SUMMARY:

• My early training in physical architecture, photography, and film came before my later education in computer programming.
• This unique set of experiences has given me an even broader perspective in navigating and managing software and computer architectures.
• All of these experiences have given me a much wider perspective on technology than someone who has only known recent technology and the current context of systems today.
• Complex animations that were once produced using Oxberry animation stands and Acme optical printers can and are now produced on a single laptop computer.
• The perspective of experience is priceless.
• Understanding technology requires as much context as you can bring.
• I make sure that those I lead understand the entire team has to be a team or it isn’t a team, that their individual success is entirely dependent on team success .
• I believe you should be encouraging all of your teams to challenge all assumptions, leading continuous improvement across all of your systems and your entire organization.
• As technology changes so do we, and we must accept continuous change in our systems and master it.
• I believe in lifting others up, encouraging success when ever possible and celebrating accomplishments.
• The organization as a whole needs to be there for each other, covering each other as much as possible, everyone working together for the common good.
• As a leader, your role is to guide and facilitate teams to their maximum potential, guiding people to solutions, and giving people the opportunity to succeed, working in concert, working together.
• It’s paramount for me to let those that I work with know that my word is my bond, but I’m also expecting the same from you.
• I have your back and you have mine.
• My success depends on your success.
• Openness defines me. I believe in the efficiency of truth, and the truth of efficiency. I think out loud, risking being right or wrong, learning through discussion to inform decisions.
• It’s important for me to share, and speak openly about new ideas and new ways to solve problems, this has proven my success over time.
• This is the only way for organizations to solve the day to day problems and challenges, with people working together, risking new ideas and building working relationships that make and keep everyone happy. Morale is the fuel that makes things go.
• I like working with decision makers at all the phases of the work to keep things tight. But I also believe above all you must risk thinking out loud if you really want to know what people think about your ideas, shaping the work through interaction.
• Getting feedback from others is essential in designing systems so that you don’t miss anything, and you must risk being wrong and you must accept the fact that you can’t know everything.
• I believe leadership without facts and data is not leadership. I take my time to think, analyze, discover, and challenge all assumptions, challenging all dogma, including my own, based on facts and data, not guessing.
• Only by building your designs and running operations based on facts and data will you succeed.
• This is why I am so devoted to monitoring, it gives you the data and facts you need to make informed decisions.
• My entire path is guided by a “Go To Mars” mindset, I will always design and build highly reliable, fault - tolerance systems that do not allow for a single point of failure.
• What happens when systems fail is at the forefront of my thinking.
• I also believe in prototyping and building minimum viable prototypes that can be refined further with either the same team or a new team that may be required to take it to the next level. Ideas and innovation demand speed to stay competitive.
• I believe at my core in service to others, and taking care of my friends and family, nothing else matters to me.
• I will be remembered for certain how I treated and care for others, and the role I played in other peoples lives, not so much for the work.
• I want only to be remembered as someone trying to be more compassionate to others, not what I achieve, for without my family and friends I have nothing.

EXECUTIVE SKILLS SUMMARY:

• Generative, Results-Orientated Leadership
• Strategic Lifetime Vision For Innovation & Efficiency
• Operations Management & Process Automation
• Hands-On Leadership, Interaction & Training
• Project Management
• Atlassian JIRA / Confluence
• Agile / Scrum / Kanban
• Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu/Debian, OSX, AIX, HP/UX, MPP, Shared-Nothing
• Ansible / Puppet Enterprise / Puppet Open Source
• Module Writing / Configuration
• Bootstrapping / RPM & DEB Package Building
• Docker, AWS CLI, Google Cloud CLI, Azure CLI
• BASH, Perl, PHP, C,Python, Ruby, Javascript, AWK, SED, PCRE
• Apache Web & Tomcat Servers
• Lighttpd Web Servers / Nginx Web Server
• OpenSSL Certs, Proxy Servers, Node.js
• Automation Engineering / RPM & DEB Packaging
• Orchestration Programming
• Purpose-Built Management & Operations Portals
• Code Generators / App Encryption / UI Session Management
• Physical Server Management & Operations
• Resource & Budget Planning
• Nagios, Graphite, Grafana, ELK, Collectd, Statsd, Ganglia
• Docker, AWS, Xen, Virtual Box
• VMware ESX / vSphere / Fusion
• DNS, SMTP, NTP, LDAP/AD, OpenLDAP, OpenVPN

