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San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

Hoboken, New Jersey, US

• Developing technical strategies and executing on corporate initiatives to transform business operations and drive change through automation, operational tools development, monitoring, engineering analysis, and data.
• Designing, building and managing large scale data processing pipeline for operational services with a 99.999% uptime. The entire service platform is scalable, fully redundant and highly available.
• Managing automation engineer and project manager with a budget of $500K.
• Built full-stack monitoring services utilizing the data pipeline eliminating third-party NOC and saving the company $1.2M over the first year.
• Technical services monitored include hybrid environment, AWS, and on-premise (two data centers), full monitoring with 256 hosts, 27 service checks per minute, processing of 15B documents, 3500+ applications, 10K log.
• Service platform utilizes Elasticsearch, Logstash, Java, Kibana, Beats, Kafka, Zookeeper, RabbitMQ, VictorOps, OpenAm, OpenDJ, AWS, Kubernetes, Dockers, Javascript, Angular, and D3js.

• Various service contracts including Centroid – full-stack solutions and systems monitoring using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and systems metric data. Instigated the creation of a custom equity analysis cluster through.

San Ramon, CA, US

• Drove execution of strategic business and technology initiatives for a leading provider of Cloud Contact Center SaaS software which improved operations, optimized usage, and delivered better business outcomes for.
• Architected and managed monitoring services for the entire company with three data centers including systems, applications, networking, telecom, and corporate IT. Technology stack included Linux, Windows, Cisco, MySQL.
• Improved data access and overall visibility for DevOps and Engineering.
• The monitoring environment included Elasticstack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), Logicmonitor, and custom developed tools. This service is now processing over 3TB of data per day.
• Managed and mentored staff. Partnered with and matrix managed teams including tools developers, monitoring engineers, data scientists and data analysts developing data analysis, operations, integration, and monitoring.
• Created multi-year business and technology plans including budget development and forecast reporting which were adopted by C-level executives.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Provided strategic business and technology leadership to executive management for a SaaS global mobile network services company.
• Created data collection and analysis tools showing real-time statistics for over 2K providers and over 100K clients utilizing 1.1M Wi-Fi hot spots.
• Played an instrumental role in administering various applications including dynamic discovery, analysis, and management of more than 1M Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide, client and device error analysis, and processing.
• Managed and trained staff of Unix Administrators.
• Created tools including ETL, data analysis, and visualization services as needed for various departments.
• Consulted executive management, finance, and marketing teams to enhance the tool's functionality for their business operations, audits, and a better understanding of market trends and usage.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Designed and developed applications for dynamic network, systems, and data analysis.
• Analyzed requirements and developed middleware for automating provider rate service updates. Improving efficiency for 2K providers by over 900% and saving $200K per month.
• Leveraged in-depth expertise with Perl, Python, PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and SQL for Oracle. Trained Systems Unix Administrators in programming utilizing Perl.

New York, New York, US

• Installed and managed a Linux Cluster for a molecular analysis software application.
• Implemented a molecular reaction database and trained scientists on usage.

Designed and developed back end servers to collect, organize and serve metrics from Ganglia cluster performance monitors.This includes multi-threaded TCP servers and XML delivery via mod_perl and SOAP support.All development done in OO Perl.

• Perfwatch Inc., Designed, built and deployed SaaS website monitoring software for business owners nationally.
• Architected and maintained production services with 99.9% availability
• Duties included designing and maintaining front end and back end database server systems that supported 20K transactions per second. Utilized SDLC for the entire environment.
• Created UI utilizing PERL, HTML, and JavaScript with the PostgreSQL database to successfully complete essential design improvements in line with engineering change orders.
• XISS, Inc., Secured and properly maintained metrics from Ganglia cluster performance monitoring through development of back end servers including multi-threaded Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) servers and XML.

• Directed data center systems operations supporting hundreds of global retail stores.
• Coordinated project and technical requirements for 40 vendors, directed up to 12 consultants and matrix managed a technical team of four. Managed 40+ Unix servers.
• Planned, implemented and managed a $2M upgrade of Clustered Compaq Unix servers.

• Managed a staff of nine and a budget of $1.2M. Co-built three highly secure data centers and maintained production uptime at 99.9%.
• Designed and maintained secure systems and network including over 40 Solaris servers.
• In charge of all aspects of security requirements and oversight of the application of existing and new security policies. Passed seven audits including the CS2 which complied with federal and state regulations and laws.

• Consulted with C-level clients and provided operational, development and security services for Buyers Online, IKANO/Sisna, NFL and Authorize.net.

• Managed a staff of engineers overseeing all systems and network operations for a high growth ISP serving 160K customers.

• Managed Security R&D team (SWAT). Recognized as an expert in the Network Security field and delivered presentations at several industry conferences.

Thoughtport, Inc. was a National Internet Backbone provider. Responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining customer and corporate wide-area network. Also managed local Salt Lake office LAN and NeXT Unix systems. In charge of corporate network and data security. InTeleCom International merged with Internet Direct of Utah. Responsibilities.

• Co-designed and built a new data center, and managed vendors’ colocation data centers. Improved processing from 80K minutes to 800M minutes per day.
• Managed a $10M operating budget and matrix managed a staff of Junior System Administrators.
• Assisted C-level executives in selling to WorldCom for $86M.

• Established and successfully sold Utah’s second-largest Internet Company.

Masters Of Science, Network Information Systems

Bachelors Of Science, Computer Information Systems