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West Sacramento, Ca, Us

Mysore, Karnataka, In

Hands-on Linux, (Debian, Ubuntu, etc) Django/SQL backend, ChatGPT prompting, configuration management, WAF design, MITM inspection, ISC2 educational materials development and delivery.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Principal Security Architect supporting Gigamon's security and NDR solutions. Company overlay SME in leading Gigamon's presales teams including their partners. Team focused on delivering best of breed visibility solutions to enterprise and service provider customers. ResponsibilitiesProvide technical Sales support for Gigamon’s security and NDR solutions. Perform specialized systems engineering role for Gigamon as an overlay supporting both the Western and Central US regions. Perform in-depth and technical presentations on security and other emerging technologies for customers, partners, and training events. Architect complex security solutions with top worldwide customers. Responsible for assisting local teams with complex and strategic proof of concepts and product evaluations. Provides mentorship/guidance on emerging technologies and competitive trends to key customers, partners, and field sales teams. Technical, solution engineering lead on complex POCs. Communication liaison between Field and Corporate on technical issues. Complex pre-sales technical support. Security specific RFI/P & Bid Support. Interface with Engineering and Product management team to bring Field’s requirements. Deployments in TLS intercept, PCI, Intrusion Detection, and exfiltration management/scrubbing.

Western region (Western USA, Western Canada, Aus) vADC product specialist / overlay. Responsible for direct customer technical sales interface for named accounts and region accounts. Product and solutions architecture technical presentations. Focus on SSL/VPN secure access, SSL/TLS, SIP, HTTPS, etc. Distributed architecture, WAN, ELK/Splunk integration.

San Jose, California, Us

Direct customer facing solutions architect / sales engineer role - direct hands on in scoping customer engagement, testing and deploying product for PCO/POV and production environments. Responsible for ensuring product match to customer needs. Customer presentations, whiteboarding, product demo, and similar customer facing requirements. Hands on with VMWare ESXi/vSphere, bash/sh scripting, RHEL/CentOS Linux, Win 2008/2012

San Jose, California, Us

Western US regional Security Solutions Architect for the Threat Protection Systems product offering of A10 Networks. Was responsible for supporting pre-sales efforts of A10’s Network Security solutions. Supported sales teams in the Western United States and Canada by providing pre-sales expertise for security portfolio. Responsible for representing new technologies, as well as interaction with Product Management and the office of the CTO to provide visibility to market trends and developments. This includes providing input on technology priorities for maximizing market share growth. Responsibilities include: Technical pre-sales support to new opportunities, Delivering security presentations to new prospects, assisting field SEs with technical evaluations, Consulting with customers on deployment architectures and Achieving quota targets.Hands on with DDOS Mitigation through BGP steering, PCI compliance.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Direct external solutions engineering for Akamai's Enterprise Group in Santa Clara. Direct support of S&P 500 and fortune 500 enterprises. Areas of specialization include Akamai PCI platform, KONA Web Application Firewall (WAF), Prolexic DDOS Mitigation, Security Training, Security Consulting, Security Needs Analysis, Threat Landscape Analysis. Successfully supported existing Cotendo customers through Akamai acquisition and enablement. Areas of specialization include Front End Optimization (FEO) subject matter expertise, KONA Site Defender (Security Specialization) and ION Mobile Platform.

Pre and Post sales support for content delivery customers in the greater Bay Area which includes Facebook, Zynga, Zillow, Aeria Games, Twitter, Harry and David, Overstock, Moosejaw, SAP, and many others. Face to face solutions consulting including mobilization, mobile optimization, mobile caching, custom edge logic design and deployment, needs assessment, proxy implementation design, cache optimization, DDOS mitigation design, site acceleration, troubleshooting, etc. Direct support of sales team includes customer facing solutions selling, mobile product deployment, needs analysis, implementation staging, deployment testing, SSL implementation and testing.

