Surescripts handles nearly every electronic prescription and doctor-to-doctor message in the US. It interfaces with every pharmacy, EHR and insurance company. In addition to processing 10M transactions per day with 99.99% uptime, Surescripts has 12 “start-up mode” teams that require much more DevOps workMain task was to co-ordinate software deploys of >100 linux (Java) & .NET applications. Automated many deploy pipeline tasks with Ansible. Working toward Continuous IntegrationUsed Ansible for all in-house software & operational activated and Puppet for Linux & Windows OS Splunk guru for log monitoring and dashboard generationUsed Oracle, Cassandra, Hadoop, Kafka & IBM MQ backendsMonitored >1000 servers on-premise servers with Zenoss, Splunk & TICK stack (InfluxDB)Python, Bash, Powershell & Groovy scripting as well as Ansible playbook developmentUsed Consul and F5 BigIP for service discovery and load balancingSupported 19 Agile teams. Acted as scrum master for daily DevOps group stand-upsFrequent use of Service-Now, Salesforce, HipChat, Git, Jira, Jenkins, Confluence, VMWare, PagerDuty & vi

SQL Server programming, query tuning and optimization, data interchange via SQL Server Integration Service, reporting via SQL Server Reporting Services, EDI integration, SOX and PCI compliance issues, some DBA work.

Team Lead for web development, Jan 1999-Dec 2000System Administrator / Web Architect, Dec 2000-May 2005Senior Systems Analyst for Business Applications, May 2005-Managed http://www.mpr.org and websites for over 40 radio showsHelped develop MPR’s homegrown content management system. Written in PHP, served by Apache and backed by MySQL This can be seen in action at http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/ Helped develop and maintain MPR’s E-commerce website for contributions https://contribute.publicradio.orgUnix sysadmin for 20+ servers running a mix of Linux and SolarisSQL Server DBA for 8 different mission-critical databasesAdministrative scripting in Perl on Unix and Powershell on WindowsManaged fundraising software with 700K members and $40M in yearly revenue. (Enterprise by Access International http://accessint.com/) Managed software that schedules and bills underwriters for 42 radio stations (Visual Traffic by Marketron http://www.marketron.com/) Integrated legacy applications with Lawson Financials(http://www.lawson.com/wcw.nsf/pub/fins)Supported IBM Cognos and IBI Webfocus as MPR’s BI platforms(http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/ andhttp://www.informationbuilders.com/products/webfocus/)Managed CD databases with MusicMaster. Integrated MusicMaster to Work with Netia, MPR’s play-to-air system(http://www.aware.com/ and http://www.netia.net/)Managed Teamsite, a commercial content management / version control system (http://www.interwoven.com)

Contract Unix and Network AdministratorWorked at several Twin Cities' Companies:MN Department of Health, St Paul MN, Oct 1997-Dec 1999 Sysadmin/DBA for 5 Solaris servers with 200G of DBs, in a mix of Oracle and Sybase Environments Wrote Java Web Application with JDBC link to Oracle Implemented Java/Web systems for Departmental intranet Sample Duties: Backup, restore, configure, and recovery of DBs Creating data warehouses of medical claims Migrating data from Sybase to Oracle Encrypting sensitive data and securing the DBs Data ETL Training/Mentoring users Cargill, SBS Bit-3, Seedburo, Redigolf, Metro Area Multiple short-term contracts for Sys Admin work under a variety of platforms (NT, Linux, Solaris, HP, AIX) Information Advantage, Eden Prairie, MN Sept 1996-Oct 1997 Ran 27 servers running 17 different versions of 10 Unixes for a company that writes multi-platform software. Sample Duties: Making DNS, NIS, and NFS work on multiple platforms Setting and implementing security standards Developing Perl Tools to do monitor 10 OSs Oracle DBA including loads, backups, and tuning Providing developer and end-user support Compiling/installing sudo, perl, bash, gcc, etc. on 10 Unixes. Adding/removing users, printers, machines, disks, software… HW installation and maintenanceAndersen Consulting, Minneapolis, MN June - Sept 1996 Worked on admin team that oversaw 200+ Sparc 20s running a mix of Solaris and SunOS with few HPs and SGIs Sample Duties: Extending SunView with perl scripts. Installing security and reliability software Handling system crashes, replacing HW, rebuilding disks Training junior administrators

TA'd for introdctory computer science classes, both as a primary instructor and as an assistant for a faculty member

Worked as high-level administrator in a team that managed 100+ Sparcservers, 2000+ Sparc IPXs and 2000+ X-Terminals at 50 sites in 7 states. In charge of proactive monitoring. On a Security Task Force. Sample Duties: Writing a systems monitoring package to check for potential problems. Generating automatic reports. Security audits and configuration Integrating HP-UX machines into Sun environment Writing SNMP applications for network monitoring Acting as technical lead during catastrophic outages

Responsible for maintenance of large Oracle Databases and the Servers that run them at 7 sites in 5 states. Sample Duties: Design, installation, and maintenance of network of Sparcs Connecting machines to DDN (military Internet) with CSU/DSU units and special software Oracle DBA Responsible for maintaining military-level security

Acted as Unix and PC expert in a biophysical laboratory. Sample Duties: Developed software in C and assembler to automate laboratory equipment. Wrote device drivers to interface PCs to frame grabbers, AD/DA converters, arbitrary waveform generators, Spectrum analyzers, and specialized hardware. Wrote numerical analysis and 3D data visualization programs Developed a suite of data collection and instrument manipulation programs that has been used in well over 20 scientific papers and is still used today. .