Shawn Reddington
New City,New York
Summary
Dedicated System Engineer adept at cultivating long-term partnerships with vendors and clients. Expertise includes installing, configuring and troubleshooting complex systems and infrastructures. Offering successful career history comprising more than 20 years.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Systems Engineer, IT Hardware Specialist and Data Center Technician
Point72, L.P
01.2004 - Current
- Provide day to day maintenance and support for Point72's community of 3000+ servers
- Oversee the Data Center by monitoring and resolving compromised situations
- Extensive (HP) Hewlett Packard and Dell hardware maintenance and upgrading
- Responsible for the build and configuration of Servers within the firm including Windows 2019, Windows 2022, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS and ESXi
- Strong VMware and ESX server experience including building VM's, P2V's and managing Point72 VM environment
- Administer via HP One view and Dell Open Manage Enterprise, automated push out and updates of Server drivers and Firmware
- Project Management experience with emphasis on facility power downs
- Proactively implemented advanced Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) tools and software working with facilities personnel to provide advanced monitoring of Data Center real time power utilization, floor plans, and device elevations throughout USA, UK, and AMEA Data Center locations
- Primary liaison with various trading groups on server configurations specific to the groups compute or research needs to support critical trading systems and applications
- Team lead of data center technicians, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment while overseeing their day-to-day activities, performance evaluations, and professional development
- Update and maintain firm wiki pages and documentation for all data center procedures, server builds, moves, adds, and changes to include hardware troubleshooting and known fixes and/or patches
- Participated in regularly scheduled and unscheduled audits and performance assessments of data center operations to comply with SEC regulations and INFOSEC best practices for security of all Data Center equipment
- Create and maintain documentation procedures for the firm
- Responsible for hardware procurement, configuration, installation, maintenance and liquidation of servers, storage systems, network equipment, and optimizing resource utilization and capacity planning
- Train new employees responsible for production support and operations.
Systems Administrator
Nordea Bank
01.2001 - 01.2004
- Responsible for hardware maintenance and software support of 100 + users at a global commercial bank
- Oversee daily functionality of Reuters DK 3000 and Bloomberg Financial Markets Commodities News workstations
- Install, configure and administer RSA Secure ID 5.02 tokens for server and client protection
- Responsible for updating, indexing and archiving all bank documents on Stor QM plus Data Retrieval System
- Ensure backup operations are performed consistent with the bank's schematic guidelines, utilizing ArcServe 2000 and IBM A/S 400 systems
- Administer Metaframe servers for remote access to the bank's network for employees using Citrix program neighborhood.
LAN Coordinator
Standard and Poor's Comstock
01.2000 - 01.2001
- Responsible for supporting the entire software network for 100 + employees at a global financial information provider
- Accountable for PC repairs, upgrades, troubleshooting and resolving user problems and requests
- Installed file servers, workstations and application software as required
- Administered the Lotus Notes mail server and clients.
Education
Certified in Network Engineering and Data Communications -
The Chubb Institute
White Plains, New York01.2000
Bachelor of Arts -
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio08.1997
Skills
- Virtualization
- Troubleshooting
- Diagnostic design
- Relationship Building
- Technical Analysis
- Mission-critical system design
- User Support
- Communication and Team Collaboration
- Configuration Management
- System Troubleshooting
- Hardware and software installation
- Virtual and Cloud Technologies
- Technical Support
Timeline
Systems Engineer, IT Hardware Specialist and Data Center Technician
Point72, L.P
01.2004 - Current
Systems Administrator
Nordea Bank
01.2001 - 01.2004
LAN Coordinator
Standard and Poor's Comstock
01.2000 - 01.2001
Certified in Network Engineering and Data Communications -
The Chubb Institute
Bachelor of Arts -
Bowling Green State University
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