SUMMARY:

• Excellent organizational, writing, and communications skills
• Ability to work under pressure and successfully meet deadlines
• Ability to multi - task accurately and efficiently
• Very fast learner
• Critical sense of detail
• Responsible, dedicated, innovative, and self sufficient

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Puppet Perl Managed and Ansible Bash Unmanaged Switches
• VMware ESXi 5.x Python and Routers
• Amazon Web Services Packer
• Windows 2008/2012 Various Laptop Manufacturers and
• Kickstart Unix/Linux Models
• Mac OS X (10.1 - 10.8) Monitoring Tools
• Icinga/Nagios
• Grafana
• Graphite
• SNMP
• General desktop hardware
• Assorted servers and networking devices
• Assorted Mobile Devices

PROFESSIONAL  EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Data Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built out scalable infrastructure that allowed the company to grow from around 700 million requests per day to over 6.5 billion requests
• Maintained and administered MapR Hadoop cluster of 5 petabytes of data
• Monitored and maintained Kafka streams from 27 regional distributed data centers to 2 main datacenters
• Organized and performed upgrade on Hadoop cluster from MapReduce V1 to MapReduce V2 with YARN
• Designed and deployed Hive, and system maintenance and monitoring organized workflows with Azkaban
• Orchestrated and assisted with major data center migration
• Built custom ansible playbooks to rapidly deploy and maintain platform technologies
• Wrote shell and python scripts to automate processes
• Built process to move daily rollups from main data center to AWS and S3
• Helped to migrate data science Hadoop processes to AWS
• Assisted and pushed MySQL schema changes using Flyway
• Ensured data integrity across main data center and disaster recovery data centers
• Worked with multiple teams in making decisions in how to scale the data platform and related technologies

Confidential, Louisville, Colorado

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Part of rotating on-call schedule
• Rebuilt puppet infrastructure for maximum scalability
• Using PuppetDB, created a script to ensure all active Linux servers are being monitored for a base minimum of checks.
• Performed day to day troubleshooting on all Linux Servers
• Built Icinga environment to monitor Windows and Linux servers as well as NetApp and EMC SAN solutions
• Scripted multiple custom Icinga checks using Perl
• Created custom AMIs for Amazon Web Services for faster deployment using Packer
• Built an Amazon Web Services environment with VPC to connect to internal network
• Created and maintained server documentation and "how-to’s” to help people on call
• Installed and maintained a Kickstart server to assist in rapid server deployment
• Installed an Observium server that was used heavily for monitoring for network traffic issues.
• Worked with developers to strike a balance between usability and security for all Linux servers and sudo rights
• Built a local Eucalyptus cloud environment for development and exporting to Amazon Web Services

Confidential, Boulder, Colorado

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Assisted end users with general computer issues in both 4 offices across the United States and Europe
• Installed, deployed and maintained laptops and laptop hardware for end users
• Setup LDAP for unified authentication across CentOS Linux servers
• Installed and maintained Puppet server and modules for configuration changes of 100 servers and easy server deployment
• Installed and maintained Foreman instance to monitor Puppet deployment
• Preformed planned and unplanned maintenance on production Linux/Windows servers
• Installed and maintained CentOS Linux and Windows virtual machines via VMware ESXi 5.0 and 5.1
• Installed and maintained VMware 5.0 and 5.1 hosts
• Created and documented numerous Perl scripts to preform routine tasks and maintain uptime
• Maintained mobile phones and coordinated upgrades
• Installed and maintained a Mac Server to distribute patches, serve as time capsule and distribute profiles and configuration changes
• Created custom Nagios plugins to monitor Linux and Windows systems
• Configured and maintained office Sonicwall for routing and wireless network
• In charge of laptop and general computer supply purchasing

Confidential, Broomfield, Colorado

Application Administration and Support

Responsibilities:

• Created custom Perl parsers for mail logs
• Preformed mail log analysis for assorted mail transfer programs
• Setup and configured SNMP on production level Linux servers for monitoring
• Preformed critical analysis on systems and reported findings to an executive committee
• Updated, created and maintained Oracle and MySQL databases and tables
• Created Perl and shell scripts to automate processes and monitor systems
• Created process documentation and diagrams for internal assistance
• Monitored and maintained over 150 Windows Virtual Machines through ESX
• Configured and maintained various custom monitoring services on production Linux servers
• Created custom Nagios monitoring scripts for production servers
• Created and maintained custom monitoring pages using PHP, CSS and Ruby

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Deskside Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Supported Windows XP system users across 2 separate buildings
• Assisted users with teleconferences and video conferences
• Moved desktop and laptops to different locations, including buildings
• Supported personal HP printers as well as networked all in one devices
• Assisted new users in getting acquainted with their systems
• Acted as tier 2 support as well as single point of contact for tier 1