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Westminster, Colorado

Manager of four DevOps and SRE Engineers on Operations micro-team in the DevOps/Development team for the SANS Security Awareness BU.Responsible for hiring, project management, mentorship and leading the team to meet business goals.Working with other DevOps team & business leaders on project requirements and planning.Lead team daily standups, and bi-weekly sprint infrastructure change and application release management review meetings with other DevOps team and business… Show more Manager of four DevOps and SRE Engineers on Operations micro-team in the DevOps/Development team for the SANS Security Awareness BU.Responsible for hiring, project management, mentorship and leading the team to meet business goals.Working with other DevOps team & business leaders on project requirements and planning.Lead team daily standups, and bi-weekly sprint infrastructure change and application release management review meetings with other DevOps team and business leads.Work with other DevOps team leads on defining team technical guidelines for the SDLC process and operational support of the platform. Show less

Westminster, Colorado, United States

Operations Team Lead in the Operations micro-team part of the DevOps/Development team for the SANS Security Awareness BU.DevOps/Development team was responsible for creating and implementing BU’s next generation SaaS application platform utilizing microservices and event based architecture.Stack consisted of PHP frontend (Fargate), TypeScript backend microservices (API Gateway/Lambda), DynamoDB/Elasticsearch databases, third party integrations running in Fargate and EC2 utilizing Aurora… Show more Operations Team Lead in the Operations micro-team part of the DevOps/Development team for the SANS Security Awareness BU.DevOps/Development team was responsible for creating and implementing BU’s next generation SaaS application platform utilizing microservices and event based architecture.Stack consisted of PHP frontend (Fargate), TypeScript backend microservices (API Gateway/Lambda), DynamoDB/Elasticsearch databases, third party integrations running in Fargate and EC2 utilizing Aurora as its database.Was lead engineer responsible for driving direction and implementation of CI/CD pipeline, Infrastructure as Code and Automation architecture.Consulted with other team leads on designing application architecture and delivery.Pipelines and IaC were able to deploy application/infrastructure changes easily and repeatable across 25 different environments utilizing CodePipeline, CloudFormation, Terraform and Ansible.Analyzed system performance issues/tuning utilizing CloudWatch Log Insights/ServiceLens, X-Ray, NewRelic.Was a mentor for new developers and engineers who were new to our serverless microservice application and polyrepo Git architecture.Helped develop Python cli utility to help with development and operations automation.Was able to help make the peer review process for developers and engineers more efficient by implementing SonarCloud/SonarQube. Provided code quality feedback and static code analysis real-time while developers were developing, and enforced security guardrails in PRs. Show less

Conifer, Colorado

Helped credit card processing company implement Windows .NET based API platform on AWS utilizing Puppet and Bamboo for server configuration and code deployment automation.

Englewood, Co

Migrated from Puppet Enterprise to Puppet Open Source, deployed in a containerized Docker environment with Kubernetes.Using Helm to templatize our stacks in Kubernetes, along with Jenkins for our K8s CD/CI pipeline.Starting migration project away from Cliqr to Terraform for Infrastructure Stack templatization.Deploying infrastructure both to VMware and AWS EC2.Migrated from Puppet Enterprise 3.8 to 2016.Updated existing Puppet manifests to be Puppet 4 compliant.Working… Show more Migrated from Puppet Enterprise to Puppet Open Source, deployed in a containerized Docker environment with Kubernetes.Using Helm to templatize our stacks in Kubernetes, along with Jenkins for our K8s CD/CI pipeline.Starting migration project away from Cliqr to Terraform for Infrastructure Stack templatization.Deploying infrastructure both to VMware and AWS EC2.Migrated from Puppet Enterprise 3.8 to 2016.Updated existing Puppet manifests to be Puppet 4 compliant.Working with development and operations teams on their development of Puppet code along with working with the Puppet CI/CD pipeline.Using Jenkins and HP Operations Orchestration to automate tasks.Optimization of bootstrapping scripts for Linux and Windows servers. Show less

Denver, Colorado

In charge of XenServer and Cloud Environments, Networking, and Storage hardware.Windows and Linux Server Administration.Managing Infrastructure Intern for Spring 2015 semester.Migrated Exchange 2010 environment to Office 365.Migrated off CommVault to Cloud Backup Solution.Migrating from Windows 2008 R2 Domain to 2012 R2 Domain.Implemented HAProxy Load Balancing for IP Commerce's Web Services. Also implemented Squid proxy for Layer 7 Dynamic… Show more In charge of XenServer and Cloud Environments, Networking, and Storage hardware.Windows and Linux Server Administration.Managing Infrastructure Intern for Spring 2015 semester.Migrated Exchange 2010 environment to Office 365.Migrated off CommVault to Cloud Backup Solution.Migrating from Windows 2008 R2 Domain to 2012 R2 Domain.Implemented HAProxy Load Balancing for IP Commerce's Web Services. Also implemented Squid proxy for Layer 7 Dynamic Network Egress.Other technologies used GitLab Community Edition, Bamboo, JIRA, Splunk, and Puppet.Planned and Implemented Office and Data Center Move. Show less

Westminster, Colorado

Working with Trimble business units on deploying solutions to AWS.Amazon Web Services technologies worked with: EC2, ELB, S3, RDS, Redshift, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, SES, SNS, Route53.Implementing Stack automation with CloudFormation, Puppet, and Auto-ScalingCreated HA NAT instances in VPC.Stackdriver AWS Intelligent Monitoring.

