Edward Davignon
Rochester,New York
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
SAP Print Technician
Coca Cola Euro Pacific via Kyndryl via Pomeroy
03.2023 - 04.2024
- Support the Output Management System (OMS) for SAP ECC and EWM systems.
- SPAD, InfoPrint Manager on AIX, CUPS on Suse Linux, Sudo, Cron, Service Now, Microsoft Office.
- Network barcode printers: Honeywell Intermec IPL, Zebra, and Toshiba.
- PCL office printers: Ricoh and HP.
- Network connectivity troubleshooting.
- Disaster Recovery: maintain procedures and perform frequent exercises.
- Perl and Bash scripting.
- Scripts to combine data from multiple sources into a well-formatted Excel Spreadsheet.
- Ubuntu 22.04 on Hyper-V virtualization.
- Microsoft Azure AD/DNS and network routing troubleshooting in a complex Information Security environment.
- Unicode.
- PuTTY, OpenSSH, SOCKS5 proxy chaining.
- Various security training.
- 24/7 On-call.
System Engineer - Senior
Rochester Regional Health
Rochester, New York
07.2017 - 11.2021
- IBM AIX, Linux, and Dell EMC XtremIO for Epic EHR and REDCap Administrator.
- Coordinate and Write IT Documentation to achieve Epic Honor Roll and Good Maintenance Grant Award.
- Epic Electronic Health Records (EHR) Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning.
- Softlab Laboratory Information System (LIS) Systems Support.
- Digi PortServer, Ubuntu Linux, Nginx Security, MariaDB DBA & SQL, PHP Configuration, WebDAV Storage, Unicode.
- RHEL/CentOS Linux, Dell EMC XtremIO Storage Administration and Storage Automation.
- CommVault Backup (Admin GUI, Orchestrate Epic ODB Backups (20+ TB nightly), Client-Side DeDup, ScaleProtect, Server Upgrades and Data Migrations, Audits, Schedules, Notifications & Reports, Monitoring, NAS, DataDomain, Volser, Air-Gap security).
- LDAP and Kerberos Integration, X509 Certificate Management, Software Package Management (DNF, YUM, RPM, APT, DPKG).
- IBM AIX NIM, Linux on VMWare, VMWare Tools (Clock Management, Storage, VM Snapshots), AIX and Linux on KVM and QEMU.
- NTP, DHCP, Infoblox DNS and IPAM, PuTTY, WinSCP, OpenSSH/OpenSSL, Byobu on TMUX, Microsoft Active Directory DNS, Java JVM Troubleshooting.
- Automation with Rsync, SSH XtremIO CLI, Shell Scripting, Perl, PowerShell.
- Python Package Management (pip, pip3) for Numerical Computation and Machine Learning on AIX.
- Scripts to extract data from Electronic Medical Records (EMR) database to validate configurations.
- Analyze data in Excel, R, RedCap, PowerShell, and Perl.
- Learn from Digital Ocean tutorials, contributed to IBM Community Forums.
- Troubleshoot IBM AIX and provide detailed bug reports for Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
- Data Center Consolidation, Data Center Safety, and Data Center Capacity Planning.
- IBM AIX Hardware Migrations (POWER8 E880C 9080-MHE), Dell EMC Storage Migrations (VNX, Isilon, XtremIO), IBM All-Flash Storage, Block Storage (Fibre Channel and iSCSI), NAS, Multipathing.
- Planning to Migrate a large Epic EHR (InterSystems Cache Operational Database) from AIX to RedHat on VMWare with VMWare DR.
- Evaluate multiple solutions for Scale Up vs Scale Out (i.e. 8-socket or 12-socket servers (with proprietary interconnects) vs 4-socket servers (with highspeed ethernet network), and On-Prem vs Cloud.
Lead Analyst - Central Systems Unix
Avangrid (Regulated Utilities)
Rochester, NY
05.2005 - 07.2017
- IBM AIX supporting Oracle Databases and SAP on DB2.
- Server consolidation and virtualization on IBM POWER7 770 enterprise servers.
- EMC Storage using PowerPath, Replication Manager, RecoverPoint, Solutions Enabler, ControlCenter.
- IBM Storage Replication.
- N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) on Fibre Channel.
- EMC and IBM Storage Virtualization.
- NetApp and IBM nSeries filers.
- PowerHA/HACMP High-Availability Clustering and SCSI locks.
- SAN Zoning and Masking.
- ARP/RARP cache management.
- Network VLAN IDs.
- TCPDUMP, Packet Capture, Wireshark network protocol analysis.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Learning recent technologies from IBM Redbooks.
- Analyze data in Excel, Perl, R with GGPlot2, and AWK.
- AIX Performance and Tuning.
- Document goals and established baselines.
- Network and Storage performance optimization.
- Top level tools: topas and NMON.
- Drill down as with vmstat, svmon, iostat, entstat, fcstat, truss, etc.
- Drill down further with the AIX trace facility and the kernel debugger.
- Capacity Planning.
- Round Robin Database (rrdtool) for time series data, Nagiosgraph, NMON Analyzer, NMON Consolidator.
- Web Applications.
- Implemented Bugzilla on Red Hat Enterprise Linux using Oracle, Apache, and SSL.
- Managed project to patch 144 AIX, VIOS, and HMC servers to maintain vendor support.
- Team Lead for multiple Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity exercises.
- Researched solutions for centralized authentication services.
Systems Engineer
Pitney Bowes Management Services
Rochester, NY
12.1998 - 05.2005
- Design IT systems and program for all phases of lifecycle for high-volume print to mail operations – must have error free output for bank statements and multimillion dollar invoices.
- Sun Solaris.
- Sun Storage using Veritas Volume Manager and Legato Networker.
- IBM AIX supporting InfoPrint Manager and InfoPrint Workflow systems.
- Troubleshooting SQL and SQR scripts.
- Data Security using Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) and McAfee E-Commerce (PGP).
- Oracle Training: Introduction to Oracle: SQL and PL/SQL.
Timeline
SAP Print Technician
Coca Cola Euro Pacific via Kyndryl via Pomeroy
03.2023 - 04.2024
System Engineer - Senior
Rochester Regional Health
07.2017 - 11.2021
Lead Analyst - Central Systems Unix
Avangrid (Regulated Utilities)
05.2005 - 07.2017
Systems Engineer
Pitney Bowes Management Services
12.1998 - 05.2005