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New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

* supported the launch of 3 online games, one with over 1 million simultaneous players* improved graphite configuration mid-launch + implemented carbon-relay + built new graphite server + deployed statsite to 350+ hosts using puppet to resolve graphite connection bottleneck + refactored metric collection scripts to use statsd protocol* wrote multiple python scripts to collect key metrics for online infrastructure: + F5 BigIPs + Arbor Pravail DDoS appliances + Prolexic DDoS service + Cisco routers and ASA firewalls* built and deployed HA, metrics-centered monitoring toolchain using collectd, graphite, grafana, icinga2 and puppet* scripted collection of inventory data from multiple APIs using python* developed, tested and implemented security remediation procedure for production systems, overseeing consultants that completed the planned maintenance procedures

Livingston, Nj, Us

* Technology Assurance and Systems Oversight services + Designed, planned and implemented AWS cloud migration for U.S. top 20 magazine site with capacity of 2.5mm PV/hour. Setup VPC, EC2 Autoscaling, RDS with replicas, Elasticache, and CloudFormation templates. Designed and scripted automated provisioning with Ansible and automated deployment in coordination with Jenkins. + Submitted pull request to boto that was accepted in 2.11.0 for implementing VPC security groups for RDS. The feature was required to automate a client's backups of VPC RDS instances for DR + Gave technical guidance to a "major publishing corporation" for setup of web serving from AWS, including EC2, VPC, VPN, and ELB + Migrated a "video media" client from custom-built VPS hosted systems to AWS EC2 scripted auto-scaling webservers w/nginx+php5-fpm, backed by RDS + Designed and implemented a chef-based, CloudFormation deployment system for "half-stack" deployments for the same "video media" client. Rolled out the same deployment template for 3 different service components + Performed deep-dive assessment for a U.S. top 100 magazine site's systems and implemented critical remediations. Then migrated back-office systems from a colocated datacenter to AWS VPC and re-launched all systems using scripted builds on AWS EC2, RDS and ElastiCache. Guided other team members in setup of the DR solution in another AWS region.

New York, Ny, Us

* Maintained all production infrastructure for TheStreet.com (7+ million page views per month) including: + Planned and lead systems team in launching site redesign in 3 months after being 1 year overdue + Improved site performance by implementing HTTP caching strategy and utilizing a CDN service + Migrated production systems from outdated Solaris hardware to modern Linux systems resulting in significant budget savings* Design, coordinate and execute datacenter consolidation and virtualization strategy for TheStreet.com and Promotions.com - both primary and disaster recovery datacenters: + Design new datacenter network and adapt existing topologies to mesh all data centers and offices + Plan and execute server virtualization migration reducing physical server footprint from ~400 to ~90 + Implement SAN from scratch using new and old EMC components (CX4-80, CX500 and CX700) + Create specifications and coordinate implementation for DC physical layout - rack space, power, network cabling + Implement above plans and completed migration in 6 months

* Worked with developers to leverage AWS S3 and CloudFront on promotions with user-generated content* Designed, planned and implemented a complete network migration for Promotions.com when the company was spun-off from TheStreet.com with zero network downtime* Migrated dedicated systems to virtualized infrastructure using CentOS Xen and KVM* Designed, planned, implemented and maintained servers and network for the online component of McDonald's Monopoly promotion (9000+ game plays-per-minute), 2005 through 2009* Maintained and transitioned iVillage systems and network during acquisition by NBC Universal

* Migrated web infrastructure across merger from Women.com to iVillage.com* Planned, implemented and supported iVillage.com's production web farm network with Apache and Vignette, delivering approximately 300 million page views per month.* Standardized and secured the installation of Solaris on over 100 servers using JumpStart* Migrated all database servers from old EMC Symmetrix 8730 to new DMX800, updating all aspects of corporate SAN (Brocade switches, FC cards, etc.)* Complete network overhaul to Nortel Passport/Baystack distributed infrastructure (HA + SMLT) from Cisco Catalyst for all servers - web, application, database* Designed and deployed several virtualized Java application server platforms using Resin and Apache across development, staging and production* Created monitoring system from the ground up using Nagios with SNMPv3 net-snmp based agents, including embedded inventory and auditing tools, for the entire infrastructure

* Migrated web and network infrastructure across spin-off from Hearst New Media Center to Women.com* Implemented EMC Symmetrix 3830 and Celerra NFS for core web infrastructure* Oversaw Y2K remediation for all systems

Maintained all production infrastructure for Hearst Magazine web content

Overall management of core and co-branded web sites, including historical equities pricing database

Support of HP/UX, Linux, Windows NT, NetWare, Internet firewall, proxy and servers

Bachelors Of Science, Computer Science

Electrical Engineering

High School Diploma