James Denton

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Principal Architect at Rackspace Technology @ Rackspace Technology
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San Antonio, Texas, United States, United States
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About James Denton

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP)F5 Certified System Engineer (F50-521/F50-522)Specialties: OpenStack, OpenStack Networking (Neutron), Cisco PIX/ASA, Cisco CSS/ACE, F5 Big-IP LTM/GTM, F5 iRules, VPN, DNS, DHCP, Routing

James Denton's Current Company Details
Rackspace Technology

Rackspace Technology

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Principal Architect at Rackspace Technology
James Denton Work Experience Details
  • Rackspace Technology
    Principal Architect
    Rackspace Technology Oct 2020 - Present
    San Antonio, Texas, Us
  • Rackspace Technology
    Senior Openstack Architect
    Rackspace Technology Aug 2019 - Oct 2020
    San Antonio, Texas, Us
  • Platform9 Systems
    Solutions Architect
    Platform9 Systems May 2019 - Aug 2019
    Mountain View, California, Us
  • Rackspace, The #1 Managed Cloud Company
    Principal Architect
    Rackspace, The #1 Managed Cloud Company Jun 2015 - Feb 2019
    San Antonio, Texas, Us
    - Collaborated with multiple business units to develop an NFV platform based on OpenStack and Ceph that replaced physical network appliances with their virtual counterparts, including Cisco ASAv, F5 BIG-IP VE, NetScaler VPX, and Cisco CSR 1000v, to reduce costs in licensing, CapEx and OpEx, as well as to provide a consistent experience through automation.– Led a team of six network engineers, including myself, in support and management of OpenStack-based private clouds for large institutions in the financial and healthcare space, including Fortune 20 companies.– Provided architectural oversight for greenfield deployments in remote customer datacenters.– Performed R&D and implemented technologies such as DPDK, FD.io VPP, and SR-IOV to enhance virtual networking performance.– Interacted with vendors to gain insight into emerging trends and technologies for potential inclusion in the product.– Reviewed upstream code contributions as a core reviewer of the OpenStack-Ansible project.
  • Rackspace, The #1 Managed Cloud Company
    Openstack Network Architect Iii
    Rackspace, The #1 Managed Cloud Company Jul 2014 - Jul 2016
    San Antonio, Texas, Us
    - Executed the first deployments of Rackspace-managed infrastructure outside a Rackspace DC, including data centers in Austin, TX and Toronto, Canada.– Deployed, managed, and supported over 100 private clouds leveraging configuration management tools such as Chef and Ansible.– Managed OpenStack network infrastructure upgrades, expansion, scaling, and troubleshooting for environments ranging from Folsom to Kilo, including transitions from Nova-Network to Quantum/Neutron.– Developed processes and oversaw live migrations from monolithic Open vSwitch to ML2/LinuxBridge plugin to provide stability to customer environments.– Trained engineers on networking fundamentals and troubleshooting techniques to drive down time to resolution.– Dedicated time to assisting the community with OpenStack-related issues on public forums, mailing lists, and IRC.– Identified OpenStack bugs and potential solutions for inclusion in upstream releases.- Awarded the "Fanatical Jacket" award for developing processes and maintenance plans directly responsible for retaining customers.
  • Rackspace, The #1 Managed Cloud Company
    Openstack Network Engineer Iii
    Rackspace, The #1 Managed Cloud Company Mar 2013 - Jun 2015
    San Antonio, Texas, Us
    Create reference architecture for Rackspace Private Cloud, including Nova, Neutron and Swift. Solve complex hardware and software networking issues for internal and external customers.
  • Rackspace, The #1 Managed Cloud Company
    Network Security Engineer I
    Rackspace, The #1 Managed Cloud Company Jun 2008 - Mar 2013
    San Antonio, Texas, Us
    – Provided network escalation support for enterprise customers.– Consulted with customers on developing proper network architectures to meet their needs.– Deployed, maintained, and supported Cisco ASA and Juniper MX firewalls, and Cisco CSS, Brocade ADX, and F5 BIG-IP load balancers.– Assisted customers with network expansion, consolidation, and migration of network infrastructure between data centers.– Manipulated and managed application traffic using F5’s iRules technology.– Developed best practices for deployments, maintenances and other repeatable tasks.– Planned and configured site-to-site, client-to-site, and SSL VPNs of varying complexity.– Awarded the Rackspace “Fanatical Jacket” award for turning around long deployment times through the implementation of standards, templates, and best practices.
  • Gonzales Independent School District
    Network Administrator
    Gonzales Independent School District Jun 2000 - May 2008
    Managed Novell Netware server environment with over 1,000 PC workstations. Maintained Cisco 6509 core router, PIX 515E firewall, 2960G switches, and Cisco Call Manager 4.2. Developed website tools using LAMP.

James Denton Skills

Firewalls Dns Load Balancing Vpn Cisco Technologies Network Security Security Networking F5 Bigip Asa Switches Cloud Computing Data Center Virtualization System Administration Openstack Pix High Availability Routers Servers Ccna Troubleshooting Network Administration Vmware Disaster Recovery Tcp/ip Cisco Certified Vmware Esx Network Engineering Network Architecture Red Hat Linux San Cluster Managed Hosting Dhcp Apache Cisco Ios It Management Ccnp Ip It Operations Hosting Ace Network Design Ccsp Server Architecture Cisco Ssl Vpn Administration Juniper

James Denton Education Details

  • Texas State University
    Texas State University
    Computer Info Systems
  • The University Of Texas At San Antonio
    The University Of Texas At San Antonio
    Computer Science

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James Denton works for Rackspace Technology

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James Denton's current role is Principal Architect at Rackspace Technology.

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What schools did James Denton attend?

James Denton attended Texas State University, The University Of Texas At San Antonio.

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