SUMMARY:

• 10+ years Linux experience (Centos, Ubuntu, RHEL, Debian, Suse) Hipaa / PHI Compliance
• 10 years corporate / production environments
• 6+ years in Cloud based architecture
• New Relic, Nagios (Setup and Monitoring)
• AWS, KVM, Xen, MS Azure, Openstack, Rackspace cloud
• Puppet, Chef, and Ansible (Setup and Deployments)
• GitLab and SVN for Continuous Integration
• 6+ years in PHP, Bash Scripting
• Load Balancing and High Availability clustering

SKILLS:

Linux (Red Hat, CentOS, CloudLinux, Debian, Ubuntu, AWS)

Cloud based Solutions

Load Balancing cPanel / WHM

Apache

Nginx

Tomcat

Shibboleth

Chef, Ansible, Puppet

MySQL

PHP 4/5

BASH

Bind (DNS)

Exim, courier, Dovecot, and postfix

DDOS Mitigation / Security

HTML / CSS

New Relic, Nagios

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sunrise, Florida

Sr. System Engineer / Cloud Manager

Responsibilities:

• Brought in during a large growth period, for a production overhaul.
• Architected a new production scheme, and deployed the staging and production environment.
• Setup load balance solution (Riverbed Stingray), along with a scalable environment from the old single server stack.
• Work directly with developers, QA and other teams in our Agile / Scrum environment to make sure deadlines and sprints are met in a timely matter. This includes weekly, and monthly code pushes based on our customer and developer needs.
• Debugging of live, staging, and development SSO(Single Sign - on), Ruby, and Tomcat(Java) servers in both cluster and single server environments.
• Setup of in-house gitlab, along with deployments for continuous integration of our dev, qa, staging and production environments.
• Chef, and Ansible setup and configuration for our production platform, includes www, ruby, java and database servers.
• Cloud based solutions include MS Azure and Firehost(PHI/Hipaa).
• Architected custom backup solution with a Private Cloud for 200+ server backups, included content, code and configs for disaster recovery.
• Setup of New Relic for our development and production bug and uptime monitoring.

Confidential, Delray Beach, Florida

Hosting Support Manager, Sr. System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Head of technology and hosting.
• Managed our large server cluster with both Windows and Linux dedicated / cloud servers. (Rackspace, AWS)
• Head of the tech support dept., both hands on and delegated work out.
• Phased older customers from our windows servers to newer Linux ones.
• Setup and managed Amazon AWS clusters for larger companies with scalable resources on demand. This included custom software setup to handle the scaling of multiple Nginx servers running to one central master server. Along with continuous integration of the code for their intranet. This setup was for a robotics company who needed 100,000 users concurrent users to be able to connect on demand during their PIO on CNBC.
• AWS setup included EC2 + containers along with auto scaling, S3 CDN for content delivery and Glacier for cold storage.
• Day to day included, monitoring, audits, vulnerability detection and patching, potential client calls and server deployments.

Confidential

Sr. System Administrator / Support Manager

Responsibilities:

• Was brought in to help revamp the support team and restructure the development / production servers.
• Main tasks include server security and stability along with overall customer satisfaction.
• Bring creative idea's to the table for the company's growth as a whole, along with helping develop new software with the php team.
• Migrated hardware based hosting into Softlayer Cloud for redundancy.

Confidential, Boca Raton, Florida

Sr. System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Day to day monitoring and deployment for our cloud cluster. (Softlayer / Rackspace / AWS)
• Working directly with the front-end developers to ensure all demands are met before deadlines and in a timely fashion for stress testing.
• Directly in charge of our back-end PHP specialty services team, this includes coding / management and creative development of our services offered directly to our clients.
• Developed a PHP API for creation and administration of murmur / mumble services for new users, this includes location based VoIP spawning for USA, and ASIA.

Confidential

Shift Manager

Responsibilities:

• Main task is to run and operate a small BBQ restaurant, this includes employee scheduling, finding and purchasing the best quality food products at the best price, coordinating our events which vary in size from 50 plates all the way to 500 person full service catering events.

Confidential, Jupiter, Florida

Technical Support Manager, Sr. System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Main task was to ensure friendly, prompt reply's to incoming support issues. Along with monitoring shared, reseller, vps and dedicated servers to ensure uptime and that services were running as intended.
• Daily deployments of our new orders (Dedicated and cloud based) (Fastservers, The Planet, Rackspace, VPS.net, and Softlayer)
• I also was in charge of 80 - 90% of the Abuse dept. along with DMCA, copyright claims, and abuse issues from our 5 datacenters.
• Worked with the dev team to help create reseller central, a service that offers resellers to host all around the world with a single reseller account.