I'm broadly experienced at a range of Linux/Unix deployment, maintenance, configuration, management, and monitoring issues that trouble a wide spectrum of companies. Sep 09 to Apr 11 - Sr. Systems Admin and responsible for transitioning a Linux/LAMP production network supporting most of the major banks in the US brokering car and boat repossessions from a variety of platforms to a fully virtualized environment. Extensive work with Nagios v3 including custom plugins in perl, SNMP monitoring, and RRD based PNP4Nagios graphing. Fully monitored and metered their Phoenix site.Brought up their South Dakota site from cold standby and fullyre-implemented the network backend - including switch upgrades,redundancy, and firewall fail-over. Fully meshed network topologydeployed included VLANs and inter-VLAN routing. (SSG140, Dell 6248, and Dell server hardware, with KVM) Built and deployed Solaris on X86 with array redundancy using ZFS as NFS based file server to XEN Dom0 hosts. Built and deployed the Xen Dom0 machines on a variety of Dell hardware. Brought up full nagios monitoring. Transitioned production and development services to Xen DomU running CentOS 5.5 with Solaris ZFS backing store. Implemented backup scripts. Brought up standard suite of baseline hosts and services including dynamic update DHCP andDNS, NTP, LDAP services including variant automounting based on VLAN, Implemented VLAN access controls, IPSEC, tunneling, VPN, etc.Scripted maintenance of all the above in Puppet. And I implemented Postfix based LDAP virtual mail users and hosts, full mail forwarding. Deployed production master/slave MySql (with support of dev team)(Prior Client) I've integrated advanced monitoring capability with remote linux nodes over unreliable networks and brought up a set of web services in Ruby/Rails.(Prior Client) I consulted on postfix mail architecture and scaling with a focus on outbound compliance to ensure mail does not hit gmail/Yahoo filter

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Graduate department manager for Landmark's San Jose location. Also center finance manager and Communications department manager. Responsible for causing breakthrough results in Communication department Team Management & Leadership programs, sustained quarter on quarter growth in sales and continuing registrations into Comm programs.

Responsible for all back-end operations including hardware, operating system support and architecture. Early stage start-up, self funded. Transitioned from offices to collocation, defined and installed monitoring, alerting. Hands on work includes restructuring routing/switching to allow redundancy, transition to PostgreSQL, from Win 2000 to Linux. Defined and deployed hardware and software redundancy including heartbeating, fail-over, etc. Improved uptime from 98% to over 99.9%. Defined and deployed new software build and deployment methods, reduced application build time by 80%. Defined built, deployed OpenBSD based firewalls. Directly managed mail (postfix.qmail), database (SQL Server and PostgreSQL), OS (Linux, Linux 64bit, Win 2000, Win XP), Application (weblogic and JBOSS) build (Perl), monitoring, failover (Linux HA, drbd), spam control (postfix/spamassassin, scripting), IT support, etc. Defined built and installed rotating tape backup methods on large library.

Interviewed co-location vendors, managed bidding process, selected site. Defined and executed plan to transition to co-location facility. Brought up Cisco routers, servers, large scale tape library, etc in under 48 hours. Specified and designed new deployment of server architecture for RadVault field machines. Defined new open source software monitoring environment, deployed it. Deployed routing, defined fail-over architecture. Defined and documented site scaling plan. Performed work under 'boostrap' environment financial constraints. Hands-on work in Solaris 2.6/7/8, sendmail & qmail, DNS/BIND, PERL, Cisco IOS, sh, Foundry ServerIron, etc.

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Define possible business unit for hosting of Saqqara's B2B E-Commerce software as a highly available Application Service Provider. Wrote business plan, defined P&L, designed hosting architecture, defined hiring goals, set timelines and plan milestones, etc. Presented plan to BOD, and was approved. Created and managed several competitive bids with co-location and hosting providers for new hosting facility. Worked with Dell and other vendors to define and test high density 1U rack space servers. Worked with engineering orgn. to define new application architecture appropriate to highly reliable hosting. Defined and specified design of client facing product offering components.

Responsible for taking over infrastructure deployed from web design firm, staffing systems group, defining and staffing 24 x 7 support group, defining MIS organization and infrastructure, independent budget definition and goals, defining and meeting systems monitoring expectations. Met and exceeded hiring goals, launched business unit, met growth goals through June, including week on week growth exceeding 20%. Coordinated work with multiple vendors to manage process of re-implementing back end infrastructure to meet uptime requirements. Reduced hardware architecture budget for 2001 by 60%, cut contracts reducing storage costs up to 35%. Reported to CEO.

Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Ar

Seminar Leader, Personal Development And Training

Certificates, Systems Administration