Louis M. Seigal

Insue Inc.

New York, NY

Technical Consulting Company

Senior Technical Consultant, Flavorpill Productions LLC

• Responsible for technical strategy, management, support of development and production environments, as well as office IT
• Maintained environments consisting of UNIX servers; managed server software: Apache, Tomcat, PHP, mySQL, Postfix, CVS, Subversion, shell scripts, and supporting software
• Compared and selected an ad management solution to assist the sales team in achieving greater ad revenue
• Compared and selected a new production ISP to migrate to. Documented migration procedure and performed a successful cut over of websites, applications, databases, and e-mail
• Evaluated, selected, and worked with a VoIP vendor to implement a voice Over IP system for 15 users
• Migrated e-mail and calendaring services to Google Apps for Business
• Implemented an office firewall solution and VPN services
• 24/7 Production monitoring, on call support
• Related URLs: http://www.flavorpill.com

 

Senior Technical Consultant, Review Publishing

• Actively host multiple dedicated servers for Production and Non-Production web application environments
• Continual custom CMS application maintenance; assist developers in implementing new applications and features within the LAMP architecture
• Installed, configured, and maintained various software packages: Apache, PHP, mySQL, Movabletype, Urchin, and custom CMS applications
• 24/7 Production monitoring, on call support
• Related URLs: http://www.reviewpublishing.com, http://www.acweekly.com, http://www.connectionsweekly.com, http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com, http://www.southphillyreview.com

 

Technical Director, The Wired Store, Condé Nast Publications Inc.

• Coordinated the technical implementation and setup of products displayed and used within the store
• Worked with store managers, event coordinators, designers, and wired staff on all of the technical aspects of the store
• Installed a dedicated embedded firewall and Cisco access point to serve all the networked devices in the store
• Trained store staff on the use of the products on display
• Provided on call support to store employees and wired staff
• Related URLs: http://wiredstore.net, http://www.wired.com

 

Insue Inc.

Miami, FL

Technical Consulting Company

Senior Technical Consultant, M3 Summit

• Provided technical direction to regarding the setup of the event office space and publicly accessible wireless internet access
• Procured, configured, and installed PC's, laptops, printers, and network equipment to create a temporary event office
• Procured, configured, and installed embedded firewalls and access points in various event locations in order to provide public wireless internet access to attendees
• Configured a wireless captive portal in order to brand the wireless access to M3 and M3's partners
• Provided on call support
• Related URLs: http://www.flickr.com/photos/m3miami

 

Citigroup

New York, NY

Global Corporate Investment Banking

Senior Technical Analyst

• Senior Web Administrator supporting infrastructure and web applications in a shared environment consisting of 550+ applications, and over 400 servers
• Installation and configuration of new application environments within the infrastructure standards; worked closely with development teams on initial support as well as on-going support
• Installed, configured, and maintained numerous software packages: iPlanet 4.1/6.0 Web Servers, Jrun 3.01/4.x Application Servers, Weblogic 6.x, Websphere 4.x, as well as various web server plugins: Weblogic, Websphere, Siteminder, P3P, and LDAP authentication modules
• Part of an on-call rotation that supported the Web Hosting Group infrastructure including internal intranet sites as well as external Internet facing and retail sites
• Extensive work in supporting development teams as well as troubleshooting various development and production issues
• Worked with various peer groups and business lines including Enterprise Directory Support (LDAP / SiteMinder), Web Engineering, UNIX Engineering, Network Engineering, Enterprise IP Services (Load balancing / Proxies), Operations, and UNIX/NT System Administrators
• Dedicated projects applications support group lead; worked with our Client Relationship Management team as well as various Engineering groups to bring in externally hosted Internet facing applications into our infrastructure while adhering to our internal standards for auditing, security, and environment

 

