SUMMARY:

• A system administrator and DevOps engineer with over fifteen years experience in systems engineering, network management, hardware support, information security, regulatory compliance, policy, and education awareness.
• My experiences include multiple Ohio school districts, several regulated industries, Internet Service Providers, and Consulting companies.
• I have extensive experience in Linux server administration and enjoy public speaking.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Networking design and problem resolution
• Linux server design and administration
• Incident response
• Team leader
• Regulated Industry Expertise (Telecommunications, Health - care supplies & providers)
• Cloud architecture design

KEY TECHNOLOGIES:

Cloud (Amazon Cloud Services and Rackspace Cloud), Apache, PHP, Python, Linux (OES, CentOS, Redhat, Fedora, Ubuntu), Salt Stack, Chef, Puppet, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Windows XP & Vista, XHTML, JavaScript, Office, Bash, DNS (Bind and Tiny DNS), Firewalls, Load balancers, DHCP, WAN, LAN, Snort, Cacti, SNMP, SSH, SSL, Novell client, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Cisco networking equipment, Xirrus Wireless, Linksys Wireless

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Denver, CO

Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained elements of an extensive Chef infrastructure, including 50+ Chef/Ruby scripts related to system configuration
• Implemented auto-scaling, auto-discovering Elastic Search cluster in Amazon cloud services
• Coordinated multiple production and development deployments for several teams
• Implemented Jenkins build and deploy processes
• Participated as primary on-call for all Confidential production systems

Confidential, Denver, CO

Senior Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and expanded elements of an extensive SaltStack infrastructure, including many Python scripts related to system configuration
• Assisted in debug and diagnosis of issues determined during deployments
• Contributed to deployments to production
• Participated as primary on-call

Confidential, Denver, CO

IT Programmer / Analyst III

Responsibilities:

• Implemented and designed complete Puppet infrastructure for system configuration, maintenance, and management.
• Lead architect for design and rollout of infrastructure to power redesigned Arrow.com
• Evaluated and presented findings in analysis of configuration management tools including Salt Stack, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef
• Implemented decentralized configuration management architecture ranging across production and development for two unique and challenging environments
• Assisted in management of Windows servers, including primary production domain controller
• Implemented central syslog monitoring and Nagios availability monitoring
• Lead administrator for Linux cloud servers in multiple geographic regions worldwide

Confidential, Denver, CO

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented all infrastructure for Denver Data Center, spanning over 100 servers, NTP, DNS, AD integration, and a from-the-ground-up design of Salt Stack for managing system configurations
• System administrator for multiple data centers, spanning roughly 500 CentOS/RedHat 6.5 servers running in production, testing, MVAL, and UAT.
• Lead architect for security model across all data centers controlling access and authentication
• Implemented central syslog monitoring, Nagios availability monitoring, and Munin graphing for systems.
• Designed continuous O/S, patch, and settings refresh process across multiple data centers on a weekly basis.
• Seamlessly managing Linux, FreeBSD, and other systems using a single configuration management system (Salt Stack), improving reliability and consistency.
• Lead responder for all environments.
• Discover & document business processes, with an eye towards automation, improvement, and refinement.
• Resolve and diagnose complex coding issues, coordinate with other teams in areas where skills do not match requirements.
• Regularly communicate with upper leadership, including our CTO.

Confidentia, Englewood, CO on-shore technical lead

Responsibilities:

• System administrator for preview & production online environment (blockbuster.com and related websites) with 80 virtualized Redhat 4 & 5 servers running on VMWare.
• Maintained production environment with Apache front-end with Tomcat, Weblogic, Oracle, and Adobe Scene 7 image server.
• Lead production deployment efforts to release code updates into production online environment
• First responder to all production issues for Blockbuster.com online (RedHat driven) environment
• First responder to all production issues for DVD allocation/shipping (Windows driven) environment.
• Discover & document business processes, with an eye towards automation, improvement, and refinement.
• Resolve and diagnose complex coding issues, coordinate with other teams in areas where skills do not match requirements.
• Regularly communicate with upper leadership, including up to the VP level.
• Lead and direct a several member team to produce deliverables that can be tracked and assessed.

Confidential, Ashville, OH

Network Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Maintained and supported dozens of Novell OES/SLES virtual & physical servers across seven physical sites
• Maintained and supported a mixed Windows server environment ranging from Windows 2000 to Windows 2008
• Implemented proactive monitoring and graphing for virtually all servers (Linux and Windows)
• Profiled and measurably improved performance on a several Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP stack servers.
• Created and maintained district-wide uniform backup process via rsync scripts (triggered from cron jobs)
• Redesigned and maintained computer network over six sites, including VOIP, Windows, Mac OSX and Linux Servers
• Developed building-wide fixed wireless deployment plan
• Developed staff directory (powered by PHP & MySQL), including functionality for printing call sheets and mailing labels
• Redesigned intranet website, using HTML 5 and CSS 3 features
• Developed RTI (Response to intervention) CMS system, the district standard starting in the 2012 school year

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designing monitoring and reporting for availability, outages, and system stability at multiple Ohio School Districts
• Implemented VM driven test environments for Windows, Novell OES2, and OSX infrastructures
• Documented and reconfigured Cisco network at 1000+ seat school district to improve network reliability and availability, as well as meeting security requirements
• Supported roughly 100 Novell Linux servers spread across five school districts
• Designed and implemented world-class Radius wireless implementation including certificate based 802.1x authentication, logging, and redundant Radius servers with full Novell eDirectory integration
• Provided direct desktop and server support for a wide variety of issues at a large Real Estate firm
• Refined web design and resolved web related issues for a digital imaging studio

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Manager of Data Center Operations

Responsibilities:

• Personally managed all server designs, ordering, and deployments (from bare metal builds all the way up to deployment)
• Developed and documented scripts to gracefully recover from a variety of issues on all levels of infrastructure
• Tested and implemented first virtualized server deployment in the company using VM Ware
• Documented and redesigned LAN to improve connectivity and availability for first time in company history
• Reconfigured Juniper DX to utilize improved functionality, reduce downtime, and provide scriptable health checking
• Developed proposals for improved email services, improved backup processes, reduced costs in server purchasing
• Deployed nationwide monitoring and reporting for availability, outages, and system stability

Confidential, Dublin, OH

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities focused on interpretation of Policy issues related to regulatory requirements driven by Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, ISO 17799, and Information Security related business needs to ensure Compliance. Duties included regulatory analysis/interpretation, exception documentation, Risk Assessment of high-impact projects, and organizational/communication improvements. Plan and perform audits focusing on Risk Framework impacts including Physical Security, Environmental Security, Logging and Monitoring.
• Accomplishments:
• Lead programing team responsible for creation and maintenance of Information Security portal, including direct involvement in every phase of the change management process
• Created and facilitated the Analyst Communication Forum, an Analyst-level forum designed to improve executive awareness of opportunities for improvements in Business Processes (spawned multiple Lean Six Sigma projects reducing costs by an estimated $100,000)
• Planned and performed hundreds of Audits globally in partnership with every level of employee from Senior Vice President to Analyst, in both direct relationships and dotted-line relationships.