* Principal Developer of Ansible IaaS methods for the full stack deployment of standardized systems, compliant with organization’s global security tool requirements. Reduced request lead time from weeks to minutes.* Point of contact for Organization Tools Owners and Business Line Application Developers to integrate system requirements and software release management into build requests.* Provided SME peerage for automation efforts in multiple business lines.* Standardized Oracle and RedHat Enterprise Linux deployments for IaaS and MaaS.* Inherited and completed an in-progress, partially-documented large-scale monolithic Puppet infrastructure implementation. Resolved race conditions in CI/CD of Puppet Code.* Inherited and upgraded Pulp software repository infrastructure.* Established predictive automation by working with VMWare admins to define a taxonomy for vCenter folders and set naming conventions for Networks.* Deployed new medium-scale vRealize Orchestrator 7.0 infrastructure into a new datacenter.* Developed vRealize Orchestration mechanisms that integrate vRO and Ansible.

• Authored Governance for automated system deployment and configuration management using Ansible.• Authored Ansible Playbooks and responsible for deploying over 160 Linux systems on Dell, HP and VMware. Authored modifications to vsphere_guest Ansible module to extend Ansible-vCenter Interoperability. (Code available on GitHub)• Vetted containerization of foundation services for hosted solutions, such as DNS and federated Identity Management Solutions using Docker.• Audited and approved change controls written by staff. Provided peerage and acted as an escalation point for critical system issues.

Specializing in Open and Closed Systems Support, vertically aligned with custom Perl and Python Solutions.

• Deployed revenue-generating products in the exchange• Automated start and end of day business processes using Tidal Enterprise Scheduler• Replaced legacy java-based monitoring tools with Perl or Python based socket connections that forwarded alerts to HP OpenView• Develop and Deploy new monitoring solutions in HP OpenView• Authored recovery solutions for intraday trade systems recovery• Supported Dev and QA in performance analysis• Authored study of NTP performance metrics in high-speed trading environments

• Designed and deployed the architecture of the Forensic Services Lab for the Atlanta, New York, and Chicago Practices – Active Directory, MSSQL, Terminal Services, Remote Access, Linux, Backup and SAN• Processed forensic data in support of criminal investigations• Contributed to the Global Methodology Doctrine on Standard Forensic Practices at KPMG