SUMMARY

• Over 15 years of professional and senior level experience in IT architecture, engineering, administration, and operations.
• Over 10 years of hands - on technology management and operations experience with multidisciplinary teams.
• Over 10 years in SAAS design, development, and operations in both virtualized/Cloud and Data Center environments.
• Over 8 years of experience developing and managing technology portfolios, engineering teams, establishing roadmaps, budgeting, and compliance, and processes.
• Strong experience with the full life cycle of Software Development (SDLC) in Python, PHP, and Java.
• Works hard to understand and deliver on the technical vision and requirements.
• 8+ years of strong CI/CD implementation and support skills.
• 5+ years solid Orchestration/Automation experience.
• Able to effectively communicate and work with executive/senior management and engineers alike.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Tech Roles: Engineering, Administration, Architecture, DevOps, Backend/API, Data, DR, Continuity

Languages: Python, PHP, Javascript

Dev Tools: Git, SVN, TravisCI, Bamboo, Jira, Charles

Open Source: Flask, Eve, Django, Celery, gevent

Clouds: IBM, AWS, Heroku, RackSpace, OpenStack

DevOps: Docker, salt, ansible, boto, Puppet, CF Engine, fabric, Nagios, ELK, logstash

Middleware: RabbitMQ, IBM WebSphere, ZeroMQ, SQS, Kafka xQL (NoSQL/RDBMS): Memcache, Redis, Couchbase, Aerospike, MySQL, PostGresSQL, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, AWS (RDS, DynamoDB, EliastiCache, Aurora)

Operating Systems: Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, CentOS), Mac OSX, FreeBSD, Windows

Hardware/Media: HP, Dell, Cisco, Switches, Firewalls, SAN, NAS, RAID, Load Balancers (Foundry, F5, Radware, A10Networks, Brocade), NetScreen, Juniper, RasberryPI

Misc: vi, bash, zsh, iceCast, Wowza, Liquidsoap, HTML, CSS, jquery, SSP, DSP, VAST, VPAID

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring and Support functions for their mission critical SAAS platform.
• Upgraded production 100+GB MySQL DBs and modernizing their replication topology for scale.
• Scripted server installs and setup AWS AMIs.
• Replaced server based load balancers with hardware based load balancers to offload SSL and improve TCP performance.
• Preparing stack for virtualization to private cloud based infrastructure based on Apache CloudStack.
• NGINX, Tomcat, MySQL stack.
• The platform hooks are largely JavaScript based so I crafted a novel way to properly handle and respond the HTTP requests even if the APP is down or unavailable. During maintenance windows they can enable the service and focus on the work at hand without worrying about impact to the customer sites. Think doing a massive DB update or a major version release and serving nothing but HTTP Status code 200 responses.

Confidential

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Ongoing development and operation of acquired Ruby on Rails based Fantasy Sports/DFS Platform
• Adoption of the Heroku cloud infrastructure
• Docker containers for use on AWS replacing the AMI based implementation.
• Integration of live sports data from Sportsradar and Rotowire using kafka and celery
• Consolidated data center operations onto AWS.
• Integration of Display Ad Serving Partners (DFP, DFP small biz, AOL)
• Integration with Video Ad Platforms (Adap.TV, LiveRail, SpotExchange, Tremor, Ooyala)
• ELK stack implementation for log based analytics and auditing.
• Pioneered new approaches to yield management for VAST/VPAID advertising.
• Development of the Mobile Web and Mobile Applications associated with RadioLoyalty.
• Lead the development of Multiple RESTful APIs including Pub/Sub.
• Celery distributed python tasks listening to each station collecting and publishing the metadata in real-time.

