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Larry McMahon, Internet Business Consultant
Website design and website hosting.
Midrange Operations Manager, Systems Administration, Webmaster
As an experienced System Administrator/Operations Manager and skilled team leader, I have improved productivity through standardization and reliability with improvements to server security, audit compliance and disaster recovery. My customer and project management focus improves effectiveness while my problem-solving skills help resolve technical issues.
Accomplishments
- Experienced developing small business websites and search engine promotion campaigns providing a product-focused marketing strategy. Built effective results-oriented marketing campaigns focused on relevant keywords that draw customer traffic from search engine to home page.
- Managed corporate operations team of System Administrators across three states supporting 500 UNIX (HPUX, Solaris and AIX) and Windows (NT and W2K) servers, including servers for SAP/PeopleSoft.
- Managed a total budget of over $4M for staff, hardware and software for central IT department.
- Deployed standard server configurations improved ratio of supported servers per sysadmin.
- Acquired $2.5MM SAP/Peoplesoft server support operations contract (15k jobs/month).
- Implemented improvements to operations including tape backup/archival/archival/disaster recovery, alert handling, procedures and system documentation.
- Managed "under-fire" install projects and Crit-Sits on time and secure.
- Implemented customer status tracking system to manage 50 concurrent projects.
- Developed and implemented client server security standards to reduce exposure to intrusions, successfully handled third party security intrusion tests, managed numerous server audits. Remediated all server security issues to consistently meeting changing security standards.
- Initiated system software implementation.
- Acquired floundering Novell server team, improving procedures, quality and reliability.
- Improved customer satisfaction with consistent Service Level Standards.
- Managed a team of mainframe operating system administrators. Project leader for two mainframe installations, disk conversions, and workload redistribution projects.
Employment History
- Internet Business Consultant , Web Services: Design, Build, Promote, WebMaster
- IBM GS Distributed Services, Midrange Operations Manager
- Bank One, VP Operations Manager Midrange/Mainframe
- Wilson Sporting Goods, Systems Administration
- Allstate Insurance, Programming Instructor & programmer
- Daniel Wright Jr. HS, Columbus HS, mathematics and physics teacher
Education
- Northern Illinois University, BS in Mathematics; Minor in Physics
- Training: Project Management, Solaris administration, NT server/PC administration, HPUX UNIX fundamentals, HP Omniback, FORTRAN IV, BAL, and ANS COBOL. Skilled in web development and promotion/marketing using Macromedia Homesite, Cascading Style Sheets, HTML, JAVASCRIPT and WebPosition Gold, Paint Shop Pro, Netscape, IE and Opera.