Ethan Waldman Email & Phone Number

Littleton, Co, Us

Greater Denver Area

Major Responsibilities:I have been providing expert Information Technology consulting services with a focus on SRE, DevOps, and Operational Readiness. I have been enhancing monitoring and automation, ensuring compliance and information security, and leading Cloud and transformation projects. I have been designing and implementing containerized Microservice architectures on Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry platforms as well as driving improvements to the support of more traditional virtual infrastructures. I have been integrating applications with sophisticated monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana, and managing high-speed data event streaming infrastructures with Apache Kafka. I have been supporting low-latency, high-volume data technologies using MongoDB and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.Key Deliverables:• Achieved 85% reduction in impact minutes for tier-1 applications in a major telecommunications company, improving service reliability.• Created telemetry, monitoring, and observability solutions for multiple tier-1 applications, enabling rapid issue diagnosis and prevention of service impacts.• Automated server provisioning for an online home services company to support scalable growth on demand.• Migrated applications and databases to secured public cloud infrastructures for an aerospace manufacturing company, enhancing application monitoring and infrastructure health tracking.• Unified disparate plans into a cohesive architecture and vision to modernize software architectures and support business expansion.

Greater Denver Area

Major Responsibilities:I have managed full end-to-end outsourced IT operations, including data center hosting and administration across Linux, Unix, and Windows servers. I have overseen network management for both local-area and wide-area networks, voice communications, and database administration. I have directed desktop support and helpdesk services, ensuring optimal operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. I have implemented virtualization of infrastructures and established public cloud partnerships, contributing to the transformation of data center operations and architectures. I have negotiated legal agreements for outsourcing and hosting services, packaging a viable range of managed services for clientele.Key deliverables:• Achieved cost savings and efficiencies for customers through data center consolidations, and server and storage virtualization.• Strengthened IT security and controls, meeting compliance needs and enhancing security postures across all technical areas.• Enhanced IT operations stability with advanced monitoring solutions, proactive task automation, and provisioning automation.• Automated provisioning for a Yellow Pages provider, resulting in improved turnaround times and growth accommodation.• Developed monitoring solutions for rapid service-impacting issue analysis and early detection for potential issue impact prevention.

Built data center operations, including performing installations, developing automation, designing configurations and defining operational processes and procedures. Specialized in multiple Unix and Linux platforms and multiple Storage Area Network technologies, performance analysis and tuning, automation of monitoring, security and auditing, capacity management, tracking and planning and complex troubleshooting and forensics.Developed detailed hardware, software and storage configurations and systems engineering designs for very high volume Unix-based and Oracle-based transaction processing environments for the Telecommunications and Directory Publishing industries. Conducted performance analysis and tuning efforts and provide consultation and guidance to development groups for software design centered primarily on performance, scalability and high availability.

Developed and supported Real-Time Event handling and Process Workflow software as well as integration with various plant floor automation systems. Development was in C and Cobol on OpenVMS systems, including TCP/IP Socket programming, POSIX-compliant multi-threaded programming, Inter-Process Communications and system-level programming.

Responsible for the hands-on management of several data processing platforms including: Unix with Oracle RDBMS and Novell Netware as well as all Data Communications (Local Area and Wide Area Networking), Telecommunications, Decision Support and all cross-platform integration. Responsibilities included management of a department of over 45, including Data Communications staff, Telecommunications staff, PC Support Analysts and Decision Support Analysts.

Responsible for the hands-on management of several data processing platforms including: Unix with Oracle RDBMS, Digital OpenVMS, Novell Netware and Tandem Guardian as well as all Data Communications (Local Area and Wide Area Networking), Telecommunications, Decision Support and all cross-platform integration. Responsibilities included management of a department of over 45,including System Administrators, Computer Operations staff, Data Communications staff, Telecommunications staff, PC Support Analysts and Decision Support Analysts, providing technical direction and hands-on instruction to all employees.

Maintained a network of over 20 multi-user computer systems running DEC VAX/VMS, AT&T UNIX System V and DEC ULTRIX-32, for research and course work. Responsibilities included system programming, performance tuning, software installation, configuration and support. Also maintained a Local Area Network which included TCP/IP, DECnet, Terminal Service (LAT protocol), UUCP, AppleTalk (over Ethernet) and connections to Wide-Area Networks including Internet and BITNET.

Provided support to sites with CDC Cyber equipment running either NOS or NOS/VE operating systems. Served as internal UNIX consultant.

Designed and developed a student oriented word processor and menu system in C running under UNIX. Converted an educational software package to run under one general Computer-Based Training program.