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Chris Mattingly
5360 Autumn Harvest Dr
Kernersville,NC27284
chris@camattin.com, http://www.linkedin.com/in/camattin
SKILLS OVERVIEW:
- Middleware, Unix and Security Engineer with over 15 years IT experience, including 7 of those years in the financial sector
- WebSphere Application Server & MQ advanced administration/configuration/tuning
- Apache/IHS and Netscape/iPlanet web server administration
- Strong Solaris, Linux, AIX, and HP/UX systems administration skills
- Perl and Unix shell scripting
- Excellent problem solving skills coupled with a proven track record of fast adaptation of new software and products
- Network architecture and design
EXPERIENCE:
Senior Systems Engineer 06/2011-Present
Adaptivity, Inc.
- Support and architect internal environments including guests running on multiple versions of VMWare and standalone firewall, switches and NAS devices
- Support and architect external environments (demo, QA, production) hosted in a cloud provider
- Troubleshoot java-based applications
- Create DR procedures and documentation for our cloud-based hosted solutions
Senior Client Technical Architect (Client Technical Lead) 06/2010-05/2011
AT&T
- Provide overall system, network, and application architecture for a variety of AT&T Managed Hosting clients
- Provide application support Websphere AppServer, Websphere Portal, Websphere Commerce, Websphere MQ, IBM IHS
- Provide advanced troubleshooting for all aspects of the clients’ services hosted with AT&T
- Maintain documentation for the clients’ software and systems to assist teammates and off-shore resources with supporting the clients
- Maintain a working relationship with the clients’ technical contacts
- Provide 24x7x365 oncall support for the clients under my realm of responsibility
- Train and mentor less-senior staff
- Technical reviews of all changes impacting client environments
Sr. Web Systems Engineer 5 06/2005-06/2010
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., formerly Wachovia Bank, N.A.
- Provide application system administration for critical Wachovia internet applications running under WebSphere Application Server, including product installation, patching, upgrades, etc.
- Troubleshoot and debug application issues including application performance and JVM tuning
- Provide MQ administration for multiple applications in the critical path for multiple internet-facing Wachovia applications, including new installations and patches/upgrades
- Implement changes on a scheduled and emergency basis for the application developers in test, lab and production environments
- Authored a secure password storage system for middleware system administrators
- Support the iNet on-call process and maintain SLAs, often serving as the escalation point for multiple applications across the environment
- Mentor junior system administrators
- Author technical documentation for installation, upgrade and support tasks for WebSphere Application Server plus the J2EE applications
- Provide project management for many tasks that are required in the environment
Lead Corporate Information Security Analyst 09/2003-06/2005
Wachovia Bank, N.A.
- Same duties as my contractor role plus the following:
- Led Unix Vulnerability remediation project to successful completion, closing out over 30,000 vulnerabilities on over 3,000 servers
- Transition KeON installs to the SA community by writing large scripts to automate and secure the installation tasks
- Provided support and management to the Unix Security Service Request facility/process
- Supported the Unix Security on-call process and maintained SLAs
Contractor for TekSystems, Inc., Information Security Analyst 03/2003-09/2003
Placement: Wachovia Bank, N.A.
- Install TFS UnixControl (formerly KeON) on Unix systems throughout the bank
- Write scripts to ease installation tasks as well as to help prevent human errors from causing problems with backend security databases
- Create and update PHP-based web site for Unix Security department, including reporting pages for presentation to upper-level management
- Provide systems administration skills for Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX servers
Independent Consultant 12/2002-01/2003
Various clients
- Install and configure Microsoft Exchange and Windows 2000 Server
- Install and configure FreeBSD-based web, email, and monitoring servers for a small business
- Setup and maintain BigBrother and MRTG monitoring systems
Principal Security/Unix Engineer, Engineering Services 01/2002-10/2002
Interpath Communications, Inc.
