Professional Summary

• Seasoned web, and infrastructure pro, with nearly 3 decades of IT experience.
• Extensive experience developing eCommerce applications. Accomplished web developer, but, wishing for more of a dev ops role, or business tier developer role, or a project management role.
• Extensive experience walking into the unknowns of dot.com and open source. The go to guy.
• Thorough understanding of SDLC. Thorough understanding of web infrastructure from bare metal to CSS.
• Extensive experience in large scale
• Owner of Metroplex Webs 1996 to 2011. Web and marketing projects from small to very large. UNIX systems admin since 1988. LINUX systems admin since 1996.
• All development / support have been done being mindful of customer service and with ISO9000 / Agile / Scrum principles in mind, version control typically subversion SVN, or GIT, previously CVS and CMVC and documentation typically .doc, sometimes wikis, and occasionally, UML .
• Strong command of English and an executive level presenter. 30 years in IT, as well as 11 years in commercial broadcasting. No, I'm not 70. I just started at an early age.

Professional Experience recent years

LINUX / UNIX admin principal lead

Confidential

I'm the UNIX/LINUX admin principal lead for Vought IT, in Arlington, TX. LINUX RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE , UNIX HP-UX, AIX, SUN OS / Solaris , project planning, management, deployment. Monitoring of critical infrastructure its deployment. Disaster planning and recovery. Systems security design, and enforcement. Design, supervision, control, and configuration management of mission critical information systems. Responsible for the critical computing infrastructure of Vought Aircraft Division on the UNIX-ish side, working for 5-9s uptime. ITAR, EAR, PCI, SOX, ISO 9000/9001, DOD compliance.

Confidential

Worked with Metroplex Webs projects. Big data for folks like Mainstreet Data Systems AWS Cloud, Redshift/Postrgresql, Hadoop, Cassandra, nano.js, MySql , and their clients, telco stuff for folks like Neighborhood Internet Asterisk, MySQL, Redshift, AWS , LINUX/UNIX admin for various clients for White Glove Tech in Austin. Fixing issues for various folks.

Confidential

LINUX / UNIX / Senior System admin deployment. architected, management, and metrics analyst

• that developed and architected Cisco's DMARC system that monitors and alarms on ATT's 4G LTE network. Task completed
• Senior systems admin, consultant, and go to guy for Cisco Systems Advanced Services that manages and deploys one of the largest cellular networks in The World. I worked on solutions that improved performance, customer satisfaction, lowered costs, leveraged existing and new infrastructure, and maintain EXTREME reliability for a transparent, seamless, and reliable experience to the end customer, while providing senior management of all our partners with management information via metrics from a multitude of devices / vertical apps and monitoring. I used my seasoned LINUX/UNIX, telecommunications, dot com, programming, database, and executive level presentation skills to promote a winning relationship for customers and partners. Scripting expect, PERL, PHP, tecl .

Confidential

Senior LINUX/UNIX Admin / MySQL DBA / 5'9s consultant

Worked with CDI's awesome team in the deployment of Sony's MCAS, d2c, and Ultraviolet streaming, authentication, and metrics infrastructure in The Rack Space Rac Cloud high end managed hosting solutions LINUX, CISCO, MySQL, Apache, RHEL , and with Lime Light Networks content delivery . Accurately forecast failures, and provided solutions. Acted as third level, last stop, engineer as well as mentor to junior staff. After successful deployments, staff was downsized.

Confidential

• Southwest Airlines Global Enterprise Systems Admin for the development team worldwide.
• UNIX/Linux, UB11.04, CentOS, Puppet global systems management , Jenkins, radiator, Python, PERL, some JAVA, along with Tomcat, and JMX standups, as well as SOA architecture.
• Duties including everything from settling folks in to diagnosing complicated systems problems.
• Developed process that saved SWA 10,000s annually and expedited service levels.
• During five months there, was advanced twice. Once to global development systems admin, and once to the Release Environment Release Team.
• Completed projects early and under budget, with minimum workflow interruption.
• Served 4 roles supporting from 200 to 300 developers daily 1 Global systems admin supporting 4 offices in Argentina, two in Brazil, one in India, one in Chicago and one in Dallas. 2 Systems admin for the Release Environment Management Team last stop before production aside from QA 3 Backup system continuous integration architect responsible for 200 to 300 developers on any given day. 4 Backup CI build engineer Javascript, Nagios, RRDTool, Cacti, and shell scripts . End user support to system architecture.
• 5 Managed two Puppet systems for SWA one for U.S, one for South America , for 300 developers, in 8 offices worldwide. Wrote RUBY manifests.

