Bruce Davis Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

I work with the exact same people, doing the exact same thing, but now for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, in addition to Amazon Web Services.

New York, Ny, Us

Support SaaS customers and products in a virtualized CentOS Linux environment as part of DevOps team.Configure and deploy VMware CentOS Linux virtual machines using Opscode Chef automation.Develop, modify, test, and deploy Chef cookbooks, templates, roles, and data bags in Ruby and embedded Ruby.Forked and customized Opscode Chef Splunk cookbook that implements, deploys, and manages a distributed enterprise Splunk environment.Configured, built, and deployed new virtual datacenter infrastructures with Opscode Chef.Migrated between production virtual data centers as part of DevOps team while minimizing customer downtime.Developed Opscode Chef cookbooks using Flyway and Apache Maven to deploy and manage Apache Tomcat application and MySQL database servers.Developed Opscode Chef cookbook managed backup BASH shell scripts for production MySQL databases, Apache and JBoss application configurations, local Git repositories, and home directories.Deployed upgraded Opscode Chef servers from version 10 to 11.Configured and deployed MySQL database replication for mission critical servers.Create and manage f5 BIG-IP Virtual Servers, SSL certificates, Profiles, iRules, Pools, and Nodes.Configure NetApp volumes, NFS share, and LUNs.Configure VMware Virtual Machines, Datastores, and Templates. Troubleshoot, diagnose, and repair server and application problems.Participate in daily DevOps scrum and code review.Participate in on-call rotation as part of DevOps team.

Boston, Ma, Us

Built, configured, deployed, and managed Sun and Apple enterprise class servers in a SAN/NAS environment for Oracle, Lawson Financials, Artesia DAM and Veritas NetBackup Enterprise and FileMaker Pro servers.Configured network attached nearline hierarchical storage for television production work with IT storage team. Managed company-wide file server consolidation project.Deployed Network Attached Storage (Sun ZFS Storage Appliance) for department and end user home directories.Installed, configured and managed PGP Universal server; deployed PC and Mac whole disk encryption.Configured, installed and managed Parallels Bare Metal for Mac and VMware Fusion for Mac OS X server virtualization.Installed, configured and deployed Apple Open Directory to company-wide Mac desktop environment.Installed, configured and documented Artesia DAM 6.8 test and production environments.Installed and configured Red Hat Enterprise virtual Linux DNS servers on VMware vSphere 4.Managed enterprise-wide Symantec NetBackup environment for Windows, Solaris, and Linux servers and MS Exchange server 2007/2010.Upgraded Symantec NetBackup Enterprise server and clients to latest version multiple times.Consolidated enterprise-wide Symantec NetBackup policies to ensure effective backup and recovery.Managed StorageTek SL8500 LTO4/LTO5 ACSLS and Sun 700e LTO3 tape libraries. Evaluated, tested and managed Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac desktops.Consolidated locally attached storage for several servers to a SAN infrastructure.Migrated Meeting Maker calendar data for 900+ users to Exchange 2007 with vendor support and IT Exchange team.Upgraded existing web server environment using Solaris containers for additional Apache/MySQL/PHP instances with custom compiled PHP.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

Built, configured, deployed and managed SunFire enterprise class servers in a SAN environment for Oracle, Amdocs/Clarify, Rational ClearCase, Hyperion/Essbase and Primus (75+ servers).Architected, deployed and managed an enterprise-wide (11 sites, 130+ servers) Veritas NetBackup solution.Relocated entire corporate HQ datacenter as part of IT infrastructure team.Consolidated multiple server environments from several corporate mergers and acquisitions.Consolidated multiple vendor support contracts from Sun, StorageTEK and Veritas/Symantec with IT Director.Built, managed and troubleshot Sophos PureMessage/Postfix AntiSpam solution.Administrated corporate FTP, DNS and NIS servers and NFS exported UNIX home directories.Patched UNIX servers and Java Runtime Environments (JRE) for daylight saving time change.Troubleshot UNIX hardware & software and closed help desk tickets daily.Documented all UNIX system policies and procedures and all server/system builds.

Supported corporate network of 135 UNIX systems running Linux, IRIX & Solaris.Built, configured & installed software tools & packages for UNIX & Linux servers including Apache, DNS, GCC, Java, Perl, Python, ClearCase, SAMBA, Sendmail, etc.Built, configured & maintained Red Hat Linux & Solaris, servers & high availability Red Hat Linux server farm for software research & development.Designed, implemented & managed corporate backup, recovery & disaster recovery policy.Administered Veritas NetBackup for 60+ UNIX & NT servers on an ADIC Scalar 1000 library.Consolidated multiple NIS/NFS environments & migrated all UNIX servers.Upgraded IRIX OS & managed FlexLM software licenses on 28 SGI workstations. Managed corporate internal & external DNS. Built secondary DNS servers.Recompiled Linux kernel for ClearCase MVFS file system & CD-RW support.