SUMMARY:

• Passionate technologist and customer focused infrastructure architect with substantial experience in the biotechnology, financial, and gaming industries.
• Proven track record of transforming, optimizing, and delivery of IS services and business capabilities using technologies such as public/private cloud, containers, and server - less architectures.
• Experience with architecting client facing technology solutions and teams
• Highly adept working with geographically distributed teams.
• Thrives under high pressure environments where meeting aggressive timelines and being able to work closely with colleagues are major factors in achieving success.

CURRENT SPECIALTIES AND CAPABILITIES:

Automation, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as code (IaC), Public/Private Cloud, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Programming (bash, python, php), Ansible, Packer, Jenkins, Git, DevOps/Agile Practices, building and leading teams.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Thousand Oaks, CA

Lead Cloud and Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team to design and implement an enterprise capable public/private PaaS infrastructure that integrates with our internal self-service provisioning and management platform.
• Working as chief evangelist for PaaS based implementations, holding regular “brown bag” sessions for clients that are interested in transforming their applications.
• Work with external vendors to build on demand consumption-based pricing models that integrate with Confidential ’s IS strategy.
• Providing solution architecture consultancy for projects moving to the cloud and advocating technologies and methodologies such as Cloud Native Services and the Twelve Factor App to help modernize application stacks.
• Leading the team responsible for evaluating and implementing the next generation toolsets and processes which provide the automation behind our internal self-service provisioning and management platform.
• SME on the automation of operating system builds for both on premise and AWS.
• Used DevOps and Agile methodologies to deliver innovative solutions that leverage both on premise and Amazon Web Services cloud environments.
• Served as infrastructure technical lead on NONMEM HPC deployments for both on premise and AWS
• Design solutions to automate Level 1 & 2 tasks such as patching and access management. Maintained a large number of servers using automation tools such as Satellite, Ansible Tower and Puppet.
• Authored and managed qualification documents and processes for systems to be used with FDA regulated systems and work within the guidelines of the Standard Operating Procedures that govern these systems.
• Successfully lead integration effort of Confidential ’s Manufacturing IS team and infrastructure with corporate IS team.
• Provide 3rd line support for all corporate IS and manufacturing systems.

Confidential, East Providence, RI

Senior UNIX Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and maintained build standards for each operating system distribution.
• Designed and implemented enterprise-wide UNIX system maintenance and patching tools and strategy using Bladelogic in order to maintain regulatory compliance.
• Designed and implemented a NAS based database backup solution for MSSQL, ORACLE, and DB2 which raised backup success rate from less than ~60% to over 99% on average from previous solution
• Lead a consolidation and containment effort to move physical workloads on x86 to virtual infrastructure using VMWare ESX
• Played critical role in a migration effort to consolidate pSeries AIX systems from smaller servers to large virtualization platform
• Built and maintained auto-provisioning systems (i.e. RHN Satellite/Kickstart, NIM)
• Unix lead on task force responsible for RBS WorldPay subsidiary successfully regaining PCI compliance after a major security breach
• Participated in 3rd line 24x7 On-Call rotation for responding to system outages and planned maintenance.
• Worked with internal information security teams to mitigate security risks, provide support for external audits.
• Automated repetitive manual processes in order to off-load to lower tier operations teams.
• Built and maintained auto-provisioning systems (i.e. RHN Satellite/Kickstart, NIM)

Confidential , West Greenwich, RI

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated Request For Proposals (RFP) processes.
• Architected system solution based customer specifications.
• Participated in customer presentations and demonstrations.
• Built and configured infrastructure and software at customer site.
• Developed and implemented volume test plan for performance and anomaly testing to meet and exceed customer requirements.
• Performed pre-audit testing and remediated any potential issues.
• Acted as liaison between Confidential and third-party auditors during performance and anomaly test of systems.
• Performed on site support of systems for several weeks pre and post go live date.
• Turned over system and software configuration documentation to site manager.
• Trained site personnel to fulfill exit strategy requirements.
• Performed 24/7/365 post-live system and software support for the duration of the systems lifecycle.

Project Development Support Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed development systems infrastructure for software hubs located in Rhode Island, Texas, Canada, Poland and India.
• Worked with software technical leads to ensure applications are developed against supportable infrastructure
• Helped maintain and continually improve internal development tools and systems.
• Continually benchmarked product baseline software agains supported infrastructure to ensure minimum performance requirements were maintained
• Continually worked with vendors to bring in new and emerging technologies to evaluate our solutions, to reduce delivery and support costs, improve system manageability, and reduce solution footprint.