Consulted and assisted clients with Lift and Shift environments from a monolith to Immutable cloud.Built and designed on-premise Kubernetes to be utilized for any agnostic cloud providers.Utilized observability and monitoring to determine latency between microservices. Engineered best practices for clients and their future growth. Automated installations from physical to a virtual PaaS self-service model.

Lead a global cross-platform team to implement new direction within the organization.Designed and infused company-wide, a scalable monitoring solution from reactive to proactive using in-house/built solutions from use of Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker and Jenkins for auto-scaling and CI/CD.Constructed and deployed company wide log aggregator that saved the company $1.5 million/month over Splunk and or other 3rd party SaaS.Implemented SLA reporting for internal and client use from a cluster of Jasper Reporting servers.Integrated monitoring and log clusters via API to shunt false alarms during vendor/client deployments.Executed best practices with this proactive monitoring/log solution that depleted their existing reactive approach.Increased up-time from 98.5% to 99.99% by just using in-house/built solutions.Contributed to development and support teams with an efficient streamline ITIL systematic approach.

Rebuilt VMware 4,5,6 local disk environment to a new VMware 6.0 NAS shared storage environment.Introduced Ansible to speed up deployments in DEV and QA environments. Planned, designed and implemented new migration of over 272 VMs from VMware 6.0 to VMware 6.5 from Media, PA to Plano, TX datacenter. Used open source Rockstor for NAS VMware storage solution.Designed hybrid cloud solutions for clients that consists of AWS and VMware on a budget.Managed a team of DevOps engineers in Pennsylvania and Minnesota to introduce and bring change.

Implement and design new infrastructures using only open source. Introduce Enterprise private cloud solutions to small to large organizations for higher yield on their ROI.Explain “fad versus need” with new technologies. Implement “3 stages of automation” for complete Enterprise C/D solution. Consulted with Enterprises to be more efficient with AI and Integration measures.

Installed and configured VMware vSphere 5.5 with vCenter to bring infrastructure environment to enterprise grade. Maintained AWS environments for production and UAT. Implemented fully continuous integration deployment model to VMware and AWS instances by use of TeamCity. Introduced and implemented SSO for Intranet and AWS environments.Managed Infrastructure and gave leadership to direct reports.Installed and configured Big Data environments that consisted of Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB, Spark and AWS EMR across NetApp Cloud ONTAP and other NAS solutions for the cloud.

Maintain Continuous Integration environment that consists of Fisheye/Crucible, CVS, Maven, Nexus, Sonar and Hudson.Plan and implement new strategic methods for current CI and future environments.

Implemented YUM/RPM local repository for Comcast proprietary RPMs' Created and deployed RHEL 5.5 64 bit and 32 bit VMs' using latest VMware software 4.10 and VMotionMigrated older production and tools/test servers to VMs' that were stored on RAID 10 SAN. Created deployment standard for RHEL servers company wide.Configured, installed, maintained Tomcat 6, JBoss, Jrun, MySQL and converted MSSQL to MySQL DB, Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Bamboo, Crucible + Fisheye Deployed and configured Maven Proxy, Hudson/Jenkins, TeamCity and Nexus on same instance of Tomcat 6 for simplicity.