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Shertz, Texas

Achievements:• Refreshed all network topologies in the data center to to provide a more secure environment forpublic cloud offerings.• Built new infrastructure product offerings to extend the business portfolio: HA virtual hostingplatform, HA MySQL service platform, and private Xenserver/KVM based clouds using CitrixXenManager, OpenStack and OpenManager.• Constructed infrastructure platforms for new video conferencing and messaging products.• Added additional MySQL database clusters and DNS clusters to support high volume PMTAmarketing email infrastructure.Responsibilities:• Provided infrastructure services vision, enabled innovation and leveraged IT trends that createdbusiness value consistent with the firm's requirements and expectations.• Led global, strategic technology initiatives to build and maintain key elements of the company'senterprise infrastructure and associated project portfolio, including but not limited to 24x7 datacenter infrastructure management and evolution, mobility and remote access services,ubiquitous wireless networks, enterprise-scale messaging environments, active directory multi-• Led teams of infrastructure engineering and administration professionals who with othersdefined, managed and supported the entire operations infrastructure.• Motivated, organized, mentored, and manages senior managers and developers.• Participated in IT strategic planning, project planning and budget planning efforts.• Analyzed technology trends and developed infrastructure strategy, architecture, and deliveryprocesses designed for agility and cost effectiveness.• Established and maintained strong, strategic partnerships with vendors and service suppliers.• Coordinate projects/resources involved in IT project management.

Shertz, Tx

Achievements:• Recovered and stabilized the MySQL clusters and data for main product line and preventedtotal business infrastructure collapse within the first week of employment.• Planned and instituted architectural changes to the data center infrastructure that effectivelyreduced single points of failure, created load balanced HA MySQL database architectures,improved developer methodologies, leveraged private cloud and increased ROI of the datacenter substantially.• Identified inefficiencies and corruption in global business partnerships and implemented andexecuted plans to regain control of business product revenue streams, intellectual property, andeffectively reduce overseas expenditures and stop $21K revenue loss per month.• Traveled independently to international offices to re-organize and hire workers and train staffto effectively provide business, technical and engineering support to partners and clients.• Implemented new security standards to prevent continuous breaches in company data and lossof intellectual property.• Returned over $285K to the business in expenditure cuts in the first year by identifying andactively removing infrastructure, workforce, and policy inefficiencies, and correcting mistakesimplemented by previous and current management personnel.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Achievements:Designed and developed BI and billing reporting API for new cloud products using SQL and Python.Developed code for use in SALT configuration management system using BASH, Python, Jinja and SQL.Optimized and developed PostgreSQL database resources for TeamCity continuous integration environments and SALT configuration management systems.Implemented and configured JIRA issue tracking and project management system frontend and backend.Consulted and gave troubleshooting advice and support for setup and management of Confluence and JIRA development and collaboration resources.Responsibilities:Administration of PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MSSQL database issues.Designing, implementing and testing database API solutions for EMC Cloud Services.Supporting and maintaining Continuous Integration and Continuous Development resources.Writing, reviewing, and testing BASH, Python, Jinja and SQL code for CloudOps, ITOps, and DevOps use in SALT configuration management systems.Managing and negotiating client bug fix and feature request against EMC Cloud Services products.Participating in team AGILE development activities.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Achievements:Wrote BASH, Python, PowerShell and SQL code for maintenance and monitoring of MSSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, Hadoop, and Kafka database resources.Implemented and configured Graphite systems and Grafana dashboards for enterprise monitoring of database resources.Planned and executed the upgrade and migration of 7.2TB of live production databases from MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.6.17 from bare hardware to virtual machines.Trained multiple staff members to become MySQL DBAs.Consulted and gave troubleshooting advice for setup and management of Big Data assets using Hadoop, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Kafka.Responsibilities:Proactively managing MSSQL and MySQL database support issues and effectively take corrective actions as needed.Planning, designing, implementing and testing MySQL and MSSQL database project comprised of various hardware equipment and software technologies including Windows clustering and vSphere infrastructure provisioning.Install and configure MySQL and MSSQL Server in clustered and standalone environments.Manage and test backup/recovery policies and procedures.Responsible for upgrading/patching MySQL and MSSQL server databases environments with the latest releases.New MySQL and MSSQL Server builds.Participate in 24x7 on call rotation.Maintain and improve performance of MySQL and MSSQL Server databases.Respond to tickets and system alerts.Automate manual and repetitive administrative tasks.Provide LINUX environment provisioning, support and administration for database operations.Consult with application programmers and participate in continuous code release activities.

