Davide Manzoni

Davide Manzoni

Unix Systems Administration Engineer at VeriSign

Geneva Area, Switzerland

Current
  • Unix Systems Administration Engineer at VeriSign
Past
  • Senior Consultant at Cambridge Technology Partners / Novell
  • Unix System Administrator (AIX, Linux, Solaris) at CSE Consorzio Servizi Bancari
  • Linux System Administrator at Wireless Solutions / Dada
  • Software Developer at Core Soluzioni Informatiche
Education
  • Università di Bologna
  • ITIS "Nullo Baldini" - Ravenna
Connections
279 connections
Industry
Information Technology and Services
Websites

Davide Manzoni’s Summary

Installation, management and tuning of UNIX servers.
Experienced on Linux (mainly RedHat and SuSE) and AIX 4.3/5.3 and with some exposure to Solaris 8 and 10. Technical support on implementing security policies, hardening, patching, backup and restore procedures. Clustering, storage systems, dbms administration, problem solving and programming (shell, perl, python). Service monitoring 24x7 for business critical environments. Virtualization on power5 with HMC, dynamic logical partitioning and virtual I/O servers.

Davide Manzoni’s Specialties:

Clusters installation
Security on UNIX
DBMS management
Change Management Processes
Architecture Integration
Capacity Planning
Virtualization
Performance Monitoring
Tuning
Scripting


Davide Manzoni’s Experience

  • Unix Systems Administration Engineer

    VeriSign

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VRSN; Information Technology and Services industry)

    July 2007Present (1 year 4 months)

    Naming Operations - Production Services. Main activities:

    - build, configuration, support of the VeriSign CORE Naming (.com/.net) Disaster Recovery Data Center.
    - installation, configuration and maintenance of IBM AIX 5.3 with HACMP clustering and RedHat Linux servers.

  • Senior Consultant

    Cambridge Technology Partners / Novell

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CATP; Information Technology and Services industry)

    November 2006June 2007 (8 months)

    Amdocs Billing Environment Administrator for Quality Assurance Department at Orange Communications SA Switzerland. Main activities:
    - management, customization and tuning of sets of multiple Amdocs Ensemble environments, a billing software architecture based on Oracle dbms and Bea Tuxedo middleware on HP-UX.
    - environments upgrade, troubleshooting of issues and integration with third party applications.

  • Unix System Administrator (AIX, Linux, Solaris)

    CSE Consorzio Servizi Bancari

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

    October 2002November 2006 (4 years 2 months)

    Unix "pd03" office. Main activities:
    - Installation, management and troubleshooting of servers IBM AIX, SuSE Linux and Sun Solaris in test and production environment. Security policy implementation, hardening and patching, backup and restore, services monitoring.
    - Security technical support and analysis. Implementation of rules established by the Security Officer.
    - Responsible for change management operations and software/hardware migrations.
    - Capacity planning, configuration of power5 with HMC and dynamic logical partitioning.
    - Installation and management of software products in AIX systems: Apache, Websphere, DB2 and Oracle, HACMP, Tivoli Storage Manager, Swiftnet Alliance Gateway, Business Objects, Hyperion System 9.
    - Database administration and tuning of IBM DB2 instances. Installation and troubleshooting of J2EE software in IBM Websphere. Integration with SAN systems EMC² Symmetrix and IBM TotalStorage.
    - Scripting: shell (bash, ksh), perl, python.

  • Linux System Administrator

    Wireless Solutions / Dada

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

    November 2000October 2002 (2 years)

    - Installation and administration of servers Redhat Linux in testing and production environments.
    - LAN administration. Activation and administration of services: mail, file and print server, http server, cvs, firewalling, ipsec, dns, dhcp, ppp on demand.
    - MySQL and Apache administration.
    - Installation and tuning of the Netsaint/Nagios monitoring system.
    - Software development using java, perl, c.

  • Software Developer

    Core Soluzioni Informatiche

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    September 2000November 2000 (3 months)


Davide Manzoni’s Education

  • Università di Bologna

    Master of Science, Computer Science, 19912000

    Thesis: “Coordination of XML Active Documents: a stock exchange application”. Integration of three different distributed programming paradigms (client/server, mobile agents, tuple spaces) in the development of an online trading simulator software architecture.
    Supervisor: prof. Paolo Ciancarini

    Activities and Societies:
    Civil service (10 months) at Scuola Media (middle grade) "Don Minzoni" - Ravenna. Support to teachers with differently abled students and helping integration of foreigners students.
  • ITIS "Nullo Baldini" - Ravenna

    Computer Science 19861990


Additional Information

Davide Manzoni’s Websites:

Davide Manzoni’s Interests:

linux, opensource, wine tasting, cooking, basket, volley, jogging, snorkeling.

Davide Manzoni’s Groups:

  •    Novell Alumni
  •    Enterprise Architect User Group
  •    KIVA
  •    Sikurezza.org
  •    Telecom Professionals
  •    Python Community
  •    UniBO Alumni
  •    Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
  •    SKYPE user
  •    IT Specialist
  •    imolug
  •    Information Security Community
  •    Gmail Users
  •    Wikipedia Users Group
  •    pd03 Unix
  •    Log Analysis Professionals
  •    The UNIX and Linux Forums Users
  •    Open Source
  •    OpenOffice.org
  •    VeriSign Alumni Group
  •    IT SECURITY EXPERT
  •    Linux Expert
  •    BlackBerry User Group
  •    Slow Food
  •    KDE User
  •    Italian Security Professional
  •    Orange Connection
  •    Unix and Linux Professionals Europe
  •    Green
  •    Disaster Recovery Services Group
  •    University of Bologna
  •    Business Continuity, Information Security Assurance and Compliance Management
  •    System Administrators
  •    AIX Specialists
  •    The Brights
  •    Cambridge Technology Partners - Switzerland
  •    Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP) - Alumni
  •    Wine Connections
  •    Nagios Users

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