Edward Duarte

Edward A Duarte Professional experience Profile Software Developer for IBM Watson Healthcare infrastructure. Our team focuses on reducing time to delivery, increasing security, consistency and reliability. Strong UNIX skills that are able to troubleshoot, performance and tune, automate environment in order to improve availability, consistency and reliability Excellent at leveraging programming skills in Ansible, shell script, perl, c, java, c++, python, swift, objective-c to solve problems, automation and diagnose issue. Employer History 03/2016 - To date IBM, United States of America Commercial Operations I/T Archtitect Member of the Watson Healthcare Infrastructure team that supports IBM Watson solution in the healthcare space. Leveraging and improving Ansible to provide consistent user id administration support for the the team, streamlining standardized system setup and testing network connectivity. 09/2005 - 02/2016 IBM, United States of America Team lead at IBM Have lead a team of 15 unix SA's in supporting CenturyLink contract. Current responsibilities include Change, Problem and Security via the Lean process. Command and Control team lead with a GD supported team. Provide technical guidance in automated fixes and detection of issues. Root Cause Analysis expert for team and getting problems resolved so issues do not repeat. Adept negotiator is dealing with client needs and demands. Team Lead for Command and Control team for a GDF client solution. Thought leader in performance and tuning within large Unix environments. Always looking to automate task with scripts and programming languages in order to detect and standardize environments. 08/2003 - 08/2005 IBM, United States of America Team lead at IBM / automation specialist Lead team of Sun Solaris SA's supporting production environment of 400 servers. Created automation for install, support, troubleshooting of these environments. 11/1999 - 07/2003 US West, United States of America Lead at Qwest/USWest Lead team of Sun Solaris SA's supporting production environment of 400 servers. Created automation for install, support, troubleshooting of these environments. Resource Manager: Ricky Douglas Page 1 of 3 Date: 18-Jun-2018 09/1995 - 10/1999 Pacific Bell, United States of America UNIX Technical Lead In a HPUX environment, created automation, tools, scripts for unix support team in order to install, monitor, troubleshoot environment. Assignment History 08/2003 - To date 179 months CenturyLink Unix Team Lead Project Description: February 2016 to Present Software developer for the Watson Healthcare Infrastructure team - we leverage ansible, bash and other tools to reduce time for delivering a standard and tested env. October 2013 to January 2016 Team lead for infrastructure team that is responsbile for the delivery of SOE OS builds that are GSD331 compliant, evaluating new hardware and software, and developing standard tools and processes for MOP for all SA on the CenturyLink account. February 2011 to October 2013 Command and control team lead for a GDF delivery team. The team is primarily responsible for day to day operations for 2000+ servers that include the following OS's: Sun, Linux, HPUX and AIX. GDF team implements the following: Problem management Change implementation GSD331 compliance Patching of all servers Adhoc change requests Assist with userid administration Command and control team provides oversight of service delivery for GDF team, quality controls metrics, system monitoring tools, system telemetry tools, process and procedures, etc. January 2008 - February 2011 Team lead for Lean Team delivering service for the Centurylink Account. The team is primarily responsible for day to day operations for 2000+ servers that include the following OS's: Sun, Linux, HPUX and AIX. Lean team implements the following: Problem management Change implementation GSD331 compliance Patching of all servers Adhoc change requests Assist with userid administration August 2003 - January 2008 Team Lead for Sunteam on the Qwest account. Team is responsible for delivering service on 300 Solaris servers. Team responsibilities include: Server installation and configuration VCS installation and implementation GSD331 compliance Automation to monitor environment Assist with userid administration Day to Day Unix System Administration Resource Manager: Ricky Douglas Page 2 of 3 Date: 18-Jun-2018 Adhoc change request Key Skills OS's: Sun Solaris 2.5.1 - 10 HPUX 10 - 11 Redhat Linux 7, 6 Programming: Ansible, Bash, Java, C, Korn Shell, unix utilities ( sed, awk, etc. ), perl, cgi, html, tcl, expect, C++, objective-C, Swift, Ruby, Python and SAS Team lead skills: Great communicator, able to lead team to a vision, delegate and follow up in order to ensure team growth and success, firm believer in documentation in order to ensure business continuity. Automation: Have a clear vision of where waste can lead to opportunity to improve efficiency via automation. Have implemented a multitude of tools with supporting documentation so that many processes are repeatable and more efficient. Have created packages for Solaris and HPUX. Learning Docker and Kubernetes. Key Courses and Training Watson Ambassador HIPAA Certified Leveraged Ansible to manage environment. VCS training Solaris 10 online courses: dtrace, Solaris 10 difference Solaris 9 differences HPUX Fundamentals HPUX LVM HPUX Performance and Tuning HPUX Internals HPUX Service Guard Redhat System Administration I Extensive reading and use of html, cgi, perl, scripting, programming languages, unix internals, object oriented design, design patterns, java, C, C#, C++, Presently learning: Swift, Ruby, Python. Business Leadership Class Well versed in security and GSD331 audit needs and requirements Education Qualifications Languages Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics California State University at Hayward, United States of America, 1988 English Spanish Resource Manager: Ricky Douglas Fluent Good Page 3 of 3 Date: 18-Jun-2018