Hemant Shah

Current

Director of IT at LIDP Consulting, Inc.

Past

Network Engineer at NetGuru Technologies
Systems Analyst at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Systems Analyst & Programmer at Fermilab

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Education

University of Bridgeport
Clemson University - College of Business and Behavioral Science
Roosevelt University

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Industry

Computer Software

Hemant Shah’s Summary

I am a innovative technical specialist with 15+ years experience planning, developing, and implementing state-of-the-art IT solutions for organizations. I have broad hands-on expertise in client/server and mainframe development, database design/administration, network infrastructure, security, web hosting, training, and project management. I am skilled at mentoring peers, building consensus, and motivating cross-functional development teams to exceed technical objectives. I have been characterized as highly analytical and resourceful; consistently able to solve problems defying resolution.

Hemant Shah’s Specialties:

AIX, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, mainframe to unix migration, Perl, ksh, bash, sh, C, SQL, DB2 UDB, Oracle, qmail, ssh, openvpn, bacula backup systems, procmail, Vmware, NetApp NAS server. Co-Authored book on X Windows.

Hemant Shah’s Experience

Director of IT

LIDP Consulting, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

February 1994 — Present (15 years 10 months)

• Successfully migrated company’s core software product from mainframe to UNIX for key clients such as The Hartford, Life of Georgia/ING, Columbian Financial Group, and Insular Life Assurance Company (Philippines).
• Single-handedly planned, deployed, and administered scalable network and security infrastructure (AIX, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows) supporting 65 domestic and global users.
• Designed and oversaw implementation of virtualization infrastructure, enabling users to access Windows software from UNIX desktops.
• Led team in creating interface to internationalize software and translate messages from English to Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese.
• Vital resource on development and implementation of billing, timesheet, source code, and content management systems as well as multiple RDBMS spanning VSAM, DB2, Oracle, Sybase, and SQL Server.
• Requested to speak at IIT NetSecure; published papers at various technical conferences.
• IBM DB2 certification.
Network Engineer

NetGuru Technologies

(Computer Software industry)

February 1993 — January 1994 (1 year )

• Instrumental in developing and delivering technical training classes at client locations nationwide. Taught hands-on introduction to UNIX, internetworking in multi-protocol networks, UNIX shell programming, and understanding and using client/server applications/architecture.

• Co-authored X Windows User’s Guide and developed two-day class based on the book, covering networks, applications, and security on Windows, UNIX, and Mac systems.

• Designed distributed Sybase database for Norwest Mortgage, enabling migration from centralized, mainframe (CICS/VSAM) to UNIX-based distributed database system.
Systems Analyst

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

(Computer Software industry)

1990 — 1993 (3 years )
Systems Analyst & Programmer

Fermilab

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

July 1990 — February 1993 (2 years 8 months)

• Administered cluster of SUN SPARCstations, Silicon Graphics IRIS, IBM RS/6000, SONY, Data General, NeXT, and NCD systems while contributing to complex application development projects.

• Designed and implemented Unix to Mainframe connectivity for the Clustered Large UNIX Batch System (CLUBS) spanning SUN, IBM RS/6000, and Silicon Graphics, entailing integration of UNIX and Amdahl mainframe systems using TCP/IP.

• Produced Local User Environment (LUE) application to allow user to obtain valuable UNIX or VMS system information dynamically via e-mail interface.