JIM GASEK.....4 Bush Road Hudson MA 01749, Jim@Gasek.net, Prefer email to phone calls.


SUMMARY:   
Knowledgeable, dynamic, Systems Engineering professional, seeking a challenging Systems/Operations/Security/Audit role where 
I can leverage my technical and professional skills, and aptitudes.  20 years experience in security, UNIX Admin, network admin, 
systems engineering and architecture, software support, ISP, CATV, TELCO/CLEC, project management, design, analysis, 
troubleshooting, and process engineering.  Diverse skill set as business owner, pre/post sales engineer, systems engineer, 
networking and telecom engineer, including database apps, storage and high performance/farms.   Comfortable in a business 
consulting role, anywhere from the boardroom to the datacenter.  Lehigh University Mechanical Engineer, Communicator, 
Consultant, Quality advocate, Problem solver.
          
SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:
  ROLES:           Technical Lead, Architect, UNIX/Net  admin, Process design, Pre-Sales, Customer Support, Consulting.
  CERTIFICATIONS:  CISSP.   Crosby Quality Education System (QES).
  INDUSTRIES:	   CAD/CAM/CAE, Financial, Biotech, Telco/Networking (ISP, CLEC, MSO/CATV), HW, SW, Services.
  PLATFORMS:       INTEL, SUN, HP, SGI, IBM RS/6000, DEC, PC, Macintosh, Cisco, Extreme, NetApp, EMC.
  OP SYSTEMS: 	   Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, IRIX, DEC, Windows, Mac, Cisco IOS, switching, routing, redundancy protocols.
  LANGUAGES:       UNIX, SQL, C, Shell scripts, HTML, FORTRAN, PASCAL, BASIC, Bourne shell, C Shell, sed/awk.
  UNIX ADMIN:	   Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, RHEL, IRIX.    
  STANDARDS:	   Weblogic, java, html, IETF, TCP/IP, High Performance, File systems, Farms & Clusters, High 
	Availability/Fault Tolerance, VERITAS, SAN/NAS/RAID, Security, DNS, mail, web, ISP/WAN and telco, 
	database administration.
EXPERIENCE:
Tradeweb Equities, a business owned by Thomson Reuters, Boston MA				2003-2009
Tradeweb became a separate company from Thomson Reuters in spring of 2008.  Tradeweb Equities was formerly known as AutEx.
Senior Systems Integration Engineer, Tradeweb Equities
* Tradeweb Order Routing, formerly AutEx Traderoute (ATR) IOI/Trade/Order routing, focus on 24/7 operations- 
* security, systems, communications, 2nd level support, ownership of all production issues.
* Sun/Solaris, RHEL, Sybase, BEA Weblogic, Installations, Upgrades, Monitoring, Performance, Testing, maintenance.
* Wrote logic, and shell program code in support of monitoring function, including HPOV- large distributed systems.
* Installed, maintained and ensured availability of AUTEX/ATR on Sun/Solaris Systems, as well as RHEL 4 and 5.
* Troubleshooting, Alarm configuration and maintenance (HP Openview, MIDAS), network and UNIX administration.
* FIX protocol- Certification/testing with brokers and institutions, troubleshooting of client situations.  FIX 4.2 and 4.4.
* Liaison between the many disparate groups within Thomson Reuters, data center, networking, support desk, and customers.
* 24/7 on call, 2nd level support for global equities trading systems.  
* Performed Account Management, driving the process of designing and delivering product and HA connectivity to large customers.

Network Plus Inc., Cambridge MA									2001-2002 
Network Plus was the second largest CLEC in the Eastern U.S. prior to filing Chapter 11 in 2/2002.  Assets acquired by Broadview Networks.
Senior Systems Engineer:							
* Lead UNIX/Systems Engineer for all ISP UNIX systems throughout the (1000 person, 60000 customer) Corporation.
* Installed, maintained and ensured availability 24/7 on 40 SUN and BSD boxes (VERITAS, DNS, SMTP, RADIUS/Oracle, legato).
* Team Leader for "Managed Hosting" Project.  Analysis, design, product evaluations and vendor relations.
* Performed supervision, analysis, troubleshooting and provisioning for ISP customers and junior staff. 

Blackstone Technology Group (BTG, later Argentys, Turboworx), Worcester MA  			2000-2001
BTG sold Sun and Intel/Linux purpose-built supercomputing "compute farms" and services for ECAD and Biotech markets. In early 
2001, the company was unable to raise funds, filed for chapter 11 and went out of business.  Turboworx acquired assets.
Technology Architect:                                                               
* Technical architect, in the development, design and deployment of technical (biotech/EDA) compute farms.
* Designed, built and delivered a $600,000, 150 x Pentium3/750 supercomputing BLAST cluster for Biogen, Cambridge MA.
* This farm provided "unheard of" improvements in BLAST genomic comparison jobs (44 times faster than on Sun/SGI systems).
* Managed purchasing, vendors, evaluation equipment; HW, SW, utilities, hosting, WAN, power, cooling, mechanical enclosures.
* Researched tools, hardware and standards relating to low HW cost, low labor cost, high performance parallel computing.
* Created flexible standard configuration kits for the EDA and BIO vertical teams.  
* Evaluated storage vendors, hardware, filesystems, NAS and SAN.
* Lab manager, managed junior staff.


