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Self-motivated professional systems architect specializing in the systems design and integration of diverse products. Proven experience leading people, mentoring other engineers, and managing resources and projects. Major accomplishments include:- Architecting and deploying VMware ESX Virtualization saving $600K- Solaris Unix and Red Hat Linux systems design and maintenance- Managing key projects- Taming and standardizing new startup environmentsSpecialties: VMware ESXStabilization of startup environmentsLinuxDocumentation and Standards
Doug Babst Work Experience Details
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Senior Systems AdministratorTelepictures Dec 2012 - PresentUsTelepictures is an American television and film production company, currently operating as a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Television.* Telepictures purchased the Crowd Fusion application (LAMP based) and I came aboard to continue supporting it.* Work 100% Remote.* Heavily reworked the processes and configurations to provide stability, increase security, reduce downtime, and reduce unnecessary on-call notifications.* Manage day to day operations and maintenance of Telepictures’ virtual servers. Also perform on-call duties.* All servers are hosted in the Amazon Cloud.* Improved budget process saving $100K/year.* Created a simplified and streamlined employee review process for my department that was adopted at the corporate level.* Rewrote the sysadmin hiring process to be interactive. - Applicants can’t see the full job description or contact information until completing a simple troubleshooting test. - This reduces job applicants to those qualified and serious about applying.* Migrated half of our servers from bash scripts to AWS OpsWorks using Chef 12 and AWS CodeDeploy. - After 2 years of development using Chef and Ruby, I found things break a lot less if you just use Ruby as a Bash wrapper.* Migrating the other half of servers from bash scripts to AWS ECS. Software rewritten to use Symfony and AWS DynamoDb. - The entire infrastructure is built using AWS CloudFormation. -- CloudFormation works well until you hit CRP (CloudFormation Rollback Purgatory). - Application is built by an automated GitHub -> AWS CodePipeline -> AWS CodeBuild -> AWS ECS process. - All logging is sent to AWS CloudWatch and Datadog. - ECS works out of the box for applications with a single server and a single task on a single server. -- Everything else requires extensive customization. - Wrote several AWS Lambda scripts in node and python. -- I can write scripts in node and python, but am by no means an expert. -
Managing PartnerBrothers' Olde-Fashioned Bakery Apr 2011 - Apr 2018Brothers' Olde-fashioned Bakery was a small specialty bakery run by Jackson and Ben Babst. We baked gluten free dessert items the old fashioned way (by hand) with the highest quality ingredients we could get. We used modern tools and traditional techniques to create delicious baked goods.
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Systems AdministratorCrowd Fusion Dec 2011 - Dec 2012Crowd Fusion was the cloud-native “publish everywhere” content management platform. Large media companies such as The Daily and TMZ chose Crowd Fusion for their most important brands -- to rapidly deliver products across new platforms and devices.* Worked 100% Remote.* Managed day to day operations and maintenance of Crowd Fusion’s virtual servers.* Responsibilities included working with the development team supporting the iterative development process while providing up-time and stability.* All Crowd Fusion servers were hosted in the Amazon Cloud and based on Ubuntu Linux with a standard LAMP stack. -
Infrastructure EngineerFreddie Mac Mar 2011 - Dec 2011Mclean, Va, UsFreddie Mac is one of America's biggest buyers of home mortgages. It is a stockholder-owned corporation chartered by Congress in 1970 to keep money flowing to mortgage lenders in support of homeownership and rental housing.* Analyzed existing processes of the TS AIE group for strengths and weaknesses, then created solutions to bolster the strengths and address the weaknesses.* Solutions had the following effects: - Reduced workload for 15 Engineers equivalent to $250K/month. - Standardized results of existing documentation. Touted as a major departmental win by executive management. - Formalized cost models of engineering projects allowing the group to present consistent costs to management. -
Lead/Senior Linux AdministratorImake Jul 2008 - Mar 2011UsIMAKE was a leading provider of data, analytics, software, and services to the structured finance community and was acquired by Standard & Poors. Served as Lead Linux Administrator reporting to a Director of Information Technology at McGraw-Hill.* As the Lead Linux Administrator provided technical management and mentoring to a staff of 2 Linux System Administrators and 2 Desktop Administrators. Also performed on-call duties.* Worked 25% Remote.* Reverse-engineered a site that had no documentation or structure. IMAKE was in a transition from small startup with less than 50 servers to a member of an Enterprise organization.* As part of reverse engineering the site I: - Built a documentation standard. - Prepared for migration to a production datacenter. - Stabilized and standardized the environment. - Configured basics such as monitoring and a RedHat Linux Kickstart server. -
