Michael Renz Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny

I managed the SRE Operations team.The SRE:Ops team is responsible for the frontline incident response, code revision repository systems, CI/CD infrastructure and automation, as well as a number of internally-developed infrastructure applications.

New York, Ny

• Played a key role in the migration of the full site to AWS, supporting multi-AZ and cross-region failover capabilities• Architected, provisioned, and supported HA environments for Puppet, MySQL, Cloudera Hadoop, Cassandra, Zookeeper, Github Enterprise, Jenkins, and NFS• Initial buildout of a Conjur-based secrets management system for ITSEC audit compliance• Led BCDR testing and worked with auditors to validate BCDR procedures for HA environments• Acted as a liaison with multiple parent companies to further larger organizational goals• Worked with third party audit companies to create procedures and standards for ITSEC and NETSEC compliance• Supported management objectives through multiple upper-level changes and adaptations of business-level agendas• Refactored the main puppet repository to be a modular design that incorporated third party modules

I like puppet and xen...but they weren't enough by themselves, so now I've gotten familiar with openstack, too.Oh, and infiniband.

I like ZFS.

I worked with Zenoss and Bacula, and learned some methods that some of my coding experience could be applied to systems administration.

Created a test suite in perl, php, and sql for their backend environments that turned the regression process into a 7 minute job, from 2 weeks of work. Worked directly with developers, account managers, traffic experts and management to reduce the time needed to test the backend platform, as well as to increase the tolerance of results.

QA Analyst - I coded a lot of perl automation stuff. Besides that, documentation and other utilities.

Semi-memorable job - got to test a pretty cool Web/3d design prog named Enliven(aka Bonfire). Basically interface testing and code gen verification. Cool stuff, and sometimes I still use my older copy of it. I'd probably still be putting bug reports in for it if Viewpoint had a semi-public bug tracking interface.

Great place to work. Good people, interesting culture. Much of what needed testing already had test suites created for it, but I was given the ability to automate things as I felt necessary, so long as it didn't interfere with deadlines, or waste time(i.e. - I couldn't code anything I wanted, but anything I wanted to code that would help Unicast AND make my job as a QA Engineer, and other QA Engineer's jobs better was almost always fair game).Unicast was purchased by Viewpoint at the end of 2004.

Cellphone Tech at Forest Hills Verizon Wireless with Solectron Global Services.Basically finger-hacking cellphones and swapping them out, but when I first started, they'd occasionally let me open cellphones and fix their internals(which is actually easier for me, since most problems just require the phone have a decent cleaning, or something annoying like the speaker or the microphone replaced).I could fix the phone by just grabbing a T6 and a toothbrush, or even by just replacing individual components.When I didn't have to swap them out, or open them up, there's always finger hacking the cellphone's setup, which helps depending on what needs to be fixed.In the end, I left them on pretty good terms for the job at Unicast.

The digital version of what I had previously done in analog at Hanover Direct - design and prepress - this time, with Quark, Photoshop, and Illustrator instead of a razor blade, masking tape and film!Eventually I ended up helping some clients with design work. Working at Fray also gave me a place to learn a modest amount of Spanish, as many of my coworkers spoke Spanish, and were quite willing to correct me when I said something the wrong way, or interpreted what they said the wrong way.This job also gave me the ability to work with production RIPs and film plotters, as well as to work with Pantone colors, swatchbooks, etc.Good stuff.(p.s. - I recommend Fray for almost any printing people need, as most everyone there knows their job quite well, and have great eyes for the stuff they work on.)

Exposing, Developing, Finishing, Cutting and Masking Film. Exposing and Developing Plates for printing.Great stuff. Not too bright(I like to work in the dark on a light table), and I got to do a lot of work alone. Helped me to establish a routine for a work day, and I like to work in darkrooms.

Learned a lot about EE here, how to fix various electrical circuits - got the chance to reverse-engineer a WebTV here, and quite a lot of soldering experience.Much of my time here was spent on a workbench with a soldering iron, a multimeter, and an oscilloscope, although sometimes people would come in with a computer to repair, or order a computer to be built and I'd build it/help build it/set it up, whatever.Cool place, small business, but lot of comp stuff that I could do. Ultimately, I had to leave because the owner couldn't make a lot of money off of repair, etc. and was paying me in pager service.