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Apex, Nc, Us

New York, Ny, Us

San Francisco, Us

Consumer facing life services leveraging AI and blockchain to change our conversations and relationships.

Consulting services offered:- Product management services and vendor assessment- Data platform deployment, migration, scaling, and automating- Cloud infrastructure deployment

San Francisco, California, Us

- Responsible for content strategy (Packs Management, development guidance, Dispensary)- Build official process for data schema mapping of events- Manage content development efforts for partnerships and joint product launches- Setup internal tooling for PS and SE teams to easily publish content and find development priorities

San Francisco, California, Us

- built and maintained image creation for AWS, GCP, and Azure marketplaces- built and maintained AWS quickstarts - built and launched the "OCSF postprocessing pack"

San Francisco, California, Us

Pleasanton, California, Us

- Designed and deployed Splunk logging infrastructure for FedRAMP Cloud environment- Built CI/CD tooling for automated config management of FedRAMP Splunk deployment- Migrated Multi-Terabyte deployment from local disk back indexers to SSE-KMS S3 storage- Designed Active/Passive failover system for FedRAMP Splunk deployment- Designed and deployed automation to handle AMI replacement for entire AWS deployment without downtime

San Francisco, California, Us

As a product manager for 'Getting data in' on Splunk Enterprise I am responsible for backlog, roadmap, and design for pull-based, stream, and forwarding integrations of the following:- Cloud services data integrations (AWS, Azure, GCP)- Open-Source data integrations (Kafka, Pivotal)- Guided Data On-boarding program- Application & Add-on Lifecycle Management- Application build & cloud readiness policy- Application & Add-on telemetry collection design- Fully guided data collection experience from cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, Azure)

San Francisco, California, Us

My responsibilities as Product Owner for SplunkZero cover the following:- Lead an operations and engineering team of 4 providing 24x7 service support- Responsible for formalizing roles, responsibilities, and SLAs- Designed Splunk's data management strategy, fulfilling all Legal and Security requirements while staying true to Splunk "Open" culture- Migrated all application configurations to Bitbucket repositories for code management - Deployed Ansible Tower as our CI/CD framework for content delivery across +150 hosts- Developed data security controls and monitoring for highly sensitive data sets in Splunk- Involved in GDPR reporting analytics on Splunk data sets- Responsible for data quality, security, and query performance for Splunk at Splunk

San Francisco, California, Us

- Responsible for all project planning and management for the whole team- Planned and presented FY18 Roadmap- Lead an operations and engineering team of 4 providing 24x7 service support- Developed logic diagrams for Splunk at Splunk processes including data security practices, change control, and infrastructure upgrade proceedures- Migrated manual administrative tasks to ansible automation scripts

San Francisco, California, Us

I work as a Splunk Architect on the SplunkZero team which is the production implementation of Splunk for Splunk. - Developed testing cadence for version upgrades to splunk infrastructure transitioning from a 4 month upgrade window on GA releases to 2 week window on pre-GA releases- Automated most administrative tasks in Ansible including: Splunk instance build and deployment, splunk version updates, Splunk app and configuration updates for stand-alone instances, and index and search clusters- Designed and implemented configuration management of Splunk service via bitbucket- Grew infrastructure from 18 physical boxes to a +150 largely virtual platform independent environment- Migrated Splunk stand-alone indexers to a ten node index cluster- Migrated several Splunk instances from LDAP authentication to Okta authentication over SAML - Documented architecture changes and mapped the whole infrastructure from end-user to data source - PoC'd the use of Docker for on demand development search heads and automated deployment and configuration of Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk UBA, and Splunk ITSI for search load testing

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Us

- Splunk application development for DevOps- Machine learning with Splunk- Development of large scale automated application testing on distributed environments- Application logging optimization- Technical writing- Quality assurance testing support

Livermore, Ca, Us

- Designed and implemented Splunk infrastructure for the Argus System (a security system designed at LLNL for guarding nuclear facilities, administered by the DOD and NNSA)- Defined custom parsing rules with regular expressions- Built multiple custom data models for Splunk’s pivot functionality- Converted Tableau and Excel reports and charts into Splunk live dashboards and reports- Built and rolled-out a Splunk packaged app to multiple facilities- Assisted in the installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Splunk and Splunk packaged apps across multiple government facilities

Livermore, Ca, Us

- Performed big data analytics with Splunk- Wrote searches in SPL to average and determine network and system authentications and abnormalities in Splunk- Cross-referenced cisco switch logs with database tables of registered devices to determine device network authorization via Splunk- Scripted and implemented layer 2 and 3 security against unauthorized devices- Designed user-friendly interfaces with detailed breakdown of network operations in Splunk

January 2012 – June 2012, Web Administrator for MoodyAudio.com (contracted to: Atrium Web Services)June 2012 – September 2012, Designed, implemented and administrated change-over of web CMS from Wordpress to Drupal 7 (contracted to: The CeLT) (available at Dev.thecelt.com)

- Conducted organizing, scheduling, hiring, and administration of project teams for all contracted events- Designed, planned, and implemented portable recording system hardware and software- Responsible for all edited and raw audio quality and maintaining operational state of company hardware- Managed all Windows OS related customer service issues- Administrated all company operations during second and third quarters of 2011

- Instructed students and faculty on setting up backups and accessing school servers- Troubleshooted local network, DNS and hardware connection issues for faculty and staff- Assisted students and professors in dealing with malware, viruses, and other common issues- Performed Image creation and Deployment of Windows 7 campus wide via Ghostcast- Participated in setup of Macintosh Labs for design and engineering departments- Setup mobile email clients for Microsoft Exchange servers and Google Apps servers on iOS, Android, and Blackberry devices- Executed Macintosh imagining, troubleshooting, updates and repairs

Information Technology Management, Data Analytics

Bachelor'S Degree, General Studies