Brad Allison Email & Phone Number

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

* Responsible for the 24/7 uptime and availability of all patient medical records and their accessibility from any doctor in a firm using our product.* Designed new cloud based solution to migrate off of old VMWare based solution so handle much greater scalability and redundancies. * Deployed new monitoring systems using Opsview (which is Nagios based) for all our systems which monitors the functionality of our backend systems.* Built the company’s infrastructure from the ground up from startup to now over 2,000 employees.Wrote my own administrative software tools (similar to Ansible) for maintaining hundreds of production hosts which became the company’s standard for administration of our production servers.* Transitioned to Ansible for Infrastructure as Code based management of our systems* Managed over 400 Linux host configurations in Ansible playbooks, taking advantage oftemplates, roles, and host/group variable* Designed and implemented CloudFront integration with our application to enable GEO targeting service for content delivery to end-users. Also created the internal tools to enable onboarding of new customers directly into CloudFront.* Designed and implemented complete migration of transition of “on premise” infrastructure to AWS Cloud based infrastructure for 100% of our clients.

Somerville, Ma, Us

Responsible for the maintenance and availability of all monitoring servers provided by Alertsite.The servers were spread out globally, allowing users to select the location they wanted to monitor their websites from. This meant very often having to debug networking issues on a global scale.I was 24/7 support for all these servers and all the physical host we ran. I wrote many management tools to enable us to administrate thousands of servers geographically spread around the world.

· Awarded 2009 Green IT Award from the Uptime Institute · Presented (Systems Utilization and Memory Optimization tool) to the Uptime Institute in NYC at 2009 Green IT Symposium · Created and ran the Architects Council to oversee all divisions of Operations (2007-2009) · Responsible for leading and the overseeing the closure of the Reston Data Center (year of 2007) · Wrote technical specifications for hardware to be purchased through our reverse auction (RFP, 2006-2009) · Responsible for the introduction of virtualization into Operations · Technical lead of the Virtualization Center of Excellence · Solved and wrote how-to for SSH console redirection for HP iLo2 and Dell Drac 4/5 (something Dell had not done) · Tracked and managed the migration of 25,000 RedHat Linux systems to CentOS (2009) · Oversaw the sun-setting legacy systems initiative for the release of power-hungry HPUX and Solaris systems from our datacenters

Team Lead for Core Infrastructures and Core Services · Created and presently lead Core Service's Unix/Linux based architecture/working group handling all issues ranging from OS imaging, configuration management, alarming, monitoring, and all security items · Instrumental in system administrating over 8,000 HPUX, Solaris, and Linux hosts · Ensured the successful implementation of Linux systems through developing the tools and infrastructure required to manage and roll out Linux based systems on a large scale · Managed standardization, distribution selection and hardware issues related to the Linux migration · Served as primary point of contact for all communication with RedHat for all of AOL · Effected capital cost savings across all Systems Operations in hardware purchasing plans · Played primary role in the introduction of AMD hardware into AOL, which is what now runs the backend servers of AIM/ICQ · Designed primary hardware benchmarking facility and designed and developed benchmarking application for AOL proprietary application and service oriented applications · Wrote original iptables firewall, and deployed first use of host based firewall at AOL, which now serves as a standard · Created and managed security policies for AOL's Core Services

New York, Ny, Us

* Instrumental force in migrating AOL’s core infrastructure to Linux and Intel based platforms * The technical lead for all of AOL on technical issues, standardization, distribution selection and hardware issues related to the Linux migration * The POC for organizations across AOL for everything Linux - working with Host Configuration Management, Host Development, QA and Internal Computing to setup their Linux infrastructure * Envisioned and instrumental in creating the Core Service’s Core Infrastructures team responsible for sys-admining over 8,000 HPUX, Solaris and Linux hosts. Team lead for Core Infrastructures group * Created and lead Core Service’s Unix/Linux based architecture/working group handling all issues ranging from OS imaging, configuration management, alarming, monitoring, and all security items * Policy creator and manager for all security policies for AOL’s Core Services

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Systems Analysis and Troubleshooting Team · Selected Linux Distribution to be used by Operations and Development for AOL proprietary applications · Implemented solution to enable AOL Systems Integrations Team to install hosts from a network server remotely across thousands of hosts. This system was used to upgrade over 2000 Linux hosts to RedHat Advanced Server 2.1 · Ported all operating system configuration packages to support Linux · Performed production platform testing for linux systems; vendor vs. vendor; distribution vs. distribution · Directly led all communication with vendors to initiate Intel Systems rollout: HP, IBM, Compaq, Dell, RedHat, Intel · Led security initiatives such as the deployment of SSH across all systems, including legacy Unix systems

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

· Created monitoring system for America Online's Proprietary System API · Manager of centralized repository of all system alarms using Micromuse's Omnibus database · Set up centralized site-independent System Logging (syslog) for 2000 host which alarm to Netcool/Omnibus. · Set up centralized remote monitoring for all AOL proprietary routing processes · Set up site-independent MeasureWare alarming for HP and SUN alarming back via SNMP traps which report to Netcool/Omnibus · Set up system that generates host list of all actively-monitored hosts, created daily for monitoring with a ICMP monitor · Responsible for AOL Ads Server monitoring via internal logging and alarming system · Engineered and wrote system that checks the validity of Ad URLs that service AOL and ICQ web based properties · Wrote a web interface to view and edit alarms in the Omnibus database using Sybase communication layer · Kerberos Administrator and Securities Consultant

· Administrator of all Internet Service Monitoring · Responsible for the shared on-call administration of all Internet Services Web Hosting (www.aol.com, members.aol.com, www.icq.com, etc.) · Technical consultant for all streaming media (AOL branded Real Networks Audio/Media ventures, Princess Diana Live Funeral Broadcast with BBC) · Administrator of all AOL Internet Relayed Chat (IRC) machines · Primary tools developer (tcl/adp's) for Internet Services Web Hosting Infrastructure · Administrative lead for Compton's Encyclopedia, AolStore, and the AOL Multmedia Channel · Administrator for Real Video Servers during the Clinton Live Video Tapes / Star Report

· Director of all multimedia efforts for IACenter's website · Graphic designer for Cognito!:Student Research · UNIX System Administration

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Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

· On cover of Boardwatch Magazine for being first CUSeeme user outside of Cornell's development staff · Alpha Tester for Cornell University's CUSeeme Internet Video Conferencing Software

Bachelor Of Science, Environmental Engineering

World Cultures/Art

Graduate, Physics And Mathematics