Unix Specialist looking for work.

[Donna Shelley]

I have a dear friend who has been laid off from UBS. She is a Unix
Specialist + and I would like to put forth her qualifications for any
of you in high places that may be looking for a good person.
Thanks, Donna Shelley
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Mary A. Shimkus
658 Hill Ave.
Glen Ellyn IL 60137
(630) 469-3598
mash...@att.net


SUMMARY

Action oriented and adaptable Unix specialist with a strong background
in system administration and system support. Experience in a wide
range of environments on a variety of Unix and Linux platforms.
Proven expertise in customer interfacing, problem solving at all
levels of support as well as skills in project-related work.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

UBS AG, Chicago, IL 2007-Present
Senior Unix System Administrator
Provided 24/7 support within a fast paced dynamic global environment,
utilizing strong customer focused skills to work individually, and in
small and large teams supporting 400+ Solaris and Linux servers.
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Performed day to day operation including monitoring, system server
change requests, and troubleshooting.

Installed, configured, tested, upgraded, and maintained production and
development database and application servers on SAN and NAS for
mission critical application.

Coordinated and managed scheduled data center power down projects.

Worked with the Server Utilization Group to analyze computing needs
between projects.

Solved the day-to-day problems that arose, trained and assisted less
senior team members, and pro-actively addressed long-term issues in a
medium-sized, rapidly expanding business environment. Built solid
working relationships between the Unix and Wintel teams as well as
with the Unix Engineering teams.

Operating Systems include Unix (Solaris2.6-Solaris10), Linux (RHEL3,
5) NeXT(3.0–4.5) and Windows

Platforms include Sun, HP, NeXT, and Macs

Attended Linux training and obtained Linux certification.

Perot Systems Corporation, Chicago IL. 1996-2007
Senior System Administrator Contracted to UBS AG, Chicago, IL
Provided 24/7 support to a network of 24,000 machines worldwide as a
senior member of a global system administration team supporting
Warburg, Dillon, Read; an international bank.

Maintained 99+% uptime over a ten-year period by solving the day-to-
day problems that arose.
Participated in complete data center and user move to new location.

Achieved improved data recoverability, Y2K compliance, and automated
backup procedures by assisting in the designing and implementing a
backup network and installing, configuring, and creating all
documentation on all backup hardware and software for a large
production Unix environment.

Ensured Y2K compliance by researching, scheduling, and performing user
and service moves and reviewing user move utility code for servers
being upgraded or decommissioned as part of the global Y2K initiative.

Coordinated the Unix side of the yearly Corporate Security Audits.

Oxford and Associates, Chicago, IL 1994-1996
Senior System Administrator Contracted to UBS AG, Chicago, IL

Solved the day-to-day problems that arose on the trading floor and pro-
actively addressed long-term issues in a fast-paced trading
environment.

Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL. 1985-1992

Worked in both small and large teams solving the day-to-day problems
that arose on the non-vanilla Unix System V servers throughout the
Naperville Campus.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts degree in Behavioral Science,
National Lewis University, Wheaton, Illinois

Associate of Arts degree in Music,
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois