SUMMARY

• Proactive IT professional with 17 years of progressive experience in project/operations leadership and problem - solving roles for start-up, early stage growth. Leader in introducing methodologies and processes that stream line operations, increase revenues and profits and achieve quality, production and savings.
• Keen understanding of where business priorities meet IT and the challenges therein. Cross functional communications and interpersonal skills. Equally comfortable interfacing with business clients, internal departments, consultants, vendors, governmental agencies and others. Solid team-player, extremely rapid learner, passionate, creative, do-what-it-takes attitude.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• IT Operations Management
• Systems/Network/Cloud Architecture
• Project Management
• 24 /7/365 Production Operations
• Systems/Network Troubleshooting
• Vendor Management
• Sales Engineer / Consultant
• Software Development
• Cost Avoidance

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Linux /Unix: CoreOS, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris, SmartOS, BeOS, IBM AIX, SCO, RedHat Enterprise 3 -7 .x, Slackware, CentOS 3 -7.x, Debian, Gentoo, FreeBSD, HP -UX 1 1i v3, SUSE Linux 11

Windows: Datacenter, Advanced /Enterprise Server, 2003, 2000, 2008, 2010, NT, 9x, 3.x

Virtualization Systems: AWS EC2, GCE, Ganeti, KVM, SmartOS, OpenVZ, Virtuozzo, VMWare ESX, VMWare VSphere, Xen, XenServer, Citrix Xenserver, OnApp, OpenStack (Swift/Nova)

Notable Software: Docker, Consul, etcd/etcd2, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Graphite, InfluxDB, Grafana, Telegraf, Redis, Mesos, Kubernetes, mongoDB, Glassfish 2.x -3.x, cPanel, Citrix, DirectAdmin, H-Sphere, PLESK, Ensim, Apache 1.x- 2.x, Varnish, Nginx, HA-Proxy, DRDB, CMAN, Zeus Web Server, ffmpeg, Cisco ASA 5500, Cisco ACE 4710, Cisco 3560 Switches, Cisco 6509e VSS, F5 BIG-IP LTM (5.0 - 9.0.x/11.x Versions), Red5, flvtool2, Bind, Puppet, Chef, Foreman, VoIPMonitor, openSIP, freeswitch, Dovecot, Qmail, Exim, Postfix, MySQL 3.x -5.x, Postgres SQL, MS IIS 5.x/6.x, SeLinux, JBoss, Git, Subversion, Tomcat 5. x/ 6.x /7.x, BEA Web Logic 8.x/9.x/10.x, Xen 2.x/3.X, Xen Server, HP Integrity Virtual Machines, HP Service guard, Splunk, OpenVZ, Sharepoint, IBM Maximo 6.x/ Transportation 6.x, Jenkins/Hudson, GitLab, Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino, Cacti, Nagios (check mk/pnp4nagios) Zabbix, Veritas Netbackup, Simpani/Galaxy CommVault, EMC Disk Array Management including Celerra NFS Solutions (Symmetric, Clarion, and VNX)

Languages: GoLang, nodeJS, PHP (PHPSlim, Propel 2, Doctrine), Perl, Python, Objective-C, Bash/Unix Shell Scripting, SED/AWK, HTML5, jQuery, XML, Ruby on Rails 3, Java, Grails

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Principal, Architect, Consultant & Engineer

Confidential, Mesa, AZ

Responsibilities:

• With extensive IT experience & business understanding, Hovanic provides consulting services to SMBs and corporations to migrating to the “Cloud”, with a specialty utilizing Amazon Web Services.
• Specializing in software, network & systems infrastructure, design, management and deployment utilizing the best of Open Source and proprietary technologies. Notable clients include PayPal, eBay Enterprise, ZeniMax Media, and Disney.

Sr. Development Operations Engineer

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Responsibilities:

• During the acquisition of Confidential by Confidential, I was invited to join the organization to streamline our event processing infrastructure. Engineering and guiding development to produce a solid platform that ingests over 1.5 billion events a day worldwide. The data storage and analytics infrastructure had to be architected in a way to adhere with EU's Data Protection Directive, and Safe Harbor laws.
• Carefully architecting elasticsearch mappings, and ingestion points utilizing Consul service discovery, and DNS, provided the ability to give a global elasticsearch cluster to ingest, and provide analytics to our customers. Engineering push notifications with Lambda, and SQS, optimized our delivery of events back to the mobile platform.
• My setup of utilizing all spot-fleet instances globally, more advanced metrics collection, global HA utilizing Route53, consul, and etcd2, it lowered our costs significantly. Automated provisioning for feature-stacks utilizing terraform, in an all docker immutable infrastructure, gave the company a faster push for new features for our platform with simple one-click provisioning utilizing Jenkins 2.x and GitLab. My architecture of a self-scalable Jenkin’s slaves with customized pipelines made a huge difference compared to what was in place before.

