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San Luis Obispo, California, United States

San Luis Obispo, California Area

Santa Barbara, California Area

Santa Barbara, California

- Co-Authored a Jenkins cookbook testing pipeline for all in-house cookbooks- Co-Authored a formulaic pattern to deploy staging and production environments, allowing repeatable, testable, deterministic results. Leading the way for reliable Disaster Recovery- Created the bastion host architecture, SOP, and documentation, as well as all the needed upgrades to the deployment and CI/CD environments- Developed containerized version of Chef Server for local deployments- Worked closely with QA and Dev teams to verify infrastructure changes meets requirements- Created multiple reaper processes to clean up unused infrastructure once it had been abandoned

San Luis Obispo, California

–Manage an expanding IT department, including User Support, User Systems Administration, Network Systems Administration, and Database Administration–Architect/Re-architect network and systems for all corporate infrastructure–Re-architected entire production network to be tiered, allowing for exponential growth and cloud growth–Architected the office network to have the potential to house a production-like environment, allow VDI, better fine grain user management, and better fine grain network management–Linux/Unix user management for over 150 employees in two countries–Created local RHEL, CentOS, and EPEL repositories, which local install services use via kickstart–Implemented DHCPd/PXE/Kickstart environment for all production tiers–Created GIT repositories for all IT department, where previously no version control was implemented–Created specialized role accounts for non-root and non-user activities–Implemented SSH authorized keys method for accessing role user accounts–Implemented PGP/GPG key pair and SSH key pairs for Engineering–Created a method of using “verticals” to allow parallel code deployments in the development environment–Re-factored corporate and hosted DNS, then created reload scripts with automation in mind–Re-factored Nagios with automated reload script using GIT–Miscellaneous Engineering tasks: scripting, network and system design, product evaluation, system software deployment, automating tasks–Indirect-Engineering tasks: cross group communication, approvals, assignments, documentation, Human Resources tasks, cross department technology meetings–Instrumental in making Shopatron, Inc. PCI 2.0 level 1 compliant

Lake San Antonio, California

"I am Beach City."I was part of an exclusive support team, which helped coordinate the worlds largest triathlon every May at Lake San Antonio, California. My focus was in the Volunteer Areas; Volunteer Food, Volunteer Camping, and Volunteer Entertainment. I also assisted additional support with Volunteer Management, but my duties resided in "event run-time support." The Volunteer Areas are to service and support the up to 2000 Cal Poly volunteers needed to run the triathlon.–On the fly trouble shooting of planned event activities–Coordination between Volunteer Committees and Lake San Antonio Rangers and Staff–Coordination between Volunteer Committees and "other" volunteer groups–Coordination between Volunteer Committees and other support staff–Assisting in emergency triage, including but not limited to, fires, medical, and downed racers–Conflict resolution between Cal Poly volunteers and Volunteer Committees–Making sure the Volunteer Committees are generally watched out for by providing them all the resources they need for the event–Pre-event supply coordination and delivery scheduling, as well as event supply resolutions–Supporting other support in their areas

San Luis Obispo, California

–Working in a team of 3 to manage a medium sized companies network and system infrastructure–Indirect-Engineering tasks: cross group communication, approvals, assignments, documentation–Linux/Unix user management for about 200 employees and contractors–Lab & production environment creation and management–Deployment and deployment of virtual verticals for a development lab environment–Created automated DNS reload script–Created bulk Lab DNS creation script–Developed and deployed multiple user management scripts, inclusive to all environments and office –Developed and deployed multiple CGI pages (perl and PHP) as a GUI front end to department’s tracking database system, included multiple views, java script, and some session data–Maintained Nagios, DNS, and kickstart systems–Automation of routine tasks, events, and solutions

San Luis Obispo, California

–Maintenance, management, and documentation of the Educational Instruction Lab–Lab contained a mix Mac OS 9, Mac OS 10.2, Windows XP, and Mac OS X Server (10.1 and 10.2)–Assisted the instructors in using a computer lab as part of daily instruction–Assisted the instructors in executing demonstrations of various educational software–Provided general Windows and MAC OS support to department

Scottsvalley, California

–Planning and assembling of product for either local or remote deployment–Trouble shooting and on-site corrections–Basic documentation and inventory–System jumpstart and configuration

Master Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Focus: Embedded Network Systems Design Thesis Defense is still pending.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: Week Of Welcome, Alpha Psi Omega, Wildflower Triathlon Committee, Running ThunderFoci: Networks, Operating.