SUMMARY

I am an educated, motivated, results - driven systems engineer with a focus on cloud services and Linux administration. I have many years of Linux and AWS experience in production, customer facing environments. I am seeking a full-time, direct hire position with a local small company as a Systems or DevOps Engineer.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Systems Engineer I

Confidential, Allen, TX

Responsibilities:

• Designed, deployed, and maintained CentOS Linux, Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 R2, and environments in Dev, QA, and Production environments.
• Automated tasks using BASH, Python, and Powershell.
• Developed and deployed Puppet manifests and modules to ensure consistency and speed of server deployment.
• Developed, automated and maintained an Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure for development and production workloads, both Linux and Windows using EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, Beanstalk, ElastiCache, RDS, Lambda, ELB, CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, and Route53.
• Deployed New Relic APM to monitor key business transactions for in-house products.
• Spearheaded operations for new products and deployments in AWS, including setting up the infrastructure, deployment pipeline, and automatic remediation.
• Implemented solutions to reduce IT workload, including a self-service portal for password resets and scripts to automate user creation and setup in Active Directory.
• Deployed hybrid infrastructure to meet growing demand between AWS and physical datacenters.
• Participated in after hours deployments, maintenance, incident response, troubleshooting, and on-call rotation.
• Adopted and implement DevOps practices for automating and streamlining hosted services.
• Built tests using CircleCI to automatically validate code prior to acceptance.
• Used source control (git) to manage scripts and code for automated processes.
• Developed utilities for other team members to standardize routine work.
• Maintained and implemented VMWare clustered environment.
• Managed network switches, load balancers, firewalls, VPN tunnels, and AWS VPC networks.
• Implemented a comprehensive monitoring system using OpenNMS, Grafana, PagerDuty, and custom scripts.
• Developed security standards for infrastructure to meet PCI-DSS requirements.
• Proactive management of security vulnerabilities and participation in security audits.
• Integrated and migrated legacy corporate resources from the acquired company ( Confidential ) to Confidential .
• Management of corporate network resources such as switches, routers, firewalls, and security appliances.
• Participated in planning work for the rest of the team in Agile sprints.
• Acted as a product SME for other teams and junior members.
• Trained new junior members on processes and procedures and the products as a whole.
• Worked with minimal supervision and proactively handled incoming tasks.

Systems Administrator I

Confidential, Allen, TX

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and deploy Windows Server 2008, 2008 R2, and Linux servers in office, dev, QA, and production environments.
• Management of corporate resources including Exchange, Active Directory, Sharepoint, file servers, switches, routers, firewalls, network monitoring, and security appliances.
• Deploy, support, and maintain office PCs, servers, and office equipment.
• Automated tasks using BASH, Python, and Powershell.
• Participate in after hours deployments, maintenance, and on-call rotation.
• Proactive management of security vulnerabilities and participation in security audits.
• Provided facilities support to the office as needed.

Technology Support Technician

Confidential, Anna, TX

Responsibilities:

• Provided PC and other technical support for hundreds of employees.
• Maintained and upgraded student computer lab environments.
• Deployed monitoring system (Nagios) for the district’s mission critical systems.
• Built images and scripts for automated Windows deployment and deployed images to hundreds of computers using Confidential KACE.
• Automated software installation on machines with batch scripts and Ninite.
• Implemented a district-wide ticketing system for incoming requests.
• Installed a district-wide camera security system.

Software Developer/Tech Support Intern

Confidential, Durant, OK

Responsibilities:

• Consulted and worked closely with clients to gather requirements and meet deadlines.
• Worked closely with team members to build and maintain custom resource management systems, built in .NET.
• Built a custom CMS for our clients using VB.NET, C#, and MSSQL.
• Took over another custom CMS for a different client, rebuilding and adding features as requested to the existing code base using ASP.NET.
• Converted a large VB.NET desktop application and website to C#.
• Used SVN for code management and versioning.
• Used kanban and extreme programming to plan and develop features for our primary applications.
• Performed routine network administration tasks, including maintenance of servers, desktop PCs, Blackberries, and iOS.
• Provided facilities support as needed.

Help Desk Technician

Confidential, Durant, OK

Responsibilities:

• Provided PC, Mac, and other technical support for hundreds of employees and students, in person and over the phone.
• Train junior student workers.
• Installed new computer labs and deployed Windows images.