SUMMARY:

To obtain a challenging career that will allow me to utilize my technological expertise and management skills while expanding my knowledge in software development and discovering new ways to solve problems and increase productivity for the company. I am a fast learner and am fascinated by using technology to solve tough problems

SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Technology leader accomplished in delivering award winning software for SMB, enterprise and consumer markets
• Expertise in SaaS, enterprise and consumer apps, and web platforms, e - commerce, analytics, end-point and systems management
• Successful team builder and team leader in software development and engineering, quality assurance, cloud operations, internal IT, product management and technical support
• Hands-on contributor with acute attention to architectures, functional and non-functional requirements and business goals

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Linux, MAC OS-X, Windows
• Python (Frameworks: CherryPy, Web2Py), Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP, MySQL, Perl, HTML
• Excellent Managerial and Customer Service Skills
• Dedicated and Determined with a Solid Work Ethic - I believe in going above and beyond in a company to help it succeed, as my success is based on the company's success
• Can work independently or as part of a team
• Excellent Communication Skills - Can explain complex processes in easy to understand terms
• Industrious and Self-motivated
• Fast Learning and Creative Problem Solver
• Typing Speed Around 90+ Words Per Minute
• Passion for Technology
• Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, Pylons, MySQL, Sphinx Search, Lucine, Solr, Tomcat, Ubuntu Linux, Apache, Shell scripting, some Perl, PHP, XML, JSON, XML/RPC, SOAP, REST, HTML, CSS, some JavaScript, some Java

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, LAKELAND, FL

Chief Technology Strategist / VP of Technology / Cloud Systems Architect / Developer / DBA

Responsibilities:

• Cleaned up and maintained database for a codebase that had grown organically for 9 years - Improving performance and scalability across the board
• Implemented multiple MySQL clusters for redundancy in the Amazon Elastic Cloud environment with failovers across zones
• Developed and deployed fault tolerant network on AWS utilizing multiple availability zones including contingency plans for multiple regions as well as offsite fail-over to Rackspace.
• Setup monitoring using Zabbix and Nagios to support a 300+ server network.
• Implemented full DevOps suite utilizing Chef, Ansible and Docker containers (for testing and CI of infrastructure as code)
• Setup and maintained Jenkins CI network for developers to do CI, we later moved to Gitlab and Gitlab CI.
• Implemented Tungsten Replicator for high availability, building a self-healing / scaling cluster of master servers to host all of our client data without the need for multiple isolated clusters
• Wrote several management tools to assist Support, QA, and Development with triage and data validation
• Implemented an iterative development cycle of many small improvement builds and larger “feature” builds
• Implemented best practices for deployment and code versioning through git and developed automated tools to improve communication and process
• Managed a team of 10 Developers, 3 QA personnel, 3 System Admins, and 2 Front-End Integration specialists
• Led the move of the company’s infrastructure from racked data center to Amazon EC2 Cloud environment.
• Wrote suite of automated tools for monitoring, deployment, scaling, and backup in the Cloud
• Developed and deployed fault tolerant network utilizing multiple availability zones including contingency plans for multiple regions as well as offsite fail-over to Rackspace
• Grew the team from one Developer and two QA members and one systems person to 17 Developers, 5 Systems people, 5 QA people and a Technical Consultant.
• Met with multiple potential investors and was an integral part of the acquisitions team that involved bringing Serent Capital Investment in to acquiring the company

Confidential, ORLANDO, FL

Senior Developer / MySQL DBA

Responsibilities:

• Remote system admin for 300+ servers running Apache 1 and 2 on Fedora Core
• Helped client developers streamline the codebase for a streaming movie site that averaged approximately 40gbps of traffic at all times
• Implemented a new search system using sphinx that allowed the company to maintain InnoDB for transactional speed in the database while providing search results in a “full text index” fashion
• Remote install and configuration of web,database, video and application servers
• Documentation of server design, layout and practices into company wiki

Confidential, ORLANDO, FL

Senior Developer / MySQL DBA

Responsibilities:

• Joined the company as a Junior Developer to get up to speed with Ruby on Rails - met goal within 2 months, made Senior Developer in 3 months
• Developed and implemented complex affiliate program which increased user-base and activity by a considerable amount
• Implemented many solutions to streamline day to day operations including fixing network and database bottlenecks and automating manual processes
• Was primary source for R&D, researching solutions for new features and performance issues
• Primary contact for MySQL database issue
• Completed the MySQL training course for DB Administrators and used what I learned to scale an analytics system that received 20k hits per second
• Implemented data mining and scraping solutions in both Ruby and Python
• Created a system responsible for cataloging the data from 12 million blogs. Retrieved the entries, performed tonal analysis on the content, extrapolated entities (people, companies, etc.) and stored the information in a 140 million+ record MySQL database
• Maintained the blog catalog database ensuring rapid response in both searching and cataloging data when the data grew past 200+ GB
• Led a team of twelve developers through various projects with tight delivery dates
• On-call 24/7 as a backup System Administrator
• Assisted with the setup and administration of a 30 server environment hosting applications from Ruby on Rails to Django to Pylons
• Instituted a set of standards for using Amazon’s Elastic Cloud computing for our infrastructure
• Created and maintained several server instances in the EC2 environment
• Implemented and streamlined solutions for better performance from our MySQL clusters

Confidential, SARASOTA, FL

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and streamlined automation processes for daily updates to multiple client websites
• Developed web applications to allow non-HTML savvy writers and graphic artist to perform content management for client websites
• Managed a staff of 7 people in various development stages including graphics, production, and customer support
• Attended trade shows and gave presentations on managing and hosting high traffic websites
• Strong PHP/MySQL skills
• Developed and implemented new security measures for the network to protect against hacking
• Worked with multiple teams to accomplish a variety of company goals
• Responsible for new hardware purchases as needed
• Researched options and coordinated transfer of high traffic websites from ld hosting provider to new hosting provider with increased data capacity
• Handled project management for new PC roll-outs to new employees
• Responsible for on-call support of network and programs
• Was promoted from Web Developer to CTO within 6 months of joining the company

Confidential, GAINESVILLE, fl

Operations Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked automating processes in the day to day operations of a 300 server Data Center
• Automated Job Scheduling, constructed web reporting interfaces, and implemented a communication framework tying in all systems in the Data Center to one communications hub for reporting / status
• System Administration on IBM Mainframe / Unix / Windows 2k - 2k3 boxes

Confidential, GAINESVILLE, fl

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

• Handled project management for new PC roll-outs to clinics and offices
• PC repair, new hardware installation, software installation, and customer support
• Helped develop and implement remote PC administration and software updates/rollouts using Norton Ghost and Ghost AI package building tools