Solutions and Infrastructure Architect Resume Profile

Professional Experience

Confidential

Solutions and Infrastructure Architect

Designed and built the AWS based infrastructure for the StarChat platform marrying an ASP.Net MVC 5 presentation with a MySQL backend that is load balanced and distributed across multiple regions and availability zones. Architecture features near real time video transcoding and muxing to bring fans closer to their celebrities by integrating their questions into the presenter s video stream.
Serve as Product Owner and Architect for StarChat Mobile managing in-house and remote development teams creating native iOS and Android applications for the StarChat platform.
Architected and constructed a 16 server Postfix farm to handle notifications advertising and business email processes for our international dating sites. Masking a Microsoft Exchange Cluster core behind multiple Postfix Servers delivered over multiple public subnets to separate each site and company.
Created deployable testing environments to assist with Development and QA inside of Microsoft Azure.
Architected a restructuring of the network and server infrastructure increasing the uptime to 99.94 this was instrumental in increasing sales by 2.7M from 14.4M in 2010 to 17.2M in 2011.
Control a 1M annual resource budget with responsibility for over 3M hardware and software assets.
Serve as a conduit between other C-Level Executives VPs and Managers to and from the Software and Networking Engineering teams. Delivering the needs and concerns of both in a language each would understand.
Manage Software and Network Engineering teams who maintain the flagship product.
Orchestrated and participate in a 24/7/365 Monitoring and Operations schedule to ensure the maximum possible uptime.
Performed project management over multiple new business ventures being executed by outsourced development group.
Spearheaded migrating 3 Software Development projects in various stages of maturity from Waterfall to Agile. Focusing on delivering production ready software every sprint decreasing time to market.
Reduced licensing costs by 240K by consolidating load across underutilized systems and migrating similar processes to Linux from Windows based machines.
Reduced operational overhead by 150K annually through renegotiating longstanding contracts and relocating outsourced services in-house.
Purchased over 2M in Servers Enterprise Storage and Networking hardware for 800K by pitting vendors against themselves and leveraging knowledge of vendor end-of-quarter dates resulting in massive discounts.
Mentor Junior Engineers and Developers to increase their productivity and work quality.

Senior .Net Developer

Architected a geosynchronous database cluster infrastructure running on multiple Microsoft SQL 2005/2008 nodes. This removed the requirement of investing in a proposed Oracle based database infrastructure estimated at 350K in cost to accomplish a multi-write database environment.
Co-Architected and implemented a telephony control system on top of Asterisk to allow our dating website users to make phone calls to other site users without sharing phone numbers.
Designed and implemented a clustered Video Encoding Service that used FFMpeg at its core to accept multiple input formats and output videos encoded with h264 in multiple bandwidths. Reducing storage requirements while still providing exceptional quality.
Mentored 4 junior .Net Developers and 2 Flash Developers growing their skills and increasing their production quality.
Created a streamlined build and deployment process that reduced build/deploy times from 2 hours to 4 minutes.
Migrated several Microsoft SQL Server backed applications to MySQL reducing the companies licensing requirements.

Confidential

Developer

Developed an automated localization application that generated resource files for the chosen language. Reduced the cost of translation by 18 by automatically translating a majority of common terms.
Developed build process application that generated custom builds based upon provided criteria using WiX a previously manual operation this saved over 40 developer man hours a month.

Confidential

Senior Developer

Co-Architected and Developed CourseMax a Technical Training Scheduling system that was marketed to certification trainers and large corporations with in-house training courses.
Integrated CourseMax into Microsoft CRM Now known as Microsoft Dynamics using SQL Service Broker to synchronize data.
While working at CourseMax mentored two junior developers.

Confidential

Developer

Developed a web application in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine.

Confidential

Software Engineer and Systems Administrator

Architected Developed and Maintained Big Ben an application that tracks all aspects of day-to-day business. Inventory Tracking Shipping and Receiving Profit and Loss and Production Parts Management.

Core Technologies

Platforms Network Platforms	Windows OSX Linux Cisco iOS ASA/Nexus	Database	Microsoft SQL MySQL MongoDB
Languages	Dell PowerConnect/FTOS VB/VB.Net C SQL Java	Load Balancing	F5 BigIP NGINX Windows NLB
JavaScript ASP.Net HTML XML XAML PowerShell	Productivity	Microsoft Office/Visio Adobe Photoshop/Flash/Flex
Bash	SAN	Dell EqualLogic OpenFiler
Cloud Platforms	Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure	SEIM	SolarWinds Log and Event Manager
Monitoring	SolarWinds Orion Nagios Splunk OpenVas	Continuous Integration	Team Foundation Server Visual Studio Online CruiseControl
Version Control	TFVC Git SVN CVS

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