Contract Consultant, UNIX Administrator, Systems and Application Engineer, Suburban Boston, MA	1998-2003
Giordano, Champa and Powers, LLP, Boston MA;  2002-2003.  Full outsourced/managed IT/Web/productivity solutions for law firm.  
* Designed/implemented/maintained office solution; LAN/WAN, Domain, Hosted web site, email, security, legal + financial apps.     
        Abbott Bioresearch Corp., Worcester MA; 1999-2000.  Chemistry/Biology UNIX Admin, Y2K threat assessment and mitigation.
* Provided threat assessment, Y2K testing, and patching, direct independent user support on all UNIX issues.
* Performed UNIX, application, database administration. IRIX, Solaris, AIX, Linux, SCO. 
* Applications: GCG Wisconsin, Foxboro, Bruker NMR, Syntax TAS, Oracle, INCYTE, Netscape server.
    Genuity, Burlington MA; 1999.  Y2K Testing- �Network Enterprise Test�, testing network management apps over simulated POPs.
* Team lead for the Managed Connectivity Service line of business; designed, implemented, ran and reported to Genuity standards.
* Gathered MCS requirements from experts concerning care and repair; applications, NTP, SNMP and SPECTRUM.
* Designed all logic and test cases, executed tests, gathered and analyzed data, reported findings to Genuity management.  
Evergreen Investments, Boston, MA; 1998-1999.  Manager of IMPRESS imaging system, also Y2K threat testing/maintenance.
* Managed, upgraded and maintained the FDC IMPRESS Imaging system, and the FDC/Pegasystems CRM system on WinNT. 
* Y2K patching, vendor maintenance agreements, and customer and OS bug/enhancement request lists.
* Led Charles River Data ComplianceMaster and Autosys admin project, Jan-Mar 1999;  EMC/NetApp storage evaluation team.
* Maintained Pegasystems CRM solution on Windows NT Server.     

Superior Electronic Group (Acterna), Sarasota FL (on site at CATV Headend locations in CT, MA, NY, PA)	1996-1998
SEG developed, manufactured and sold hardware and software for the Cable TV (CATV/MSO) Industry.  This industry was offering 
new data and voice products, and needed greater network stability.  To this end, I deployed and administered Hybrid Fiber Coax 
CheetahNET NMS.
On-Site Project Engineer; CheetahNET Field Pre- and Post-Sales Engineer:
* Project Manager for Post-Sales deployment at TCI, Hartford, and MediaOne, Needham/Lowell MA.
* Trained staff, installed and deployed systems, database, worked through customer issues and removed obstacles to success.  
* Diagnosed and solved HW and SW problems.  Worked with development to track bugs, analyze stability and signal integrity. 

Cabletron Systems Inc. (Enterasys), Durham, NH							1995-1996
Cabletron manufactured and sold networking hardware (routing, switching) and Network Management System (NMS) software. 
Systems Engineer; SPECTRUM Network Management Software:
* Performed product demonstrations and internal sales training as a member of the pre-sales group.
* Second level support, focusing on core functionality of SPECTRUM, UNIX administration, network admin, bug recreation.
* Traveled to customer sites around the country to provide post-sales consulting and performance tuning.
* Administered workstations in the lab, in support of network management bug/performance studies.

Parametric Technology Corp. (PTC), Waltham MA 							1993-1994
PTC is the global leader in CAD/CAM SW.  They pioneered "feature based" modeling, allowing faster designing and more usable data.
Systems Engineer; UNIX Administrator:
* Performed demonstrations in support of the VAR sales channel, demonstrating capabilities of PTC's "feature based" modeling.
* Performed UNIX system administration, in support of development teams, support engineers and core infrastructure.
* Upgraded and deployed hundreds of new CAD/CAM engineering workstations (HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris)

Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Corporation, Troy, MI and Waltham, MA   				1989-1993
EDS is a computer services company. GM acquired EDS in the late eighties, and the C4 program was an outgrowth of the GM-EDS 
relationship.   The C4 program was a cross-functional program to minimize the development and manufacturing lead-time for cars.   
	Troy MI, C4 Program, Systems Engineer:
* Worked directly with GM and Supplier Engineers on CAD/CAM data translation and engineering issues.
* Project Leader, CAD/CAM data translator beta testing (on-site at IBM Santa Monica CA)
* Administered 12 UNIX machines for the data translation team.  Recognized for outstanding UNIX admin contributions.
    Waltham MA, EDS Unigraphics Division, Systems Engineer, Sales Support:
* Configured all East Coast Unigraphics sales proposals for Sun and DEC; Networking HW/SW and X-Terminals.
* Managed the sales technical proposal process.  Created and maintained configuration sales tools.   
* Administered telco circuits, VAX terminal servers, PCs, and HP-UX machines for the remote sales office.

Bijur Lubricating Corporation, Bennington VT, and Chicago IL Sales region   			1986-1989
Bijur was the leading American supplier of electronically controlled oil and grease distribution systems for lubrication of industrial machinery.   
	Sales Engineer:
* Designed and sold hydraulic/electronic control systems for machine tool and other industrial machinery.

EDUCATION:
1986      Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA; B. S. Mechanical Engineering.  Concentration in CAD/CAM, Computer Science, Mechanics.
1996      University of New Hampshire, Durham NH; Graduate Course work in Computer Networking.  Concentration in ATM networking.

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