Experience

RCH Solutions

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• System Engineer

  • Apr 2014 - Present

  Providing all aspects of remote Unix support for scientific computing environments. Providing all aspects of remote Unix support for scientific computing environments.



Merck & Co.

• Rahway, NJ

• Lead Engineer - High Performance Computing

  • 1997 - 2013

  • Senior member of the team managing a distributed High Performance Computing environment for pharmaceutical research spanning four geographic sites utilizing three compute architectures, multiple clusters and petabytes of storage • Led initiatives to plan, test, install and configure NAS and SAN systems to provide petabytes of data to researchers and supervised roll-outs at remote sites • Used excellent technical writing skills to create extensive documentation of the physical environment, operational procedures, problem diagnosis methodologies, etc., and to provide clear, understandable reports to management as needed (writing samples available upon request) • Performed and managed extensive testing, selection, implementation and management of large IBM POWER systems • Acted as mentor and teacher for newer, less experienced personnel • Led project to decommission excess and obsolete computer systems and migrate functionality to newer systems • Supervised and coordinated the efforts of junior team members • Planned, created and executed disk benchmark test suites • Solely responsible for Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) versions 3.7 - 6.3 planning, installation, upgrade, configuration, and performance tuning to provide near-line backup and archive functions and offsite data storage for disaster recovery purposes • Utilized extensive programming experience to automate system administration tasks (code samples available upon request) • Planned and managed installation, use and upgrades of IBM automated tape libraries and enterprise-class tape devices • Installed, configured and managed high performance and parallel file systems for high-speed access to large databases, cluster-wide scratch spaces, user data, etc. • Performed extensive diagnosis and root cause analysis of complex problems • Implemented and maintained cluster job management/grid computing systems to provide end users with simple, transparent access to a complex heterogeneous compute environment



IBM Global Services

• Consultant

  • 1989 - 1997

  • Managed AIX/Unix distributed systems in commercial and technical computing environments • Performed MVS (now z/OS) mainframe system programming, operating system and application software installation and maintenance • Used extensive knowledge of operating system internals for problem root cause analysis using traps, traces, dumps, etc. to minimize need for the slower IBM remote support process • Performed system performance tuning to optimize systems for the required workloads • Utilized experience in IBM System/370 Assembly Language programming for projects like JES2 exits and dynamic disk allocation routines to aid both operations staff and application programmers • Integrated IBM commercial mainframe into a computational chemistry environment to provide scientists access to large scale computing power for the first time • Led projects to replace IBM mainframes with Unix systems, including writing documentation and training mainframe staff • Led projects to install and integrate IBM Scalable Power Parallel (SP) systems for scientific research and for commercial applications like SAP