SUMMARY:

• Goal driven IT professional with proven experience implementing secure initiatives in support of business objectives.
• Active participation in all stages of project lifecycle including planning, development, implementation and on - going support. Hands on experience in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery, program initiation, testing and support.
• Outstanding team member with the ability to develop and coordinate project based tasks.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• MS Windows
• UNIX/Linux
• JBOSS EAP
• Apache Web Server
• PAAS
• MySQL
• Active Directory
• IAAS
• CI/CD
• Chef
• Virtualization
• OpenStack
• Development
• Automation
• IBM-ICO
• BMC Bladelogic

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: MS Windows, UNIX/Linux, Apple, VMWare ESXi

Networking: Cisco, Windows Firewall, iptables

Languages: C, Chef, Perl, Json, Ruby, GCC, Bash, Batch/PowerShell, Yaml

Tools: Sublime, UrbanCode Deploy, Bladelogic, Chefdk, ICO, Jenkins, GIT, ATOM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Carrollton, TX

Sr. Engineer III

Responsibilities:

• Developed a new deployment process that shortened the current delivery time by 98% utilizing Jenkins as an automation controller. The new process implemented Chef coding standards, version control, lint testing, integration testing and, revised deployment standards.
• Designed and implemented new JBOSS EAP 7 Domain Cluster to integrate with Jenkins and Nexus repository to support hot deployments of current Standalone EAP structure.
• Created CHEF-automate infrastructure as well as all cookbooks required to deploy companies OS platforms as well as all in house applications and micro services.

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Sr. Cloud Developer

Responsibilities:

• Designed cookbooks, roles, and environments within Chef Development pipeline to deploy SQL, IIS, Oracle and WAS in support of meeting the needs of Middleware requirements.
• Collaborated with build and automation teams to bring environment into spec for implementation of Patching and Compliance remediation workflows utilizing current TRO approved methodology and tools fully automated within the chef and UCD environments. Including all Confidential required agents and OS configurations
• Collaborated with Cloud Services to design Chef native implementation of patching and compliance that would meet TRO Requirements while also driving down costs due to licensing. Utilizing OS native tools to implement current practices being handled by middleware applications. (Satellite, WSUS, Chef )

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Sr. Engineer Infrastructure Management

Responsibilities:

• Identify any issues with implementing deliverables within the scope of multiple projects.
• Leveraged BMC Packaging to create and deploy Security setting templates in a large scale environment
• Created automated processes to upgrade all hardware as well as firmware on IDRAC blade systems in accordance with ITSRC security standard for SNMP trapping and alerting
• Created automated audit packages to track all hardware and software daily and report any systems that were out of management specs or were missing the BMC client.
• Created comprehensive schedule to coordinate patching and security remediation across our development and production environment to maintain security standards on 10k+ servers across 12 countries.
• Collaborated with build and automation teams to bring environment into spec for Implementation of Dell OpenManage essentials for automation of firmware upgrading as well as image deployment and configuration of blade chassis.

Confidential, NRH, TX

Integration Engineer IV

Responsibilities:

• Identify any issues with implementing deliverables within the scope of multiple projects.
• Integration of current MDT 2012 Update 1 into SCCM2012 R2
• Orchestrated the development and implementation of SCCM 2012 enterprise wide. This included our main SCCM hub and 5 Site Servers replicating all data at all times. In the event of a system failure, they were configured to pick up on the server closest to them geographically.
• Configured SCCM 2012 to manage all of our Software and Driver packages including windows patch management. Most software packaging was done by hand. Tools used were. AutoIT, Batch Scripting, AdminStudio for SCCM, VBScript. Custom operating systems were also created this way using Vmware Desktop and Sysprep to capture the image after all in house tweaks were made. Task Sequences were used to string together not only the OS install but up to 100 pieces of software at the time of OSDeployment.
• Created Queries to track all hardware and software daily and report any systems that were out of management specs or were missing the sccm client. Many of our SCCM collections were also created using these queries.
• Used SCCM to deploy and integrate multiple servers to manage Shavlik Updating Services, McAfee ePO Services, HPDM, Terminal Services and file storage. These Servers were Windows Server 2003, 2008r2 and 2012.
• Managed image creation and deployment for Mac OSX 10.5+ as well as security policies and roles via JAMF Casper suite.

Confidential, Hurst, TX

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identify any issues with implementing deliverables within the scope of multiple projects.
• Integration of large scale Government Security Standards per project.
• Orchestrated the development and implementation of SCCM 2007 enterprise wide. This included our main SCCM hub and 18 Site Servers replicating all data at all times. In the event of a system failure, they were configured to pick up on the server closest to them geographically.
• Configured SCCM 2007 to manage all of our Software and Driver packages including windows patch management. Most software packaging was done by hand. Tools used were. AutoIT, Batch Scripting, AdminStudio for SCCM, VBScript. Custom operating systems were also created this way using Vmware Desktop and Sysprep to capture the image after all in house tweaks were made. Task Sequences were used to string together not only the OS install but up to 100 pieces of software at the time of OSDeployment.
• Created Queries to track all hardware and software daily and report any systems that were out of management specs or were missing the SCCM client. Many of our SCCM collections were also created using these queries.
• Used SCCM to deploy and integrate multiple servers to manage Blackberry Enterprise Services, GOOD Services, Exchange, Terminal Services, and file storage. These Servers were Windows Server 2003, 2008r2 and 2012.
• Used SCCM in conjunction with Active Directory to insure Group Policy and Newly created domain systems were secure and ready for first time use immediately.
• Led and collaborated on multiple development teams, identifying and improving processes.