Responsible for the planning, maintenance, and operation of the enterprise cloud infrastructure with a focus on database systems and observability / monitoring.

Worked fully Remote since March 2020. Practiced Scrum in an agile, GitOps development environment. Enjoyed pair and "mob" programming. Performed code reviews and wrote documentation. Coached junior members of the team in some areas, learned from them in other areas. Served as ScrumMaster for team. Technology included C# .Net Core apps running in Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure Cloud, GitLab CI/CD, MS SQL Server, Ansible, AWX, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams.

Contributed to construction and backfill of Google BigQuery data lake using Apache Airflow.Participated in SRE production on-call rotation that included coverage of the following:* Kubernetes pods / containers / scheduling / scaling / cronjobsPHP web application and backend services (mail delivery systems, api endpoints, sync services, queuing, graphql)* MariaDB (replication, performance, etc), Nginx, MongoDB, Memcached, Redis, Elasticsearch* Apache Airflow / data warehouse sync jobsTechnologies included Docker, Google Cloud Platform (GCE, GKE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery), MySQL/MariaDB, Apache Airflow, Kubernetes, Python, PHP, Ansible, git, Bash, YAML, Prometheus, Memcached, AWS S3, Slack, Jira/Confluence, PagerDuty.

This position with the Advanced Computing and Information Systems Laboratory (ACIS) at the University of Florida was part of Cyberinfrastructure team working on the national Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) project. This multi-institutional project is funded by the National Science Foundation to build the "big biological collection database in the sky". The ACIS laboratory is responsible for designing and developing the middleware, supporting storage, and cloud infrastructure for the project. Technology included Python, Celery, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Ceph, S3 storage API, JavaScript, node.js, JSON, XML, Salt, Foreman, Redis, Citrix Xenserver.

System Administrator and Interim Team Lead of Linux Infrastructure Team. Support campus Apache web hosting infrastructure (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMware) as well as many other enterprise *nix systems and services. Technology included Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), VMware, Nagios, Apache, MySQL, Shibboleth, cfengine, NFS, F5, Tomcat, Shibboleth SSO, DNS updates via BlueCat Proteus, BMC Remedy ticketing system.

Performed database and web development, ETL and data warehousing, system administration. Technologies used: FreeBSD, PostgreSQL, Perl and Bash shell scripting.

IT Senior for the Children's Oncology Group, part of the Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research in the College of Medicine. Primary job duties include Linux and Windows system administration, as well as VMware and Fibre Channel SAN management. Supported desktop and server apps used by statisticians and clinical trial research coordinators.

Functioned as Lead System Administrator and managed the day-to-day activities of tech staff. Performed strategic planning, enforced policies, and participated in hiring committees. Technologies used: Linux, Apache, Windows, IIS, MSSQL, iSCSI, Ghost, SMTP, and many others.

Provided Level-2 support as part of the University Help Desk. Supported Windows and Macintosh desktops in a Novell network environment.

Functioned as Network Administrator for in-house and client sites. Secured Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Linux servers for deployment on the Internet. Migrated network services from Digital Unix and OpenVMS to Windows NT Server 4.0. Migrated e-mail users from multiple platforms to Microsoft Exchange Server and Outlook. Developed SQL reports using Oracle tools. Configured and tested Windows NT backup and restore strategies, including bare-metal restore. Automated deployments with unattended installations and disk imaging such as Ghost.