Elaine Mele
4010B South Broad Street
Yardville, NJ 08620
Home phone: 609-581-1786
Cell phone: 609-731-0283
elaine@svensson.org

 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Technical design professional with specific expertise as a senior system administrator.  Excellent technical understanding of operating systems and computer communications developed through working in all phases of development and system administration.  Strong documentation skills developed in communicating with all levels of staff.  Excellent customer service recognized through honesty, open communications and solid technical understanding.  Quick learner.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Consulting, Yardville, NJ
System Administrator

1996-2003

Manage daily operations of home-based computer non-production and production environment  Install, upgrade, and maintain computer hardware and software applications; user accounts; email system; backups, restores. 

  • Designed automation programs enabling processing without manual intervention.
  • Resolved network, hardware problems, performance, and disk capacity issues.
  • Developed documentation for building websites and installations.
  • Maintain email and domains (i.e., qmail and postfix - alternatives to sendmail)
  • Maintain domain name services (DNS and DHCP).
  • Quality assurance testing for websites and security.
Trinet Corporation/Lumeta Corporation, Somerset, NJ      
Systems Engineer
2001-2002

Manage daily operations of enterprise computer environment.  Install, upgrade, and maintain computer hardware and software applications; user accounts; email system; backups, restores, and remote startup configurations.  Support corporate staff on computer and software applications.  Configured business-to-business computer systems connections.  On call for 24 hour support.

  • Designed automation programs enabling processing without manual intervention.
  • Resolved network, hardware problems, performance, and disk capacity issues.
  • Developed documentation for building Lumeta network appliances.  Built and tested network appliances used at client locations producing revenue for the company.
  • Developed and performed computer connectivity acceptance tests for the business-to-business connections saving time and increasing profit for the company.
  • Performed investigative analysis of customer (Fortune 1000 companies) computer environments networks using Lumeta’s software analysis products, generating revenue for the company.
  • Quality assurance testing of web-interfaced reports to Folrtune 1000 companies.
Dow Jones & Company, Princeton, NJ                                                                     
Senior System Administrator
1996-2001

Manage daily operations of  Internet productions servers and back-end applications. Install, upgrade, and maintain computer hardware and software applications; user accounts; email system; backups, restores, and Internet applications.  Provide computer security through system hardening. Vendor point of contact.  On call for 24 hour support.

  • Implemented, configured, administered and monitored an enterprise anti-virus solution preventing virus intrusion through the the Internet saving the company time and money in cleaning up viruses.
  • Technical design professional for server implementation in the design of all internal and corporate informational web sites, and client/server Internet applications.
  • Performed baseline performance studies and performance tuning on servers.
  • Evaluated, recommended and implemented third-party software used on the Internet for different business units saving the company money.
  • Designed automation programs enabling processing without manual intervention.
  • Mentored system administrators, help desk personnel, data security, and network operations.
  • Performed quality assurance code reviews on all web-based programs to create a secure web environment.
  • Maintained and configured corporate web servers and back-end applications. (NES, iPlanet, IIS, LDAP)
  • Designed web reports for Corporation departments on web usage.
  • Created the data security policies and procedures for Internet servers.
  • Designed business data transfer solutions for internal and external business partners.
  • Developed and implement a secure in-house network backup and restore solution.

NEC Systems Laboratory, Inc., Princeton, NJ
Senior System Administrator

1993-1996

Manage daily operations of enterprise computer environment.  Install, upgrade, and maintain computer hardware and software applications; user accounts; email system; backups, and restores.  Support corporate staff on computer and software applications.  On call for 24 hour support.

  • Compiled public domain software on different computer platforms for computer security, monitoring and user applications saving the company time and money.
  • QA Tester – Test in-house developed software for usability and reliability.
  • Implemented an inventory structure by developing and maintaining a database and reports.
  • Created standard practices and administration procedures
  • Trained other system administrators.
  • Evaluated and recommended software and hardware.  Contact for vendor support and purchasing.
Additional Relevant Experience  
  • Quality Assurance Project Leader for the development of new and upgraded software applications.
  • Developed workshops in workstation use for University faculty, students and technical staff.
  • Developed pre-sales presentation and training on system administration software for customers.
  • Supported a 300+ workstation and server environment using network information services (NIS, NIS+).
  • Port software to different Unix operating systems.
  • Developed testing tools using 'C' programming language.
  • Customer Support Engineer for Army contact supporting hardware and software issue.
  • Liason between customers and vendors.
  • Beta test project leader for new system integration releases.
  • Database management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Language Tools: NES, iPLANET, IIS, Soltice DiskSuite, HTTP, Remedy, BMC, RAID, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, NFS, NIS, NIS+ DNS, DHCP, SAMBA, Exceed, POP, SMTP, Shell scripts (i.e., sh, Csh, Ksh, PERL, etc.), Trend Virus Wall, FTP, SunOS, HTML, Framemaker, Microsoft Office Suite, VPN, SSH, Ultrix, Kerboros, SOCKS, X-Windows/CDE, NNTP, Visio, Excel, Word, SecurID, Postfix, ISS, LVM, SSL, SNMP, ADSM, AMANDA, Dreamweaver, Lumeta Discovery Suite, SNMP, Apache, Roxen

Databases: Informix, Access

Environments: FreeBSD, Linux, Windows NT/2000, SUN (Solaris), HP (HP-UX), DEC (Ultrix), Various PCs (i.e., DELL, IBM, Gateway, etc.) Terminal Servers, Modems, X-terminals, CISCO 2600, NOKIA Firewall, Checkpoint Firewall, PIX, printers, Rocketport32, Boxhill Jukebox, VAX (VMS), Data Aviion, IBM PC/RT and RS/6000 (AIX), Pyramid, HP 9000/300/800 (HP-UX), Sequent  (DYNIX), CCI Power 6 (SysV), Masscomp (RTX), Silicon Graphics (IRIX), UNISYS 5000 series (SysV), NCR Tower 32/600/800 (SysV), Gould 9000 (UTX), Motorola (SysV), SCO, NeXT, Apple.

PROFESSIONAL COURSES AND MEMBERSHIPS

Some college majoring in Computer Science

  • Sun System Administration
  • Solaris Migration
  • PERL
  • Windows NT 4.0
  • IIS
  • Professional Conferences (e.g., SANS, LISA)
  • Member of USENIX, SAGE and $GROUPNAME