TECHNICAL SKILLS

Scripting Languages: Bash, PHP, Ruby, Javascript, Python

Operating Systems: Red Hat/CentOS, OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Mac OSX (10.x), Windows 2k8, Amazon EC2 Services

Project Skills: Disaster Recovery, Roll - out, Documentation, Training, Client Liaison, Q/A

Middleware/Management: Unicorn, Passenger, Forever, Grunt, Bower, HA Proxy, Chef, Puppet, Fabric, Salt

Cloud Services: Amazon AWS (VPC, EC2, RDS, ELB, Route53), Microsoft Azure, Rackspace

Other Software: Apache, Nginx, MySQL, AWS EC2 Services, PostgreSQL, Jira, Drupal, Jenkins, MongoDB, Cassandra

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior DevOps Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Migration - Moving of large scale website consisting of 70 web servers, a multi-server Cassandra setup as well as MemCache and offloading dozens of terrabytes of video files requiring hash-confirmation to ensure data was not corrupted.
• EC2 VPC Administration - Creation of multiple VPC's, one for development team, as well as two for different apps one of which required external and internal whitelistings to facilitate external access and internal security.
• Web Application Migration - Updating of codebase (60+ custom Tomcat apps) which required custom Jenkins scripts to build teh services and embed them into custom server images..

Web Operations Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring - Complete monitoring deployment from scratch. Using Nagios a external server was set up to monitor EC2 and physical servers (Linux and Windows) as well as web and database services wif options to notify by text message, email or OS-notifications.
• EC2 Administration - Organizing of existing EC2 instances. Setting up default templates wif optimized language and service enhancements (PHP, Mysql, Postgresql, Mongo, Ruby, etc) as well as development of Ruby based scripts for handling teh automated backups.
• Developer Support - Before, during and after deployment, extensive testing on handheld devices as well as browser support for various web services such as embedded links in books.
• Deployment - During dis year teh majority of all severs were moved either to or from EC2 services from teh existing data center and as some sites were downgraded to placeholder status I set up a process to relocate them to a more inexpensive grid-service.
• Chef Migration - Migrated from several different deployment and infrastructure tools to Chef. Created teh three layers, OS, system stack, and application layers for various servers.. Build custom cookbook to handle management of github accounts and ssh keys used for deployments.

Web Operations Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Wordpress - Redesign of plugin for Elle blog gallery. Took existing gallery plugin, NextGen, and added new features such as modifying them to be distinct articles, rewriting teh CSS template for teh gallery page, integrating teh Javascript based ad library to allow calls for each image and integrating teh NextGen admin as a tab in teh Wordpress media manager.
• Car And Driver Blog Redesign - Switched existing single server (wordpress) setup to a three server EC2 wif an ability to activate extra copies as spikes in traffic would require. dis required new backup, monitoring and deployment scripts and stress testing for potential traffic loads.
• Wordpress Ad Library Plugin - Creation of new metadata plugin on admin side for use in their javascript ad library. Existing ad library had been designed for their EZ Published based CMS page. Creating an intermediate step between teh ad library javascript calls and teh Wordpress tagging system to allow for ads unique to each article to appear.
• Buyer's Guide Rewrite - Total rewrite of back end administrator as well as significant rewrite of front facing views and controllers. Redesign of teh model system to use Doctrine instead of teh internal ZendDB. Most views for teh new Guide had to be redesigned from scratch and teh controller logic was similarly replaced in toto.
• Deployment – Replaced existing Rsync based scripts wif Capistrano based deployment. Created generic template dat could be modified extensively for each server or EC2 instance. Created custom tasks for handling backup removal, post-deploy tasks and deployment logging and notifications.
• Custom Rails App – Build a small scale Rails app for deploying sites wif capistrano. Similar to Webistrano which was already outdated. dis app was built using Nginx, Passenger and Rails 3.x.
• Chef Administration – Custom install of Chef server as proof of concept as part of system migration to AWS..

Deployment Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Linux Based Deployments – Senior consultant on Linux based deployments, focusing on teh backing up and migration of existing databases (usually MySQL), followed by backups of teh existing system, deployment of teh new code and followup testing.
• Windows 2008 Clustering Rewrite – Performed in depth testing and QA of teh clustering documentation dat had been written for Windows 2003 and produced a detailed walkthrough of an equivalent installation for a Windows 2008 server.
• Package Management – Responding to demand for a simple RPM based installation of teh ticketing system codebase I was tasked wif teh design of a RPM based install. dis required teh inclusion of scripts during post installation for teh setup of teh MySQL database structure after teh actual web app was deployed via RPM.
• Migration Troubleshooting – Teh NJ Department of Motor Vehicles used a BSD based version of teh product and dat was not supported by teh new version. dis required testing of experimental builds for BSD based versions, requiring in depth tweaking of kernel configuration.

Network Operations Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Nagios – In response to teh demand by teh Oracle team and teh code developers as well, a server was set up wif Nagios to monitor basic Linux systems (network, diskspace, etc) on all Linux servers but expanded to cover Oracle, log filters on some Linux based web services as well as plans for hooking dis into teh SCM monitoring system used by WeightWatchers.
• Wiki Documentation - Testing and Q/A Documentation pulled from various Jira tickets.

Network Operations Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ruby on Rails Monitoring App – To compensate for problems wif BEA based web services which could only be stopped and restarted in a web form, I built a Rails based app for monitoring teh BEA service page, look for services dat were down. If they required multiple restarts in designated window of time it would notify operations.
• Deployment Script System – Frequent deployments of BEA and Jboss applications utilizing a series of BASH based scripts which would test for service activation and then grep teh various logs to test for expected responses
• Monitoring – Monitoring of server activity, determining when service is down due to traffic or if their are other causes and tracing causes back to teh source.
• Source Control Alert App – Developed python based scripts for alerting developers when code commits were made to Mercurial Repo.

Supervisor of Training Media

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Improved processing procedures led to cutting turn-around time by half.
• Streamlined process of creating disc images through Bash scripting reducing image production time significantly.
• Media Deployment - (worldwide) – Project lead for production and deployment of education media.
• Image Q/A – Creation of protocols for testing new VMware Images

Account Team Lead / Shift Engineer Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Noted for excellent client response, redesigned documentation procedures and training of new technicians.
• Noted for assistance wif testing and Q/A of new Citrix clients over a 3 year period.
• Senior Shift Lead – Primary Lead for overnight shift for all client accounts.
• Citrix Software (team lead) – Primary contact for client on all issues relating to Windows Server, Exchange accounts, Citrix user sessions and Active Directory accounts.
• Ralph Polo (shift lead) – Primary contact for store and corporate networking and server troubleshooting.

Shift Supervisor of Network Operations

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Noted for hands-on training process wif support staff, design and implementation of escalation procedures.
• Noted for a creation of multiple unix scripts for automating restart of problem web services not limited to Apache, Cold Fusion, MySQL and CGI scripts.
• Led project designed to create custom Linux (based on RedHat) to create custom Apache servers to maximize ROI for shared Unix clients.
• Data Center Migration – Primary engineer during migration to new data center.