Cloud Architect, Systems Architecture

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Migrated the entire organization legacy platform to AWS. Created and developed a completely automated deployment from their private GitHub for their Scala/GoLang applications to instantly deploy via Docker to our CoreOS fleet in AWS. Perform changes and guidelines on effectively using S3, CloudFront & Lambda, and all aspects of AWS services for a cost efficient migration from their physical datacenter to the “Cloud” strategically across AWS Regions and Zones to maintain close proximity to our client base across the world for live streaming video and transcoding.
• Such architecture setup gave us the ability to push all of our EC2 instances in spot, enabling us to save around 90% in infrastructure costs. Implemented full monitoring of all aspects of the infrastructure including CloudTrail, CloudFront, ELB’s, Route53, and specific AWS API lambda polling to monitor even Spot pricing towards ElasticSearch/influxDB/Kapacitor which enabled us to automatically scale based on specific thresholds and effectively use Spot-Fleet’s to scale up/down automatically. Architected and directed every step, from creating efficient Docker images that enabled for rapid deployment and development that we could bring up our entire large infrastructure and fully taking traffic in less than 4 minutes utilizing Terraform.

Cloud Engineer, Systems Architecture

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Helping game studios like Tilting Point and ZeniMax Media in a mix of AWS. Worked heavily with ElasticSearch to properly index and map gamer data with proper mapping and optimizations to effectively provide stats of our games and user data.
• Company faced sudden downsizing during my stay, I was the last person left from being laid off, when I joined a team of 50+.

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Developed a completely automated infrastructure utilizing Foreman/Puppet. Coded every aspect of our product deployment into Puppet, to provide the facility to instantly deploy our custom solutions towards bare-metal or in the cloud utilizing GCE (Google Cloud Engine) and AWS.
• Made the entire datacenter automated within Foreman, and developed code to automate network assignments, APC Reboots, and PXE Deployments with DNS integration to be completely integrated within Foreman.
• Tied in with automated custom monitoring that monitored over 60,000 different points within our infrastructure to do predictive analysis to automatically grow our infrastructure or decrease on-demand. Handled over 8 data center migrations from acquisitions the company has acquired. Architected the infrastructure to be within PCI compliance, and to be as robust as possible to be treated as a service than just hardware.

Cloud Engineer, Systems Architecture

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Was in charge of building and re-architecting the Rapid Decision program to be incorporated into the cloud. Imposed best practices of laying the foundation on software architecture towards a scalable infrastructure, from top to bottom of the stack.
• Developed tools for developers to instantly deploy virtual machines within our VMWare infrastructure utilizing pysphere, and coded Puppet classes specifically for our application to quickly deploy our application into the cloud with AWS. Integrated nagios to monitor every aspect of the infrastructure and to be completely autonomous, monitoring over 40,000 different critical points within, and into our cloud instances.

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Company relocated from Iowa to Tempe that required their datacenter to be migrated from Iowa (drop-ship method). I was involved in the initial design/planning and actual construction of building a Tier 3 datacenter. Virtualized our entire infrastructure before migration to a custom “cloud” that I designed utilizing many different technologies, Ceph for storage, KVM as the virtualization platform, with Ganeti as the backend management.
• Custom coded API backend to handle every aspect of deployment using PHPSlim and Propel ORM backend, with backend communication to Ganeti’s API, and Puppet’s Restful API. Codenamed “Pulse”, Pulse handled all aspects of deployment and automation of infrastructure, from VLAN assignment, to deployment specific environments developers needed to speed up towards production, even providing disaster recovery to AWS. Utilizing Puppet’s powerful tools, and mcollective facts, provided an easy way to code automated solutions to integrate complete monitoring of our infrastructure to a very granular level. Responsible for every aspect in the datacenter, managing network gear, PCI compliance, Linux and Windows management, and working with our custom VoIP solutions.