Laguna Hills, Ca

Achievements:Designed, centralized and streamlined the quality control process for provisioning new MySQL server hardware into cloud platform.Upgraded all new MySQL system provisioning to MySQL 5.1 from MySQL 5.0 and optimized configurations for cloud platform.Migrated 53,981 live production MySQL databases on 89 servers in San Antonio to a new data center in Chicago with 107 MySQL servers. Planned and executed the upgrade of 6,823 live production databases from MySQL 4.12 to MySQL 5.0.77 in one month.Responsibilities:All standard database administrative tasks, such as: proactive performance tuning, load testing, monitoring and profiling, troubleshooting, back-up and recovery, partitioning, replication, installations, capacity planning, and configurations on an as needed basis as well as applying patches and performing upgrades.Manage Development, Test, QA, and Production databases and implement future MySQL enhancements to meet business needs.Monitor and manage databases throughout their lifecycle and validate that technical solutions meet the application requirements.Asist in overall architecture and infrastructure design.Implement, monitor, and manage global MySQL 5.6 GTID database replicationProactively manage and implement database security and keep abreast of current database security best practicesDevelop documentation and other materials to support ongoing database development, change control, production maintenances and DBA tasksAssist with and train developers with advanced table schema, query construction, and optimization, while keeping abreast of emerging technologies and featuresPart of the DBA team 24x7 on-call shift rotation to troubleshoot production / performance issues, including database recoveries and off-hour database maintenance as required

San Antonio, Tx

Achievements:Designed, centralized and streamlined the quality control process for provisioning new MySQL server hardware into cloud platform.Upgraded all new MySQL system provisioning to MySQL 5.1 from MySQL 5.0 and optimized configurations for cloud platform.Migrated 53,981 live production MySQL databases on 89 servers in San Antonio to a new data center in Chicago with 107 MySQL servers. Planned and executed the upgrade of 6,823 live production databases from MySQL 4.12 to MySQL 5.0.77 in one month.Responsibilities:Ownership and engineering responsibility for Cloud Sites team goals concerning MySQL in the production and testing environments.Provide “fanatical” support to clients and handle escalated MySQL tickets from System Admins and Program ManagersProvide support, expert advice and troubleshooting to Cloud Sites developers, system administrators, and engineering team.Organize and lead all Agile development efforts of the MySQL Technical Team.

West Des Moines, Ia

Achievements:Designed and implemented replication environments in MS SQL to support expansion and reporting needs of Software as a Service (SaaS)product.Performance tuned MS SQL and ORACLE 10/11g enterprise environments.Planned and implemented maintenance procedures to support over 180 MS SQL servers and 28 Oracle servers.Responsibilities:Provide technical guidance and leadership for MySQL, ORACLE, and MSSQL database production support.Maintain MySQL, ORACLE and MSSQL environments for enterprise use.Provide consulting, designs, implementation strategies, and documentation for database projects.Administer MSSQL, ORACLE, and MySQL environments on IBM blade servers and standalone servers

West Des Moines, Ia

Achievements:Designed and implemented multiple MASTER-MASTER replicated environments (13) with multiple chained slaves (4) to support the business need for scaling and expanding SaaS products.Performance tuned multiple MySQL enterprise environments.Lead the efforts to update antiquated methods of database administration to improve efficiency, durability, accuracy and profitability of database environments supporting the enterprise SaaS products.Responsibilities:Provide technical guidance and leadership for MySQL database production support.Maintain MySQL and MSSQL environments for enterprise use.Provide consulting, designs, implementation strategies, and documentation for database projects.Administer MySQL and MSSQL environments on IBM blade servers and standalone serversProvide technical documentation and architectural designs for implementation of MySQL database in an SAAS environment.Support application advancement in an AGILE work environment by pairing effectively with developers and system administrators.Research new technologies for inclusion into the enterprise environment.

West Des Moines, Ia

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Des Moines, Ia

Achievements:Developed architectural design documents for Aviva Capital Management’s enterprise VoIP Trader System based on a Siemens HiPath 4000 and Open Communications Trading System v4R0 IPDeveloped architectural design documents for Aviva USA and Aviva Canada call center platform standardization based on Siemens HiPath 4000 VoIP solutions and Verint ProCenter solutions focusing on call capture and storage, IVR call routing, and quality management solutions from Witness/Verint.Responsibilities:Provide technical guidance and IT leadership for Project Manager during project lifecycle.Design and document enterprise architecture for projects. Generate architectural risk assessments for projects.Participate in business and IT reviews

