Gary Hess Resume

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Gary Hess [email protected] (919) 605-7091 https://www.linkedin.com/in/GarySHess System manager with thirty-one years in systems administration. Bilingual with global experience in government, telecommunications and private industry working remotely and onsite in independent and collaborative contexts. Successful history leading and mentoring a team of professionals and this experience enables me to be a passionate and creative troubleshooter when approaching server solutions. I hope to continue developing and testing my skills against the myriad of challenges that this ever-evolving technology presents. PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: 10 years UNIX/Linux/Windows System Admin, 30 years OpenVMS System Manager and Supervisor Extensive experience in management of systems installation, migration, maintenance and upgrade PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS AND EDUCATION: Database Management, HPUX System Admin, Integrity VMs, Computer Science Engineering Industrial Organization & Management, Data communications & Office Automation VAX/VMS System Management, Operations, Macro/Assembler, DECnet Management OSF/1 Operations, Utilities & Commands, Pascal TECHNICAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE OVERVIEW: Hardware: HP Itanium RX, c7000 and c7000i2 Servers HP Storage Solutions EVA 8000, 8100, 8400's Alphaservers, Alphastations Operating Systems: HPUX 11.11, 11.23, 11.31 OpenVms 3.6 - 8.4, RH Linux, Windows 2008/2012 WORK EXPERIENCE: Software Engineer Stromasys - Raleigh, NC - August 2014 to May 2015 Install Charon Alpha and VAX/VMS software on Windows and Linux servers remotely and at customer sites while managing Alpha and VAX OpenVMS servers Install and manage Redhat Linux, Windows 2008/2012, Alpha and VAX OpenVMS servers Senior Admin and Data Center Manager Amdocs - Morrisville, NC - November 1996 to June 2014 Positions held: OpenVMS System Manager Group Leader, Senior UNIX

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Gary [email protected]

(919) 605-7091https://www.linkedin.com/in/GarySHess

System manager with thirty-one years in systems administration. Bilingual with global experience in government, telecommunications and private industry working remotely and onsite in independent and collaborative contexts. Successful history leading and mentoring a team of professionals and this experience enables me to be a passionate and creative troubleshooter when approaching server solutions. I hope to continue developing and testing my skills against the myriad of challenges that this ever-evolving technology presents.

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

10 years UNIX/Linux/Windows System Admin, 30 years OpenVMS System Manager and SupervisorExtensive experience in management of systems installation, migration, maintenance and upgrade

PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS AND EDUCATION:

Database Management, HPUX System Admin, Integrity VMs, Computer Science Engineering Industrial Organization & Management, Data communications & Office Automation VAX/VMS System Management, Operations, Macro/Assembler, DECnet Management OSF/1 Operations, Utilities & Commands, Pascal

TECHNICAL HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE OVERVIEW:

Hardware: HP Itanium RX, c7000 and c7000i2 Servers HP Storage Solutions EVA 8000, 8100, 8400's Alphaservers, AlphastationsOperating Systems: HPUX 11.11, 11.23, 11.31 OpenVms 3.6 - 8.4, RH Linux, Windows 2008/2012

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Software Engineer Stromasys - Raleigh, NC - August 2014 to May 2015 Install Charon Alpha and VAX/VMS software on Windows and Linux servers remotely and at

customer sites while managing Alpha and VAX OpenVMS servers Install and manage Redhat Linux, Windows 2008/2012, Alpha and VAX OpenVMS servers

Senior Admin and Data Center Manager Amdocs - Morrisville, NC - November 1996 to June 2014Positions held: OpenVMS System Manager Group Leader, Senior UNIX Admin and Data Center Manager

System manager with OpenVMS VAX- and Alphaservers in CI, DSSI clusters and standalone configurations, NT workstations, SAN HSV, HSJ/HSZ/HSG storage controllers

Group leader of system manager team tasked to install and manage 100+ HPUX 11i servers, nPars, vPars, VM's and in single partition configuration. Hardware included BL860c, BL870c i2, BL890c i2, rx26xx, rx3600, rx4640, rx8620 and rx8640's

Head of operations of OpenVMS environment migration to an HPUX environment. Over an 18 month period, led team to setup new servers, cabling, and storage replacing old h/w at two different sites ensuring efficient team communication and effective collaboration with Oracle.

Design and program in-house monitoring applications using numerous UNIX shell scripts in conjunction with XYMON, or Macro and DCL programs to manage and alert on server issues.

Maintain SOX standards and meet regularly with internal and external SOX auditors. Supervise work assignments, perform formal evaluations and budget administration of a

twenty-one employee data center. Coordinate procedures between the data center teams, end users, testers and developers.