Allen Canning

Project Manager at Putnam Investments

Greater Boston Area

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Education
  • University of New Hampshire
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Information Technology and Services
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Allen Canning’s Summary

As a business-oriented Technical Consultant, my goals are always to design and configure system architectures to facilitate ease of maintenance. For my clients, I identify essential systems, outline methods for monitoring their status, use tools to monitor their performance, review system configurations, and recommend changes to improve system availability and reliability.
In support of rapid growth and change, I have performed system rollouts, and integrated new systems with existing services. I also have deployed new software and services in established environments, and migrated existing environments to new technologies.
One of my goals is to increase the repeatability of tasks using automation. Improve the reliability of a client’s environment by maintaining up-to-date documentation of the infrastructure. Create training materials for new staff members to facilitate a smooth transition into the environment.

Allen Canning’s Specialties:

Technical Proficiencies

Operating Systems: Solaris, RHEL 3/4, FreeBSD, SuSE, Ubuntu, Windows 98/NT/2000/XP
Products: Veritas VXVM/VCS/Netbackup, VMWare ESX, ODS, Remedy, Peregrine, Apache/Tomcat
Hardware: SUN, IBM, DELL, HP, EMC Symmetrix, EMC Clariion, Network Appliance
Languages: Shell scripting, Perl, PHP, SQL, HTML, Javascript, JSP, XML, Java, C
System Components: Kerberos, NFS, AFS, Dtrace, NIS, DNS, SMTP, SNMP, HTTP, SSH, IMAP, LDAP, Active Directory
Databases: Oracle, MySQL

Allen Canning’s Experience

  • Senior Technical Expert

    Putnam Investments

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MMC; Financial Services industry)

    May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

    o Manage project to consolidate Enterprise Operational documentation.
    o Manage SAN migration of Enterprise servers.
    o Develop enterprise hardware monitoring process.
    o Installation and configuration of VMware ESX grid.
    o Design and definition of server build process.
    o Develop operating system patching policy.

  • Consultant

    Fidelity Investments

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

    April 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 2 months)

    o Support Trading Application Performance Environment for Global Equity Trading.
    o Install applications; build packages (rpm and SysV) perform system maintenance, capacity planning, etc.
    o Gather requirements from business stakeholders.
    o Develop test plans based on requirements.
    o Develop tools needed to execute test plans.
    o Gathering statistical information from Performance testing.
    o Create presentations of statistical data using perl and AJAX.
    o Present performance information to business stakeholders.
    o Design service layer performance gathering application, including collection mechanism, database backend (MySQL), and web front end (AJAX/perl).

  • Senior System Analyst

    Accenture

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)

    August 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 8 months)

    o Lead System Integrator for Accenture/Morgan Stanley Outsource.
    o Integrate new projects into the Outsource operation.
    o Meet with clients to gather requirements.
    o Document new technologies.
    o Train outsource members in new technologies.
    o Mentor junior members on procedures and policies.
    o Document tasks to outsource to offshore operations.
    o Develop automated process to install several hundred Linux servers per week.
    o Monitor the capacity of the AFS servers and migrate data when needed.
    o Automated nightly Veritas Cluster Server changes.
    o Design, installation and maintenance of an internal LAMP based web portal.
    o Perform System Administration duties on over 10,000 Solaris and Linux servers.

  • Senior Consultant

    Collective Technologies

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    1996 — 2004 (8 years)

    o Lead developer for portal (PHP, Tomcat/JSP, and Oracle). The portal integrates Remedy, and proprietary Oracle schema for content delivery.
    o Responsible for operational maintenance of Solaris VCS server running Oracle.
    o Unix project lead for rollout of large brokerage application on Solaris/VCS/Oracle for Collective client.
    o Built Jumpstart server to standardize server installs for Solaris. Designed a web interface to ease installation of systems.
    o Designed and built a machine inventory application using PHP and MySQL.
    o Technical lead of an architecture team that developed a common authentication scheme for both Unix and Windows 2000 using LDAP, and Active Directory.
    o Developed a web based registration application. The application was written in PHP/MySQL.
    o Responsible for support of clients Sun ClearCase servers using Veritas FirstWatch, and Veritas Volume Manager.
    o Designed an SNMP monitoring system using perl to monitor system performance.

  • Senior Unix System Admin

    GTE Internetworking

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Internet industry)

    1997 — 1999 (2 years)

    o Tier 3 Unix support for BBN/GTE Internetworking Web hosting operations.
    o Tested the security configuration of the client’s web servers.
    o Designed a web based custom Jumpstart server to automate Solaris installations.
    o Designed and coded a secure password database application using Server Side Javascript and Oracle.
    o Supported Legato backup infrastructure.

  • Senior System Administrator

    Progress Software

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    1993 — 1996 (3 years)

    o Supported a 20-site SMTP backbone and 300 developer systems (Sparc).
    o Installed and configured Internet servers.
    o Created Perl and shell programs to automate systems administration and Web related tasks.
    o Installed Majordomo and FTP mail with local customizations.

  • Network Administrator

    EPM

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1992 — 1993 (1 year)

  • IT Programmer

    Cabletron

    (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

    1991 — 1992 (1 year)

Allen Canning’s Education

  • University of New Hampshire

    Bachelor , Computer Science , September 1987 — June 1991

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Allen Canning’s Interests:

new technology, blogs, vlogs, hockey

Allen Canning’s Groups:

USA Hockey, North Andover Lacrosse

  •    EX-PSA & EX-CT
  •    Accenture Employees and Alumni
  •    Collective Alumni
  •    University of New Hampshire Alumni Association

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