Bill Taroli

Current

Principal Business Implementation Analyst at Oracle
Consultant (Self-employed)

Past

Senior Engineer at Agile Software
Senior Engineer at PeopleSoft
Engineer at PeopleSoft

Network / Systems Manager at SkillsVillage
IT Engineer Consultant at Hewlett-Packard
IT Engineer at Hewlett-Packard
IT Solutions Specialist at Hewlett-Packard
IT Specialist at Hewlett-Packard

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Education

Syracuse University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Bill Taroli’s Summary

Application Developer, Systems Manager, Network Manager, Storage/SAN Manager, with a variety of IT experience in the business environment.

Bill Taroli’s Specialties:

verbal/written communication, performance tuning, cross-platform integration, networking consulting, data modeling, database admin, Windows / Unix admin, technical writing, web development consultant

OS: AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Windows (up to 2003), VMware (GSX, ESX, VC, VI3), Cisco IOS, MacOS, MPE/iX

Storage: EMC, Brocade, Sun, StorageTek, IBM , Network Appliance, HP, HDS

Lang: C, C++, Perl, PHP, Java, SQL, Unix shell, Visual Basic, ASP, Pascal

DB: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server

Bill Taroli’s Experience

Principal Business Implementation Analyst

Oracle

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

* Manage Agile PLM support lab within the Customer Environments Lab organization.

* Consulted by other teammates and organizations on a regular basis regarding systems management, performance, and design issues.
Consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — Present (9 years )

Consult with various individuals and companies on technology matters, as a freelancer. This has includes pure consultation, server installs, hosting (email & web), and others.
Senior Engineer

Agile Software

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; AGIL; Computer Software industry)

December 2004 — October 2007 (2 years 11 months)

* Manage customer support lab, including applications, systems, and networking.

* Increased scalability of VMware by 7 times by implementing ESX and Virtual Center. Improved effectiveness of support staff.

* Designed and implemented SAN to improve utilization of storage assets and support shared access for clusters and VMware ESX.

* Managed platform migration from ESX 2.x and Virtual Center 1.x to Virtual Infrastructure 3. Completed project ahead of schedule and and without any business downtime.

* Managed consolidation of Support and QA SANs, to enhance ability to leverage resources, increase fabric scale, and simplify administration.

* Maintain customer support web site, including multiple systems, applications, and databases.

* Consulted by other teammates and organizations on a regular basis regarding systems management, performance, and design issues.
Senior Engineer

PeopleSoft

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; PSFT; Computer Software industry)

May 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 8 months)

* Lead on AIX platform, all storage devices and SAN, and ICE (defect tracking) production environment.

* Consulted by other teammates and organizations on a regular basis regarding Unix management, performance, and design issues. Included in some customer calls to help diagnose environment issues.

* Consulted on design and deployment of Darwin QAE build automation tool.

* Evaluate and design strategies for use of AIX Dynamic LPAR and Workload Manager.

* Enhanced tellme application to collect installed application and patch data, to support network security objectives, using XML for the data exchange.

* Managed migration of all network appliances to safe power, resolution of cross-domain authentication issues, and synchronizing patch levels on all systems.

* Deployed evaluation SAN environment to validate design for near-future SAN implementation.
Engineer

PeopleSoft

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; PSFT; Computer Software industry)

June 2001 — May 2003 (2 years )

* Designed, developed, and deployed system for collecting configuration data from systems and maintaining it, and automating maintenance (incl. patching).

* Participated in Clearcase 5.0 & 6.0 validation, testing, and rollout.

* Implemented NIS homedir usage reporting.

* Designed and implemented shared-use model for Rational Unix applications within PeopleSoft, including redundant license servers for both Unix and Windows.

* Managed project to deploy Sun FCO for all Sun 3800's to resolve a firmware and I/O board issue.

* Managed projects for consolidation and migration of network appliances to new hardware.

* Implemented network management of EMC CLARiiON and Sun T3 arrays.

* Implemented consistent backup model for all network appliances, enhancing both timeliness and quality.

* Made significant enhancements to /etc/profile to support changing business needs and other business activities.
Network / Systems Manager

SkillsVillage

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

July 2000 — June 2001 (1 year )

* Designed and implemented improved network, including VPN connectivity.

* Built infrastructure to improve systems management and uptime. Included the racking of systems and full UPS coverage.

* Managed data and voice implementation during our move to a larger facility. Implemented a network capable of supporting 500+ nodes.

* Improved systems management by introducing monitoring tools.

* Managed the configuration and operation of applications and services to support the development and sales application environments.
IT Engineer Consultant

Hewlett-Packard

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)

October 1998 — July 2000 (1 year 10 months)

* Participated in the design and implementation of a server consolidation project. Reduced server count by 75% while offering improved service levels.

* Managed NT servers, SQL Server databases, etc. Coordinated with other organizations on a regular basis.

* Served as division's webmaster for our intranet. Redesigned several portions to improve usability and value.

* Managed platform upgrade to HP-UX 11, Vantive 8, and Sybase replication 11.5

* Consulted on a wide range of technical issues and business processes. Includes: web management, Y2K compliance, Vantive architecture/development, etc.

* Managed Y2K compliance project of call center application (WWCCS). Consulted for others in their compliance efforts.

* Established infrastructure for web site management, and consulted on new site implementations and migrations.

* Participated in tuning production HP-UX systems.

* Consulted on CTI integration with existing workflow application.
IT Engineer

Hewlett-Packard

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)

May 1995 — October 1998 (3 years 6 months)

* Utilized as a consultant on a wide range of technical issues and business processes.

* Managed migration of applications and infrastruture as part of DMO's call center outsourcing project.

* Participated in investigation and design of CTI infrastructure. Received certification as a Certified Genesys Architect.

* Participated in the design and implementation of the MANIAC call tracking system.

* Lead project to analyze capacity of HP-UX systems to identify potential bottlenecks and redundancies, resulting in $100K savings on a yearly basis.

* Served as a consultant with other project teams on performance, networking issues, product evaluation, etc.

* Participated in projects resulting in major modifications to the Literature Distribution System (LDS), including CPO Literature Transition and European LDC.

* Participated in the design and implementation of Electronic Submittal Client (ELF). Implemented C++ object for email processing.
IT Solutions Specialist

Hewlett-Packard

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)

May 1994 — May 1995 (1 year 1 month)

* Project lead for the CPO Literature Transition project.

* Participated in projects resulting in major modifications to the Literature Distribution System (LDS), including Reseller Referral, Print-on-Demand, and CPO Literature Transition.

* Implemented reports to support DMO's efforts in understanding order profiles, impact of backorder volume on customers, targeting, and data cleanup.

* Administrated LAN environment for both development and production.
IT Specialist

Hewlett-Packard

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)

June 1992 — May 1994 (2 years )

* Participated in the Inquiry Fulfillment project, which resulted in major modifications to the Literature Distribution System (LDS).

* Participated in design and product investigation for a new system, Literature Profiler (LitPro). Leveraged knowledge of the HP-UX platform and performance issues.

* Maintained and developed software for the Literature Distribution System (LDS).

Bill Taroli’s Education

Syracuse University

BS , Computer Science , August 1988 — May 1992

Activities and Societies:

Member of Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Treasurer of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Student Association (GLBSA)