PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

Senior DevOps Architect

• Senior member of a 70 person team that designed and supported applications and platforms consisting of over 5000 servers in an AWS enterprise environment.
• Designed and implemented the following platform infrastructure:
• E - commerce
• Analytics
• Learnsmart
• Various Micro Services
• Implemented a new Puppet code SDLC process according to best practices recommended by Puppet Labs utilizing GIT and Jenkins for all of DevOps.
• Re-designed as well as upgraded the Puppet infrastructure to be in line with recommended best practices to ensure horizontal scalability.
• Collaborated with internal and external development teams to recommend best practices for overall application performance and resilience.
• Collaborated with various development, infrastructure and security teams in different divisions to design a CI/CD process to be implemented by development teams over all of MHE.
• Designed standards for Cloud Formation as well as Terraform for infrastructure.

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Systems/Security Engineer

• Responsible for AWS architecture and configuration utilizing EC2, VPC, S3, OpsWorks, Route53, SES and Cloudwatch.
• Upgraded Puppet from 2.6 to 3.1 going from Cobbler to Foreman as an ENC.
• Re-wrote and re-factored all custom puppet modules to be compatible with puppet 3.1.
• Designed a deployment process for all products and Puppet using Capistrano.
• Primary engineer responsible for all setup/implementation/upgrades of Atlassian products (Jira, Bamboo, Stash, Crucible)
• Increased the monitoring of all physical and virtual servers via Nagios with custom plugins written in both bash and Ruby. (Raid controllers, SMART statuses, etc.)
• Increased security awareness and decreased vulnerability vectors with weekly scans using NMAP and Metasplolit.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Systems Engineer

• Primary engineer responsible for puppet architecture and configuration.
• Re-architected web site infrastructure from a single physical site to a globally distributed design utilizing a combination of Amazon VPC and GDNS that provides inherent DR and DDoS protection while providing a platform for implementation of localization with a very low yearly cost.
• Designed and implemented a SAN storage iSCSI based file server for user home directories and backups.
• Wrote custom puppet modules for in house and customer facing application configuration management.
• Developed scripts in Ruby and bash to automate many daily tasks.
• Primary engineer responsible for the design and maintenance of the customer facing Perimeter Security Services environment running NeXpose web consoles and scan engines.
• Increased data center scalability by collaborating with team members to plan and orchestrate a data center move of our mission critical internal systems as well as our PSS customer environment.
• Implemented increased monitoring using Nagios and NSCA client across all sites.
• Designed and implemented hosted solution for the professional services organization to facilitate access to private cloud VPS systems with 99.999% up time for use in customer engagements.
• Designed and implemented a machine dedicated to ATI GPU password cracking using hashcat running on Ubuntu server 10.04 for the professional services organization.
• Designed a backup solution utilizing a combination of rsync and Backup Exec for all Tier 1 systems across all sites.
• Implemented graphite with a MySQL back end, using a graphene front end and utilizing collectd for statistic collection to facilitate capacity monitoring and planning.

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Senior Support Administrator

• Administered and maintained over 2000 user and group accounts in an Active Directory environment with a very extensive OU and group policy structure.
• Primary team member tasked with working with network engineering for testing and implementation of SSL-VPN in Ubuntu Linux and Windows 7.
• Primary team member who was tasked with creating Ubuntu packages and bash scripts to ease the process for 802.1x certificate renewals.
• Primary team member that used Cisco IOS for troubleshooting 802.1x authentication issues.
• Primary team member responsible for all Ubuntu Linux issues.

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

ESS Technician

• Responsible for configuration and deployment of Desktops, Laptops and Servers both desk side and rack mount in a Windows, Linux and Mac OS environment using Altiris.
• Responsible for testing new and existing Altiris images on new and existing hardware.
• Developing a scalable multi site inventory system.
• Responsible for tracking software engineering bugs and technical issues using Bugzilla and Helpzilla.
• Responsible for testing new operating system images on new and existing hardware.
• Responsible for creating and testing bash scripts for automation of daily tasks such as log file archival and freeing up disk space.

The Brattle Group Cambridge, MA

Technology Support Specialist II

• Administers 1000+ user and group accounts in an Active Directory environment.
• Managed virtual clients residing on an EMC Clarion using the Confidential vSphere Console.
• Responsible for configuring and deploying new laptops and workstations for new employees and disaster recovery using Norton Ghost Enterprise.
• Responsible for tracking helpdesk issues through helpdesk ticketing software.
• Developing batch scripts for hardware and software installation and configuration.
• Primary team member in the Cambridge office responsible for updating and maintaining a 100% accurate inventory and license tracking databases.

Confidential, Charlestown, MA

Network Operations Center Engineer

• Administered 100+ internal user/group accounts in an Active Directory environment.
• Responsible for upgrading and maintaining the Blackberry Enterprise server in a virtual environment.
• Created and maintained backup routine using VERITAS Backup Exec and Sonic Wall Continuous Data Protection (CDP).
• Planned and implemented web statistic analytics using AWstats for internal use as well as external clients.
• Planned and implemented Nagios for monitoring of web hosting server processes and utilization.
• Managed 50+ client websites on an Apache 2 vhost configured web server.
• Responsible for managing client’s domain names, DNS and web hosting environments.
• Primary team member for Linux trouble shooting, Operating System and applications deployments and project planning.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Windows 2008R2 Server
• Mac OS X 10.4 - 10.9
• Free BSD
• Ubuntu Linux
• CentOS 6.2 - 7.0
• Redhat 6-7
• Cisco IOS
• Cisco Catalyst Switches (Layer 2/3)
• Cisco UCS
• HP Procurve Switches
• Dell PowerEdge Servers
• HP Proliant Servers
• Confidential ESXi 4.0 - 5.1 Confidential vCenter 5.1
• Symantec Backup Exec
• My SQL ( Percona )
• Postgres
• Nagios
• Apache
• Nginx
• Ruby
• Rails
• Haproxy
• Foreman
• Puppet
• SVN
• Git
• AWStats
• NeXpose