SUMMARY:
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining video and audio streaming applications
- Implementing cloud applications on Amazon Web Services
- Scripting in Python and bash, programming in C, C++
- System monitoring using Nagios and EM7
EXPERIENCE:
Member of Technical Staff
Confidential, Lombard, IL
Responsibilities:
- Installed and maintained the EM7 monitoring system (network of 9 appliances using SAN - based HA, plus 3 standalone All-In-One appliances)
- Wrote dynamic applications for EM7 to perform custom measurements and alerts (SNMP performance and snippet performance applications)
- Created and maintained EM7 PowerPacks containing custom dynamic applications
- Created several EM7 dashboards for Confidential use
- Wrote alert handler scripts for EM7
- Rewrote several MIBs to get them to compile in EM7's MIB compiler
- Submitted and worked dozens of support tickets with ScienceLogic support
- Spent a great deal of time on phone and Webex sessions with ScienceLogic support troubleshooting EM7 issues
- Configured device discovery scripts when new data centers came under EM7 monitoring
- Manipulated EM7 database tables directly when needed to work around EM7 bugs
- Investigated SNMP response errors
- Wrote SNMP polling scripts to support device monitoring
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Wowza streaming server configuration
- Linux system configuration and administration
- Python programming
Systems Engineer
Confidential, Orland Park, IL
Responsibilities:
- Moved live video streaming operation from a monolithic application using Edgecast CDN to a multilayer cloud-based service using Amazon Web Services, including EC2, ELB, SES, CloudWatch, CloudFront, and Route53.
- Wrote instance auto-configuration recipes using Ansible
- Maintained Internet servers, mostly on EC2 instances
- Installed, configured, managed, and wrote custom Java applications for Wowza Media Server
- Trained customers in live video streaming
- Wrote system management applications, mostly in Python
- Devised load balancing system with auto-launch and auto-terminate capability
- Installed, configured, and maintained Nagios monitoring system
Systems Engineer
Confidential, Newton, IA
Responsibilities:
- Assisted managing all ISP servers (DNS, DHCP, LDAP, sendmail, Apache)
- Installed, maintained, and managed web hosting servers (ISPConfig)
- Designed, implemented, and operated state-wide live video streaming program
Systems Engineer
Confidential, Irvine, CA
Responsibilities:
- General systems engineering of Linux servers (sendmail, Apache, ftpd, named)
- Installed, configured, and managed customer web hosting application (ISPConfig)
- Processed law enforcement subpoenas for customer access records
- Assisted customers with live video streaming projects
