SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years of real world experience
• Experience at scale of infrastructures for Confidential companies as well as startups
• CI/CD Results Driven with a heavy DevOps Philosophy
• Implementation of 12 factor Applications, as well as Monolithic Architecture
• Cloud/Data Center On Premises Experience
• Configuration management with heavy automation (Ansible/Chef/Puppet/Salt)
• Focus on automation that saves time and money for the business
• Experience with suggesting architecture for customer build outs
• Experience with on - site customer education
• Experience in a SCRUM environment
• SOA Model experience
• Managed Teams and projects at scale (BP, Ingram, and others)
• Research and Development and Proof of Concept implementations (Implemented cost savings solutions from results of the POC’s)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• AWS
• Configuration Managements (Ansible/Puppet/Chef)
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Automation
• BASH
• Python
• MongoDB
• Influx
• Oracle Tuxedo
• Oracle Exadata/Exalogic
• Apache
• Pig
• Hive
• Azkaban
• Kubernetes
• Rally

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Denver, CO

Sr. Cloud Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented ChatOps Automation
• Migrated and merged configuration management
• Implemented cost-savings scripts (Auto shutdown of non-essential AWS services after hours)
• POC Kubernetes with DEIS
• Autotagging/MongoDB project
• Complete migration from EC2 Classic to VPC in production

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented DevOps Philosophy
• Improved the CAAP3 development iteration times from 4+ hours to 20 minutes
• Fixed configuration management (Puppet) sprawl, and rewrote the manifests with an ENC
• Deployed Jenkins with ELK to allow self-service of the developers

Sr. Linux Engineer/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Automation of VMware/OVM/XEN/KVM Builds Project: Mainframe Re-hosting
• Led project to rehost the existing mainframe on Oracle Tuxedo
• Trained existing employees on CI/CD, Linux, Devops Philosophy, Revision Control (git)
• Implemented CI/CD Tools (Atlassian Stack - On Prem) in Production
• Built out all environments (Dev/Staging/Prod/S2)
• Saved the company roughly $1,000,000 per year in mainframe maintenance alone
• Managed several team interactions
• Managed vendors (40+) in this project
• Fully Automated ability to add nodes to the Mainframe Rehost cluster (Kickstarter/Puppet)

DevOps/Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architecture/Design
• Implemented the DevOps Concept
• Designed/Implemented Continuous Integration
• Fully automated the build process
• GIT Revision control based builds
• Scripting/Automation for daily tasks (Mostly in Jenkins)
• RHEL/CentOS based environment

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administer Exalogic/Exadata Oracle Environments
• ZFS Appliance Maintenance
• Completed whitepaper resolving bug with Oracle ZFS appliance
• Deploy/Work with VMWare
• Implemented/Supported CI/CD Software
• Deploy Quarterly Patches in all environments
• Monitor/Update OEM - Monitoring Software
• Setup KB to help improve processes, and design/deployed desktop VM to allow for interconnectivity of multiple networks at the same time from the same machine.

Linux Administrator/Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administer and troubleshoot Linux/Windows Server
• Deploy/Work with VMWare
• VMWare Tuning
• Network Mapping/Tuning

SOC Analyst I

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for monitoring multiple security technologies using the ArcSight Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool to detect IT security incidents.
• Following detailed operational process and procedures to appropriately analyze, escalate, and assist in remediation of critical information security incidents.
• Administer Linux Desktops

Linux Security Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered and Troubleshoot Linux systems (CentOS/Debian),
• Troubleshoot and Tuned Apache, MySql & PHP
• Work with Virtuozzo Virtualization
• Managed Container Management, Container Tuning
• Find/Removing Shells/Malicious Code in user accounts, Bash Scripting, Server Monitoring, Restoring Accounts, OS Reloads
• Misc Customer Requested software installs, Firewall Management, Weblogic, Tomcat, jboss.
• Increased customer response rates from 8% to 38%

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Consultation/Support for small business/enterprise clients
• Licensing Savings Model
• Desktop Support subcontracting
• Large Scale DB migrations
• AD Administration
• Web Administration
• Linux Administration
• Wifi/Lan Design/Implementation

Linux Software Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Submit Bug Fixes
• Resolve Customer issues
• Administer Linux/BSD server
• Troubleshoot customer setups/software
• Analysis of code issues with customer deployments
• WHM, CSF FW

Server Support/Application Training/Software Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Administer AD
• Administer AIX/Linux/BSD
• Administer Weblogic/Java application
• Teach/Deploy Software to remote customers
• IP based printers/scanners via vpn sonicwall's.
• Setup routing/LAN for the IP based devices.
• Saved hours of downtime by putting a monitoring system in place creating more efficient SLAs

WDTS Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot, and diagnose advanced data devices.
• Knowledge Base Author
• Linux Project Leader, and POC (point of contact) for department.
• Helped bring in large profits by developing drivers for CDMA PCMCIA cards in the Linux environment. (Formerly not supported). The driver is now in use under Smith Micro.