CURRENT EXPERIENCE:

System Architect

Confidential, Beaverton, Oregon

Responsibilities:

• In-house project for to build a Web UI for Nagios PHP, Perl and Python Programming Graphite / Grafana Dashboards Video Training

Confidential, Beaverton, Oregon

Executive Video Producer

Responsibilities:

• Training Video Content Creation
• In-Studio / On-Site Videography / Mavic Pro Drone
• Apple Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion, Apple Keynote
• AWS EC2, Route53,Ubuntu / Apache Web Server / WordPress

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Puppet Programming Engagement

Responsibilities:

• Puppet on Windows Engagement
• Created multiple Puppet modules to install Windows SQLServer & other Windows packages

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Cloud Monitoring Architect

Responsibilities:

• Built Ansible Modules & Roles for Nagios Monitoring, Graphite Monitoring Graphite/Grafana graphing for on-premise and cloud environments Integrating bootable ISOs into various cloud-based VMs and set-top appliances Ansible Programming, Debian Packaging, Python Programming AWS EC2, S3, AMI, CLI Programming,
• Google gcloud CLI Programming,
• Azure ASM/ARM, azure CLI Programming
• Nagios, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Fluentd Monitoring Pipelines Docker Container builds - created Nagios Server Containers

Environment : Ubuntu, Ansible, Docker, AWS, Azure, Google, Python, Apache, Lighttpd, NginX, ELK,

Confidential, Seattle, Washington

WS Cloud Architect / Lead Puppet SME

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Cloudformation scripts & Puppet modules for ruby, tomcat, apache and node.js
• Created Puppet agent and puppetmaster installation shell scripts integrated with Cloudformation
• Wrote userdata scripts for rapid deployment of puppetmasters for devops cloud infrastructure and application developers
• Set up multiple Git repos with puppetmasters for module deployment across different environments.
• Shell scripting, Python & Perl programming for automation
• Promoted best practices in Puppet through team mentoring and leadership

Confidential, Florida

Puppet SME

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Puppet Modules for generating server self-signed SSL certificates, or adding signed certificates, and then generating keystores for Websphere applications.
• PHP, Perl and Python Programming Python Plugins For Nagios
• Graphite / Grafana programming for data visualization

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Chief Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Puppet Enterprise / Puppet Open Source Programming
• Nagios Monitoring / Lighttpd / Apache Web / Tomcat Servers
• VMware vSphere, Xen, Solaris Administration
• RHEL / CentOS Linux Systems Administration
• PHP / Perl / Python Programming / RPM Package Building
• NFS, SMTP, OpenLDAP Servers, Web, JIRA, SVN Admin
• RHEL / CentOS, SuSE, FreeBSD Admin
• Dell 920 Servers, Dell M Blade Servers

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

Director of Hosting Infrastructure & Operations

Responsibilities:

• DevOps Team Management ( 7 people ) using Atlassian JIRA, Kanban
• Nagios Monitoring, Perl, PHP, Python Programming
• RPM Package Building
• RHEL, Windows, VMware ESX, Tomcat
• Dell Servers

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

DevOps Manager

Responsibilities:

• AWS EC2, S3,Elastic Beanstalk,RDS Nagios Monitoring Bash / Perl Programming CentOS Linux System Administration

Confidential, Redwood City, CA

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Nagios / Ganglia Monitoring CentOS Linux System Administration Bash, Perl, Python, Puppet Programming, SVN Admin

Confidential, CA

Service Engineer / Monitoring Architect

Responsibilities:

• Search Marketing Revenue Data Systems
• Nagios Programming, Training, Mentoring Bash / Perl / PHP Programming RHEL Linux System Administration FreeBSD System Administration

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Linux System Administration / EMC SAN Administration EMC DMX3 / DMX 4, EMC Clarion, Oracle Enterprise DBA Support RHEL 5, Perl, PHP, Oracle, MySQL, Apache, Nagios Perl, PHP Programming / RPM Package Building

Confidential, Century City, CA

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Linux System Administrator / JBOSS Administration / Deployments Perl, PHP Programming / Nagios Monitoring RHEL / CentOS

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Linux System Administration at the Confidential Center HP/UX Admin, Sybase DBA Perl, PHP RHEL 4, DB2 LUW