SUMMARY

• I've managed operational systems on a variety of Unix and Linux platforms for 25 years. I work with developers to architect and implement the infrastructure, tools, processes and procedures to help them to be their most efficient and productive.
• I work to foster cooperation between development, quality assurance and operations teams.
• I provide operations perspective in code reviews, QA and troubleshooting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Linux Infrastructure / DevOps Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage infrastructure for genomics data processing pipeline that provides patient cancer screening and personalized drug recommendations and research. Specify, install and manage hardware and software infrastructure. Grow datacenter from ~50 VM's to ~700 VM's using Debian, Proxmox, Puppet, Git, Shell Scripting, Python and Scala. Manage ~40 employee OS X LAN and Cisco Meraki's. Provide HIPPA compliance.
• Upgrade Zenoss from version 3.2 to 4.2. Convert 75 Ask.com Zenpacks from version 2 of Python to version 3. Evaluate Zenoss 5.
• Provide systems, network and applications inventory and performance baseline for data center migration using Riemann, Solarwinds, Zenoss, OpenVas and shell scripts on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Design and implement HIPPA and PCI compliance systems in Amazon VPC for clients using the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) - Security Risk Assessment (SRA) Tool and Open-Source Network Intrusion Detection (IDS), Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS). Implemented using Snort with PulledPork, BarnYard2, BASE, and OSSEC on Amazon Linux and Ubuntu using Chef.
• Architect and implement real time monitoring for 1400 critical build servers worldwide using: Zenoss, Zabbix, PagerDuty, RHEL, Debian, Puppet, VMWare ESX, vCenter, vCloud & OneCloud.
• Upgrade Zenoss from version 3.2 to 4.2. Convert 75 Ask.con Zenpacks from version 2 of Python to version 3. Evaluate Zenoss 5.
• Provide systems, network and applications inventory and performance baseline for data center migration using Riemann, Solarwinds, Zenoss, OpenVas and shell scripts on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Design and implement HIPPA and PCI compliance systems in Amazon VPC for clients using the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) - Security Risk Assessment (SRA) Tool and Open-Source Network Intrusion Detection (IDS), Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS). Implemented using Snort with PulledPork, BarnYard2, BASE, and OSSEC on Amazon Linux and Ubuntu using Chef.
• Architect and implement real time monitoring for 1400 critical build servers worldwide using: Zenoss, Zabbix, PagerDuty, RHEL, Debian, Puppet, VMWare ESX, vCenter, vCloud & OneCloud.
• Architect and implement infrastructure transition from physical datacenter to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Elle.com, WomansDay.com, RoadandTrack.com and CarandDriver.com. Manage code deployments, site updates and maintenance. Recommend, install, configure and maintain Zenoss monitoring. Technologies: Amazon Web Services, Akami, VMWare ESXi, Ubuntu, CentOS, EMC/Celerra, Zenoss, LAMP, DNS.
• Use Zenoss, Remedy and MySql to manage ~3000 network devices, across 36 customers. Provide customer device reports using Zenoss and Remedy data in BuisnessObjects. Use perl and shell to automate process for 24/7 network operations center and customer deployments, management, and reporting.
• Setting up Hudson for continuous deployment and deploying a JBOD storage infrastructure. Completed all Puppet training courses and practical laboratory implementations administered

Founder, CTO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Disrupt storage marketplace by challenging reigning paradigms in providing low cost commodity storage servers and implementing high availability in software with a simple user Interface.
• Deliver storage as a service through a REST API and web console.
• Design, test and manage the manufacture of storage and compute hardware.
• Implement easy to use storage systems software using OpenStack, Ubuntu, KosmosFS, Apache Tuscany, and other open source projects.
• Provide technical support, business development, and sales support for storage hardware and services.

Sr. Scripting / OS X Support Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Support ~500 Macintosh OS X computers campus-wide. Administer Radmind to remotely manage OS configurations and all software updates. Write new modules in perl and shell for Xhooks to assist in remote administration.
• Deconstruct Apple's OS X boot sequence (which is completely undocumented). Construct a small network bootable OS X kernel package, and write the shell scripts to remotely upgrade 500+ macs across Confidential 's campus network from 10.5 to 10.6.

Sr. Linux Consultant

Confidential, Wa, Mi

Responsibilities:

• For The Cobalt Group support over 2000 auto manufacturer and auto dealership websites and associated applications, across ~600 servers. Consisting of Sun, IBM Bladecenter, and Generic “x86 whitebox” hardware, running Solaris, RHEL, Debian, and VMWare ESX . Support DNS, Oracle, Apache, Weblogic, and numerous custom applications. Lead engineer for supporting 10 NetApp NAS servers (F820, FAS960e) with over 100 Tb of data, and lead engineer for tuning VERITAS Netbackup architecture.
• Support ~400 geographically distributed school testing and grading servers for Edison Schools / Tungsten Learning which are implemented on IBM 340/350 eserver hardware, with Red Hat Enterprise. Support DNS, Postgres, Apache, Perl, ModPerl and numerous custom applications. Build and deliver new servers. Distribute/update testing content across servers. Field 3rd tier customer support problems.