Brian D. Robinson

105 Blossom Ridge Trail                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  (770) 774-7440

Fayetteville, GA 30214                                                                                              brian@brianrobinson.us                                                                                            cell (770) 235-5700

 

SUMMARY

Tivoli Storage Management and UNIX Administrator with a strong background and skills in Business Continuity, Enterprise System Monitoring, and  Security in the Transportation and Federal Government sectors. Helping you expand your system capabilities with ensuring data protection.

EXPERIENCE

Norfolk Southern Railway, Atlanta Ga                                                                                                                                                                                                       1997 - Present

A Major Class 1 Railroad in the United States, the company operates 21,500 route miles in 22 eastern states, the District of Columbia and the province of Ontario, Canada.

 

Tivoli Storage Management and UNIX Administrator.                                                                                                                                                                            (2005-Present)

·         One of two TSM administrators managing over 450 AIX, Solaris, Linux, and Windows servers at multiple datacenters, insuring all data is securely backed up and electronically vaulted to a Disaster Recovery datacenter daily.

·         Reconfigured the existing TSM resources and environment to best fit the customers' needs for a cost savings of over $250,000.00 this year alone.

·         Tested quarterly the Disaster Recovery procedures and capabilities of all systems I was responsible for by actually failing over to those systems and proving availability and continuity of systems and data with no impact to current production processing.

·         Implemented and managed the enterprise monitoring software  AppManager by NetIQ. This was used on all UNIX and Linux servers, monitoring and reporting of performance and availability, so that Service Level Agreements with customers and other groups were being met. This also allowed for a lights out approach to server monitoring allowing for a reduction in man hours needed to perform the same tasks.

·         Designed the architecture, implemented and managed the security software Secure Configuration Manager by NetIQ. The software is being used to ensure that all UNIX and Linux servers are being hardened / secured to IT Security Policy, Best Practices, and Sarbanes Oxley compliance.

·         As a team Installed AIX P series servers that were subsequently built out as multiple virtual servers so that we could migrate older stand alone servers to these virtual servers reducing the datacenter footprint, cooling and electrical needs and in the end reducing cost.

·         Verified  daily the performance of the AIX servers I was responsible for and made sure that all micro-code and operating system patches were up to date to insuring reliability.

·         Designed the architecture and implementation of the enterprise monitoring software Tivoli Monitoring by IBM. This software is replacing the NetIQ AppManager application above.

Relational Database and Security Administrator                                                                                                                                                                                      (1997-2005)

·         All aspects of server and database security pertaining to user registration / revocation, application security, risk assessment, SOX compliance, and auditing (MS SQL, Sybase, DB2 UDB)

·         The Distributed Database Systems primary point person for Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery planning, implementation, and full system testing on a quarterly basis of over 100 applications

·         Responsible for the installation and administration of 80 MS SQL Database servers (SQL 7, and 2000)

·         Implementation of replication and log-shipping between data centers and Eastern States

·         Set-up monitoring of all database servers for quick off-hours support

·         Actively provided assistance to development teams in the development of T-SQL code for best-practices (stored procedures, DTS, triggers)

·         Redesigned for scalability a single-tier environment utilizing three servers to a multi-tiered environment utilizing eight servers incorporating fail-over clustering

·         Responsible for the administration of 35 Sybase Servers

·         Performed Sybase database administration in support of a Sybase to DB2 UDB migration

·         Mentored 3 junior database administrators

EARLIER CAREER EXPERIENCE

 

WANG Federal Inc.,U.S.Forces Command, Atlanta, GA - Senior Systems Consultant

 

Computer Sciences Corporation, MacDill AFB, Tampa FL - Senior Member of the Technical Staff

 

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Hardware                        IBM, SUN, HP/COMPAQ

Operating Systems         AIX, Solaris, Linux, Windows 2003 Server

Databases                        SQL Server, SQL, Analysis Services, SYBASE, DB2

 Programming                  UNIX Shell Scripts, SQL, T-SQL, C, C DCL, COBOL, IDS, TP

 Protocols / Services        TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, Terminal Services, Clustering Services

 Miscellaneous                 Tivoli Storage Management, CommVault, Netiq AppManager, Secure Configuration Manager, Security Manager, DBArtisan, Quest, PVCS

MILITARY SERVICE:  U.S. ARMY 1976 – 1983

EDUCATION:  Clayton State College 1/81 - 10/81