SUMMARY:

I have over 20 years of senior systems engineering experience in a variety of industries. My professional knowledge and technical expertise has continued to grow to meet the demands of each of the positions I ve held. I have a proven track record of designing, implementing and managing large complex systems that focus both on consistency and reliability. My strengths include designing, implementing and managing complex projects, a dedication to providing consistent and high quality work and my ability to work well in both groups and when self - managed.

HIGHLIGHT OF SKILLS:

• Large scale System, Network and Storage Architect/Engineer.
• Data center Architect/Engineer.
• Virtualization/Cloud Architect/Engineer.
• Application development.
• Development operations.

TECHNOLOGIES:

Linux, Solaris, Windows, Puppet, Cobbler, KickStart,, Jenkins, Maven, Ant, Active Directory, Exchange, Postfix, Courier, F5, Apache, TomCat, Jboss, Jetty, Cisco. Netapp. HP Procurve, Quagga, TCP/IP, BGP, IGRP, OSPF, VRRP, IPSec, Nginx, HAProxy, LVS, Keepalived, C, Ruby, PHP, Perl, Shell, MySQL, MSSQL, Mongo, Hadoop, ElasticSearch, Riak, NFS, iSCSI, FCP, AoE, DRBD, Akamai, Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, SQS, CloudFront, Cloud Formation, Elastic Beanstalk)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr Linux Engineer (DevOps)

Confidential, Waltham, MA

Key contributions:

• I was a key evangelist in promoting the DevOps culture and processes at Compuware. I was responsible for its adoption throughout various groups.
• I designed, built and managed the deployment infrastructure. This was built on top of puppet and custom written REST APIs. It was designed for easy integration and was quickly and easily adopted by many development groups.
• I extended our deployment infrastructure to support services built fully on top of Amazon AWS services. This included using Cloud Formation, Elastic Beanstalk, Route 53 and other AWs services.

Systems Architect, Burlington, VT

Key Contributions:

• Designed and built highly redundant NFS storage that was used to store the inventory images for all 35k+ client sites. This used a combination of commodity servers running Solaris/ZFS as well as Netapp NASs (FAS2240-2’s).
• Wrote custom image services application that provided functionality such as dynamic image creation (ie resize, crop, etc) as well as inline CDN updates to Akamai and Amazon (S3/Cloudfront). It serves millions of request a day.
• Designed, built and managed the QA/Dev server rooms as well as the production data center.
• Assisted in building and managing 1100+ Linux (CentOS) servers (Virtual and physical) within our production environments as well as another 400+ servers within the QA/Dev environments.
• Designed, Built and managed both the production and QA/Dev networks. These were designed to be highly redundant and without any SPF. It was comprised of HP and Dell Switches, Cisco routers and firewalls, F5 BigIP, NginX and HAProxy load balancers.
• Designed and built automated deployment and configuration system built using puppet, cobbler and pulp.

Network Engineer

Confidential, Greenbrae, CA

Key Contributions:

• Migrated MindBox from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003.
• Consolidated server infrastructure with heavy use of (Linux based) VMWare servers.
• Built Open Source Linux server distribution

Web Developer/MIS Manager

Confidential, Hogansburg, NY

Skills/Projects/Duties/Highlights:

• Developed their public and internal web sites. This required extensive use of Graphic/Web design tools such as Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop and others.
• Migrated from windows domain to Active directory as well as MS mail to Exchange.
• Upgraded both the server and network infrastructure (Replacing 90% of network and server hardware).

Network Engineer/Application support Analyst

Confidential, Greenbrae, CA

Key Contributions:

• Managed/installed/configured Windows, Linux, Solaris, HPUX and AIX servers
• ARTScript Programming (MindBox’s AI programming language).
• Wrote Open Source network monitoring application

Lead MIS Administrator/Network Architect

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Key Contributions:

• Upgraded and maintained a large high capacity multi-site network interconnecting several offices and multiple data centers.
• Deployed and administrated Intel LANDesk.
• Supervised 4 to 5 Desktop technicians. Maintained a very high level of support (24x7).

Systems Administrator/Project Manager

Confidential, Jefferson City, MO

Key Contributions:

• Supervised 2 to 4 technicians per project.
• Required to plan schedule and implement complex projects.
• Required a large amount of customer interaction.

Head Server Engineer

Confidential, Columbia, MO

Key Contributions:

• Designed and implemented solid-state/embedded Linux servers. These servers had an emphasis on high reliability, compact size and speed.
• Wrote custom middleware to tie different services into Sockets accounting application. These used a mixture of C, PERL with back ends using MySQL and MSSQL.

Systems Administrator

Confidential, Jefferson City, MO

• After Computers Plus purchased BBS Concepts from us I was brought on to continue to build out their ISP services as well as administer their internal network/server infrastructure.

Systems Operator

Confidential, Springfield, MO

• We were one of the first commercial internet services in our area and had a large and profitable user base. The service was built on top of MajorBBS and Linux. I also developed and sold custom MajorBBS modules written in C.

Computer technician intern

Confidential, Nixa, MO

• MCR did contracted computer/network support for small to medium sized businesses.