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Alexandria, VA

SUMMARY:

  • Broad based, forward thinking IT Architect/Engineer/Developer/Trainer and experienced professional.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, mediation and negotiator.
  • Experienced in large scale global architecture, design, planning and strategic deployment of IT cloud infrastructure in support of critical Confidential international operations.
  • Researched and implemented Openstack/VMWare/KVM/RedHat OCP/CentOS environments.
  • Expert in creating an IT vision, planning, budgeting, and implementing global IT services.
  • Experienced, hands on infrastructure 'go to guy' supporting global web presence via multiple datacenter and international IT environments.
  • Confidential Nexus 7k/5k, ASA, ASR, 6500 implementation with large enterprise, ISP and IaaS experience.
  • Supported and wrote software to manage 1500 Confidential routers and switches in large enterprise (and hundreds of servers in global ISP infrastructure.
  • Expert at network security, management and tool development in multiple languages.
  • Lead, direct and mentor junior staff and have taught unix/linux to faculty, students and staff at the Confidential .
  • Expert in unix/Linux sever administration, security and networking.
  • Experience implementing datacenter network and system deployments, installation of multiple operating systems in multiple data center/ISP environments and providing backup strategies. Strong security focus.
  • Strong team leadership and technical mentoring experience.

SELECT SKILLS:

Mobile Development: Dart, Flutter, Android - Studio Machine Learning

Security: OPSEC 1300 Certified,BS7799,VPN,netcat,nmap,intrusion detection, host security, firewalls, acls, incident report writing, backups, awareness training,Tripwire,ipfw,viruses,log review

System Administration: Ubuntu,CentOS,FreeBSD, Linux,Unixware, Solaris, Root Name Server support on both c.rootservers.net and d.rootservers.net, DNS

Programming Languages: Dart,C/C++, Java, Perl, Prolog, PHP, Javascript,Python

Network Management: Experience with many open source and commercial NMS tools and software ( Confidential Info Center/Netcool, Visionary, WebTop, ISMs, Omnibus, Reporter, Confidential Works, HPOV,MRTG, Concord, Fidelia, Nagios (NetSaint)),xymon/big brother

Telecom: Avaya G3, Definity Network Management,Asterisk/VOIP monitoring

Operating Systems: Confidential IOS, Confidential SanOS, CatOS, JunOS, FreeBSD, Red Hat Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS,Solaris, Windows,VMWare, Xen/Xen Cloud Platform, Vyatta 6.2

Databases: Percona, MySQL, Oracle, MariaDB, Galera

Protocols: OSPF, BGP, HSRP, VRRP, SNMP, DHCP, TCP/IP, DNS,SMTP,HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SSH, IPSEC, CDP,NTP,NNTP, Ethernet, 10GigE, GigE, FastEthernet, CSMA/CD,STP,802.1q,802.11,VTP Network Hardware Confidential Nexus 7k,5k,2k, Confidential ASR Series Routers, Confidential ASA5585-X w/ IPS, Confidential 6509E,VSS720 sups,Juniper M160, Confidential Routers (7000, 2600,3550), Confidential Catalyst Switches (1900, 2820, 2900, 3500, 3750,4000,5000, 6000,6500), Confidential wireless access points, Confidential VPN 3005­3080, F5 LTM 3900/2900, Checkpoint 12200/12400 Wiring Cat 3,5,6 UTP (extensive wiring experience)

Tools: Fluke wire testing tools (Enterprise LANMeter, LAN Vision Suite )

Backups: Veritas NetBackup 5.x, 6.x,6.5.x, Amanda,dump,restore,rsync, rsnapshot Configuration Management CVS, Subversion, git

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Lead Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Manage APCON device configurations across multiple datacenters
  • Interface and participate with company’s internal AI and Machine Learning community
  • Troubleshoot virtualization issues on performance engineering platforms

Confidential, Reston, VA

Machine Learning Instructor

Responsibilities:

  • Taught series of machine learning classes to provide members of the Maker community hands on instruction on how to build models using Tensorflow and Scikit Learn.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Openstack/Ceph Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Architect Openstack for global deployment using NFV for Service Provider environment Implemented NFV controllers to provide network overlay for environment Interfaced Openstack components with NFV api(s) for deployment OpenContrails prototype implemented in lab environment
  • Configured Confidential devices in support of Openstack deployment
  • Netconf implementation for use in support of configuration management

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Ceph Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Implemented and upgraded Ceph environments to latest production code release Researched and confirmed bug fixes and patches as provided in Rally reports Modified Openstack code to ensure proper drivers were loaded
  • Performed FIO testing to validate VM I/O throughput with Ceph
  • Tested upgrade and downgrades of storage environment for compatibility with production deployment

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Openstack Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Designed and Implemented (greenfield) Scalable Custom Openstack Architecture (OSP5/REL7 )
  • Modified Openstack source to integrate into client environment
  • Worked with Sr Director to gather project requirements for delivery of total solution

Confidential, Gaithersburg, MD

Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Worked with IT Project engineers to validate software and hardware designs for R&D efforts
  • Worked on inter-disciplinary team of scientists and engineers to vet and review software for drug manufacturing controls.

Confidential, Frederick, MD

Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Provide input and support of global server infrastructure and datacenter environments.
  • Upgrade production KVM environment and implement custom tools as needed to manage over 2000 servers.
  • Developed software on an as needed basis to automate and parallelize manual tasks

Confidential, Ashburn,VA

Network Architect/Engineer

Responsibilities:

  • Provided input and support of critical global datacenter cloud network and system architectures including Juniper,NetApp, F5, Confidential UCS, Confidential ASA firewall and Confidential Nexus 7k technologies.
  • Upgraded production datacenter edge BGP circuits and peering.
  • Migrated client from legacy Confidential firewalls to ASA 5545/5585 models.
  • Netconf tool usage in support of configuration management

Confidential, Reston,VA

Network Architect

Responsibilities:

  • Developed and authored the Confidential Datacenter Network Reference Architecture
  • Worked with cross-functional Confidential teams (i.e., network engineering, operations, platform and security) to develop long-term datacenter network reference architecture.

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