SUMMARY:

• A technologist at heart with astute business insight, I want to help you take your business to the next level and keep driving profits no matter what challenges are ahead.
• Experienced in architecting high scalable systems with a passion for open source technologies.
• Bringing over 15 years of experience in technology management, in Unix like system administration, network administration.
• Expertise in Infrastructure and application deployment automation to dedicated, and cloud environments.
• Skilled leadership, analysis and engineering knowledge coupled with technical expertise create an effective developer. Interfaces well with all levels of personnel, to achieve the desired results.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Architecture
• Cloud Computing
• Deployment
• OpenStack
• Project Lifecycle Coordination & Management
• Strategic IT & Business Planning
• Client Relationship Management
• Systems Maintenance & Troubleshooting
• Technical Training & Support
• Technology Evangelism
• Technology Solutions Development
• Team Leadership & Mentoring
• Research and Planning
• OS Tuning
• Installation & Configuration
• Automation (salt, ansible, chef)
• Agile Development Experience
• Virtualization
• Infrastructure Planning
• Familiar with Web Services (REST,SOAP)
• Cost Reduction
• Network & Systems Administrator
• Disaster Recovery
• Security

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

DevOps: Infrastructure Automation(salt, ansible, chef), CI/CD, Application Monitoring & Confidential

Software: Salt, Chef, puppet, Oracle Web Commerce (ATG), Hybris, Adobe CQ5/AEM, MongoDB, OpenStack, Rackspace Cloud, GIT, Capistrano, nginx, mongrel clusters, MySQL, mongodb, elastic search, SOLR, Rabbit MQ, IBM Websphere, BEA Weblogic, JBoss, Rational Clearcase, SVN, CVS, VERITAS net backup, VERITAS Clusters, VERITAS Volume Manager, EMC Control Center, HP Open view, Tomcat, Apache, thin server, Samba, CUPS, Oracle RAC, MS SQL 2005/2008, IBM DB2, Solaris xVM, Solaris Containers, KVM, XEN, Citrix XEN Server 5, VMware ESXi 2.5/3.5/4/5, VMware Workstation, VMware P2V, VirtualBox, Alfresco, Kickstart, Jumpstart, hadoop, Amazon EC2, Amazon S3Hardware: BigIP Load Balancers, Sun/Oracle hardware, DELL, HP, Blades, Firewalls, IDS, WAF s

Operating Systems: Solaris 8/9/10, Linux(Red Hat 3/4/5/6, SUSE 10/11, CentOS 3/4/5/6, Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu,, Knopix), OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Windows NT/XP/ 2000/2003/2008, AIX 4.3, SCO, Mac OSX Leopard, nexenta, Open Solaris, SunOS, HPUXOS/Application Tuning: Linux kernel tuning, Solaris Tuning, Load Balancing, Database tuning, Optimizing Caching (memcache, varnish, redis), Java JVM tuning, Software firewalls

Programming Languages: python. Go, C/C ++, java, php, ruby ( rails), bash, sh, ksh, perlSecurity: OS hardening, Penetration testing, Alert Logic Security tools

Development methodologies: agile (Scrum, kanban), Certified Scrum Master

Networking: TCP/IP SSH, SFTP, NIS, DNS, NFS, SMB, CIFS, ICMP, LDAP, FTP, NNTP, PPP, VPN, SMTP, POP3, SAMBA, ISDN, FRAME RELAY, RDP, PC - NFS, CIFS, IPTABLES, NAT, ISCSI

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

DevOps Architecht

Responsibilities:

• Architect Hybrid solutions (Cloud, Dedicated systems)
• Provide technical Vision and Direction to the team
• Technology Evangelism
• Research and Planning
• OpenStack Architecture and Operations
• Provide education and understanding of advancing cloud solutions for customers and prospects.
• Provide Architecture Reviews

Web Scale Engineer II

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Team Lead
• Certified Scrum Master
• Support hybrid of physical/cloud infrastructure
• Architect solutions for Adobe CQ5 Application
• Architect Oracle Web Commerce Solutions
• Architect both logical and physical layers of infrastructure and environments
• Work on high traffic/visibility web sites (160Million HTTP hits a day)
• Assist on sales calls (~50% on closing deals)
• Consult with Rackspace Critical Sites customers on how to increase their site uptime, performance and scalability
• MongoDB Certified DBA
• Help create new products and procedures to support such products.
• Develop new methods to collect data from other applications via python
• F5 LTM & GTM, Memcache, varnish, apache, solr, node.js, mongodb, mysql
• Provide advanced troubleshooting on complete infrastructure related technologies
• Web sites, Operating Systems, Networks, Databases, identifying offending code
• Monitor and respond to high Profile Websites via real-time tools and alerts
• CA tools (Introscope, CEM, Spectrum, eHealth), New Relic
• Design and Create custom dashboards to display various metrics

