James Duff Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead member of a team that recently completed a second migration of an on premise service to AWS. As part of the project, we focused on immutable infrastructure for SQL Server and server consolidation. Post roll out we were able to reduce our SQL Server footprint from 120 servers to 45 servers. While migrating one component of the application we evaluated the use of Windows docker containers running in AWS ECS.

San Francisco Bay Area

A recent project included responsibility for migrating an existing data center application to the Cloud and AWS. As part of the transformation, an emphasis was made on retooling the build pipeline and integrating Jenkins, Terraform and Ansible into the tool chain. James lead the development of a Jenkins library project that supported all phases of the devops pipeline including application deployment via Ansible to Windows and Linux hosts.Post migration to AWS, James has been responsible for migrating a Vertica database to Amazon Redshift, SQL Server databases to Aurora and restructuring applications around Python and .NET Core.

San Francisco Bay Area

James led a team of engineers responsible for the development and maintenance of a security data warehouse built on the Vertica database. The system comprised of a 16 node Vertica database, multiple SQL Server instances and supporting applications written in C# and was capable of handling 400 million rows of data per day.

James was involved in a variety of projects including application architecture design, application penetration testing, secure code reviews and network vulnerability assessments, Typical projects were short term engagements either on site or remote and involved working with executive sponsors and client domain experts to model the security posture of the target environment and then perform a targeted assessment based on key identified assets.James was on an onsite consultant with Palm designing and implementing security solutions in conjunction with IT infrastructure team. Responsibilities included security device configuration, event log collection and analysis and supporting the Active Directory infrastructure.

Sunnyvale, Ca

Network engineer and security engineer supporting infrastructure operations as part of the Palm GBU (HPWebOS GBU)Support full range of Cisco networking hardware from core switches to firewalls, VPN appliances and Wi-Fi controllers.Projects include: Configuration, monitoring and management of Wi-Fi network based on Cisco WiSM solution Replacing Snort IDS sensor with Tipping Point N Series IPS sensors Replacing Network Intelligence with ArcSight Computer encryption with Symantec PGP Whole Disk Encryption 2 Factor VPN solution based on OATH - development of customer end user self service portalSupport integration efforts including replication of account and calendaring information between various directory servicesNetwork and application security assessments

Sunnyvale, Ca

Security and network engineer supporting infrastructure operations as part of the Palm, IncSupport full range of Cisco networking hardware from Core switches to firewalls, vpn appliances and Wi-Fi controllers.Projects include: configuration, monitoring and management of Wi-Fi network based on Cisco WiSM solution configuration, testing and monitoring of Snort IDS sensors configuration and monitoring of network environment with Network IntelligenceNetwork and application security assessmentsSecondary roles include support of Windows Active Directory and Exchange environment including securing remote worker email access with ISA 2006Ran project to update infrastructure to support cross platform adoption of Exchange Web Services for Outlook 2007 and Snow Leopard

Richmond, Ca

James's responsibilities included; customer presentations, application architecture design and development. While at Vertigo James had the opportunity to speak at the Microsoft Global Briefing (MGB) and TechEd Atlanta and Barcelona.

Egham, Surrey

James was the third hire in a new startup company focused on offering extreme expertise in the Siebel CRM solution. The role involved engaging with local Siebel sales engineering team and rapid absorption of all things CRM from them. The role led to working with a variety of customers and industry verticals including the BBC, Nokia and Cap Gemini.