Deutsche Bank

New York, NY

Corporate Investment Banking

Technical Systems Leader

• Technical systems lead, system administration, application integration, and build management
• Responsible for the management and implementation of the technical infrastructure within Global Investment Banking Technology
• CRM (Client Relationship Management) technical implementation lead. Used BEA Weblogic 6.1 and Epicentric Portal Software to deploy this application to enterprise level UNIX servers in a clustered fault tolerant environment
• Managed the global deployment for a core Electronic Document Management System using Documentum software and in-house developed java application code. Deployed to Sun UNIX E4500 servers in the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Organized multiple infrastructure teams globally to complete Disaster Recovery implementation and testing. Acted as primary technical lead on the implementation and on-going production management of the application
• Weblogic system administration, software integration into the application server environment; experience using front-end plug-ins with apache and Weblogic in a clustered high availability fault tolerant environment
• Acquired and configured hardware and wrote specifications for capacity planning for new projects
• Responsible for managing a development, test, and production environment of 20+ Solaris 2.6/8 systems (E4500/E450) and 30+ NT systems (Dell/Compaq)
• Installed operating systems (95/98/NT/Linux/Solaris), software, and in-house applications
• Set up disk mirroring using Veritas Volume Manager, performed system troubleshooting and performance tuning
• Installed and configured: Apache, Tomcat, JRun, Netscape Directory Server (LDAP), Ultraseek search engine, SecureSoft/Crosslogix Entitlement Engine, Weblogic, Brio, Documentum, Oracle, JProbe, and OptimizeIt
• Managed cross-platform server and desktop backups using Arcserve and Tivoli software and a tape library
• Implemented and managed a formal build process for Java web based applications
• Involved with the design, development and deployment of the following applications: alexbrown.db.com, ipo.alexbrown.db.com, pe.alexbrown.db.com, Private Equity Group web application, Financial Services web application, CRM web application, and the Electronic Document Management System web application
• Used PVCS and CVS for version control. Created and maintained Makefiles for compilation management, archiving of builds, and deployment
• Managed our in-house Technical Support Team, supervised up to 5 people at a time
• Managed multiple formal java development environments: Prototyping, Development, QA, UAT, Staging, and Production
• Maintained documentation for servers, installations, configuration, and the build processes on intranet web pages

 

Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown

New York, NY

Global Investment Banking

Technical Consultant

• Consultant to Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown, Global Investment Banking
• System Administrator for UNIX (Solaris 2.6, 8, AIX) development and test environments
• Assisted in managing NT intranet development and test environment (30+ servers)
• Web reporting and analysis
• Implemented production server monitoring with e-mail and pager alerts

 

Bankers Trust

New York, NY

Corporate Internet Services

Technical Consultant

• Intranet/Internet System Administrator, Webmaster, and web development Technical Support for a fast paced inter-departmental web development center
• Responsible for UNIX (AIX) and NT Server Administration as well as troubleshooting, problem solving, systems integration, web development, and server monitoring
• Organized and completed Netscape Enterprise Server Intranet/Internet Y2K upgrade from 2.x to 3.6 in development and production environments
• Used shell and perl scripts to automate and manage system administration tasks as well as maintain and update existing automated script functionality
• Verity Search Engine installation and configuration for Bankers Trust development and production intranet sites
• Assisted in integration of Intranet and Internet web services with Deutsche Bank systems after merger

 

Alchemy Inc.

New York, NY

Technical Consulting Company

System Administrator

• Responsible for installation and management of the companies systems, co-located at an ISP
• Installed and managed Linux and NT 4 servers
• Installed and configured web services including Netscape Fastrack, Apache, and IIS servers
• Setup web and mail virtual hosting of multiple domains (30+) under Linux and NT
• Worked to port Perl applications from NT to UNIX (Linux and IBM AIX)
• Web application testing and quality assurance
• Maintained web statistics for multiple domains and web sites
• Setup monitoring system to watch development and production servers and services
• Implemented intercommunication e-mail security using PGP
• Implemented server security which included: hardening OS configuration, use of security auditing tools, active monitoring and alerting of security intrusion using intrusion detection software

 

Richard Stockton College

Pomona, NJ

Educational Institution

Senior Lab Technician

• Hardware and software installation campus wide, 300+ PCs, 40+ Macs
• Managed installation and configuration of new machines for new labs
• Setup and maintained windows security policy across the campus
• Troubleshooted hardware, software, and network problems
• Assisted in installation and maintenance of Novell 3 and 4.11 servers
• Assisted in maintaining student network accounts
• System Administrator for a student/faculty programming and web development intranet server running Linux