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Miguel J. Furtado

 

resume 11/25/07

 

miguel.furtado@Gmail.com

www.miguelfurtado.com

Davis, CA United States

 

 

 



OBJECTIVE

Accomplished Systems Engineer with expertise in diverse range of technologies. Extensive experience in the engineering, administration, and support of information systems. In-depth expertise in the implementation, analysis, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN network systems. Well-organized results driven individual with proven leadership ability to ensure success.


HIGHLIGHTS

·          Team Leadership

·          IT Strategy Development

·          Technical Analysis

·          Quality Assurance

·          Project Management

·          Systems Engineering

·          Migration / Upgrades

·          Client / Server Technology

·          Operations Management

·          Compliance / Security

·          Internet Technology


EXPERTISE

Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation and Server, 2000 (Professional and Server), XP Professional, 2003 (Web, Standard, and Enterprise ), Unix (Linux (SUSE, Redhat, Fedora, CentOS), Solaris)

Software

Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS), Microsoft Server Update Services (WSUS), Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA), Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft Terminal Services

CDC Pivotal CRM, Metrix ERP, Scribe Integrate middleware, QAD MFG-PRO

Crystal Enterprise Reports Server X, Actuate Reports Server

Microsoft SQL 2000 & 2005 Database Server, Oracle 8i, 9i, and 10g, MySQL, Postgres SQL

VMware ESX & GSX Server, VMware Virtual Center Server, and VMware Infrastructure Node

Veritas Net Backup 5.0 & 6.0 Server

OpenView Network Node Management, WhatsUp Gold Monitoring, Nagios Network Node Management, Nessus Security Scanner, Zenoss Network Monitoring and Systems Management, Trend Micro Enterprise Antivirus

Languages

ASP & .NET, Vbscript, Perl, PHP, Visual Basic 6.0, VBA

Networks/Protocols

DNS, WINS, DHCP, SMTP, IMAP, POP3, RPC, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, SSH, TELNET, FTP, VPN, TFTP, SNMP

Hardware

Dell PowerEdge 4x, 6x, 8x, and 9x, Dell PowerEdge Blade technology, Dell PowerVault Network Storage, and Data backup platforms, Sun Fire V120, V210, V240, V440, V480, V490, V1280, Sun Enterprise e3500, Sun StorEdge, HP Compaq Proliant, StorageTech L180, Hitachi SAN 9570


EXPERIENCE

ERG Transit Systems Inc, Concord, California

World leader in the development and supply of integrated fare management and software systems for the transit industry, and for its smart card systems and services. Systems in major cities including Hong Kong, Melbourne, Rome, San Francisco and Singapore with installations in progress in Boston, Gothenburg, Seattle, Stockholm, Sydney and Washington DC – http://www.erggroup.com

Senior Systems Engineer                                                                                    2001 - Current

Engineered, implemented, and administered backbone systems supporting the Automated Fare Collection Services (AFC), and Customer Service Centers for all projects located in the Americas , and selected European Markets. Consistent focus on service integration for maximum efficiency and security. Industry compliance and vulnerability management critical to the future and ongoing operations.

Accomplishments:

·          Engineered and implemented Microsoft backbone and other supporting infrastructure technology for US $85 Million Seattle Project, the project consists of complex portals to CRM, and AFC systems for public facing real time access to customer data, as well as internal operator functionality for financials, and reporting requirements through the integration of well established technologies with proprietary software developed in house. The system can support over 400,000 individual cards / customers, and 130 million passenger transactions annually.

·          Established critical engineering design for Customer Service Center project deployments where remote CRM technologies were required, these designs were later utilized as the deployment guide at Centers in both Washington DC , and Boston metropolitan projects. The systems implemented are currently supporting in excess of 1 million patrons, and 21,000 customer calls monthly.

·          Successful design and leadership in the build out of new disaster recovery Concord data center, focusing on scalability, and resource optimization such as rack space, power and cooling relying on Blade center hardware introduction, and virtualization of major test, and integration lab functions. New data center can now support over 5 times its previous maximum capacity. As the central business continuity piece in all of Americas projects allowed ERG to further its position as the market leader on reliable AFC Systems.

·          Successful seamless upgrade of large, and complex Windows NT domain and workgroup environment to state of the art Windows Server 2003 domain infrastructure in flagship US TransLink® US $165 million project, furthering the effectiveness of the AFC services supported by these systems, allowing the project to meet stringent contractual requirements, and advance to latest production stages.



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