SUMMARY:

Confidential is an experienced engineer, that focuses not only on technical problems, but also the strategies used to move technical work through an organization to meet business objectives.

SKILL:

• Puppet, Chef, Vagrant, AWS, Docker, RancherOS, Razor, iPXE
• Ruby on Rails, Ruby, CSS, HTML
• Linux, Windows, Cisco IOS, JunOS, VMware, Openstack
• Rabbitmq, AMQP, Redis, Mysql, Postgres driven development, service oriented architecture, functional programming
• ServiceNow, ITRS, Wordpress

EXPERIENCE:

Team Lead

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Lead the team within Confidential that moved the organization away from a snowflake approach of managing high frequency trading tickerplants.
• This presented an interesting challenge due to the real time nature of the service, and a business need to shift focus to managed services.
• Automated configuration management, verification, and deployment of tickerplants used in high frequency trading for both production and test systems using puppet, and other various technologies.
• Increased situational awareness, to move from a reactionary to proactive management approach.
• Gathered requirements from Engineering, Product Management, and Customer Support/Operations for designing and implementing operational and support tools.
• Implementing test cases and business rules based on the input of multiple teams.
• Worked directly with executive level management to implement processes, technologies, and solutions to further the tactics and strategy of automation.

Lead Devops Engineer

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the administration of 1500+ Linux based devices located in financial institutions across the US, implemented management with OpsCode Chef, and a custom SaaS RESTful app I developed to manage and deploy the servers.
• Took current paper based, manual workflow, that initiated a server setup based on client specs, and worked them into the SaaS app to make a server deployment automated.
• Bootstrapped w/ Chef all server deployments.
• Worked with various financial institutions IT departments to implement connectivity between their network and Newgrounds.
• Developed custom security practices and standards for compliance of our devices that were installed on clients networks.
• Firewall/VPN administration - Cisco ASA 5510
• Installed/Provisioned and manage ESXi server to host the various system component servers.

Co-Founder

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• Co-founder of Confidential an Iphone/Android based digital loyalty card program that uses QR codes to replace the traditional punch card.
• Developed backend PHP API used for app information storage/retrieval.
• Developed Landing page.
• Development of the webviews that the Android app uses for large parts of it's functionality.
• Server administrator(VMWARE VM running Ubuntu server 11.04).
• Tasks include but not limited to, working with ISPs and email providers to prevent our emails from being blocked/hitting their spam filters, planning for scalability, ensuring performance, ensuring security. Administering users, and ensuring reliable email performance (exim).
• SEO/SEM, traditional marketing, online marketing, sales and support.
• B2B Sales, helped in developing marketing plan

NOC/System Administrator

Confidential, St. Louis, MO

Responsibilities:

• installing memory, hard drive, and power supplies, building servers from the ground up, installing customer hardware (routers, firewalls, load balancers etc).
• Use of Confidential ’s custom ticket system to troubleshoot tickets opened by system administrators hosting systems at the data center, including but not limited DNS, firewall, security and networking issues.
• Ground up installation of Cybercons’ in-house DNS servers, Cisco routing hardware, and VMware servers (used for hosting customer VMs).
• Writing bash, perl, and C to automate repetitive system administration tasks.
• Building load balancers based on Confidential F5 for managed hardware customers.
• Managing Cisco core routers to bind IP addresses/gateways, manage ACLs, block DDOS attacks among other typical Cisco administration duties.
• Detecting compromised systems using Cybercons IDS systems, eradicating spyware, malware, rootkits etc. from managed servers.
• Security auditing through code review, authorization testing, functionality testing, among other common penetration testing methodologies.
• Installing, maintaining, and converting VM hosts/machines based on VMware ESXi 3.5/4.0 and VMware server.
• Routine OS (Linux, Windows server products, BSD) installations.
• Maintenance of several types of backup solutions, including tapes, rotation of virtual disks, and network backups using ftp/scp/nfs/rsync.
• Was asked by management to assume the lead role of security technician. Implemented honeynet and IDS systems, using Virtual machines, honeywall, snort, sebek among other technologies. Setup Virtual machines for collating and managing IDS statistics, along with virtual machines (Backtrack4) for penetration testing of customer servers, and data forensics in case of data loss or outside penetration.