DevOps Director, Cloud Solutions Architect Resume Salt Lake City, UT - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

I have a passion for technology and over 20 years experience envisioning, creating, and maintaining IT systems. I have built systems from scratch; comprehended, maintained and improved systems built by others; and integrated systems in new and inventive ways. I have created and lead teams to incredible levels of innovation and productivity by maximizing individual talent and fostering team loyalty.
By constantly researching and learning newer technologies I am always prepared to offer the best, most effective, economical, and pragmatic solution to any IT problem. Recently I was one of the first people to get a Cassandra Administrator Certification at the Cassandra 2015 conference.
I have the intelligence needed to understand any IT environment; and the imagination, inventiveness, and drive to improve that environment. I also have something rare in IT circles but paramount to a strong IT presence: the understanding and personality to create bonds with co - workers that fosters the growth of a creative, productive, stimulating, and enjoyable work environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Salt Lake City, UT

DevOps Director, Cloud Solutions Architect

Re-organized DevOps department.
Managed AWS services and reduced cost by 47% without a reduction in services.
Re-architected deployment and CI solutions to create a deployment system with zero downtime using Jenkins, CFEngine, Git, GitHub, Aptly, Bash, and Python on Ubuntu.
Monitored systems maintaining a 99.99% uptime using a variety of tools including Zabbix, AWS CloudWatch, and custom tools created using Bash and Python.
Maintained systems for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Cassandra databases.
Architected and built system for centralized logging.
Managed the DevOps team including member acquisition, training, and development.

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL.

Solutions Architect, IT Director, CTO

Created, maintained, and directed the company-wide IT infrastructure from scratch.
Managed the acquisition, training, and development of all IT staff.
Oversaw the creation and development of all IT systems including:
Billing systems
Email systems
Accounting systems
Inventory systems
Sales tracking/reporting systems
Marketing reporting systems
Subscription management systems
Affiliate management systems
Web sites
Sales interfaces
Editor interfaces
Stock portfolio tracking systems
Live broadcast/chat systems

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Amazon Web Services
Apache, Apache Tomcat, NGINX
CFEngine, SaltStack, Puppet, Docker, Kubernetes
Jenkins, Git, GitHub, Flowdock, Slack, Rally, Zabbix, Consul, Nagios
Postfix, Sendmail, CommuniGate Pro
Bash, C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python, Java, Java Server Pages, Javascript, PL/SQL, HTML, XML, YAML, JSON, CSS, Flash-AS2, Flash-AS3
Cassandra, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Linux(ubuntu, redhat), Unix, DOS, Windows(95, 98, XP, NT, Vista, Windows7), OS2WARP, OSX