Confidential

• Numerous Asterisk and web hosting deployments.
• Matchmaker.com deployment of monitoring systems.
• Oneseason.com. Postgres database backend in Amazon EC2 Cloud.
• Database design / EER / technical writing.
• Project management.
• MVC architectures using both frameworks and custom programming.
• Apache Server administration / NGINX.
• Advanced Linux systems administration. Heavy weight. LINUX since 1996.
• DHTML, CSS1-3, JavaScript, AJAX.
• PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5, PERL 5 , RUBY, PYTHON, VBA, C , object-oriented and procedural programming.
• Owner
• Graphic design, page layouts.
• CSS1-3/XHTML 1.0 Strict / HTML 2 to 5
• PHP, PERL, RUBY, EXPECT, PYTHON application programming.
• MySQL database administration and design. SQL since 1982. Large scale MySQL since 1999.
• Site visitor metrics gathering and reports through Google analytics and custom implementations.
• VOIP translations and sockets e.g. click to dial .
• mayrwilsonrugs.com initial design.
• PHP pages, PERL server monitoring / admin, Ultra Monkey, and PFSENSE, MCACHE, LUSTRE file systems. MRTG/ RRD TOOL, SPLUNK.
• PERL housekeeping.
• Infrastructure deployment, planning, monitoring, implementation and operation for PNL Internet.
• Numerous commercial sites.
• Infrastructure deployment and administration.
• Custom firewalls.
• IPtables scripts / bash scripts / network.
• AIX support, tech writer, system administrator, MTSO base station management with IBM. Worked with IBM on two different projects.
• Network planning, SODA support, gold level PC support. Worked with Verizon / GTE on three different projects.

Confidential

Developer - Contractor

• Over 3 million lines of code for food delivery services SOAS, including georanging US CENSUS, and USPS TIGER , geoiop Maxmind , and multi-languages, Zend framework with PERL, and Python backend.

Other Notable Projects:

• Projects: Diamond-surplus.com forms, checkout process, and pop-up displays. Backend for interface into authorize.net
• Allquestswelcome.com a division of Orbitz forms, and payment processing integrated to PayPal
• dfwdental.net. Database backend
• neighborhoodvoip.com click to dial, SMDR reporting, switch translations. Asterisk.
• oneseason.com Postgres replicaton and database design for this ESPN project.
• metricsboard.com Rackspace cloud deployment and database design. Project management.
• country2000.com OCR customer rewards system. Website
• tornadohockey.com website, and hand written content management system
• 7-11 Client side of the asset management system of the 25,000 worldwide stores
• Matchmaker.com critical infrastructure deployment for this 48 million user system.
• Tobykeith.com original deployment
• DreamWorks Records Online purchasing system
• Pdrlinx.com high REL infrastructure, PHP, MYSQL, load balancers, and PF Sense

Technical Summary

• Software: Microsoft Office 1995 to 2013, Open Office from 1998. Lotus Notes. Some Sharepoint. Advanced UNIX/Lin ux LINUX systems administration CentOS/RHEL/OEL, SuSE Enterprise/ openSUSE, BSD, Debian, SUN OS / Solaris, ATT , UNIX, LINUX, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Homesite, GIMP, Corel Draw, Corel Paint, LAMPPP LINUX, Apache, PERL/PHP/Python , Procedural and object-oriented paradigms, PHP GD, PEAR, ImageMagick, FFMPEG, sox, CURL, E-commerce: OSCommerce / Magento, our custom shopping interfaces.
• Processors: authorize.net, PayPal.
• MVC Architecture: Zend Framework, PERL Catalyst Framework, CakePHP, some SPRING.
• Web Markup / Browser code: XHTML, HTML, WML, WAP, Mobile XHTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript AJAX, JSON, JQuery, dojo, moo tools, DHTML , CSS, versions 1-3
• Languages: PHP 4 and 5, PERL 4, 5, 6, Python 2.7, 3.1, Shell bash, KSH, CSH Classic ASP, VB / VBA, Classic ASP, JAVA SE AND JAVA EE.
• Database Management: MySQL Server, advanced database administrator, PostgreSQL Server, Light INFORMIX, MUMPS, ORACLE, SQL SERVER.
• Advanced exposure in: ASP classic and .NET , C , C, C , Java, TCL, Expect.
• Misc. / Telco / Admin skills: Sockets PERL and PHP , Amazon EC2 Cloud, Rackspace Cloud, VMWARE, VOIP Asterisk / SIP, Jabber, DNS PDNS, DJBDNS, BIND , RPC-XML servers, SAX parsers, SOAP, RT, Mail sendmail, qmail, postfix , Automated SMS via SMS gateways. Auto responders in PERL , NAGIOS, Cacti, Wireshark, IPTABLES, RSYNC, UVNC, RDC, X, SSH, Windows Server to 2012, Crystal Reports, tech writing.