West Des Moines, Ia

Achievements:Researched and developed agent-free methods to inventory, record utilization statistics and map physical and logical storage contained within global and local networks on Windows platforms using Windows 98, XP, 2000, 2003, and Vista, UNIX platforms using Solaris 2.6 through 10, LINUX platforms using RHEL, Redhat, Fedora, SLES, SUSE, Debian and Ubuntu, AIX platforms using up to 5L, and HP-UX platforms using up to 11i v2 Researched and developed agent-free methods to inventory, record utilization statistics and map physical and logical storage contained within global and local Ethernet /optical network attached EMC, Dell, SUN, and Linux based storage arraysINTEL and AMD based Windows and Linux computers using shell and assembly language techniquesResearched and developed agent-free methods to inventory global and local networks for logical volume management systems on Windows, Linux, UNIX, AIX, HP-UX and SGI platforms and map their logical disks to corresponding NAS and SAN physical extents on EMC CLARiiON, EMC Celerra, EMC Symmetrix, Dell PowerVault, SUN Storage TEK, Sun Fire, and HP Storage systems equipmentResearched and developed agent-free methods to inventory global and local SAN network equipment including HBAs, SAN switches, and Storage Arrays from Brocade, Net App, IBM, Cisco, McData, HP, EMC, Dell, JNI, Emulex, Qlogic; and LSI to map world wide identifiers, record utilization statistics and collect BIOS/firmware informationResponsibilities:Lead all development efforts concerning integration of AIX, UNIX, LINUX, and HP-UX enterprise environments.

Urbandale, Ia

Achievements:Planned, designed and implemented open source based IT infrastructure for local and remote locations using multiple LINUX (RedHat RHEL and Debian) server technologies Reduced company software asset expenditures by more than $500,000 per quarterDesigned and constructed open source solutions for server OS, secure email, PBX controls for voice/VOIP to PSTN, IM/SMS messaging, ODBC data bridging, WAN/LAN interface routing, platform/network monitoring, security solutions, software version controls, web based enterprise collaboration, backup/archive systems, remote console access, web proxy access, virtual networking, and network file sharing. Managed and migrated legacy infrastructure to new infrastructure platforms and processes Authored technical documentation, IT planning presentations, project proposals and IT training materials Responsibilities:Architect and plan migration of SPRINT based telecommunications server equipment to open source platforms and relocate data center from California to UtahArchitect and implement web services to meet business needsArchitect, implement, and manage data warehouse for company and SPRINT business partner dataArchitect, implement, and manage backup and disaster recovery systems to meet business requirements and government regulationsWrite technical and business documentation for use by internal offices and business partners

Achievements:Increased program revenues by +45% ($216,000) between 2001 and 2002Instituted and developed a web API accessed database for problem tracking on Windows 2000 and LINUX server platformsInitiated and developed server side LAMP based web APIs for MySQL database cluster access by multiple departmentsDeveloped and executed a standardized training program for support techniciansPlanned upgrades and managed migration from unmanaged to managed switching environment for 12 residence halls and 3 dining centers across the KSU campusDeveloped and maintained educational computer labs for student residentsPlanned, executed, and maintained a centralized web client connection database with server side API to maintain new and existing customer connections to the networkDesigned and implemented a centralized method for ensuring customer workstation security by automatically handling client software updates and virus definition upgradesDeveloped and maintained IDS and network monitoring equipment to report policy infringement, unlawful computer activity, and user abuseResponsibilities:Manage the Office of Residential Networking for Housing and Dining ServicesManage and supervise 17+ technicians to provide support for enterprise networkDesign and implement network upgrades to enhance security and efficient bandwidth usage Plan and implement centralized data warehouse for multiple departmentsManage FoxPro, dBase III/IV, MSSQL, and MySQL databases for multiple work units Design and implement server and database solutions to meet business requirementsCreate and enforce security polices and procedures for department and clientsAct as liaison to the KSU Police Department for the resolution of ongoing criminal investigations

Achievements:Monitored State of Kansas WAN for security and network continuity and dispatched repair services to provide network support Managed WAN video conference scheduling equipment and provided troubleshooting for remote conferences Programmed diverse PBX phone systems and frame relay devices for the State of Kansas offices Built and configured UNIX/SOLARIS servers for use in monitoring WAN traffic Contributed to Quality Action and Natural Work Teams by applying technical knowledge of microcomputer systems, network configuration, and multiple operating systems to improve and develop program enhancements Provided training and assistance to other technicians Responsibilities:Monitor the State of Kansas statewide computer networks from the BOT-DISC-DA NOC using the HP Openview Suite of applications and dispatch repair units when network and server outages are reportedProgram and maintain the telecommunications and video switches at the State of Kansas central phone switch locations and the NOCAssist in the setup and maintenance of optical and ethernet networks for the State of KansasAct as primary contact for KBI and FBI during security audits and network service interuptions