Paul A. Maleck

Royal Oak, MI 48067

Senior Systems Engineer

PROFILE:

Highly motivated and talented systems engineer with over nine years experience in multiple areas of technology. Expertise includes: Windows 2003/2000 servers, security, UNIX, Linux, SAN's, networking, product testing, customer support, and web development. A strong leader who expects the best from himself and those around him. A fast learner who is capable of managing multiple, complex projects at once.

KEY SKILLS:

Technical

Systems administration on a enterprise level
IIS administration
Professional website development
Security audits
Storage Area Networks
Networking (DNS, DHCP, SNMP, Active Directory)
Hardware maintenance on servers and PCs

Managerial

Team leader experience
Software and hardware purchasing
Training & instruction
Project management
Research and development

EXPERIENCE:

PULTE HOMES INC. - Bloomfield Hills, MI

Web Services - Infrastructure Systems Engineer II - 2/06 to Present

Responsibilities

Support of the Pulte Homes eCommerce servers
Support of eCommerce development group
Support of Intranet environment
Security audits of servers and websites
DNS administration
Security patching of all environments on a monthly basis
Member of the change control oversight board
P2P and P2V server migrations
24/7/365 on-call support

Key Achievements

National Sales Promotion - Point person from my team on a large national sales promotion. This promotion was a first of its kind at Pulte in that it directed all traffic to Pulte.com and used banner ads on prominent websites. Multiple load tests were performed to insure the increased traffic could be served. Weak links were identified and upgraded. Multiple teams were brought together to develop monitoring and contingency plans. In the end, the promotion was a large success and received praise from the highest levels of management.
Security Patching - Worked to develop a monthly patch plan for all the server environments at Pulte (dev, qa, staging, production). Prior to this no consistent schedule existed and servers could be months behind in patches and vulnerable to known exploits.

FORD MOTOR COMPANY - Dearborn, MI

Lead Systems Administrator - Server Hosting Center - 11/03 to 7/05

The server hosting centers B2x group provides support to all the B2B and B2C servers at Ford Motor Company (including most internal and external websites). This support also includes many large specialized projects. 24 x 7 on call support of all 700+ servers is provided

Responsibilities

Member of the B2x support group
B2B representative to security auditing group
24x7 on call. Supporting over 700 web/application servers
Windows 2003 deployment and application migrations
NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 application migrations
Installation and administration of 26 IBM 8-way servers running Windows 2000
Data center representative to a large, very visible project within Ford
Installation and administration of MSMQ, MQ Series, BizTalk 2002
Installation and administration of Active/Active SQL 2000 clusters
Design and deployment of extensive security policies
Disaster recovery preparation
Documentation of all procedures

Key Achievements

Windows 2003 Deployment - Worked on one of the initial deployment projects for Windows 2003 within the enterprise. Older websites/applications were migrated as well and new deployments. Project was very successful and the model for the migration was adopted and used for future deployments.
Project Specialist - Lead web hosting center representative to large BizTalk 2002 project. The project was successfully launched on time and continues to grow into a large part of the Ford messaging backbone.
NT to Windows 2000 migration - Oversaw project to migrate a important internal application from its existing NT 4.0 environment to Windows 2000. Required careful coordination between the customers, SQL group, server build group, and web hosting center.

CIBER - Southfield, MI

Consultant at Ford Motor Company - Server Hosting Center - 1/02 to 11/03

Same as above.

CENTURY 21 DYNAMIC - Westland, MI

Website Author - www.century21dynamic.com - 3/03

Designed and created the new website for Century 21 Dynamic. Worked with the customer to find what content was needed and how it should be presented and that all corporate standards were adhered too. Provided various design ideas and content options. The site and design are still in use today.

JACOBSON STORES, INC. - Jackson, MI

Lead Technologist of Servers / Team Leader - 12/00 to 1/02

Systems Administrator - 5/98 to 11/00

Members of the technical services group provided 24 x 7 support on all IT systems. This includes NT servers, Unix servers, Networking, and PCs. A broad range of expertise is required to support all the systems. The lead technologist of servers role directly supports all Windows NT/2000 server as well as researches and implements new technologies (such as VPN, Active Directory, Exchange 2000, and Storage Area Networks).

