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Worldwide, Oo

• AWS Security: Analyze Amazon Inspector Assessment Runs, identify potential breaches, and remediate as needed.• Automation: Develop Chef Recipes for CIS Benchmark findings from Inspector Runs.• Team Lead: Lead a team of local and offshore engineers, organize and assign tasks, monitor progress, and proof Chef Recipes. Report progress and status to senior management.

Valley Forge, Pa, Us

• Linux system build designs. Architect VMware clients for deployment, designate VLANs, data stores and assign IP address according to corporate polices. Use VMWare VCenter and VOPS to distribute resources. • Provides level Tier 3 Linux engineering and technical support to ensure the reliable build and operation of production and non-production environments. Collaborates with the other platform, infrastructure, security, and network teams. goal of risk avoidance and resilience. • Establish and ensure standards compliance. Create Confluence Wiki documentation, including installation procedures, troubleshooting tips.• Identify opportunities to improve systems and applications performance, automating manual system tasks, corporate security, policy/procedures.

• Provided support for Production and Staging environments by responding to tear 1 escalation requests. Worked with teams to assess the incidences, troubleshoot and resolved or provided a detailed analysis to forward incidences to tear 3 support. • Created and maintained the Development to Production Support Transition Plan for a proprietary software package that consists of a Linux RHEL based environment with secondary Windows 2012 components.• Upgraded applications, documented the procedures and trained the support team.Confluence Wiki Administration• Created the Wiki space for the Production Operation Support team. This included the landing page and sub pages for the supported applications. Also created education material and held training sessions.Password Security • Created password security protocols, documented, implemented and trained support team on best practice procedures.

Linux DevOps Engineer• Constructed an end-to-end process by working with an application team to understand their deliveries, then design, implement, test, and troubleshoot the automated processes that deployed Syslog-NG, an application for Syslog collection, in development and QA environment. • Participate in the engineering and design that re-purposed an existing production environment for Syslog-NG. Implemented the automation processes that were developed in QA to roll out the application to multiple data centers.ESXi 5.5 Support • Performing daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all virtual hardware, resources, systems, and key processes. • Perform the installation, configuration, and maintenance of a VMware infrastructure, including, several ESXi hosts and a vCenter Server Appliance. • Provision and clone virtual machines and server appliances as needed. Automation • Wrote Ansible playbooks to automate various task needed during CentOS deployment via Kickstart, as well as application installation and configuration. Monitoring • Built Grafana 4.6 dashboards for VMware host and virtual machine monitoring. AWS Support• Experience creating and maintaining Devops AWS infrastructure with, CloudWatch, AMI right sizing, utilization and tagging best practices.

• Designed and implemented backend Linux and Windows data storage servers. Components include MySQL, Apache, spam detection filter, mail, Zymon monitoring, and firewall configuration.• Developed initial web service solution for a small internet base commerce site. • Oversee future direction of the technologic aspects of the company. Conduct weekly meeting with the planning committee, implement and monitor the projects.

Wawa, Pa, Us

• AWS operations support and configurations with EC2 instances and S3 buckets.• VMware support and configuration. Reconcile Linux server inventory definition files.• Standardized VMWare Tools instances and Linux server upgrade policies and procedures.• Strong cross technology background in areas such as Linux, network, and middleware.

Mclean, Va, Us

• Configure and deploy AWS servers for development environments.• Work in an Agile environment on a Scrum team providing 3rd level support for AWS Linux and Apache web tiers. Analyze system and security logs to quickly resolve escalated issues for national development and QA environments. • Configure Splunk and PostgreSQL in accordance to Engineering Design Documents. Provide Bash Scripting support during installation and troubleshooting. Develop installation documents to reduce installation times. • Serve as Linux SME and have been sought out by other teams for assistance.• Resolve data center connectivity issues due to firewall constraints. Design Firewall Management Forms, present them to the networking team for approval and implementation then validate connectivity after execution.• Conducted Cross Platform Training sessions on the methodologies to post provision servers on the Windows and Linux platforms. Hosted online presentations, produced supporting documentation and mentored individuals for continuous learning.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Integration Engineer• Developed testing and installation procedures for the national deployment of an OCAP based cable TV distribution system. • Built and maintained 70 OCAP servers with 1000 cable TV devices for the national End to End test lab. • Responsible for the quality of the Tru2way applications before national deployment.• Trouble shoot application process and inter-server communications problems with various commands such as tcpdump, top, and netstat• Design, install and configure multiple instances of OCAP cluster consisting of 8 to 30 Red Hat Linux servers, an Oracle Database and Dell NAS with active failover and load balanced servers. • Assist in developing and approval of a Statement Of Work for Offshore test team• Manage 6 onsite engineers, including 3 offshore developers for OCAP installation, upgrade and testing.• Managed server test case automation development, resulting in a savings of $200,000 per year. • Developed server test reporting and SMOP standards.

• Increased production servers’ availability from 75% to 99% by setting up Nagios monitoring system and documenting running applications• Administered a Linux environment for a global manufacture, acted as the liaison between the North America and Swedish IT Departments,

• Provide Sun hardware and software technical support, during a customer disaster recovery test or an actual disaster. Test lab setups consisted of installing Solaris 8, 9, or 10 on servers, configuring the operating system according to customer specifications, adding local and remote tape drives, tape libraries, and EMC SAN devices via SCSI and fiber infrastructure.

J.P Morgan, Wilmington DE - Enterprise System Engineer• Build, configured and installed Sun, IBM, and HP servers for a national data center. Solaris servers installed via a Jump Start server, manually configured through a jump host terminal server. • Verify the configuration of the hardware and network using a VFL and a Fluke DTR. Motorola, Horsham PA- Remote Unix Engineer• Upgrade software components for Motorola DAC controllers. Upgrades were performed on Sun Fire servers running Solaris and Compaq servers running SCO. • Verified and documented upgrade procedures. This increased upgrade efficiency by 25%. Sanofi-Synthelabo, Wayne, PA - System Analyst• Provided 3rd level support for a data center of 100 Windows workstations Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA UNIX System Auditor – Contract: Robert Half International, Philadelphia, PA• Served as the internal Unix system auditor for Thomas Jefferson University legal department. • Developed the methodology for a detailed survey of a Sun 4500 server and NAS storage arrayQuest Data CenterBristol PA - UNIX System Support• Installed and configured Sun Servers for an IBM Co-Location facility.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Engineering

Certification, Solaris

Mscp, Microsoft Professional

Associates Degree, Electronic Engineering Technician