TECHNICAL SKILLS

Server/Networking: Apache, nginx, sendmail, postfix, Glassfish, Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty, Resin, Exchange, Lotus Notes, SNMP, VOIP, wireless 802.11a/b/g/n, TCP/IP, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, ATM, dialup networking equipment and protocols, and video teleconferencing

OS: Redhat Enterprise Linux, Linux, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Solaris, FreeBSD, AIX, HP - UX, Synix, Dynix, Irix, VAX/VMS, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, MacOS 6.x-10.x

Management Tools: Chef, Puppet, Saltstack, Nagios, Zabbix, webmin, Active Directory, Legato, Backup Exec, Veritas, AMANDA

Databases/Analytics: MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle, Informix, Sybase, PostgreSQL, Hadoop

Development Tools: Rational ClearCase/Purify/Quantify, MS Visual Studio, gcc/g++, subversion, git, mercurial, Hudson/Jenkins, New Relic, Atlassian tools, Visual Sourcesafe

Virtualization: AWS, VMWare, XenServer, KVM, OpenVZ, Docker

Development: AJAX, C/C++, Java, Ruby, PHP, Perl, Python, HTML, CSS, XML/XSL, SGML, DSSSL, SQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DevOps Director / Senior Systems Engineer

Confidential, Waltham, MA

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented Confidential ’s next generation virtualization platform using XenServer with over 400 guest VMs across 30 VM host servers. This environment has the ability to instantly create fully configured guest instances for use by development and QA
• Engineered the move of some of our infrastructure to Amazon Web Services to handle volatile demand
• Performed as an oncall manager
• Analyzed and re-engineered the custom DNS server design at the core of Confidential ’s business that managed upwards of 8 million domains
• Worked closely with development and QA not only on current issues but helped with solving infrastructure, database, coding, and application level performance and scaling issues in an environment mixing MySQL, MS SQL, PHP, and several flavors of Java application servers
• Redesigned our workflow for moving projects from development to production, including implementation of a new continuous integration and testing environment using git, Jenkins, chef, and Docker
• Designed and implemented new tiers of redundancy to improve site reliability and uptime
• Implemented and helped maintain our analytics platform, including Hadoop

Consultant

Confidential, Cambridge, MA

Responsibilities:

• Led the effort to troubleshoot preexisting issues between a biotechnology company, Agencourt, and their hosted services at Oracle. The issues in question impacted multiple Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.x and Solaris 10 systems from communications to product development
• Delivered a final report giving a point-by-point review of the current state of Agencourt’s IT systems, personnel, and overall organization
• Designed and maintained network and server architectures on CentOS 5.x Linux including firewalls, postfix mail servers with multi-level spam blocking (utilizing both filtering and greylisting), VOIP servers, and network monitoring
• Redesigned the document management, operation, and logistic systems of an international furniture manufacturer, Largo International

Project Manager

Confidential, Burlington, MA

Responsibilities:

• Managed multiple emerging technology projects for Timberland, a Fortune 1000 retailer
• Researched VOIP, with an emphasis on identifying return on investment for adoption scenarios
• Analyzed efficiencies and cost savings for enterprise wide database consolidation
• Functioned as a general resource and trouble shooter for critical business technology projects

Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and managed implementation and maintenance of several remote workstations using MS Windows XP Professional
• Implemented effective security measures on firewalls using both unix servers and embedded systems in different locations across the country
• Provided expert advice for company-wide security redesign
• Implemented and maintained mail servers with spam blocking and greylisting, initially on sendmail, and later, as it matured, on vmailer/postfix
• Designed and implemented original customer survey database and demographic analysis software
• Created key pieces of Waterway’s early custom software, including prototype system to download and use queuing data on cars washed from the car washes industrial/embedded controller system

Trainer and Strategy Consultant

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Co-chair and Facilitator for Confidential (AMC) Leadership Training Program
• Planned intranet design utilizing a website, mailing list, and email auto-response for use in leadership development training of volunteers
• Wrote business plan and guided strategic planning in founding of AMC’s Leadership Training Institute, with $1 million dollar endowment for on-going operations

Technology Architect

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Using both Linux and Solaris, designed and implemented a high performance reference Web site that received 750,000 page views per day on less than $50,000 in hardware and software, with site downtime less than 1%
• Created site-wide search engine for the Columbia Encyclopedia, the American Heritage Dictionary, and all of the Confidential almanacs
• Helped manage server maintenance and integration in an heterogeneous systems environment consisting of machines running Windows, Solaris, and Linux

Senior Unix System Administrator

Confidential, Boston, MA

Responsibilities:

• Managed the integration, maintenance, and architecture planning at 10 locations in a heterogeneous OS environment including 15 different brands of unix OS and 300 workstations
• Maintained and configured a company wide external email presence using a Solaris sendmail gateway and various subdomains including integration with the internal Lotus Notes mail servers
• Fully integrated the unix application and development infrastructure with several hundred MS windows workstations and servers at different offices worldwide
• Led the design and creation of all security infrastructure and wide area network planning
• Supervised a 5-person distributed team of system administrators