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Champaign, Illinois, United States

Organize a team of 8 to create a standard process for system provisioning and configuration. This software defined infrastructure allows all systems to be managed the same way, yielding staff efficiency and freeing time for more intellectual endeavors.Create a staff retention plan with standardized job profiles to streamline hiring and guide promotions.Implement a triage team to handle daily operations, shielding the rest of the team from interrupts so they can focus on sprint work in order to deliver solutions to customers quicker.

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Automated deployment and configuration management for linux servers supporting the LSST project ensuring consistency and maximum uptime for services. A key improvement was realizing that re-deploying servers was faster than troubleshooting them.Created a standard PM planning and execution process that allows 100% of planned maintenance outages to complete on time.Designed and taught a course on the usage and internals of git at campus IT Pro Forum bi-annual conference and brought to course to NCSA. This work became the basis for git training at NCSA for all infrastructure and HPC management.

Design custom backup solution for the Blue Waters supercomputer to ensure disaster recovery for two multi-petabyte filesystems.Implement Tivoli backups for all 400+ staff.Service owner of SAN delivered storage serving 8 supercomputers and 1000+ users.

Ms Cs, Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi advisor

Bs Cs, Operating Systems

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Summer Employment Career Fair, Tutoring, Learning to Learn, Cyberprof