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Hamilton, Oh, Us

Cincinnati , Oh, Us

Cincinnati , Oh, Us

Cincinnati , Oh, Us

Cincinnati , Oh, Us

Cincinnati , Oh, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

- Provided SRE support for all of Triplefins external websites and APIs.- Transitioned the existing linux infrastructure away from ad-hoc management to an automated support model leveraging Ansible.- Improved CI/CD Pipelines by updating and implementing new improvements into the Jenkins infrastructure.- Supported all Production Outages and issues in both the Linux infrastructure and Windows infrastructure environments. Including and not limited to Sharepoint/CRM/IIS/.NET/Tomcat/Apache/Java application issues.- Designed and Implemented an Ansible Tower stack to help support a growing need for automation and reliability from our infrastructure.- Implemented various security hardening efforts to better align the organization to future security goals. - Provided support to various levels of application development, including CI/CD pipelines but also helping with the release and deployment of our code into production environments.- Provided consultation to ongoing efforts to expand our organization into the cloud, including and not limited to Security and Architecture, Application Layout, and Management- Provided insights to development teams from findings within our APM tools. Providing faster results and less errors to form a better end user experience.- Provided in detail RCA to senior leadership for critical issues and SEV1 outages.

Cincinnati, Us

Provide "Devops" support for all internal project teams and customers. Including the managment of the release cycles, infrastructure, and application readyness for our internal business partners.Designed and implemented a Monitoring solution (Zabbix) for our infrastructure. Implemented a notion of standardization within the different environments to help our Continuous Integration missions.Designing, and implementing Ansible as a solution for system reliability and brand confidence from within the business.Managing all aspects of the Virtual, and Physical infrastructure.Help project come to fruition with consultation on the technologies needs, and help implement them into our environment in a clean and efficient way.Build out tool sets with various opensource tools to help efficiencies from our development partners.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Us

Support different clients Oracle Exalogic, ZFS, and Oracle OVMM environments.Consult on system upgrades and problems from within the environments to better support the customers needs and compliance.Consult on changes that are to be implemented within the varying different environments to ensure their stability and longevity. I also Coordinated, built, and implemented changes within the various environments.Suggested improvements to current toolsets used within the environment to better facilitate a more efficient work environment.Worked varying oncall schedules, and responded to pages 24/7 to ensure our company feel within our SLA guidelines brought to us by the clients.Worked Incidents that came into the queue to help manage customer expectations and fix any problems that arose.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Actively supported high-availability, high-performance customer facing applications including the market leading scientific and academic resources Science Direct www.sciencedirect.com and www.scopus.com This includes troubleshooting complex systems using dumps, traces, and many other diagnostic toolsAlso monitor, and suggest changes to infrastructure that would facilitate a more efficient and highly-available environmentDesign and implement a python written IRC logger to help facilitate communication between members of my teamCreate monitoring processes to monitor our high-availability applications using various internal, and external toolsCreate scripts to quickly gather nine years’ worth of apache logs for user submitted queries for business partnersCollaborate with team-members to update, and execute a business continuity plan between two data centersSelected to not only be a part of the Infrastructure team, but also the Devops team that handles the transition of moving internal applications into the cloud and supporting themManage, and configure releases for applications in our Amazon Web Services environment

Discovery and management of incidents for users with Service Level Agreements. This included Monitoring products, gathering and interpreting data, documentation of incidents, engaging support teams, managing communication workflow efficiently, document process improvements.Worked with Change and Release management, ensuring that all scheduled changes in the production environment had the necessary documentation, and monitored their implementationsCreated and maintained documentation of Production Products. Created and maintained documentation of day to day tasks I was involved with.

Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, Us

Ensured that every Working Department of the building was efficiently supplied with work, helping company UPH (Units per Hour), and order turn time. Handled technical troubleshooting of various areas within the production environments, spread across multiple Systems and platforms.Worked with onsite systems analysts to trouble shoot, identify root cause, and solve various technical issues that would have caused the production environment extended periods of downtime.Tested and deployed production system changes spread across multiple systems.

Toledo, Ohio, Us

Managed