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California, United States

United States

Greater Detroit Area

Promote the adoption of Red Hat's solutions with key enterprise accounts, government agencies, and service provider partners. Provide both remote and on-site consulting and training across Red Hat's cloud portfolio to clients to ensure customer success

Livonia, Mi

Manage Agile and DevOps methodologies for the Advanced Threat Detection, Information Security group at Comerica Bank. Creation, management, and maintenance of hardware, virtual machine environment, and Docker containers to support the Information Security Group.

Ann Arbor, Mi

Managed products and applications for the Medical School, providing lifecycle management, second tier support, and documentation using Agile project management techniques as well as in-house processes. Implemented continuous development and delivery pipelines around GIT, Jenkins, Nexus, and Maven. Application deployments now take a single approval to move to production. Migrated web application environment from two stand alone Resin servers to a JBoss EAP domain to increase reliability, bring advanced management features, and integrate better with our continuous delivery and deployment services. Upgraded antiquated SVN versioning service to GIT, migrated over 100 repositories to the new service, and provide support for the service. Service has grown to over 600 projects. Re-architected virtual machine architecture to reduce over allocation of resources by twenty percent by using governance, containers, and a new application platform. Member of the Automation and Continuous Delivery group providing automation of manual processes for system administrators, software developers, and service desk personnel to reduce error and increase efficiencies. Worked with various groups to automate software installation, VM deployment, machine configuration, and continuous software deployment.Acted as a mentor and technical advisor for MSIS System Administrators. Provided advanced technical assistance with Red Hat Linux, answered system admin questions, and taught classes and informal discussions on Linux topics to increase the level of knowledge for our administrators.

Ann Arbor, Mi

Managed an IT team of five full time employees including human resource management, project management and day to day administration of tasks. Included employment management tasks.Consolidated a divergent department of piecemeal IT support into a working department wide technology support group serving faculty, staff, and medical students.Supervised the migration of departmental systems to central administration to reduce redundant services and releasing of departmental talent to work on projects that better align with departmental needs.Created processes and policies to allow the department to work better with central IT providers in order to reduce redundancies; including using common request tracking systems, documentation systems, and system administration policies.Conceived of, and implemented a mutual support pact between the department and one of the central IT providers. This agreement included the embedding of central IT assets inside of the department IT group to speed in the support of users.

Administered College’s Red Hat Satellite server. Worked heavily with the system, increasing subscriptions to the system from ~500 to 1200 machines and incorporating new functionality.Oversaw the addition of new organizations to the Satellite service.As the College Hostmaster, coordinated the migration of the College from in-house ISC DHCP/BIND DNS system to a vendor supported IPAM network system. Worked with member departments to convert their computers to the new system with no downtime or need for rollback to the prior system. Implemented a Nagios monitoring system to monitor College servers through direct interrogation via plugins, SNMP, and other methods to determine state. This information is used for service notification and trend analysis.Worked with Research Systems Group team members to expand the responsibilities of the group from five servers and half dozen services to forty servers and thirty college-wide services.Designed and implemented a XEN based virtualization system in the College to migrate many college servers from physical hardware to virtualized hosts. Two years later, I migrated this XEN system to a Red Hat Virtualization cluster.Implemented a re-IPing of about half the networks in the College of LSA. This allowed for more efficient use of network segments, simplified DDNS deployments, and encompassed about three thousand IP addresses over the course of the project.server initiated restores, and tape disaster recovery.Worked with members of the RSG team to deploy a 1000 core Linux HPC cluster that is used by the faculty of the College for diverse research projects.Ensure the resiliency of faculty systems by working with faculty to determine backup, redundancy, and equipment replacement needs.Worked as a member of the LSA Security team, providing triage for compromised Linux servers and workstations and implementing College security policies on the Linux platform.

Administered department computers including installing, upgrading, researching, purchasing, and technical support to faculty and students.Merged the research groups in the Biophysics departments from separate NFS servers and heterogeneous client workstations to departmental fileservers, central computer services, and similar computer builds across the department.Performed security audits and hardening of Linux, IRIX, and Solaris computers.Maintained over two hundred computers composed of Sun Microsystems Ultra SPARC computers, Windows PC’s, Linux PC’s, SGI, and Macintoshes.Managed work study and student computer support personnelWorked collaboratively with users and computer administrators from other departments on various projects.

Provide user support after hours and on weekends when neededInstall PC hardware and software for administrative staffDeveloped comprehensive set of computer use policies including covering purchasing, maintenance, upgrading, and disposal of computers

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Information Technology

Combined MS/PhD program in Research Methods (MS) and Information Technology (PhD)

Master'S Degree, Research Methods

Master'S Degree, Information Technology Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Cum Laude

Computer Science Degree with Math minor. Studied for teaching certificate in the State of Michigan. Worked as a student systems.