, scripts, and educational materials for deployment of DCE/DFS.

Advisory IT Specialist

IBM Global Services, October 1995 to February 1996

· Began developing infrastructure and architecture for DCE/DFS replacement for AFS.

· Developed tools, scripts, and educational materials for deployment of DCE/DFS.

Staff Programmer

IBM, March 1995 to October 1995

· Tool development for internal IT.

· Sendmail administration, Perl, moved news service from Bnews/Cnews to INN.

Technical Support Specialist

Volt Technical Services, October 1994 to March 1995

· Hardware and software technical support for a custom engineering company.

Programmer

IBM, March 1994 to October 1994

· Tool development for internal IT. HP Openmail administration, Perl, Sendmail, wrote utilities to convert internal address books from mainframe to X.500 with Openmail

Systems Administrator

Logical Information Machines, May 1992 to March 1994

· Wrote and maintained tools and scripts to Manage over two gigabytes of stock and commodities data, as well as distributing the data to customers.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Park University