Systems Administrator at Eisai Medical Research Inc
Greater New York City Area
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- UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator at Eisai Medical Research Inc
- Past
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- Senior Systems Administrator at Virage Logic Corporation
- Systems Administrator at Mentor Graphics
- Systems Administrator at Xerox
- Education
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- Pennsylvania State University
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Ernie Oporto’s Summary
My personal goal is continuing self improvement and education. I am a systems administrator who loves new technologies and working with the best of systems and services. I established myself as a solid systems administrator at Mentor Graphics in the 90s and have continued adding to my skill set with the broad number of services supported by our small global IT team at Virage Logic, focusing in the datacenter.
I am also currently the author of the open-source MonkeyChow web based RSS reader. Using Apache, MySQL, and PHP, this goal of this system is to provide subscribers with fast access to the information they need. I am a strong supporter of using RSS as a transport for announcements over the currently overburdened email system.
Ernie Oporto’s Specialties:
Application, services, networking, hardware, and software interoperability. PHP development. Interface with vendors. SOX compliance - policy documentation and auditing.
Ernie Oporto’s Experience
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UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator
Eisai Medical Research Inc
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Biotechnology industry)
August 2007 — Present (10 months)
UNIX/Linux administrator with duties covering care for a large growing datacenter hosting IBM BladeCenters for virtualization and production, and large numbers of HP DL380 and DL385 systems; administration of a VMWare ESX server farm on IBM BladeCenter with SAN capability managed through VMWare Virtual Center for development, test and production environments, hosting Windows and Linux operating systems; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 4 managed through Red Hat Network via RHN Proxy; NetBackup 6.0MP4 setup backing up 28TB per week in a production environment involving multiple media servers and libraries; application load analysis with HP Mercury LoadRunner; all services involve pharmaceutical GxP guided processes requiring documentation and approval of the environment as well as execution and logging of SOPs and SWPs.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Pennsylvania State University
BS, Electrical Engineering, 1987 — 1992
I conventrated on VLSI 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.
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Ernie Oporto’s Interests:
Tae Kwon Do, movies, music, reading, video games with my children
Ernie Oporto’s Groups:
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BlackBerry Professionals member
Ernie Oporto’s Honors:
IT SOX Compliance Group Award, Jan 2006
Ernie Oporto’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- reference requests
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