It Director
Washington D.C. Metro Area
• Created a new cloud network architecture using best Amazon AWS practices and utilizing AWS services such as ElasticCache, Cloudfront, EC2, Route 53, and S3. • Overhauled backup solutions to ensure they were effective by creating multiple backup sources including on-site, off-site, and cloud backups.• Planned and implemented a multi-environment cloud infrastructure consolidation project for a large external non-profit achieving a yearly cost-savings of over 90%. Responsibilities included proposal writing and acceptance as well as best-practice extensive documentation for internal and external clients. Worked with multiple innovative services to achieve lower server utilization while increasing user experience, backup standards, advanced bash scripting, utilization of best practices, and establishing security standards.• Setup and monitored multiple on-premise and cloud services to ensure server security, performance, and uptime including Nagios, Nessus, Puppet, Load Balancers, and NewRelic.• Provided technical support for internal clients on Windows and Mac platforms.• Wrote technical documents for disaster planning audits.• Worked with dynamic content management systems (Drupal and Wordpress) to launch new sites, modify and write back-end code, install caching, create data collection features, and create security plugins.• Maintained, Secured, and Updated multiple operating server operating systems including CentOS, Hyper-V, Microsoft SQL 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008, Synology DiskStation, JunOS, and PAN-OS.• Optimized hosted websites through multiple caching methods (Memcached, Varnish, and various CDN services) with metrics of results measured by extensive speed testing, reduced load, and higher security.• Provided basic accounting of IT costs and billing to multiple clients for shared services such as web hosting.
