SUMMARY

• Software developer - Python, Perl, PHP. C and C++ Golang. Eclipse IDE. Agile environment with gitlab and github source code control.
• Data Center Architect - Complete Datacenter lifecycle - RFP’s Networking, Compute, Storage and Datacenter.
• Storage Architecture: Best practices utilizing current storage technologies from multi-tier vendors for NAS, SAN, iSCSI deployments.
• Architecture with full spectrum from proposal to build out to implementation and customer acceptance testing of Cloud.
• Product Development - concept testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

DevOPS: Puppet, Chef, GIT. Vmware ESXi and Vcenter 6.0 and XEN VM’s.

Cloud: Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud (2017)

Development: Microsoft software stack Visual Studio 2016, Eclipse (Neon) on Linux with Perl, Python and PHP

Hardware: Confidential, HP, ZT physical servers. ILO, iDRAC and out of band management. Server provisioning with PXEboot

Storage: EMC Vmax, VNX, Oracle ZFS Appliance, Various Confidential .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Francisco CA

Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wrote Python code to pull daily usage from Dynatrace API
• Wrote Splunk Dashboards to display Dynatrace data in stacked column and table form
• Wrote Powershell code to utilize Azure CLI 2.0.5 to create VM’s and alerts and templates.
• Created VM’s, Storage Accounts in Azure for SUSE Linux and Windows 2016 Datacenter Server.
• Created reports with Python code to pull statistics from Azure including VM’s, Storage Accounts and Alerts.

Confidential, Seattle WA

Responsibilities:

• Complete Chef Devops lifecycle. Wrote Chef recipes to deploy Java apps from Nexus repository
• Wrote Powershell automated installer using Chocolatey to install Chef Devops workstation on PC’s
• Optimized Chef builds using SSD and Megaraid SSD RAID 0 array for faster Chef cookbook builds.

Confidential, Sunnyvale CA

Responsibilities:

• Build Engineer for e-comm servers - Redhat, Centos and Ubuntu linux.
• Wrote puppet scripts for deployment of ongoing Linux components for Openstack deployment.
• Wrote Ansible scripts to deploy Puppet agents to newly created servers.
• Wrote Ansible scripts to provide BIOS settings over iLO
• Wrote Ansible scripts to provide Puppet verification of proper completed puppet software pushes.
• Automation of Redhat Satellite Server Provisioning
• Analysis of existing network management topology - move to CMDB push architecture.
• Golang prototyping for distributed linux provisioning.

Confidential, Sunnyvale CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for 27,000 physical servers world wide. Provision with Puppet and chef
• Wrote Puppet recipes to deploy new application components for mapping team
• Wrote Ansible yml scripts to deploy Puppet agents.
• Monitor 27,000 servers with Zabbix. Set up Zabbix Templates and alerts.
• Write custom monitoring scripts in Python.
• Security - use Ansible to patch Oracle Linux to pass security scans.
• Resolve all LDAP and Networking problems in multiple world wide locations.

Confidential - San Diego CA

Devops Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Audit Splunk installation for Compute, Network and Confidential Storage.
• Install Splunk apps for Juniper and Cisco network monitoring. Custom configure apps.
• Wrote alerts for critical F5 load balance monitoring for NOC teams.
• Created Network error monitoring for Splunk realtime dashboards.
• Corrected Splunk Indexing storage NFS mount problems and sourcetype issues with regex.
• Interface Splunk with EMC VMAX and VNX snmp data for storage performance monitoring.

Confidential - San Diego CA

Responsibilities:

• Develop on demand build system using linux, curl and Python for building off shore software to on shore
• Managed HP and Confidential Compellent Storage Arrays attached to Vmware server farm.
• Managed migration from older Confidential /EMC arrays to EMC VNX
• Assist build team with Jenkins. Introduce Puppet for provisioning new systems.
• Build out of in house cloud for security analysis of new threat signatures.
• Evaluation of AWS and Azure cloud based computing platforms for customer deployments.
• Built in house cloud provisioning system as AWS / Azure too expensive.
• Perl and PHP scripts written to automate build system on multiple AWS cloud based Linux hosts.
• Product development on XEN based security appliance for custom code fixes in C++.

Confidential - Seattle WA

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of EMC custom VNX and Isilon monitoring script at Confidential in Seattle
• Generation of security certificates to enable SSL encrypted path for data exchange
• Test of custom Confidential generated dash board written in C# with new certificates.

Confidential, Boulder CO

Storage Performance

Responsibilities:

• Mapping storage performance of cache based Confidential storage with fio and vdbench
• Running storage performance tests and graphing with Gnuplot and Excel
• Created automated Perl test harness for automated storage performance testing
• Working on Linux Driver caching solution using SSD’s. Building installable .ko
• Testing Caching performance against Facebook cache.
• Build Engineer - Linux device drivers for storage cache testing, gmake w/ gnu software stacks
• Kernel Development - Bcache kernel modification. Addition of metadata for internal caching solution
• Storage performance test scripts written in Python to run continuous FIO read/write performance testing.
• Create runbooks to hand off performance testing to new Confidential hires.

Confidential

Storage Architecture

Responsibilities:

• PDA group: Respond to RFP’s for customer storage configurations for a GO/NO-GO decision
• Test Compellent Storage designs in Lab with IOmeter and VDbench for performance
• Certify Multipathing solutions against RFP’s
• Augment RFP’s with best practices relying on vendor information
• Provide support to Field Engagements to promote sales process.
• Answer any questions from any field person about any Storage Issue to further a sale.
• Certified on Compellent for Top Gun Sales and Top Gun Storage Architecture
• Attended various Equallogic Seminars.

Confidential, Anaheim CA

Storage Architecture consultant

Responsibilities:

• Senior Datacenter architect. Plan migration of 2,600 servers to two data centers
• Build “what if” scenarios with different storage platforms. Study costs and trade offs
• Interview hospital IT teams to provide background to build proposal.
• Provide input to storage section of data center green field build proposal.
• Submitted team crafted proposal as requested to Confidential ’s Hospital CTO.
• Specification of approved array vendors such as HP/3PAR, Confidential, HDS, EMC
• Use Splunk to understand error conditions of app work load of apps to be migrated.

Confidential

Storage consultant

Responsibilities:

• Senior Datacenter Storage Admin - Avamar setup of 600 servers of SHC for Confidential .
• Created LUNS on EMC VMAX for consumption by VMware on Cisco UCS
• Created runbooks for IDC team in India.
• Monitoring of proper operation of Avamar Backup servers with EMC on site Avamar lead.
• Day to day operations of Avamar and Networker backups as required by Confidential and SHC.
• Restores of EMC VMAX corrupted LUNS. Monitoring of Oracle Databases.
• Provisioning of EMC VMAX for day to day needs of Oracle DBA’s.
• Emergency Avamar restores of servers as required by Management and Confidential teams during migrations.
• Migration LUN creation and zoning for migrating servers and databases
• Monitored migrated servers with Splunk for operational errors and correctness.
• Setup puppet master to assist with migration to green field Cisco UCS servers.
• Create run book for Avamar backups and restores to hand to Run team.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Storage consultant

Responsibilities:

• Senior Datacenter Storage Admin - SAN/Servers / Address Book Application Performance testing of 1.0 and 1.2 release of Address Book Application on SAN Support of SAN infrastructure LUNS between production and backup site via SRDF.
• Response to Address Book incidents and outages Response to SAN outages including Symmetrix and VMAX production and backup sites Audit of WWN mappings on Brocade DCX switches.
• Oracle performance tuning. Storage tuning. Application and storage performance metrics.
• Day to Day storage operations with EMC VMAX.