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential, Scottsdale, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for moving the entire infrastructure from Tru64 to SUSE with WebLogic 10 and JBoss with an Oracle DB backend. Re-engineer how DNA sequencing was done by changing the infrastructure and involving new methodologies, like moving from text based searching to using MongoDB, a single sequence previously took 2 days to accomplish, reduced to 5 minutes.
• Used HP Blades C3000 and C7000 to build a VMWare infrastructure to maintain all of our clustered DNA data, and automated VM deployment for scientist to use to run their tests as needed. Worked with managing entire 3Par storage clusters, and managed and upgraded the VMWare infrastructure behind our HP blades from 4.1.2 to 5. Built new SAN infrastructure’s using Sun Storagetrek systems using and implementing 10GigE network backbone, 3Par, and managed and engineered our backup solutions using Veritas and CommVault software.

Competencies Used: Apache, 3Par, Sun Storagetek, HP Blades c7000/c3000, VMWare 4.1.2, Netapp, WebLogic 10, Oracle, Bash/Shell Scripting, JBoss 7.1.x, Veritas Netbackup, Simpana/Galaxy CommVault, JBoss, LDAP Winbind SMB, NFS4, Maksystems eProgresa, Nagios XI, SUSE Linux 11.x, FDA 5K-10k Certification Processes, ITIL V3 Certified

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential, Chandler, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing and engineering their entire IT infrastructure for both internal and external customers. Built the entire infrastructure, both physical and service side, migrating from a Python environment to Java, built and engineered tools to facilitate migration and monitoring using Python/PHP and Perl. For external customers, my responsibility was to make sure the online curriculum and online school was available daily to over 70,000 actively enrolled students.
• Internally engineered the different facets and environments to go from development to production, actively working with developers on code design from an engineering standpoint for high availability and future development growth using the grails framework. Engineered and implemented load testing and regression testing tools to better prepare our code before production, using Slenenium2, and Jmeter. Setup and implemented Puppet and CFEngine to automate all deployments and system administration tasks.
• Everything production facing was engineered and setup with redundant geographically dispersed datacenters . Clustering and high availability was the primary focus for the company due to the nature of the product offered.

Competencies Used: Apache, HA - proxy, Glassfish 3.x, WebLogic 9 -10, ganeti, KVM, DRBD, Tomcat 6.x, Keepalived, Ganeti, KVM, postgre SQL 8. 4-9.x, ActiveMQ, mySQL 5.x, NetApp, Cisco ASA 5500, Cisco ACE 4710, Cisco 3560 Switches, LifeRay,, grails, tcat, Citrix, DRBD, Bash /Shell Scripting, RoR, openVZ, RedHat Enterprise 5.x, Nagios, Cacti, OpenStack (Nova/Swift), Zabbix, Hudson, Git, SVN, Jenkins/Hudson, PHP 5.2.x, ZendServer, Cornerstone, AS/ 400

Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing and engineering an infrastructure that handled over 800 credit card transactions per second on average. Due to the sensitivity of the product, was responsible for engineering and architecting its infrastructure to have no single point of failure to handle large amount of time-sensitive transactions.
• With three global POP’s setup: Phoenix, Ashburn, and Amsterdam; we were able to maintain 99.999% availability to handle all transactions globally. Worked to setup Confidential .com Cloud Infrastructure offering, which was setup behind VMWare vSphere and F5 BIG-IP LTM VE module to provide the “cloud” as a new offering from Confidential ’s brand, Confidential .com, used Netapp as its storage backend.

Competencies Used: Apache, BIG-IP LTM, BIG-IP LTM VE, BIG-IP GTM, MySQL 5.x, Trep, RedHat Enterprise 5.x, vSphere 4.x, VMWare ESX, Big Brother, Netapp, Splunk, Tomcat 6.x, ActiveMQ, NetApp, Artifactory, Bash/Shell Scripting

Lead System Administrator / Principal Architect

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Handled the day -to-day operation of the company. Deployed and managed 253 Linux based mission critical nodes that hosted over 90, 000 websites. Coded and developed applications that automated most of the system administration work to lower costs, and reduce staff. Gave customers automation tools to fix their most common issues with one click, and developed a “script - installer” tool that gave customers the power to install any script from a library of over 40 custom made scripts with one-click .
• Most of the client-base were web sites like youtube/ facebook clones, so we dealt with m any ffmpeg /red5 video streaming/ conversion in which I have contributed many patches to the ffmpeg /mencoder community . Engineered and managed large complex high -availability solutions using HA-proxy and Nginx, Varnish, DRDB, and CMAN . Sold the company to Confidential LLC/Site5 in Dec 5th 2009.

