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San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

Bentonville, Arkansas, US

Brought OpenStack and other cloud technologies to WalmartLabs. Championed the adoption of Openstack within Walmart E-Commerce, leading efforts behind initial installs and production pilots. Starting with Essex, guided the cloud program from an engineering project to an operations practice, and through full production deployment. Successfully serving.

San Francisco, CA, US

Responsible for Production Operations, including production, staging and development data-center environments, internal services, AWS services, Audits, and Compliance with Controls. Coordinated system move planning, executed physical move, and day-of cutover for data center migration. Planned, designed, and deployed centralized access, audit, and logging.

Founded company to leverage contracting experience with internet technologies and to develop server/compute farm solutions along with grid and cluster technologies. Primarily served as Principal Engineer on Contract, providing services on a contract or as-needed basis to client companies. Primary focus is on Unix and Linux systems, and providing.

Early-stage Executive, pre-beta. Instrumental in operational and technical framework, product and feature design and development. Managed contractors. Built Private Cloud and custom machine images to provide EC2-like access to test and pre-production environments. Developed and quality tested video encoding methods to provide best quality at real-time.

US

Early-Stage employee, pre-launch. Built initial operations, IT, and developed website features including initial versions of administrative portal, and administrative scripts. Managed Operations and Corporate IT departments - consisting of in-house and contractors. Performed a data center move with no downtime. Moved corporate offices with minimum.

San Jose, California, US

designed, planned project schedule, and deployed central authentication and authorization for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance across shopping.com platform, involving hundreds of Linux systems and a lesser number of Solaris systems. Developed SOP documents and provided training to NOC, Systems, and DBA personnel. Designed LDAP based Netgroups configurations for.

San Francisco, California, US

worked on brokerage products providing systems engineering and support primarily for UAT and QA environments and as assistance to production support team. Worked on systems and application tuning, systems security. Worked with security team to implement design plans in order to deploy new applications. Worked with production teams to deploy application.

London, GB

On-site management and installation of project servers including application software installation and configuration. Ongoing support of development teams, providing a stable development environment, configuration, and access as necessary. Ongoing support of production environment. Research of new capabilities and development of new products. Moved from.

Senior Systems Engineer - Job duties include systems design and maintenance of Unix (Solaris, Linux) and NT servers as well as network planning and engineering. In addition to in-house projects, was also involved with customer projects both hosted, and on-site, solving networking, web-presence, and other Internet/Intranet related issues. Involved with.

US

US

Systems manager - Contract for primarily remote administration of AIX, HP, Linux, and D/G unix machines. On-site management and installation of OS and firmware upgrades as well as special projects, including application migration. Provide day-to-day support for IT staff and end users for both OS level issues and application problems. Most servers host.

De Pere, WI, US

Assistant Systems/Network Manager Job duties included systems management for student and administrative servers and related networking equipment, computer lab hardware and software as well as installation of new systems. Managed DEC 5000 series servers running Ultrix (DEC Unix), and Alpha 2100 machines running OSF/1 (Unix). Maintained networking gear.