Davide Manzoni

Current

Unix Systems Administrator 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

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Education

Università di Bologna
ITIS "Nullo Baldini" - Ravenna

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Information Technology and Services

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Davide Manzoni’s Summary

Installation, management and tuning of UNIX servers/applications.
Experienced with Linux (RedHat, SuSE) and AIX 4.3/5.3 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:

HACMP Clustering
UNIX Security policies
DBMS management
Change Management Processes
Architecture Integration
Capacity Planning
Virtualization on IBM p5 and VmWare
Performance Monitoring
Tuning
Scripting

Linux Professional Institute LPIC-1 2008-03
Linux Professional Institute LPIC-2 2008-11
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHEL 5) 2008-12
IBM 000-223 System p Administrator 2009-07

Davide Manzoni’s Experience

Unix Systems Administrator Engineer

VeriSign

(Public Company; VRSN; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

Naming Operations Production Services team.
Main activities:

- build, configuration, change management, applications support, deployment and functionality testing of the VeriSign CORE Naming (.com/.net) Disaster Recovery Data Center.
- installation, configuration and maintenance of IBM AIX 5.3 with HACMP clustering and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5 servers.
- support to VeriSign Core Naming applications.
Senior Consultant

Cambridge Technology Partners / Novell

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

November 2006 — June 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 2002 — November 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 2000 — October 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 2000 — November 2000 (3 months)

Davide Manzoni’s Education

Università di Bologna

Master of Science , Computer Science , 1991 — 2000

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 foreign students.
ITIS "Nullo Baldini" - Ravenna

Computer Science 1986 — 1990