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Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States

Bedford, Ma, Us

Lead the DevOps team in supporting software development utilizing Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, BitBucket, SonarQube and other technologies.

London, London, Gb

Lead a greenfield DevOps effort to implement popular industry-standard DevOps tools to transform the Gas and Electric businesses at National Grid using Agile methodology. Tools include Jenkins, Ansible Tower, Bitbucket, SonarQube, JFrog Artifactory, Jira, and Confluence.Interface with existing enterprise software teams using applications like SalesForce, MuleSoft, SAP, ESRI ArcGIS Pro, and IBM Maximo. Work with Microsoft Azure as our Cloud vendor and evangelize agile practices and the use of DevOps methodologies within National Grid. Coding with Python, Powershell and Groovy.

Irving, Texas, Us

Member of the Development Operations team designing, scaling, and building automation across all stages of product development through to the release and production phases utilizing Powershell, Python, Jenkins and Ansible on Windows and Linux servers located in the cloud with AWS. Eliza-HMS DevOps uses Jira and Agile scrum methodology with 2 week sprints. Primarily responsible for System and Application Monitoring using CloudWatch and DataDog. Member of the Production On Call rotation. Doing Python scripting currently to track incoming and outgoing files/reports.Member of the Release Management Team working with both GitHub and TFS, and assisted setting up SonarQube code quality scanning on our code base. Also acted as the backup to our Saleforce admin.

Manage a staff of NOC technicians supporting the SWN infrastructure and Applications worldwide 24/7. Setup and use of monitoring applications SolarWinds Orion (NPM, SAM), Sitescope, Site24 and others.Dev Ops Lead responsible for .NET software support and deployment, Powershell and SQL Server scripting, Infrastructure Operations, and process improvements. Managed and conducted releases of an environment on the DotNet and Java platform which is a collection of 140+ individual applications, serverside and clientside, that operate as standalone products, web interfaces and back ends and support iOS and Android applications which access these services. Release was co-located over the US, Canada and Europe for Akamai style client access.Work with team members around the globe on development and production environments in six datacenters. Dev liaison to Network Compliance team working on penetration, website and application security.

London, Gb

Operations Manager for the 24/7/365 G4S Video Monitoring Support & Data Center (VMSDC) managing a staff of 11 technicians. Provided Tech Support for G4S Technology offerings, Event-Driven Video Security Monitoring, monitor network operations for G4S Technology LLC Internet backbone installations in North America, operate as a traditional CSAA and UL-listed Central Station, and operate our own data center and remote DR site.Key technologies are Dell Servers, Kemp load balancers, SecureTrax mobile devices, Sur-Gard receivers, Cisco and Sonicwall networking, Megasys Telenium, Solarwinds Orion, G4S OneFacility, Sureview Immix Enterprise and Immix Cloud, AMAG Symmetry, VMWare, Digital Acoustics, and VideoIQ, Videofied, and Axis cameras.Certifications in CSAA Level 1 and 2, and AMAG Levels 1 & 2.

Nanterre, Île-De-France, Fr

Hands-on management of the network and datacenter infrastructure of the company, including SANs, Vmware ESX/VSphere hosts, and hardware. Managed a staff of 6Successfully replaced two datacenters hosting FundQuest's production environment, totalling over 200 servers and 1200 sq. feet with a nearly completely virtual environment built on VMWare Enterprise ESX.Moved the company into a new corporate headquarters built out in downtown Boston and Business Continuity site in St Louis, Missouri.Attended VMWorld in 2005 & 2008. Manage a staff of 3-5 technical specialists handling Help Desk, System Administration, Cisco VOIP phones, Juniper and Cisco network gear, and HP ISCSI SANs.Vendor and Contract Management, Budgetary planning, Technology Purchasing and forecasting.

Needham, Ma, Us

Sole IT resource supporting 2 datacenters in Natick & Sheboygan, WI. Responsible for 24/7 environment, networking, RFPs, internal servers (email, file/print/AD, financial, development and test), VOIP phone system, IT Purchasing, &Desktop Support.Consists of Red Hat Enterprise 4 Linux servers running on Dell hardware, Apache web server, JBoss App server, MySQL database server, and an NFS file server. Internal servers running Exchange 2003, Great Plains/SBF, and Active Directory on Windows 2003 servers.Development and Test servers run Red Hat, Suse, and Ubuntu Linux. Applications include Bugzilla, Subversion, Cygwin. Apache2, Illient Help Desk software, and a Wiki and Blog server. Weekly software builds & communicate with our offshore partners.Major achievements include building out a new datacenter in Natick, growing the company infrastructure to support a 200% growth rate, upgrading Active Directory to v2 and deploying distributed DNS and AD servers in our WI office.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Us

Hands-on management of the IS department supporting a 24/7 production environment and offices in Cambridge, MA; Scarborough, ME; Manchester, NH; Bangor, ME; and Rocky Hill, CT.• Interface with entire staff. Member of core management team. Strategic planning for the future IT needs of the company• 2 Data Centers• Network Management and Network Security, Cisco PIX Firewalls and load balancers, VPN, SSL & PGP encryption• Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Planning• Nortel system, VOIP Phone System• Budgeting, Purchasing, Customer Technical Support• On-call support, Oracle Support• Win Servers, 2000/2003 Server and Advanced Server, Sun Servers, Solaris 8, Linux, OpenVMS• Desktop Support• Physical Location Security and Infrastructure• Regulatory Compliance with Financial Industry, including 8 of top 10 US Banks.• Custom Production Software• Exchange Email and SunONE web servers• Company Webmaster

Bs, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, History