- Tier-3 support for Security and Unix teams, troubleshooting problems to resolution
- Research and Development projects such as Solaris alternative naming/authentication mechanisms, focusing on an LDAP backend
- Deployed and supported Linux machines to serve as NIDS servers throughout the Interpath network
- Team lead for projects such as an email filtering appliance installation resulting in blocking over 100,000 spam/virus messages a month
- Conducted network and host based security audits on internal and external Unix systems, providing reports on issues discovered and actions to take to resolve the problems
- Maintain VPNs and related firewall authentication and encryption
- Created Solaris baseline security documentation
- Assisted in development, documentation, and implementation of client Disaster Recovery plans and standard operating procedures
- Supported Netscape/iPlanet Messaging Server and Netscape/iPlanet Directory Server
Technical Manager, Computer and Network Security 11/2000-01/2002
Interpath Communications, Inc.
- Provide advanced troubleshooting for firewall, network, and Unix issues
- Supervised 4 security engineers, including performing employee reviews
- Budgetary responsibility for $500,000 annually, including monthly P&L reviews
- Firewall-related projects including:
- Transitioning control of production Checkpoint firewalls from another service provider with minimal interruption to clients
- Configured site-to-site VPNs between firewalls as well as firewall to router tunnels
- Configured client-based VPNs with SecuRemote
- Checkpoint license management, maintenance, and renewal administration
- Project lead for:
- Deployment of host-based intrusion detection product
- Transition between managed security providers for 24×7 IDS monitoring
- Software license renewals
- Cultivated productive relationship with software and service vendors
Principal Security Engineer, Computer & Network Security 05/2000-11/2000
Interpath Communications, Inc.
- Checkpoint Firewall installation, configuration and performance tuning, including day-to-day moves/adds/changes and rulebase management on both Nokia and Solaris platforms
- Additional scripting projects including:
- Perl shell script to permit users scp access while restricting login access
- Perl scripts to retrieve and process resource utilization from Nokia firewalls
- Network intrusion detection deployments, utilizing both custom built hosts as well as purpose-built appliances
- Implemented email virus scanning using Checkpoint’s CVP
Unix Systems Engineer, Systems Engineering 12/1998-05/2000
Interpath Communications, Inc.
- Installation and support of Netscape/iPlanet web servers
- Create scripts to automate repeatable processes [log rotation, patch downloads, etc.]
- Engineered complex custom hosting environments of multi-tiered architectures
- Build and deploy, support and maintain Sun Enterprise-class machines
- Compile, install and support third-party software for Unix servers that were supported by the Engineering department
- Assist customers to support specialized software installations/configurations, including perl/shell scripting
Systems Programmer, Engineering Computer Operations 07/1996-12/1998
North Carolina State University, College of Engineering
- Manage AFS servers and Kerberos servers/databases for campus-wide authentication and authorization, including backend scripts to support master and slave server synchronization as well as integration with user accounting system
- Installation and support for many diverse applications for use by over 45,000 students, faculty and staff
- Crafted customized Sendmail configuration for use in non-standard environment
- Ported/modified source code to support Hesiod, Kerberos, and AFS extensions
- Apache server setup and configuration
- Perl/CGI script writing
SOFTWARE SKILLS:
- IBM WebSphere Application Server
- SunONE/iPlanet web server
- IBM WebSphere MQ
- Netscape/iPlanet Directory Server
- Netscape/iPlanet Messaging Server
- Apache / IHS web server
- Checkpoint Firewall-1
- ISS Internet Scanner
- KeON/TFS UnixControl
- Veritas Volume Manager/Filesystem
- Solstice Disksuite
- NFS
- MySQL
- Kerberos
- Sendmail
- bind
- ntp
- Ssh
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES:
- Perl
- PHP
- Unix Shell (Bourne/Korn, C)
OPERATING SYSTEMS:
- AIX 3.1.2, 4.1.x
- HP-UX 9.x
- Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, 9
- Digital Unix 3.2.x
- Linux – SuSE, RedHat, Ubuntu
- FreeBSD/NetBSD
- Windows 2000/XP
- IPSO 3.2 through 3.5
EDUCATION:
- North CarolinaStateUniversity,Raleigh,NC; BS in Statistics, June 1999
CERTIFICATIONS:
- IBM Certified System Administrator – WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6.1
- IBM Certified Advanced System Administrator – WebSphere Application Server, Network Deployment V6.1
AWARDS:
- Community Banking 2010 Sales & Service Top Performer, Wells Fargo
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