Responsibilities

In charge of a team that researches and implements new technologies
Administration of 35+ DELL servers running Windows NT / 2000 Server
Administration of 40+ NCR servers running NCR UNIX MP-RAS SVR4
Support of over 600 PCs running Windows 95/NT/2000 and Macintosh OS
Management of a Storage Area Network
Server backups and recoveries
Remote access to systems via dial-up and VPN
Corporate Intranet
Testing and purchasing of new hardware and software

Key Achievements

Windows 2000 Migration - Led project to upgrade all existing Windows NT servers to Windows 2000. Upgraded the domain to an active directory structure.
Active Directory design - Designed the Active Directory structure for the corporation. Used Active Directory to rollout software, assign desktop settings, and to delegate permissions to other IT groups.
Installation and administration of a Storage Area Network - Led project to research and purchase a 1 terabyte SAN. Multiple vendors were brought on site for evaluation. Vigorous testing was done to the systems and based on price and performance a purchase was made. The SAN currently consists of 4 fibre switches, a SCSI to fibre bridge, storage units, robotic tape library, and high end SQL and Oracle servers running mission critical applications and data. Recently a next generation storage unit was added to the SAN increasing the capacity to 1.8 terabytes.
Developed a corporate wide backup solution for NT/2000 servers - Researched, purchased, and implemented the rollout of Veritas Backup Exec on the companies NT/2000 servers. Setup a centralized backup server utilizing a 4 drive/28 tape robotic library. Provided a significant increase of reliability to the company's disaster recovery plans.
Upgraded all UNIX servers to Y2K compliant versions of software - Led project to provide critical updates to the companies UNIX servers OS, BIOS, and specialized software. Taking more then a year to accomplish at over 26 different locations throughout the Midwest and Florida the project was accomplished on time. As a result of these efforts zero Y2K issues arose on the UNIX servers.
Redesigned DNS structure - Added Windows 2000 DNS servers to the existing environment and changed the naming of DNS zones to the more proper jacobsons.com. Integrated DNS into active directory for redundancy. Setup dynamic DNS to allow the data to be accurate and up to date. Tested and proved that existing
Redesigned DHCP structure - Created a DHCP structure that allowed two DHCP servers to be up and running at the same time while servicing the same scopes and providing full redundancy to the network. Switched all PC's in the company to use DHCP instead of fixed ip addresses.
Installation and setup of new servers - Added many new servers to the corporation's network. These include a proxy server to replace the old method of regulating internet access by the users PC's ip address, an ftp server to allow vendors to transfer files via the internet, domain controllers, file/print servers, intranet servers, VPN server, SQL servers, Oracle servers, RAS servers, and UNIX servers.
PC rollouts - Setup the windows 2000 Remote Installation Service to help rollout windows 2000 professional PCs. This service has allowed the operations group to rollout PCs in a faster and more uniformed manner.
Interoperability between UNIX and NT - Helped create methods to allow the NT and UNIX systems to communicate with each other.
Systems Management - Setup software to monitor the health of NT/2000 servers and PCs. By using snmp, dmi, and cim systems can be monitored for any hardware or software failures.

FRANKENMUTH MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY - Frankenmuth, MI

Programmer Internship - 5/97 to 8/97

Responsibilities

Assigned to Y2K updating of all systems
Modified and debugged COBOL Programs in a mainframe environment.
Worked with IBM's Job Control Language (JCL).

EDUCATION & TRAINING:

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 1998

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, East Lansing, MI

NCR MP-RAS UNIX System Administration, 2000

NCR, Dayton, OH

DELL SAN Administration, 1998

DELL, Austin, TX

MS Windows 2000 Networking & Operating Systems Essentials, 2000

NEW HORIZON COMPUTER LEARNING CENTER, East Lansing, MI

Installation and Administration of Windows 2000 Professional and Server, 2000

NEW HORIZON COMPUTER LEARNING CENTER, East Lansing, MI

Linux Administration, 2004

FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Dearborn, MI

IBM Director, 2004

FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Dearborn, MI

Certified Ethical Hacker, 2006

NEW HORIZONS COMPUTER LEARNING CENTER, Livonia, MI

TeamSite 6.7 System Administration Series, 2007

INTERWOVEN, Chicago, IL

CERTIFICATIONS:

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer of Windows 2000

MICROSOFT

Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator of Windows 2000

MICROSOFT

Microsoft Certified Professional

MICROSOFT

COMPUTER EXPERTISE:

Operating Systems:

Windows 2003/2000/NT, Linux, UNIX, Mac OS

Software Packages:

Microsoft Exchange, Office Suite, IIS, ISA, BizTalk 2002, VMWare

Veritas Backup Exec, RSA ACE Server

IBM Director, TPC software suite

Programming Languages:

HTML, ASP, PHP, JavaScript, VBScript, DHTML, AJAX