Web Scale Engineer I

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Maintain the health and optimization of environments via predictive analysis trending
• Participate in postmortem and documentation
• Create and maintain solutions for development operations, automations, deployment and rollback
• Setup/Design/Maintained Rackspace.com deployment infrastructure via Capistrano
• Identify bottle necks for customers application, and in various programing languages: Python, PHP, JAVA, MySQL,
• Mentor and assist in the development of other technical staff
• Participate in customer briefing, talking to executives and/or developers
• Experience deploying large scale web application infrastructure
• Create python libraries to integrate 3rd party applications via REST API
• Work with various team members to develop Critical Sites integration to Rackspace ticketing system
• Programed in python to get data from various devices, and applications including BigIP F5, VMware
• Setup Rackspace.com Jenkins server for continuous integration
• Create load test plans with customers and provide solutions to achieve desired performance
• Perform and analyze Java Stack traces, and heap dumps
• Align with vendors and partners to ensure compatibility and interoperability of systems
• Lead discussions, document and clearly communicate information to internal and external groups
• Network and system troubleshooting with both vendors and partners as required
• Act as a consultative resource for customers to assist them in achieving their business objectives
• Pro-actively seek opportunities to review solution architecture then put forward and implement proposals for improvement
• Engages with the Account Team to ensure Critical Sites client expectations are being fulfilled
• Ensure appropriate technical documentation is in place for customer solutions
• Attend and participate in all customer service review meetings
• Identify opportunities for growth and advancement of the Critical Sites Service offering

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created Golden OS Images for UNIX/Linux, Windows
• Automated deployment of Unix, Linux, Windows Servers
• Created virtual development environments
• Created image for virtual servers.
• Created Xen, KVM virtual environments.
• Programmed in Bash, Perl and C/C++. python
• Unix Hardening
• Windows Hardening
• Created Procedures for Manufacturing
• Documented and Implemented Manufacturing Process
• Created and validated Patches for Production Systems
• Created Virtualized servers for testing
• Conducted feasibility studies
• Created Functional and Design specification
• Managed offshore resources
• Designed patch management for Unix/Linux, Windows Machines
• Unix, Linux, Windows deployment architect
• Tech Lead for multiple projects.

Confidential

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Unix Administrator for Solaris 8/9, Red Hat Linux, Irix and AIX
• Hardware upgrades
• Completed troubleshooting, updates and upgrades for hardware and software
• Performed OS installs and patching
• Utilized Veritas Foundation and Veritas Cluster Services
• Added and managed printers to the network using Cups
• Executed troubleshooting and upkeep quality of service for TCP/IP
• Programmed in Bash, Perl and C/C++
• Wrote and edited technical documentation
• Documented changes for FDA related environment
• Utilized Jumpstart and Kickstart to image and install Solaris environment
• Environment included: Samba, Logic Volume Manager, and SMTP/POP/NIS/DNS

Confidential

PHP Developer

Responsibilities:

• Programmed PHP/CGI, Bash and SQL
• Administrated of Mysql database
• Linux Administration
• Administrated Windows 2003 server
• Coordinated Disaster Recovery implementation of critical data using open source
• Migrated application to a data center
• Qmail Setup
• Apache Administrator
• Presented and taught user how to use systems and applications
• Wrote and edited technical documentation
• Conducted security analysis

Confidential

Website Consultant/Database Developer

Responsibilities:

• Programmed PHP/CGI
• Mysql Administration
• Linux Administrator

Confidential

Linux Web Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Website development
• Created and Setup Intranet tool
• New Haven Federation of Teachers

Confidential

Jr Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Wired and managed Network Operation Center
• Troubleshot multiple networks including data and VOIP
• Web Application programmer
• Server imaging with Norton Ghost
• Solaris Administration
• Linux Administration
• Exchange Admin
• Administrated Windows 2000 servers
• Managed purchasing process and negotiating deals and discounts
• Coordinated people to complete projects before deadlines
• Operated, troubleshot and completed responsibilities for advance of network/VOIP equipment
• Designed and performed tests on networks
• Implemented Disaster Recovery of data and networks using Veritas Netbackup
• Managed Quality Of Service for VOIP network
• Administration of Cisco routers and switches