SUMMARY

• Information Technology Strategist with 20+ years of success transforming IT infrastructures and driving business prosperity through end - to-end project management, consolidation strategies, process improvement/re-engineering, and introduction of best practice methodologies.
• Distinguished career marked by highly visible positions and consulting engagements with leaders in healthcare, financial, insurance, and service provider industries.
• Expert in driving full lifecycle delivery of multimillion-dollar IT projects and programs to meet evolving business, financial, and market demands.
• Successful in partnering with client stakeholders, managers, vendors & teams to define business requirements, articulate a vision, & deliver world-class IT, software, and enterprise solutions with a compelling ROI.
• Cross-functional leadership, technical, & business alignment skills; talent for supervising and motivating team members to peak performance in highly regulated, deadline-driven environments.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Linux Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Maximized uptime by taking on primary responsibility for the diagnosis and resolution of problems, within a timely manner and to a professional standard.
• Ensured critical e-commerce continuity by providing technical advice and guidance to guarantee effective solutions are delivered and can be easily integrated into the existing platforms.
• Pro-actively highlighted and addressed potential problems and investigated solutions in conjunction with Architecture team and the rest of the IT support team.
• Standardized and automated manual tasks using Ansible to replace an aging and unsupported Opsware solution, documented and trained support teams on usage and support of Ansible.
• Worked closely with Oracle DBA team to migrate storage to newer systems, using multipath and Nimble/VNX storage devices, with no impact to critical ecommerce processes.

Senior Devops Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Engineering department to assist in gathering requirements to design a complete solution for their new applications, as well as re-architecting problematic solutions.
• Coordinate across other departments, such as security and networking, as necessary to keep all the relevant stakeholders aligned as things progress.
• Assist in the design and implementation of fully automated Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment pipelines and DevOps processes for Agile projects.
• Empower Engineering department with Ansible self-service playbooks, giving them the abilities deemed necessary to support our application.
• Extensive hands-on experience with devops tools including HAProxy and Netscaler Load Balancers, Linux, Ansible, Puppet, Teamcity, VMWare, AWS, Docker, Git, Jira and Openstack.

Senior Cloud Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Confidential and increase customer satisfaction through the virtualization of Confidential i
• Power Systems, leveraging PowerVC and Confidential Cloud Manager ( Confidential ), Brocade Confidential and v7000 Storwize.
• Decrease downtime by automating network device management using Python/BASH scripts for tasks such as blocking attacking IP addresses.
• Worked closely with Confidential on Openstack problem determination, and resolution.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Awarded a bonus for accomplishing the above migration in less than 30 days from idea conception to live in production.
• Reduced application development lifecycles through automation, integrating Ansible with Jenkins, resulting in continuous delivery and continuous deployment.
• Trained a team of 12 members on my new automated processes, guiding them in using it, troubleshooting, and provided extended support.
• Increased revenue and decreased service delivery times by implementing software development life cycle policies and procedures, leveraging agile methodologies.
• Decreased downtime by eliminating single points of failures through clustering and creating highly available (HA) configurations of all critical services, including MySQL and Apache.
• Increased business continuity by maintaining critical engineering resources, mostly GitHub, Confidential and other tools needed to help developers manage their projects.
• Lead teams to do proof of concepts to determine viability of development tool sets for SCRUM teams to reduce application development lifecycles.
• Performed root-cause analysis for production outages and provided management with root-cause analysis reports.
• Installed, configured and managed Confidential and New Relic monitoring platforms. Automated most of these using Ansible YAML templates.

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provisioned, installed, configured, and maintained OS and Bitcoin related applications in AWS virtual infrastructure, leveraging Ansible for orchestration and automation.
• Maintained critical engineering resources including Bugzilla, GitHub, Confidential, Confidential and other tools needed to help developers manage their projects.
• Deploying and migrating the application(s) from DEV to TEST to QA to PROD and providing 24/7 on-call production support.

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement highly available, Redhat/Ubuntu Linux & Windows hardware/software solutions. Automation with Puppet.
• Extensive experience maintaining hundreds of virtual servers in a private cloud hosted on VMWare.
• ESXi, vSphere and vCenter administration and patching (versions 4.x and 5.x).
• Leveraged Puppet, creating manifests to manage hundreds of RedHat Linux server configurations.

Senior Unix/Storage Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed architecture and supported both SAN/NAS and Linux/UNIX systems, using agile method.
• Automated FixPack/eFixes installations, daily backups, log archival and other tasks using shell scripts.
• Deployed Puppet for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
• Configured NetBackup and media manager on various Unix flavors like AIX, Linux, HP-UX & Windows.
• Successfully managed the configuration and troubleshooting of several robotic libraries and tape drives for backups connected using SCSI/Fiber optic.
• Supported environment involving heterogeneous SAN configuration including NetApp Filers / EMC, VTL drives, VMware servers, etc. along with shared drives utilizing NetBackup SSO.

Senior Application Operations Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Directed full project lifecycle, from initial planning and requirements gathering through proposal and scope development, implementation, and follow-up support.
• Interfaced with business process owners to identify and document business needs/risks; conducted gap analysis and translated requirements into technical and functional specifications.
• Built productive relationships with clients, colleagues, and managers, earning reputation as critical liaison and ‘go-to’ resource for top-tier projects and business implementations.
• Mentored and coached developers, engineers, and project managers geographically dispersed nationwide.
• Increased Confidential 's revenue, using virtualization to maximize space utilization efficiency while reducing the number of physical server’s necessary, reducing deployment time, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars.
• Reduced downtime through performance tuning and monitoring using various tools like Confidential Introscope, Spectrum, Confidential, Confidential and other applications.
• Managed multiple large-scale projects simultaneously, customizing, configuring, and managing product/solution deployment while mitigating “scope creep” and identifying/resolving project issues and constraints.
• Performed root-cause analysis for production outages and provided management with root-cause analysis reports.
• Highly involved in HA solutions by creating partitions in horizontal cluster environment for load balancing and fail over.
• Spearheaded architecture, implementation, and support of high-availability geographic redundant application stacks using active-active methologies leveraging F5 GTM/LTM’s across multiple datacenters.

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Minimized costs by leveraging open source applications such as Apache, Tomcat, MySQL, Confidential, Confidential, SystemImager, PHP, Perl, Samba and Linux.
• Guaranteed timely deliverables by performing monthly builds of developer’s code, regression testing and creating Bash shell scripts for deployments of new builds.
• Gathered requirements, presented stakeholders with costs and determined budget.
• Automated FixPack/eFixes installations, daily backups, log archival and other tasks using shell scripts.

Senior Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided 24 x 7 coverage for 2nd/3rd Level Notes / Domino Admin Support, servicing a Confidential / Domino messaging, collaboration & Confidential environment, within an international, single domain with 100K+ users, in a mixed R6 and R7 environment.
• Configured, installed and tested the Confidential enterprise servers.
• Supported Linux Red Hat servers Windows 2003 Advanced servers running an Active Directory environment.
• Performed root-cause analysis for production outages and provided management with root-cause analysis reports.