Retired! Enjoying my time.

Java Development, Chef DevOps Development

• Enhanced Nagios Monitoring solution, rebuild configuration environment, expanded to include all servers, added graphing capabilities, developed application monitoring plugins in Shell and PHP languages.• Improved application performance, reverse engineered Ruby on Rails and PHP applications identifying performance issues in application design and database environments. Implemented changes to add indexes, archive tables and create database slaves for both Postgresql and MySQL environments. Resulting in significant performance and reliability improvements.• Setup puppet server and build manifests to build mysql server.

• Amazon cloud services management• Linux configuration & management• Built Gluster FS

• Managed infrastructure hardware, software & maintenance budgets, monthly reviews maintaining overall below budget plan• Implemented Agile work management system based on Jira, Green Hopper for work prioritization and planning for infrastructure employees• Led separation of infrastructure and services supporting sale of Catalina Health division to Adheris• Improved data center reliability and disaster tolerance, migration of over 1000 systems & services from Internal Catalina Data Center to Orlando Datasite Tier III Data Center• Global architecture for Digital web application, led redesign of architecture for hosting digital services globally across multiple clouds, improving resilience and providing compliance with global data privacy regulations• Improve disaster recovery capabilities, redesign of data warehouse backup systems and processes, eliminating gaps in existing backup processes • Project prioritization and employee resource management, maintained resources for problem elimination tasks providing improved system availability and reduction in resource usage for troubleshooting & repair• Significant improvements in database detection and repair of failures, Improvement and expansion of Database Monitoring• Improve database failure recovery speed, implemented changes in database architectures to implement mirrored databases & recovery procedures • Consolidated San Jose data center to Catalina Orlando data center, migration from Xen virtualization to Vmware, Migration of production digital services from California to Florida with negligible service interruption during routine maintenance windows• Implemention of Monitoring system using Alert Site & PRTG, led standardization and implementation of monitoring solution across all Catalina systems & services providing significant improvements in service level monitoring and reduction in recovery from errors

• Maintained organization budgets, IT service contracts, office facilities and data centers for Invenda• Reduced data center costs, consolidated several data centers into Savvis data center in San Jose, California• Merged services from several acquisitions, internal services such as email and data shares, also external data centers and application services. This included a social media company running several social web services and a bulk email service company• Improved reliability of services and customer satisfaction, implemented monitoring systems using internal tools and external services, supported problem detection, notification, performance and capacity management• Improved quality of application releases, implemented release management process improving coordination for application deployments, improving deployment process and quality, and providing improved application operations communication between development and operations• Automated numerous manual processes, improving speed for code deployments and automatic recovery from application failures• Reduced budget costs by more than 50%, improvements release, monitoring and problem root cause elimination allowed my organization to deliver improved services more efficiently and with less resources

• Built IT organization, hired and built IT organization for small startup company, including infrastructure engineering, internal help desks, and windows server application team• Architected web application for scale and high availability, worked with engineering to scale application from single server to a larger farm of servers and clustered databases• Built Data Center, Setup contract for data center and implemented architecture design including servers, SAN storage, databases, firewalls, load balancers, networking, security and monitoring solution

• Managed the internet engineering organization and budgets.• Worked with Marketing supporting product development and requirements. • Provided leadership in the definition and development of Nationwide dial up access product for multiple ISPs.• Maintained engineering organization through transition from Netcom to ICG.

• Responsible for management and development of new technologies and services.• Project management for large high profile mission critical projects. • Responsible for the engineering management to support a nation wide IP Telephony service.• Responsible for the management or rapid solutions to address service technologies and their ability to prevent spam. This project included doing interviews with various external agencies addressing much publicized issues on Netcom’s handling of Spam.• Managed an engineering project to provide a next generation email solution based on IMAP, LDAP and web access capabilities• Managed Security department responsible for external & internal system security, audits, monitoring and working with legal department, law enforcement and other government agencies doing security investigations or compliance• Conducted technical assessments and generated recommendation for Executive management

• Implemented initial systems to support NetCruiser dial up internet access product.• Managed computer operations organization. Grew from 4 to 20 personal during high company growth. • Defined baseline architectures to support customer growth in excess or 750,000 dialup customers.• Definition and implementation of extensive security systems to protect system operation from customers & direct internet access. Conducted security audits and investigations into various security attacks. These investigations included the Mitnick hacking that made national news.• Managed the implementation of a computer facility and hot standby site in Dallas• Supported the design & implementation of internet services in several international locations.• Managed a complete rewrite, transparent (zero downtime) deployment, with automatic migration of the internet email systems to provide much higher performance & scalability• Managed the implementation of Netcom system architectures, new technical projects from marketing, and the development of internet service support software

• Managed team of engineers doing custom network software applications for closed programs.• Wrote Unix security policies & and created system checklists. Conducted security audits & investigations. • Managed implementation of a common application development API supporting IBM VM, Unix and TCP/IP.• Technical Lead, demonstration at customer site of system integration solution interoperability with government owned equipment. Setup $750K in equipment at customer site. $350M contract award dependent on success.• Specified, designed & setup support / technical refresh lab.• Created automated system to allow preloading operating systems and applications for PCs and Macintosh computers at warehouse per customer orders. One operator to manage 20 simultaneous loads• Managed technical refresh of over 1000 products. Responsible to ensure interoperability with all components & existing customer systems• Chief technical engineer working through customer dispute over technical performance solution proposed by subcontractor

• Responsible for creation of software safety function. Defined Documented & Trained engineers on processes• Implemented hardware/software interface systems• Supported programs in defining system requirements & specifications• System Integration & project management for closed programs• Software development writing PC software application - 20K lines in C• Wrote responses to RFP for several contracts

• Software development, wrote custom database system -15K lines in Pascal