Confidential

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Integration of Internet marketing platforms with carrier the based mobile platform held by LencoMobile Inc.
• Design and Implementation of Domestic/US based SMS and MMS messaging platform via Open Market APIs
• Management of CSC campaigns across carriers
• Data Center and Carrier Cross Connect facility design, implementation, and operation for carriers such as Cricket, M1, Vodafhone, OpenMarket, Iusacel, Telcel, Comcel, Telstra, Vodacom, Singtel.
• Development and operation of online streaming services.
• Delivered RadioLoyalty.com LEMP stack, media players, and streaming services in a 90-day Sprint.
• Designed and implemented a private OpenStack cloud over 50 physical servers for the app tier. Databases were not virtualized in this environment.
• Scaled MySQL over 250GBs in the OLTP environment and supported over 1TB on the DWH side.
• Scaled streaming and content delivery to address the PPTV audience using Akamai.

Confidential

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Agile development managed with the Atlassian suite for CI/CD and collaboration.
• Design and development of a highly scalable SASS based Display Advertising platform providing services internally, for third party publishers, for advertisers, Ad Networks, and Agencies.
• Integration of an SEO platform and team into existing business.
• Development of Rapid Mobile Site Builder and management system
• Designed and developed centralized compliance system that supported online lead generation and multiple call center partners/operations. Think work flow coordinator.
• MySQL Administration of a 200+ GB of data list management.

Confidential

Director of Information Technology

Responsibilities:

• Managing and building the IT team from the ground up.
• Supported a java based SASS platform designed to be embedded on our client sites for use in up-sale, cross-sale, and customer support services leveraged to improve conversion, retention, and customer service.
• Implementation of the outbound call center capabilities using a predictive dialer with a real-time feed of leads from the Internet.
• Implementation and maintenance of PCI and OWASP compliant security and controls.
• Network Health monitoring and alerting complete with a centralized event correlation.
• Established CI and QA procedures.
• Design, buildout, and support of all 3 data centers.
• Budgeting and Business alignment

Confidential

Director of Network Operations

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of over 20 system engineers, network administrators, database administrators and desktop support/help desk technicians responsible for the design, deployment, 24/7/365 support, and maintenance of approximately 200 servers, 2,500 nodes spread over 28 locations throughout the United States.
• Core team included 7 direct reports including an Operations Manager, 3 Senior Network Administrators, a Senior System Engineer, Senior DBA, and Support Manager.
• During this time Life Time grew from 65M and 11 Facilities to 250M and 28 facilities with 5000 employees in 7 states.
• The design and build out of both main data centers, and extensive QA and development environments.
• Redesigned Corporate and Club Level networks to facilitate the growth of the company, which reduced operational cost and increased flexibility which is tightly coupled with productivity.
• Introduced various breeds of UNIX and Linux to leverage open source software reducing operational cost.
• Oversaw the technical integration of the various subsidiaries either acquired or spun off business units supporting diversity ranging from Health Clubs to Hotels, Restaurants, Hair Salons, and a Construction company.
• Designed a heterogeneous SSO “Single Sign On” across their diverse topology. Technologies included Kerberos, LDAP, DDNS, ADS, Siebel 7.0 CRM application, and the in house Membership Management System.
• A key role on the team responsible for the Architecture and Development of a high profile 25million dollar application known as the Membership Management System.
• Assisted with and supported the Design, Development and Implementation, and project management of MMS an internal J2EE based core system used in day-day operations in the management of the Membership base as well serving as the enterprise wide web based Point of Sale system completely integrated with the HR and Accounting systems.
• Designed and Implemented the DRP and collaborated on the BCP.
• Some of the technologies included SAS, Brio One, Iplanet Directory, BEA Weblogics, Double Take, Veritas, Legato, and VOIP.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, developed, and implemented our 3 main products (Internet Access, Web Hosting, and Email).
• Engaged in niched Enterprise projects: an example would be to develop the software and network capabilities providing US based command and control to an automated meat processing facility in Australia.
• Developed turnkey ISP solutions for local LEC, CLECS. Worked in NEBS level 5 environments (5x9).
• Ported an early radius server from Linux to windows.
• Developed the Minnesota Materials Exchange site and backend that connected the public and private Universities reuse programs.