VP Information Technologies – Mr. Weiss co-founded Solara Energy during the height of the energy crisis in California. As such, Mr. Weiss was able to bring his depth of skills and best practices to the company by quickly bringing the company's website and IT infrastructure on line. In addition, Mr. Weiss was responsible for startup tasks including development of technical projections in the business plan, deployment of the company's telecom and network infrastructures, development of the company website and project management. Mr. Weiss is responsible for all aspects of day-to-day operations including project management, desktop support, financial accounting systems, customer facing information systems (website) and IT business strategy.
Senior Director of Information Technologies - Mr. Weiss joined Arzoo to design and build the IT infrastructure and, more importantly, the production web site. He was responsible for IT organizational design including the hiring of the operations team and the design and deployment of the associated operations support infrastructure for the newly founded company. Mr. Weiss’ responsibilities include staffing both IT development support and Internet production support positions. Mr. Weiss has used his extensive IT and operations architecture design background to define and implement an appropriate support infrastructure for internet operations. The infrastructure combines processes, procedures, monitoring tools and physical plant to accomplish this.
Mr. Weiss evaluated and chose Arzoo’s co-location provider, negotiated the contract and managed the overall site deployment project. Mr. Weiss has developed strong vendor relationships with EMC, Sun Microsystems, Veritas, AT&T Enhanced Network Services, F5 Networks, Gadzoox, Extreme, Foundry, Rittal and with resellers – Acclaim Technologies and Avcom. As Well, Mr. Weiss architects operations support environments using tools from Aprisma, Remedy, BMC, Interwoven and others.
Director of Online Operations - Mr. Weiss joined Electronic Arts to build the operations team and associated support infrastructure for their rapidly growing online presence. Mr. Weiss led the effort to choose a Tier 1 internet collocation provider for the production environment and managed a team of internal resources and consultants on a project to design and implement an internet-centric operations architecture. Meanwhile the newly assembled operations team assumed more responsibility to support EA's legacy internet gaming presence collocated at existing service providers.
The operations architecture includes process and procedure definitions for a support infrastructure that uses Electronic Arts internal resources as well as the collocation service provider's Network Operations Center staff. A Service Level Agreement was defined that governs this relationship and was included as an addendum to the collocation agreement. In addition, Mr. Weiss provided operations and technical architecture expertise on a project that included the development of a recurring billing application using Broadvision's application development environment. Mr. Weiss defined the operations organization and has been actively recruiting and hiring resources to build the operations team.
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company 4
Months
Mr. Weiss led an assessment team on a review of John
Hancock's internet architecture. Mr. Weiss determined project
requirements, scoped the work effort and defined the approach. Mr.
Weiss drafted the arrangement and staffed the engagement. Mr. Weiss
was responsible for managing the project scope and budget as well as
providing subject matter expertise to the staff. During the internet
architecture assessment, Mr. Weiss was asked to review a highly
visible and very important claims processing application for
capacity, performance and reliability. Mr. Weiss drafted the proposal
for follow-on work that addressed the short-term tactical initiatives
from the internet architecture assessment. This project included
development of an internet-centric operations architecture and
definition of the structure of the support organization, the
processes and procedures that operations personnel will follow and
the tools that support them. In addition, the project addressed the
tight integration of support tools allowing personnel more visibility
to the infrastructure while providing a higher level of customer
service.
PACCAR 6 Months
Mr. Weiss determined
project requirements, deliverables and drafted the arrangement for an
eCommerce assessment, an IT infrastructure assessment and an overall
distributed systems operations architecture design. Mr. Weiss was
responsible for staffing both teams and managing the overall effort.
Mr. Weiss provided technical expertise to the eCommerce, IT
Infrastructure and the ERP teams as a subject matter expert. In
addition Mr. Weiss worked with the client eCommerce manager to begin
drafting an eCommerce strategy which was not specifically within the
scope of the effort.
Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) 8
Months
Mr. Weiss managed a team responsible for the
development of an operations architecture for a large implementation
of Oracle Financials, Oracle Manufacturing and a distributed
computing paradigm known as publish/subscribe. In addition, Mr. Weiss
participated in defining scope and delivery of Technical Support
deliverables including the support plan and the Oracle patch process.
Mr. Weiss also participated on the Environments team and the Security
team bringing strong best practices and industry knowledge to the
deliverables during the preliminary solution design phase of the
project.
Netscape Communications 12 Months
Mr.
Weiss managed a team responsible for the design and implementation of
server room architecture, UNIX server configuration and production
roll out, UNIX technical support, 7X18 operations support, and
supplemental off-hours help desk support. Additionally, Mr. Weiss was
responsible for the development of monitoring scripts. His team
architected and subsequently implemented a server back-up strategy.
The team performed both UNIX and network administration.
Mr. Weiss' direct responsibilities included managing server room build-out projects, recommending and adhering to standards, performing senior level UNIX administration, evaluating new technologies/architectures, system/server sizing, reviewing purchases and system configurations, and interviewing prospective full time operations employees.
Yellow Freight Systems 14 Months
Mr.
Weiss' primary responsibility while at Yellow Freight Systems was to
lead a performance testing team through architectural level testing
of a three-tier architecture developed using Powerbuilder, Tuxedo
(now Weblogics) and Oracle PDB. Furthermore, Mr. Weiss assumed UNIX
systems administration responsibilities for the development systems
environment, including two Sun SparcCenter 1000 TUXEDO servers and
two Sun SparcCenter 2000 PDB Oracle parallel database servers.
