PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Experienced in diverse information technology projects involving application development, networking, and consulting.
• Experienced in Systems Administration of various operating systems Linux, Windows, and some Unix.
• Experienced in AWS system deployment, configuration, and support.
• Key Strengths: technically orientated, creative problem solver, excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Over 10 years of experience in Infrastructure System Administration and coaching of personnel at local and global IT sites.
• Experienced evaluating, implementing, and integrating multiple Open Source solutions to fit given challenges.
• A technical hands - on leader, encouraging continued technical development and communication.
• An ability to build solid partnering relationships with employees, management, as well as vendors.
• Experienced with AWS systems deployment, support, and configuration.
• Past experience with embedded devices based on BusyBox to build a commercial wireless network ISP.
• Experienced building systems from Open Source software based on specific needs such as:
• IVR based on Asterisk for internal and resale usage
• Jabber IM service for employee usage with auto generation from monitoring/ticketing/alerts, multi-user sessions manually or automatically.
• Monitoring with Nagios and Monit for server based systems, embedded devices, networking equipment, as well as UPSs.
• Integration of above with Request Tracker for ticketing and problem resolution tracking.
• Security evaluation and deployment of secure systems based on NSA and Red Hat security standards. Mount options, least privileges, firewall setup, and SELinux configuration.
• Experienced supporting multiple data center locations on several continents.
• Wide range of knowledge to contribute to several teams keeping their concerns in mind while designing a secure platform for any given application.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Cloud Foundry Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Define and manage deployments leveraging Cloud Foundry to cross cloud providers.
• Train customers on the Cloud Foundry platform for continued development and customization.

Confidential

Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support of a mixed stack of both internal tooling and customer facing components.
• Acting as sole Operations and DevOps support.
• Github Ruby on Rails GoLang Capistrano AWS services (ELB, S3, CloudWatch, Route53 etc.) NewRelic PostgreSQL MySQL VictorOps

Confidential

Senior DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Build cross provider solution for management and migration of services across AWS, Openstack, and Azure.
• Avoiding vendor lock-in while taking advantage of the services that make sense for a specific technology stack.
• Perform DevOps evaluations and migration plans for implementing a DevOps culture and pipeline.
• Create an open and involved process/pipeline that allows the people to move at the speed their technology demands.
• Break down silos and get everyone working toward the same quality vision.
• The specific tools to use are determined by each individual customer's situation and internal skill sets.
• Artifactory, Maven, ANT, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Docker
• Git, SVN, Artifactory
• Zabbix, SolarWinds, Zenoss, Monit, Nagios
• AWS, Openstack
• Provide direction and guidance through the process working closely with everyone from Dev, QA, Engineering, and including our C level partners.

Confidential

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Evaluation of current state in the attempt to implement a DevOps approach.
• Review existing Ansible plays as well as Jenkins jobs and pipeline for improvement.
• Develop an approach to allow a quicker as well as more reliable deployment to vCAC environment and conversion of legacy physical infrastructure to Virtual.
• Evaluation of hosted cloud solutions and recommendations to avoid vendor lock in.
• Ansible
• Jenkins with pipeline and promotion
• Artifactory, Maven, SVN, RhodeCode
• Apache Jmeter
• Puppet
• Zabbix and SolarWinds
• Rally

Confidential

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support and upgrade systems for DevOps approach of continuous deployment across multiple AWS Regions and several software stacks.
• Primarily responsible for the Micro Service Web Front End stack for both Residential and Business customers.
• GIT with Stash front end
• Jenkins
• Asgard
• Eureka
• AWS CLI and Python SDK
• Ansible
• Confluence
• Jira

Confidential

Expert Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of all Linux systems from initial build through local and network security design for use in a 100% virtual VMWare environment.
• Builds for Oracle R12 using OEL 5.x line and Jive migration from 6.5 to 7.0 based on RHEL 6.x line.
• Ansible playbooks to replicate the build and configuration of Jive 7.x systems. (Migration to Chef or Puppet planned.)
• Design and deployment of Linux NTP servers to be used as master time source for all other systems and devices.
• Monitoring for all Linux based systems in NetIQ.
• New standard implemented based on security from design phase and continuing throughout production.
• Management of all licenses for RHEL and OEL based Linux systems.
• Train and develop Linux System Administrators in methodology as well as new procedures and custom script usage.
• Converted custom script based deployment and replication into Ansible playbooks.

Confidential

Linux Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Review initial plans for Linux systems configuration in preparation for upgrade of Oracle to R12.
• Establish plan to migrate from pure physical to as close to 100% virtual as possible.
• Created new system builds to replace existing 11i systems
• OS firewalls enabled with per environment entries based on expected traffic.
• Deploy Linux NFS server for shared portions of the Oracle application stack.
• Build of management systems to use for administration and stage of custom build scripts and packages.

Confidential

Computer Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of UCMDB/DDM-A in 5,000+ Linux server environments.
• Customized scheduling and discovery optimizations for minimal network impact during discovery process.
• Troubleshoot network and Linux/Unix/Windows OS level communication issues.
• Liaison for all support issues and communications between HP and client.
• Delivery and review of required contract completion reports.
• Design and implementation of monitoring solution using open source software.
• Developed monitoring setups and implementations for multiple hardware vendors with SNMP, agents, and custom scripts.
• Ability to monitor systems from several different vendors as well as correctly receiving traps.
• Performed full infrastructure redesign and implementation based on Linux systems, migration from existing systems and network.
• Develop project requirements from schedule through implementation and final decommission of old systems, including all hardware and software specifications.
• Hands off approach to all systems so that they monitor themselves and run scripts to resolve issues and report success.
• Trained personnel and partners both in house as well as at remote locations.

Confidential

System Administration and Security

Responsibilities:

• Start-up organization with single local network expanding the network and services being offered to the point of acquisition.
• Problem identification and resolution for networking issues between custom embedded wireless routers.
• Designed and implemented an Asterisk based VOIP solution for use internally as well as externally as a service.
• Liaison between Network Operations, Engineering, and Software Development.
• Various platforms including Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, Windows Server both physical and VMWare based.