"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."
Confucius
I'm an IT Infrastructure Senior Specialist and Middleware Expert also skilled in Service Management and Technical Project Lead. I work since 16 years as an IT professional for a wide range of Customers from different sectors, and in several roles (Service Delivery, Pre-Sales, Consulting).
My key capacities include:
- design, implementing and documenting high available, reliable and scalable IT solutions matching Customers business requirements with proven focus on objectives
- supporting the Customer with concrete advices and suggestions in making choices
- permanently fixing critical problems proposing plans to improve performances and finding new business opportunities
- managing heterogeneous IT infrastructure environments and senior teams
- winning the Customer's confidence by solving critical issues and showing a great reliability and a strong proactive approach in improving infrastructures, service processes and methods
- working in really stressful conditions with highly remarkable results.
Skills: IT infrastructures engineering and administration, relationships management, team coordination, project leading.
O.S. (Solaris, Red Hat, HP-UX, IBM AIX, Windows)
Clustering (Sun/Solaris Cluster, Red Hat Cluster, HP ServiceGuard, IBM PowerHA, Veritas Cluster, MSCS)
Virtualization and Cloud Computing (VMware, Microsoft Azure, Oracle VM, Amazon EC2, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Open Stack, KVM, Citrix XenDesktop/XenApp, LXC)
Virtualization and Partitioning (Sun LDOMs, xVM and Solaris Zones, HP's Virtual Server Environment, HP vPars, IBM PowerVM)
HPC/Grid (Oracle Grid, Sun Constellation, Red Hat HPC Cluster, Sungard iWorks Prophet Enterprise Matrix Grid)
Middleware and DB (Oracle EPM/Hyperion, Oracle BI, ODI, Oracle DB, SQL Server, JBoss, Informatica MDM, Hybris)
IT security management, enterprise risk management, penetration testing, ethical hacking, forensics.
Senior Advanced Customer Services Architect (EMEA) @ Senior Advanced Customer Support Architect (EMEA). Managing, troubleshooting, tuning, migrating, implementing Oracle Hyperion EPM, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), OBIEE, Endeca, Exalytics, Oracle VM Server (OVMS), Oracle Database, In-Memory Database (IMDB), Timesten, Fusion Middleware. From September 2015 to Present (4 months) Technical Lead / Senior Enterprise IT Architect @ Working on different engagements for several Customers according to the specific skills on UNIX, Linux, Windows/AD, Clustering, Virtualization, Cloud computing, Grid/HPC, Disaster Recovery, IT Security, Enterprise Risk Management, Penetration Testing, Forensics, Oracle Database, SQL Server, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (Hyperion), Oracle Business Intelligence, Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise, ODI, Sungard iWorks Prophet Enterprise Grid.
For further information, please see the Projects section below. From May 2012 to July 2015 (3 years 3 months) Technical Account Manager @ Infrastructure Management Team Leader, Focal Point and Senior Systems Engineer.
DETAILS: Service delivery, team coordination, resource management, workload distribution, SLA monitoring and customer relationship management.
Projects planning and implementation, project reviews, operational and technical reviews, objectives summaries.
Senior technical management of an IT pool of more than 1.500 items, including servers, storage and appliances. Planning, installing, configuring, administering Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, VMWare vSphere Cluster, Sun Cluster, HP ServiceGuard Cluster, Veritas Cluster, Red Hat Cluster, Linux-HA, Polyserve Matrix cluster. EMC ClariiOn, HP EVA, ExDS, Ibrix storage administration.
PowerBroker, Sensage, PGP, BMC Control SA, Central LogHost Servers Implementation, RSA Integration and CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault management. Data Center Consolidation, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing projects management, implementation and delivery.
Security Management: Stonebeat Firewall administration, PowerBroker, Sensage, PGP, BMC Control SA, Central LogHost Servers, RSA Integration, CyberArk Enterprise Password Vault, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer and Lumension Endpoint Management and Security Suite configuration and management.
Migration and administration of Wind infrastructures and services real-time monitoring platform (BMC Patrol to Nagios-based GroundWorks). Performance monitoring and capacity planning migration (BMC P&P to Cactii-based solution).
Tools: BMC Patrol, BMC Remedy, Nagios, HP Asset Manager, Documentation Writing. From June 2009 to May 2012 (3 years) Senior Systems Engineer and IT Infrastructure Specialist @ Infrastructure Management Operations Senior Systems Engineer.
DETAILS: Installation, configuration and management of Sun Solaris, HP-UX and IBM AIX server, Veritas Cluster, IBM Cluster (HACMP / Power-HA on P595), Sun LDoms, Solaris Zones HP VPARs and IBM LPARs and VIOS. Sun SDS/SVM and Veritas Storage Foundation mirroring, Oracle RAC and Veritas Cluster integration. Oracle 9 to 10g RAC migration on IBM AIX and PowerHA.
Tools: BMC Remedy (Omar), HP OV, Nagios, Documentation Writing, B2B reporting. From September 2008 to June 2009 (10 months) Project Manager, Systems Architect and IT Operations Lead @ Project Manager, Systems Architect and Operations Engineer for Defence, Space and Security Division’s ICT Department on IT projects for aerospace and aeronautical engineering and aircraft engine design area.
DETAILS: Project management, planning and scheduling, resources management, customer relationship management, suppliers relationships management, project quality management, project delivery and deployment.
