SUMMARY

• All Logical & Physical Services, SQL & NoSQL, Oracle+MySQL Certified DBA, HP - HA. Infrastructure Engineering & Automation: Provisioning from Dev to QA to Production.
• My first experience with external hosting on behalf of huge publishers in the cloud using containers was in 2011
• Since then there has been a steady rise in AWS hosting in all of my work. In particular, two recent roles speak to this directly.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Data Systems Infrastructure/Dev Ops Engineer

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• This ad tech firm needs enormous rebuilding of its NYC engineering team, including automation of systems, data and app testing.
• This requires getting organized across all environments with 10 AWS Java Teams, RDS and Kafka on Linux.

Development Team Support/Testing/Platform Automation Engineer

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Automation of infrastructure on kvm & bare-metal hosts (BMP) using OpenStack Mitaka and RedHat OpenShift (Kubernetes) and CloudForms.
• Developer and admin team onboarding, training, manual testing, debugging, team coordination of new releases and other related service components. Advanced federated security and high-availability Ceph/MariaDB/MongoDB solutions.

Environment: Kubernetes, coreOS, Jenkins, Jira, travis, ansible, python, CloudForms/ManageIQ, RHEL7, Artifactory, aws, gCloud, hadoop, spark, gitlab, foreman, vagrant, docker, MariaDB, OpenStack.

Development Operations/Engineer/Technical Project Manager

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Complete hands-on migration of multiple high-speed algorithmic trading apps from external vendor into internal low-latency network data center with "naked access" to trading exchanges. Constructed complete plan fir network, app and data migrations and testing under heavy time constraints, and in coordination with multiple internal business units and external vendors.
• Migrated and tested apps, assisting development teams and operations engineers. All migration goals were met under deadline with no adverse impact to the business, developer workflows, nor to externally connected clients. Hands-on engineering included deployments, configuration management, release management, code testing, dev support, log aggregations and real-time filtering.

Environment: rvlat, tibco, netstat, zsh, svn, curl, git-github, C++, MySQL, Oracle, Jira.

Dev Ops Engineer/DBA/Software Architect

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Confidential 's Real-Time Health Web Ad Bidding Exchange Platform allows advertisers to optimally target publisher traffic with highly strategic online marketing campaigns.
• Technical requirements were escalating rapidly in many respects due to rapid growth. In addition to working through regularly scheduled support and developer requests
• Standardized their LAMP and MEAN stacks and trained their engineers and development team to use git/github, as well as to leverage expert database technologies and services.

Open Source LAMP Engineer

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• This top-tier magazine was in need to complete web site and phone app overhaul with four major challenges:
• Turn a print-first publishing effort (since 1850) into a test-driven and responsive mobile-first design initiative. Development and production ISP hosting services needed to be rapidly migrated to Amazon Web Services.
• Migrated developer code versioning workflow from internal svn to distributed team dev using git and github.com. Migrated to Drupal 7 Web CMS, as Drupal 6 was rapidly becoming obsolete.
• Each of these major tool and workflow changes was achieved on deadline, without interrupting ongoing development work.
• Supported IT, development, engineering, architecture of LAMP environment with large and geographically distributed developer and engineering teams.
• Provided complete hands-on solutions for migrations, systems and database scaling, failover, notifications, alerts, security, new dev on-boarding, testing, CDN engineering. Trained user interface developers in responsive ui web testing, git and github.

Database Architect/Engineer/Developer

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on network data systems and python development solutions for legal media rights division of Confidential, formerly RightsFlow.
• Customized federated dba-dashboard (bash, git, php, python) for real-time data stats and database processing job monitoring and tracking.
• Complete transactional and historical (ETL) MySQL data center enterprise planning, scheduling, testing and implementations.
• All python3/MySQL recoding and instance upgrades from version 5.1.x to version 5.5.37, including SQL MODE='TRADITIONAL' and INNODB STRICT mode to make MySQL VERY Oracle-like in terms of data quality.
• This included the design and implementation of many monitoring tools, stored procedures, error handlers, bash scripts and python apps, as well as models for data security and business user support.
• All production changes were of **no** adverse impact to production. Trained dev teams to use git/github, and to write python & MySQL code using best-of-class automated test-release-deploy practices.

Technical Data Engineering

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Director of Web Services and Data Engineering at LocalVox
• Drupal Architect/Developer and Big Data Engineer at CPX Interactive
• Web Systems, Architect and Data Engineer at Columbia University
• Software Engineer at ThinkDrop Consulting LLC
• Drupal Developer and Architect at American Media
• Drupal Architect, DBA, LAMP Dev Ops Engineer at Penton Media
• Software Architect and Operations Engineer at Wendr

Database Systems Engineer/Data Warehouse Architect

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Clustered MySQL Engineer: Architected, deployed & migrated dozens of MySQL instances.
• Drupal- LAMP-Java Team Dev Ops Engineer: Testing logic & performance while promoting code thru git repos.
• Multi-Petabyte Data Warehouse Engineer/DBA: Aster nCluster & MicroStrategies data analytics.
• Search Engine Marketing & Optimization Project: Logical & physical data architect for semantic retail search analytics project.
• Technical Data Engineering & Confidential, NYC: September, 2008 - December, 2010 adMarketplace, Inc
• All Network Data Operations, 24-7. Python, PHP + Stored Procedures + SEO-SEM API.
• Provided all back-end network architecture & dev team support for online search keyword exchange.
• MySQL & R Stats Data Warehouse Automation: InfoBright + R.

Senior Database Administrator/PHP Developer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Supported 20+ instances of MySQL 24/7 using InnoDB & Replication, including code testing & change management.
• All performance tuning and network failover solutions designed for maximum performance, uptime and fast recovery.
• Supported large development teams with baremetal dev stack, data and network host infrastructure.
• Architected and automated MySQL Data Warehouse for weekly analytical demographics & statistics reporting.

Drupal Architect/Developer/LAMP Engineer

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Giant magazine publisher, new to LAMP infrastructure, decided to bring Drupal 6.x in-house while doing massive web site overhaul.
• While supporting a team of Drupal developers, provided complete migration support from legacy proprietary CMS to LAMP stack.
• Coordinated with Rodale LAN Unix and Java dev teams to bring Drupal / LAMP stack in-house, including migration from Oracle.
• Taught existing Rodale IT Unix Admins and Oracle DBA’s how to manage and troubleshoot network MySQL 24/7.

Network Media/Publishing/Telephony Test Lab Manager/Engineer

Confidential, NYC

Responsibilities:

• Designed and managed new technology testing laboratory focused on cutting-edge network media, publishing and telephony technology.
• Engineered all systems and data testing to improve trade shows, corporate IT infrastructure and technical mag review articles.
• Coordinated promo vendor tools / frameworks for system load testing, application profiling and benchmarking.
• Wrote many published articles on optimizing network server throughput and parallelization of database server loads.
• Custom Data Warehouse Engineer, Architect, Developer & Administrator