Member of internal Infrastructure Team with Innova Solutions, with a strong focus on integrating business units into Cloud based services in Azure and OCI. Managed small team of DevOps engineers migrating EOL systems into the Cloud. Participated in DevOps CoC, exploring newer technologies: Terraform, GCP, etc. Led daily scrum calls, managed Jira sprints and provided daily and weekly reporting of activity.

Member of Data Center Expansion Team with IBM Cloud Object Storage, with a strong focus on DevOps at a tremendous scale. Expanded IBM Cloud Object Storage to available storage space using technologies such as Jira, GitHub, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Python, etc. Managed multiple IBM Data Center Expansions, Hardware conversions and site reductions throughout the world. Performed hardware inventories, maintenance and replacements. Conducted Data Center Site provisioning to increase storage capacity. Provisioned management servers in Xen environment. Performed network switch configurations for expansions and decommissions. Troubleshoot pxeboot and networking issues. Provided training to new teammates. Led daily scrum calls and provided monthly and quarterly reporting of activity.

Engineered Cloud based solutions in Charter's centralized Video Operations Cloud environment for IP Video Applications. Supported Video Operations infrastructure, servers and applications that comprise the overall product delivery for both classic video and Charter IP Video Applications. Managed workload of incoming requests for VM builds, network firewall requests and all networking requests within Video Operations Cloud infrastructure. Enhanced automation of tasks using Ansible. Provided technical oversight in all changes affecting infrastructure, working to develop close relationships with Software Engineering, Advanced Engineering, XG Client Development team, Quality Assurance, Video Support Center and NOC. Provided SME support on RHEL 6.x/7.x operating systems. Spearheaded and drove initiative to upgrade Splunk Infrastructure cluster to stabilize and resolve security findings. Facilitated coordination dates, level of effort estimations and communications between product owners, infrastructure architecture, infrastructure operations, network architecture, network engineering, network operations, and the various program and project managers.

Supported event management service offering that provides hardware monitoring and event automation for managed IBM hardware. Managed team of 6 SMEs supporting service offering that supported over 35 customers encompassing over 25K managed servers / agents. Managed workload to support business objectives. Performed Systems Administration on IBM Power, AIX, Linux and VMware virtualized servers. Provided systems engineering and custom solutions to accounts. Mentored and trained SME team and IBM System Administrators. Provided technical direction and overall architecture of solution on service offering. Change Advisory Board technical approver on all changes affecting service offering.

Performed advisory role as technical lead and lab manager in support of production staging test environment. Managed lab infrastructure, inventory and billing for services and coordinated use of lab resources. Lab consisted of multi-tier networking with over 200 physical servers. SME on server builds of AIX, RHEL Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and Windows 2003 / 2008 servers. Performed Systems Administration on IBM Power, AIX, RHEL Linux, Solaris, VMware and Windows servers. Provided systems engineering support and custom solutions to accounts. Performed role as test analyst, quality assurance analyst and systems engineer.

Performed architect role as delivery infrastructure architect for web hosting environment. Subject matter expert on web hosting architecture and strategy. Worked with global teams defining infrastructure management tools and implementation of service delivery centers.

Performed as technical team lead of AIX/Unix System Administration department. Managed workload of 20+ Unix System Administrators. Management duties included work direction, interviewing, training, mentoring, coaching, motivating, status reporting, budgeting and long range planning. Technical duties included planning and implementing OS upgrades, architecting server solutions, application software installs, server performance tuning, security and server monitoring. Provided Unix consultation on internal IBM and external customer accounts.

Performed Unix System Administration duties on heterogeneous environment of over280 Unix workstations/servers including IBM R/S 6000, Sun, HP/UX, DEC Ultrix, SGI andHP Apollo Domain. I provided Unix Desktop support to Engineers and Geologists. I was the key resource in the development and implementation of client/server infrastructure including - backups, disaster recovery, security and systems management. I provided Unix and networking technical consulting to client groups. Other duties included engineering of local and wide area communications networks. I was the key resource in the design and implementation of a project to offload Cray Supercomputing processing onto a cluster of IBM R/S 6000 servers. This project resulted in an annual savings of over 2 million dollars.