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Bradenton, Fl, Us

Strategically leading the architectural vision in collaboration with CTO and Director of Engineering, modernizing existing stack, enhancing product viability and technical capabilities. Introducing concepts like site reliability, operational excellence and modern release concepts.Leading the pioneering efforts to develop and standardize system and security architecture, markedly enhancing integrity, security, and scalability. Establishing of a DevSecOps culture has deepened organizational accountability and heightened awareness of risk and exposure across critical product and operational areas.Enhancing the company's growth by fostering an innovative technical culture that aligned technological advancements with business objectives. Enabling new revenue streams by architecting key solutions, including a data warehouse and an external partner API initiative, which deepened industry stickiness and product differentiation.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Grew team from 1 to 15+ engineers covering platform, devops, security, infrastructure and compliance.Managed and mentored many leads/new managers through growth strategies and career planning.Achieved 30-50% cost and scale efficiency through automation by leading multiple lean and efficient cloud platform and engineering teams.Awarded as a security thought leader by customers and vendors.Designed RESTful APIs, serverless and kubernetes architectures that work well for rapid growth, adoption and differentiating capabilities for customers.Led, managed and completed multiple rounds of external SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR audits. Provided guidance and remediations for annual 3rd party penetration assessments.Facilitated and managed colocation to cloud, cloud to cloud and hybrid to cloud migrations to AWS.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

- Integrates infrastructure & security based engineering teams on a global basis- Provides strategic and operational leadership to global infrastructure & security team members- Develops annual infrastructure & security vision, goals and objectives- Oversees the implementation and maintenance of highly complex, innovative, and cost effective systems solutions.- Monitors and analyzes the impact of new technology on existing and future capacity, provides advice and counsels customer regarding appropriate technological system solutions- Configure, deploy and document new infrastructure & security, applying rigorous standardized configurations and procedures.- Leads team to organize, prioritize and document tasks and projects; ensures due dates are met.- Develops, maintains and implements a proactive capacity planning & compliance models to support business decisions.- Coordinates all levels of server, storage, monitoring, etc. changes with appropriate teams to ensure uninterrupted service- Utilizes monitoring, mapping and alerting software to proactively collect data and conduct real-time analysis of the performance of the servers and storage mitigating business impacting events.- Acknowledges and resolves user and system-generated production issues for assigned infrastructure within established service levels- Maintain documentation for all operational / support processes for the systems supported by the systems administration team; automate repetitive processes where appropriate- Participate in strategic planning, tactical operation planning, and the development of contingency operation plans for supported systems and environments- Collaborate with internal cross-functional teams and external technology partners to prioritize, estimate and complete projects in support of business.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Founding architect and devops engineer of AWS platform.Designed and built all tooling, cicd, automation, monitoring, observability and security infrastructure to support multiple micro services and deployments.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Authored over 50 custom Puppet modules for provisioning, configuration and codedeployment through a single workflow.Designed and maintain multiple Mongo and Elastic Search clusters in Production.Built the "DevOps" team with executive management from the ground up.Live by the standard of build, document, automate, and measure.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Design both the development and production data center infrastructure to support850 remote locations and 25,000 concurrent connections. Work with the hostingdatacenter (N3t.com) and Level3 (ISP) engineers, sales, and contractors to streamline process and failover scenarios.Utilizing a hybrid approach by taking advantage of both open source and commercial solutions such as: Riverbed Traffic Manager, CentOS, Nginx,Couchbase (memcache), Graylog and many more.The virtual datacenter is built on VMware Cloud Director and built to scale and extend to Amazon's EC2 cloud.

Design, support, and maintain VMware clusters for the Air Force and their partners.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Us

Designed and built network infrastructure for the companyInstalled and configured 100+ Linux servers (CentOS, Windows Server 2008)Developed custom monitoring for servers and website with Perl and PHPBuild, maintained and monitored a Vmware HA Cluster (10+ Servers) over iSCSIManaged SAN Storage( Equallogic )Installed and configured MySql, Apache, Nagios, Cacti, PHP, iptablesCreated and implemented policies and procedures for IT departmentImplemented security protocols for website and officeImplemented remote VPN and Site-to-Site VPN solutionsManaged website Load Balancer for high volume websiteTuned Linux OS to maximize performanceImplemented OpenLDAP for centralize authenicationKeeping track of appropriate software and upgrade software packages

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

System Administration and Patch Deployment to over 8,000 customers via Symantec Altiris CMS.Manage and maintain all PCI and non-PCI compliant images for all production hardware.Analyze and recommend process improvements to ensure better efficiency and productivity.Top level escalation point for the POS / Managed Services support groups.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

System administration and end-user support for 2500 mixed nodes and 500 mixed server platforms.

Hanover, Md, Us

Various IT contracts all around the U.S for Fortune 500 companies.