OBJECTIVE:

Seeking to obtain a DevOps consulting position focused on the challenges of IT/Operations. This position will leverage my vast operational experiences, project management skills and ability to lead top talented people.

SUMMARY:

• 15 plus years of progressive experience in various highly dynamic 24x7 online environments
• 10 plus years in positions of management or team lead with increasing scope of responsibilities
• 15 plus years in lead roles, running C level projects with very high success rates
• 10 plus years developing repeatable processes and procedures to streamline support of production environments, achieving high level of SLAs

EXPERIENCE:

Independent DevOps Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Utilize Jira, GitHub, and Slackfor project management o Coordinated with security, development, and operations team to migrate to Docker containers on Kubernetes
• Utilized TeamCity, Prometheus, Helm Charts, Artifactory
• 12 months client project to lead a team of 5 Unix Admin for staff augmentation to backfill resources as part of 3000+ server data center migration for large biotech company
• Project management to retire legacy OSes (HP/UX, Solaris, Windows 2003) and assist end customers with OS migration/upgrade o Staff augmentation to provide Level1 and Level2 Unix support consisting of CentOS, AIX and Windows o Led strategies, planning, retrospections and updating lessons learned databases
• 6 months client project to lead DevOps team to build out hybrid environment consisting of AWS and on - premise data centers for video streaming application
• Continuous Deployment using combination of Git, BitBucket, Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, and Docker o Built out processes for change/incident (Jira/HipChat), asset (OpenDCIM/Foreman/Ovirt), access (AWS IAM and ssh keys), configuration (Puppet/Ansible) and data management (S3/glacier)
• Utilized GrayLog, Zabbix for monitoring and logging

Confidential

Senior Manager of Systems and Storage Operations

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple groups of Operations Engineers to maintain 4 different 24x7x365 production environments
• Managed Confidential ’s SaaS offerings utilizing KPIs and automation to serve over 24000+ customers and $500M+ per year in revenue.
• Reported directly to VP Operations (now CIO)
• Area of responsibilities spanned 3 datacenters, 3000+ physical servers, reports across 2 countries and 3 time zones.
• Managed 2 managers, 3 leads, 14+ Tools and DevOps Engineers across 3 states and 2 countries, 3 different timezones
• Developed technology and infrastructure roadmaps towards maturity models to create vision and direction.
• Drove infrastructure maturity model in areas of automation, monitoring, security, compliance, performance, and geographically disperse support
• Developed frameworks to address secure access management, strong auditing controls for compliance, change management and triage processes, and application/server lifecycle management
• Created collaborative processes and KPIs. to help drive departmental synergies
• Worked collaboratively with software architects, performance engineers, DBAs, network, and security groups
• Budget forecasting and capacity management consisting of over $40 million annual budget for capex and opex
• Supported 40% annual growth rate, fully PCI 3.x and SOC II compliant; and exceeded SLA of 99.95% every year
• Grew responsibilities to manage 3 additional acquisitions. All environments were 24x7x365 with 99.95% uptime SLA.
• Acquisitions consisted of heterogeneous Linux and Windows OSes running on AWS, utilizing EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, EBS and S3 storage, Route 53, IAM
• Strong mindset in DevOps automation
• Developed Continuous Integration, automated provisioning and configuration management using VMware, Puppet (upgraded to SaltStack), TeamCity, Kafka, Crucible, git, Violin SAN, Brocade FC switches, HP Blades, with burstable capacity utilized on AWS’s EC2 o Automation and tools development using Perl, Python, Php, and Bash for job scheduling, asset management, monitoring dashboards, reporting, change management, and capacity management
• Led high level projects with C level visibility:
• Led high level project to consolidate three data centers into one state of the art for efficiency and cutting costs.
• Onlining of offsite DR facility with 12 hour RTO and 1 hour RPO o Sunsetting of 24x7 operational environment acquired through acquisitions
• Completing the bring up of a 2nd datacenter to run active/active o Ushered in new enterprise and open source technologies:
• Violin/3Par SAN storage, Fusion IO SSD and flash storage, VCenter 5.x
• 1GE with NIC bonding, 10GE backend network
• RedHat and Oracle Linux 4,5,6 and Windows 2008
• Oracle, DataStax, Weblogic, Coherence, Kafka/Zookeeper, Elastic Search, Tomcat
• GlusterFS, SaltStack, git, Puppet, Openvpn, Nagios/icinga, Apache, Cassandra

