Gregory Swift Email & Phone Number

San Antonio, Tx, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

* Facilitate Safety departments of over 300 volunteers that provide 100% volunteer based support of a 5 day community event with over 1000 participants* Make sure the Safety department leads have what they need to do their jobs, and clear blockers.* Work with Board and other Area Facilitators to manage budgeting, planning, volunteer scheduling, and inventory.* Collaboration with other parts of the organization to ensure that a safe and sustainable event occurs.* Interface with local emergency services to foster a strong working relationship between event staff and local authorities.* Assist in maintaining a shared knowledge base and encouraging Department leads to work on succession planning and workload distribution to minimize volunteer burnout.

San Antonio, Tx, Us

A troupe of veteran fire performers that have performed across the US. Focusing on fire poi, the group also mixes in a variety of other styles and practices. I'm one of the active members of the troupe.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

Provided technical review and advice to the CTO and Engineering team at this Root Cause as a Service startup that was then acquired by Science Logic.

San Jose, California, Us

San Jose, California, Us

San Jose, California, Us

San Antonio, Texas, Us

Drove initiative to build internal as a Service offerings, including IaaS with VMware vCloud, PaaS with OpenShift Origin, Storage-aaS (STaaS) with Ceph, and Artifact repositories with JFrog Artifactory.* IaaS onboarded over 500 new hypervisors and 3500 VMs across all tiers in less than 18 months.* PaaS onboarded over 500 projects, 3 major projects servicing next gen capabilities for our customers utilized this environment to go live in less than a quarter of the time it would have taken them in traditional IaaS based workflows.* Artifactory became the standard development target for 20% of internal development in less than 8 months, decommissioning over 10 separate artifact systems.Led engineering of build system pipeline using Jenkins and Katello to manage software life cycle, being adopted as baseline for single standard for Linux lifecycle for the IT department, again over 10,000 servers.Co-Lead for RAX.IO for 2017 and 2018. Facilitator duties included managing budget, scheduling, and expanding the brand of RAX.IO by absorbing internal Tech Talk tracks, quarterly fully remote unconferences to encourage cross organizational collaboration, and problem solving.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

* Implemented a standard Jenkins implementation freeing resources for 12 different Rackspace Cloud product QE teams, allowing them to focus on their primary duties and setting the standard for all teams.* Built and contributed to python libraries for several internal web based APIs.* Founded an internal conference on Operations Engineering practices, after three years we merged into the larger developer-focused conference, RAX.IO, and expanded its focus to include non-development practices.

San Antonio, Texas, Us

* Lead re-engineering of Puppet implementation into collection of modules, roles and profiles for broader use across the internal. Solution has continued to evolve into the baseline for establishing a single standard for the Internal Engineering departments, which accounts for over 10,000 systems.* Managed platform migration of PCI compliant sign-up service to a fully configuration managed.* Migrated from collectd+graphite to Zabbix for monitoring for a stable thresholding experience, and productizing it internally to provide a standard monitoring platform for 6 teams with global deployments.* Architected systems and implemented internal Analytics project, including packaging and Puppetizing.

Washington, Dc, Us

* Re-engineered the largest Federal bankruptcy court’s system to provide increased scalability, and a baseline for other large courts.* Standardized deployment of systems using Cobbler and Puppet to replace in house tooling.* Built custom Puppet modules covering Informix, Apache, SSH, user accounts, and more.* Replaced unsupported internal PXE bash scripts with Cobbler build system.* Implemented Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) as a replacement for pure Xen and KVM environments to replace in house developed management tools.* Performed storage I/O audit for a large scale, multi-project storage area network (SAN) consolidation project.* Implemented multiple GlusterFS storage clusters as a low cost alternative to SAN storage.

Morristown, New Jersey, Us

* Continuation of responsibilities as Nortel Contractor

Fairfax, Virginia, Us

* Perform administrative support for RHEL, Informix and MySQL.* Coordinated the majority of Red Hat support issues, including bug fixes and feature requests.* Accelerated Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 migration of major national applications by replacing custom in house code with standard installation methods. Implemented processes that took a previously 2-4 year timeline down to less than 12 months.* Standardized RPM build process, removing custom in house code and standardizing on Makefiles.* Provided technical guidance in the implementation of Zabbix as the standard server and networking monitoring tool, including building a significant monitoring template pool and additional tools to extend the monitoring suite.

New Braunfels, Tx, Us

* Worked my way from Tech support for Customers and LAN to running the all the servers and network equipment for the ISP side of the house.* Technical lead for other Administrators and Technicians in the Network Operations Center.* Built ISP services from a handful of modem banks to a multi-county 10Gig WAN with multi-homed eBGP interconnects providing Fibre-to-the-Home, DSL, DOCSIS (Cable Internet), as well as tiered dedicated services utilizing Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, 3Com, Terayon, Occam, and Dell.* Implemented Voice over DOCSIS network.* Initiated and completed in house deployment of ISP services (mail, web, DNS, DHCP, ftp, etc) utilizing a MySQL back end in a 9 month ROI project.* Participated in every level of Internet customer support to ensure the highest level of customer satisfaction.