Mr. Weiss was responsible for the overall performance of a distributed environment that included PCs running PowerBulilder applications on the front end and communicating via WAN to Sun SparcCenter 2000 servers running TUXEDO middleware and Pyramid database servers running Oracle OPS. Mr. Weiss developed a comprehensive test plan to perform architectural level testing, and researched and recommended a performance testing software suite that greatly reduced the time necessary to build test scripts and then carry out the test plan.
Sargent and Lundy Engineers 3 Weeks
Mr.
Weiss performed a high level Data Center Review and made
recommendations to senior management for improving areas, such as
their Help Desk, UNIX Systems Administration, and PC Technical
Support.
Mr. Weiss designed and implemented a router-based backbone to segment the existing UTP network both vertically and horizontally. He designed a Sun workstation-based server and X Display station solution to file Unit Investment Trust prospectus filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission electronically (EDGAR), and he configured and installed a 22-position Sun Microsystems-based financial trading floor.
Furthermore, Mr. Weiss administered 30 Sun Microsystems workstations, Micrognosis news-feed transport, and Telerate server, he evaluated and installed Track Data news feed to replace Shark Data using ISDN as the communications transport, and he remotely administered one Sun file server and five PCs located in New York City. Additionally, Mr. Weiss managed the day-to-day administration tasks on each workstation, as well as lpr, uucp, and network administration and the registration of IP addresses and setup of connections to the Internet.
As a micro-systems manager, Mr. Weiss's primary responsibility was to evaluate all new technology. As such, he evaluated 80386-based microcomputers from four leading vendors for the purpose of selecting a new corporate standard, and he participated in the evaluation of 10 Base T Ethernet network concentrators. The product chosen was installed at the new corporate headquarters and consists of more than 300 nodes, as well as a fiber backbone.
Additionally, Mr. Weiss Influenced Operation's staff and senior management's decision to install TCP/IP on the existing VAX cluster. He evaluated and installed Exebyte DAT drives for network backup of all Sun workstations on the network, and he evaluated the Novell version 3.11 network operating system for use as a PC networking standard.
During his tenure at this company, Mr. Weiss served as an internal consultant by providing key decision making input on selecting Sun Microsystems as a corporate workstation standard. He participated in the evaluation of Wide Area Network concentrators and recommendation that 64K bit/second lines be used to remote facilities in New York, California, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Furthermore, he worked on the development of a PC/Workstation and Networking strategy.
Mr. Weiss managed all aspects of the Data Processing Department. He installed an Ethernet based TCP/IP network connecting PC's to an ARIX UNIX mini computer, and he focused the company on bar code data collection and automated time and attendance. As a UNIX Systems Administrator supporting 32 users, Mr. Weiss researched and proposed solutions to senior management for the purchase of new hardware and/or software for the system and negotiated its purchase prices and contracts. He implemented a voice recognition-based inventory receiving system utilizing the latest technology in portable voice recognition, FM modem, and bar code labeling. He maintained network system software and databases and monitored network traffic and corrected unusual conditions as necessary.
As the Telecommunications System Manager, Mr. Weiss managed the day-to-day operations and maintenance of an AT&T System 25 PBX. Furthermore, he was responsible for all internal communications cabling, including both voice and data.
As part of System Sales, Mr. Weiss joined the company as a start-up. Mr. Weiss was responsible for negotiating the first AT&T reseller contract, as well as sales technical support for all sales people. Mr. Weiss researched new products to be added to the company's product line and was responsible for growing sales to $500,000 per month prior to his departure.
Midrange Computers
Sun Microsystems
SPARC based workstations, E4000/4500, E5000, E6000, E10000, Sunfire
and Blade technologies and related peripherals - Solaris 2.4 -
2.10
HP 3000/9000 Workstations and midrange computers - HP/UX
Version 9 UNIX
Microsoft Windows OS Versions including 98,
XP/2000
Storage Area Networking (SANs)
Gadzoox,
Brocade, JNI, Clariion, and EMC
LAN Administration
Ethernet 802.3,
802.5 10/100/1000 Base T/Tx LAN topologies WAN's using dial-up or
leased and public switched networks i.e., Dedicated or Fractional
T1/T3/DS3, Frame Relay and ATM, VOIP, QoS and RTP
Layer 3 switches
Cisco, Extreme and
Foundry
UNIX Systems Administration
Solaris
X86, Unixware, RHEL and Fedora Core LINUX and freeBSD
UNIX
E-Mail (Sendmail and Qmail), DNS, DHCP, LDAP and Solaris NIS/NIS+
Administration
Veritas VCS, Volume Manager and Netbackup
Administration
Network & Systems Management
tools
Aprisma (Spectrum), HP (Openview NNM), Quest
(Foglight), BMC and Remedy
Internet
IPlanet Enterprise Web
Server, Apache, and Tomcat
Open Source
Qmail,
Spamassassin, Clamav, Asterisk Open Source PBX, SipX PBX, MySQL,
Postgres SQL, SSH/SSL, Compiere ERP/CRM
AA,
Business Administration, 1980
Illinois
Valley Community College
Related Experience & Training
TCP/IP
Networking
NIS/NFS
Network Security
Internet Operations
Environments
Sun Enterprise Servers including E10K
UNIX
Performance and Tuning
Designing Middleware Architectures
Critical Behavior Interviewing
Managing Organizational Change
Principal Centered Leadership
Client Quality Management
Delivering Client Value
Interactive Negotiating
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