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Denver, Co, Us

Tinton Falls, Nj, Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Lead SRE of the Cloud Operations team focusing on application deployment, automation and monitoring.Accomplishments- Configuring and managing new staging and production environments in AWS.- Improved overall software deployment process and reduced manual steps.- Implemented a FedRAMP Moderate platform environment in AWS.- Implemented an automated solution to manage budgets in AWS for engineering, QE, and operations.- Improved automation and documentation for platform environment deployments.- Implemented a solution to inventory cloud-related resources for security and audit purposes.- Migrated Jenkins job management from Ansible to Jenkins Job DSL from Git.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Worked on Red Hat OpenStack Director focusing on usability and performance.Accomplishments:- Core reviewer of OpenStack puppet and TripleO projects.- Top 10 contributor to OpenStack since the Newton release.- Productized standalone deployment functionality of TripleO.- Implemented RHEL8 and Podman support in TripleO.- Improved container management processes within TriplO for CI and customers.- Troubleshooted and developed solutions for Ansible performance issues at scale.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Campbell, California, Us

Worked with other members on the Fuel product for Mirantis. Primary focus on puppet configuration and tooling around deploying and maintaining OpenStack clusters. A core reviewer for the fuel-library component of Fuel and Puppet Openstack which are under the OpenStack Big Tent. Accomplishments- One of the top 10 reviewers for the OpenStack Mitaka cycle- Implemented deploying OpenStack with UCA packages with Fuel 9.0- Worked on PoC for Deploying Kubernetes with Fuel 9.0- Championed the use of puppet-librarian-simple to manage upstream Puppet modules within fuel-library and removing the custom forks- Implemented upstream fuel-library CI jobs in the OpenStack Infrastructure for the inclusion under the Big Tent

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Worked with development teams to support Java Applications and deployments for internal cloud systems. Automated deployments using Jenkins, Ansible, and Puppet to reduce deployment times and improve deployment reliability. Participated in 24/7 on-call rotations and handled escalations from other groups within the organization.Accomplishments- Built a product and operations dashboard utilizing logging data sent via rsyslog to Elasticsearch and visualized with Kibana- Managed and executed multiple environment migration from RHEL/CentOS 5 to CentOS 6 utilizing new hardware and architectures- Developed and maintained deployment automation scripts utilizing Ansible and Jenkins- Developed new Puppet modules and improved existing modules with testing and applying standard coding methodologies- Created monitoring solutions for Elasticsearch with custom python monitors sending data into Zabbix for trends and alerts- Managed multiple ESX deployments in global datacenters

Costa Mesa, Ca, Us

Designed new architecture for SafetyWeb systems integrating with existing data centers. Provided Linux operational support for the organization and multiple development teams. Championed additional monitoring solutions to improve monitoring and reliability for Linux systems. Managed multiple onboarding and migrations of Linux based applications for recently acquired companies. Provided local IT support for the Denver office.Accomplishments- Deployed automated Linux server builds and configuration deployments utilizing Red Hat Satellite Server and puppet- Managed and executed office system and network integration with California main office- Documented and developed automated methods for applying baseline security requirements for Linux servers- Worked with development and InfoSec to add Fortify SSC into the automated build processes- Integrated RedHat servers with existing Windows Active Directory for authentication- Championed additional monitoring for Linux and network infrastructure utilizing existing tools and bringing in Zabbix and worked with development teams to implement the new systems- Worked with storage team to setup and document Linux servers’ use of HDLM to connect to a Hitachi VSP- Systems technology lead on multiple data center migration and consolidation projects- Deployed redundant cross site secure file transfer mechanism using Accellion appliances- Implemented new Splunk infrastructure using Linux systems

Denver, Co, Us

- Designed and implemented the PHP code framework and systems architecture- Managed development and release cycles- Managed server, storage and network configuration and deployment- Built configuration and server build automation utilizing cobbler and puppet- Built a Nagios based monitoring system- Managed NetApp storage used for database, backup and deployment systems- Supported post-acquisition integration with Experian

Denver, Co, Us

- Java/PHP/Perl/MySQL development- Responsible for software design, development, and implementation- Stabilized and grew TinyPic from 1 million unique visitors per month to over 23 million- Developed the system to handle serving over 300 unique million images and millions of videos- Developed a video encoding and moderation system utilizing the On2 Flix Engine video encoding system- Developed a flash video player that worked either streaming via HTTP or CDN- Developed automated CDN cache purging system

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- Designed the web and database server architecture- Worked with developers on PHP and Perl applications- Performed initial conversion of web application from Perl to PHP as a proof of concept- Designed and built in-house NAS storage solutions- Developed an automated video encoding solutions

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- ASP/.NET web and application development- PHP/MySQL development- Linux/Unix/Windows systems administrator- Managed the EMC storage solutions- Implementation and Management of Exchange 2003, Nagios and Linux Backups