TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Architecture and Design: Extensive knowledge of AWS services, use cases, and best practices. Very comfortable wif core services (VPCs, EC2, S3) and data processing and storage on AWS (DynamoDB, EMR, Redshift, Aurora, etc.). Experience working wif business stakeholders, developers, and operations to design infrastructure to meet or exceed all goals in a scalable, cost - TEMPeffective manner.

Linux Administration: Comprehensive experience wif RHEL/CentOS 5-7 in an enterprise environment, supporting variations of teh LAMP stack, Tomcat, Nginx, and other middleware commonly used to underpin both front- and back-end applications.

DevOps Tooling: Extensive use of Git, Vagrant, and VirtualBox for local and hybrid development environments. Comfortable wif RSpec and ServerSpec for Test Driven Development. Experience wif Packer, Consul, and Terraform.

Containerization: Experience working wif Docker in an Enterprise environment. Comfortable discussing teh pros/cons of tooling in this rapidly evolving space. Experience leveraging AWS-native tooling (ECS) and integrations to accelerate adoption.

Database Architecture: Operational experience architecting, deploying, and administering relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL) and non-relational DBs (Mongo, Redis, DynamoDB, and HBase) at scale.

“Big Data” Operations: Experience deploying and managing Hadoop services packaged and distributed in teh Hortonworks Data Platform. Comfortable architecting data solutions that include Ambari, HDFS, YARN, Pig, Sqoop, Storm, Spark, and HBase.

Configuration Management: Extensive experience wif Chef and teh Chef ecosystem (Chef Server, Chef Provisioning, Berkshelf, Kitchen CI, etc.). Familiar wif best practices re cookbook development and management. Contributor to multiple OSS cookbooks. Modest experience wif Ansible.

Monitoring: Experience writing custom alerts for Nagios, CloudWatch, and Splunk.

Networking: Comfortable configuring VPNs, firewalls, proxies and load balancers. Very comfortable wif networking on AWS to support infrastructures wif heavy security and compliance requirements.

Programming: Advanced scripting wif Bash and Python to support operational tasks and scheduling. Modest experience wif Ruby.

Voice Applications: Intermediate VoiceXML and CCXML. Can write and deploy basic IVR applications. Moderate experience wif both Nuance and Prophecy IVR platforms.

Hardware: Can diagnose, troubleshoot, and maintain all computer hardware, including desktop/workstation, blade servers, peripherals, and network devices. Comfortable wif all tasks related to datacenter operations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Senior Data Engineer me and II

Responsibilities:

• Senior Solution Architect - Design and deliver secure, performant, cost-TEMPeffective infrastructure in teh cloud.
• Specializing in data analytics at scale ("big data") and security/compliance driven applications, in both cloud-native and hybrid environments.
• Technical Lead - Senior technical resource on a project, responsible for all technical deliverables from sale through completion.
• Includes pre-sales requirements gathering and estimation, sprint planning, code reviews, mentoring junior resources, and halping shape internal processes and tooling across teh company.
• Senior DevOps Engineer - All projects involve an "infrastructure as code" deliverable and DevOps component.

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Senior Cloud Architect and Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Senior Solution Architect - Design and deliver secure, performant, cost-TEMPeffective infrastructure in teh cloud.
• Specializing in data analytics at scale ("big data") and security/compliance driven applications, in both cloud-native and hybrid environments.
• Technical Lead - Senior technical resource on a project, responsible for all technical deliverables from sale through completion.
• Includes pre-sales requirements gathering and estimation, sprint planning, code reviews, mentoring junior resources, and halping shape internal processes and tooling across teh company.
• Senior DevOps Engineer - All projects involve an "infrastructure as code" deliverable and DevOps component.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Cloud Architect: Senior engineer responsible for design and development of an entirely virtualized infrastructure hosted on Amazon Web Services.
• Data Operations and Development: Lead teh operations effort to migrate from a MPP relational database to HBase, reducing OpEx for our data warehouse by 50%. My role was to develop, deploy, and support teh infrastructure for our data analytics platform, which processes billions of records per month and includes both Hadoop and AWS services.
• Dev Ops: Upgraded infrastructure codebase from Chef 10.2 to 12.5, introduced TDD for infrastructure code, integrated and consolidated monitoring to AWS CloudWatch, and lead teh charge towards containerization, service discovery, and immutable infrastructure.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Network Engineer II

Responsibilities:

• System and Network Administration: Managed 5,000+ physical servers and 1,500+ EC2 instances to support our SaaS IVR applications running in a high-availability global network.
• Dev Ops: Developed an application monitoring suite using VoiceXML. Wrote custom tools to manage inventory and streamline documentation between departments.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• System Administration: Configure and administer RHEL 5 systems.
• User management and administration of our SVN repositories, local SAN storage, and Amazon S3 archives via AD and AD integration.
• Ensured STIG compliance.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Jr. System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• System Administration: Command-line administration of 3,000+ servers in six countries.
• Shift lead: Coordinated teh work flow of two junior technicians in our Orlando NOC to support over 10,000 clients by ticket, email, and phone.
• NOC Wiki Admin: Expanded teh Host Dime Wiki to improve documentation and ticket response times.
• Added “how to” guides, links to important resources, and training manuals for tier 1-3 technicians.