Lead a team of engineers in the deployment and decommissioning of capacity at the Altoona Datacenter.

Plan and execute on the capacity needs for one of the largest datacenters in the Facebook fleet. Work with an awesome team of Engineers and XFN partners to deploy and decommission racks of servers.

Was DevOps Engineer for a lift-and-shift project migrating .NET based infrastructure from the on-prem datacenter to AWS. Infrastructure included several large MS SQL server databases that were migrated to EC2 instances.

-Create automated builds of Apache Hadoop clusters in AWS using Terraform and Apache Ambariblueprints on CentOS 7.-Deploy code to WebSphere and Tomcat application servers using Jenkins.

-Create and maintain CloudFormation templates to deploy infrastructure to AWS. Infrastructure includes multiple VPC's, EC2 instances, S3 buckets, RDS instances, security groups, ElastiCache clusters, CloudWatch monitoring, IAM policies and roles, DynamoDB tables, Lambda functions, SNS topics for notifications, Kinesis streams, and Route53 for DNS.-Develop and maintain Jenkins implementation to release code and build infrastructure. Scripts are written in Python 2.7 using the boto3 library.-Maintain Jenkins continuous integration environment for the API development team.

-Designed and engineered multiple AWS environments with CloudFormation and Ansible.-Administered and released custom modules to Acquia hosted Drupal.-Administered multiple Alfresco document management environments in IWD and AWS datacenters.

-Achieved a perfect score on the Red Hat RX200 exam on RHEL 6 to achieve my RHCSA certification.-Managment and implementation of environments in AWS.-Responsible for releasing code to all environments.-Responsible for maintaining development environments.-Coordinates efforts between development and operations.-Administration of Atlassian Confluence and JIRA.-Maintenance of continuous integration environments based on Apache Tomcat/Jenkins.

-Responsible for administering and maintaining several clustered environments of Oracle WebLogic 10.3.3.0 application servers.-Website is composed of Apache, Oracle WebLogic and Oracle databases.-Maintain a search engine tier composed of the Endeca search engine.-Compile and release code to QA/Test and Production environments.-Assist development staff with development of applications.

-Obtained a perfect score on my RHCE certification in September 2005. Certification was completed using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.-Knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Solaris 8 and Tru64 Unix.-Built, implemented and maintained all production, QA and development Linux/Unix servers.-Familiar with Dell PowerEdge servers, Compaq Proliant servers, Sun Enterprise servers, Compaq Alpha servers.-Responsible for implementing and maintaining external/internal name servers using Bind 9 on Red Hat Linux.-Responsible for building and maintaining web servers based on the Apache HTTP server using RHEL 2.1.-Responsible for operation and maintenance of BEA Weblogic application servers.-Maintained Legato NetWorker back-up system conducting nightly back-ups of the EMC/Network Appliance storage arrays.-Familiar with Oracle and MySQL databases.-Basic knowledge of networking.

-Researched and resolved client problems.-Initiated and worked with appropriate staff members to assure that in house software and hardware are maintained, modified, and upgraded as necessary.-Answered general technical inquiries from department and also the customer base regarding system operations.-Answered service/system inquiries from Job Seekers.-System maintenance; monitors system for crashes; brings system online daily.-Served as liaison between Networking and Customer Support regarding system operations/issues.