SUMMARY

• Maintained Confidential network, Exchange, VPN, Firewall, and Active Directory for SERUS Confidential
• Maintained DevOps environment with customized Confidential scripts to provision, patch, upgrade, and monitor resources
• Deployed Puppet, Puppet Dashboard, and PuppetDB for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
• Deployed mcollective for orchestration. Wrote custom mcollective plugins to deal specifically with our needs.
• Redesigned and redeployed the Confidential implementation. Nodes automatically added/removed themselves via Puppet.
• Migrated data centers for Confidential and Confidential
• Facilitated SyncML calendar, contacts, and email solution for enterprise clients at Confidential
• Over 17 years of experience with heavy involvement in the entire IT Stack, racking and stacking, Linux and Windows Systems Administration, NOC Jockey, DevOps, Project Management, Ticket Jockey, Desktop Support, Hand Holder, Mentor, and Technical Writer.
• I have a passion for increasing the company bottom line through improving efficiency and mitigating risks.
• Personal favorites are team chemistry, morale building, customer is always right, no issue is too small to brush aside and ignore, and everybody is important.
• Laptop and desktop computer repairs, installs, and upgrades
• Network design, firewall rules, VPN, routing
• New server builds and provisioning, data backups, disaster recovery, anti - virus
• LAMP, SEO, WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, system hardening, printer configuration
• Purchasing recommendations, SharePoint, Active Directory
• Training, design recommendations, and implementations
• Confidential
• Confidential, Movies, and Games
• Expert Linux and Unix installs, upgrades, and troubleshooting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported continuous integration effort by maintaining a Jenkins environment
• Maintained the health of GIT and development servers
• Added users to Bugzilla, GIT, and Jenkins
• Maintained DevOps environment with Chef to patch, upgrade, and provision resources
• Did research, PoC, and testing for a migration to ELK
• Maintained KT articles and documentation for the enterprise
• Maintained multiple datacenters with proprietary Imprivata Linux Appliances
• Utilized my Linux, UNIX, and Windows Active Directory expertise to maintain the enterprise environment.
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Confidential, Fremont, CA

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for physical and virtual Suse and Redhat based DevOps systems.
• Created Confidential scripts using Expect and NMAP to generate reports and automatically populate Confidential configuration files
• Responsible for end user laptops and troubleshooting end user issues for Windows 7 and 8.1
• Worked with Confidential Service Manager to resolve tickets and work on IT projects
• Worked with Confidential Service Automation, Insight Manager, and Confidential Virtual Center to provision new test systems
• Maintained DevOps environment with Chef to patch, upgrade, and provision resources
• Worked extensively with Confidential to provision new virtual and physical machines.
• Worked with Confidential C7K and Proliant servers, Confidential, Confidential, and Confidential storage
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Confidential, Fremont, CA

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed hundreds of physical and virtual Debian, Redhat, and a fair amount of Solaris x86 and SPARC based systems (most of which were DevOps)
• Managed SSH, x11, and telnet sessions, open files, total space consumed, load averages, processes, ZFS volumes, NFS shares, NIS access, DNS entries, and AD access.
• Utilized P2V, V2V, and P2P using Confidential converter.
• Responsible for granting account access to NIS, Active Directory, Application Servers, and solving end user issues like VPN and resetting of passwords. Managed, Agile, Jenkins, Bugzilla, and other company specific applications
• Managed multi-tiered web architecture over J2EE, web services, and shared storage using Fiber Channel
• Managed all Git servers and storage devices.
• Maintained DevOps environment with Chef to patch, upgrade, and provision resources
• Maintained backups and restores for the large DevOps environment at Confidential using Symantec NetBackup
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Confidential - San Jose, CA

