Ernie Oporto

Current

UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator at Eisai Medical Research Inc

Past

Senior Systems Administrator at Virage Logic Corporation
Systems Administrator at Mentor Graphics
Systems Administrator at Xerox

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Education

Pennsylvania State University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Ernie Oporto’s Summary

Experienced Systems Admin with proven success in designing, documenting, implementing, and supporting systems and services composed a various operating systems, hardware and applictions.

Problem solver coordinating diagnosis and resolution of issues using wide variety of skills and resources.
* Brought isolated development islands into single global network using hub and spoke VPN design with remote access.
* Customer oriented helpdesk experience targeting fast issue resolution while maintaining high satisfaction.

Project lead and mentor for small IT teams
* Established milestones to set expectations in project management scorecards.
* Coordinate design and implementation of site and datacenter builds, moves, and expansions in India, UK and US offices.
* Aided Virage Logic's growth from 50 employees to 400 across 9 global sites, including company mergers and aquisitions.
* VMWare jumpstart at Virage Logic for testing and implemented VM farm for Eisai. Manage my own VMWare Server systems at home to host training systems.
* Established maintenance efforts to increase reliability and security in services.

Software development
* Skilled writing in various languages. Automation of operational tasks to maximize time for IT projects.
* Provided Virage Logic with initial open-source developer tools compiled into single distributable Solaris 8 kit.
* Author of open-source, LAMP based RSS reader, providing subscribers with fast access to updates. I am a strong supporter of using RSS for secure information exchange.

Documentation
* Systems in development, test, and production environments meeting FDA 21 CRF Part11 requirements.
* Preparation and execution of change controls, SWP logging, SOP training, and reporting weekly status to management.
* Received Virage Logic "Group/Product Line Award for Outstanding Contribution" for completion of Sarbanes/Oxley Section 404 audits with zero material weaknesses or deficiencies.

Ernie Oporto’s Specialties:

Applications, services, networking, hardware and software interoperability. PHP development. Interface with vendors. SOX and CRF11 documentation compliance.

Ernie Oporto’s Experience

UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator

Eisai Medical Research Inc

(Public Company; Pharmaceuticals industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years)

* Managing a large growing datacenter hosting Windows, Linux, and Solaris on HP Proliant systems and an IBM Bladecenter VMWare ESX 3.5 server farm booting from an EMC CX3-40 SAN for development, test and production environments.
* Supporting DBA group with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 managed through Red Hat Network via RHN Proxy
* Production backups, including BMR, to NetBackup 6.0MP4 managing 30TB of tape per week involving multiple media servers and libraries
* Managing our Disaster Recovery environment of physical systems replicating to VMs using Double-Take and Riverbed Steelhead appliances
* All services involve pharmaceutical GxP guided processes requiring documentation and approval as well as execution and logging of SOPs and SWPs.
* Scripting automation into monitoring and maintenance tasks.
* Application load analysis with HP Mercury LoadRunner
Senior Systems Administrator

Virage Logic Corporation

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; VIRL; Semiconductors industry)

December 1999 — August 2007 (7 years 9 months)

Senior systems administrator in charge of my site and leading the team of administrators at our various US and international sites on a non-management role.

* Managed various Network Appliance servers in a GbE NAS environment backing up to a Quantom LTO3 library via Syncsort Backup Express in support of a 150CPU RHEL3 compute server farm composed of 2U systems.
* Responsible for DNS, NFS, NIS, Dfs, Juniper Netscreen firewalls and Juniper SA-2000 remote access services for various sites worldwide.
* Managed my local domain controllers and OUs for corporate Windows domain.
* Software installation and troubleshooting for various EDA tools on Linux and Solaris.
* Established software group's development environment.
* Responsible for maintenance of our 3Com NBX phone system.
* Provided desktop servces and end-user support to site as well as offsite sales offices.
Systems Administrator

Mentor Graphics

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MENT; Computer Software industry)

1994 — 1999 (5 years)

I started as a junior systems administrator and worked my way up to being the lead admin with responsibility for all IT functions at my site.

* Managed a Network Appliance file server in a NAS environment backing up to a Sony AIT tape library with Netbackup in support of a small compute server farm.
* Responsible for local DNS, NFS, NIS, Dfs. Managed Windows NT domain controllers for our site.
* Software installation and troubleshooting for various EDA tools.
* Provided desktop servces and end-user support to site.
Systems Administrator

Xerox

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; XRX; Consumer Services industry)

June 1994 — August 1994 (3 months)

In my first job as a systems administrator, I worked through Manpower for Xerox in Philadelphia, PA. My sole role was to take care of their new Docutech print queue system through a SunOS system. There was not a lot to do, so I wrote a print queue management program in C in the spare time. My role quickly expanded to fixing Powerpoint slides that did not print to match their on-screen appearance due to a bug involving overcrowding of objects on the page, which helped for an SAP conference that happened to be in town. This experience with MSOffice quickly devolved into Excel data entry for the lazy sales guys so I decided to start looking for something else.

Ernie Oporto’s Education

Pennsylvania State University

BS , Electrical Engineering , 1987 — 1992

I concentrated on VLSI CAD design during my electrical engineering studies at Penn State University. After declaring my major, the school split computer engineering into a separate program. After graduation in Dec 1992 I decided to pursue computer engineering as a graduate student through May 1994. Being a new father at the time, it made sense to put my formal education on hold and move on to starting my career.

Activities and Societies:

Member of the Pi Sigma chapter of the Zeta Psi fraternity from 1988 through 1990.