PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Principle Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided guidance and support for customers seeking to move mission critical, on premise infrastructure to AWS.
• Received training from Confidential around GPU computing and the building of AI and neural networks.
• Managed help desk staff to provide first and second tier IT support services (ServiceNow, Remedy) in diverse, heterogeneous environments containing Microsoft Windows and Linux workstations/servers as well as their underlying network infrastructure.
• Supported development team building cloud based applications by deploying, configuring, and supporting container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.

General Partner and Senior Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked closely with customer personnel to develop and implement managed service driven security infrastructure coupled with top to bottom workforce training to engender organic, holistic security culture in the small to medium business space.
• Designed and implemented policies and procedures designed to proactively minimize security risk by auditing infrastructures against Sans Institute Critical Security Controls (CSC).
• Responded to all security related incidents referred from service desk staff.
• Responsible for out of the box setup and provisioning of new HP blade servers.
• Supported development teams by providing containerization services with strong focus on Docker and Kubernetes.
• Provided day to day administration/management for three HP ServiceGuard clusters.
• Provided backup engineering duties for VMWare environments as needed.
• Other duties include Citrix provisioning and integration.

Principal Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Customer facing technical role for the deployment and integration of large Linux and Microsoft HPC clusters.
• Delivered tailored systems documentation and training materials to customer staff detailing system administration best practices, user support, and troubleshooting for customized environments.
• Developed and integrated system automation tools and management interfaces using PERL and bash scripts.
• Delivered pre sales consulting services and training for government, education, and medical customers seeking to leverage HP blade server infrastructure in UNIX (HP - UX, TRU64, AIX), LINUX (RHEL, CentOS, Debian, SuSE, Ubuntu), and Microsoft Windows environments.
• Provided expertise for core network service integration with Microsoft Active Directory, Novell Directory Services, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, NFS/NIS, and X.500.
• Provided training and best practices documentation for configuration management and system monitoring utilizing Puppet, Nagios, Cacti, MOM, and SMS
• Delivered customer facing consulting services relating to systems integration in heterogeneous environments containing UNIX (HP-UX, AIX), Linux (RHEL, CentOS, Debian, SuSE, Ubuntu), and Microsoft (Windows server, Exchange, SQL server).
• Maintained and enhanced HP internal train-the-trainer certification focusing on HP blade server infrastructures for HPC and enterprise messaging/collaboration solutions.
• Provided customer facing engineering services for HPC environments using Platform LSF, Torque/MAUI MOAB, Bright, and HP CMU.
• Worked extensively with web hosting customers to optimize and consolidate diverse hosting infrastructures (cPanel, WordPress, SAS models).
• Presenter at industry trade shows as well as HP sponsored events covering HP blade server infrastructure and high performance compute clustering.

Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided critical systems engineering expertise surrounding Oracle 9i Real Application Cluster/Oracle 10g Grid systems product offerings for Windows and Linux.
• Developed and implemented bash, PERL, and python scripts to streamline the deployment, configuration, and administration of open source (LAMP) e-commerce infrastructures and their interfaces to CRM, ERP, and Supply chain management.
• Provided integration services for OEM and ISV SNMP software into HP Open view, Nagios, Cacti, and custom open source management frameworks.
• Provided system integration/consolidation expertise for enterprise scale UNIX (HP-UX, TRU64, Solaris), Linux (RedHat, Debian, SuSE), and Microsoft Windows data center deployments.
• Delivered customer facing integration services for enterprise messaging/collaboration, and database deployment using Microsoft Back Office products (Windows server, Exchange Server, and SQL Server).
• Delivered consulting services built around business continuity, network backup/restore, and data retention solutions in large, heterogeneous data center environments.
• Provided implementation and performance tuning for clustered file system (Lustre) support.
• Duties included second tier engineering support for Windows and Linux based Oracle clusters worldwide.
• Provided technical expertise to internal Compaq core teams and ISV partners (Oracle, SuSE, RedHat, Sistina, PolyServe) during product development phase.
• Provided best in class support during key enterprise deployments as well as critical sustaining engineering duties.
• Delivered system performance tuning expertise through Kernel and I/O microcode enhancements during product development phases.
• Maintained Compaq train-the-trainer certification for Oracle 9i RAC integration in Compaq/HP blade server environments.