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project lead and individual contributor for datacenter migration in San Jose, CA
• Worked with two product teams that were recent acquisitions which dealt with the UCS Management System
• Managed physical storage volumes, HA clusters, DNS entries, NFS shares, network throughput and security, and working with product teams to constantly update the environment to better meet their needs.
• Supported and managed a mixed environment of Linux file systems (Redhat, CentOS, AIX, Solaris x86 and SPARC, OpenVMS, and Confidential -UX).
• Migrated Win2k8 and Win2k12 domain controllers from Virtual to Physical.
• Managed three Virtual ( Confidential ) and Physical ( Confidential UCS, Confidential C7K, Proliant) networks in Houston, Austin, and San Jose.
• Responsible for all interfaces, wiring, switches, routers, power, and cooling
• Managed a virtualization initiative to consolidate lab resources into a smaller space, energy, and administrative footprint
• Supported development teams to restructure server, network, and storage environments
• Implemented several custom vCloud implementations for the San Jose, Houston, and Austin labs
• Integrated Active Directory accounts into Virtual Center to manage permissions and resource objects and connect to SQL Server 2K8.
• Deployed Puppet, Puppet Dashboard, and PuppetDB for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
• Deployed mcollective for orchestration. Wrote custom mcollective plugins to deal specifically with our needs
• Redesigned and redeployed the Confidential implementation. Nodes automatically added/removed themselves via Puppet

Confidential - Santa Clara, CA

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created custom Confidential
• Created custom Confidential scripts to automate the process of populating Confidential with systems and services
• Monitored core infrastructure switches, routers, and storage devices via SNMP, with Confidential and MRTG for things like fans, ports, throughput, FRU modules, etc...
• Created Redhat Satellite Server for creating new virtual and physical machines with Confidential and Cobbler
• Did troubleshooting of devices that were alarming in Confidential for things like high load averages, stale file handles, full root partitions, system up or down, NRPE agent not running, network throughput slow, system swapping and caching, iowaits causing high load averages, etc...
• Monitored APS PDUs via SNMP for things like core fans, LED, sockets used, volts, and amps etc...
• Wrote extensive expect scripts to enable hosts to be Confidential clients and to copy over the trusted keys, systat, and other programs, plug-ins, and configuration file changes

Confidential - Foster City, CA

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Built HPC Clusters for pairing and sequencing, and mapping genomes
• Primary Confidential point of contact between Universities, Hospitals, and Science Labs
• Assisted customers with the installation of Bioscope on their infrastructure and on Confidential “Solid Instrument”
• Installed Torque, SGE, Maui, SKYLD, Rocks, Bioscope, SLURM
• Supported customers all over the globe troubleshooting Bioscope
• Setup Confidential monitoring server for HPC Clusters
• Supported Solid Instruments Genome mapping and pairing Hardware/Software

Confidential - Concord, CA

IT Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated effort to develop On Demand content integration for Maximo
• Project lead to track payroll and HR with Confidential Maximo
• Peer review of enhancement packages - Java classes, JSP, SQL, and documentation
• Performed solution design and configuration of LDAP integration
• Troubleshooting of MEA interface and JMS messaging
• DB configuration, and Oracle triggers
• Responsible for creating aliases and groups for Exchange server to send out alerts to various technical teams and user groups

Confidential - South San Francisco, CA

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conducted project to clone and replicate test systems for QA, DEV, and Performance testing.
• Led project to migrate data center from Brisbane to Redwood Shores. Responsible for tracking inventory, host names, IP addresses, labeling, network drops, power, and the functionality of the network and systems after the move.
• Led a project to create software to identify computer system owners, whether or not they’re still being used, If they’re IP addresses can be reclaimed, the re-imaging or building of the reclaimed machines, the issuance of the IP address to the new system owners, and the installation of OS, and applications

Confidential - Santa Clara, CA

IT Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project Lead building four usability labs, interviewed vendors, took competing bids, tracked progress, managed vendor installation, and came in under budget and weeks ahead of time
• Project Lead for conducting usability studies
• Project lead on creation of the Java Desktop Environment.
• Did all recording, mixing, and editing of the usability study videos and distributed the results by streaming them with Real Media Server.
• Belonged to the Bay Area Streaming Media Users Group and hosted meetings to better learn how leaders in other companies were using streaming media. Other BASMUG members represented AMD, Intel, Oracle, and many other prominent bay area companies
• Conducted reverse auctions with bidders worldwide to do the localization for Star Office
• Conducted a video conference usability study with the Hamburg Star Office L10N team, the Yokohama L10N team, and the Menlo Park Usability team all participating and viewing the studies simultaneously. I did all the coordination of reserving the conference room, preparing the equipment and environment, and ensuring that the video conferencing went off smoothly
• Configured and managed VERITAS Cluster and NetBackup, Sun Cluster, and was on the Sun Enterprise Identity Management Team