Implementation of complex UNIX-based High Performance Computing infrastructures and expert tier support: installation, configuration, troubleshooting of Oracle Grid Engine, migration of Sun Constellation System (2 distributed memory clusters, Sun M9000 and Storage array, Sun Cluster with with Solaris 10 HPC ClusterTools and Sun Grid Engine), Veritas Cluster on SUN SPARC with Solaris 10, HP SG Cluster and IBM AIX HACMP Cluster. EMC storage solutions, SAP Business Intelligence, SAP Content Server and SAP Web Application Server administration (for PLM, SCM and SRM areas). Migration projects support of IBM mainframe to Clerity UniKix TPE and BPE (transaction and batch processing on Linux on IBM System z9 and HP-UX on HP Integrity servers).
Security Management: systems hardening, IPSec/IKE VPN implementation (Solaris IPSec tunnel to VPN ASA Concentrator, Linux OpenSwan VPN), PaloAlto Networks PA-2xxx and Cisco Ironport appliances management.
Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery (Data Replication, Global Copy/Mirror, Business Copy, Tiered Storage management and troubleshooting) using HP Data Protector, HP StorageWorks BC and Continuous Access.
Very good knowledge and experience using PM and PE tools such as Primavera, Basecamp and PVCS. From May 2007 to September 2008 (1 year 5 months) Project Manager and Solution Architect for Telecom Italia @ Project Manager, Senior Systems Engineer and Solution Architect, Security Consultant and Data Center Manager.
PRE-SALES Support as Project Manager and Senior Systems Consultant (On site recognition, Solution Proposal, Solution Demo, POC and Documentation creation).
SALES Support as Project Manager and Senior Systems Consultant (Requirements analysis, Case studies, Request of proposal, Operational requirements, Technical specifications creation).
DETAILS: Project Management, Designing, Implementing and Administering UNIX and Linux O.S., Red Hat Cluster, Distributed Mail and PIM systems, DNS Provider and Registrar systems, Security Management and Auditing, Compliance and Assestment.
Risk valuation and management and project proposal (VPN Point-to-Point Cisco, VPN-SSL Citrix Access Gateway, VPN Fortinet, IDS/IPS ISS). IPCop and OpenVPN installation and configuration.
IDC consolidation by using VMWare Infrastructure, XEN and Sun Solaris 10 Zones.
PRE-SALES Support as Project Manager and Senior Systems Consultant (On site recognition, Solution Proposal, Solution Demo, POC and Documentation creation).
SALES Support as Project Manager and Senior Systems Consultant (Requirements analysis, Case studies, Request of proposal, Operational requirements, Technical specifications creation).
LAN Security Auditng, Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Scanning, Compliance and Assestment by using ISO Toolkit, ISO/IEC checklists, OWASP stuff and tools such as Tenable Nessus and Security Center, CA eTrust Audit & Vulnerability Manager, BackTrack, Ophcrack, GFI LNSS, THC-Hydra, Nmap, tcpdump, snoop, Hping, Snort, Wikto, aircrack, Metasploit, Paros; Risk evaluation and management, project proposal.
Forensic Testing with EnCase, Helix, FTK, SleuthKit, PassMark OSForensic tools.
Monitoring and trouble-ticket platforms implementation.
Disaster Recovery strategies implementation by using VMWare Infrastructure, Double-Take and WANSync.
PM/ERP Tools: MS Project, SharePoint and Dynamics Navision. From May 2004 to May 2007 (3 years 1 month) Systems Engineer, Solution Architect and Project Manager @ CRS-SISS (Carta Regionale dei Servizi Sanitari - Sistema Informativo Socio-Sanitario) Project IT Infrastructure Development (Design, Development and Deployement of “Mid-level Gates”).
DETAILS: Infrastructure area Project Management (planning, scheduling, teams coordination, Suppliers relationships management).
Sun Cluster and Red Hat Cluster based infrastructures implementation and management. Installation, configuration and management of Sun ONE AS, Sun Directory Services, Sun Identity Manager, Sun iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2, Netscape Server and BEA WebLogic AS installation.
Security strategies implementation.
PM Tools: MS Project and PVCS. From May 2003 to May 2004 (1 year 1 month) Systems Engineer and Oracle DBA @ Vodafone Italia CRM Solution and CRM Operation Areas - Vodafone South Europe Services and Technologies.
DETAILS: Sun Solaris and Sun Cluster administration, Oracle 9i administration, porting and migration, Fortè (UCS) AS and Siebel CRM administration for OCA CRM, CC and TMS platforms; CTI integration; MS SQL Server 2000 federation administration; Project documentation, flowcharts and architecture slide design; Vodafone Intranet web portal (Apache Server and Tomcat) management.
Tools: Remedy and Microsoft Visio. From March 2002 to May 2003 (1 year 3 months) Systems Administrator and DBA @ Consulting for PRADA Services SpA (PRADA Group) and GRUPPO RINASCENTE SpA (Gruppo FIAT) projects as HP-UX Systems Administrator, Oracle and SQL Server DBA and Hyperion Essebase Administrator (Retail chain's Billing platform management and Public Relations and Advertising area projects). From October 1999 to March 2002 (2 years 6 months) Systems Administrator and DBA @ Human Resources area IBM Lotus Domino Servers Installation, Configuration and Administration and Lotus Notes Development (Lotus Script and Formula languages). From October 1998 to October 1999 (1 year 1 month)
Bachelor's degree, Literature, Philosophy, Humanities and Oriental Studies (Egyptology) @ Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' From 1992 to 1996 Daniela Elmi is skilled in: Solaris, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Cluster, Unix, Red Hat Linux, Linux, Data Center, VMware, Cloud Computing, Storage, AIX, Oracle, HP-UX, ITIL
Websites:
http://re.vu/danielaelmi,
http://dan3lmi.blogspot.it/,
http://danielmi.webs.com