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Fred Hakim |
01c 14812
Taconite Sterling Heights, MI 48313 |
Fred64g@gmail.com Cell: 586-531-1183 Home: 586-247-6927 |
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Introduction: |
An IT Manager with a history of success in the fortune 100, skilled at
building and guiding talented business and technical teams and a long
standing technology leader accustomed to implementing new
technologies, improving infrastructure and creating effective
processes to support them ongoing. |
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Summary: |
Led
Server OS (AIX, Solaris,Windows) support and engineering groups. Coordinated
capacity planning, monitoring, operations, automation, build, networking,
security and storage teams.
Managed complex projects like
server virtualization as well as vendors and managed services partners. See colleague endorsements at: linkedin.com/in/FredHakim (in the full
view) |
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Employer: |
Chrysler
Corporation, Information Technology
Infrastructure |
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Manager 2006-2008 |
Distributed Systems & Server Technologies Managed internal and outsourced departments with 7
leaders and 88 people for capacity
planning, operations, PEM, for over 2000 servers and L3 and engineering for over 1000 Solaris
servers. Developed standards and processes, resolved operational issues, developed
new technical strategies and educated our customer communities. Some recent highlights: ·
Developed
monitoring and capacity management capability or virtual servers ·
Implemented an
enterprise class Solaris virtual platform for DealerConnect ·
Standardized In
scope and out of scope build process and patch/images ·
Founded, recruited
and drove requirements for Solaris virtualization matrix teams: Architecture
team, Build team, Capacity planning and monitoring team, Middleware team,
Application team and Operations team. |
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Manager 2004-2006 |
In Scope Distributed Systems Coordinated managed
services with 4 managers, 9 leaders and over 100 people covering L1, L2, L3
support for over 2000 Sun, AIX and Windows servers. Resolved issues and smoothed interfaces
between Chrysler and EDS processes and tools and Chrysler business
expectations. Chaired a cross
department monitoring and capacity planning team and sat on the EDS Chrysler
governance panel. Also contributed on:
· Chrysler
Corporate Security team · Operations
and change management team · Trouble
tracking and root cause analysis/remediation team |
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Manager 2000-2003 |
Mainframe Access Infrastructure Built
a number of cross departmental teams to develop the methods, required to make
mainframe data and applications available to the Web and WAS server
community. I contributed to the
DealerConnect 2.0 architecture and generic ID security architecture teams
addressing new capabilities of IHS, WAS, SiteMinder and other stackware technologies. Some of our results: ·
Defined the
architecture, software stacks and application mechanisms to enable responsive
and reliable calls to back end mainframe resources. ·
Coordinated
DealerCONNECT 1.0 implementation issues as their volumes climbed, allowing
tens of thousands of users to operate reliably. ·
Provided backend
mapping and monitoring capabilities for operations teams ·
Provided courseware and education for all apps development groups on
best practices, use of tools and how to coordinate problem resolutions. |
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Fred Hakim |
Fred64g@gmail.com
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Manager 1996-2000 |
Network Communication Software Managed the team providing
level 3 and engineering support for a network of over 70,000 nodes, VTAM,
NetView and other software for 26 LPARs.
Coordinated access for both internal and external Chrysler Mainframe
customers. Some achievements: · Saved over
$50k /mo by coupling passticket technology with JAVA TN3270e to authenticate users instead of paying for (www.covisint.com) to do
it. ·
Built a simple
secure TN3270e TCP/IP infrastructure for access to Chrysler systems from the
public Internet, saving over $1 million /yr in BGN costs. . · AIAG executive of the year award
for work on ANX (Automotive Network Exchange) in participation with
executives from Ford, GM and 8 major suppliers. |
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Supervisor 1991-1996 |
Mainframe Communication Systems Supervised level 3
communications support for 26 LPARs, VTAM, NetView and other software
supporting over 70,000 terminals and 10,000 printers covering access for both
internal and external Chrysler Mainframe customers. Some achievements: · Developed a mainframe TN3270 over TCP/IP
architecture for use internally to handle 70,000 coax and SNA devices. · Eliminated 3225s, Bisync, reduced 3745s. Converted
to APPN for mainframe internal traffic, saving over $2 million in hardware
and data link costs. |
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Supervisor 1983-1991 |
Distributed Computing Department · Maintained and developed extensions to the “Control
Program” used on 4 Phase systems in the manufacturing plants. This was a TP monitor that mimicked Task
Master running on IBM mainframes. · Developed standardized UNIX directory structures to
simplify support of over 400 mini computers across the U.S, Canada and
Mexico. Remnants of those structures
are still in use today. · Developed and supported the TRIP (transaction
routing insurance package) to enable reliable transmission of transactions
between various dissimilar computing platforms. IBM later adopted many of our concepts in
their MQ series product. · Led engineers at Norand to develop a hand held RF
3270 based terminal used in manufacturing and depot locations. |
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Employer: |
Four Phase /
Motorola Computer systems |
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Manager 1980-1983 |
Systems Engineering, Detroit Branch Managed marketing and customer
support activities including 8 systems engineers, customer education, demo
room and data center facilities and coordinated customer projects. |
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Senior 1977-1980 |
Systems Engineer Resolved complex problems. Built the first closely coupled mini
computer array. |
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Systems 1975-1977 |
Engineer
Marketing support, proposals, demos,
customer training, problem solving, assembler coding. |
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Employer: |
GE / Honeywell
Computer systems |
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1969-1975 |
Field
Service Engineer, developed 1 card machine language diagnostics |
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Employer: |
US Army |
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1966-1969 |
Vietnam
era veteran, SP5, Hawk missile control center maintenance & instructor |
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Education: |
Macomb County Community College AA degree with honors general studies AA degree with high honors data processing Corporate
Training Over 500 hours of training (detailed list
available), includes SOX, ISO, a variety management and leadership courses
from sources like IMS, IBM, Motorola, Chrysler, GE, Sun, Cisco, CA, EDS and
others. |