Working at Mastercard as a Senior Platform Architect

● Led the design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure solutions.● Created and managed the technological roadmap and detailed SLA’s for the Cloud Operations team of 15 middle to senior engineers.● Decreased workload by 80% and maintained a 99.99% uptime by creating a technical roadmap to eliminate, replace, or rebuild aging and unsupported products within 36 months.● Replaced artifact repository downtime and support by 50% and increased code deployment efficiency by as much as 60% by proposing a new design for a CI/CD pipeline solution.● Saved over $10M in six months by creating an architecture

● Planned and managed new infrastructure components, including servers, storage, and networking equipment.● Reduced deployment time by 75% in deploying 10 datacenters worldwide supporting more than 20M players with virtually zero need to modify the design.● Reduced deployment time of a game server data center by 85% using a specially designed automation system.

● Installed, configured, and deployed hardware and software components, ensuring proper integration and function.● Reduced hardware outages by 80% after 12 months by engineering a solution to deploy a distributed Nagios system, which allowed for a complete redeployment of the global monitoring system in 15 minutes.● Deployed seven datacenters to full production usage supporting over 10M players worldwide.● Overhauled 10 data centers supporting over 50M players worldwide with little to no player impact.● Reduced an issue backlog by over 80% (to single digits) via automation and documentation.

● Oversaw the design, implementation, maintenance, and support of Linux-based systems.● Created Chef recipes for Linux central authentication using Windows AD and deployed in 1K servers worldwide.● Decreased lag by 15% and increased server capacity by 10% via leading a thorough investigation.

● Led and monitored architectural initiatives and guided the implementation of strategic technology solutions.● Re-engineered WebSphere 6.1 JDBC and JVM configurations to correct misconfigurations from an incorrect install.● Increased work productivity 25% by upgrading software and setting up new volume formatting, which replaced “hard” partitioned drives.

● Set up, configured, managed, and maintained Unix servers running Sun Solaris; managed backup systems.● Co-designed, set up, and installed a new datacenter.● Note: This was a classified Secret environment, so I cannot divulge more information.

MasterCard Senior Web Administrator● Set up, configured, and maintained web services using WebSphere 4, 5, 5.1, 6.0, and 6.1, Apache, iPlanet, and Weblogic in a multi-tiered environment supporting Solaris, HPUX, AIX, and Windows.● Monitored web server performance and resource utilization by identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks.● Upgraded the WebSphere 4 server with IHS front end to a WebSphere 5.1 server with Apache front-end.● Reduced downtime from 88% uptime to 99.999% uptime by leading a team in migrating server deployments to newer hardware.● Reduced the process in Vanity URLs by over 87% via automation to speed up and smooth out deployments.Lead Web Administrator● Monitored managing, maintaining, and optimizing web servers, applications, and related services.● Led a server technical refresh, moving application servers running in WebSphere, Apache CGI, Netscape, and Weblogic from old, degraded Sun Microsystems to newer Fujitsu and AIX hardware.● Set up a web environment to support MasterCard’s Google Earth, Application Portfolio Management, Secure File Push, Enterprise Analytics, GEM Software projects.

● Supported, maintained, and repaired more than 3.5K Unix and Linux Servers for the country’s largest network and hosting company using Apache, iPlanet, Oracle, Veritas, MySQL, WebLogic, SiteMinder, and NetBackup.● Changed, added, and deleted firewalls, load balancers, and failover policies using Inkra rack management.● Maintained and supported the mailing system used by Savvis and over 500 other mail clients.● Set up rules and policies in BigIP Systems to allow traffic in and out of the Savvis network.

● Conducted testing with various installed OSs on multiple platforms, including setting up OS and software, security reviews, usage documentation, and training.● Tested Sun StorEdge on a secure Unix platform, Solaris 10 and Solaris Zones, QMail w/Spam Assassin, SunRay w/Solaris Java, KDE, Windows Desktops, MS SharePoint 2003, Project Server 2003, and SQL 2000.● Tested, installed, and set up Oracle RAC, including migrating current Oracle instances to the RAC environment.● Tested, configured, managed, and maintained RSA SecurID Servers.● Classified Top Secret, so details must remain vague.-- All Testing was done from a bare metal server in which I had to install a variety of OS’s to test software on multiple platforms. Testing included setup of Os, Software, security reviews, documentation on usage, and training.

● Installed Solaris 8 on newly purchased Sun Solaris servers.● Installed and managed free BSD and Redhat Linux servers.● Installed Win2K with MS SQL On newly purchased Servers.● Rebuilt Network from ground up using Linux and Cisco routers to join and route between 5 different Internal and external networks.● Setup and Installed ISDN WAN.● Used annex terminal servers to connect outside (serial based) WAN to our internal TCP/IP based network.● Configured, setup and used MultiTech Multiplexers and Modems to work within our Wide Area Serial Network● Installed and configured Internal Linux router to connect 2 networks.● Wrote reports in the UNIX env. Using AWK and shell scripts.● Automated backups using cron and ufsdump/ufsrestore including automated shutdown and startup of selected software that was being backed up.● Installed serial printers using Annex terminal servers on Sun Solaris servers● Helped create and implement dynamic web site (www.metrotix.com) with real time credit card transactions. Written using ASP with VB and J script.● IT PC help desk for company personnel.

● Created install packages using wise install master 8.1.● Managed up to 7 projects of 1-5 people.● Fixed and compiled programs written in MS VC++, MS VBasic, MS Fox Pro, Borland C Builder and Delphi.