Robert Levandowski
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2016 : Present
Bank of America
Vice President; Information Security Exposure Management Specialist
Senior UNIX systems administrator responsible for systems architecture, infrastructure, and troubleshooting as part of the Bank's Healthcare, Institutional, and Government Technology team. My work supports the Bank's contracts for processing New York State income tax, various New York City remittances, and other state and Federal revenue-processing services, as well as the Bank's HealthLogic healthcare payments-processing division and other custom lockbox products.
I maintain and protect HIGT's UNIX-based DNS infrastructure, from compiling and testing software to configuring and auditing domain data.
I consult with teammates and business partners on system performance and design, deep-diving into Solaris and Linux internals to optimize system performance and determine causes of system issues, preventing reputation and financial losses for our government and institutional clients.
2011 : 2016
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Assistant Vice President; Consultant—Systems Engineering
Senior UNIX systems administrator responsible for maintaining and troubleshooting Solaris and HP-UX systems providing revenue-processing services to government clients, including the states of New York and Connecticut and the United States government.
This division of Bank of America contracted with New York State to handle New York's personal income tax remittances : Every paper income tax return filed in New York was processed by our facility. I was one of two onsite system administrators ensuring that these returns were efficiently and accurately converted to electronic data and payment streams through our systems, providing a reliable revenue stream for New York.
2004 : 2011
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Officer; Senior Analyst—Systems Engineering
Day-to-day management of a team of novice and intermediate system administrators in the Rochester, NY office of an international Internet service provider. Senior System Administrator-level support of IBM RS/6000 SP2 AIX systems providing Internet services to over 250,000 customers.
2000 : 2002
Global Crossing Telecommunications
Team Lead; Internet Systems Administrator III
Contract position through Mindex Technologies. System administrator overseeing computers and technical instruments used for quality assurance of Kodak products and development of new photographic technologies. Supported research and development teams and analytical-research staff, including Solaris and SunOS 4 systems driving laboratory instruments such as mass spectrometers and magnetic-resonance imaging systems in an industrial environment.
Among the systems I maintained was an older piece of customized Sun equipment that controlled a film-coating process in Kodak's manufacturing plant. A system outage would stop the manufacturing process, resulting in an immediate net loss of $750,000 per hour. I successfully minimized necessary outages for this system and advised on Y2K remediation strategies.
1998 : 1999
Eastman Kodak
UNIX Systems Administrator
About
As an IT-security penetration specialist, I try to break systems before the bad guys can, finding and documenting security vulnerabilities so they can be fixed promptly.
I draw on over 25 years experience in UNIX systems administration with experience in today's most-used UNIX variants—Red Hat Linux, CentOS, Debian, FreeBSD, Apple macOS, IBM AIX, Oracle Solaris, and HP-UX. I built a reputation as the go-to resource for mastering new technologies, keeping them running smoothly, and making them accessible to teammates. From regional Internet service providers running homebuilt PC servers to multinational corporations, I've provided mission-critical support and diagnosis. I've received US Dept. of the Treasury clearance to work on sensitive taxpayer data, and am well-versed in HIPAA requirements. I apply my psychology and publishing experience creating effective documentation to share knowledge with my team.
I particularly enjoyed maintaining infrastructure services, those invisible IT systems like DNS and SMTP that should run so reliably that people forget they exist—but only do so if properly tended.
Now, I use those skills, along with a broad knowledge of all things technical and computer-related, to my role as a penetration tester. With a quarter-century of skills gained on the defensive team against hackers, I now work on the offensive team, trying to find twisty passages through security controls so they can be sealed off.
Core competencies include: Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS Linux, Debian Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Kali Linux, BIND DNS, SMTP (Sendmail, Postfix), Apache HTTPD, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA, ISC DHCP, Perl, shell scripting, SSH, FTP, software compilation, graphic design, editorial, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook).
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