As a seasoned Linux System Administrator with extensive experience in managing and optimizing complex IT infrastructures, I have a proven track record of supporting critical systems and leading successful migrations. Since joining Galileo in March 2019, I have played a key role in maintaining and scaling data center resources, working with VMware, Cisco UCS, and Red Hat virtualization technologies. My expertise spans across a range of Linux distributions including CentOS, Oracle Linux, and Red Hat, with a focus on system performance, security, and automation.In 2020, following Galileo's acquisition by SoFi, I was integral to our cloud migration initiative, supporting the transition from on-premises systems to AWS. I was directly involved in standing up many EC2 instances and configuring environments to meet the needs of our teams. I also gained significant experience working with Amazon Workspaces, preparing custom images, and ensuring seamless cloud adoption.My technical expertise extends beyond Linux to include a strong understanding of networking and related services such as DNS, DHCP, and LDAP, as well as proficiency in core AWS services like EC2, S3, Route 53, VPC, and load balancing. In recent roles, I have become the team expert in Puppet, managing compute infrastructure with dozens of custom manifests.With a solid foundation in multiple programming languages—including Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, C/C++, and C#—I have successfully contributed to the development of automation scripts and custom tooling to streamline operations. My recent work focuses on enhancing infrastructure automation with Terraform and advanced AWS services.I am passionate about leveraging my skills to improve system reliability, drive automation, and support scalable cloud-native solutions.

Principally, my team and I work closely with internal development teams and are responsible for automating and deploying new and existing applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS).  - Migrate applications from managed hosting to AWS  - Deploy updates to already migrated applications in AWS  - Assist and advise development teams to create continous delivery pipelinesAdditionally, we are responsible for  Interacting with corporate security to:    - Perform software patch management.    - Establish and enforce security policies.    - Facilicate audits then review and remediate any findings.  Creating and maintaining:    - Puppet Enterprise infrastructure    - GitLab CE and GitLab CI infrastructure    - Elasticsearch Clusters for logging and application search Technologies/Software/Concepts Used Daily:  - AWS (Console, and CLI; most frequently EC2, VPC, CloudWatch, S3, Route53)  - Puppet Enterprise (Console, PuppetDB and Puppet DSL)  - GitLab (As a user and Administrator; GitLab CI)  - Atlassian Jira and Confluence  - Elasticsearch (Mostly via API, Curl)  - The Scrum Methodology  - Continuous Integration

Mozy SysOps was brought back under EMC in January 2013. Though an EMC employee at this time I remained principally responsible for Mozy, other responsibilities were added to my team.- Participated in the design for a core services network for EMC internal cloud projects.- Developed a plan for implementing FreeIPA across Mozy and other EMC projects, the first phase of which has already been implemented.- Currently evaluating IDM solutions for synchronizing user Identities across EMC internal cloud projects.Projects:- Designed and programmed a client/server python Flask application to coordinate 10s of thousands of rsync processes to migrate petabytes of data to new hardware.

Principally responsible for the maintenance and improvement of the Mozy storage backend. Additionally I was responsible for production LDAP DIT design, maintenance and tools.Mozy backend:- Staged software roll-outs across multiple datacenters and continents- Performed capacity planning and assessment, including migration of user data among datacenters- Regularly participated in software design and QA test case review meetings- Identified and suggested several key performance enhancements for Mozy backend- Wrote and maintained CFEngine3 bundles- Was the final escalation point for end user incident troubleshootingProjects:- Designed a system to track user account moves, wrote the scripts to oversee the move process and wrote tools for generating automated progress reports.- Moved 108,000 user accounts and associated data totalling approximately 9PB from one United States datacenter to another in preparation for the decommissioning of the source datacenter.- Completed, 2 weeks ahead of schedule, the move of approximately 1.2 million user account catalogs from one datacenter in Europe to another allowing for physical consolidation of equipment among datacenters.- Developed a process and report for tracking the re-balancing of US and European catalog servers and then implemented this process. The re-balance project resulted in the elimination of 10s of thousands of failed backups due to overloading.

Sr. Linux Administrator on the Mozy Operations team.

Adjunct professor teaching CIS2333 - Web System Administration. I was responsible for presenting and in class materials, developing in class exercises and developing and administering exams.

As the lead architect of the Linux team, I am responsible for evaluating and recommending products, services and polices related to Linux and other relevant technologies. I am also repsonsible for day to day support of 900 RedHat Enterprise (4-6) and SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (9-10) and accompanying software.Specific areas of expertise:- Web servers and J2EE containers (Apahce 2.x, JBoss 5.x, Tomcat 4-6)- F5 Networks BigIP 9.x-11.2x LTM and GTM modules- LDAP Directory administration and DIT design (OpenLDAP, OpenDJ, Sun DSEE, Novell eDirectory)- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (4-6) server administration and provisioning- Red Hat Satellite server- DNS DHCP Administration- Linux Storage Management

Responsible for day to day server, desktop and network administration and provisioning.- Novell NetWare 5/6 Administration- Novell GroupWise 5-7 Administration

Responsible for desktop and printer support for 47 bank branches around Southeast Michigan as well as a regional office of approximately 20 people.