Global IT Infrastructure Operations

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and monitor over 6000 Windows and 2000 HPUX servers globally in mixed clustered and load- balanced environments hosting over 10, 000 websites and direct revenue generating applications. Provide middleware app support for WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache/IIS and interdependent technologies.
• Continuous monitoring of global environment utilizing HP Openview and Sitescope. Facilitate code, application deployments. Address client access rights & qualifications. Coordinate with end users, clients, developers and other teams & departments to provide immediate action and quick problem resolution to meet and exceed SLA while adhering to corporate policies, processes and standards.

Competencies Used: HP-UX lli v3, Apache 1.x -2.x, HP Service Guard, HP Integrity Virtual Machines, Windows 2000 - 2003, Tomcat 5.x, VMWare, HP -UX, Oracle, PHP, Perl, Bash/Unix Shell Scripting, MS IIS/Load Balancing, Postfix, JBoss, BEA WebLogic, Sharepoint, Lotus Notes, Lotus Domino, Zeus Web Server

Level III Engineer / Lead Systems Administrator

Confidential, Houston, T X

Responsibilities:

• Maintained, Optimized and Deployed over 1500 Linux Based Production Servers
• Supervised and Led a Team of 40 + Local and Remote Employees
• Supervised the growth of the company to over $6M in annual revenue
• Developed Innovative Solutions that provided the company an edge over competitors enabling trouble free growth complimented by streamlined day -to-day operations.

Competencies Used: cPanel, Apache 1 .x -2.x, MySQL 4 .x -5.x, BIND, Exim, PHP, Perl, Bash/ Shell Scripting, RoR, RedHat Enterprise 3.x -4 .x, Virtuozzo 3.x -4 .x, Zabbix

Level III Support Expert

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Responsibilities:

• Provided Managed Support Services to Over 1200 Unix Based Servers
• I to their customers, ntroduced DirectAdmin to company, which offered more reliability and flexibility than their current software, PLESK.
• Main go-to person for any administration assistance with PLESK.
• P new configurations or rovided Fanatical Support” to any Tier III issues that came to the team, even complex cluster deployments.

Competencies Used: PLESK, DirectAdmin, Apache 1.x-2 .x, MySQL 4 .x -5.x, BIND, Qmail, Postfix, HA- Proxy Load Balancing, PHP, Per l, Bash/ Shell Scripting, RoR, RedHat Enterprise 3.x -4 .x, X en, Nagios

System Engineer

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Responsibilities:

• Maintained, Optimized and Deployed over 1500 Linux Based Production Servers
• Helped engineer and develop Flashback, Backstage, and Synco Management
• Handled all Tier III issues within the company

Competencies Used: cPanel, Apache 1 .x -2.x, MySQL 4.x -5.x, BIND, Exim, PHP, Perl, Bash/Shell Scripting, RoR, RedHat Enterprise 3.x -4 .x, Nagios

Lead Systems Administrator

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Maintained, Optimized and Deployed over 500 Linux Based Production Servers
• Supervised and Led a Team of 20+ Local and Remote Employees
• Developed innovative solutions for other techs within the team to manage customer’s VPS without even entering the customer’s environment
• Supervised the growth of the company to over $2M in annual revenue

Competencies Used: cPanel, Apache l.x-2 .x, PLESK, Tomcat 3.x - 4.x, JBoss, MySQL 3.x -4 .x, BIND, Exim, Qmail, PHP, Perl, Bash /Shell Scripting, RoR, RedHat Enterprise 3.x -4 .x, Nagios, Virtuozzo 3.x -4.x

Consultant & Engineer

Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Engineered and deployed AdAware’s virus definition servers, which included a cluster of 20 nodes to handle the massive amount of requests and traffic.
• Worked with Top Tier Management companies, EZSM & CheetaWeb, to handle their Enterprise Level Customers
• Worked with EV1Servers (now called SoftLayer) to help deploy Virtuozzo VPS product line