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Sterling, MA, US

Atlanta, GA, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Providing DevOps engineering to the BitSight data pipeline and platform, using industry leading tools.
• Full application and service lifecycle in Kubernetes
• Deployment of applications and data pipelines in AWS (EC2/EMR)
• Cost controls and monitoring of AWS resources

Waltham, MA, US

• Provide operations and DevOps capabilities to the BI team, further enabling Marketing and Analytics to make rapid decisions in an evolving market.
• Development of ETL and warehouse schema to provide new data and analytic functionality to analysts.
• Expanded data environment into AWS and provided CI/CD capability, allowing the team to quickly deploy repeatable systems and ETL.
• Designed NiFi cluster, enabling data movement between SQL environments, Amazon S3, and various streaming data sources.
• Developed report generator to provide analytics data on demand to internal and external partners, freeing up analysts from the manual daily task.
• Created Hadoop based streaming data solution using HBase, Kafka, and Storm, to process site visit data in near real-time.

Waltham, MA, US

• Responsible for the external client variant of the Vistaprint site used for multiple large customers retail store and online custom print presences. The site consists of millions of lines of C# code with active.
• Sustaining engineering support for production sites, debugging and refactoring code delivered from teams across Vistaprint.
• Worked with external partners to rapidly develop and deliver feature enhancements.
• Developed and maintained integrations with external manufacturers to launch new products on the site.
• Solution lead for Vistaprint Corporate Solutions sustaining engineering and production operations support group
• Ownership of data and tooling that provide pricing and partner SKU matching for white-label site

Fitchburg, MA, US

• CRLA International Certified Tutor for FSU
• Offered learning assistance and direct tutoring to students in the undergraduate and graduate CS programs.
• Provided assessment and targeted learning programs to help students succeed.

Littleton, MA, US

• Deployment and operations for 24x7 HA environment serving multiple large telecom operators across the world. Kept production running smoothly for a telecom offered music download service sold to their subscribers.
• Developed new reporting platform for reporting of subscriber activity, allowing new marketing insights into customer behavior.
• Dev support for applications on Perl and Java variations of the application. Required development in object oriented Perl, WebLogic, and Apache Tomcat.
• Designed workflow to more rapidly import new music feeds for record labels, transcoding of media, and delivery to end-user accessible catalog.
• Migrated full stack from physical to VMware ESXi, providing performance tuning and refactoring as needed. Allowed for significant reduction in operational costs.
• Provided platform hardening and UAT testing framework which enabled seamless production deployments.

Littleton, MA, US

• Provided systems and support for the release pipeline of both telecom operator music download platform and in-network ringback-tone appliance.
• Designed build and install automation for all products to guarantee consistent deployment and easy on-site installation by engineers. Eliminated manual steps in the process that dramatically reduced number of repeated.
• Designed new application platform and configuration automation allowing for full platform consistency across all applications. This allowed dev, test, and production environments to be deployed from the same platform.
• Provided platform investigation, documentation, and tech transfer during the acquisition of a music download company.
• Design and development of new Python based build and release platform, allowing for much finer control of build and more rapid development processes
• Sustaining engineering for Sprint Music Store and Bell Mobility music store

• Responsible for all IT infrastructure for the Town, including desktop systems, servers, telecom equipment, and networking. Planned and created the annual technology budget and authorized expenditures. Presented.
• Led modernization effort providing more efficient workflows for town offices.
• Designed and introduced first implementation of a GIS platform for the town.
• Regular diagnostic and tuning of municipal cable network, and introduction of failover WAN connectivity to keep offices online in the event of cable network failures.
• Cost analysis leading to drastically decreased budget requirements for all town landline, cellular phone, and software licensing costs. Further cost saving by introduction of VMware virtualization to reduce hardware.

Developed a custom framework to use as a template and management system for custom web designs.System and network administration on a variety of platforms, as well as security hardening and fault tolerance.Failure recovery of servers and storage systems.

Administration of government banking systems for NY State personal income tax processing. This included security auditing and advisory response, user support, evaluation of new software, and staging of new builds from dev into test and production.

Responsible for host and network security for on-site network, tiered content delivery network, and on our custom embedded platform.Development of embedded system using C/C++ and Perl, as well as sustaining engineering of existing software.Debug and in-house enhancement of various aspects of the Linux IrDA stack and wireless network drivers.System design.

Server maintenance and administration of Linux, Solaris, and Windows environments. Network admin and security of Cisco firewalls and VPN.Support and consult for sales engineering and development teams.Responsible for telecommunications labs for demonstration and network simulation.

Worcester, Massachusetts, US

Support for students, faculty, and research labs. Built and maintained OS and application images for department systems. Administration of Linux based network with OS clients including Windows, Linux, HP-UX, SOlaris, DEC OSF/1, and ULTRIX.Developed custom C++ applications for system management and automated imaging of all Windows workstations.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Provided telephone support for various customers. These included customer accounts ranging from critical support for outside investment customers to internal support for IBM NCO for the eastern US.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Electrical Engineering, Computer Science