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Ashburn, Virginia, United States

Remote, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Experience working in FedRAMP NIST 800-53 EnvironmentSetup Azure Sentinel to achieve CMMC NIST 800-171 RequirementsUtilized Splunk and Solarwinds for proactive log and alert operationsIndependent Developer creating Active Automation of Manual Tasks with PipelinesUtilizes Concourse-Ci, Jenkins, Gitlab & ArtifactoryLanguages/Syntax used include bash, python, perl, yamlBinary Scanning for Malware and Vulnerabilities/CVE ViolationsGit merge triggered Terraform code scanning for linting, security, and errors.Automation eliminates wasted code reviews by issuing a pass/fail immediately. Creation of SBOM for shipping approved artifacts in-boundary to GovCloudMetrics & Alerts proactively track for issues before customers are affected.All Secrets Management Used Hashicorp VaultDeveloped an adapter solution for external secret manager use with concourse-ci

Seattle, Wa, Us

Served as a Amazon Linux SME across multiple teams. Developed automated Amazon Linux kernel management solution for Bare Metal HA MySQL Cluster. Tested, Benchmarked, and Qualified new hardware for fleet migrations.Prevented entire region wide service outages in EC2. Debugged and resolved software and hardware issues quickly. (GDB, strace )Developed Full CI/CD DNS backup serviceProactively monitor service metrics to investigate and solve potential problems. Create and manage Full CI/CD pipelines via CodeChange Management Bar Raiser - Check and Raise Quality of Change RequestsDocument run-books, service architecture, and package documentation.Primary languages: Bash / Ruby

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Data Stores Support TeamSupport Customers with DbaaS Products that include:-Mysql (MariaDB, Percona, Oracle-MySQL)-Hadoop (Hortonworks)-RedisWith infrastructure support for:DebianRedhat/CentosOpenVZHAProxyArchitect Datastore Solutions for Customers.Troubleshoot and Resolve product interruptions.Document internal and external articles. Script tools to automate regular processes.Debug and report product issues.Brainstorm proactive product features.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Managed Cloud SupportManaged and advise customers on protocol for security and best practice.Work in a team environment to exchange support and knowledge. Create and maintain and troubleshoot solutions for various customers. Educate co workers and provide an escalation point for resolutions. Apache & Nginx Web Servers - Setup and Tuning for multiple hosts and routes.Varnish front end HTTP caching and configurationMemcache, Redis, MongoDB installation configuration and troubleshooting.Postfix - Setup mail relay and routing rulesMySQL - Maintenance, Tuning, and ReplicationSFTP/FTP/SSH - Configure secure jailed access for customersDNS - Rackspace Cloud DNS configuration and troubleshootingWeb Applications - Wordpress, Joomla, Magento, Drupal troubleshootingRackspace/Openstack Cloud Product API - to script deployments and modifications with BASH and Curl and Python

Albany, Ny, Us

As a systems administrator for WebSphere-Support at NYS Finance Regulation and Gaming (formerly NYS Taxation and Finance). My duties included;- the installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of the software listed below. - working with people across departments to accomplish agency goals. - learning and understanding new software independently. - after hours support and remote access administration.- documented and maintained standard work and procedures in a shared wikiSoftware worked with:IBM WebSphere Application ServerIBM HTTP ServerIBM Edge Load BalancingIBM AIXIBM CognosIBM WebSphere Commerce ServerIBM WebSphere Process ServerF5 Load Balancing ApplianceCA SiteMinderLanguages worked with:PHP, MySQL, Python/Jython, Perl, KSH, BASH.

Resolve technical problems students had with equipment or accessing campus resources such as network login or wireless activation.

Installed & AdministratedWindows Server 2003/R2/2008VMware ESX 3.0.2/3.5VMware VirtualCenter 2/2.5SQL Server 2005IIS 6/7DSM/APM Desktop Monitoring & ReportsEPO ePolicy Orechstrator / McAfeeResponsibilitiesAdministration with 300 Windows servers across 250 VMware Servers, with 2500 Users. Created policies & procedures to adhere to Security RequirementsVBScript/ SQL Scripts to automate common tasksResearched Vendor Hardware and Support AgreementsDocumented technical reports with Office and VisioBackup Imaging and Ghosting of Microsoft Servers

On call status with the responsibility to travel to clients and provide them with technical support, and solutions toproblems reported. My position had me doing everything from hardware to software troubleshooting and repair. Thisincluded desktops, servers, and printer repair. With every upgrade, came the challenge of compatibility withproprietary software. All problems were solved, no matter what, with customer satisfaction in mind. When not onassignment, I also worked with Visual Basic.NET with SQL Server 2000 and Access to write interfaces to userdatabases.

Developed and maintained a community website with forums to service 500+ users on daily basis. Our websitereceived nearly 1000 hits a day on average. This website was written in PHP with MySQL for storage. An interfacewas written for end users to be used with browsers, while a second interface was written for a modified computergame to synchronize information. This project ended as college became more demanding.

Schenectady, Ny, Us

I monitored the lab, and assisted students with their work, tutored Visual Basic.NET, and fixed PC's. I built a Linux Computer Lab with Ubuntu 6.06 with Linux High-Availability for clustering.

Bachelors Of Science, Computer Engineering Technology

Associates In Applied Science, Computer Networks & Systems