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Leading a team of five people, supporting a variety of legacy SaaS applications and microservices in AWS (and Azure). Amongst other things, I am responsible for the process of reviewing all incidents and RCAs.We've charted our own path, ending up more-or-less with a Kanban style process, landing somewhere between SRE and DevOps.I was also a member of the.

• Assumed management of legacy applications running in a variety of different cloud environments.
• Lead transition of legacy deployments to AWS. Architected extensive, geographically distributed network of several dozen VPCs.
• Architected new Puppet based management system from scratch to replace legacy processes.
• Extended existing VPC network into AWS China, supporting normal deployment proccesses.
• Mentored junior team members in a variety of systems related areas and configuration management via Puppet.

Tysons Corner, VA, US

• Transitioned back to a SaaS-like mobile client web application environment, this timeprimarily implemented in Ruby on Rails and running on AWS.
• Built out a new Puppet 3 / The Foreman infrastructure with integrated MCollective,managing 150+ nodes. This was then transitioned to a newly architected Puppet4 based infrastructure. Also implemented MacOS management.
• Implemented on-demand integrated software deployment and AMI imagingworkflow.

Portland, OR, US

• Configuration management based Systems Engineering in both a bare metal and virtualized environment, while building out a DevOps orientated team. Development of several in-house Puppet modules and extensive work on.
• Successfully transitioned management system from Puppet Enterprise to Puppet Open Source and The Foreman. Current system consists of a multi-master deployment, managing 500+ virtual and physical systems.

Santa Clara, California, US

• Contributed to the refinement of a DevOps model for a couple of products in development within PCCG. Heavily revised the Amazon Web Services deployment implementation for one of the products, and planned for the.
• Implemented an operational management network for product support within AWS, including support for the Splunk operational data management platform.

San Jose, CA, US

Datacenter architecture, customer deployment and support of Cisco Prime Home (formerly ClearVision).See the ClearAccess section for more information. ClearAccess was acquired by Cisco Systems in April of 2012.

San Jose, CA, US

• Contributed to the development of a Broadband Forum TR-069 based Automatic Configuration System for Customer Premise Equipment, a web application developed in Java, Scala, and JavaScript. Developed interoperability.
• Built out SaaS infrastructure using Amazon EC2 in Europe, including high-performance MySQL and MongoDB. Has also evaluated other cloud providers, and is experienced with VMware ESXi.
• Responsible for maintaining legacy infrastructure and architecting new infrastructure for the datacenter SaaS hosting environment, using Ubuntu/RHEL 5.x/CentOS 6.x, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and many other.
• Responsible for the internal and external networking infrastructure, including Cisco routers, Cisco PIX firewalls, Dell switches, and VPN connections. Familiar with most load balancing technologies (F5 and other.
• Responsible for several monitoring tools, including Nagios and Zabbix. Also familiar with ZenOS.

Beaverton, OR, US

• Designed majority of the infrastructure for the combined company. Implemented most of the system software for electronic mail, including significantly customized versions of Courier IMAP, Postfix, webmail, and.

• Performed a wide variety of tasks on-site at Hewlett-Packard. Duties included the continued development of internal tools, maintaining web interfaces, product recommendation and deployment, systems integration. Was.

• Responsible for the implementation and deployment of entire UNIX (BSD/OS, OpenBSD) systems infrastructure (30+ servers, 50,000 customers), including mail, USENET news, dial up authentication, and web hosting platforms..
• This was essentially a technological leadership position within Pacifier Online; the company was sold to MDM iNet and later became Infinity Internet.

See MDM iNet section, above.

• Performed systems administration for the entire company (across many different vendor flavors of UNIX), managed tasks for up to two other administrators, planned technical expansion of the company. Also performed.