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London, Ontario, Canada

London, Ontario, Canada

Worked alongside and helped lead a small dev team of varying size working on a next-generation IoT device lifecycle management and monitoring application written in Typescript/Node.JS with a React web front-end and utilizing Microsoft Azure cloud platform resources.Additionally responsible for development of an existing PHP-based monitoring solution for our in-field devices. This application was used by both internal and external support teams and account team representatives to monitor the health and lifecycle of our products.

London, Canada Area

Responsible for a small team of two developers designing internal/external tooling for monitoring and proactive management of in-field devices.We use the following technologies:- Symfony Framework/PHP7 (3 years experience) - Doctrine ORM - Twig - AMQPLib- Javascript (3 years experience) - Vue Framework (6 months experience)- Go (6 months experience) - REST API Responsible for planning and leading datacentre and a number of tooling and automation initiatives designed to assist internal support/operations teams. Tooling:1. Product release planning and execution 2. Team lead for a team of two software developers2. Product requirement development and stakeholder involvement3. Software development: - PHP (Symfony 4.x, CodeIgniter) - Node.js - Python In addition, I was responsible for the following data centre administrations items/tasks:1. Project lead - Providing work packages and direction for two employees2. Advanced technological knowledge: - Networking (Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto) - OS (CentOS 6/7) - Automation (Ansible)

London, On

• Directly responsible for the infrastructure behind a large number of endpoint digital media and digital menuboard devices running at numerous QSR and corporate locations across the world. • Lead in an implementation of a full upgrade from MySQL 5.5 to MySQL 5.7 (deployment, tooling, scripting, future infrastructure and scalability)• Provided key architectural advice and planning for a new data centre rollout• Main implementer for the company’s monitoring strategy and key maintainer of various monitoring scripts and plugins written in Bash and Python• Developed initial proof of concept and deployment strategy for a SAML-based SSO framework• Lead administrator for corporate storage (Netapp, Dell Equallogic) and OS deployments• Assisted in writing and maintaining Ansible deployment playbooks for various items (monitoring, security, platform)• Key automation resource for various activities, such as the deployment of Windows hotfixes to several thousand field devices various OS levels with a hands-off tool.

Waterloo, Canada

- Excellent knowledge of monitoring best practices and methods (Nagios, Icinga 1.x, Icinga 2 with the Icinga Director plugin, SNMP monitoring of Dell servers, Juniper gear, etc.) - Excellent knowledge of Linux fundamentals (primarily with CentOS/Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7)- Experienced with the software development lifecycle and the unique IT requirements of a developer-heavy workplace. - Implemented and administer an instance of GitLab for developers. Knowledgable with both Git and Perforce as version management systems. - Strong networking knowledge in an enterprise environment. We are primarily a user of Dell and Juniper networking gear. Have set up small-scale enterprise networks including Juniper firewalls utilizing various security policies and IPSec tunnels, wireless networks using Ruckus hardware, and switching using Juniper, Foundry, and Dell hardware- Have developed scripts and small tools in several languages (Python/Bash) to assist with monitoring and other tasks (e.g. automated monitoring of SSL certificate health and expiry) - Have contributed to the development of several internal websites, such as an automated application deployment system (PHP/Apache/Bash) and an internal Intranet website (PHP/Apache on the Wordpress CMS). - Helped to lead the migration to the Office 365 platform with the development of various Powershell scripts. I also am the administrator of this platform on a day-by-day basis and have knowledge of Powershell-based administration of Office 365. - Assisted in the creation and administration of several VMWare clusters using VSphere 5 and 6, as well as VM templating and vAPP functionality. - Currently working on a push for utilizing docker containers as part of our customer-facing applications as well as initial planning on migrating hardware provisioning from Kickstart to either Ansible or Puppet (w/Foreman).

Waterloo, Ontario

- Conducted basic CentOS administration and deployment duties (Kickstarting hosts, configuring services and .conf files, creating and mounting NFS directories)- Created and configured Virtual Machines on RHEV-M and VMWare platforms - Helped administer various domain services, such as DHCP, DNS, and Active Directory - Helped with various networking duties such as physical cabling and basic configuration of Juniper and Foundry switch hardware. - Developed monitoring scripts and informational graphs using platforms such as NConf, Cacti, and Icinga. - Troubleshooting and solving various hardware and software issues in a helpdesk/service desk capacity

Waterloo, Ontario

- Worked with faculty, students, and staff to troubleshoot various hardware and software issues in a fast-paced environment- Coordinated updates of documentation and worked with a team to redevelop documentation and move to an intranet site - Conducted various Active Directory duties such as adding and editing computes and users- Imaged and deployed Windows machines (using WinPE and imagex) and Macs (using DeployStudio)

Waterloo, Ontario

-Manually inputted contact information updates for Insurance brokers-Occasionally responsible for delegating updates to other team members in a leadership role