Highlands Ranch, Co

Created MongoDB highly available replica set for US and UK infrastructures, on Ubuntu 12.04.Implemented Zabbix Open Source Infrastructure Monitoring, for improved system monitoring and performance trending, on CentOS 6.Administered VMware vSphere 5 environments in US and UK data centers.Implemented MSSQL 2012 AlwaysOn environments.Implemented and administered IIS 7.5 webfarm.Implemented Microsoft Remote Desktop Services with Published Apps.

Parsippany, New Jersey

Virtualization technologies include Citrix XenServer 5.6/6.1, VMware ESX/vSphere, and MS Hyper-VCloud Computing including Amazon Web Services and RackspaceWindows Server Technologies 2003, 2008 R2, 2012 including IIS, SQL Server, Clustering, Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Terminal Server, Exchange, File Services, Sharepoint, Live Communications Server.Microsoft IIS Web Server 6, 7.5 and 8Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012 High Availability including, Always On, Log… Show more Virtualization technologies include Citrix XenServer 5.6/6.1, VMware ESX/vSphere, and MS Hyper-VCloud Computing including Amazon Web Services and RackspaceWindows Server Technologies 2003, 2008 R2, 2012 including IIS, SQL Server, Clustering, Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Terminal Server, Exchange, File Services, Sharepoint, Live Communications Server.Microsoft IIS Web Server 6, 7.5 and 8Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005, 2008, 2012 High Availability including, Always On, Log Shipping, Database Mirroring and Snapshot ReplicationExchange 2003 to 2010 Migration, DAG, CAS Array’s in Multiple Geographic LocationsActive Directory 2003 to 2008 R2 Migration, with DNS and DHCP servicesPGP/GPG File EncryptionPowerShell and VBS ScriptingLinux Technologies:CentOS, Ubuntu Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux ServerApache, Tomcat, MySQL, PHP, SSH, SFTP, FTP, Squid, and SambaAlfresco Community Edition CMS (Tomcat, MySQL 5.5, Lucene)Zabbix Infrastructure Monitoring System (Apache, MySQL 5.5, PHP)Graylog2 log management (Apache, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Ruby on Rails)Shell and Perl ScriptingStorage Technologies:EMC Clariion CX4 Fibre Channel SAN, Brocade Fiber SwitchesFour Aberdeen iSCSI and NFS NAS’sCloud Computing:Amazon Web Services, EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudwatch, Elastic Beanstalk, ELB, Glacier, SESTwinStrata Cloud Storage Appliance, local ISCSI disk caching device for S3Implemented lifeline cell phone certification system for major cellular carrier on Amazon Web Services. (IIS 8, SQL 2012, AWS VPC and ELB)Implemented cloud based IVR on inContact platform to handle 1,600 concurrent self-service phone calls for major cellular carrier, connecting via web services.Implemented Open Source Alfresco Content Management SystemImplemented TwinStrata Cloud Storage Caching Solution for Windows File ServersImplemented Zabbix Open Source Infrastructure MonitoringImplemented Open Source Graylog2 Log Management Server Show less

Parsippany, New Jersey

Implemented Web Infrastructure for lifeline cell phone certification system for major cell phone carrier, that handles millions of transactions a day. (IIS 6, SQL 2005)Implemented Web Infrastructure for National Low-Income Broadband program, with multiple broadband providers. (IIS 7.5, SQL 2008 R2)Managed Web Infrastructure for multiple State and Federal programs, (IIS 6 and SQL 2005).Implemented Citrix XenServer farms for virtualization infrastructure, and managed VMware vSphere 4… Show more Implemented Web Infrastructure for lifeline cell phone certification system for major cell phone carrier, that handles millions of transactions a day. (IIS 6, SQL 2005)Implemented Web Infrastructure for National Low-Income Broadband program, with multiple broadband providers. (IIS 7.5, SQL 2008 R2)Managed Web Infrastructure for multiple State and Federal programs, (IIS 6 and SQL 2005).Implemented Citrix XenServer farms for virtualization infrastructure, and managed VMware vSphere 4 infrastructure.Implemented and managed Microsoft Remote Desktop Service farm, including published applications.Implemented and managed Linux SFTP and FTP environments, along with Samba services.Responsible for EMC SAN, and ISCSI NAS environments.Implemented Microsoft Live Communications Server environmentMigrated from Novell Netware to Windows File Services 2008Performed Data Center move with minimal downtimeSetup Disaster Recovery infrastructure, and performed yearly testing. Show less

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Network And Communications Management

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