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Hoboken, New Jersey, US

Lehi, Utah, US

• Infrastructure Design and Implementation: Spearheaded the architecture and deployment of backend infrastructure for Monere’s Non-Invasive Anemia Detection App (NiADA), leveraging AWS services such as CloudFront, Global.
• Terraform Automation: Utilized Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to manage and automate the provisioning and scaling of resources across multiple AWS accounts, ensuring a robust and maintainable infrastructure.
• Interconnected Environments: Established seamless integration of several interconnected accounts via VPC peering, optimizing network performance and resource sharing across Monere’s cloud environment.
• Security and Compliance: Implemented security best practices and compliance measures, ensuring data protection and regulatory adherence for the NiADA project.
• Mentoring and Leadership: Provided technical guidance and mentorship to engineering teams, fostering a collaborative environment and promoting best practices in AWS cloud architecture and Terraform automation.
• Cost Management: Led efforts in cost optimization and management, analyzing and reducing infrastructure costs while maintaining high performance and reliability.

Lehi, Utah, US

• Orchestrated a proficient team of IT specialists to ensure seamless support for global document management infrastructures across 11 data centers in the US, UK, Germany, Australia, and Azure, fostering operational.
• Strategically integrated Azure cloud services, to enhance infrastructure scalability, resilience, and resource utilization, resulting in optimized network performance and reliability.
• Implemented a robust network infrastructure utilizing Cisco, Palo Alto, and F5 hardware, further optimizing network performance and reliability.
• Directed the Scality Object store team to establish geo-diverse and redundant document storage solutions, ensuring data integrity and accessibility across multiple locations.
• Pioneered the establishment of 24/7 support processes, including on-call rotations backed by PagerDuty and comprehensive event monitoring utilizing AppDynamics, Splunk, and SolarWinds, resulting in minimized downtime.
• Provided strategic guidance to virtualization engineers supporting Hyper-V and Nutanix infrastructure, optimizing resource utilization and enhancing system agility through seamless integration with Azure.

Primary Observer/Measurer for NEOCP and ESA Priority objects.Celestron C14SBIG STL-1001EBisque MX+DC3 ACP Expert

Santa Fe, NM, US

• Responsible for successfully managing Linux Debian-based Apache2 web servers, including approximately 250 MySQL-backed web presence and e-Commerce sites with mixed WordPress, Drupal, Cake, and PHP application suites.
• Oversaw the management of a team in the migration of discreet and Xen servers to VMware ESX virtual servers.
• Managed the day-to-day operations, including DNS updates, patches, security updates, and nightly system backups.
• Collaborated with the development team and assisted with troubleshooting Apache2 web server configuration

Mcminnvile, OR, US

Denver, CO, US

King Air 200 Pilot In Command flying air ambulance for Flight for Life Colorado

Katy, Texas, US

• Directly responsible for the management of 100 Linux SUSE-based Virtual WebSphere Ecommerce servers.
• Oversaw the migration of discreet servers to VMware virtual servers, establishing a foundation for future expansion and supporting organizational cost savings.
• Utilized expertise to direct the day-to-day operations, including DNS updates, patches, and security updates, to ensure continuous top performance.
• Performed troubleshooting concerning the WebSphere application server failure, leveraging innovative best practices for design with application developers.

Experience March 2008 ­ Present Captain for Part 135 Air Attack flight operation for the US Forest Service, qualified by the Bureau of Land Management. Coordinate ground and air resources, including retardant tankers and helicopter water drops. Primary responsibilities include maintaining safety of airspace around active fires. Additional company duties.

Plano, TX, US

• Led the management of 400+ Linux/Solaris Production virtual systems, providing support for outdoor activities’ real-time online registration.
• Responsible for providing F5 iRules for traffic shaping and distribution of clients, performing migration of discrete systems to VMWare ESX clusters.
• Directed the installation and configuration of Solaris "Thumper" storage array, including troubleshooting and resolving outages on Coldfusion, Tomcat, and Jboss servers.

• Leveraged expertise to direct a team of IT professionals, supporting 200+ production-quality virtual and discrete Linux servers for global email filtering and archival across 6 data centers within the US and the UK.
• Implemented network appliances, OpenFiler, and other large-scale storage arrays utilizing iSCSI/Fibre and directly attached interfaces.
• Utilized BigBrother and Cacti with custom scripts for 5 9’s availability, supporting the production environment for millions of on-demand customers.

• Directed the installation and configuration of the email systems based on Windows and Unix/Linux, as well as configuration and monitoring of the network security systems using Nessus, BigBrother, and AIDE.
• Led the configuration of network hardware and software-based firewalls and managed the entire production of the INFOSEC environment.

July 2003 ­ June 2004 Provided ground and flight training for all phases of FAA Private and Instrument certificates and ratings. Administered Flight Reviews, conducted scenic flights and periodic delivery of aircraft.

• Managed the installation of the Internal Unix Administration team, providing remote support for 90-100 Solaris systems across the continental US, the UK, and Hawaii.
• Oversaw all aspects of the Unix installation, DNS, Mail, and Web Servers, and managed the proprietary billing and accounting software, ensuring seamless organizational performance.
• Managed the worldwide data center billing infrastructure, supporting the 211 network egress points, including the UK, San Jose, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, Germany, South America, Australia, and Japan.

Munich, DE

Responsible for the daily monitoring of proprietary telecom provisioning application. Installation, configuration and monitoring of Oracle/Sybase database. Liaison and training of customer administrators.

Responsible for the configuration of seven HP-UX systems used for SAP installation.Day-to-day administrative tasks including patches, capacity planning, performance management and tuning. Configuration of network services, such and NIS, DNS and Sendmail.

Team responsibilities included admin of 300 Solaris and SunOS for web based legal and research article repository.Administration of internal and external file and web servers Installation and configuration of standard network services to support infrastructure.Design and maintenance of network and firewall systems.

US

Administration of developer workstations as well as desktop system Installation and configuration of standard network services to support infrastructure. Design and maintenance of network and firewall systems

London, GB

Implementation and management of corporate email, news and internet access Design and implementation of remote systems management and network monitoring system.Provide TSE for Global FAX Store and Forward systems.

Responsible for the inspection, evaluation and defect mapping of mainframe hard drive systems.Design and implementation of testing strategy.