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Lead SAN Administrator/Senior System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Team lead with two other SAN administrators, in charge of clustering all critical backend infrastructure using Hitachi SAN storage and Veritas Cluster bundle
• Led project of system administrators, network engineers, and Oracle DBAs to cut costs by bringing Oracle Financials system, tape backups and storage in-house. designed the new in-house environment to ensure Oracle Financials can support 24x7x365 uptime
• Capacity planning to ensure high uptime and infrastructure growth
• Led projects to setup a redundant data center in Denver, Colorado to ensure 99.99% uptime
• Trained and mentored new employees.
• Participated in 24x7 production support, wrote scripts to monitor and automate

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

SAN Administrator 1/05-5/05, Senior System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed the production OLTP and 75TB Data Warehouse servers. Technology stack consisted of EMC Symmetrix, Clarion, Sun E10k, Oracle and Veritas Cluster bundle
• Created new SAN environment to test restores of multi-terabyte production databases backups to meet Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
• Led project to implement CA's Autosys Job Management 4.5 software for Data Analytics department.
• Worked with Data Analytics team to gather requirements to properly deploy software in a highly redundant environment.
• Led project to migrate current mail servers from Qmail to Postfix 2.x. Project included implementing redundant outgoing mail relay servers behind a load balancer, working with security officers to implement spam filtering rules on the Postfix mail server, building out redundant incoming mail servers and creating web interface for NT administrators to add/delete/modify users on the Postfix servers.
• Participated in 24x7 production support

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Senior Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Team lead Unix system administrator of 2 in a 24x7 environment to provide automated procurement of personal services to corporations.
• Optimized batch file feed from customers from 12 hours to 2-3 hours. Developers used java XML parser to extract data and load to the database. After careful analysis, I introduced using xlstproc with a shell wrapper. This reduced the load time dramatically by 80%.
• Created from scratch a centralized syslog architecture to capture all syslog messages. This solution consisted of parsing the syslog log file and injecting critical messages to a MySQL database. Another service queried the database and escalated the issues via email and a web interface.
• Created processes and procedures to deploy code into production. When I first arrived, a production rollout would take 3-4 hours. After the process and procedure, production rollouts came down to 30 minutes. I created a staging environment to prevent engineers from deploying straight to production.
• Revamped development/QA/Staging/Production environment to standardize on OS images, package installation using rpms and Solaris pkg format. This allowed easier script automation and troubleshooting. All environments were then monitored by Cricket and Big Brother and Sitescope.
• Released major codes to production. Working and leading teams of SA, DBA and software engineers to upgrade production codes in 10 minutes or less.
• Worked with business development group to integrate new customers, such as JDSU, Sprint and Motorola.
• Participated in 24x7 production support.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Served as part of Network Operations team to ensure delivery of wireless end-to-end email solution through Microsoft Exchange.
• Built out the core infrastructure of staging and production consisting of Sun servers, Oracle databases and Cisco networking equipment
• Built tools to create end to end monitoring of environment. Tools consisted of MySQL db, PHP, Perl, Korn shell scripting, and Cricket.
• Trained new NOC personnel on supporting production environment and proper escalations.
• Participated in 24x7 production support.

Confidential, Costa Mesa, CA

Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the migration of Southern California rebuilt datacenter. Worked with project lead to create least impacting processes to migrate web servers and mid-tier systems.
• Re-trained an existing inefficient NOC personnel to follow new processes and procedures to more properly support the production environments due to high number of escalations.
• Led management of monitoring software consisting of Big Brother, MRTG and Keynote
• Worked closely with development department to properly deploy new applications within infrastructure
• Migrated Sun Servers from using Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 8
• Participated in 24x7 production support.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Lab System Administrator/ Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• System administration of lab systems, concentration on HP/UX 10.20 but includes HP/UX 11.0, Linux 2.0x, Solaris 2.6, NT 4.0
• Tasks included: Setting up HP/UX and Linux machines from the ground up, handling logical volume manager, adding users, installing device drivers
• Quality assurance of cryptographic hardware using all known cryptographic algorithms (RSA, MD5, 3DES, etc), browsers, operating systems and installation scripts.
• Wrote test plans to test out various aspects of newly developed software
• Assisted in setting up new users NT boxes.