Colin Johnson Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Engineer at and owner of a DevOps Consulting company, offering the following:- AWS architecture consulting and AWS migrations- Common DevOps tooling implementation (CI/CD, Source Code Management)- Ongoing staff augmentation for Bay Area technology companies- Software development, specifically for applications meant to manage and administer AWS- Bespoke training for up to 30 personsMy own specific skills:- AWS: deep familiarity with nearly all AWS services. Auto Scaling, CloudWatch, EC2, ECS, EKS, ElasticBeanstalk, ELB, Elasticache, Route 53, RDS, S3, SNS, SQS. Special emphasis on AWS usage in web-scale environments.- CI/CD: implementation of CI/CD using various software and services- Configuration Management: operational level familiarity with Ansible, Salt and Puppet. Contributed boto* modules to SaltStack project including testing using moto.- Containers: a number of ECS and EKS implementations.- Databases: operational level familiarity with both SQL and NoSQL databases including DynamoDB, Riak, Mongo, Microsoft SQL and MySQL.- Development: writes software primarily in python, with an emphasis on code for automation or analysis. Uniquely familiar with writing operationally sound code having added unit testing to one of the most widely used configuration management systems and bulletproofed a contract-worker scheduling system for a $50/million+ year company.- Infrastructure Automation: unique and expert level familiarity with AWS CloudFormation and familiarity with Ansible, Salt and terraform for infrastructure provisioning.- Monitoring and Alerting: familiarity with CloudWatch, DataDog, NewRelic, nagios, PagerDuty and an excellent understanding of monitoring and alerting technologies in general.- Operating Systems: deep knowledge of Linux as a server operating system. Operational level familiarity of Windows 2008 servers and OS X servers.- Web Servers: implementation and operational level familiarity with Apache httpd, Apache tomcat and nginx

San Francisco, California, Us

Wholly responsible for internal IT Service and a member of DevOps team responsible for availability and performance of application infrastructure. Facilities Management responsibilities on an as needed basis.Responsible for Internal IT Operations across a 50+ person / 3 site company, including:- Internet and Network (Cisco Routing, remote access SSL VPN and site to site IPSec VPN)- Telecom and Voice Messaging: Digium Switchvox with Polycom hardware and third party hosted solutions.- Workstation Services (Mac OS X, Windows 7 and common workstation applications)Responsible for operational support for external IT services, including:- Deployment and Administration of Corporate and Customer websites (RightScale, Amazon's Web Services including EC2, RDS, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Linux, Apache and SVN)Other Responsibilities as Necessary:- Procurement, selection and installation of office furniture- Installation, maintenance and upgrades of office electrical and data infrastructure for new and existing facilities

San Francisco, Us

Responsible for management of the IT department at a leading digital automotive advertising organization. Management responsibilities included budgeting and procurement, project management, departmental staffing and ensuring service availability.Responsible for ensuring IT service availability of the following services:- Internet and Network (T1s, MPLS, Cisco Firewalls, Routers and Switches)- IT infrastructure utilizing Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory for authentication, authorization and desktop management (using Group Policy)- Telecom and Voice Messaging (PRIs, Cisco Unified Call Manager and Cisco Unity)- Virtual Server Infrastructure (VMware ESX)- Workstation Services (Mac OS X, Windows XP and common workstation applications)Over the course of two years at Jumpstart Automotive Media, I accomplished the following:- Negotiated and authored IT Service Level Agreement- Established a disciplined IT department: post-mortem, change control processes, comprehensive entrance and exit procedures and new hire training- Reduction of yearly spend on hardware and software by 40% from $125,000 in 2007 and 2008 to under $75,000 in 2009

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

- Member of 9 person support staff responsible for support of corporate users (~2,500 users, ranging from Sales staff to System Engineers)- Primary Macintosh Support Technician

Brisbane, California, Us

Hardware and software support for 80 Windows Server 2000/2003 and Mac OS X Server systems in a 99.9% availability environmentResponsible for all multi-user systems, including:- Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange Administration- Ensuring and Maintaining Server Availability (Windows and Mac OS X Server products)- Email and Calendaring Support (Microsoft Exchange 2003)- Backup and Disaster Recovery- File sharing and FTP- Blackberry Enterprise Server and Blackberry Devices- First Level Network and Telecom Support- Member of 24/7 on-call support team

- Responsible for providing server (primarily Mac OS X Server) and network support for seven Bay Area clients- Responsible for workstation support for all clients’ Macintosh OS and Windows based systems

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Incomplete, Liberal And Civic Studies / Religious Studies

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