Owner, rwhiffen consulting
Washington D.C. Metro Area
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- Technical Architect at rwhiffen consulting
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- Technical Architect at rwhiffen consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
- Manager, Systems and Storage Engineering at American Red Cross
- Lead Systems and Storage Engineer at American Red Cross
- Consultant at Convergys
- Systems Architect at Investment Company Institute
- MIS-5 at University of Wisconsin - Superior
- Education
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- University of Wisconsin-Superior
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Richard Whiffen’s Summary
I am a versatile enterprise architect. I would like to obtain a position that leverages my skills in networking, systems engineering, system design and strategic technology planning. I have extensive hands-on experience in designing and maintaining LANs and their WAN connectivity. I have administered all aspects of UNIX and Windows servers connected to SAN storage. I have designed systems for high availability and load distribution. My strength has been learning new technologies quickly to adjust to my evolving environment. My adaptability allows me to plan for the future and take on emerging technologies and ideas quickly.
Richard Whiffen’s Specialties:
EMC, HP EVA, Brocade, Sun, Solaris, AIX, Linux, Windows, Weblogic, Sonic MQ, Sonic ESB, Cisco networking.
Richard Whiffen’s Experience
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Technical Architect
rwhiffen consulting
(Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Technical Architect contract with CSC in support of the American Red Cross contract. Subject matter expert on SAN, SAN replication and UNIX hosts.
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Technical Architect
rwhiffen consulting (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2007 — October 2007 (4 months)
Contracting with the Secure Border Alliance (subcontracting through Accenture) for the US-Visit program. Technical Architect for Capacity and Availability.
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Manager, Systems and Storage Engineering
American Red Cross
(Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
November 2006 — June 2007 (8 months)
Managed staff of eleven systems, application infrastructure and storage engineers. Managed staff tasking and projects. Provided staff capacity planning estimates to upper management. Coordinated project priorities with customers and staff. Mentored engineering staff on career development. Provided guidance and counseling to staff affected by outsourcing efforts. Voting member of enterprise standards body.
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Lead Systems and Storage Engineer
American Red Cross
(Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 2 months)
Provided engineering expertise in a 24/7 production environment Was lead engineer for enterprise SAN consisting of EMC Symmetrix and HP EVA storage with Brocade switches. Managed host storage using AIX LVM, Sun SDS and Veritas foundation suite. Created and maintained high availability solutions with Microsoft clusters and Veritas clusters. Performed comprehensive analysis of server configurations to achieve optimal performance and security for Sun, AIX and Windows servers. Performed all aspects of SAN administration with multiple SANs. Lead Unix security and patch management efforts. Deployed Sonic ESB and Sonic MQ SOA environment. Deployed, configured and supported J2EE multi-tier environments in Weblogic 7.0, 8.1 and 9.2. Designed and implemented secure transaction systems between ARC and partners. Mentored engineering staff and operations staff in systems and storage engineering topics.
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Consultant
Convergys
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CVG; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 10 months)
Provided engineering and on-call support in a 24/7 production environment. Provided architecture and engineering solutions to meet platform performance and availability goals. Was lead engineer for platform security. Lead ISO 17799 certification efforts. Administered SAN & Sun servers running Oracle 8i and 9i. Upgraded Sun server hardware and operating systems during maintenance windows to provide additional capacity and performance. Performed comprehensive analysis of server configurations to achieve optimal performance and security for Sun, Microsoft and Linux servers. Created standard system builds, flash archives and clone images for uniform machine configurations. Managed Weblogic domains and instances in production environment. Configured and maintained Resin and Tomcat servers. Configured and maintained Apache 1.3 and 2.0 web servers and proxy servers. Configured and maintained Cisco switches. Mentored junior staff in Convergys operations and engineering environment
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Systems Architect
Investment Company Institute
(Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Investment Management industry)
August 1997 — March 2002 (4 years 8 months)
Successfully planned and implemented high availability solutions for Sun servers using Veritas’s SanPoint Foundation Suite HA products. Upgraded software and performed machine upkeep with little or no end user downtime using the HA environment. Migrated from Sun RS214’s to A5000’s online and mid-day with no user impact. Added and removed nodes from the cluster with minimal user interruptions. Designed the company network using Cisco and 3com equipment and provided network monitoring and alerting. Configured Internet connectivity with two independent providers, including firewall protection, security review and intrusion detection with Cisco IDS hardware and software. Managed all aspects of web servers. Installed and configured Weblogic, Tomcat and iPlanet application servers. Integrated Solaris and Windows into one cohesive network. Provided the strategic vision for future technical growth and planning. Was integral in the development and practice of disaster recovery plan.
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MIS-5
University of Wisconsin - Superior
(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Education Management industry)
May 1993 — July 1997 (4 years 3 months)
Computer Tech for Academic Computing. Systems and Network engineering and administration for all aspects of the Academic Computing facilities.
Richard Whiffen’s Education
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University of Wisconsin-Superior
1988 — 1993
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Richard Whiffen’s Honors:
President's Award For Outstanding Performance (ICI) 10/1999
Employee of the Month (Convergys) 8/2003
"Champion" - Teamwork and leadership award (Convergys) 8/2004
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