Andrew D.

## BIO   <p class="description summary" style= "margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2; word-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Objectives & Goals Provide management (both technical and personnel) to a cutting edge, successful company that can foster personal growth while providing 'best-in-class' solutions with exceptional skill. Engineer and manage solutions, leveraging open source products and the newest technologies for a blend of cost effectiveness and productivity. Accomplishments and Specialties •Implemented open source automation solution for managing 200+ middle ware servers, reducing labour costs, increasing human efficiency and decreasing human error. Saved company licensing costs of similar commercial product - hundreds of thousands dollars. Demonstrated this initiative and ability on several occasions for smaller but substantial cost savings. •Created technical and operator documentation for said solution, fundamentally changing the way enterprise middleware was managed •Drove projects and teams to on-time completion, taking ownership of a wide range of milestones and solutions to ensure quality and punctuality for customers •Assisted re-organizing teams, initiating a train the trainer program, and taking technical leadership of multiple personnel •An ability to build relationships, spot and confront inefficiencies while remaining political, and executing plans enthusiastically even if I don't believe they're perfect</p> ## Area of Expertise apache, php, red hat linux, linux, ubuntu, java, jboss, rhq, jboss operations network, JON, shell scripting, vbscript, c#, visual basic, Weblogic, Websphere, SDLC, Middleware, Eclipse, Solaris, SharePoint