TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Redhat Linux
• Amazon CLOUD
• AWS
• EC2VMWareKVM
• XENLAMP&J2EE Platform
• SAN
• Agile
• Zabbix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Boston, MA

Linux Cloud Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Setup metacarta custom geotagging java rabbitmq app on RHEL/Centos 6.6 using custom Amazon marketplace AMI
• Configured ntp time server to keep in memory java database clusters in sync
• Reconfigured nexus apache proxy to allow internal developers to avoid using port in urls
• Improved deploy bash scripts for existing Amazon virtual machines

Confidential - Boston MA

Linux/Cloud SME

Responsibilities:

• Part of the MRE EUPG cloud scalability project to cloud enable a high traffic rules engine supporting global iphone updates in two of Confidential & Confidential 's internal clouds, AIC and ITO
• Extensive meetings to understand and document rules engines behind iphone updates Confidential Confidential & Confidential
• Extensive work to use Confidential & Confidential internal clouds to automate application scalability
• Creation of extensive Visio flow charts for application management
• Worked with Confidential & Confidential proprietary provisioning, Linux, and devops tools
• Hands on automation and configuration of all application parts in super federated high security clouds with extensive setup process and distributed teams handling different parts of the setup, including network, firewall, devops, nfs, berkley db, active mq, java 8, Netcracker rules engine, Weblogic, Oracle, and custom layer 4 java connectivity
• Creation of ha-proxy load balancer soution configured for tcp layer 4 network connections, and setup for load tests and scenario buildouts
• Used Basic Openstack web gui in the new Confidential & Confidential cloud
• Produced extensive decks and documentation for accenture results presentations
• Scripting in bash/python

Confidential - El Segundo, CA

IT director/Linux Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed all Redhat Enterprise Linux/Centos platforms/vendors/network as the only linux employee
• Managed AWS/EC2
• Racked and configured new virtualization platform VMWare 5.5 with vmotion
• Managed EMC SAN and FreeNAS ZFS
• Took part in agile software design efforts to improve the SDLC
• Wrote disaster recovery software
• Managed mongodb
• Reconfigured Zabbix graphing to lighten load and get accurate trending
• Reduced downtimes by trouble shooting web and storage problems
• Decoupled non scalable application dependencies
• Managed Redis
• Newrelic Monitoring
• Scripting in bash/python
• Tuned Samba, NFS, Sftp, Solr
• Passed Secret Clearance to work on Government projects in CGI cloud
• Worked with cisco and netscaler consultants to upgrade network and remove f5 load balancers
• Used Puppet to manage 600 virtual servers
• 24/7 support for all URLs
• Dev support for offshore
• Led team of 5
• Scripting in bash/python
• Planned for upcoming Compellant SAN, and new Cage design

Confidential - Santa Monica, CA

IT director/Linux Architect

Responsibilities

• Upgraded huge VMware setup with thousands of VMs running on HP blades
• Created kickstarts for seamicro supercomputers to support Hadoop big data
• Led team of 7
• Guided and mentored a team of 3 systems engineers
• Managed huge mongodb clusters
• Created meetings each week with 4 development side verticals to streamline operational flows and agile iterations
• Trouble shot MySQL problems
• Managed vm configuration with Etch and Chef; wrote Chef recipies
• Scripting in bash/python

Confidential - El Segundo, CA

Linux Architect

Responsibilities:

• Managed 100% AWS e commerce site built with Ruby on Rails on nginx passenger
• Extensive work with monitoring
• Managed netapp, enabling dedup
• Tuned MySQL
• Scripting in bash/python

Confidential - Playa del Rey, CA

LAMP Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Optimized performance on Magento E-commerce platform for popular charity-driven shoe company
• Built performance labs on Rackspace hosted servers running CentOS
• Tested MySQL Percona performance tuning changes and splitting of read and write load
• Brought in PHP-FPM on Cherokee advanced webserver
• Worked with business stakeholders and Deloitte consulting to integrate dev and operational efforts
• Updated Akamai cache updates to help drive lower page load times
• Managed VMs with puppet
• Scripting in bash/python

Confidential - Manhattan Beach, CA

MySQL DBA

Responsibilities:

• Built MySQL performance lab to reduce data processing job times for company which hosts the websites of one-third of all car dealerships in the USA
• Performed data center migration of all MySQL database servers to SSD disks
• Utilized Puppet to manage Vms
• Scripting in bash/python

Confidential- Los Angeles, CA

Linux Architect/Manager of Operations

Responsibilities

• Managed 3 person team to support all web operations and data centers, and on call team
• CentOS- powered video rental and set top box and mobile sites for Confidential Video
• Administered Oracle on Solaris Sparc v880s with Veritas cluster server
• Configured extensive Weblogic/Tomcat/Apache/Spring Java web infrastructure from production to dev to QA staging with thousands of VMware Vms
• Scripting in bash/python
• Monitored and configured custom national CDN programmed in Java and limelight CDN
• Utilized Puppet to manage Vms
• Upgraded MySQL for jira and confluence

Confidential - Santa Monica, CA

Linux architect

Responsibilities

• Created and updated hundreds of VMs on VMware/Xen with CentOS/Tomcat/Apache/LAMP stack
• Performed extensive MySQL tuning
• Scripting in bash/python
• 100k server global grid, change management

Confidential - El Segundo, CA

Linux Architect

Responsibilities

• Administered huge numbers of VMs running Weblogic/Apache/CentOS.
• 100k server global grid, change management
• Scripting in bash/python