Senior Linux AdministratorStandard & Poor'S Jul 2008 - Mar 2011New York, Ny, UsSee IMAKE -
Senior Linux AdminStandard & Poor'S Jul 2008 - Mar 2011New York, Ny, UsSee IMAKE
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Principal Systems EngineerAol Llc Jan 2002 - Oct 2007New York, Ny, UsServed as Lead Principal Systems Engineer for the Internal Computing (IC) Systems Engineering division of AOL, which provides enterprise class support for approximately 10,000 internal AOL employees internationally.* Provided technical management and mentoring to 16 Principal, Senior and Associate Systems Engineers in the IC Systems Engineering group.* Lead Engineer and architect for VMware ESX virtualization deployment. Originally deployed to support an outsourced help desk by supplying virtual Windows XP desktops in a secured environment.* Moved all new Red Hat Linux and Windows development/test servers to VMware on 13TB SAN storage, resulting in $250K realized savings. * Due to successes in virtualizing our Dev and Test environments, I decommissioned our server Lab (small data center) and moved all 100 remaining Red Hat Linux, Solaris Unix, and Windows physical servers to VMware ESX with SAN storage, resulting in $350K in additional savings for the server hardware alone.* Project Manager for VMware deployment and Lab decommission.* Revamped documentation standard from Microsoft Word based to web based (using a combination of Drupal and Wiki). Documentation in the web-based format ensures SDLC life-cycle principles are implemented in day-to-day practice.* Member of the AOL Diversity team reporting to the CEO. Represented the Christians @ AOL Employee Interest Group.* Oversaw design, documentation, and implementation of standards for all projects in the department. Ensured projects adhered to proper systems design, including such principles as high availability, disaster recovery, security and scalability.* Architected, designed and implemented a $4 million server Lab (small data center) for IC development and testing servers and SAN storage consisting of 35 racks and 2 workbenches supporting more than 200 servers. Specified configuration of all power and network cabling, coolant and UPS sizing, and rack layout for building contractors. -
Technical Lead/Systems ArchitectExperian Jun 2001 - Nov 2001Costa Mesa, Ca, UsServed as both Technical Lead and Systems Architect for the Production Services department, reporting directly to the Vice President of Engineering, and the Director of Production Operations.* As Systems Architect and Technical Lead provided technical management, mentoring and technical guidance to a workforce of 20 Systems Engineers, Administrators, and Operators.* Provided Systems Engineering architectural design considerations to ~100 Software Engineers and Testers. -
Technical Lead/Systems Architect24/7 Media Nov 2000 - May 2001New York, Ny, UsExactis.com was acquired by Experian EMS -
Technical LeadExactis.Com Jul 1999 - Oct 2000Exactis.com was acquired by 24/7 Media
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Senior Systems EngineerInfobeat Apr 1999 - Jun 1999InfoBeat was split into two companies. One half was purchased by Sony. The other half was renamed Exactis.com.
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OwnerTcg Computer Services Nov 1994 - Nov 1998TCG (That Computer Geek) Computer Services was a local Internet Service Provider (ISP) serving a small population base of approximately 22,000 people in rural Nebraska which I owned and operated with my wife Stacy.
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Telecomputing/Network System SpecialistEducational Service Unit #9 (Esu 9) 1996 - 1997Responsible for Internet technical activities for 28 schools across 6 counties in Nebraska
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Mis ManagerT-L Irrigation 1993 - 1996As the only person responsible for all computer hardware and software, I managed all computer activities including programming all in-house Accounting applications and all hardware upgrades and maintenance.
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Junior ProgrammerFleischer Mfg 1990 - 1993* Junior COBOL programmer on a Unisys A series* Assistant Network Manager* AutoCAD programmer
Doug Babst Skills
Linux
Virtualization
Integration
Data Center
Enterprise Architecture
Unix
Vmware Esx
Solaris
Red Hat Linux
Cloud Computing
Architectures
Security
Architecture
Software Development
Network Security
Itil
Perl
Doug Babst Education Details
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Central Community CollegeData Processing
Frequently Asked Questions about Doug Babst
What company does Doug Babst work for?
Doug Babst works for Telepictures
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Doug Babst's current role is Senior Systems Administrator at TMZ.
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What schools did Doug Babst attend?
Doug Babst attended Central Community College.
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